FRISCO, Texas – Brigham Young football coach Kalani Sitake discussed his school’s controversial honor code here July 8 and said he loves his quarterback Jake Retzlaff even though he violated it for having premarital sex. But Sitake also mostly sidestepped questions about the controversy even after it threw his team into a bind on the eve of the 2025 season.

“First of all, I love Jake Retzlaff,” Sitake said at the annual preseason Big 12 Conference media days event north of Dallas. “We love Jake Retzlaff and appreciate all that he’s done for our program. I think it would be inappropriate for me to make a statement in his situation first. I think that’s his right. I think it’s a private matter that he can speak for himself, and I’m going to give him the opportunity to do that.”

Retzlaff is looking to leave BYU after getting caught up in a scandal for having premarital sex. He faces a seven-game suspension because it violated the school’s honor code, which calls for living a “chaste and virtuous life.”

Before that, he had been sued by a woman in May who accused him of sexually assaulting her at his home in 2023 – an allegation that was denied by his attorney.

His attorney said their relations instead were consensual, which helped his case in court but still got him into trouble with a school that is run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

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The lawsuit recently was dismissed. Retzlaff also is Jewish, not LDS, but it didn’t matter. 

“Every school has their standards,” Sitake said. “We have ours too. … And we expect our students to live, to live according to what they what they signed up for.”

BYU running back LJ Martin echoed that notion Tuesday when asked his opinion of the BYU honor code.

‘My opinion of the honor code is if you’re a Christian and you believe in Christian beliefs, that’s pretty much what the honor code has,’ Martin told USA TODAY Sports.

Martin said he’s not LDS but ‘what Christ wants us to do is part of the honor code.’

When asked what he was told about Retzlaff’s status on the team, Martin also echoed his coach’s message, which implied the decision is up to Retzlaff whether he wants to stay with BYU.

‘He hasn’t said nothing,’ Martin said of Retzlaff. ‘So I’m just going to leave it up to him.’

In March 2011, BYU men’s basketball player Brandon Davies was kicked off the team for the same reason, even as the Cougars were making a run to the NCAA tournament.

In the case of Retzlaff, his loss also puts his team into a bind after he led them to an 11-2 season last year, including a win over Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. After serving as co-captain of last year’s team, he’s now looking for a landing spot elsewhere to avoid the suspension.

A transfer quarterback or two is poised to replace him at BYU: McCae Hillstead from Utah State, Treyson Bourguet from Western Michigan or Bear Bachmeier from Stanford. Hillstead and Bourguet were on the roster last year for the Cougars but did not play.

Sitake noted that at BYU “you have to be able to throw the ball” and that the position is up for grabs in preseason practices.

“Let’s settle it on the field,” Sitake said. “Let them compete.”

Asked if the situation was disruptive to the team at this point of the year, Martin said, ‘It really shouldn’t matter.’

‘There’s 10 other guys also out there too,’ Martin said.

BYU receiver Chase Roberts gave a similar response to ESPN earlier Tuesday.

‘We’re confident that any of the quarterbacks that step in that they’re going to take leadership as they have been and take control of the team and go win some games,’ Roberts said.

The Cougars open the season at home Aug. 30 against Portland State.

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College football talking season is here, and there’s only one way to look at this annual media carnival.

Imagine, if you will, the sheer unknown racing around the mind of Team Belichick.

No control, no contrived theater. 

No backing out.  

We’re about two weeks from ACC Media Days, and there’s nothing North Carolina coach Bill Belichick or his muse – if Belichick calls his 24-year-old girlfriend his muse, so should we – can do about it.

No interrupting media from asking questions, no explaining after the fact that those asking questions knew the ground rules and ignored them, anyway. Or were too stupid to get it. 

No hiding behind the NFL shield or ESPN comfort blanket. No demanding to be treated differently because you’re Bill (and the Muse) and everyone else isn’t.

The media days carnival bends the knee to no one. Not the greatest coach in NFL history, not his 20-something muse.

This won’t be some cushy, softball interview from a network weekend morning show that randomly stumbled into an innocent question of how Beli and the Muse met.

