USU LB banned from combine field tests … According to the NFL Network, Utah State OLB Tipa Galeai will not be permitted to take part in on-field drills or media interviews at the scouting combine later this month in Indianapolis because of a past misdemeanor assault charge. Galeai is a bit of a late-round sleeper for this year’s… Read More »
Bolts officially part ways with long-time QB Rivers … The Los Angeles Chargers confirmed the NFL’s worst kept secret earlier today when the team formally announced that they have mutually parted ways with veteran QB Philip Rivers after 16 seasons. The 38-year-old Rivers now becomes an unrestricted free agent able to sign with any team once the new… Read More »
Late star game notes … While the scouting combine is now less that two weeks away, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette still can’t get last month’s all-star games including the Senior Bowl out of his thoughts. Here are some late thoughts from those games courtesy of Pigskin.
Tua passes latest medical test … According to several published reports, the three-month follow-up Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa had after he underwent season-ending hip surgery in October was “as positive as possible.” The report also indicated that Tagovailoa could be cleared for football activities in about a month, meaning he’s already been ruled out of on-field testing at… Read More »
Giant draft principles … The 2020 draft, which is shaping up to be one of the most important in NY Giants history, is now less than 75 days away. In fact, the annual scouting combine gets underway in just a couple of weeks. Needless to say with the Giants sitting on the 4th pick overall, we’ve had a… Read More »
Combine snubs … Every year it seems that there are some shocking snubs from the list of players invited to the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis. And its the same story this year, to a degree; however, it doesn’t feel there is quite the same number of big name snubs this year. Arguably the top prospects snubbed by… Read More »
Combine list revealed … The NFL has released the list of 337 players that will be in Indianapolis later this month for the annual scouting combine. Here is the full list by position. The combine gets underway on February 23rd with the on-field drills set to get underway on the 27th.
Former Cardinal QB Costello to Mississippi State … This should be interesting. Former Stanford QB K.J. Costello has confirmed that he has transferred to Mississippi State where he will be eligible immediately as a grad transfer. With SEC West Bulldogs, Costello will be paired with new Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach who brought his wide-open offense from… Read More »
Jags add vet NFL exec Baalke to personnel department … Jacksonville has announced that the team has hired long-time NFL exec Trent Baalke as their new director of player personnel. Baalke spent the past couple of years working for the league, but prior to that was G.M. of San Francisco for 6 years during which time he was… Read More »
Hail to the Chiefs … Belated congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs from the great state of Missouri after they won this year’s Super Bowl with a 31-20 comeback win over San Francisco last evening. And with the Super Bowl in the books, the selection order for the first three rounds of the 2020 draft is now set… Read More »
QB draft talk … Not sure if in the end it will change anything, but there have been some interesting public statements by and about the top QB prospects for the 2020 draft. LSU’s Joe Burrow, the presumptive #1 pick at this year’s draft, for example, was quoted on the Dan Patrick radio program yesterday that he wanted… Read More »
Dolphins’ QB Fitzgerald to return … After briefly contemplating retirement, Miami QB Ryan Fitzpatrick has confirmed that he will return for the upcoming season which will be his 16th. The Dolphins, of course, are still expected to select a QB with an early pick at the 2020 draft. However, and having Fitzpatrick, who led Miami to a rather… Read More »
Texans, Browns make front-office moves … The Texans have given coach Bill O’Brien the general manager’s title earlier this week. O’Brien, in fact, has been the Texans de facto general manager since former G.M. Brian Gaine was fired in June. At the same time, the Texans also promoted promoted executive vice president of team development Jack Easterby to… Read More »
QBs, OTs, WRs headline early look at top prospects for 2021 … When people think ahead to the 2021 draft, they rather naturally start thinking about star QBs Trevor Lawrence of Clemson and Ohio State’s Justin Fields, neither of whom was eligible to enter this year’s draft. Lawrence, of course, has been the presumptive favorite to be the… Read More »
Bad day for Big Uglies … Saturday’s Senior Bowl game turned out to be a long day for many of the offensive linemen in play. It was even a tough day for the some of the top-rated OL in this year’s game who we were hoping to see more from. Here’s the full report for the offensive linemen… Read More »
GBN Big Board tweaked … With the all-star games all now in the books, as well as other breaking trends, the GBN Big Board ranking of the top 150 overall prospects for the 2020 draft, as well as several positional group rankings, have been updated. Among the most notbale moves, LSU C Lloyd Cushenberry is now the the… Read More »
Browns hire Berry as new G.M. … Once again, Cleveland has a new front office as the Browns have confirmed hiring former team exec Andrew Berry as the team’s new G.M. and Executive V.P. of Football Ops. Berry had spent the 2016-2018 seasons as the Browns’ Vice President of Player Personnel before taking a similar post with Philadelphia… Read More »
QBs on parade at Senior Bowl … The 2020 Senior Bowl wrapped up yesterday with the North winning rather easily 34-17. The difference in the game was that the North edge rushers led by DEs Brad Anae of Utah, Syracuse’s Alton Robinson and Josh Uche of Michigan simply dominated their OT counterparts and just didn’t give the South… Read More »
Senior Bowl set to KO … The Senior Bowl kicks off in just under an hour at 2:30 PM ET in Mobile with TV coverage provided by the NFL Network. For some reason, this year in posting the rosters of the two teams, the Senior Bowl has not included the players’ numbers, which makes them kind of useless… Read More »
QB Herbert; DT Kinlaw headline Pigskin’s all-Senior Bowl practice squad … Picking the best players from only three practice sessions at all all-srta game such as the Senior Bowl can be a tad daunting, but GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette was up to the challenge as he has posted his star squad from this year’s practices after… Read More »
Senior Bowl day day three practice report … With the third and final day of practice at the Senior Bowl now in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guilemette has posted his observations on who stood out and who didn’t from the second day of practice in full pads yesterday here.
Good week for QBs at Senior Bowl … Here is a pretty good review of the how the 6 Senior Bowl QBs performed this week in Mobile and how that might impact their standing for the 2020 draft courtesy of CBS Sports. The major takeaways are that Justin Herbert of Oregon had a solid week of practice that… Read More »
Senior Bowl practice reviews starting to leak out … The lights have pretty much gone out in Mobile as just about anybody who is anybody in the sport hightailed it out of town as the curtain came down on the final practice earlier this afternoon. Fact is, very few NFL types hang around for Saturday’s actual game; they’ll… Read More »
Senior Bowl day day two practice report … With the third and final day of practice at the Senior Bowl underway as we speak, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guilemette has posted his observations on who stood out and who didn’t from the first full practices in full pads yesterday here.
Dolphins GM talks Tua, draft trade … Normally, when NFL execs have their almost mandatory talks with the media at events like this week’s Senior Bowl they say a whole lot of nothing. Miami GM Chris Grier, though, was a little more forthcoming than usual at his presser yesterday evening. On the one hand, Grier seemed to indicate… Read More »
