Category Archives: News

First-round draft thoughts from Pigskin Paul … With a little time to think about it all, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some thoughts on last night’s opening round of the 2021 draft here.

GBN chief scout cracks mock top ten … Congratulations to GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker who finished 10th of 133 entrants in the Huddle Report’s annual ranking of the most accurate final mock drafts from last evening’s happenings. For the record, Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network was 99th.

Rodgers tells Pack he wants out … We normally don’t report rumors on draft day; there are just so many out there and virtually none come to fruition. However, this one might have legs. Sources in Green Bay are reporting that star QB Aaron Rodgers has told senior people in the organization that he really doesn’t want to… Read More »

IT IS DRAFT DAY!!! … Where is everyone?? Of course the actual draft doesn’t get underway for several hours with the first picks scheduled to come off the board a little after 8 PM ET later this evening. As usual, coverage will be provided by ESPN and the NFL Network with ABC simulcasting ESPN’s coverage. And with so… Read More »

Broncos bluff; Giants dilemma … Okay, so we are getting a little giddy here waiting for the actual draft to get going. But we did have a couple of crazy thoughts. Firstly, a lot of people are scratching their heads after Denver acquired veteran QB Teddy Bridgewater from Carolina in exchange for a 6th round pick. What the… Read More »

Panthers get late Broncs pick for QB Bridgewater … Carolina has reportedly traded  veteran QB Teddy Bridgewater to Denver in exchage for a 6th round pick – #191 overall – in tomorrow’s draft. Its certainly no surprise that the Panthers moved Bridgewater after acquiring Sam Darnold from the Jets earlier this winter, but it may raise some eyebrows… Read More »

Pigskin posts top 100 … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted his final top 100 ranking for the 2021 draft. He’s also hoping to have a final first-round mock up and running in the next day or so.

Jones douses Pitts to Cowboys trade talk … The past week or so, the NFL have been abuzz with talk about the possibility of Dallas trading up to acquire former Florida TE Kyle Pitts. In particular, Dallas owner/G.M. Jerry Jones was believed to be enamored with Pitts, who is generally considered to be the best non-QB prospect –… Read More »

‘Phins send OG Flowers back to WFT … Veteran G/T Ereck Flowers is on the move again. Barely a year after he signed a three-year free agent deal with Miami, the Dolphins have reportedly traded Flowers, who originally came into the league as a first-round pick by the Giants in 2015, to Washington for what is being described… Read More »

More signs point to Jones to 49ers; other buzz notes … There were also media reports earlier in the day that San Francisco’s choice for the 3rd pick overall at this week’s draft was ‘down’ to QBs Mac Jones of Alabama and North Dakota State’s Trey Lance. However, San Francisco G.M. John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan… Read More »

The draft starts when? Really? … The general consensus around the NFL these days is that with QBs fully expected to be the selected with the first three picks at next week’s draft that the real starting point of the 2021 draft will be the 4th pick with Atlanta on the clock. Hold on a second though! We… Read More »

Pigskin mocks AFC North … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette completes his series of separate mock drafts for each team highlighting the direction or directions they are most likely to go at the upcoming draft with a preview of the drafts of the teams in the AFC North. Meanwhile, for those that missed it, here is Pigskin’s… Read More »

Injury notes for WR Marshall, DE Phillips … Not a whole lot of details, but NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah reported on a conference call earlier this week that LSU WR Terrace Marshall had some medical stuff that popped up at the combine that could cause him to slip a little bit at next week’s draft. Unfortunately,… Read More »

UDub ER out for year … Rising Washington junior DE/OLB Zion Tupuola-Fetui will be out for 6-10 months after tearing his Achilles tendon in practice last week. He is expected to undergo surgery later this week. As a redshirt sophomore in 2020, Tupuola-Fetui had 7 sacks and was named as a 3rd team All-American by AP, despite playing… Read More »

CFL start pushed back to August but still a go for now … The Canadian Football League announced earlier today that the league will in fact try and return to play this fall after not playing at all in 2020. However, the start of the regular season, which usually gets underway in June, has been pushed back to… Read More »

NFL to release schedule May 12th … The NFL announced this afternoon that the long-delayed release of the 2021 schedule will be on May 12th. The schedule will be announced at 8 PM ET on both the the NFL Network and NFL.com. And of course this year will feature an extra regular season game for each team as… Read More »

QB Fields, WR Smith throw draft curveballs … With barely over a week to go until the 2021 draft, teams with high picks in this year’s opening round have been thrown a couple of nasty breaking curveballs. For starters, Ohio State QB Justin Fields has reportedly told teams that he has a epileptic condition that he is managing. … Read More »