Senior Bowl QBs hold serve … Anyone hoping to get a little more clarity about the somewhat murky QB situation for the 2022 draft at today’s Senior Bowl probably came away a little disappointed as it is unlikely anybody in the NFL’s mind changed much after today. In particular, none of the 6 QBs in Mobile really stood… Read More »
Anyone hoping to get a little more clarity about the somewhat murky QB situation for the 2022 draft at today’s Senior Bowl probably came away a little disappointed as it is unlikely anything changed much after today. In particular, none of the 6 QBs in Mobile really stood out this afternoon. Pitt’s Kenny Pickett, who is generally considered… Read More »
Its on to Indy as Orange Wins Senior Bowl … Senior Bowl week wrapped up earlier this evening as paced by two TD passes by Cincinnati QB Desmond Ridder and a suffocating defense, the National (Orange) team won today’s actual game 20-10 over the American (White) team. Ridder threw TD passes to TEs Trey McBride of Colorado State… Read More »
Top WRs profiled … While we were waiting for the Senior Bowl to kick-off, we put together quick profiles of the top WRs in this year’s draft. It is a good group with some players with potential, although it’s hard to see any of this year’s guys ending up with grades as high as Ja’Marr Chase, Jalen Waddle… Read More »
Drake London, WR, Southern California, 6-4.5, 210, 4.50, JR … Third-year junior was arguably the best player in all of college football this past season before missing the final four games because of a fractured ankle. In those 8 games, London had 88 receptions, which still ranked 15th in the country, for over 1,000 yards and 7 scores;… Read More »
Defensive line takes the cake … Over the past few days we have been tracking the various reports and commentaries from this week’s Senior Bowl practices in Mobile. And while the QB class, not surprisingly, got the majority of the buzz, the position group that got the most props were the defensive line. As our colleague, Pigskin Paul… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile: Moving on up … With the week’s practice sessions at this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in on a half dozen or so players who he’ll be moving up on his personal big board after a strong week of practice.
Off day for Senior Bowl … Tomorrow will be an off-day for the players in Mobile at this year’s Senior Bowl after the three days of practice wrapped up earlier today. And Mobile has become something of a ghost town, at least when it comes to NFL personnel, as they pretty much all make a bee line for… Read More »
Jags hire Pederson as head coach … The longest current on-going coach search has apparently ended as Jacksonville has reportedly come to terms with former Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson who not that long ago guided the Eagles to their only Super Bowl win. Pederson replaces Urban Meyer who was fired late this past season. Pederson became the guy… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile; part deux … By all accounts the weather in Mobile yesterday was downright awful making for trying conditions for both players and reporters during the second day of practice sessions at this year’s Senior Bowl. In the end, the players gutted it out as did GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette, who is on the… Read More »
Senior Bowl practices wrap today; weather, Willis top stories … They’ll be getting the third and final day of practice at the Senior Bowl in Mobile in just over an hour. And they’re hoping for better weather today after yesterday’s practices were held in a steady downpour. Unfortunately, the forecast for today isn’t much better and there have… Read More »
Shriners to kick-off this evening … The first of this weekend’s double-header of all-star games goes this evening when the East-West Shrine game kicks off later this evening at 8 PM ET in Las Vegas with TV coverage on the NFL Network. And while the Shrine game doesn’t have the star power of the Senior Bowl, which will… Read More »
Harbaugh to return to UM; Vikes look to Rams’ OC … The flirtation between Minnesota and Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh appears to over. The Vikings had talked seriously with Harbaugh about filling their vacant head coaching job over the past week. However, Harbaugh has reportedly told Michigan officials that he’ll back in maize and blue next fall.… Read More »
Flores suit throws league for loop … Hands up anyone who thought that the league that still can’t figure out what’s a completed forward pass, can’t get a centuries old conundrum like race right. In fact, one could probably ask ‘what did they think was going to happen’ when the NFL introduced the Rooney Rule which forced teams… Read More »
College QB carousel continues to spin … You’ll probably need a program to figure who’s at QB when the 2022 college football season rolls around next fall. Another huge domino fell earlier this week with word that former Oklahoma freshman All-America QB Caleb Williams, an early favorite to be the first pick at the 2024, was transferring to… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile … With the first practice sessions at this year’s Senior Bowl in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette, who is on the ground in Mobile, weighs in with some of his observations from today’s workouts. The players will be back at it, this time in full pads, tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned!
Top LBs profiled … We’ve talked in recent weeks about how many positions in this year’s draft have real battles for the top grade in that positional grouping. Another position with that kind of debate is at MLB where both Nakobe Dean of Georgia and Utah’s Devin Lloyd have their supporters. Here are our profiles of the two,… Read More »
Nakobe Dean, LB, Georgia, 6-0, 225, 4.50, JR … Very athletic 3rd year junior won the Butkus Award as the nation’s top LB in both high school and college this year when he led the Bulldogs’ defense with 72 tackles, including 6 sacks, 5.5 other tackles for loss, 2 picks, 8 pass break-ups and 2 forced fumbles. He’s… Read More »
UDub OT Pulls out of draft … Washington OT Jaxson Kirkland has reportedly opted to try and withdraw from the 2022 draft and return to school for the upcoming college season. Kirkland has reportedly been dealing with an ankle injury that has turned out out to be worse than first thought. As a result he will have surgery… Read More »
Senior Bowl weigh-in results … They actually held the measurement session at this week’s Senior Bowl in Mobile earlier this week. Courtesy of the guys at NFL Draft Countdown, here are the results from today’s weigh-in along with our comments on some of the notable results from today’s session.
Not a whole lot surprising at today’s measurement ad weigh-in session at the Senior Bowl in Mobile. In fact, the most anticipated figure of the week never happened. That involved Pitt QB Kenny Pickett’s hand size which has been reported as very small. However, Pickett apparently decided to keep the story alive at least until the combine next… Read More »
QBs on parade at Senior Bowl … Players are gathering in Mobile as we speak for the start of this week’s Senior Bowl activities which get underway tomorrow. The players will be measured and weighed tomorrow, followed by the first practice sessions for both teams, although the first day of practice is usually in shorts. There will be… Read More »
Bengals, Rams off to Super Bowl; two more picks secured … It will be the upstart Cincinnati Bengals versus the LA Rams in the Super Bowl in Los Angeles in two weeks as both staged comeback wins today to advance to the championship game. The Bengals overcame a 21-3 second quarter deficit and stunned heavily favored Kansas City… Read More »
Bungles no more!!
Just a couple of quick stats we came across when analyzing the 4 teams in today’s conference championship games which may throw some light on what the Giants might consider when they start working on a plan to get back to the playoffs themselves. (And just for reference, we also included Buffalo in the data because both are… Read More »
