Bears inch closer to top pick; top ten picks set for week … Carolina dropped to 1-9 Sunday afternoon with a loss to Dallas. And that moved Chicago, which owns the Panthers’ first round pick this year, closer to securing the #1 pick overall this coming April. In fact, the Panthers/Bears have what amounts to a two-game ‘lead’… Read More »
Ute QB Rising to return … Utah QB Cam Rising announced this weekend that he will be returning to the team for a 6th season next fall. Rising has not played at all this year as he has been rehabbing from a serious knee injury suffered in Utes’ bowl game last year.
Als stun Bombers with late TD to cop CFL’s Grey Cup … Montreal QB Cody Fajardo threw an 18-yard scoring strike to WR Tyson Philpot with just 13 seconds on the clock to give the Montreal Alouettes a 28-24 win over the favored Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 110th edition of the Canadian league’s Grey Cup game. It… Read More »
FSU QB carted off field … The chase for a CFP plaoff berth took a turn this evening as Florida State QB Travis Daniels was just carted off the field with what appears to be a potentially serious leg injury in the Seminoles game with FCS North Alabama; indeed, Daniels was almost immediately transferred to an ambulance once… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … There is something of a light schedule in college football this weekend as teams gear up for their annual Thanksgiving rivalry games. Still, there are at least a couple of games coming up this weekend between ranked teams with playoff implications including #1 Georgia at Tennessee and #5 Washington… Read More »
#5 Washington (10-0) at #11 Oregon State (8-2); 7:30 PM ET; ABC … Washington looks like it has pretty much locked up a spot in next month’s Pac-12 conference championship game – likely a rematch against Oregon – however, the Huskies need a win in Corvallis in order to keep their CFP playoff hopes alive. And Corvallis has… Read More »
Star Iowa DB, PR out for year … Star Iowa CB Cooper DeJean, a top 15-20 prospect for the 2024 draft, will miss the rest of the season with an undisclosed lower leg injury. Fortunately, though, it does not appear to be an ACL as the school has indicated that the recovery period is in the 6-8 week… Read More »
Weekly selection order updated … With another week on the NFL schedule in the books, the first-round selection order for the 2024 draft, were it to held this week has been updated.
‘Horns’ RB Brooks’ tears ACL; out for rest of year … Texas RB Jonathan Brooks, who had emerged this fall as one of the prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, tore an ACL in Saturday’s win over TCU and will miss the rest of the year. It’s also now pretty much a given that Brooks, who… Read More »
Cards win; Giants lose, move to #2 pick … With QB Kyler Murray back on the field for the first time this year, Arizona won its second game of the campaign on a last-play FG over Atlanta Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the NY Giants left nothing to chance as they were steamrolled 49-17 in Dallas in which the Cowboys… Read More »
Pats lose in Europe; clinch at least 4th pick for week … New England came up on the short end of a 10-6 defensive struggle with Indianapolis earlier today somewhere in Europe. The loss drops the Patriots to 2-8 and means they’ll have no worse than the 4th pick in the weekly selection order for the opening round… Read More »
Top CFP contenders hold serve on college Saturday; QBs Daniels, Nix shine … For those that don’t follow college football all that closely, the remaining Power-5 unbeaten teams – and favorites to make this year’s 4-team CFL playoff – facing testy opponents all won out yesterday as Michigan held off Penn State 24-15, Florida State edged Miami 27-20,… Read More »
Bombers, Als to meet in CFL title game … It will be the Winnipeg Blue Bombers against the Montreal Alouettes in the 109th Grey Cup game for the Canadian league championship next Sunday in Hamilton. Kickoff will be at 6 PM ET. Winnipeg punched its ticket to a 5th straight Grey Cup appearance with a workmanlike 24-13 win… Read More »
CFL semis set for Saturday … The Canadian Football League playoffs continue on Saturday with the Eastern and Western final. In the East, Montreal will play at Toronto with KO set for 3 PM, while Winnipeg will host the B.C. Lions in the Western conference championship game starting at 6:30 PM ET. The winners will play next week’s… Read More »
Bears win; back to top pick … Chicago managed to hang on an edge Carolina 16-13 last night when a long Panthers’ FG attempt fell short in the game’s final minute. That lifted the Bears record to 3-7 which drops them down to the #5 spot in this week’s 2024 draft selection order with the NY Giants and… Read More »
‘Horns QB Ewers to return … Texas got a little good news with word that QB Quinn Ewers will return to action this weekend when the Longhorns play TCU. Ewers, one of several QBs in the mix to be the 3rd player selected at the position at the upcoming draft after USC’s Caleb Williams and Drake Maye of… Read More »
Key tests for CFP contenders as college football hits the homestretch … With just three weeks and the conference championship games to in the regular college schedule, it is looking more and more, barring any major upsets, that there are really only 5 teams – Georgia, Florida State, Washington, Ohio State and Michigan – in the running for… Read More »
#3 Michigan (9-0) at #10 Penn State (8-1); Noon ET; FOX … Third-ranked Michigan has been rolling along all season, but the truth of the matter is that they also haven’t really haven’t had to play a very taxing schedule to date; indeed, the Wolverines toughest opponents so far this fall have probably been Rutgers and UNLV. All… Read More »
Race for top picks goes prime time … The race for this year’s top pick goes prime time this evening as Carolina will play Chicago in the Thursday night game in a match-up of teams sitting on the 2nd and 3rd picks respectively in the current selection order. In fact, at least in terms of the draft, it… Read More »
Major rule change lets juniors play in star games … In a major change for the NFL scouting community, league officials announced earlier today that juniors who have entered the draft will be allowed to play in the postseason all-star games such as the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine games. Prior to this year only juniors who had… Read More »
Coach/dad Prime puts brakes on Buffs’ QB Sanders to pros talk … Right on cue, just after we post a 2024 projection with Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders going to the NY Giants with the 4th pick overall at the 2024 draft, Deion Sanders, the players father and coach, hinted in the local press that the Buffs’ star might… Read More »
QBs dominate mid-season mock … With all NFL teams now roughly through the first half of their 2023 seasons we have posted our mid-season first-round projection for the upcoming draft. And, at least based on what we know right now, it should be no surprise that 4 of the first 5 picks are QBs including USC’s Caleb Williams… Read More »
Weekly selection order updated … With another week on the NFL schedule in the books, the first-round selection order for the 2024 draft, were it to held this week has been updated.
Return of Cards’ QB Murray could shake up race to #1 … Arizona head coach Jonathan Gannon indicated to the local press earlier today that QB Kyler Murray, who has been out rehabbing a torn ACL suffered last December, will be taking the first team snaps this week and will be behind center when the Cardinals host Atlanta… Read More »
FBS sack leader done for year … James Madison ER Jalen Green, who leads the FBS with 15.5 sacks so far this year, will miss the rest of the year after tearing an ACL in the unbeaten and 21st ranked Dukes win over the weekend. Green isn’t necessarily all that highly rated by the pros because at just… Read More »
