NDSU OT Radunz confirms opt out … North Dakota State OT Dillon Radunz, one of the rising stars of the 2021 draft class, has confirmed that he will not be playing the rest of the Bison schedule when it resumes in the spring. Instead, like teammate QB Trey Lance, he will opt out and start prepping for the… Read More »
Weird, woeful NFC East featured on Thursday nighter … How weird is the NFC East this year. Figure it this way. The NY Giants are in Philadelphia tonight to play the Eagles in the weekly Thursday night game on the NFL Network. With a win the Giants can move into a technical tie for the division lead. With… Read More »
Updated 1st round projection posted … The 2021 GBN first-round projection has been updated. Again, please note that the primary objective with a mock at this time of year is not to try and predict which player which particular team will select next April. Rather the goal here is to give folks some idea, based on the latest… Read More »
Jets make 2nd future trade of week … It’s still not a full-blown housecleaning, but the NY Jets, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, made a 2nd trade this week involving a veteran for a future pick. The Jets have reportedly sent OLB Jordan Willis to San Fransisco in exchange for a 6th round pick in 2022. To… Read More »
Dolphins to start Tua … In a little bit of a surprising move at this time, Miami has announced that rookie Tua Tagovailoa, the 5th player selected at the 2020 draft, will take over as the Dolphins’ QB. Surprising because the Dolphins are coming off a three-TD win over the Jets last weekend with veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick at… Read More »
Two top RBs, WR opting out … Another trio of intriguing prospects for the 2021 draft will not be playing this fall. There are reports, for example, that Penn State junior RB Journey Brown, one of the top emerging prospects at the position for the upcoming draft, could miss the upcoming season with an undisclosed medical condition. Brown… Read More »
Jets trading NT to Bucs for future pick … Hard to know whether its the beginning of a major house cleaning, but the 0-6 New York Jets, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, have reportedly agreed to trade veteran NT Steve McLendon to Tampa Bay in exchange for what is being reported as a 6th round pick in… Read More »
Top pick stay in the Big apple; shifts to Jets … Given the chance to move into the #1 pick at the 2021 draft, at least for this week, the NY Jets left little to chance as they fell behind 21-0 at the half in Miami before finally losing 24-0 to drop to 0-6. That leaves the Jets… Read More »
Mr. Irrelevent no more!! … We won’t know which team will have the #1 pick, at least for this week, until after the late afternoon games after both the NY Giants and Atlanta, who had the 1st and 2nd picks respectively coming into the week, both got their first wins of the season. The Jets will end up… Read More »
Draft order faces almost certain shuffle … Its almost a guarantee that there will be some shuffling at the top of the current if the draft were held this week selection order for the 2021 draft. The NY Giants, who would have the #1 pick were the draft held today, for example, will be at home to division-rival… 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 3rd. Here is the full report.
Star FCS ER opts out … Northern Iowa DE Elerson Smith, one of the top FCS prospects in the 2021 draft, has decided to opt out and enter the draft. Smith had stated earlier this year that he was entering the transfer portal when NIU’s conference postponed it’s season to the spring, presumably with the intent to transfer… Read More »
SEC takes another covid hit; Saban out … For those that hadn’t heard, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, one of the most successful coaches in college football history, will miss Saturday’s big SEC clash between his 2nd ranked Tide and 3rd ranked Georgia after testing positive for covid-19. Fortunately, Saban reports he is asymptomatic so far, but he… Read More »
Titans trade disgruntled LB Correa to Jags … Tennessee has traded unhappy OLB Kamalei Correa to Jacksonville in a deal that involves a couple of 2021 draft picks. The Titans gets a 6th round pick next year, while the Jaguars get a 7th to complete the trade.
Injured SU S Cisco to enter draft … Syracuse safety Andre Cisco, one of the top prospects at the position for the 2021 draft, has indicated that he will be entering the upcoming draft despite suffering a torn ACL earlier this month. We also didn’t note it earlier, but when the Mid-American Conference made it’s decision to go… Read More »
Giants Report: Anatomy of a wasted off-season … The fact that the Giants are 0-5 and sitting on the #1 pick overall in the proverbial first-round selection order for the upcoming draft were it to be held this week, is distressing enough. What makes it harder to take is that the Giants looked to be in great shape… Read More »
SEC cancels second game this week … The SEC has formally postponed Saturday’s game between #10 Florida and defending national champion LSU after the Gators had 19 players test positive for COVID-19. The game has been tentatively rescheduled for December 12th, the league’s built-in bye week before its title game. It’s the second the SEC game has bumped… Read More »
Bolts move up to 4th pick after OT loss … The LA Chargers were close again this week, but once again came up on the short end of the score losing in overtime to New Orleans. As a result, the Chargers dropped to 1-4 and moved up to the #4 pick in the proverbial if the draft were… Read More »
Star SU S Cisco, SMU WR Roberson both done for year … A couple of top prospects for the 2021 draft have been ruled out for the rest of the year with knee injuries suffered earlier this month. Syracuse, for example, that SS Andre Cisco, one of the top 2-3 safety prospects this year, will miss the rest… Read More »
Top three picks unchanged; #2 Falcs clean house … The three teams that came into the week sitting on the top 3 picks at the 2021 draft were it held this week all lost earlier today meaning there won’t be any change at the top of this year’s selection order, at least for this week. For the third… Read More »
Pats-Broncos postponed again … The pandemic continues to mess with the NFL schedule with tomorrow evening’s rescheduled game between Denver and New England having been postponed once again in the wake of another Patriots positive COVID-19 test. So far, there has been no announcement of when that game will be rescheduled, but there are reports that it could… 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 3rd. Here is the full report.
Giants report: Thoughts on the Barkley pick … Over the past few weeks we’ve received a bunch of emails from Giants fans asking if we think the season-ending knee injury suffered by Saquon Barkley is the final proof that taking him with the 2nd pick overall in 2018 was a big mistake. To paraphrase the apparent thinking ‘sure… Read More »
Covid continues to mess with football … It looks like the Covid pandemic is going to mess up more schedules than that for the presidential debates. In college football, Baylor has announced that is has suspended all football-related activities to allow for further evaluation of recent positive tests and the completion of close contact tracing. The program did… Read More »
Note to Giants fans from a seventies survivor!!! … With the Giants stumbling out of the gate once again this fall – they’d have the #1 pick overall were the 2021 draft held this week – we’ve had a lot of emails from the team’s faithful asking if we would think about reinstating the old Giants Report to… Read More »
