Today’s games to decide more picks … No picks in the selection order for the 2022 draft were decided as the result of yesterday’s two playoff games. However, we could see as many as 5 more picks determined by the three games today starting with Philadelphia playing at the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the… Read More »
As the QB turns … We are still over 100 days away from the 2022 draft – and the first round of the playoffs is barely underway – but there already appears to be some chatter out there as it relates to the QB situation around the league. There is an unconfirmed report by Jordan Schultz of Yahoo… Read More »
Bama CB enters draft … Another Alabama junior has confirmed that they will be entering the upcoming draft. The latest to declare is CB Jalyn Armour-Davis, a mid-to-late second-day pick who is currently rated as the 80th best overall prospect for the upcoming draft on the GBN Big Board.
Tide S Battle to return … Alabama got one back last night when junior safety Jordan Battle announced that he would be returning for his senior season. Battle had been considered to be a mid-to-late second day prospect for the 2022 draft.
UGA WR in draft; OSU DE out … Georgia junior WR George Pickens became the 4th underclassman from the national champion Bulldogs to announce for the 2022 today. Pickens looked like an emerging top 15 prospect during a breakout season in 2020, but barely played this past season after tearing an ACL in spring practice. Pickens did return… Read More »
Dawgs D loses 3 to NFL; Tide one … Georgia’s national championship defense will be without at least three key underclassmen next fall as star ILB Nakobe Dean, DE Trayvon Walker and FS Lewis Cine all announced today that they will be entering this year’s draft. Dean is currently the consensus top LB in this year’s draft class… Read More »
UGA RB White, Bama WR Bolden enter draft; Tide LB To’oTo’o staying … Georgia junior RB Zamir White has become the latest underclassman to announce that they will be entering the 2022 draft. The 5-11, 215-pound White, who led the national champions in rushing with almost 900 yards, is a third day prospect who is the #8 back… Read More »
Iowa C Linderbaum enters draft … Iowa C Tyler Linderbaum, the top prospect at the position for the 2022 draft, announced this morning that he will be turning pro this winter. Linderbaum isn’t all that big at a listed 6-3 and less than 300 pounds, but is an excellent athlete who some scouts believe is the best center… Read More »
QB Jones, WR Chase, LB Parsons headline GBN all-rook team … New England QB Mac Jones, Cincinnati WR Ja’Marr Chase and Dallas LB Micah Parsons are the headliners on the GBN All-Rookie team as chosen by Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette. Jones, in particular, is an interesting choice because he was the 5th of 5 QBs selected in… Read More »
Texans fire coach Culley … Houston has fired head coach David Culley after just one year on the job. The sense around the league is that Culley actually did a pretty good job with the Texans, guiding them to 4 wins – the same as last year – all the while dealing with the DeShaun Watson embroglio and… Read More »
Tide OT Neal, WR Williams enter draft … Alabama junior OT Evan Neal and WR Jameson Williams both announced today that they would be entering the 2022 draft. Neal is generally considered to be one of the top 3 prospects for this year’s draft along with DEs Aidan Hutchinson of Michigan and Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux. And while most… Read More »
Three-round projection posted … With the NFL regular season in the books and the selection order, at least for the non-playoff teams, confirmed we have posted an initial 3-round projection for this year’s draft, which for the record, is now just 106 days away. and again, the point of the exercise is not to try and predict which… Read More »
UK OT enters draft … The OT class for the 2022 draft just got bigger, both literally and figuratively, when 6-7, 330-pound Kentucky junior OT Dare Rosenthal announced that he’ll be turning pro this winter. Rosenthal was originally a blue-chip recruit at LSU, before transferring to Kentucky this year. He’s generally considered to be an early 3rd day… Read More »
‘Cane OT Nelson opts to return … Miami junior OT Zion Nelson, a late 2nd day prospect for the upcoming draft, has announced that he will instead return to school for his senior season.
Star Tide WR did tear ACL … Alabama junior WR Jameson Williams got the worst possible news today when an MRI confirmed that he did indeed suffer a torn ACL during last night’s national championship game loss to Georgia. Williams, who had been considered to be a top 10 candidate for the upcoming draft, fell awkwardly after catching… Read More »
There goes the Judge!!! … In something of a surprise, the NY Giants have fired head coach Joe Judge after just two seasons. While Giants’ G.M. Dave Gettleman ‘retired’ earlier this week, it was believed that Judge was safe at least another season, but obviously the Giants ultimately felt otherwise. Judge, who came to the Giants from the… Read More »
QBs still in demand … The general consensus around the NFL these days is that 2022 is not necessarily going to be a great year to be looking for a potential elite QB at the draft. However, that probably won’t stop teams from at least kicking the tires on the top prospects at the position this year as… Read More »
Lions, Jets to coach Senior Bowl squads … The Senior Bowl announced this morning that the coaching staffs of the Detroit Lions and New York Jets will be handling the coaching duties at this year’s game in Mobile.
Irish duo to return … In the ‘clock ticking for underclassmen’ post earlier today, it was reported that DE Isaiah Foskey and C Jarrett Patterson of Notre Dame were among the juniors the NFL was waiting to hear from about their intentions to enter the 2022 draft. Turns out both had announced over the weekend that they would… Read More »
MRI for star Tide WR dinged in national title game … Everyone has their fingers crossed as star Alabama WR Jameson Williams, a top ten prospect for the upcoming draft who had to be helped off the field after falling awkwardly in the process of hauling in a long pass mid-way thru the 2nd quarter of last night’s… Read More »
UCLA OT enters draft … UCLA junior OT Sean Rhyan is the latest underclassman to announce they’ll be entering the upcoming draft. The 6-5, 320-pound 3rd year junior is considered to be an early-to-mid second round prospect.
Clock ticking even louder for underclassmen … With college football’s national championship in the books juniors and redshirt sophomores thinking of entering the 2022 draft have less than a week to file paperwork with the with the NFL in order to be eligible to be selected. In fact, they have until the end of business in New York… Read More »
Another CB joins draft fold … Florida junior CB Kaiir Elam has become the third quality corner to announce in the past 24 hours that he’ll be entering the 2022 draft. Elam is currently rated as the 3rd best CB and the 18th best overall prospect on the GBN Big Board. He joins Andrew Booth of Clemson and… Read More »
Giants GM ‘gits while the gittin’s good!’ … NY Giants G.M. Dave Gettleman announced his retirement just a few minutes ago. Presumably, the Giants gave Gettleman, a long-time good soldier, the option of retiring rather than being fired. Gettleman has been the giants G.M. the past four years after a short stint at Carolina, but he’s over 70… Read More »
Vikes, Bears clean house … Both the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears will have new administrations in place when the 2022 draft rolls around as both have fired their G.M. and head coach. No surprise in Chicago where the Bears fired G.M. Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy, both of whom have been kind of dead men walking for… Read More »
