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    2013 Draft    Picks by team      Top 100      Positional rankings     Veteran Free agent scoreboard   Top undrafted free agents

    May 17
  • (12:01 AM): Breaking down the AFC West draft ... Over the next fw days GBN analyst Dave Syvertsen will be breaking down the 2013 draft for each division starting with the AFC West.
  • Bills introduce new G.M. … Buffalo formally introduced Doug Whaley as the Bills‘ new G.M. in the wake of the resignation of former G.M. Buddy Nix; Whaley had been the Bills‘ assistant general manager. Along with Whaley, the Bills have named Kelvin Fisher as director of college scouting, while Jim Monos was hired as director of player personnel. Fisher comes to the Blls from Pittsburgh, while Monos spent the past eight years working as an area scout with New Orleans. Meanwhile, Kansas City rounded out its new personnel department by naming Will Lewis as director of pro scouting and Marvin Allen as director of college scouting, while Randy Ball was named pro scouting assistant and Trey Koziol an area scout. The Chiefs also promoted Mike Borgonzi to assistant director of pro scouting, Dom Green to assistant director of college scouting, Brett Veach to pro and college personnel analyst and Ryan Poles to college coordinator.
    May 14
  • (12:01 AM): Bills Nix steps down as GM … Buffalo has a new G.M. as Buddy Nix somewhat surprisingly stepped down on Monday and will be replaced by Doug Whaley , who moves up from assistant general manager. The 73-year-old Nix will stay with the team, though, as a special assistant to the G.M. Meanwhile, Arizona reshuffled its personnel department as Dru Grigson has been promoted to director of college scouting, while Quentin Harris has been promoted to director of pro scouting. Grigson had been a regional scout with the Cardinals who also named Josh Scobey as a pro scout, while Terry McDonough, who had been director of player personnel at Jacksonville, the past four years, was named the team’s eastern regional scout after being hired last week. At the same time, John Mancini becomes the Cardinals’ area scout for the midwest, while Debbie Pollom becomes college scouting coordinator, and Glen Fox and Darius Vinnett become scouting assistants. Marvin Allen, formerly a national scout with Atlanta has been named Kansas City’s new director of college scouting.
    May 9
  • (7:00 PM): Colt get conditional pick for C … Indianapolis has acquired a conditional pick in the 2014 draft from Baltimore in exchange for C A.Q. Shipley. No word on the conditions involved in the deal, but it may be something along the lines of the Colts get a late round pick if the player makes the Ravens’ opening day 53-man roster.
  • Cards add vet personnel man to front office … Arizona has reportedly agreed to terms with Terry McDonough, who was just fired after spending the past four years as the Director of Player Personnel at Jacksonville. It has not been announced what role McDonough will play with Arizona but he will be involved in scouting.
    May 7
  • (12:01 AM): Big DT goes #1 in CFL draft … Hamilton selected Calgary DT Linden Gaydosh with the first pick overall in Monday’s CFL draft of Canadian-born players. Winnipeg then took Eastern Michigan DE Andy Mulumba with the second pick, while Montreal took Calgary LB Mike Edem with the third selection which the Alouettes acquired from Montreal. In fact, it was a great draft for former Calgary Dinos as RB Steven Lumbula was taken 5th overall by Montreal with their own first round pick. In between, Saskatchewan selected Eastern Michigan OG Corey Watman with the 4th pick. Meanwhile, Toronto selected McMaster OT Matt Sewell with the 8th pick, while Edmonton grabbed Regina DT Stefan Charles two picks later. Both of the latter players were signed by Tennessee as undrafted free agents following last month's NFL draft. Here is the full CFL draft tracker.
  • Browns pick charged with DUI … Cleveland DE Armonty Bryant, who was selected in the 7th round of last month’s draft, was charged earlier this week with driving under the influence of alcohol. Last year, Bryant, from little East Central State of Oklahoma, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of marijuana distribution in a school zone.
  • Broncos reshuffle top personnel staff ... Denver has reportedly hired former Cleveland G.M. Tom Heckert as a 'personnel executive'. While that is a rather generic title it is likely that Heckert will assume some of the duties of former Broncos director of pro personnel Keith Kidd, who was informed his contract would not be renewed over the weekend.
    May 6
  • (9:00 AM): Final conditions for Smith trade reported … Peter King of Sports Illustrated is reporting in his Monday morning QB column this day that the conditional pick in 2014 San Francisco received from Kansas City to complete the deal for QB Alex Smith is a third rounder that could escalate to a second rounder if the Chiefs win at least 8 games this fall. The 49ers also received the Chiefs second round pick this year for Smith which they then artfully traded down with Tennessee for another third round pick in 2014 as well as emerging DE Tank Carradine.
  • Chiefs get new top personnel exec … Kansas City has hired Chris Ballard as the team’s new director of player personnel. Ballard, whose new job will entail overseeing both the Chiefs pro and college scouting departments, was director of college scouting for Chicago last year after spending 12 years with the Bears as a scout.
    May 3
  • (9:00 AM): Jag fill front office vacancies … Jacksonville acted quickly to fill in the team’s front-office vacancies created earlier in the week when the Jaguars fired Director of Player Personnel Terry McDonough, Pro Personnel Director Louis Clark and area scout Chris Prescott. Most notably, the Jaguars hired former Indianapolis G.M. Chris Polian as the team’s new director of player personnel. In addition, Kyle O’Brien was hired as the new director of college scouting and Paul Roell is the new assistant director of college scouting, while Mark Ellenz was brought in as the new Eastern Regional scout and Andy Dengler was promoted to assistant director of player personnel after serving the last two years as director of college personnel with the Jaguars.
