NFLPA star game cancelled; other college notes … The NFLPA has announced that its annual college all-star game has been cancelled due to Covid complications. The NFLPA game is the 2nd of the 4 main college all-star games to be cancelled following the East-West Shrine Bowl which was cancelled late last month. That leaves the Senior Bowl and… Read More »
Wilson, three others latest Senior Bowl adds … Just a quick update on the earlier report about Florida State DT Marvin Wilson missing the rest of the season after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed injury. As noted in the article, the injury was not believed to be serious and in fact, it has been announced that Wilson will… Read More »
Heart condition forces PSU RB Brown to retire from football; other college notes … Penn State has confirmed that emerging junior RB Journey Brown has been told he’ll no longer be able to play football because of a medical condition that was discovered during covid testing. Brown has a condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease in which… Read More »
Four more Senior Bowl additions … The Senior Bowl has confirmed that four more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Mississippi OG Royce Newman, Central Florida CB Aaron Robinson, Virginia TE Tony Poljan and Alabama-Birmingham WR Austin Watkins.
Star FSU DT Wilson out for year … Florida State has confirmed that star DT Marvin Wilson will miss the rest of the year after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed leg injury suffered in last weekend’s game with Pitt. While Wilson did undergo surgery, the word out of the program is that the injury isn’t all that serious… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemete has posted the latest edition of his weekly college football prospects review report featuring games from October 31st. Here is the full report.
FCS WR enters draft … South Dakota State WR Cade Johnson has announced that he won’t be playing for SDSU if they get their season going this spring; instead he’ll be entering the 2021 draft. In addition, Johnson will be attending the Senior Bowl in January. The 5-9, 180-pound Johnson had 139 receptions over the past couple of… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds three more including ‘Horns’ QB … The Senior Bowl has announced that three more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Texas QB Sam Ehlinger. The other two new additions are FCS CBs Robert Rochell of Central Arkansas and Bryan Mills of North Carolina Central.
Rich QB class gets richer … With Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields at the very top of the board, and rising FCS star Trey Lance not that far behind, 2021 was always going to be one of those ‘year-of-the-QB’ drafts. However, the buzz around the NFL scouting community is that two other QBs – Zach Wilson of BYU… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds three more including rising QB Newman … The Senior Bowl announced that three more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game in Mobile in late January, including QB Jamie Newman. Newman, who at one time was considered to be the #4 QB in this year’s draft class behind Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields and Trey… Read More »
Jets so close, but lose again at buzzer; still #1 in draft selection order … Tonight’s game against New England may have been the NY Jets best chance to finally get a win this fall. And for almost 58 minutes, the Jets looked like they would in fact finally get that elusive win. However, the Patriots scored 10… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds Duck CB … The Senior Bowl announced earlier this evening that Oregon CB Thomas Graham has accepted an invitation to this year’s game. Graham had opted out and declared for the draft in September.
College football notes … If things weren’t bad enough already for Michigan, which is an uncharacteristic 1-2 in the early going of the Big Ten schedule, the Wolverines have confirmed that junior DE Aidan Hutchinson, an early second round prospect for the upcoming draft, will miss the rest of the season with a leg fracture that will require… Read More »
Jets, Jags 1-2 in updated weekly selection order … Win or lose in tomorrow night’s game between the NY Jets and New England, the Jets will keep the #1 pick at the 2021 draft for at least another week. Jacksonville, though, will move up to the 2nd slot after losing to Houston when a last-minute two-point conversion to… Read More »
Multiple games on weekend sched with major draft implications … When was the last time that a game involving New England and the NY Jets had draft implications for both teams? Anyone? Whenever, it happens on Monday night when the Jets, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, hosts the 2-5 Patriots who would have the 10th pick overall.… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds Udub DT … We were barely over our excitement regarding the Senior Bowl announcement earlier today about four more players having accepted invitations to this year’s game, when it was announced that Washington DT Levi Onwuzurike had also accepted his invite to Mobile for this January’s event. Onwuzurike is an opt out player that declared… Read More »
Four more heading to Mobile … The Senior Bowl has announced that four more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game in Mobile at the end of January. The latest group of acceptances include a pair from Michigan, WR Nico Collins and CB Ambry Thomas, along with FCS prospects Cade Johnson, a WR from South Dakota State,… Read More »
GBN Big Board updated … As promised, GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker and his staff have updated the GBN Big Board, ranking the top 100 overall prospects for the 2021 draft, which is now just 175 days away!!
Raiders lose pick over covid violations … According to media reports, Las Vegas has been forced to forfeit a 6th round pick in the upcoming draft as part of a package of punishments for violations of the league’s covid protocols stemming from OT Trent Brown’s positive test last month. In addition, the NFL has fined the Raiders $500,000,… Read More »
Two more opt out … A couple more college players have announced that they have opted out of the rest of the season and will be entering the 2021 draft. The duo are Syracuse FS Trill Williams and Grambling State OG David Moore. Both Williams and Moore, an FCS star who has already committed to attending the Senior… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemete has posted the latest edition of his weekly college football prospects review report featuring games from October 31st. Here is the full report.
Positional rankings updated … Please note that GBN Chief Scout Larry Parker and his staff have completed their mid-season revision of the positional rankings for the 2021 draft. The individual positions are available on the drop down menu above. Also note that an updated GBN Top 100 is set to be posted sometime in the next couple of… Read More »
College football updates … Mississippi State has confirmed the worst kept secret in college football that RB Kylin Hill has in fact officially opted out and has declared for the draft. The 5-10, 210-pound Hill, who ran for over 1,300 yards last season, is one of the top 5 or so backs available in the upcoming draft. At… Read More »
Trade deadline day fizzles … With a number of big name players being shopped, folks around the NFL were bracing for some fireworks. However, when whatever smoke was out there cleared, the day ended with a whimper rather than a bang. In fact, if it hadn’t been for Miami there wouldn’t have been any trading at all. The… Read More »
Election day!!! … We don’t get into PSA’s all that often, but today is one. If you haven’t done so already GET OUT AND VOTE!!
