College football injury update … Alabama, which lost starting ILB Chris Allen for the year with a fractured foot during the Tide’s season opening win Miami, got another injury scare this past weekend when rising OLB Will Anderson, the team’s best pass rusher, was forced to leave the team’s win over FCS Mercer this past Saturday after taking… Read More »
It is Game Day!!! … Indeed, the NFL is finally back with the season’s first full weekend of games including some potential very tasty morsels including Pittsburgh at Buffalo, Cleveland at Kansas City and Green Bay in New Orleans. And while we still have 230 days until the 2022 draft – not to mention a full season of… Read More »
Ducks stun Bucks … No Kayvon Thibodeaux! No problem for Oregon. The Ducks, playing without DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, their best player and the leading candidate to be the first player at the 2022 draft because of an ankle injury, shocked 3rd ranked Ohio State 35-28 right in Columbus in an early game this afternoon that really could jumble… Read More »
Top prospect out for Buckeyes game … Oregon played it close to the vest all week, but in the end DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, arguably the top prospect overall for the 2022 draft, did not suit up for today’s big game in Columbus versus 3rd ranked Ohio State. Thibodeaux sprained an ankle early in the Ducks’ season opener last… Read More »
That turned around fast; OSU LB granted immediate eligibility … On Thursday, Ohio State rather gloomily announced that the NCAA had turned down former USC LB Palaie Gaoteote’s petition for immediate eligibility. Then earlier today, they walked that back a bit saying that in fact no final decision had been reached. And earlier this evening, the NCAA confirmed… Read More »
Big XII back to even dozen with addition of 4 schools … The Big XII actually hasn’t had 12 teams for years and the conference’s very existence, at least as a Power-5 entity, was very much in doubt after the league’s two power programs – Texas and Oklahoma – announced earlier this summer that they would be moving… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … Last weekend’s terrific slate of games, which more than one analyst called the best opening week schedule in college football ever, more than lived up to the billing. And it should be more of the same this coming weekend with several outstanding inter-sectional match-ups including Oregon at #3 Ohio… Read More »
Saints complete Roby deal; Texans get two picks … New Orleans finally completed that trade with Houston for veteran CB Bradley Roby. In exchange, the Saints will send Houston a 3rd rounder in 2022 and a conditional 6th-rounder in 2023. To facilitate the trade, the Texans converted almost $8M of Roby’s base salary into a signing bonus leaving… Read More »
Are you ready for some football, part deux! … The 2021 NFL regular season kicks off later this evening with defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay hosting Dallas at 8:20 PM ET on NBC. And with the season about to kick-off, we offer our league-wide predictions in our annual fearless NFL forecast. We have also posted our annual… Read More »
Pigskin posts initial 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. Needless to say, he had plenty to chew on after last weekend’s terrific slate opening week games. Here’s Paul’s initial column… Read More »
Hula Bowl heading to Orlando … The Hula Bowl announced earlier today that the 2022 game will be played at the Bounce House on the campus of Central Florida in Orlando early in the new year. And if Orlando seems like a strange place for a game called the ‘Hula’ Bowl, it is. The Hula Bowl, of course… Read More »
ESPN analyst McShay ‘stepping away’ for awhile … Veteran ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay announced earlier today via twitter that he is stepping away from the job temporarily to ‘focus on his health and family.’ No other details were forthcoming from either McShay or the network, although the announcement comes just days after he reportedly looked very much… Read More »
Top prospect day-to-day … Oregon star DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, currently the consensus top prospect overall for the 2022 draft who was injured in the Ducks’ season opening win over Fresno State last weekend, is being listed as ‘day-to-day’ for this weekend’s huge intersectional showdown with #4 Ohio State in Columbus. Thibodeaux reportedly sprained an ankle early in the… Read More »
Texans confirm Taylor as starting QB; Watson to sit … No great surprise here as Houston confirmed this morning that veteran Tyrod Taylor will be the team’s starting QB when the Texans open the season this coming weekend against Jacksonville, while rookie Davis Mills, a second-round pick this past spring, will be the back-up. That leaves embattled QB… Read More »
Bonus coverage … With the college football season underway, but the NFL campaign still a week away, the colleges take over Monday night football, at least for the week. Tonight it will be Louisville playing Mississippi in Atlanta with KO at 8 PM ET on ESPN. And while this campaign doesn’t have the overall glamor of some other… Read More »
Cut-down day tough on undrafted rookies … One of the concerns around the NFL this odd off-season was that because of the limited training camps, it was going to be relatively difficult for later round draft picks, as well as undrafted signees, to make a final roster. Turns out that that was not the case for this year’s… Read More »
Disappointing start to season for Heels QB Howell … It was a disappointing start to the season for North Carolina QB Sam Howell this evening at Virginia Tech. Howell is generally considered to be a potential top 10 prospect for the 2022 draft, but completed just 17 of 32 pass attempts for 208 yards as the Hokies upset… Read More »
Steelers get ‘Hawks’ CB for ’23 5th … Pittsburgh has reportedly acquired veteran CB Ahkello Witherspoon from Seattle in exchange for a 5th round pick in 2023.
Star Gopher RB dinged in season-opening loss to Buckeyes … Team officials at Minnesota are holding their collective breaths waiting for an update on the status of star RB Mohamed Ibrahim. The reigning Big Ten RB of the year almost single-handedly kept the Gophers in their season-opener against 4th ranked Ohio State last night as he rushed 30… Read More »
Are you ready for some football!! … Of course you are!! and just in time the 2021 college football season gets underway in earnest this weekend. As we do every year, the GBN staff including Editor and Publisher Colin Lindsay, Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette and Chief Scout Larry Parker put our heads together and made our annual… Read More »
Post-cut rookie transactions … As we noted when yesterday’s roster deadline passed, people shouldn’t get too comfy as there was still likely to be a lot of roster tweaking around the league before the actual games kicked off next week. And several of those moves to day involved players selected at the 2021 draft. Indianapolis, for example, claimed… Read More »
Once again draft class pretty much survives the Turk … One of the fears associated with last season’s odd college football season in which some teams played radically shortened schedules, while others, including just about everybody outside the FBS ranks, didn’t play at all, is that pro teams just wouldn’t be able to get the best reads on… Read More »
Kiper posts pre-season top 25; positional rankings … For those that haven’t seen them yet, long-time ESPN draft analyst has posted his pre-season ranking of the top 25 prospects overall for the 2022 draft. And no surprises at the top of Kiper’s board, as he has Oregon ER Kayvon Thibodeaux in the top spot followed by Oklahoma QB… Read More »
Late cutdown day notes … All teams, of course, are now down to the NFL’s 53-man roster limit after a busy day yesterday. There were a couple of minor deals along the way that we neglected to report. In one, the LA Rams sent P Corey Bojorquez to Green Bay in a deal in which the Rams will… Read More »
Couple of more trades to report … There are a couple of more trades involving future draft picks to report as teams continue the process of announcing their moves as they get down to today’s 53-man roster limit. Kansas City picked up a 2022 7th rounder earlier this afternoon when they sent G/T Yasir Durant to New England.… Read More »
