Clank! Clank! Clank! … For those that don’t follow college football all that closely, that’s the sound emanating from the Texas and Penn State programs this morning as the top two rated teams in the country coming into the season find their post-season playoff hopes on life support with still over half the season to go after upset… Read More »
Who to watch in college football: October 4th … Its something of a quiet weekend coming up in college football with only a couple of games involving ranked teams. One of those games – #3 Miami at #18 Florida State on Saturday evening – represents a huge road test for the 3rd ranked Hurricanes who have a couple… Read More »
Star Gators’ DT Banks out for goodly time … Florida has confirmed that DT Caleb Banks will be out for an ‘extended’ time after he underwent surgery to repair a nagging foot injury that has limited him since late last season. Banks had been considered to be one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the… Read More »
Ducks RB Hughes to redshirt … Oregon RB Makhi Hughes, a pre-season All-American, who rushed for nearly 3,000 yards over the past two seasons at Tulane and was expected to be a top draft prospect, but who has been buried on the Ducks’ depth chart, has opted to redshirt instead and presumably will transfer. Indeed, Hughes has just… Read More »
Browns turn to rook Gabriel at QB … Cleveland has made a change at QB and will start rookie Dillon Gabriel on Sunday morning when the Browns play Minnesota in London. Gabriel replaces veteran Joe Flacco who has ineffective through the first month of the season as he has thrown 6 picks versus just 2 TD passes. Gabriel… Read More »
‘Phins latest off schneid; top pick to Saints for week … It wasn’t necessarily all that pretty, but Miami won this evening’s battle of winless AFC East teams over the NY Jets 27-21. As a result, the Jets join New Orleans and Tennessee as the NFL’s only remaining winless teams. And if the draft were held this week,… Read More »
Browns acquire vet OT in late round pick swap … Cleveland has acquired veteran LT Cam Robinson from Houston in a deal involving a swap of late round pick in 2027. The Texans will get the Browns 6th round pick that year while the Browns will receive Houston’s seventh-round pick to complete the deal. Robinson became expendable in… Read More »
Texans, Giants off schneid; one more to come … The number of winless teams in the NFL dropped by two earlier afternoon as both Houston and the NY Giants got their first ‘Ws’ of the year. Houston routed Tennessee, which was also winless heading into the week, while the Giants held off the LA Chargers in rookie Jaxson… Read More »
OT, DT slipping??? … There doesn’t appear to be much doubt around the NFL that OT is THE strength of the 2026 draft, at least as it stands now, with at least a half-dozen or so legit first-round candidates and another strong second-tier group knocking on the door. However, one OT who may be slipping a bit is… Read More »
Who to watch in college football: September 27th … After something of a quiet weekend in college football, things really pick-up this week with a spate of really good games including a huge early season Big Ten match-up with #3 Penn State hosting #6 Oregon. Otherwise, the mantra in college football this weekend could be ‘go south young… Read More »
Jets get vet CB in late round pick swap … The NY Jets have acquired veteran CB Jarvis Brownlee from Tennessee in a deal involving a swap of 2026 late-round picks. The Titans will get a 6th rounder from the Titans while getting a 7th to complete the deal.
OU QB Mateer out a month with hand injury … Oklahoma QB John Mateer, an early Heisman front-runner and a rising draft prospect, is expected to miss about a month after suffering a broken bone in his throwing hand in Saturday’s win over Auburn. Mateer is scheduled to undergo surgery tomorrow. Unfortunately, if Mateer does miss the next… Read More »
Wilson out, Dart in for 0-3 Giants … The big question in New York – literally since April – has been when the Giants would name Jaxson Dart starting QB after they selected him with the 26th pick in this year’s draft. We now have an answer as the Giants just announced that Dart would get the start… Read More »
Defenseless Cowboys may look to deal … In the wake of Sunday’s almost shocking 31-14 loss to the previously winless Bears in Chicago, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones was quoted as saying that he’d be willing to trade a package of picks, possibly including one or even both of the two first-round picks they got from Green Bay in… Read More »
QB questions growing for 2026 … For those that haven’t see it, ESPN had an interesting piece up this week in which they asked talent evaluators around the league for their view of who was the top QB prospect for the upcoming draft. According to the poll of 25 NFL scouts, South Carolina LaNorris Sellars and LSU’s Garrett… Read More »
CFL makes major changes to Canadian game … The CFL announced some major to the way the game is played north of the border. Starting next fall, the Canadian league will be shortening its field from 110 to 100 yards, while also reducing the size of the end zones from 20 to 15 yards. The CFL will also… Read More »
Four teams off schneid; half dozen winless teams left … After a wild and woolly Sunday of NFL action, the number of winless teams dropped from 10 to 6 as Carolina, Cleveland, Chicago and Kansas City all got their first Ws of the season. And while we are still a couple of weeks away from starting to post… Read More »
Who to watch in college football: September 20th … One might be tempted to think that if the ‘game of the week’ is Illinois versus Indiana (7:30 PM ET; NBC) that its probably a week in which one could just skip college football altogether, especially if one were looking for draft prospects to watch. One would be wrong… Read More »
LSU QB dinged; playing thru it … LSU has confirmed that QB Garrett Nussmeier, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2026 draft, has what been playing with what is being described as a torso injury, since the start of the season. Nussmeier reportedly suffered the injury in pre-season training camp, ostensibly because of… Read More »
Just two weeks into the season … and no we won’t be publishing an updated first-round selection order for next April’s draft at least for several more weeks. We prefer to wait until we get a little more data to get a better feeling of what are the trends. What we can say is that a couple of… Read More »
QBs Sellers injured, Manning booed (at home) … It was not a great day for young QBs in college football. South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers, for example, was knocked out of yesterday’s shocking 31-7 loss at home to Vanderbilt after taking a hit to the head late in the first half and did not return. There has been no… Read More »
Pats trade injured WR Polk to Saints … New Orleans has acquired 2d year WR Ja’Lynn Polk from New England in a trade involving a swap of future late picks. For Polk, a second round pick in 2024 who is out for the year with a shoulder injury, the Patriots will get a 6th round pick in 2027,… Read More »
CFL GM passes away … Sad news from the Canadian league as Hamilton announced earlier today that Ti-Cats GM Ted Goveia had died. Goveia revealed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with a serious form of cancer, but carried on with his work with the team. Goveia was a veteran of Canadian football having coached at… Read More »
Who to watch in college football: September 14th … After a very quiet weekend on the college football schedule last week, things heat up with a couple of key games involving ranked teams as #6 Georgia and #15 Tennessee open their respective SEC campaigns in Knoxville (3:30 PM ET; ABC), while #8 Notre Dame hosts #16 Texas A&M… Read More »
Vols’ CB McCoy still out … Just a note on Tennessee CB Jermond McCoy who is generally considered to be the top prospect at the position for the upcoming draft. McCoy has still not been activated by the Vols as a result of a torn ACL he suffered in January. As well, there does not appear to any… Read More »
