Mountain West DPOY enters draft … San Diego State junior DE Cameron Thomas has confirmed that he will be foregoing his remaining college eligibility and entering the 2022 draft. Thomas, the Mountain West defensive player of the year who had 11.5 sacks this year, is considered to be an early second day prospect for the upcoming draft. And… Read More »
Red Raider WR enters draft … Texas Tech junior WR Erik Ezukanma is the latest underclassman to indicate that they will be foregoing their remaining college eligibility and entering the 2022 draft where he projects to be a late second or early third day prospect. Ezukanma is a good-sized receiver (6-3, 220) with some speed who led the… Read More »
Bowl (madness?) updated … Update: Friday’s Hawai’i Bowl between Memphis and host Hawai’i has been cancelled after the Rainbow Warriors had to drop out because of covid concerns. Let’s hope the Memphis players at least get a day at the beach! The college bowl season continues later today with a couple of games on the schedule. The ‘other’… Read More »
Giants fans’ survival guide: 2021 Xmas edition … With another disappointing Giants season slip-sliding away, we go looking for some silver lining in the Christmas Edition of the Giants Report.
Former Trojan QB Slovis off to Pitt … The college QB carousel took another spin this morning with news that former Southern California starter Kedon Slovis is transferring across the country to Pittsburgh. Slovis looked all the part of a future top draft pick when he replaced an injured J.T. Daniels as a true freshman in 2019. Indeed,… Read More »
Coastal QB McCall to return … Rising Coastal Carolina redshirt sophomore QB Grayson McCall confirmed earlier this evening that he will be returning to the Chanticleers for the upcoming college season. McCall was named the Sun Belt player of the year in each of the past two seasons and was a also Maxwell Award semifinalist in both years.… Read More »
Selection order updated … With the Tuesday night games winding down, the opening round selection order for the 2022 draft has been updated.
Aggie G/T Green to enter draft … Texas A&M junior G/T Kenyon Green announced earlier today that he’ll be foregoing his remaining college eligibility and entering the 2022 draft where he is expected to be one of the first 3-4 offensive linemen selected this spring. The 6-4, 325-pound Green, who played at both tackle and OG for the… Read More »
Bears loss keeps Giants at 5-6 … With Chicago apparently going down to defeat to Minnesota in the late Monday night game this evening, we can confirm that the Giants will again be sitting on both the 5th and 6th picks were the 2022 draft to be held this week. One is their own and the other they… Read More »
All-America fest as bowl sked continues … The bowl schedule continues with games just about every day this week leading up to next week’s true bowl fest which of course will include the two national CFP semi-finals on New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, at least from a draft perspective, the pickings are not necessarily all that great this week.… Read More »
Giants place QB Jones IR; done for year … The NY Giants dismal season just a little more dismal as the team has placed QB Daniel Jones on injured reserve with a neck injury meaning that he’s not going to play again this fall. Jones has missed the last three games with the injury. The team has said… Read More »
Star Aggie TE enters draft; OSU safety out … There have been a couple of draft related announcements by underclassmen today with Texas A&M junior TE Jalen Wydermyer announcing that he will in fact be entering this year’s draft, while rising Ohio State reshirt sophomore Ronnie Hickman has said that he’ll be returning to school next fall. Wydermyer… Read More »
QB Nix ends roar; will quack; Hog DE gets DWI … A couple of late weekend college football notes. Former Auburn QB Bo Nix , a three-year starter for the Tigers, is transferring to Oregon. Meanwhile, Arkansas DE Tre Williams, a possible mid-third day prospect for the 2022 draft who led the Hogs with 6 sacks and 6.5… Read More »
What’s old is new again; Jags back to #1 … Not sure anyone saw this coming, but with three weeks to go in the regular schedule, Jacksonville is back in the #1 spot were the 2022 draft to be held this week. Detroit, which had been sitting on the top pick for weeks, stunned Arizona, while the Jags… Read More »
USC CB Steele latest to enter draft … Southern California junior CB Chris Steele is the latest underclassmen to confirm that they will be entering to upcoming draft. The 6-0, 190-pound Steele is a true junior who started in each of his three seasons with the Trojans but didn’t have the anticipated breakout year this past season. He… Read More »
#2 pick on the line in Jax … Assuming that there are no more Covid-related delays in the NFL schedule over the next 18 hours or so, the #2 pick overall at the 2022 will be very much on the line when Jacksonville hosts Houston in one of Sunday’s early games. The Texans and the Jags are the… Read More »
Duck CB to draft; ‘Noles DE to Mobile … There were a couple of more college transaction to round out the day as Oregon CB Mykael Wright, a 3rd junior, has announced that he’ll be entering the 2022 draft, while Florida State DE Jermaine Johnson, who had a breakout year in 2021 with 12 sacks, has confirmed he’ll… Read More »
WKY QB Zappe caps record season in bowl win … Western Kentucky QB Bailey Zappe concluded a record-setting season with a record-setting performance in today’s 59-38 win over Appalachian State in the Boca Raton Bowl earlier today. Zappe threw for over 400 yards and 6 TDs in today’s win giving him 5,977 yards and 62 touchdowns on the… Read More »
Star ISU RB; massive Hokie OT enter draft … A couple more juniors have announced that they will be entering the upcoming draft including All-America Iowa State RB Breece Hall and Virginia Tech OT Luke Tenuta. Hall is the second-ranked RB on the GBN positional listing and the 54th top prospect overall on the GBN Big Board for… Read More »
Two juniors in draft; one out … A couple more top junior prospects for the 2022 draft announced earlier today that they’ll be foregoing their remaining eligibility and entering the 2022 draft including Mississippi State OT Charles Cross and Penn State ILB Brandon Smith. Cross is currently the 22nd rated prospect for this year’s draft on the GBN… Read More »
QBs on parade at busy bowl day … The bowl season just kicked off on Friday, but already Saturday will be one of the busiest days on the post-season college schedule with a full half dozen games on the docket. And while it is early in the bowl season, there are what should be some surprisingly good games… Read More »
Three more juniors enter draft … A trio of juniors entered the draft over the past 24 hours or so including Oregon WR Devon Williams, North Carolina CB Kyler McMichael and RB Sincere McCormick of Texas-San Antonio. None of the three will play in their respective teams bowl games to begin draft prepartions, although none of the three… Read More »
‘If he ain’t playin’, I ain’t playin’ … Less than 24 hours after star Michigan State RB Kenneth Walker, who in our view should have been at least a Heisman finalist, announced that he was entering the 2022 draft and would not be playing in the Spartans’ Peach Bowl game against Pittsburgh, star Pitt QB Kenny Pickett, who… Read More »
Bowl season kicks off … The 40 or so game college bowl season, which culminates in the national championship game on January 10th, gets underway with a couple of games on Friday. Toledo and Middle Tennessee will actually get things going in the Bahamas Bowl which kicks off at noon ET tomorrow on ESPN. Then Northern Illinois will… Read More »
Grumpy Xmas projection posted … With the NFL regular season at the 3/4 pole and the college campaign pretty much in the books, GBN Editor Colin Lindsay has updated his 2022 first-round projection. Here’s how it kind of went down starting with a couple of assumptions: one, that this year’s QB class, at least at this time, isn’t… Read More »