For the love of pigskin, it sounds like an Elton John song.

Beli, Beli … Beli and the Muuuuuse.  

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Earlier this spring, Belichick showed up at the ACC spring meetings, held annually at the posh digs of the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida. A laid-back, relaxed environment where all ACC coaches and officials speak freely and openly. 

Except, of course, Beli. He strolled into the joint about 20 minutes late for his first meeting, banging his roller luggage against the heavy doors before trudging all the way to the front of the ballroom.

Seventeen rows ahead (for 17 schools) to North Carolina’s front row status, hang a right and all the way to the boundary. I made the same walk a few hours later, and half expected Tom Brady to hit me on a perfectly timed post-corner. 

Later that day – and I know this is going to shock you – Belichick sat for his first of two (and only two) controlled interviews. One with ACC television partner ESPN, and the other with a local Raleigh, North Carolina, television station.

That’ll all change in two weeks at ACC Media Days. Everyone – and I mean, everyone – will have their chance with Team Belichick. It doesn’t mean Belichick will answer every question, but it does mean it won’t be for a lack of trying by more than 500 media members. 

Unlike the NFL, college football conferences hold these events to drum up publicity for the coming season, and more recently, to give television partners offseason content. They’re free-for-alls for any credentialed media member, with no limitations on questions — only time limits.

Belichick, who isn’t exactly the most engaging coach with the media, will have to decide if he wants to filibuster or answer questions. One option is just as painful as the other.

Former Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze once filibustered his opening remarks for nearly his entire 15-minute time allotment on the main stage. He and Ole Miss were under NCAA investigation, and he didn’t want to answer questions. 

So he talked about his backup left tackle, and walk-ons, and anything else he could shovel to prevent media questions. But it never works. 

Because the main stage is followed by a round of more question and answer from various other media outlets. Television, radio, electronic media, content partners and finally the ACC Network.

It’s a full four- or five-hour day of the same dang questions over and over, and maybe, just maybe, a few Beli doesn’t want to deal with. A few The Muse better see coming.

Because no matter how much he prepares, how much he’ll try to avoid answers and move on or away from specific questions, Belichick is no different than new Wake Forest coach Jake Dickert in this ball yard. Just a new coach in the league chasing the guy who has done it better than anyone else.

“He’s going to be great for our league,” said Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, whose program has owned the league for more than a decade. “But as great as he’s been, we’re all lifetime learners.”

Translation: six Super Bowl rings and all that NFL capital mean nothing in college football. 

Especially on this stage, where the expectation of professionalism went out the window years ago when Tim Tebow was asked at SEC Media Days if he were still a virgin. 

If Tebow can handle that, Belichick can surely answer how much power The Muse has within the UNC football program. Much less, how they met. 

The Media Days carnival bends the knee to no one. 

Not even Beli and the Muse.   

Matt Hayes is the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X at @MattHayesCFB.

Joe Burrow found out his house had been burglarized shortly after he led the Cincinnati Bengals to a key win over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season.

The quarterback shared exactly how he reacted to the news, which came on the eve of his 28th birthday.

‘Of (expletive) course this happened to me right now,’ Burrow said in the sixth episode of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ series. ‘When you’re on cloud nine, something’s gonna bring you right back down.’

Burrow wasn’t so much concerned with what the burglars stole at the time of the break-in. He told Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo in footage included in the Netflix series that they had mostly taken his jewelry and that it was insured.

‘They could have stolen way worse things than that,’ Burrow said.

The Bengals quarterback was more bothered by the invasion of privacy he felt as a result of the burglary.

‘I just get very uncomfortable,’ Burrow said during the series’ sixth episode. ‘My life is very public. That comes with the job, but there’s certain parts of your life that are yours. Your house is one of those. When that gets violated, people find out where you live, all these different things.’

Those ‘different things’ included information about the location of Burrow’s house, an increased media presence surrounding his house following the break-in and his connection to social media personality Olivia Ponton – who was at Burrow’s house the night of the burglary.

