Cole Miller

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Navajo Nation has roughly 400,000 enrolled members and covers more land than West Virginia. Until this April, none of them had ever signed an NFL contract.

The one who finally did played six snaps on Saturday night and got a standing ovation from fans wearing both teams' jerseys.

Shiyazh Pete's first high school didn't have a football team. He transferred to Shiprock, New Mexico, joined the team as a sophomore, and mailed his own highlight tape to colleges during a COVID senior year with almost no recruiting resources on the reservation. The offers came back from Division II and Division III schools. He walked on at New Mexico State instead, redshirted, and spent his first year on the practice squad.

Three seasons later he was a first-team All-Conference USA left tackle, playing with a cast on a dislocated thumb, protecting the quarterback in a 34-10 win at Auburn.

Then Kentucky. Twelve starts in the SEC and a team captaincy. According to the NCAA, five Native Americans played Division I football in 2025. Pete was one of the five and the only one in the SEC.

Draft analysts ranked him somewhere between the 36th and 54th best tackle in the class. Seven rounds went by. Nobody called.

Dallas signed him as an undrafted free agent within days. The team's own rookie minicamp video of him was built around one line he said on camera. He had to earn that star.

Saturday in Glendale, thousands of Navajo Nation members made the trip to a Cardinals preseason game to watch a backup tackle. The Navajo Nation president came. When Pete checked in during the fourth quarter, the Navajo section noticed before anyone else did. Six plays, one touchdown drive, and then a chant of his last name loud enough that his teammates cleared the bench so he could face it alone.

His head coach handed him the locker room afterward. He told a room full of men he'd known for four months that fate brought them there as strangers, and this game, this star, this team would make them brothers.

Every locker room speech ever given is about brotherhood. This one came from the guy who spent his whole career as the only one in the room.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Following a high school football game in Sherman, Texas, Sherman High School player Gage Smith noticed his opponent, Ty Jordan of West Mesquite High School, was carrying a heavy burden.

Smith had learned that Jordan's mother had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and wanted to do something more meaningful than simply shake his hand.

After the game, Smith walked over, placed a hand on Jordan's shoulder, and asked if he could pray with him. The two rivals knelt together on the field, putting competition aside to pray for Jordan's mother, his family, and strength during their difficult time.

The heartfelt moment was captured in a photograph by the Sherman coach's wife and quickly spread across the internet, inspiring millions. Smith later said he wasn't looking for recognition—he simply wanted Jordan to know that he and his family were not alone.

It was a reminder that true sportsmanship isn't just measured by points on a scoreboard, but by compassion, empathy, and standing beside someone when they need it most.

[ESPN @espn]

Jacob Misiorowski records his 200th K of the season.

He becomes the second-fastest pitcher in MLB history to reach the milestone in a single season 👏

(via @MLB)

[Cole Miller @ColeMiller365]

@_Healthyorg Ginger

[Notre Dame Fighting Irish @Insidetheirish]

🙏🏼

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

2006: Jacob Wilson to Jack Wilson
2025: Jack Wilson to Jacob Wilson
One the coolest moments of the season.

[Cole Miller @ColeMiller365]

@thematrixb0t Protocol

[87KillaT @87KillaT]

Travis Kelce #WPMOYChallenge

Spags ""I'm not saying this cause you're sitting here Trav, but you're one of the purest, down-to-earth megastars that anyone could ever meet" 🥹

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts, deserving endless retweets.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

ONE OF MOST INSANE PLAYS OF THE SEASON:

#CHIEFS CORNERBACK KRISTIAN FULTON MADE AN INSANE CROSS-BODY PLAY — SOMEHOW REACHING ACROSS AND TIPPING THE BALL…

LINEBACKER NICK BOLTON THEN HAD REMARKABLE AWARENESS AND INTERCEPTED THE BALL.

[Starcade Media @StarcadeMediaKC]

If this was truly it, then thank you #TravisKelce for a lifetime of memories. Three Super Bowls. A culture transformed. A city that learned how to believe again.

[Starcade Media @StarcadeMediaKC]

Former #Chiefs RT Mitchell Schwartz on Clark Hunt taking away thousands of seats from #ChiefsKingdom when they move into their dome.

via X | MitchSchwartz71

[Jenna @jennaxkc]

You better transport these ramps to the dome

[Chase Snyder @ChasingSnyder]

Here’s the specific 5 minutes everything changed at Arrowhead and it became Arrowhead. Everyone knows it when you go through history. Broncos/Chiefs, 1990. False start, Broncos. Elway goes back to the line again, realizes they’re screwed to even operate, and has to BEG for help.

[Lexi @lexiosborne]

Really, really want to see him win the Walter Payton man of the year challenge this year. He deserves it. RT’s count as votes!
#WPMOYChallenge + @tkelce
#WPMOYChallenge + @tkelce
#WPMOYChallenge + @tkelce

[Barstool Irish @BarstoolIrish]

🫶

[New Heights @newheightshow]

It’s double vote day
1 RT = 2X Votes

@tkelce x #ProBowlVote

[✨️Finder of Lost Items✨️ ❤️‍🔥 @LostItemsFound]

locked in for whatever Travis does next
Travis Kelce #WPMOYChallenge
Travis Kelce #ProBowlVote

[87KillaT @87KillaT]

holds the NFL record for the most catches (35) in Super Bowl history

Travis Kelce #ProBowlVote