QB Ward visiting Titans … Maybe the most important on-site visit of the 2025 draft season is taking place as we speak as Miami QB Cam Ward, the presumptive #1 pick at the upcoming draft, is in Nashville visiting the Titans who own that #1 pick. The Titans, though, remain coy about what they’ll actually do with the… Read More »
ASU RB Skattebo sued by former teammate … Arizona State RB Cam Skattebo, who had a breakout year this past season and is currently preparing for the upcoming draft, has been added to a lawsuit filed by a former ASU teammate over a pre-season accident two years ago. The facts don’t appear to be in dispute. Skattebo jumped… Read More »
Texans get Jags’ WR Kirk for future late pick … Houston will acquire WR Christian Kirk from Jacksonville when the new league year begins next week in exchange for the 7th round pound pick in 2026 that originally belonged to the LA Rams.
Mbow featured player at Boilers’ pro day … All but one of 32 NFL teams had reps at the Purdue pro day earlier this faternoon, with most there to check out Boilermakers’ G/T Marcus Mbow. However Mbow, who only did positional drills at last weekend’s combine, again just chose to do the positional stuff today saying that he… Read More »
Bears acquire another FA OL for 4th … For the second day in a row, Chicgao has acquired a veteran offensive lineman for a 3rd day pick at the 2025 draft. Yesterday, the Bears acquired OG Jonah Jackson from the LA Rams for a 6th rounder; today, they have reportedly acquired G/T Joe Thuney from Kansas City for… Read More »
No new tags as deadline passes … Today’s deadline for NFL teams to designate free agents to be as either franchise or transition players came and went without so much as a whimper. In fact, the big news of the day – and maybe the only news today – was that Minnesota did not franchise QB Sam Darnold.… Read More »
QB sparkles at Indiana pro day … Just not that one. In the end, Kurtis Rourke was not able to participate in today’s pro day at Indiana as he continues to rehab from post-season ACL surgery. With Rourke sidelined, newly minted Hoosiers’ QB Fernando Mendoza, who transferred in from California, stepped up and was throwing the passes to… Read More »
Bears get vet OG from Rams for late pick … Chicago has reportedly agreed to a trade with the LA Rams in which the Bears will acquire veteran OG Jonah Jackson in exchange for a 6th round pick. However, the deal won’t become official until the start of the new league year on March 12. Jackson was signed… Read More »
QB Sanders to visit Browns, Titans … With the scouting combine in the books, the focus of the draft process shifts to the pro days. The other part of the equation at this time, though are the on-site visits. Every team is allowed to bring up to 30 prospects to their facility prior to the draft. And just… Read More »
Tag day in NFL … The deadline for teams to apply either a franchise or transition tag comes up at 4 PM ET later this afternoon. So far, two players – Cincinnati WR Tee Higgins and Kansas City OG Trey Smith – have been tagged to date with both receiving the franchise designation meaning they can negotiate with… Read More »
Pro day sched kicks off at Indiana … The annual pro day schedule gets underway in earnest on Tuesday with a work out at Indiana. And the big question there is whether QB Kurtis Rourke is able to participate. After transferring from Ohio last winter, Rourke emerged as one of the most prolific passers in college football this… Read More »
Post-combine QB thoughts … We still have just over 50 days to go until the actual draft gets underway next month and there is still plenty of sorting out to be done, but a couple of trends at the QB position seem to be emerging. On the one hand, it is pretty clear that Cam Ward is now… Read More »
All 40 combine 40 times … In response to the several readers who wondered if it was possible to get all the 40 times from this week’s scouting combine in Indianapolis in one place here you go: RB; WR; TE; OT; OG; C; DE; DT; LB; CB; S.
No rest for weary scouts as pro days loom … Even though the scouting combine is now pretty much in the books, there won’t be much of a break for NFL personnel people as they’re already starting to fan out for the annual pro day schedule which gets underway this coming week. In fact, some scouts will just… Read More »
That’s a wrap as OL finish off combine 40s … The final group of offensive linemen are now going thru their positional drills having completed their 40s. And while the group may lack prototype length, it looks to be a very athletic group with 20 of the 30 OTs, OGs or Cs who did run today clocked in… Read More »
Stumpy arms hi (or low)-lite OL weigh-in … The offensive linemen are set to wrap up the on-field workout sessions at the scouting combine in Indianapolis starting in just a few minutes on the NFL Network. In many ways, though, with the OL group, what scouts see during the morning weigh-in session can be more important than what… Read More »
Thoughts from combine throwing session … As usual, much of the focus on the on-field workouts of the skill position players focused on the QB throwing session. As usual, though, no one should read too much into what happened on the field yesterday as it is hard to say that anyone’s grade moved much at all by the… Read More »
Niners sent WR Samuel to WashComs for 5th rounder … NFL teams still can’t formally make trades for another couple of weeks, but San Francisco has reportedly agreed in principle to send star WR Deebo Samuel to Washington in exchange for a 5th round pick. That means Washington, which does have plenty of cap space, will have to… Read More »
WR times posted … With the second of WRs having completed their 40 runs, here are the overall results for all the receivers who ran today. We’ll have a more detailed analysis just a little bit later.
Jeanty sits combine run; others fast; some slowish … Interesting that most of the RBs in Indianapolis this week opted to run at their on-field testing today. Indeed, 24 of the 31 backs at this year’s combine ran today. Unfortunately, Ashton Jeanty, the one that everyone wanted to see, chose not to. One could also sense watching the… Read More »
Notes from morning measurement session … While we wait for the start of today’s on-field workouts for the QBs, RBs and WRs, there are a couple of notes from this morning’s measurement. Shedeur Sanders actually came a little bigger than some had anticipated; there were concerns that the Colorado star wasn’t much over 200 pounds but he came… Read More »
Skill position day at the combine … It will be the QBs, RBs and WRs on the field at the scouting combine in Indianapolis this afternoon. And just a gentle reminder that today’s work out starts at 1 PM ET with coverage on the NFL Network. As usual, there will be a lot of focus on the QBs,… Read More »
TEs slow at combine 40 run … After all the speed we saw earlier today when the defensive backs did their on-field physical testing, the TEs looked almost like they were running with lead weights in their shoes when completing their 40s. In fact, only a couple of TEs running this evening – Oregon’s Terrance Ferguson who posted… Read More »
Emmanwori sizzles in safety run … South Carolina S Nick Emmanwori stole the show, quite literally, in this afternoon’s physical testing for the safeties. Already considered to be a potential opening round pick, Emmanwori blitzed a 4.38 40 running at 220 pounds; that was afer he had posted an almost equally ludicrous 43″ vertical leap. It was not… Read More »
Notes from CB weigh-in … When you’re hot you’re hot. Iowa State CB Darien Porter, for example, wowed earlier this afternoon when he clocked a very quick 4.30 40 clocking. And that was after he also aced the eyeball test at the weigh-in/measurement session as Porter measured in at 6-3, 195 with long (for a corner) 33″ arms.… Read More »
