‘Now you tell me …’ After last night’s disappointing 55-20 Cotton Bowl loss to Oklahoma, Florida head coach Dan Mullen said that in the end the Gators maybe shouldn’t have played at all because their lineup was so depleted by opt outs for either covid, injury or draft-related reasons. Unfortunately, the warning came a little late for Gators’… Read More »
Prospects galore in CFP semis … Just a couple of more sleeps before Friday’s national college semi-finals which feature two terrific match-ups between #1 Alabama and #4 Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl at 4:20 PM ET, followed by #2 Clemson against #3 Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl at 8 PM ET. Both games are on ESPN.… Read More »
Four more enter draft; two return … Underclassmen continue to make known their intentions for 2021 with four more declaring for the draft, while a couple of talented DBs indicated they would be returning to school next fall. Headlining the list of new draft entries is rising Iowa DT Daviyon Nixon, an Outland Trophy finalist who is currently… Read More »
Canes’ QB King injured in bowl … Truth is we have been kind of boycotting the bowls this year. We have no problem with the CFP playoff games later this week, but we just feel it is simply indefensible for so-called institutions of higher learning to have their students play in totally meaningless games in the middle of… Read More »
Two more juniors enter draft … A couple more juniors have announced they’ll be entering the 2021 draft including dynamic Buffalo RB Jaret Patterson and Stanford C Drew Dalman. Patterson led all college backs with an average of almost 180 rushing yards per game this season, which prorated over a 12-game schedule works out to over 2,100 yards;… Read More »
Two more enter draft; one returns … A couple of more juniors announced earlier today that they will be entering the 2021 draft including Florida CB Marco Wilson and Illinois OG Kendrick Green. Both are early to mid third day prospects with Wilson 25th on the GBN positional ranking, while the 310-pound Green is 8th among the OGs.… Read More »
QBs Herbert, Burrow, DE Young headline GBN all-rook team … With the NFL’s regular season winding down, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has named our all-rookie team including QBs Justin Herbert of the LA Chargers and Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow, along with Washington DE Chase Young. Burrow and Young, of course, were the first two players selected at… Read More »
Selection order updated … With just one week to go in the regular schedule, here is the full updated 1st round selection order were the 2021 draft held this week. Also please note that the strength of schedule figures used are for every team’s full 16 game schedule, not just the games played to date.
Four more players enter draft; two return … The flow of underclassmen to this year’s draft continues despite the holidays with four more announcing in the past 24 hours that they were foregoing their remaining eligibility and turning pro this winter. The latest players to announce include Southern California G/T Alijah Vera-Tucker, Stanford WR Simi Fehoko, Duke OLB… Read More »
Jags clinch top pick; Jets #2; #3 still to be decided … As a result of today’s early games, Jacksonville has clinched the #1 pick overall at the 2021 draft. The Jaguars left nothing to chance as they were drubbed at home by Chicago to drop to 1-14. And that top pick became theirs to keep when the… Read More »
Three in; two out in college football … Two more underclassmen announced this weekend that they would be foregoing their remaining eligibility and entering the 2021 draft including Penn State redshirt sophomore DE Jayson Oweh and North Carolina junior RB Javonte Williams. Both are considered to be second day prospects with Oweh ranked 51st and Williams 57th on… Read More »
CBs Stokes, Hall enter draft … A couple of more juniors indicated over the past 24 hours or so that they will be entering the 2021 draft. They are CBs Eric Stokes of Georgia and San Diego State’s Darren Hall. The 6-0, 185-pound Stokes is a legitimate late first round prospect, while Hall, who measures in at 5-11,… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted the latest edition of his weekly college football prospects report featuring games from last weekend’s conference championship games. Here is the full report.
Canes’ QB King to return … Miami got a big belated Christmas present today when star dual threat QB D’Eriq King announced that he will take advantage of the extra year of eligibility the NCAA offered all players because of the pandemic and return to school for a second season. King transferred to Miami from Houston prior to… Read More »
The very Merriest Holiday season to everyone from the staff and management of the GBN. But please be safe AND SMART; we’ve just gone through too much and come too come far and to let down now. Cheers
Tulsa LB Collins, two others enter draft … A day after being named this year’s Bronko Nagurski Award winner as the nation’s top defensive player, rising Tulsa junior LB Zaven Collins announced that he will be entering the 2021 draft and won’t play in the team’s bowl game. And while Collins isn’t yet a national household name, pro… Read More »
Merry Christmas mock … From everyone here at the GBN, all the best of the season and a Happy New Year. To mark the occasion, we have posted our annual Merry Christmas mock of the first round of the 2021 draft. Enjoy!!
BYU QB Wilson sizzles in bowl win … For those that missed it last evening, BYU QB Zack Wilson didn’t disappoint in the Cougars’ bowl win over Central Florida. For the record, Wilson completed 26 of 34 passes for 425 yards and 3 TDs as the Cougars rang up over 600 yards of total offense en route to… Read More »
‘Horns WR, Beaver CB enter draft … Kind of quiet out there today, but we can report that two more juniors have announced that they will be entering the 2021 draft including Texas WR Brennan Eagles and Oregon State CB Nahshon Wright. Both are considered to be third-day type prospects at this time, but both have intriguing size… Read More »
Post-season Big Board updated … With the regular college football season, such as it was, in the books, the GBN scout staff has updated our Big Board ranking of the top 100 prospects for the 2021 draft, which, for the record, is now just 128 days away. And it should come as no surprise that the upcoming draft… Read More »
BYU QB featured in bonus coverage … Anybody who is being truly honest would have to admit that this past college football was pretty effed up. Some teams played pretty close to full schedules, while others played as few as 3-4 games. Every week games were cancelled or rescheduled such that was sometimes hard to figure who was… Read More »
Four more juniors declare for draft … Another quartet of juniors announced today that they will be foregoing their remaining eligibility and entering the 2021 draft including Missouri OLB Nick Bolton, Northwestern CB Greg Newsome, North Carolina WR Dyami Brown and Marshall RB Brenden Knox. Of the four, Bolton is the highest rated at #49 on the GBN… Read More »
Rising Cane DE Phillips enters draft … Miami junior DE Jaelan Phillips has announced that he will be foregoing his remaining college eligibility and entering the 2021 draft; he also indicated he won’t be playing in the ‘Canes bowl game. The 6-5, 265-pound Phillips, a transfer from UCLA, had a breakout campaign this past season in which he… Read More »
Hurney out as Panthers GM … And a very Merry Christmas to you too! Carolina announced this morning that G.M. Marty Hurney has been fired. Hurney was in his second stint as the Panthers’ general manager. He had the job from 2002 to 2012 and then returned in 2017 after Dave Gettleman was dismissed. No immediate word on… Read More »
JETS WIN!!! Jags move to #1 … In a real stunner out west, the NY Jets won their first game of the season late this afternoon defeating the LA Rams 23-20. And that will move Jacksonville into the #1 pick overall position in this week’s opening round selection order for the 2021 draft ahead of the Jets who… Read More »
