Sooners’ CB carted off … Oklahoma junior CB Zack Sanchez, a second-day prospect for the 2016 draft, was carted off the field with what appeared to be a relatively serious ankle injury after breaking up a pass on the opening play of the Sooners’ game with Texas Tech.
More bonus coverage … As our own Pigskin Paul noted in his weekly prospects preview column, there really isn’t that one really ‘must-see’ game on this weekend’s college football schedule. At the same time, though, there will still be plenty of prospects in key situations later today. And none is bigger than the Mississippi-Texas A&M game (7 PM… Read More »
Bonus coverage … Draft watchers who have not yet had the chance to check out rising Memphis junior QB Paxton Lynch (#12, 6-6, 245) get another opportunity later this evening when he leads his unbeaten and 17th ranked Tigers against Tulsa in a game to be telecast on ESPN at 8 PM ET. California junior Jared Goff and… Read More »
ACL ends year for top SEC CB … Mississippi State CB Will Redmond reportedly tore an ACL at practice earlier this week and will miss the rest of the season. Redmond was considered to be one of the top corners for the upcoming draft with at least second day potential.
Go west young football fan! … Or something like that. Whatever the football focus this day will be on the far coast where Seattle plays at San Francisco in the NFL’s Thursday night game (8:25 PM ET; CBS/NFL Network) in what looks to be almost an elimination game with both teams sitting at 2-4. There’s also a pretty… Read More »
Top FCS QB prospect to miss rest of regular season … North Dakota State QB Carson Wentz, arguably the top-rated prospect at any position for the 2016 draft outside the ranks of FBS schools, reportedly will miss the next 6-8 weeks after suffering a broken wrist in the Bisons’ loss to South Dakota last weekend. Wentz is expected… Read More »
Who’s #1 …. and #2 through 25 … With the college football season now literally at the 1/2 way pole and the race for the 4 spots in the national playoff now in full gear, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has updated his ranking of the Top 25 teams in the country.
Jags new #1 after Lions win … Detroit had to work overtime, but the Lions finally got off the schneid posting their first win of the season 34-31 over Chicago in overtime earlier today. With the Lions win and a Jacksonville loss to Houston, the Jaguars will be the new holders of the #1 pick at the 2016… Read More »
Draft selection order could come into focus … While there will still be ten weeks to go in the NFL’s regular schedule after this weekend’s games, there is a chance that the early selection order for the 2016 draft may actually start to come into focus as early as today. For starters, Detroit, the NFL’s only remaining winless… Read More »
Top DT prospect dinged running the ball … Mississippi junior DT Robert Nkemdiche, a top 5 prospect for the upcoming draft, was forced to leave today’s upset loss at Memphis with a concussion suffered when he hit his head on the turf carrying the ball on a short yardage play. In that game, Memphis junior QB Paxton Lynch… Read More »
UCLA LB done with college football; signs with agent … Any chance that UCLA junior LB Myles Jack might reconsider his decision to enter the upcoming draft and return to school next fall went by the boards with the announcement that he has signed with an agent. Jack, who entered the year rated as a potential top 10… Read More »
To QB or not to QB … We probably didn’t emphasize it even enough in our college football preview write-ups here and here for this weekend, but it is a really big weekend for several prime junior QB prospects later today. None is bigger, both literally and figuratively than 6-6, 245-pound Memphis junior Paxton Lynch who steps on… Read More »
Big week on college sked … After a couple of relatively quiet weekends, things start to reheat on the college football schedule with a number of crucial games with conference and national playoff implications. For good measure, there will also be a goodly number of the top prospects for the upcoming draft on display this weekend. Arguably, the… Read More »
#8 FLORIDA (6-0) at #6 LSU (5-0); 7 PM ET; Saturday; ESPN One of the enduring questions in college football each season is can anyone in the SEC East challenge the dominant teams in the West for the conference title. And if anyone is going to do it this year it’s going to be Florida. Indeed, the Gators… Read More »
Lions lose again; keep top week for another week … Detroit remains the lone winless team in the NFL after the Lions were trampled by Arizona at home on Sunday. As a result, the Lions would have the #1 pick were the draft held this week. On the other hand, the rest of the top 10 early picks… Read More »
Ole Miss OT to return in two weeks … The NCAA has suspended Mississippi junior OT Laremy Tunsil for 7 games for a variety of improper benefits. Because Tunsil has already sat out 6 games, he will be able to return next week when Ole Miss hosts Texas A&M in what is shaping up as a huge SEC… Read More »
Crazy day to be a USC head coach … Amazingly, on the same day that Southern California fired head coach Steve Sarkasian for personal reasons, legendary South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier announced that he is retiring effective immediately; an interim replacement will be named in the next couple of days.
GBN Heisman watch … Hard to believe that for all intents and purposes the college football season is nigh onto the halfway. And with that in mind, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in with his list of the top half dozen Heisman Trophy hopefuls for this year.
Top C out for the year … Southern California C Max Tuerk, a potential late first-round prospect for the 2016 draft who figured to be the first center off the board this spring, will be sidelined the rest of the season because of a knee injury, the school announced Sunday. Tuerk was injured Thursday during the Trojans’ 17-12… Read More »
Update to latest on UGA RB Chubb … Georgia has confirmed that star sophomore RB Nick Chubb will in fact miss the rest of the year, although it does not appear that his ACL was damaged in that gruesome injury in Saturday’s loss at Tennessee. Chubb, though, did tear the PCL and will require surgery once the swelling… Read More »
Worst unis ever!! … We don’t usually comment on much outside the purview of the draft, but this on has kind of been rattling around our craw the past day or so since we checked in on the Georgia-Tennessee game for awhile yesterday afternoon. Great win for the Vols who finally had things go right for them at… Read More »
Some sorting out to be done … The logjam at the top of the NFL draft board will get a little sorting out later today as six of the 12 teams tied with one win apiece will be playing each other later this afternoon. In 1 PM ET games today, Jacksonville will be at Tampa Bay in a… Read More »
ACL ends Iowa DE season … The school has yet to confirm, but there are local media reports that Iowa DE Drew Ott tore an ACL in the Hawkeyes’ win over Illinois earlier today. The 6-3, 275-pound Ott, who had 5 sacks in the Hawkeyes’ 6 games to date this fall, had been considered to be solid second-tier… Read More »
College weekend previewed … Its one of those strange weeks in the college football season where there is no true’ must-see’ game, while the key games on the schedule don’t involve traditional match-ups. Indeed, hands-up all those that circled the Pac-12 game between California and Utah as the likely contender to be the ‘game of the week’ at… Read More »
One WR back in; another out … Rutgers has announced that WR Leonte Carro has been re-instated to the team and is expected to play Saturfay when the struggling Scarlett Knights host 4th ranked Michigan State. The move comes a day after a charge of simple assault charge stemming from that parking lot scuffle involving an ex-girlfriend several… Read More »
