Ole Miss QB Corral ‘questionable’… According to the program, Mississippi QB Matt Corral, the consensus leader in the race for the Heisman Trophy, as well as arguably the top prospect at the position for the 2022 draft, is ‘questionable’ for this Saturday’s game against LSU. Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin, for example, described Corral as ‘not being… Read More »
Lions new #1 in weekly selection order … Wow! Just another great game in tonight’s Monday night game to wrap up the week. Of course, it didn’t change the fact that Detroit, the NFL’s last remaining winless team has taken over the #1 pick overall in the updated opening round selection order for the 2022 draft were it… Read More »
Anyone ever wonder what happens in a game in which the less talented team gets outworked, outhustled and outcoached. If you’re not sure, just re-watch the tape of the Giants 38-11 loss at home to the LA Rams Sunday afternoon. However, we shan’t be joining you; we know what we saw. Actually the Giants were competitive enough for… Read More »
Lions go to top of board, picks 2-3-4 still to be decided… After Jacksonville ended its 20-game losing streak in dramatic fashion in London earlier today, Detroit left nothing to chance in a rather dismal home loss to Cincinnati leaving the Lions as the NFL’s only remaining winless team and guarantees that they will be sitting on the… Read More »
Top of selection order to be shuffled … There will almost certainly be some major changes to the early selection order for the 2022 draft as it stands this week, with not one, but two games involving teams currently sitting on top 6 picks. In fact, tomorrow’s early game London between 0-5 Jacksonville and 1-4 Miami could be… Read More »
UGA DB Smith out for year … A tough season reportedly got worse for Georgia junior safety Tykee Smith as the school has confirmed that he tore an ACL in practice this week which will end his season. Smith, a former West Virginia All-American who transferred to Georgia this past off-season, had been considered to be a possible… Read More »
Cards get Eagles TE Ertz for vet CB; pick … Arizona continues to load up for what they hope will be a serious run at the Super Bowl. Earlier today, the Cardinals got veteran TE Zach Ertz from Philadelphia in exchange for veteran CB Tay Gowin and a 5th-round pick in the 2022 draft. Meanwhile, the Eagles appear… Read More »
Eclectic viewing on tap on college sked … College football have been spoiled so far this fall with one great weekend slate of games after another. Not so much this weekend though. And you know its sort of an off week when Kentucky is playing in what is arguably the most attractive game of the weekend and basketball… Read More »
Pigskin’s week four 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. Needless to say, he had plenty to chew on after another weekend of terrific games. Here’s Paul’s column for this week.
Sooners’ QB soap opera continues … It was probably the worst kept secret in college football, but Oklahoma has confirmed that redshirt freshman Caleb Williams will take over the Sooners’ offense when they host TCU on Saturday. That means that Spencer Rattler, who entered the season as arguably the top-rated QB prospect for the 2022 draft, is now… Read More »
More trouble for LSU as DE Gaye to miss rest of year … Things just keep going from bad to worse at LSU where the Tigers have struggled to a disappointing 3-3 start. And the injuries keep piling up in Baton Rouge. LSU, which was already without star CB Derek Stingley, a top 5 candidate for the 2022… Read More »
Tide OT; Ole Miss QB top two picks in quarter pole projection .., With the college season at the mid-way point and the NFL having just passed the quarter pole, it seemed like as ad time to update the GBN opening round projection for the 2022 draft. And with the first two picks we had Jacksonville taking Alabama… Read More »
There ain’t no easy cures! However, as a survivor of the 1970s the one thing I can suggest to people is get off the roller-coaster. Three weeks after the Giants dropped to 0-3 with a second-straight last play loss, all one heard was a cacophony of ‘we’re awful; we suck! Fire the G.M.! Fire the owner! Fire the… Read More »
Gruden out as Raiders head coach … After a wild weekend when some old emails were leaked in which he used a racial trope to describe NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, Jon Gruden has resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden might have been able to survive the Smith insult, which was from ten years… Read More »
Jags, Lions still 1-2 … With most of the smoke cleared from this weekend’s action, there hasn’t been much change in the top few picks in the proverbial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the 2022 draft. After being blasted at home by Tennessee, Jacksonville will continue to sit on the… Read More »
Jets-Falcons underway in London … Just a reminder that today’s NFL schedule gets underway early with Atlanta playing the NY Jets in London. And with both teams at 1-3, the game will have some impact on the early selection order for the 2022 draft; indeed, the Jets would have had the 3rd pick overall had the draft been… Read More »
IT! IS! ON! … An already pretty intense race to college football’s national championship suddenly looks to be wide-open after Texas A&M stunned top-ranked and defensing national title-holders Alabama 41-38 on a walk-off FG as time expired. The Tide had actually trailed by as much as 2 TDs throughout much of the contest against the twice-beaten Aggies, but… Read More »
Rattler benched in Sooners big comeback win … Fascinating game in Dallas earlier today as 6th ranked Oklahoma rallied from 18 points down in the 4th quarter to knock off Texas 55-48 in the Red River Shootout. And Sooners’ QB Spencer Rattler, who not that long ago was being touted as a potential top 5 candidate for the… Read More »
Couple of big AFC games hilite NFL sked; some early draft order reshuffling coming … There are a couple of really good games on tap in the AFC this weekend with Cleveland playing the Chargers in Los Angeles in a late game tomorrow and then Buffalo going to Kansas City on Sunday night. There will also be some… Read More »
Ducks’ RB Verdell done for year … Oregon RB C J Verdell, a solid third day type prospect for the 2022 draft, will miss the remainder of the season, after suffering what is being described as a ‘lower-leg’ injury in the second half of the Ducks’ upset Oregon’s loss at Stanford last Saturday. Verdell, who has almost 3,000… Read More »
Weekly prospects preview … There is a really interesting weekend coming up on the college football schedule. We get the third and fourth ranked teams in the country going head-to-head in a classic Big Ten match-up and we’ve got both SEC superpowers Alabama and Georgi, the two top-ranked teams in the country are on the road facing potentially… Read More »
Pigskin’s week four 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. Needless to say, he had plenty to chew on after another weekend of terrific games. Here’s Paul’s column for this week.
#1 ALABAMA (5-0) at TEXAS A&M (3-2); 8 PM ET; CBS … The perennial question in the SEC every year, of course, is can anyone in the West beat Alabama? And when the schedule came out earlier this year, just about everybody red-circled this game as the rest of the division’s best chance. However, the game lost much… Read More »
Top 5 CB Stingley out indefinitely … LSU has announced that All-America junior CB Derek Stingley, a top 5 prospect for the 2022 draft, underwent surgery to address a foot problem earlier today and will be out indefinitely. Stingley originally injured the foot in training camp, but played through it early in the season. He did play in… Read More »
Panthers get star CB Gilmore for future pick … In the end, New England CB Stephon Gilmore never did hit the open market. The Patriots had announced earlier today that Gilmore, the NFL’s DPOY just two years ago, was being released. Instead, Carolina obviously put in a bid and got Gilmore in exchange for a 6th round pick… Read More »
