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Seven former LSU football stars heard their names called during the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. Mansoor Delane led the pack of Tigers with a No. 6 overall selection to the Kansas City Chiefs.For the third-straight draft, the first SEC player taken hailed from LSU. Jayden Daniels went No. 2 overall to the Washington Commanders in 2024 and Will Campbell went to the New England Patriots at No. 4 overall last year. The Chiefs traded up to take Delane on Thursday.Two Tigers were taken on day two in the third round on Friday and four went on Saturday, the final day of the draft. Three defenders, including Delane, from a unit that took a major step forward in 2025, are off to the professional level.Four players from the offense heard their names called, including Garrett Nussmeier. He was thought to be a Heisman competitor and potential first-rounder until an injury derailed his 2025 campaign.LSU was one of six schools to have seven players get drafted, which is the fifth most. 10 players each from Alabama and Texas A&M got drafted, which leads the SEC.Here is every former LSU player who got selected in the 2026 NFL Draft.Mansoor DelaneDelane was the first former Tiger taken off the board. The Kansas City Chiefs traded up from No. 9 to take Delane at No. 6 overall. It's the second-highest draft position for an LSU defensive back. A unanimous All-American in 2025, Delane made a major impact during his sole season donning the purple and gold. He didn't allow a touchdown all season and played penalty-free football. A.J. HaulcyThe defensive back trend continued as Haulcy, a safety, went in the third round at No. 78 overall to the Indianapolis Colts. He matched the projections as a top 100 pick. Haulcy played one season in Baton Rouge, earning a first-team All-SEC selection. He made 88 tackles and three interceptions through 12 games. Zavion ThomasA versatile weapon for the LSU offense, Thomas went in the third round. The Chicago Bears selected him with the No. 89 overall pick. He joins an up-and-coming offense led by quarterback Caleb Williams.While he was rostered as a wide receiver, Thomas did a bit of everything for the Tigers during his two years in Baton Rouge. He caught 41 passes for 488 yards and four touchdowns in 2025. As a ball carrier, Thomas totaled 99 yards and a touchdown on 19 attempts. He also completed two passes in addition to returning kickoffs and punts. Bauer SharpThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Sharp at No. 185 overall during the sixth round. He played one season at LSU after a breakout year in Oklahoma in 2024. Sharp started every game in 2025. The tight end made 24 catches for 252 yards and two touchdowns. Sharp's selection makes it back-to-back years of LSU tight ends hearing their names called. Mason Taylor went to the New York Jets in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Barion BrownBrown was the second wide receiver from LSU to go in the 2026 NFL Draft. He'll stay in the boot for the time being as the New Orleans Saints selected him at No. 190 overall during the sixth round. After three seasons at Kentucky, Brown opted to spend his senior year in Baton Rouge. He caught 53 passes for 532 yards and a touchdown while also serving as a kick returner.Harold PerkinsPerkins played four seasons at LSU before declaring for the NFL. He likely could've made the jump after last year, but an injury in 2024 led him to don the purple and gold for his senior season. The linebacker made 56 tackles and four sacks last year.The Atlanta Falcons selected Perkins in the sixth round with pick No. 215. He displayed versatility as a pass rusher and in coverage over his time in LSU.Garrett Nussmeier Nussmeier, who was once considered a first-round hopeful, heard his name called on the final day of the draft. The Kansas City Chiefs took him in the seventh round at No. 249 overall.A two-year starter for the Tigers, Nussmeier suffered an injury that derailed his 2025 season. Over his four years in Baton Rouge, he passed for 7,699 yards and 52 touchdowns with a 64% completion percentage. This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: Every former LSU football player who got picked in 2026 NFL Draft

