Sooners’ QB soap opera continues … It was probably the worst kept secret in college football, but Oklahoma has confirmed that redshirt freshman Caleb Williams will take over the Sooners’ offense when they host TCU on Saturday. That means that Spencer Rattler, who entered the season as arguably the top-rated QB prospect for the 2022 draft, is now… Read More »
More trouble for LSU as DE Gaye to miss rest of year … Things just keep going from bad to worse at LSU where the Tigers have struggled to a disappointing 3-3 start. And the injuries keep piling up in Baton Rouge. LSU, which was already without star CB Derek Stingley, a top 5 candidate for the 2022… Read More »
Tide OT; Ole Miss QB top two picks in quarter pole projection .., With the college season at the mid-way point and the NFL having just passed the quarter pole, it seemed like as ad time to update the GBN opening round projection for the 2022 draft. And with the first two picks we had Jacksonville taking Alabama… Read More »
Gruden out as Raiders head coach … After a wild weekend when some old emails were leaked in which he used a racial trope to describe NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, Jon Gruden has resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden might have been able to survive the Smith insult, which was from ten years… Read More »
Jags, Lions still 1-2 … With most of the smoke cleared from this weekend’s action, there hasn’t been much change in the top few picks in the proverbial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the 2022 draft. After being blasted at home by Tennessee, Jacksonville will continue to sit on the… Read More »
Jets-Falcons underway in London … Just a reminder that today’s NFL schedule gets underway early with Atlanta playing the NY Jets in London. And with both teams at 1-3, the game will have some impact on the early selection order for the 2022 draft; indeed, the Jets would have had the 3rd pick overall had the draft been… Read More »
IT! IS! ON! … An already pretty intense race to college football’s national championship suddenly looks to be wide-open after Texas A&M stunned top-ranked and defensing national title-holders Alabama 41-38 on a walk-off FG as time expired. The Tide had actually trailed by as much as 2 TDs throughout much of the contest against the twice-beaten Aggies, but… Read More »
Rattler benched in Sooners big comeback win … Fascinating game in Dallas earlier today as 6th ranked Oklahoma rallied from 18 points down in the 4th quarter to knock off Texas 55-48 in the Red River Shootout. And Sooners’ QB Spencer Rattler, who not that long ago was being touted as a potential top 5 candidate for the… Read More »
Couple of big AFC games hilite NFL sked; some early draft order reshuffling coming … There are a couple of really good games on tap in the AFC this weekend with Cleveland playing the Chargers in Los Angeles in a late game tomorrow and then Buffalo going to Kansas City on Sunday night. There will also be some… Read More »
Ducks’ RB Verdell done for year … Oregon RB C J Verdell, a solid third day type prospect for the 2022 draft, will miss the remainder of the season, after suffering what is being described as a ‘lower-leg’ injury in the second half of the Ducks’ upset Oregon’s loss at Stanford last Saturday. Verdell, who has almost 3,000… Read More »
Weekly prospects preview … There is a really interesting weekend coming up on the college football schedule. We get the third and fourth ranked teams in the country going head-to-head in a classic Big Ten match-up and we’ve got both SEC superpowers Alabama and Georgi, the two top-ranked teams in the country are on the road facing potentially… Read More »
Pigskin’s week four prospects review … As he does every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be posting a weekly review of prospects who caught his eye in the previous weekend’s college football action. Needless to say, he had plenty to chew on after another weekend of terrific games. Here’s Paul’s column for this week.
Top 5 CB Stingley out indefinitely … LSU has announced that All-America junior CB Derek Stingley, a top 5 prospect for the 2022 draft, underwent surgery to address a foot problem earlier today and will be out indefinitely. Stingley originally injured the foot in training camp, but played through it early in the season. He did play in… Read More »
Panthers get star CB Gilmore for future pick … In the end, New England CB Stephon Gilmore never did hit the open market. The Patriots had announced earlier today that Gilmore, the NFL’s DPOY just two years ago, was being released. Instead, Carolina obviously put in a bid and got Gilmore in exchange for a 6th round pick… Read More »
GBN Top 100 tweaked … With the first full month of the college season now in the books, the GBN scout staff (well actually Chief Scout Larry Parker, who does much of this stuff for us these days) has adjusted the GBN Top 100 for the 2022 draft based on how the season has played out to date.… Read More »
Bears get WR/KR for late ‘Phins pick … While the DeShaun Watson trade watch continues in Miami, the Dolphins did make a minor deal sending veteran WR/KR Jakeem Grant to Chicago for what is being reported as a 6th round pick in 2023. Meanwhile, there have been some reports that there has been something of an uptick in… Read More »
The meek did inherit the earth … updated … After three of the NFL’s four winless teams playing Sunday came up Ws, the early selection order for the 2022 draft were it to be held this week got a major reshuffling. Jacksonville, which lost on Thursday night holds onto the top spot, but Detroit moves up to the… Read More »
Star Duck DE returns; departs … Star Oregon DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, the consensus favorite to be the #1 prospect overall at the 2022 draft when all is said and down, finally returned to the Ducks’ lineup full-time this afternoon after missing most of the first month of the season with a sprained ankle. And for much of the… Read More »
Bearcats shake up college football; beat Irish … For those that have been out in the garden or whatever, Cincinnati upset the apple cart in college football this afternoon with a convincing 24-13 win at Notre Dame. That means the Bearcats will move up from #7 and if they can stay unbeaten the rest of the way it… Read More »
Jags oh-so close but lose again on last minute FG … For much of last night’s Thursday night game against Cincinnati it appeared Jacksonville would finally end an 18-game losing streak. The Jags led 14-0 at the half and were still up a TD early in the 4th quarter. Alas, it was not to be as the Bengals… Read More »
Pigskin’s week four prospects review … As he does every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be posting a weekly review of prospects who caught his eye in the previous weekend’s college football action. Needless to say, he had plenty to chew on after another weekend of terrific games. Here’s Paul’s column for this week.
College football prospects preview … What was that old ad on TV that featured the ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’? Something like that. And we could very well have THE most interesting game on the 2021 college football schedule coming up this weekend when 7th ranked Cincinnati plays at #9 Notre Dame. Certainly it has a chance… Read More »
Happy birthday Austin!!! … Allow me a personal note, but a super-duper happy birthday to grandson Austin Gaul, my fave mini-putt playing buddy, who turns 11 today. And in true Canadian fashion, Austin gets to play his first hockey game of the year on his birthday! Looking forward to it, big guy!!
Its #1 v #1 to kick off week … Interesting game of sorts to kick off week #4 on the NFL schedule as Jacksonville plays at Cincinnati later this evening with KO set for 8:20 PM ET on the NFL Network. That sets up a duel between the players taken first overall in each of the past two… Read More »
QB class ‘slip-sliding away’??? … I live just over three hours from Syracuse and when the schedule came out with the Orange hosting Liberty, and rising star QB Malik Willis, I started thinking about trying to get down there to see what all the fuss was about. Alas, the border is still closed to Canadians so I watched… Read More »
