There are still 164 days to go until the 2022 draft, so there is still plenty of sorting out to be done before the picks actually start coming off the board. And while much of the attention has been on the ups and downs of the QB class, the group that has been slowly emerging as perhaps the… Read More »
Auburn PK done for year … In addition to losing QB Bo Nix for the year, Auburn will be without PK Anders Carlson for the remainder of the campaign after he suffered a torn ACL in the Tigers’ loss to Mississippi State over the weekend. Carlson is currently rated as the 5th best PK for the 2022 draft… Read More »
Star ‘Horns RB Robinson out year … Could things get any worse at Texas. Literally just hours after the Longhorns suffered one of the most embarrassing upsets in school history, a home loss to Kansas, which just never beats anybody ever, the program announced that All-American sophomore RB Bijan Robinson will miss the rest of the season with… Read More »
Auburn QB Nix to miss season finales … Auburn QB Bo Nix will reportedly miss the final two games of the regular season with an ankle injury that will require surgery. No word on whether Nix will also miss the Tigers’ bowl game next month. What Nix, who is considered to be a mid-to-late round prospect for the… Read More »
Lions hang tough; still lose and hang onto top pick … The Detroit Lions, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, didn’t lose today, but they didn’t either as they battled to a 16-16 OT tie in rainy Pittsburgh. As a result, the Lions record goes to 0-8-1 and means that they will hold onto the top pick in… Read More »
Lions catch a break; Big Ben out Sunday … Detroit, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, hasn’t had many breaks through the first half of the campaign, but they may have caught one this weekend ahead of tomorrow’s game in Pittsburgh with news that Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger will not be in uniform after he was placed on… Read More »
Giants report: Mid-season grades; Part deux: the defense … With the Giants on their bye week we posted our positional grades for the offensive side of the ball earlier in the week and had hoped to get to the defense a little sooner than we did. But we did finally get the defensive grades posted to complete the… Read More »
When we posted the offensive grades earlier in the week we asked ‘would the real Giants please stand up! Are they the guys that bumbled their way to a disastrous 0-3 start in one of the easy parts of the schedule to open the year, or are the group that has gone 3-3 during arguably the toughest part… Read More »
Jermaine Johnson, 6-5, 265, 4.55; Florida State … Rising 5th-year senior who has taken a rather circuitous path to the top of the draft board. A 2-star recruit out of Minnesota who didn’t qualify academically, he originally went the JC route where he emerged as a potentially disruptive edge-rusher with offers from all the big-time football programs. He… Read More »
Dolphins stunner has Eagles pick slipping … I doubt anybody around the NFL was expecting much of a game last night when Baltimore played at Miami in last night’s Thursday prime time game. There was just no way that the sad-sack Dolphins would be able to hang with the Ravens who were looking to extend their lead in… Read More »
Weekly prospects preview … It is down to crunch time in college football and for those that don’t follow the sport all that closely there are essentially just 7 teams across the country that control their own destinies as far as the national championship playoffs are concerned. They include Georgia and Alabama from the SEC, Ohio State and… Read More »
It is down to crunch time in college football and for those that don’t follow the sport all that closely, there are essentially just 7 teams across the country that control their own destinies as far as the national championship playoffs are concerned. They include Georgia and Alabama from the SEC, Ohio State and Michigan from the Big… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … As he does every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be posting a weekly review of prospects who caught his eye in the previous weekend’s college football action. Here’s Paul’s column covering last weekend’s slate of games.
Rising UGA LB now charged with rape … Georgia OLB Adam Anderson, a potential mid-to-late first round prospect for the 2022 draft, has now been formally charged with rape and is awaiting bail hearing. Anderson was suspended indefinitely by the team after he was accused of raping a woman a couple of weekends ago. Through his lawyer Anderson… Read More »
Mid-season mock fest concludes with the great Grumpy projection … Our annual blizzard of mid-season mock drafts concludes today with GBN Editor Colin Lindsay’s stab at predicting the opening round of the 2022 draft which is now just 168 days away. And the great Grumpy one guarantees (in writing if you want) that he may very well have… Read More »
Thursday night college game with draft implications … If watching Miami battle for Philadelphia’s draft position isn’t your thing, there’s a really intriguing college game on Thursday’s schedule (7:30 PM ET; ESPN) with North Carolina playing at #21 Pittsburgh in a game in which both teams have QBs with first-round potential for the upcoming draft in Sam Howell… Read More »
Thursday night game with draft implications … NFL execs were probably expecting a more attractive match-up when they scheduled Baltimore to play at Miami in this week’s Thursday night prime time game (8:20 OM ET; FOX; NFL Network). The Ravens certainly have held up their part of the bargain; they’re 6-2 and lead the very competitive AFC North… Read More »
Mid-season mock fest continues; Pigskin Paul up … After GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker posted his mid-season 2022 draft opening round projection yesterday, its Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s turn today right here. We have made the case before that there is no such thing really as ‘just one’ mock draft. Nobody in the business – not Mel… Read More »
Giants report: Mid-season grades: offense … So will the real Giants please stand up! Are they the guys that bumbled their way to a disastrous 0-3 start in one of the easy parts of the schedule to open the year, or the group that has gone 3-3 during arguably the toughest part of the schedule? The simple answer… Read More »
Overall: So will the real Giants please stand up! Are they the guys that bumbled their way to a disastrous 0-3 start in one of the easy parts of the schedule to open the year, or the group that has gone 3-3 during arguably the toughest part of the schedule? The simple answer is that there is no… Read More »
Mock week on GBN … With the NFL regular schedule at the mid-way point of the season, everyone on the staff has agreed to take a stab at mocking the opening round of the 2022 draft, starting with Chief Scout Larry Parker here.
Selection order updated … With another week’s action in the books, the current opening round selection order for the 2022 draft has been updated were it to be held this week.
Texans lose/win ‘battle for #2; Jags stun Bills … Both teams tried to fumble it away, but when the smoke cleared in today’s game between Houston and Miami with the 2nd pick overall in the current selection order for the 2022 draft on the line, the Dolphins came away with a 17-9 win. That dropped the Texans to… Read More »
UDub OT back in action against Ducks … For the record, Washington LT Jaxson Kirkland was back in action for the Huskies in last night’s loss to Oregon. Kirkland, a late first round prospect for the 2022 draft, had missed the past two games with an undisclosed injury and had been listed as out indefinitely. In fact, Kirkland… Read More »
QB shuffle to impact battle for #2 … Both teams will be making changes at QB for today’s game between Houston and Miami with the 2nd pick overall in the current selection order for the 2022 draft on the line. On the one hand, the Dolphins will be without starter Tua Tagovailoa who has a fractured finger on… Read More »
