Two Buckeyes headline latest Senior Bowl additions … The Senior Bowl has confirmed that four more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including veteran ILB Tuf Borland and RB Trey Sermon of Ohio State, along with Washington CB Keith Taylor and Southern Methodist TE/FB Kylen Granson.
Weekly selection order updated … There is still one more game to be played this week when Baltimore and Pittsburgh play on Wednesday, but for now here is the updated opening round selection order for the 2021 draft were it to be held this week.
OK State OT opts out … Oklahoma State OT Teven Jenkins, a second-day prospect for the 2021 draft, has formally opted out of the current season and will be entering the upcoming draft. The 6-6, 320-pound Jenkins, who is currently rated as the #9 OT on the GBN positional ranking and the 75th top prospect overall on the… Read More »
Update to Ravens-Steelers pushed back another day … The on-again, off-again game between division-rivals Baltimore and Pittsburgh has been moved again and is now scheduled for Wednesday afternoon with kick-off at 3:40 PM ET. The game was originally scheduled to be played last Thursday as the night-cap to the NFL’s Thanksgiving Day triple-header, but it was first postponed… Read More »
Rising Hoosier QB out for year with torn ACL … Indiana QB Michael Penix, one of the emerging stars of the 2020 college season, unfortunately will miss the rest of the year after suffering a torn ACL in Saturday’s win against Maryland. Its the second time Penix has has torn the ACL in that knee as he suffered… Read More »
NFL announces Xmas sked updates … The NFL revealed this morning the three games that will be played on Saturday, December 26th. Tampa Bay will be in Detroit to start that day with a 1 PM ET kick-off, followed by San Francisco at Arizona at 4:30 PM and Miami in Las Vegas at 8:15 PM ET. There is… Read More »
Four more college opt outs … With the college season winding down, more players from teams that are essentially out of contention for the playoff are choosing to opt out and get a head start on preparations for the 2021 draft. Indeed, four more players confirmed this weekend that they are opting out of the season and will… Read More »
Jags fire GM Caldwell … Jacksonville became the second team to fire its general manager this weekend when the Jaguars cut ties with G.M David Caldwell after the team’s 27-25 loss to Cleveland that dropped their record to 1-10 this fall. Caldwell has been in the job since 2013, but the Jaguars have a 39-87 record in his… Read More »
As easy as 1-2-3 … The top three picks in the opening round selection order for the 2021 draft will remain unchanged for at least another week as the NY Jets, Jacksonville, and Cincinnati, who had picks 1 through 3 coming into the week, all lost this afternoon, although neither of the Jags nor Bengals went down easily.… Read More »
Saints lose pick for maskless celebration … The New Orleans Saints have been forced to forfeit a 7th-round pick at the 2021 draft because they didn’t wear masks during their postgame celebrations after beating Tampa Bay earlier this month. The Saints are the second team to lose a pick for breaking covid protocols. Earlier this year, Las Vegas… Read More »
Will Jets, Jags continue chase to #1 Sunday … That actually appears to be the question for the NFL at this hour as the league is buzzing with rumors that Sunday’s entire schedule could be cancelled or postponed. Among the problems the league is dealing with with less than 15 hours until the first games kick-off: more Baltimore… Read More »
Lions fire GM Quinn, coach Patricia … Less than 48 hours after a depressing home loss on Thanksgiving Day, Detroit pulled to plug on G.M. Bob Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia. Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell will take over heading coach duties on an interim basis, while front-office executives Kyle O’Brien, Mike Disner, Rob Lohman and Lance Newmark… Read More »
Broncos QBs all ruled out of Sunday game … Its the doomsday scenario that has kept NFL execs awake at all season. Denver, which is scheduled to play New Orleans tomorrow afternoon, won’t have an NFL QB available as everyone in their positional room has been ruled out of the game by the NFL as they were in… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds UGA OG … The Senior Bowl announced this morning that Georgia OG Ben Cleveland has accepted his invitation to this year’s game and will be in Mobile at the end of January. Cleveland is the third Bulldawg to accept, along with TE Tre’ McKitty and DE Malik Herring.
QB Darnold to start for Jets this weekend … Barring a late setback, the NY Jets are expected to have Sam Darnold back at QB when they play Miami on Sunday. The Jets, of course, are the NFL’s last remaining winless team and are on track to end up with the #1 pick at the 2021 draft. Darnold… Read More »
Ravens-Steelers rescheduled again … The on-again, off-again game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh has been rescheduled to 8 PM ET on Tuesday night. The Ravens and Steelers were originally scheduled to play on Thanksgiving night, but the game was moved to Sunday after over a dozen Baltimore players, including star QB Lamar Jackson, the NFL’s reigning MVP, tested positive… 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. Here is the full report with a special emphasis on the key observations from last weekend’s Big Ten showdown between Ohio State and upstart Indiana.
Star Gophers WR Bateman opts out again … Minnesota WR Rashod Bateman, who was one of the first players to opt out of the 2020 season back in the summer when the option was first made available, but then opted back in when the Big Ten got going, has formally opted out again and will begin preparations for… Read More »
And then there were two: Ravens-Steelers Turkey Day game pushed back … Because of covid concerns, tomorrow night’s game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh has been rescheduled for Sunday afternoon. There are as many as 7 Baltimore players that would have been unavailable to play tomorrow because of covid tests. That leaves Houston playing at Detroit in the early… Read More »
QB decisions impacting early selection order … A couple of teams sitting on very early picks in the current selection order for the first round of the 2021 draft have made moves at QB. Jacksonville, which would have the 2nd pick overall were the draft held this week, for example, will reportedly start veteran backup Mike Glennon on… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds two more OL … The Senior Bowl has added two more offensive linemen to its list of players who have committed to this year’s game including Alabama C Landon Dickerson. The other new name on the roster is East Carolina OG D’Ante Smith.
Vandy LB opts out; will return … Vanderbilt junior ILB Dimitri Moore, who originally opted out of the 2020 campaign and then opted back in to play in 6 games this season, has now opted out again. Rather than enter the draft, though, the 6-2, 235-pound Moore who led the Commodores with 99 tackles last fall, has entered… Read More »
Weekly selection order updated … With this weekend’s schedule in the books, the full opening round selection order for the 2021 draft were it to be held this week has been updated.
MRI on Bengals’ QB Burrow ‘not good’ … It didn’t look at all good when it happened and an MRI earlier today indicated that the damage to his knee suffered by Cincinnati QB Joe Burrow yesterday was in fact worse than initially anticipated. Indeed, according to a report on ESPN, in addition to a torn ACL, Burrow also… Read More »
Jets, Jags inch closer to top picks … Interesting afternoon in the NFL this PM with the NY Jets and Jacksonville both moving closer to a top 1-2 pick at the 2021 draft, while just about everybody else moved on, sort of. The Jets led early, then rallied late in Los Angeles against the Chargers, but in the… Read More »
