Joe B still not sold on Bengals … LSU QB Joe Burrow, the presumptive #1 pick at the 2020 draft, had another chance today to put to bed those reports that he genuinely doesn’t want to be selected by Cincinnati in this year’s draft. Burrow was in the Dallas area to accept the Davey O’Brien Award given annually… Read More »
Lions confirm shopping star CB Slay … Detroit has confirmed that they have had conversations with multiple teams about a possible trade for star CB Darius Slay. Slay becomes a free agent at the conclusion of the upcoming season and has been lobbying for a megadeal extended contract for the past year plus. While he’s already 29, Slay… Read More »
Lions deny QB trade talks … Detroit G.M. Bob Quinn is vigorously denying overnight reports that the Lions have been involved in trade talks over the past couple of weeks involving QB Matt Stafford. Quinn reportedly sent the local papers a text message this morning saying “100% False!!” although its not hard to look around the league and… Read More »
Pats extend top personnel exec Caserio … New England will reportedly retain Nick Caserio as the team’s director of player personnel. There had been an expectation that Caserio might become Houston’s G.M. once his contract with the Patriots expired after the Texans tried to hire him away from the Patriots last year. That resulted in the Patriots accusing… Read More »
Is Tua back in play for top pick??? … That’s the question around the NFL today after news leaked out earlier this week that Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa’s recovery from season-ending hip surgery is on pace. NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks, for example, has Tagovailoa ranked as the #1 QB on his initial positional rankings released earlier today… Read More »
Late star game notes; part deux … While the scouting combine is now less that two weeks away, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette still can’t get last month’s all-star games including the Senior Bowl out of his thoughts. Here is a second round of late notes from those games courtesy of Pigskin.
USU LB banned from combine field tests … According to the NFL Network, Utah State OLB Tipa Galeai will not be permitted to take part in on-field drills or media interviews at the scouting combine later this month in Indianapolis because of a past misdemeanor assault charge. Galeai is a bit of a late-round sleeper for this year’s… Read More »
Bolts officially part ways with long-time QB Rivers … The Los Angeles Chargers confirmed the NFL’s worst kept secret earlier today when the team formally announced that they have mutually parted ways with veteran QB Philip Rivers after 16 seasons. The 38-year-old Rivers now becomes an unrestricted free agent able to sign with any team once the new… Read More »
Late star game notes … While the scouting combine is now less that two weeks away, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette still can’t get last month’s all-star games including the Senior Bowl out of his thoughts. Here are some late thoughts from those games courtesy of Pigskin.
Tua passes latest medical test … According to several published reports, the three-month follow-up Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa had after he underwent season-ending hip surgery in October was “as positive as possible.” The report also indicated that Tagovailoa could be cleared for football activities in about a month, meaning he’s already been ruled out of on-field testing at… Read More »
Giant draft principles … The 2020 draft, which is shaping up to be one of the most important in NY Giants history, is now less than 75 days away. In fact, the annual scouting combine gets underway in just a couple of weeks. Needless to say with the Giants sitting on the 4th pick overall, we’ve had a… Read More »
Combine snubs … Every year it seems that there are some shocking snubs from the list of players invited to the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis. And its the same story this year, to a degree; however, it doesn’t feel there is quite the same number of big name snubs this year. Arguably the top prospects snubbed by… Read More »
The 2020 draft, which is shaping up to be one of the most important in Giants history, is now less than 75 days away. In fact, the annual scouting combine gets underway in just a couple of weeks. Needless to say we’ve had a bunch of emails from fellow Giants fans since the end of season with draft… Read More »
Combine list revealed … The NFL has released the list of 337 players that will be in Indianapolis later this month for the annual scouting combine. Here is the full list by position. The combine gets underway on February 23rd with the on-field drills set to get underway on the 27th.
Former Cardinal QB Costello to Mississippi State … This should be interesting. Former Stanford QB K.J. Costello has confirmed that he has transferred to Mississippi State where he will be eligible immediately as a grad transfer. With SEC West Bulldogs, Costello will be paired with new Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach who brought his wide-open offense from… Read More »
Jags add vet NFL exec Baalke to personnel department … Jacksonville has announced that the team has hired long-time NFL exec Trent Baalke as their new director of player personnel. Baalke spent the past couple of years working for the league, but prior to that was G.M. of San Francisco for 6 years during which time he was… Read More »
Hail to the Chiefs … Belated congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs from the great state of Missouri after they won this year’s Super Bowl with a 31-20 comeback win over San Francisco last evening. And with the Super Bowl in the books, the selection order for the first three rounds of the 2020 draft is now set… Read More »
QB draft talk … Not sure if in the end it will change anything, but there have been some interesting public statements by and about the top QB prospects for the 2020 draft. LSU’s Joe Burrow, the presumptive #1 pick at this year’s draft, for example, was quoted on the Dan Patrick radio program yesterday that he wanted… Read More »
Dolphins’ QB Fitzgerald to return … After briefly contemplating retirement, Miami QB Ryan Fitzpatrick has confirmed that he will return for the upcoming season which will be his 16th. The Dolphins, of course, are still expected to select a QB with an early pick at the 2020 draft. However, and having Fitzpatrick, who led Miami to a rather… Read More »
Texans, Browns make front-office moves … The Texans have given coach Bill O’Brien the general manager’s title earlier this week. O’Brien, in fact, has been the Texans de facto general manager since former G.M. Brian Gaine was fired in June. At the same time, the Texans also promoted promoted executive vice president of team development Jack Easterby to… Read More »
QBs, OTs, WRs headline early look at top prospects for 2021 … When people think ahead to the 2021 draft, they rather naturally start thinking about star QBs Trevor Lawrence of Clemson and Ohio State’s Justin Fields, neither of whom was eligible to enter this year’s draft. Lawrence, of course, has been the presumptive favorite to be the… Read More »
1- Trevor Lawrence – QB – Clemson (JR) 2- Penei Sewell – OT – Oregon (JR) 3- Justin Fields – QB – Ohio State (JR) 4- Shaun Wade – CB – Ohio State (JR) 5- Ja’Marr Chase – WR – LSU (JR) 6- Micah Parsons – OLB – Penn State (JR) 7- Gregory Rousseau – DE – Miami … Read More »
Bad day for Big Uglies … Saturday’s Senior Bowl game turned out to be a long day for many of the offensive linemen in play. It was even a tough day for the some of the top-rated OL in this year’s game who we were hoping to see more from. Here’s the full report for the offensive linemen… Read More »
There are a number of ways one could joke about the very disappointing play of the offensive line during last weekend’s Senior Bowl game from “they really were offensive” to “the Big uglies were indeed ugly!” All joking aside, any team hoping to find some hidden gems along the offensive line for the 2020 draft had to have… Read More »
GBN Big Board tweaked … With the all-star games all now in the books, as well as other breaking trends, the GBN Big Board ranking of the top 150 overall prospects for the 2020 draft, as well as several positional group rankings, have been updated. Among the most notbale moves, LSU C Lloyd Cushenberry is now the the… Read More »
