Mahomes/Jackson matchup hilites Sunday NFL sched … Its game day in the NFL and folks around the league can’t wait for tonight’s featured matchup when Kansas City plays at Baltimore with the KO set for 8:20 PM ET on NBC. This is one of those games that could very well be a preview of the AFC championship game… Read More »
UCF QB out indefinitely … Central Florida confirmed this morning that star QB Dillon Gabriel, a dark-horse Heisman candidate, broke his clavicle on the final play of last night’s 42-35 loss to Louisville. The good news is that Gabriel will not require season-ending surgery, but there is no timetable for his return.
BC QB likely done for year … Boston College QB Phil Jurkovec could miss the rest of the season with a right wrist injury suffered last Saturday against UMass. Jurkovec underwent surgery Monday. Jurkovec had generally been considered to be an early third day type prospect if he came out early this year, but would now appear likely… Read More »
Weekly prospects preview … Somehow, we got through last weekend’s prospect preview with barely a mention of the SEC. Not so this week, though, as the conference gets down to league play with a bang with top-ranked, defending national champion Alabama playing at SEC East power Florida. Here’s a quick preview of who to watch in that game… Read More »
Giants report: A little perspective … Don’t know about anyone else, but I was still tossing and turning when the sun came up this morning. What a frustrating, heart-breaking loss in Washington last. And it was so frustrating and heart-breaking loss because the game was won. So maybe a little perspective might be in order. Read more
Pigskin’s week two 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.
Panthers cut PK; void trade with Giants … It hasn’t been a great week so far the NY Giants. Sunday, they suffered a rather dismal home loss to Denver. Then today, Carolina released PK Ryan Santoso, whom the Giants had traded to the Panthers for a conditional 7th round pick during the pre-season. The stipulation was Santoso would… Read More »
First GBN Big Board posted … The initial GBN Big Board ranking the top 100 prospects for the 2022 has been posted. No surprise here that the top overall prospect is Oregon DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, with QBs Spencer Rattler of Oklahoma and North Carolina’s Sam Howell, LSU CB Derek Stingley, Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamilton, and Alabama OT… Read More »
Round-by-round wrap of weekends’ top one-on-one match-up … It wasn’t necessarily the top game of the weekend, but Saturday night’s game between Michigan and Washington did provide the week’s most intriguing individual matchup between top draft prospects with Wolverines’ DE Aidan Hutchinson facing Huskies’ LT Jaxson Kirkland. The two didn’t actually face each other all that often, but… Read More »
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 »
