Buckeye DE Young to sit this week; back for stretch drive … Ohio State has confirmed that star junior DE Chase Young, one of the top 2-3 prospects for the 2020 draft, will miss this week’s game with Rutgers but will be reinstated for the Buckeyes crucial final two games against Penn State and Michigan. Young, who leads… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … Every week, GBN Associate Editor/Scouting Director Pigskin Paul Guillemette posts his observations from the past weekend’s college football highlights focusing on players that stood out with an eye toward the 2020 draft. Here is this week’s post.
Senior Bowl adds more names … The Reese’s Senior Bowl has confirmed via its twitter account the names of another nine players who have committed to this year’s game in Mobile. The new list includes star Texas WR Collin Johnson, #9 WR on the GBN positional ranking and the #71 prospect overall on the GBN Big Board; Clemson… Read More »
Irish ER done for year … Notre Dame has confirmed that ER Julian Okwara, one of the top pass rush prospects for the 2020 draft, will miss the rest of the year after fracturing a fibula in the Irish’s win over Duke yesterday. The 6-5, 250-pound Okwara finishes his Notre Dame career with 15.5 career sacks including 4… Read More »
Upset wins upset early draft order … It was one of the weeks in the NFL where the meek truly did inherit the earth as Miami, Atlanta and the NY Jets each got its second win of the year. Miami edged Indianapolis for its first road win of the year, while Atlanta stunned the NFC South leading Saints… Read More »
Legend of LSU QB Joe Burrow continues to grow … It seems that over the years most of the so-called ‘games of the century’ turn out to be kind of duds. Not so, though, for yesterday’s LSU-Alabama game in Tuscaloosa. For those that have been on another planet, LSU outlasted the Tide in a 46-41 thriller that firmly… Read More »
Tua playing as LSU-Tide kick-off … LSU just kicked off to Alabama in today’s huge SEC West showdown and no surprise here, Tide QB Tua Tagovailoa is playing.
OSU DE Young bowl loan could cost four games … Further updating yesterday’s news that Ohio State junior DE Chase Young will not play in today’s game with Maryland while the school investigates a possible NCAA rules violation in 2018, multiple sources around college football are reporting that Ohio State is expecting Young to be suspended for up… Read More »
Another 5 added to Senior Bowl roster … The number of announced commitments to this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile continues to grow with the announcement of another 5 players who will be there in January including Florida RB Lamical Perine, Texas safety Brandon Jones, DEs Marlon Davidson of Auburn and Florida’s Jonathan Greenard, and Oklahoma DT Neville… Read More »
FSU DT Wilson out for year … Interim Florida State Head Coach Odell Haggins has announced that rising junior DT Marvin Wilson will miss the rest of the season with a hand injury suffered in last week’s game against Miami. Wilson had surgery earlier this week, but is expected to be ready for pre-draft testing. Wilson, a disruptive… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds four more players … The Senior Bowl has announced 4 more acceptances this morning including a pair of promising offensive linemen in Auburn OT Prince Tega Wanogho and Michigan OG Ben Bredeson. The other two new Senior Bowl additions are TCU CB Jeff Gladney and Texas WR Devin Duvernay. These additions bring the total of… Read More »
Another half dozen added to Senior Bowl … The Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced the names of another half dozen players who have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Kentucky OG Logan Stenberg, North Carolina DT Jason Strowbridge, WR Bryan Edwards and OLB DJ Wonnum of South Carolina, and SS Josh Metellus and LB Josh Uche of… Read More »
#1 versus #2 hilites weekend college football sked … Okay, so maybe its not quite the ‘game of the century’, but if there is indeed, a ‘game of the year’ this fall, this is it as LSU and Alabama, the two top-rated teams in the country, meet in a huge SEC West showdown on Saturday afternoon. Clearly much… Read More »
#1 LSU (8-0) at #2 ALABAMA (8-0); 3:30 PM ET; CBS … Okay, so maybe ‘game of the century’ gets overused a bit, but if there is indeed, a ‘game of the year’ this fall, this is it as the two top-rated teams in the country meet in a huge SEC West showdown. The winner, of course, has… Read More »
Aggie LB Woodward out for year … Utah State junior LB David Woodward, one of the most productive defenders in college football, will miss the rest of the year with an undisclosed injury. While the school has not officially reported the nature of the injury, it is believed that Woodward may have suffered another concussion which is worrisome… Read More »
Ten more added to Senior Bowl roster … The Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced the names of 10 more players that have accepted invitations to this year’s games. Players that will be in Mobile in January include Southern Cal WR Michael Pittman, Dayton TE Adam Trautman, OTs Terence Steele of Texas Tech, Kansas’ Hakeem Adeniji, Colton McKivitz of… Read More »
Mid-season mock posted … With all NFL teams now having played at least half their schedule, the GBN first-round projection has been updated.
Another half dozen plus players headed to Mobile … The Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced that 7 more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Arizona State WR Brandon Aiyuk, St. John’s (Minn) OT Ben Bartch, NC State DT Larrell Murchison, Oklahoma State CB A. J. Green, Clemson safety K’Von Wallace and Minnesota OLBs Kamal Martin… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … Every week, GBN Associate Editor/Scouting Director Pigskin Paul Guillemette posts his observations from the past weekend’s college football highlights focusing on players that stood out with an eye toward the 2020 draft. Here is this week’s post.
Senior Bowl adds three more to 2020 roster … The Reese’s Senior Bowl staff have announced via twitter that three more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Purdue TE Brycen Hopkins, Liberty WR Antonio Gandy-Golden and Lenoir-Rhyne SS Kyle Dugger. Hopkins, who is listed at 6-5, 245, has 111 career receptions including 42 thru 9… Read More »
Hogs TE off team … Arkansas has confirmed that TE C.J. O’Grady, the team’s leading receiver, has left the team for disciplinary reasons. O’Grady was suspended from this past Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State after he reportedly missed a couple of team meetings during the week. The 6-4, 255-pound O’Grady, who is currently listed as the #8 TE… Read More »
Senior Bowl announces first players … Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced via twitter the first 10 players that have accepted invitations to this year’s game. Players that will be in Mobile in late January include three from Vanderbilt: RB Ke’Shawn Vaughn, WR Kalija Lipscomb and TE Jared Pinkney, along with South Carolina State OT Alex Taylor, Louisiana-Lafayette OG… Read More »
Pigskin’s Updated college football rankings … The initial college football playoff poll is being released literally as we speak, but our Pigskin Paul Guillemette got a jump on the official rankings by posting an updated version of his Top 15 college teams. Pigskin’s current top four includes LSU, Ohio State, Alabama and Clemson in that order. Of course,… Read More »
Weekly draft order posted … With the Monday night game in the books, here is the full, updated selection order for the opening round of the 2020 draft were it to be held today. Again, please note that the respective strength of schedule numbers are for all 16 opponents of each team, not just those to date.
Hawaii QB says he’ll be staying in school … Hawaii junior QB Cole McDonald, one of the most productive passers in college football, suggested last week that he has no plan — at least at this point — of leaving school and entering the 2020 draft. “I intend to stay in school and come back next year” McDonald… Read More »
