Wake WR/KR Dortch enters draft … Wake Forest redshirt sophomore WR and return ace Greg Dortch has announced that he will forego his final two years of college eligibility and enter the 2019 draft. Sunday he would enter the 2019 NFL Draft. Dortch isn’t all that big at 5-8, 170, but he has explosive quickness. This past season… Read More »
Cards keep top pick heading into final week; #2 still up for grabs … Arizona will head into the final week of the NFL regular schedule sitting on the #1 pick overall for the 2019 draft. And with a tough road date at Seattle to wrap up the year next week, the odds are looking pretty good that… Read More »
Cards have top pick heading into final week … Arizona will head into the final week of the NFL regular schedule sitting on the #1 pick overall for the 2019 draft. The Cardinals dropped to 3-12 with a loss to the LA Rams in a late afternoon game today. and with a tough road date at Seattle to… Read More »
Underclassmen in draft hits 1/2 century mark as Ole Miss TE enters draft … The unofficial GBN count of underclassmen indicating in one way or another that they will be entering the 2019 draft hit the half century mark earlier today when Mississippi junior TE Dawson Knox announced that he will be turning pro this winter. Know is… Read More »
Michigan QB, Duck OT to return … While those confirming planned departures to the NFL have dominated most of the news about underclassmen and the 2019 draft, there were a couple of major announcements of players opting to return to school for their senior seasons next fall. Michigan junior QB Shea Patterson, for example, has decided that he… Read More »
Bowl fest continues … The bowl preliminaries continue later today with four games on the docket. However, unlike almost all the earlier games which had very few legit prospects for the 2019 draft, each of Saturday’s games has at least one really good player that pro scouts are eager to check out one more time. Here’s a quick… Read More »
Two more bowl games this afternoon … There are a couple of more preliminaries on the bowl schedule this afternoon with Toledo and Florida International set to battle in the Bahamas Bowl at 12:30 PM ET, while BYU and Western Michigan will play in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise at 4 PM ET. Both games are… Read More »
Early bowl prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted some thoughts on players who caught his eye during the early bowl games.
MSU DT Simmons latest to enter draft … Mississippi State junior DT Jeffrey Simmons is the latest underclassman to announce that they will be entering the 2019 draft. Simmons is a rising star who has top 15-20 potential at the upcoming draft.
Bowl sched continues … The bowl schedule preliminaries continue later this evening with the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa between host South Florida and Marshall. GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has a quick preview of who to watch in tonight’s game here.
Cardinal OG Herbig going pro … Stanford OG Nate Herbig is the latest underclassman to have announced that they will be entering the 2019 draft. Herbig made the announcement via twitter last evening. The 6-3, 335-pound Herbig is currently ranked 5th on the GBN positional list and is considered to be a late second, early third day prospect… Read More »
LSU NT Alexander to enter draft … LSU junior NT Ed Alexander is the latest underclassmen to have announced that they will be entering the 2019 draft. Alexander has already reportedly left the team to prepare for the draft and will not participate in the Fiesta bowl when the Tigers play Central Florida. Alexander, at 6-2, 335, is… Read More »
UCLA OT enters draft; UA QB stays home … UCLA junior OT Andre James has become the latest underclassmen to indicate that he will be leaving school at the end of the current season in order to enter the 2019 draft. James is generally considered to be a third-day type prospect, but has some tools to move up… Read More »
Bonus coverage: bowl sched continues … The bowl schedule continues later this evening with the renewal of the storied rivalry between Ohio and San Diego State in the Frisco Bowl at 8 PM ET on ESPN. And for those Bobcat or Aztec fans, not to mention NFL scouts thinking ‘hey at least we get to spend a few… Read More »
Dynamic NIU edge rusher Smith enters draft … No surprise here, but just hours after his team’s bowl game, Northern Illinois junior DE Sutton Smith announced that he will be entering the draft. Smith is an odd size at just 6-0, 240 and likely will have to find a niche as a 3-4 edge rusher at the next… Read More »
Wolverine LB Bush; EMU DE Crosby enter draft … A couple of Michigan-based players have announced over the past 24 hours that they will be entering the 2019 draft. No surprise, for example, that star Michigan junior LB Devin Bush will be peddling his wares in the pro next year. Bush is somewhat undersized at just 5-11, 235,… Read More »
Is Mack back? Mom maybe knows best!! … There has been a bit of buzz swirling around the playoff bound Alabama program as to whether star junior MLB Mack Wilson will enter the upcoming draft or return for his senior season. There were hints last week that Wilson, likely one of the top 2-3 MLBs off the board… Read More »
Selection order updated … With the Monday night game in the books, the first-round selection order for the 2019 draft were it to be held this week has been updated here.
Bowl season gets back on track … After a couple of days off, the college bowl season gets a reboot later on Tuesday when resurgent Alabama-Birmingham takes on Northern Illinois in the Boca Raton Bowl at 7 PM ET Tuesday evening on ESPN. No question that the return of the UAB program has been one of the better… Read More »
OU DE Bledsoe in draft; Iowa QB Stanley out … No formal announcement per, se but Oklahoma junior DE Amani Bledsoe has accepted an invitation to the NFLPA Collegiate All-star game which puts him in the draft; as he has already graduated Bledsoe is eligible for all-star game play even if he is still technically a junior. At… Read More »
Buckeyes RB Weber enters draft … No big surprise here as Ohio State junior RB Mike Weber has announced that he will be entering the 2019 draft where he projects to be a late second or early third day prospect. The 5-9, 215-pound Weber ran for over 850 yards and 5 scores this past fall while splitting snaps… Read More »
49ers OT win vaults Cards back into top pick … As a result of San Francisco’s dramatic overtime win over Seattle earlier this evening, Arizona, which got thumped in Atlanta in an early afternoon game, will take over the #1 pick overall in the opening round selection order for the 2019 draft were it to be held this… Read More »
Ex-SDSU OT Roemer enters draft … Former San Diego State OT Tyler Roemer formally announced late last week that he would be entering the 2019 draft. The 6-7, 315-pound Roemer in fact appeared to be on the fast track to an NFL career when he was named a Freshman All-American two years ago; however, after starting 23 straight… Read More »
Top of selection order to be shuffled … Everything else being equal, once again there will be some reshuffling of the current selection order for the opening round of the 2019 draft. In particular, Atlanta, which would have the 4th pick overall were the draft held this week, will be hosting Arizona, which would have picked 2nd, in… Read More »
NFL reffing; mess in Oakland in crosshairs of Pigskin’s latest ‘Thinking Out Loud’ column … Somehow, amid all the early bowl games, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette found some time to comment on the state of NFL refereeing among others topics in the latest edition of his ‘Thinking Out Loud’ column.