Burrow acknowledged in his discussion with Anarumo that he was considering whether he would need to move because of the burglary.

Burrow also elected not to go through with his purchase of a replica Batmobile in the wake of the break-in, a prospect about which he previously expressed excitement on the in-season edition of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks.’

‘I didn’t end up getting the Batmobile because I just had other things I wanted to deal with at that point,’ Burrow said on ‘Quarterback.’

Three men associated with the burglary at Burrow’s house – 22-year-old Jordan Francisco Quiroga Sanchez, 23-year-old Bastian Alejandro Orellana Morales and 38-year-old Sergio Andres Ortega Cabello were indicted in Hamilton County in February on charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and burglary. The trio were also indicted on federal charges in connection with the burglary of Burrow’s home.

Burrow did not acknowledge those indictments on ‘Quarterback,’ but he did explain the late-season ordeal left him feeling ‘very vulnerable.’

‘Not everybody’s failures at their job are in front of the whole world,’ Burrow said. ‘It’s a very vulnerable position to be in. I put myself in that position because I love it. I don’t like the other part of it.’

We’re just one year away from getting to witness the best players in the world represent their countries in the World Baseball Classic. After the 2023 edition of the tournament ended in dramatic fashion, fans are itching to see more.

Can America bounce back after its brutal loss in the championship? Is Japan still the team to beat? Or will a new contender shock the world and win it? We’ve still got time to debate the answers to those questions. In the meantime, here is the latest schedule and ticket information released for the tournament.

When does the 2026 World Baseball Classic start?

Pool play for the tournament will begin on March 5, 2026 with the final happening just 12 days later on March 17.

LoanDepot Park in Miami will host the championship game on March 17. First pitch is set for 8 p.m. ET.

What other parks will host the WBC?

Three other parks will host games for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Pool A games will be played at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pool B games will take place at Daikin Park in Houston. Pool C games will be played at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Pool D games will be played at Miami’s LoanDepot Park.

How to pre-register for tickets:

Ticket strips became available on July 8, but only for Houston Astros season ticket holders and Marlins Members. Since their teams’ stadiums will be hosting WBC games, Houston and Miami fans will have first opportunity to register for tickets.

Ticket strips for the Puerto Rico games will become available on July 15. Meanwhile, Japan-specific strips will become available on Oct. 1.

All registration information is available here.

The 2025 Wimbledon championships have already produced plenty of drama and upsets in the men’s and women’s singles tournaments, and the final rounds are shaping up for more of the same.

The quarterfinal round is halfway done at the only tennis major played on grass courts each year, and already there are some highly anticipated matches set up for the semifinals. Americans Taylor Fritz and Amanda Anisimova both secured a spot in the final four with quarterfinal wins on Tuesday, with Fritz set to face No. 2 seed and defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s draw and No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka awaiting Anisimova in the women’s draw, with a spot in the Wimbledon final on the line.

There are also two more quarterfinal matches to be played on Wednesday, with men’s No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner, battling an elbow injury, taking on American Ben Shelton. Novak Djokovic is seeking his eighth Wimbledon title and remains alive with a quarterfinal match against Italian Flavio Cobolli on tap.

Here’s a look at the updated bracket and schedule for the men’s and women’s singles competition at the 2025 Wimbledon championships, including scores and results through matches on Tuesday, July 8.

Wimbledon 2025 schedule: Bracket update for men’s and women’s singles

All times EDT

Wednesday, July 9

Women’s quarterfinal: No. 7 Mirra Andreeva vs. Belinda Bencic | 8:30 a.m. | Centre Court
Men’s quarterfinal: No. 6 Novak Djokovic vs. No. 22 Flavio Cobolli | Centre Court after Andreeva-Bencic
Women’s quarterfinal: No. 8 Iga Swiatek vs. No. 19 Liudmila Samsonova | 8:30 a.m. | Court 1
Men’s quarterfinal: No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 10 Ben Shelton | on Court 1 after Swiatek-Samsonova

