Two-time Super Bowl champion Howard Twilley, a member of the Miami Dolphins‘ undefeated 1972 team, has died at 81.

The National Football Foundation announced that Twilley died Wednesday but did not provide a cause of death.

Before landing in Miami, the wide receiver played at Tulsa. In 1965, he was a unanimous All-American and the Heisman Trophy runner-up after averaging 13.4 receptions per game, which the NFF said remains an FBS record.

“Howard Twilley was one of the greatest receivers in college football history with an uncanny ability to get open and change the course of a game,” NFF chairman Archie Manning said in a statement. “He simply redefined what it meant to be a dominant receiver, and his performance at Tulsa during the 1965 season remains one of the greatest in our sport’s history.”

Both the AFL’s Dolphins and NFL’s Minnesota Vikings selected him in the late rounds of their 1966 drafts, and he wound up in Miami.

He spent 11 seasons with the Dolphins, winning back-to-back Super Bowl championships after the 1972 and 1973 seasons. In 120 career games (82 starts), he caught 212 passes for 3,064 yards and 23 touchdowns.

Twilley started all three playoff games in 1972, making four receptions for 61 yards and a touchdown.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Howard Twilley, a founding player for the Dolphins in 1966,” the Dolphins said in a statement. “His touchdown in Super Bowl VII helped the Dolphins cap the NFL’s only perfect season and his contributions to the organization will be forever remembered.”

Post-retirement, Twilley owned a chain of sporting goods stores and worked for an investment firm.

Colorado‘s board of regents has approved a contract extension for defensive coordinator Robert Livingston, who had an integral role in the team’s improvement last season.

The new two-year deal makes Livingston the highest-paid assistant in team history, sources confirmed to ESPN.

Livingston will earn $1.5 million in 2025 and $1.7 million in 2026, according to sources, and the new agreement includes performance incentives. He received interest from other college and NFL teams after the 2024 season, where Colorado improved from four wins to nine under coach Deion Sanders.

“Coach Prime and I have worked extensively to build on the incredible momentum that has been created with our football program over the last two years,” athletic director Rick George said Friday. “Robert Livingston is a top caliber coach, and this new contract illustrates the investment Colorado Athletics is making to ensure our program remains among the nation’s best. I’m thrilled that Coach Livingston will continue to mentor our student-athletes for years to come.”

Livingston came to Colorado last year from the Cincinnati Bengals, where he coached defensive backs from 2016 to 2023 after working as a scout and a quality control assistant with the team. He had not been a coordinator before joining the Buffs.

Colorado’s defense rose to 43rd nationally in points allowed after finishing 121st nationally in 2023. The unit allowed 11.7 points fewer and 101.4 yards fewer per game under Livingston. The Buffs also tied for 11th nationally in sacks, rising from 53rd in 2023, and had three first- or second-team All-Big 12 defenders, including two-way star Travis Hunter, who won the Heisman Trophy.

The (Boulder) Daily Camera first reported details of Livingston’s new deal. He earned $800,000 in 2024 and was set to earn $995,000 in 2025.

While former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders is expected to be one of the early picks in this year’s NFL draft, he says he isn’t worried whether he will be selected first overall.

“Why would I be mad?” Sanders told ESPN’s Kevin Clark on Thursday. “These are good problems to have. You could be in a way worse situation. Being No. 1 doesn’t really matter to me. It’s all about fit.”

Sanders went on to explain how whatever situation he goes into won’t be the best, since it’s a team with a high draft pick, but that he wants to land in a good scheme fit.

The Tennessee Titans have the No. 1 pick and met with Sanders at the East-West Shrine Bowl. They were impressed with his maturity and poise during the interview.

The Cleveland Browns and New York Giants have the second and third picks, respectively, and also met with Sanders at the Shrine game.

Sanders and Miami‘s Cam Ward are the top two quarterbacks in the draft, and they train together with quarterbacks coach Darrell Colbert in the Dallas area. The two have been seen on various videos talking trash to each other during workouts, but they say it’s meant good-naturedly.

“It’s cool that we’re close because, if we wasn’t, they would try to pin us against each other,” Sanders said. “A lot of stuff we say, we just be playing. But people try to take things and put it out of context.”

Sanders said he spent a lot of time with former NFL quarterback Michael Vick during Shrine week. The Atlanta Falcons made Vick the top pick in the 2001 draft, the first time a Black quarterback was selected first overall.

“Every conversation we have is very impactful to me,” Sanders said. “I love being around him, talking to him and getting his insight.”