Schedule to be released tonight … About a month later than usual. the 2021 regular season NFL schedule will be released this evening beginning at 8 PM ET on the NFL Network. However, the NFL has teased the formal announcement by releasing the opening weekend slate of games early. And the season does kick-off with a tasty morsel… Read More »
Early look at who’s picking when at the 2022 draft … For the record, the 2022 draft is just 354 days away and there is an awful lot that is going to change between now and April 28th next spring. However, we have been able to put together a preliminary, and of course, very unofficial early listing of… Read More »
Follow-up Pigskin draft comments … The 2021 draft is still very much fresh in our minds here and GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has weighed in with some post-draft comments on the winners and losers from this year’s draft plus other observations.
Jets sign late round half dozen … The NY Jets have signed six players selected at this year’s round including 5th round DBs Jamien Sherwood, Michael Carter and Jason Pinnock and 6th rounders DB Hamsah Nasirildeen, CB Brandon Echols and DT Jonathan Marshall.
Colts first to sign top pick … That didn’t take long as Indianapolis became the first team to sign it’s 2021 first-round pick by signing DE Kwity Paye to a 4Y, $13.6M deal with the standard club option for a fifth season. Paye was the 21st overall pick in last week’s opening round. In fact, the Colts actually… Read More »
Profile of 2022 QBs … NFL teams that didn’t get a QB early in this year’s draft and/or will be looking for one next year can take heart from the fact that it appears there will be a deep QB class for the 2022 draft, although it may not quite as talented as this year’s group. Certainly, it… Read More »
Jags, Giants fire personnel staff … Personnel people staff around the NFL generally work on a May-to-May contract cycle and with the draft in the books is when teams are most likely to adjust those staffs. Jacksonville, which continues to re-organize under new head coach Urban Meyer, for example, has fired four senior members of their scouting staff… Read More »
Retired Clemson DE to return … Some good news for the Clemson football program as DE Justin Foster, who had earlier announced that he was retiring from the game because of health complications related to covid and asthma, has gotten a second opinion and will be back for the upcoming season. The 6-2, 265-pound Foster had 4.5 sacks… Read More »
Ti-Cats open CFL draft taking former BC TE Burt … Hamilton got the 2021 CFL draft of Canadian players started this evening selecting former Boston College TE Jake Burt with the #1 pick overall. It was a bit of a surprise pick as Burt was only recently added to the CFL draft eligibility list after spending the 2020… Read More »
CFL draft on tap … As it does every year, the Canadian Football League will holds its annual draft of Canadian-born players the week after the NFL draft. The CFL draft gets underway at 7 PM ET on Tuesday with 6 rounds scheduled. Because the CFL did not play at all in 2020, the selection order for this… Read More »
A few random leftover draft thoughts/observations … We still have a bunch of random thoughts running through our head from the weekend’s draft including a great draft for Canadians; our ‘fav’ picks from each round; the Mahomes effect on the draft!; plus our pick for THE most interesting pick of the week; and more all here.
Yeah, the Power 5 conferences accounted for almost 4 out of 5 players selected at last weekend’s draft (and its over 80% when Notre Dame is included in the total) but it’s a wealth that isn’t necessarily evenly Auburn, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kansas State, Baylor, California and Colorado have in common. They all had fewer players taken at… Read More »
Irish LB JOK dropped because of heart issue … Hands up everyone who had Notre Dame LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah going after Irish OG Aaron Banks in their 2021 draft pool. Didn’t think so! Owusu-Koramoah had been one of the rising stars of this year’s draft with analysts talking about him as a possible top 15 pick, but he… Read More »
Titans 4th rounder charged with assault … Former Pittsburgh DE Rashad Weaver, a 4th-round pick by Tennessee at last weekend’s draft, has been charged with one count of simple assault in connection with an incident on April 18th. Weaver is alleged to have punched a woman with whom had had some kind of altercation with at a local… Read More »
8th round off and running … As noted at the end of the draft on Saturday, there won’t be any rest right away for bleary-eyed NFL personnel who are as we speak trying to sign their undrafted rookie classes. And while it will be a few days until teams start formally announcing their UDFA rookie signing classes, some… Read More »
Shoudda, coudda stayed in school … No surprise here that the early part of the 2021 draft was dominated by underclassmen. Indeed, the first 9 players selected this year were either juniors or redshirt sophomores as were 9 of the first 10 players selected and 13 of the first 15. In fact, 23 of this year’s 32 players… Read More »
2021 draft by the numbers … One of the question surrounding this year’s virtual draft was whether NFL teams, which couldn’t work out or interview players as extensively as they had in the past because of limitations imposed of the pandemic, would play it safe and stick with the major programs when making their picks. And the answer… Read More »
Only 364 days to go!!! … Indeed, only 364 days to go until the 2022 draft. Hang in there guys!!! And fresh off of his success of finishing in the Top 10 of The Huddle Report’s contest for the most accurate 2021 mock, GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker has put together a ‘way-too-early’ first round projection for the… Read More »
That’s a wrap; THE end, finish!! … The 2021 draft came to a fitting close at 6:52 PM ET this evening when the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected former Houston LB Grant Stuard with the 259th and final pick of the draft. Of course, that makes him ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ for the year. And while the actual… Read More »
Getting started … As we get set to get the final day of the draft underway, don’t know why but can’t get the phrase ‘Roger Goodell, man of the people!’ outta my brain!
Final rounds set to kick-off … We are just few minutes away from the start of the final day of the 2021 draft with the Jacksonville Jaguars back on the clock with the 106th pick in the fourth round. Teams will have 5 minutes to make their selections in the 4th thru the 6th rounds and then just… Read More »
That’s a wrap; part deux … The second and third rounds of the 2021 draft came to a close just a few minutes ago when Denver selected former Ohio State LB Baron Browning with the 105th and last pick of the night. There won’t be much rest for NFL personnel people, though, as teams still have to restack… Read More »
Please don’t spread it around but we effing nailed it in last night’s opening round. But, boy, what an emotional roller-coaster ride there for a few minutes. When first Miami, and then Detroit passed on taking DeVonta Smith with the 6th and 7th picks respectively, you really got the feeling that there was a really good chance that… Read More »
Random thoughts from 2021 day one … Let me say from the outset that I am 100% in agreement with Pigksin Paul Guillemette, my partner-in-crime here at the GBN, in his comments about what the draft has become – or at least what the NFL seems to want it to become – as a spectacle rather than a… Read More »
First-round draft thoughts from Pigskin Paul … With a little time to think about it all, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some thoughts on last night’s opening round of the 2021 draft here.