Thursday, July 10

Women’s semifinal: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka vs. No. 13 Amanda Anisimova | Time TBD
Women’s semifinal: Andreeva/Bencic vs. Swiatek/Samsonova | Time TBD

Friday, July 11

Men’s semifinal: No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz vs. No. 5 Taylor Fritz | Time TBD
Men’s semifinal: Sinner/Shelton vs. Djokovic/Cobolli | Time TBD

Saturday, July 12

Women’s Final: Coverage begins at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+ and Fubo (free trial)

Sunday, July 13

Men’s Final: Coverage begins at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+ and Fubo (free trial)

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Wimbledon 2025 scores: Latest results for men’s and women’s singles

Men’s singles

Quarterfinals

(2) Carlos Alcaraz def. Cameron Norrie — 6-2, 6-3, 6-3
(5) Taylor Fritz def. (17) Karen Khachanov — 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4)
(6) Novak Djokovic vs. (22) Flavio Cobolli — Wednesday, July 9
(1) Jannik Sinner vs. (10) Ben Shelton — Wednesday, July 9

Fourth Round

(1) Jannik Sinner def. (19) Grigor Dmitrov — 3-6, 5-7, 2-2 (retired)
(10) Ben Shelton def. Lorenzo Sonego — 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5
(22) Flavio Cobolli def. Marin Cilic — 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3)
(6) Novak Djokovic def. (11) Alex de Minaur — 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
(5) Taylor Fritz def. Jordan Thompson — 6-1, 3-0 (retired)
(17) Karen Khachanov def. Kamil Majchrzak — 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
Cameron Norrie def. Nicolas Jarry — 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (9-7), 6-7 (7-5), 6-3
(2) Carlos Alcaraz def. (14) Andrey Rublev — 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Women’s singles

Quarterfinals

(1) Aryna Sabalenka def. Laura Siegemund — 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
(13) Amanda Anisimova def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova — 6-1, 7-6 (11-9)
(7) Mirra Andreeva vs. Belinda Bencic — Wednesday, July 9
(8) Iga Swiatek vs. (19) Liudmila Samsonova — Wednesday, July 9

Fourth Round

(1) Aryna Sabalenka def. (23) Elise Mertens — 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)
Laura Siegemund def. Solana Sierra — 6-3, 6-2
(13) Amanda Anisimova def. (30) Linda Noskova — 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova def. Sonay Kartal — 7-6 (7-3), 6-4
(7) Mirra Andreeva def. (10) Emma Navarro — 6-2, 6-3
Belinda Bencic def. Ekaterina Alexandrova — 7-6 (7-4), 6-4
(8) Iga Swiatek def. (23) Clara Tauson — 6-4, 6-1
(19) Liudmila Samsonova def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro — 7-5, 7-5

Veteran WNBA forward DeWanna Bonner is returning to Phoenix.

The Mercury have announced they’ve agreed to terms with the six-time All-Star, who spent the first 10 seasons of her career in the Valley of the Sun and won a pair of WNBA titles there.

Bonner, 37, signed a one-year contract this past offseason with the Indiana Fever, but she lost her starting job and quickly fell out of the team’s regular rotation. She missed two weeks in June due to ‘personal reasons’ and was released by the Fever on June 25 after the team was unable to trade her.

“We couldn’t be more excited to have DeWanna back in a Mercury uniform,” Mercury GM Nick U’Ren said in a statement. “She is a true winner, leader and one of the most talented and versatile players in our game.’

In Phoenix, Bonner will join a team with the league’s second-best record at 13-6. She will also reunite with her fiancée, forward Alyssa Thomas, with whom she played the past five seasons on the Connecticut Sun.

Caitlin Clark has the chance to quiet the toxic behavior of the worst of her fans.

Clark and fellow WNBA All-Star captain Napheesa Collier will choose their teams for the 2025 All-Star Game, scheduled for July 19, and the Indiana Fever star would send an emphatic message by drafting Angel Reese. The teams will be chosen live Tuesday, July 8 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.