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The Los Angeles Galaxy celebrated their past and present on Sunday, unveiling a statue of club and USA men's national team legend Cobi Jones before Marco Reus scored twice to rally the Galaxy to a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake. The 55-year-old UCLA alum became the third player honored with a statue at Dignity Health Sports Park, joining David Beckham and Landon Donovan. As an original member of the Galaxys inaugural 1996 squad, Jones spent his entire 12-season professional career in Los Angeles. Parallel to his club career, Jones represented the U.S. during the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cups and retired as the all-time appearance leader for the men's team with 164 caps. Reus scored from 21 yards out off a free kick to give the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the 9th minute. The kick was awarded after Gabriel Pec was fouled by Real Salt Lake midfielder Stijn Spierings. Galaxy goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski was charged with an own goal in the final minute of stoppage time, tying it 1-1 at halftime. The ball deflected off the post and into the net when he dove to make a save on Zavier Gozo's shot. Reus scored the winner on a PK after a foul on Sam Junqua for shoving Elijah Wynder in the back on a corner kick. It was the fourth goal this season for Reus and his 10th in 37 career appearances. Marcinkowski saved nine shots for Los Angeles (3-4-3). Rafael Cabral totaled four saves for Real Salt Lake (5-3-1). Real Salt Lake went 5-0-1 in a six-match stretch before losing 2-0 to visiting Inter Miami on Wednesday. The club falls to 1-2-1 on the road. The Galaxy were coming off a 1-1-1 road trip and improve to 2-2-1 at home. Up next Los Angeles: Hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday. Real Salt Lake: Hosts the Portland Timbers on Saturday.

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Joel Embiid was back on the court for Philadelphia, returning from an appendectomy less than three weeks ago to give the 76ers a needed bump in a critical first-round game against Boston.Except there was no bump. Kind of the opposite.Philadelphia's other stars, like Tyrese Maxey, had to adjust to the big man in the paint and seemed to defer to him early on. The result was an offense that just did not work and missed a lot of shots.Meanwhile, Boston just kept doing what they do.Pritchard scored 32 off the bench and knocked down six 3-pointers, while Jayson Tatum scored 30 with five from beyond the arc, plus he had 11 assists.Boston led by 16 after one quarter, and its lead never touched single digits again as the Celtics cruised to a 129-96 win on the road.The Celtics have a commanding 3-1 series lead as the series shifts back to Boston for Game 5 on Tuesday.The 76ers are unquestionably better when Embiid is on the court, on both ends, but putting a superstar back in the lineup can mean an adjustment period. In this case, the combination of Embiid and the Celtics' defense meant Tyrese Maxey had just three shot attempts in the first half, as he seemed to defer to the big man, who had 10 (and Paul George had seven).The 76ers also just could not buy a bucket in the first half. As a team, Philadelphia shot 12-of-36 (33.3%) and 3-of-12 from beyond the arc in the first 24 minutes, and if that wasn't enough, also gave up nine offensive rebounds to the Celtics.The result was Boston racing out to a 21-point first-half lead and seemingly hitting every key shot.PAYTON PRITCHARD THREE OFF ONE LEG BEFORE THE HORN AND THE CELTICS BENCH IS LOVING IT! pic.twitter.com/ArprVIFa9u NBA on NBC and Peacock (@NBAonNBC) April 26, 2026Boston was up by 18, 56-38, at halftime, led by Pritchard with 18 off the bench. The Celtics were rolling, and it proved to be too much to ask the 76ers to overcome that, especially for a 76ers defense that struggled to get a stop much of the night (Boston had a ridiculous 139.1 offensive rating through the non-garbage time part of this game, according to Cleaning the Glass).In addition to Pritchard and Tatum, Jaylen Brown added 20 points and seven rebounds.Embiid finished with 26 points on 9-of-21 shooting with 10 rebounds. Maxey was more assertive in the second half and finished with 22 points, and Paul George had 16.Nick Nurse has some work to do to see if he can get these 76ers on the same page on both ends of the court by Tuesday, or Philadelphia's season is going to come to an end much earlier than they hoped.

