Tide gets LT back; ILB wavering … In a bit of surprise Alabama LT Alex Leatherwood announced today that he will be returning to school for his senior season next fall. While he started all 13 games at LT this fall for the Tide, Leatherwood was projected to be selected somewhere near the end of this year’s opening… Read More »
Three more enter draft … Three more juniors have confirmed they will be entering the 2020 draft including Oklahoma ILB Kenneth Murray, Notre Dame TE Cole Kmet, and Florida Atlantic CB James Pierre. Murray is the top-rated ILB on the GBN positional ranking and the 19th overall prospect on the GBN Big Board after he lead the Sooners… Read More »
Ducks’ QB Herbert goes out winner; draft grade still fuzzy … No doubt one of the most polarizing players at the 2020 draft is going to be Oregon QB Justin Herbert who wrapped up his college career yesterday leading his Ducks’ to a 28-27 win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. Herbert was named the game’s MVP after… Read More »
Bruins TE to enter draft … UCLA junior TE Devin Asiasi has become the latest underclassmen to announce that he will be foregoing his final year of college eligibility and entering the 2020 draft. The 6-3, 250-pound Asiasi isn’t exactly a household name, but he is coming of a very productive season in which he hauled in 44… Read More »
Cowboys WR Wallace to stay in school … Its been an interesting draft-related day college football’s OSU programs. Just hours after Ohio State junior CB Jeff Okudah confirmed that he would be entering the 2020 draft, star Oklahoma State WR Tylan Wallace indicated that he will be returning to school for his senior season. Wallace was one of… Read More »
OSU CB Okudah enters draft … No big surprise here as Ohio State junior CB Jeff Okudah has confirmed that he will be entering the 2020 draft where he is projected to be one of the first 5 players off the board.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! … A very safe and prosperous New Year’s wish to everyone. Of course, if it is New Year’s Day it means football and there are four major college bowls on the schedule for today including two of the so-called NY6 games: the Rose and the Sugar Bowls. For the record, 6th ranked Oregon plays #8… Read More »
Four more enter draft … Four more juniors have announced within the past day or so that they will be entering the 2020 draft including Texas A&M WR Quartney Davis; RB Tony Jones and S Alohi Gilman of Notre Dame, and Penn State WR K J Hamler. The 5-9, 175-pound Hamler, who had 56 receptions in 2019 for… Read More »
Wake QB Newman to transfer; Ducks possible landing spot … It wasn’t all that long ago during this past season when there were whispers that Wake Forest junior QB Jamie Newman was one of THE players to watch for the 2020 draft. Newman confirmed today that he won’t be back at Wake next fall, but it won’t be… Read More »
Dorsey out as Browns’ G.M. … What is the old saying: the more things change the more they stay the same! Seems to be the case in Cleveland where the Browns will be starting over all over again with news that John Dorsey is out as general manager. Dorsey was told earlier today during a meeting with Browns’… Read More »
Selection order extended to three rounds … For the record, with the 2019 regular season now in the books, we now know – at least unofficially – the selection order for the first three rounds of the 2020 draft, at least for the non-playoff teams. For the playoff teams, the selection order will be determined by their post-season… Read More »
Tide LB Moses to stay in school … Prior to the season, Alabama junior MLB Dylan Moses was considered to be a fringe first-round prospect for the 2020 draft, however, he ended up missing the entire season after tearing an ACL late in fall camp. And rather than taking a chance on his status at the upcoming draft,… Read More »
Dolphins get pick upgrade … Miami got a little bit of good draft news as the season ended as the NFL confirmed that the conditional 6th round pick the Dolphins received from Arizona in exchange for RB Kenyon Drake has been upgraded to a 5th because Drake met the productivity goals set out in the original deal. The… Read More »
Tide’s Saban says only one Bama player top 15 prospect … Interesting story from this week’s Citrus Bowl where Alabama head coach Nick Saban said he has received draft grades from most NFL teams on the program’s draft-eligible underclassmen and that only junior QB Tua Tagovailoa received a grade higher than top 15 pick. In indicating that his… Read More »
Buckeye RB Dobbins enters draft … No big surprise here as Ohio State junior RB J.K. Dobbins has confirmed that he will be foregoing his final year of eligibility and entering the 2020 draft. The 5-10, 215-pound Dobbins, who ran for over 2,000 yards and 21 TDs this past fall, is currently the #4 back on the GBN… Read More »
JR 67s take first ever tournament … The Ottawa JR 67s Minor Bantam team, including GBN Editor Grumpy Lindsay’s eldest grandson, won their first ever out-of-town hockey tournament earlier today with a 4-2 upset of the host Toronto Marlboros in the final of Holiday Classic in Toronto. The 67s lost their opening game in the round robin, but… Read More »
OU WR Lamb, two others enter draft; two others stay … Big-play Oklahoma junior WR CeeDee Lamb, the Sooners’ best prospect for the upcoming draft, has confirmed that he will in fact be entering the 2020 draft where he is projected to be a top 5-10 prospect after catching 62 passes for over 1,300 yards and 14 scores… Read More »
Axe out on Black Monday … That didn’t take long as a number of teams have already made moves in the wake of the conclusion of the 2019 regular season. As expected, Washington has fired team president Bruce Allen after the Redskins finished the season at 3-13 and with the 2nd overall pick at the 2020 draft. There… Read More »
First-round selection order posted … With the 2019 regular schedule in the books, the selection order for the opening round of next April’s draft has been updated. Note that the first 20 picks are what they are, barring trades, whereas the final 12 selections are still to be determined based on playoff results.
Bengals on the clock; Redskins clinch second pick, Lions #3 … With this afternoon’s late games all but decided, the early picks at the 2020 draft have been pretty much decided. Despite winning their season finale over Cleveland, Cincinnati will have the 1st pick in this year’s draft, followed by Washington at #2, Detroit at #3, the Giants… Read More »
Tigers v Tigers for national college title … It will be the Tigers versus the Tigers on January 13th when defending champion Clemson plays LSU for college football’s national title in New Orleans. Clemson got their the hard way by overcoming an early 16-0 deficit to defeat Ohio State 29-23 in about as good a college football game… Read More »
Three Canes; two others latest to enter draft … Five more juniors have indicated over the past or so that they will be foregoing their final year of college eligibility and entering the 2020 NFL draft. Included in this group are three Miami players: RB DeeJay Dallas, CB Trajan Bandy and DE Jonathan Garvin. They will join junior… Read More »
Pigskins prospects review; early bowls edition … While we wait for today’s two CFP playoff bowls to kick off, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in some observations on who stood out and who didn’t in some of the earlier bowls.
College football semi-finals preview … Unfortunately, we’ve had some technical difficulties overnight and couldn’t get our preview of today’s CFL playoff semi-finals posted earlier. However, they should be too terrific games with plenty of top prospects for the 2020 draft in both the Peach and Fiesta Bowls later today. Here’s a quick preview of who we’ll be watching… Read More »
Bowl sched heats up with CFP playoffs loomimg … Just a couple of more sleep before Saturday’s ‘real’ post-season begins with the two national CFP playoff games. However, there is a full slate of 5 games on tap on Friday with at least a couple with some interesting draft prospects. Unfortunately, folks may have to go deep into… Read More »