The Chicago Sky forward has been cast as the villain to Clark’s hero dating back to their junior years in college, when Reese waved her ring finger at Clark after LSU beat Iowa in the NCAA championship game. Whether Reese was taunting or mimicking Clark’s own “You can’t see me” diss didn’t matter. A rivalry was born.

Sports thrive on rivalries. Brady vs. Manning. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Warriors vs. Cavaliers. And in the closest comparison to Clark and Reese, Magic vs. Bird.

But there’s an ugly undertone to Clark and Reese’s rivalry that’s an issue for everyone in the WNBA. There is a segment of Clark’s fans — not all of her fans, not the majority of her fans, but too many — who have styled Clark as some kind of white, heteronormative savior and are using her as a vehicle for racism and homophobia.

Again, not all her fans. But enough that it’s doing real damage. Any player who delivers a hard foul on Clark can expect their social media accounts to be flooded with hateful messages. Reese has talked about being the subject of pornographic deep fakes, some of which were sent to her family members.

And woe to anyone who says something mildly critical about Clark or her game. (Or, God forbid, votes her the ninth-best guard during a season in which she’s missed half of Indiana’s games and is not shooting particularly well.)

“In my 11-year career, I’ve never experienced the racial comments (like) from the Indiana Fever fan base,” Alyssa Thomas said during last year’s playoffs, after the Connecticut Sun eliminated the Fever following a contentious series that included DiJonai Carrington being accused of trying to maim Clark.

“It’s unacceptable, honestly, and there’s no place for it,” Thomas continued. “We’ve been professional throughout the whole entire thing, but I’ve never been called the things that I’ve been called on social media, and there’s no place for it. Basketball is headed in a great direction, but we don’t want fans that are going to degrade us and call us racial things.”

Clark has disavowed this segment of her fan base, directly and indirectly. Her harshest condemnation came in Time’s athlete of the year profile last year.

 “Just stop,” she told the magazine. “Because that’s not who I am.”

Yet the trolls and bigots persist, and no one gets more abuse than Reese.

She was disparaged when the WNBA said it was investigating racist abuse during the Sky and Fever’s first game in Indianapolis this season, and mocked when the league said it could not substantiate the comments. Fans coined the term “mebounds” to diminish her game, the suggestion being Reese is the WNBA’s leading rebounder (12.8 per game) only because she’s grabbing her own misses.

But if Clark picks Reese for her All-Star team, it could silence some of the howling chorus of awfulness. The folks saying Reese sucks or flooding her social accounts with vitriol might pipe down if they see she has Clark’s endorsement. The folks who think they’re supporting Clark with their nastiness might think twice when Clark herself gives a public seal of approval.

There will some who will continue to be awful because they’re just awful people. (If your criticism of a player becomes personal or is thinly disguised racism and/or homophobia, you’re a bad person. Sorry, not sorry.) But Clark and Reese being on the same All-Star team — connecting on the court, laughing together and high-fiving one another — could show the still persuadable folks this animosity is the stuff of their own imaginations and it’s time to move on.

All-Star Games are, by their very nature, silly. There’s little, if anything, at stake, and players tend to treat it as a glorified exhibition. All of which is fine! But wouldn’t it be nice if this All-Star Game was the catalyst for defanging the WNBA’s worst fans and making the league, once again, a place to simply enjoy basketball?

No matter who Clark picks, she’s going to have a good team for the All-Star Game. By drafting Reese, she could have a team that’s good for the entire game and everyone in it.

Follow USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour on social media @nrarmour.

The battle for the yellow jersey at the 2025 Tour de France is heating up after a thrilling finish on Tuesday, July 8, involving some of this year’s favorites at cycling’s biggest event.

Three-time Tour de France and current world champion Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia surged past Mathieu van der Poel and rival Jonas Vingegaard near the finish line to take Stage 4 and inch closer to grabbing control of the yellow jersey. It was Pogačar’s first stage win this year, and 18th overall stage win at the Tour de France. The race, which took place on a 174.2-kilometer course between Amiens and Rouen and featured several late climbs, also became the 100th victory of his professional career.