  • Ravens sign pack of picks ... Defending Super Bowl champion has signed 6 of the ten players the team drafted last weekend, including FB Kyle Juszczyk, a 4th round pick, along with 5th round OT Ricky Wagner, 6th rounders OG Ryan Jensen and DE Kapron Lewis-Moore and 7th rounders CB Marc Anthony and WR Aaron Melette. Meanwhile, Chigago agreed to terms with two more picks by signing 4th round LB Khaseem Greene and 7th round WR Marquess Wilson. Earlier in the week, the Bears signed OT DE Cornelius Washington, the first draft picks to sign this year. The only draft picks the Bears have not signed are G/T Kyle Long, the team’s 1st round pick and second-round MLB Jon Bostic.
    May 2
  • (9:00 AM): Bears first to sign picks ... Chicago became the first team to sign any of its 2013 draft picks when the Bears signed OT Jordan Mills and DE Cornelius Washington to 4-year contracts. Mills was the Bears 5th round pick this year, while Washington was selected in the sixth round.
  • (12:01 AM): Pack writer beats pack; GBN well placed … For the third straight year, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Packers’ beat writer Bob McGinn led the way in the The Huddle Report's annual ranking of the accuracy of the top 100 draft boards of the 65 leading draft services around the country. For the record, 87 of the players McGinn had in his final Top 100 prospects for the 2013 draft were actually selected within the first 100 picks at last week's draft. Also for the record, the GBN tied with 5 other sites, including Scott Wright’s NFL Draft Countdown, for 7th place. Among some of the more widely-known draft experts, NFL.com analysts Mike Mayock and Gil Brandt were 12th and 30th respectively, while ESPN's Mel Kiper tied for 48th.
  • Browns, 49ers juggle front offices ... Cleveland released senior national scout Pat Roberts, who spent eight seasons with the club. At the same time, San Francisco has promoted Joel Patten to Director of Player Personnel, Matt Malaspina to Director of College Scouting, and Mike Williams to Director of Pro Personnel. Additionally, the team promoted Justin Chabot to National Scout, Steve Rubio to Regional Scout and Josh Williams to Pro Personnel Scout.
  • Top UFA comes off board … NFL teams continue formerly announce the signings of players who not selected at last week’s draft. Among recent announced signings, Kansas City, which had the #1 pick overall in the regular draft, agreed to terms with former Tennessee QB Tyler Bray, the top-rated undrafted player left on the GBN Big Board after the draft. Meanwhile, Detroit announced the signing of 11 players including former Western Michigan QB Alex Carder, along with UCLA TE Joseph Fauria and Texas Tech OT LaAdrian Waddle.
    April 29
  • Undrafted rooks coming off the board ... With the 2013 darft in the books, NFL teams have been scrambling to fill out their rosters with the top undrafted rookie free agents they can sign. In fact, by now most teams have signed their contingent of undrafted rookies, although many teams actually until after their rookie mini-camp to actually announce their signings. That's partly because their are two categories of rookie signings. Some players are signed for training camp, pending a physical, while others only get an offer to try-out at the team's mini-camp. As sch, we only post rookie free agent signings that have been officially announced by the respective teams. Of early signings that have been announced Jacksonville has signed QBs Matt Scott and Jordan Rodgers, the younger brother of Green Bay star QB Aaron Rodgers, while New Orleans signed QB Ryan Griffin, along with OLBs Chase Thomas and Eric Martin. Elsewhere Seattle signed OG Alvin Bailey, Purdue inked NT Kwame Geathers and CB Josh Johnson and Buffalo signed WR Da'rick Rogers.
    April 28
  • (12:01 AM): Just 364 days until 2014 draft ... Hang in there guys!! Just 364 days until the next draft, or as they are already calling it in the business 'The Clowney Lottery'! in honor of South Carolina junior DE Javedon Clowney who has already been designated the #1 pick next year. Just in case, we have posted our very first, very preliminary first-round projection for 2014. As in past years, though, anybody who sends in an e-mail along the lines of "the Buckeroos will never take a ..." will be suspended from the site for the next three months!
  • By the numbers ... We are still chewing over the data from this weekend's draft, but here are some preliminary numbers and general observations from the 2013 draft, although for now we want to do some more thinking before crowning this year's winners and losers.
    April 27
  • (7:30 PM): That’s a wrap … The 2013 draft came to an end with Indianapolis making former South Carolina TE Justice Cunningham this year’s ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ with the 254th and final selection in the 7th round. And while this year’s draft is in the books, there won’t be any rest, at least right away, for bleary-eyed NFL personnel people. That’s because they are already working the phones trying to sign the top undrafted players from this week’s draft. Players still available in the so-called ‘8th round’ include among others QBs Tyler Bray, Matt Scott, Ryan Griffin and Jordan Rodgers; RBs Cierre Wood and Onterrio McCaleb, WRs Da’rick Rogers; TEs Jake Stoneburner and Joseph Fauria; OTs Chris Faulk, and Xavier Nixon; OGs Alvin Bailey, Chris Barker, and Sam Brenner, C Braxston Cave; DE Wes Horton; DTs Kwame Geathers, T.J. Barnes and Cory Grissom; ILBs Kevin Reddick, Jonathan Stewart, and Tom Wort; OLBs Chase Thomas, Jake Knott, Lerentee McCray, and Etienne Sabino; CBs Nickell Robey, Adrian Bushell, Josh Johnson, Johnny Adams, and Greg Reid; safeties Tony Jefferson, Cody Davis, and Robert Lester; and kickers Ryan Allen, Brad Wing and Quinn Sharp. For the record, here are the players who were still on the GBN Big Board as well as the top undrafted free agents broken down by position.
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