That’s a wrap … The opening round of the 2023 draft came to a close just a few minutes ago when the Kansas City Chiefs selected Kansas State DE Felix Anudike-Uzomah with the 31st and final pick of the night. However, there won’t be much rest for NFL personnel people as teams will be burning the midnight oil… Read More »
Ravens Jackson comes to terms; Hopkins on the move?… Literally just hours away from the start of the drama at the 2023 draft, one of the NFL’s longest standing drama ended as Baltimore has finally come to terms with QB Lamar Jackson on a 5-year, #260M contract of which $185M is guaranteed. Meanwhile, there are two different rumors… Read More »
That’s a wrap; THE end, finish!! … The 2023 draft came to a fitting close just before 7 PM ET this evening when the LA Rams selected former Iowa State QB Brock Rurdy with the 259th and final pick of the draft. Of course, that makes him ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ for the year. And while the actual draft is… Read More »
Draft eve buzz … Less than 24 hours to go as we speak until the 2023 actually starts. as noted earlier today it is the silly season in the NFL, but here is the latest that appears to have at least some rationale behind it … With less than 24 hours to go until they have to make… Read More »
Hopkins still a Cardinal; clocking still ticking … Its been a pretty quiet day around the NFL so far today with the draft now just 27 hours away. Nothing new, for example, on the trade status of Arizona WR DeAngelo Hopkins other than the fact that he was gushing about QB Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. And… Read More »
Maybe time to start the picking … There comes a time in every draft process when one just starts to think ‘too much analysis really does lead to paralysis.’ And I think we hit that point, maybe even a day or so ago. Literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry out there with access to an internet account, for… Read More »
Hopkins trade talks reportedly heating up … After the Aaron Rodgers trade to the NY Jets was finally consummated yesterday, the next veteran domino to fall could be Arizona WR DeAngelo Hopkins. There are reports out of the desert that in fact talks regarding Hopkins have started to heat up with Baltimore, Buffalo and the NY Giants the… Read More »
Pigskin mocks the Jags … GBN Associate editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette continues his series of individual team mock drafts with a preview of what the rising Jacksonville Jaguars might do as they try and close the gap on AFC powers Kansas City, Cincinnati and Buffalo.
Little more fallout from Rodgers trade … Just a couple of notes re today’s big trade in which the NY Jets finally acquired QB Aaron Rodgers from Green Bay. In the course of the deal, the Packers added a net of one pick in this week’s draft which gives them a total of 11 selections this weekend tied… Read More »
IT IS OVER!!! Rodgers traded to Jets … The annula off-season soap opera involving Aaron Rodgers is over as the NY Jets and Green Bay have just completed a deal in which the long-time Packers’ QB will move on to New York. as compensation, the two teams will flip their first round picks on Thursday night with the Packers… Read More »
Pigskin posts final Top 100; Steelers mock … GBN Associate editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette just posted his own personal Top 100 for this week’s draft. He also continues his series of individual team mock drafts with a preview of what the Pittsburgh Steelers might do.
Monday morning draft week buzz … Used to be not all that long ago that on the final weekend before the draft the Sunday papers would be full of draft-related material. For some reason, not so much anymore; in fact, with just 4 days to go until the picks start coming off the board, the league is shut… Read More »
Updated projection posted … We really weren’t planning on any further changes to our first round projection from late last week, in large part because of the potentially chaotic situation at the very top of the board at the 2nd and 3rd picks. Our thinking was that if we didn’t really have a clue what was going to… Read More »
Pack, Jets reportedly have resumed Rodgers trade talk … With just four days to go until the start of the 2023 draft, Green Bay and the New York Jets have reportedly resumed trade talks involving QB Aaron Rodgers with the hopes of getting something done either before or during the draft. The reported hold up in the deal… Read More »
Come bet with me … or NOT!! … I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but of late there have been a lot stories referencing the odds of this or that player being selected here or there. Just day, for example, we have here and here and here and here. In fact, I don’t really recall ever… Read More »
How talented, deep is draft … In the run-up to this week’s draft, there have been a number of stories of analysts commenting that this year’s draft isn’t necessarily all that deep or talented. We have seen a number of quotes from scouts etc. that there are only about 20 or so players in this year’s draft with… Read More »
Pigskin mocks the Bengals … GBN Associate editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette continues his series of individual team mock drafts with a preview of what the New Orleans Saints might do as they try and regain some of the magic of the Drew Brees era. Next up: the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Big Board tweaked, expanded … Note that we posted a pretty close to final GBN Big Board for the 2023 draft. We have also reset it so the numbers should be available. If anyone does run into any problems though please give us a shout. Again just a heads up, but as usual, we’ll be updating the Big… Read More »
Five (5) days and counting … With just 5 days to go until the start of the 2023 draft, it means there may only be 5 more days to enjoy the annual off-season Aaron Rodgers soap opera. For the record, Rodgers is technically still the property of Green Bay as a trade with the NY Jets has yet… Read More »
Pigskin mocks the Bengals … GBN Associate editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette continues his series of individual team mock drafts with a preview of what the Cincinnati Bengals might do as they try and inch closer to dethroning Kansas City as the AFC titleholder. And it gets two thumbs up from Grandson #2 who is a huge Bengals fan.… Read More »
QB Bryce Young, Alabama 5-10, 195 DE Will Anderson, Alabama 6-3, 255 QB CJ Stroud, Ohio State RB Bijan Robinson, Texas DT Jalen Carter, Georgia (O)
One week out chatter … If we’re one week out from the draft literally as we speak it means it’s also the season of pre-draft pressers. At the Seahawks’ press conference earlier today, for example, Seattle GM John Schneider confirmed that he has received a number of calls about the possibility of trading down, especially from the #5… Read More »
Who’s #2 … For most of the last couple of months of the pre-draft process the one thing you could take to the bank was the notion that Alabama’s Bryce Young and CJ Stroud of Ohio State were firmly entrenched as the top two QBs. Young, of course, isn’t going anywhere, except maybe Kansas City next Thursday and… Read More »
WR Robinson passes physical; Steelers/Rams trade done … Pittsburgh has officially acquired WR Allen Robinson from the LA Rams after the veteran receiver passed his physical with the Steelers earlier today. The deal is actually mostly about the Steelers taking on some of Robinson’s salary cap hit with the Rams as all the teams did was flip late… Read More »
The elephant in the room … Several people have written in in the past few days and asked in essence ‘what the heck are the Texans thinking?’ in potentially passing on taking a QB with the 2nd pick overall. The easy answer is ‘I don’t know!’ but we don’t want to lose sight of what is in essence… Read More »