Van der Peul began the day with the yellow jersey and will retain it heading into a crucial individual time trial in Caen on Wednesday, July 9 for Stage 5. He and Pogačar are currently tied in overall time, eight seconds ahead of Vingegaard. American Matteo Jorgenson sits in fourth. Pogačar, who races for UAE Team Emirates XRG, also moved ahead of Belgian Tim Wellens to claim the polka dot jersey as the top climber at the Tour de France through Stage 4.

Here’s a look at the complete stage 4 results and 2025 Tour de France standings after Tuesday, July 8, as well as what’s coming up for cycling’s biggest race:

Stage 4 results

Final results of the 174.2-kilometer Stage 4 from Amiens to Rouen at the 2025 Tour de France on Tuesday, July 8.

Tour de France 2025 standings

Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands: 16h 46′ 00”
Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia: 16h 46′ 00”
Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark: 16h 46′ 08” (8 seconds behind)
Matteo Jorgenson, USA: 16h 46′ 19” (19 seconds)
Kevin Vauquelin, France: 16h 46′ 26” (26 seconds)
Enric Mas, Spain: 16h 46′ 48” (48 seconds)
Oscar Onley, Great Britain: 16h 46′ 55” (55 seconds)
Joao Almeida, Portugal: 16h 46′ 55” (55 seconds)
Remco Evenepoel, Belgium: 16h 46′ 58” (58 seconds)
Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark: 16h 47′ 02” (1 minute, 2 seconds)

2025 Tour de France jersey leaders

Yellow (overall race leader): Mathieu Van der Poel, Netherlands

Green (points): Jonathan Milan, Italy

Polka dot (mountains): Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia

White (young rider): Kevin Vauquelin, France

Who’s wearing the rainbow jersey at 2025 Tour de France?

In addition to the four traditional colored jerseys at the Tour de France, the reigning world road race champion wears a rainbow-colored jersey. It’s white with five colored stripes – blue, red, black, yellow and green (same as the colors of the Olympic rings) – and is currently worn by Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia.

2025 Tour de France next stage

Stage 5 is a 33-kilometer individual time trial in Caen on Wednesday, July 9.

The San Francisco 49ers endured a tough 2024 campaign following their loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58.

Things took a turn late in the offseason when top draft pick Ricky Pearsall was shot in the chest during an attempted robbery. Injuries and more off-field issues contributed to a six-win campaign, tied for the fewest in the last five years for the franchise.

Injuries piled up on both sides of the ball but hit some on the offense hardest. Star running back Christian McCaffrey missed most of the season and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk suffered a season-ending injury in Week 7.

One of the biggest losses came on the offensive line as first-team All-Pro left tackle Trent Williams missed seven games with an ankle injury.

For quarterback Brock Purdy, that was a key loss down the second half of the season.

‘Last year he got hurt towards the end and it’s just different,’ Purdy said on the July 8 episode of the ‘Bussin with the Boys’ podcast. ‘Obviously, whoever gets thrown in I trust and we’re good… [but] he’s locked down over there.

He’s my little safety blanket. I’m like ‘I need my binkie’ and I need him to be in the game.’

Prior to 2024, Williams had made the Pro Bowl in 11 of the last 12 seasons. The lone exception was 2019 which he missed when recovering from surgery to remove cancer. He was a first-team All-Pro from 2021 to 2023 with San Francisco.

‘You watch his run game and the stuff, the moves that he does, it’s like ‘what the heck?” Purdy said. ‘He does this ninja move thing and then pushes guys in the ground… as a right-handed quarterback, knowing that my left side dude is good, I can’t even describe to you.’

Williams is entering his age-37 season in 2025 but says he is not considering retirement anytime soon.

“I just feel like I do myself and my teammates a disservice if I’m looking toward the end,” Williams said during minicamp. “I’m paid, people count on me to be here now. We got goals and aspirations as a team. I just don’t think putting brain power toward that helps us get to where we want to go.’

San Francisco starts training camp on July 15 for rookies and July 22 for veterans like Williams and Purdy.