Clock ticking on underclassmen … Underclassmen who need to apply to the NFL in order to be eligible for the 2019 draft have until the end of business on January 14th to get their paperwork into the league office. That’s less than two weeks away. In fact, more than 70 juniors and redshirt sophomores have already indicated in… Read More »
OU G/T Ford; UCF DT Hill enter draft … Two more juniors have announced plans to enter the 2019 draft this evening including 340-pound Oklahoma G/T Cody Ford and Central Florida NT Trysten Hill. Ford made several all-conference teams as a RT this fall, but at 6-3 likely projects inside at the next level. Meanwhile, Hill is a… Read More »
App State CB Duck enters draft … Appalachian State junior CB Clifton Duck is the latest underclassman to have indicated that they will be entering the 2019 draft. Duck isn’t exactly a household name in the football world, but he could be something of a sleeper this coming April. Duck isn’t all that big at 5-9, 170, but… Read More »
Badgers OT Edwards enters draft … Wisconsin junior RT David Edwards has announced via twitter that he will be foregoing his final year of college eligibility to enter the 2019 draft. Edwards had a breakout year in 2017, but hurt his back in pre-season this year and was never 100%; indeed, he didn’t play the final three games.… Read More »
Three more underclassmen enter draft … A trio of underclassmen announced today that they will entering the 2019 draft including TEs Jace Sternberger of Texas A&M and Stanford’s Kaden Smith; Sternberger is a junior, while Smith is a redshirt sophomore. They will be joined in the upcoming draft class by North Carolina State junior WR Jakobi Meyers. Smith… Read More »
New Year’s Day Bowls prospect preview … With the exception of next week’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson, the college football bowl season wraps up on Tuesday with a full slate of 5 games. While they are all technically meaningless games designed to make everybody the players some cash, figure than Georgia, Ohio State and Central… Read More »
Four more juniors enter draft … Four more juniors indicated earlier today that they will be foregoing their final year of college eligibility and entering the 2019 draft. The quartet includes Duke QB Daniel Jones and Florida DE/OLB Jachai Polite, both of who are considered to be first round prospects for the upcoming draft. Jones will be joined… Read More »
49ers, Raiders to coach Senior Bowl sides … San Francisco and Oakland, the highest two teams in the draft order with intact coaching staffs, have reportedly agreed to coach the two teams at the Senior Bowl. The 49ers will pick second overall in the upcoming draft, while the Raiders will pick 4th. Arizona, which will pick first overall… Read More »
#11 LSU (9-3) vs #8 CENTRAL FLORIDA (12-0); Fiesta Bowl; Phoenix; 1 PM ET; ESPN … Playing an SEC powerhouse in a major bowl was supposed to be a coming out party of sorts for UCF which has gone 26-0 over the past two seasons but still hasn’t gotten a sniff of the CFP playoffs for the national… Read More »
Coach firings begin; draft guru in as Raiders GM … Updated: The ink is barely dry on the 2018 NFL regular season, but already five head coaches have been fired after their teams final games. Already formally fired are Todd Bowles by the NY Jets, Vance Joseph by Denver, Adam Gase by Miami and Marvin Lewis after 16… Read More »
That’s a wrap … With the final regular season game in the books, the selection order for the opening round of the 2019 draft has been updated. Please note, that this is still unofficial; we’ll confirm when the NFL releases its official order. The big question is picks 9-10 with Buffalo and Denver; we had to go all… Read More »
Canes lose coach to retirement; top RB to draft … The Miami program is reeling this evening with the sudden announcement by head coach Mark Richt that he was retiring from football. Less than an hour later, junior RB Travis Homer announced that he will also be leaving school, but to enter the 2019 NFL draft where he… Read More »
Bowl fest continues … For those with no real lives, there are a half dozen bowl games on Monday to help wile away New Year’s Eve, several of which feature top QB prospects for the 2019 draft. GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette previews the players to watch in tomorrow’s Military Bowl match-up between Cincinnati and Virginia Tech,… Read More »
