"Josiah Green, I was going to bring up. Very good athlete from Duke; defensive tackle. (He was at) Dartmouth before that making a lot of plays."
The story wraps up this way:
(J)ust how much Green comes along, in (concert) with how healthy and effective Kancey is over the next two years, may be key factors in the former first-rounder's long-term future in Tampa Bay. Ideally, Kancey rights the ship and Green also makes his mark and carves out a role.
For the time being, though, Kancey is a question mark and Green is a UDFA catching plenty of attention.
Johnson has appeared in four career games with Miami (2025), recording three special teams tackles. He entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent with the Dolphins in 2024 and spent two seasons on the practice squad (2024-25). He played his final two collegiate seasons at Syracuse (2022-23), where he appeared in 25 games with 19 starts and totaled 115 tackles (74 solo), two interceptions, nine passes defensed and one forced fumble. He transferred to Syracuse from Dartmouth (2018-21), where he totaled 55 tackles (38 solo), one interception returned for a touchdown and seven passes defensed.
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The 7220sports.com website out of Wyoming has a piece about current grad transfer defensive end Teddy Gianaris under the headline, Welcome To Wyoming Football: Thaddeus Gianaris. Here's what Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel had to say in the story (LINK):
Thaddeus is a unique guy. First of all, he's an astronomy major at Dartmouth and an Ivy League grad. So when you say smart guy, yes, he's uber-smart. Thaddeus has a tremendous motor and works extremely hard. We're going to be really happy that Thaddeus is in the program this year. I think there's a lot of traits that Larry Wilson had a year ago, playing for us at defensive end. Thaddeus has many of those same traits, but he's probably a better overall athlete, so that translates really well. And, look, Thaddeus was a good player in the Ivy League, you know? I mean, when you watch these transfer type things and stuff like that, like, Ivy League football is pretty good."
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EXTRA POINTI found myself thinking about the Julia Roberts movie Erin Brokovich while I was reading a New York Times story about a mom in Montana trying to stop development of a giant AI data center. If you want to know just how large those data centers can be, this line from the third paragraph of the story puts it in perspective:
The development, part of a nationwide boom in facilities that can power artificial intelligence, would be the size of about 3,800 football fields.
And that's not a typo. Take out the end zones and you could fit almost 4,500 football fields in the data center's proposed footprint.
