Lions catch a break; Big Ben out Sunday … Detroit, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, hasn’t had many breaks through the first half of the campaign, but they may have caught one this weekend ahead of tomorrow’s game in Pittsburgh with news that Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger will not be in uniform after he was placed on… Read More »
Giants report: Mid-season grades; Part deux: the defense … With the Giants on their bye week we posted our positional grades for the offensive side of the ball earlier in the week and had hoped to get to the defense a little sooner than we did. But we did finally get the defensive grades posted to complete the… Read More »
Dolphins stunner has Eagles pick slipping … I doubt anybody around the NFL was expecting much of a game last night when Baltimore played at Miami in last night’s Thursday prime time game. There was just no way that the sad-sack Dolphins would be able to hang with the Ravens who were looking to extend their lead in… Read More »
Weekly prospects preview … It is down to crunch time in college football and for those that don’t follow the sport all that closely there are essentially just 7 teams across the country that control their own destinies as far as the national championship playoffs are concerned. They include Georgia and Alabama from the SEC, Ohio State and… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly 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. Here’s Paul’s column covering last weekend’s slate of games.
Rising UGA LB now charged with rape … Georgia OLB Adam Anderson, a potential mid-to-late first round prospect for the 2022 draft, has now been formally charged with rape and is awaiting bail hearing. Anderson was suspended indefinitely by the team after he was accused of raping a woman a couple of weekends ago. Through his lawyer Anderson… Read More »
Mid-season mock fest concludes with the great Grumpy projection … Our annual blizzard of mid-season mock drafts concludes today with GBN Editor Colin Lindsay’s stab at predicting the opening round of the 2022 draft which is now just 168 days away. And the great Grumpy one guarantees (in writing if you want) that he may very well have… Read More »
Thursday night college game with draft implications … If watching Miami battle for Philadelphia’s draft position isn’t your thing, there’s a really intriguing college game on Thursday’s schedule (7:30 PM ET; ESPN) with North Carolina playing at #21 Pittsburgh in a game in which both teams have QBs with first-round potential for the upcoming draft in Sam Howell… Read More »
Thursday night game with draft implications … NFL execs were probably expecting a more attractive match-up when they scheduled Baltimore to play at Miami in this week’s Thursday night prime time game (8:20 OM ET; FOX; NFL Network). The Ravens certainly have held up their part of the bargain; they’re 6-2 and lead the very competitive AFC North… Read More »
Mid-season mock fest continues; Pigskin Paul up … After GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker posted his mid-season 2022 draft opening round projection yesterday, its Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s turn today right here. We have made the case before that there is no such thing really as ‘just one’ mock draft. Nobody in the business – not Mel… Read More »
Giants report: Mid-season grades: offense … So will the real Giants please stand up! Are they the guys that bumbled their way to a disastrous 0-3 start in one of the easy parts of the schedule to open the year, or the group that has gone 3-3 during arguably the toughest part of the schedule? The simple answer… Read More »
Mock week on GBN … With the NFL regular schedule at the mid-way point of the season, everyone on the staff has agreed to take a stab at mocking the opening round of the 2022 draft, starting with Chief Scout Larry Parker here.
Selection order updated … With another week’s action in the books, the current opening round selection order for the 2022 draft has been updated were it to be held this week.
Texans lose/win ‘battle for #2; Jags stun Bills … Both teams tried to fumble it away, but when the smoke cleared in today’s game between Houston and Miami with the 2nd pick overall in the current selection order for the 2022 draft on the line, the Dolphins came away with a 17-9 win. That dropped the Texans to… Read More »
UDub OT back in action against Ducks … For the record, Washington LT Jaxson Kirkland was back in action for the Huskies in last night’s loss to Oregon. Kirkland, a late first round prospect for the 2022 draft, had missed the past two games with an undisclosed injury and had been listed as out indefinitely. In fact, Kirkland… Read More »
QB shuffle to impact battle for #2 … Both teams will be making changes at QB for today’s game between Houston and Miami with the 2nd pick overall in the current selection order for the 2022 draft on the line. On the one hand, the Dolphins will be without starter Tua Tagovailoa who has a fractured finger on… Read More »
Second pick up for grabs in Sunday action … Detroit is guaranteed to still be sitting on the #1 pick in the ‘if the draft were held today’ opening round selection order as the league’s last remaining winless team has its bye. At least the Lions can’t loss this week! However, the second pick overall, at least for… Read More »
Star Coastal QB out … Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall, one of the most productive passers in college football, is out indefinitely with an undisclosed upper body injury. Through the 21st ranked Chanticlers first 8 games, McCall has completed 73% of his pass attempts for just over 2,000 yards and 17 TDs against just 2 interceptions.
BC QB Jurkovec makes unexpected return … In one of those ‘man bites dog’ type scenarios, Boston College QB Phil Jurkovec, who had been thought lost for the year with a hand injury, returned to the lineup last night to help the Eagles win their conference game of the year, 17-3 over Virginia Tech. Jurkovec, a third-day type… Read More »
Jets back to 5th pick after loss … We had several people ask how the NY Jets’ loss to Indianapolis in last night’s Thursday night game changed the opening round selection order for the 2022 draft were it to be held this week has been updated. Normally, we don’t like to update mid-week; however, because we are talking… Read More »
Rising UGA LB accused of rape … Georgia OLB Adam Anderson, a potential mid-first round prospect for the 2022 draft, has suspended indefinitely by the team after he was accused of raping a woman last week. To date, Anderson has not been arrested and has denied the allegation. The 6-5, 230-pound Anderson is currently rated the 30th top… Read More »
College football prospects preview … There’s only one game on this weekend’s college football schedule involving ranked teams. That’s in the SEC where #13 Auburn and #14 Texas A&M will battle it out to stay within shouting distance of Alabama in the conference’s always tough West division. However, there’s actually a lot of other stuff to see including… Read More »
Thursday nighter with Top 10 draft teams … For the record, this evening’s Thursday night game on FOX and the NFL Network has the NY Jets playing at Indianapolis in a match-up of teams that would have top 10 picks were the 2022 draft held this week. The 2-5 Jets, for example, would be picking somewhere in the… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly 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. Here’s Paul’s column covering last weekend’s slate of games.
Eagles get rook CB for Broncos’ 6th … In a late trade prior to today’s deadline, Philadelphia acquired CB Kary Vincent from Denver in exchange for a 6th round pick in 2022. Vincent was a seventh-round round pick this past April, but while he has spent the entire season on the 53-man roster, he has not played a… Read More »