Cards wrap up top pick … Who gets the #1 pick overall at the 2019 draft went right down to the wire, but despite a game try, Arizona gets the honors after the Cardinals lost to Seattle on a last-play FG in one of today’s late afternoon games.Meanwhile, San Francisco wrapped up the second pick with a loss… Read More »
OKLAHOMA STATE (6-6) versus #23 MISSOURI (8-4); Liberty Bowl; Memphis; 3:45 PM ET; ESPN … Probably more than one casual college football fan who wondered how it could be that teams from the same conference ended up in the same bowl. Indeed, Missouri and Oklahoma State faced off for decades in first the old Big 8 and later… Read More »
SEC OT in draft; ACC CB out … In the wake of Florida’s win over Michigan in the Peach Bowl yesterday, the Gators’ rising junior OT Jawaan Taylor announced that he will be entering the 2019 draft where he projects to be early second-day prospect. In fact, the 6-5, 330-pound Taylor could even get some late first round… Read More »
College football world evolves as it should! … When the college football season started back in September Alabama and Clemson were everybody’s top two ranked teams. And after a full season of action and what passes for college football playoffs, it will be #1 Alabama versus #2 Clemson in this year’s CFP national championship game. Alabama raced to… Read More »
Two more CBs; one ILB enter draft … Three more juniors have announced they will be foregoing their final year of college eligibility and entering the 2019 draft including CBs Joejuan Williams of Vanderbilt and Jamel Dean of Auburn along with Texas-San Antonio MLB Josiah Tauaefa. Williams, at 6-2, 210, and Dean, at 6-1, 210, are both long… Read More »
Underclass total hits 60 with draft entry Fresno defensive due; Boise RB … Three juniors from the Mountain West conference have become the latest underclassmen to enter the 2019 draft. The three turning pro this winter included Boise State RB Alex Mattison along with Fresno State MLB Jeff Allison and SS Mike Bell. Mattison is a 5-11, 220… Read More »
It’s playoff time in college football … The college football bowl schedule rocks on Saturday with three pretty good warm-up games setting the stage for the two national CFP semi-finals. GBN Associate Editor profiles the players to watch in Saturday’s three non-playoff games including what should be a very interesting match-up between Michigan and Florida in the Peach… Read More »
#2 CLEMSON (13-0) vs #3 NOTRE DAME (12-0); Cotton Bowl; 4 PM ET; ESPN … The national semi-finals get underway with a match-up of unbeaten teams with 2nd ranked Clemson playing #3 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. And while both teams are unbeaten, Clemson is just that much better a team, at least on paper, it’s hard… Read More »
‘B’ sample confirms Clemson DT Lawrence out of playoffs … Clemson got the bad word yesterday that star junior DT Dexter Lawrence, along with two others, will not play in Saturday’s national semi-final against Notre Dame after failing drug tests. Minute traces of ostarine, a banned substance, were found in the systems of all three players last week… Read More »
Unheralded SDSU TE enters draft … San Diego State junior TE Kahale Warring made the surprise announcement via twitter that he will be foregoing his final year of eligibility and entering the 2019 draft. Its a surprising decision as Warring isn’t all that highly regarded a prospect and probably could have benefited from another year in school. Indeed,… Read More »
Utah State RB latest to enter draft … Utah State junior RB Darwin Thompson has announced that he is giving up his senior year of eligibility with the Aggies and will enter the 2019 draft. Thompson played only one year at USU after transferring from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College where he was a junior college All-American, but he… Read More »
MAC WR/KR Johnson enters draft; two others stay home … Toledo junior WR/KR Diontae Johnson announced earlier today that he will forego his final year of eligibility and enter the 2019 draft. The 5-10, 180-pound Johnson was a first-team All-MAC receiver for the second straight season; he was also named the conference’s special teams player of the year… Read More »
