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 »
Surprises in first NFL.com draft guru top 50 … Daniel Jeremiah, who has replaced Mike Mayock as the NFL Network’s primary draft analyst, has posted his first top 50 prospects overall for the 2020 draft for those that haven’t seen it already. And there are some real surprises in this list. Jeremiah, for example, has Auburn DT Derrick… Read More »
Rising Hoosier OT becomes Hawkeye … Former Indiana OT Coy Cronk, a rising prospect for the 2021 draft, is reportedly transferring to Iowa as a grad transfer. The 6-5, 325-pound Cronk ended up redshirting this past season after suffering a season-ending ankle injury in the 4th week of the schedule. Cronk, who is considered to be a potential… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile; Senior Bowl day one practice report … Things are starting to percolate at the Senior Bowl in Mobile as the players are preparing for the first of two days of full-pad practices. For the record, the North will be practicing at 1:30 PM ET later this afternoon, while the South team takes the field at… Read More »
Senior Bowl weigh-in notes … If there was a surprise at this morning’s weigh-in and measurement session at the Senior Bowl in Mobile it may be that there really weren’t all that many surprises. The QBs, for example, turned up pretty much as advertised, while there was some impressive size at both WR and the offensive line. Read… Read More »
Final total of underclassmen in draft down … The NFL has released its final list of underclassmen officially eligible for the 2020 draft. The official list includes 115 juniors and redshirt sophomores who have been granted entry to this year’s draft. (For the record, that’s the same number we had on our unofficial account, but our staff is… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile; Senior Bowl report day one … Things are starting to percolate at the Senior Bowl in Mobile as the players have been through this morning’s measurement session and are getting ready for this afternoon’s practices. And GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in with some stuff he is picking up this morning in his… Read More »
Senior Bowl measurement numbers … Courtesy of Scott Wright over at NFL Draft Countdown, here are the height, weight and other measurement data from the Senior Bowl weigh-in this morning.
LSU CB Fulton withdraws from Senior Bowl … Just a quick note from Mobile where the players at the Senior Bowl are preparing to go through the measurement gauntlet. LSU CB Kristian Fulton, one of the top-rated prospects expected to be in Mobile this week, has opted not to participate after playing in last week’s national championship game.… Read More »