Talladega Superspeedway (Talladega, Ala.) Carson Hocevar celebrated his first career win in epic fashion, probably generating a little bit of concern by NASCAR and his Spire Motorsports owner. So it was appropriate. Hocevar can be a little polarizing as not always making the smartest decisions on the track, but the 23-year-old Spire Motorsports driver made the smart decisions when it mattered most as he outdueled Chris Buescher to win Sunday at Talladega. After the win, Hocevar celebrated by driving the car and hanging out the window along the frontstretch. NASCAR seemed good even though it was a little bit unconventional and a little bit dangerous (but it was fun and epic). "I thought of just like, Man, I have really long legs, I wonder if I can hit the throttle and sit on the door and ride and just kind of see everybody," Hocevar said in his postrace news conference. "I just wanted them to get as loud as possible. And I felt like they would if they could see me seeing them. "Ultimately, I just wanted to make sure I soaked every bit of it in. I think I could tell you what everybody was wearing, where every seat was, where every 77 shirt [of mine] was. ... That means more than anything else to me." Here are my takeaways from Talladega: 1: Big Hocevar Win Hocevar earned his first victory in his 91st Cup start. He had won five truck races in his career but had just five top-five finishes in his career. He could have had more but had trouble finishing where he was running. On Sunday, he didnt make any crazy blocks and used the pushes he got and was able to side-draft Buescher enough to break away and win at the end. Hocevar said losing the Daytona 500 at the end of the race helped him understand what he needed to do Sunday. "I'm so thankful," Hocevar said in his FOX interview after the celebration. "This is the biggest dream I've ever thought of. ... I couldn't have done it in any better way." It also was just the second win for Spire Motorsports, which won a rain-shortened race with Justin Haley in its first season in July 2019, a span of 243 races since that time. 2: Buescher Comes Up Empty Chris Buescher was left wondering what could have been. "That's going to hurt to be that close," Buescher told me and other reporters following his second-place finish. "We had great momentum coming off of Turn 4, really good spot, going into the trioval. "And from there, I expected us all to fan out and make a move to try and win the race. ... We just lost the momentum too early off of Turn 4." 3: Bowman Relieved With Third Alex Bowman was relieved to finish third as he didnt have many moves he could make at the end and he was able to bring the car home unscathed. He pushed Hocevar to the win. For a driver who missed four races because of vertigo earlier this year, that was a big deal. "The big relief for me is not to crash at a place like this I don't have many big hits left in me, and Im tired of crashing," Bowman told me and other reporters after the race. "So Im glad that we got through one of these with a strong finish, and happy for the team. "They've had an incredibly rough go of it on a lot of angles for the entire season." 4: The Big One Eliminates Seven A 26-car pileup on Lap 115 ended the day for six cars, including that of Bubba Wallace, who took a tap from Ross Chastain and ended up turned in front of the field. Wallace, William Byron, Josh Berry, Ryan Blaney, Cole Custer, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson all saw their day end as a result of damage in that wreck. "Weve got to figure out how to be pushed better, so I take responsibility on that," Wallace said in his FOX interview after being checked out at the care center. "Well have a good debrief and figure out how to make our Toyotas a little bit better being pushed and maybe not have that happen." The wreck elicited some strong opinions from drivers, who spent the first stage of the race trying to save fuel and racing far from full throttle. But when at full throttle, they dont have a lot of moves at their disposal other than pushing the car in front of them to the brink of wrecking. "What do you want? Save fuel or crash? Pick one. Thats what it feels like right now," three-time Cup champion Joey Logano said in his FOX interview. "Its frustrating. "Youve got round bumpers on these things, the cars run stable and once everyone starts pushing and racing aggressive, thats going to happen. Until we fix that stuff, were going to continue seeing it, unfortunately." 4 : What's Next NASCAR heads to Texas Motor Speedway for its sole visit of the season. It will be a place where teams could take some lessons from Kansas Speedway last week as both are 1.5-mile tracks. The defending winner at Texas is Joey Logano who hasnt won since a year ago.

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