UM DE Gary out for Badgers … Michigan DE Rashan Gary, a top 5-10 prospect for the 2019 draft, is not in uniform for tonight’s game against Wisconsin because of a shoulder injury. In fact, it is the second week in a row that Gary has not played as he also missed last week’s win over Maryland. According… Read More »
Pigskin’s prospects’ review and preview posted … With a little over 15 hours until college football Saturday kicks off, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted both his weekly prospects review column in which he highlights players who caught his eye last weekend, along with a preview of prospects to watch in this week’s games.
Tide CB down for year; other college injury notes … Alabama has now confirmed that star junior CB Trevon Diggs, the brother of Vikings’ WR Stefon Diggs, will be out for the rest of the season because of the broken foot he incurred Saturday in the Tide’s win over Arkansas. Diggs will undergo surgery later this week and… Read More »
Tide CB Diggs out indefinitely with foot injury … Not much has gone wrong for top-ranked Alabama so far this fall, however, the Tide did take something of a hit this past weekend when junior CB Trevon Diggs, a potential second-day pick at the 2019 draft if he were to opt to turn pro, suffered a broken foot… Read More »
Safety rankings posted … The staff warmed up for tonight’s Monday nighter by finishing off the safety ranking for the upcoming draft.
We are #1 … The NY Giants came into the week sitting way down at the 8th pick in the proverbial if the draft were held this week selection order for the opening round of the 2019, but due to a series of odd developments they come out of the weekend sitting on the first pick overall, at… Read More »
Cards-Niners to shake up early selection order … We’ll be posting the first full ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the upcoming draft at the conclusion of this weekend’s games. And there could very well be some movement in the top 5 in today’s action as Arizona, the NFL’s last remaining… Read More »
Neck injury ends career of Canes’ WR Richards … It wasn’t all good news at Miami today where the Hurricanes rallied from a 20-point deficit to defeat Florida State 28-27 in a rivalry game earlier this afternoon as afterwards the program announced that star junior WR Ahmmon Richards’ football career is over because of a neck injury. Richards… Read More »
Pigskin’s prospects preview … With another intriguing day of college football on the horizon, here’s who GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s will be watching with an eye toward the upcoming draft.
College prospect injury update … There are updates on a couple of injury situations involving top prospects for the 2019 draft we have been following. Stanford RB Bryce Love is listed as questionable for Saturday’s game with Utah because of a lingering ankle injury. Love has actually been dealing with the injury much of the year, but it… Read More »
Youth could be served in this CB class … What’s the old phrase? ‘Youth will be served’ or some such holds true in the initial GBN CB rankings (posted here) as redshirt sophomores Greedy Williams of LSU and Washington’s Byron Murphy are rated 1st and 3rd overall respectively at the position. Of course, if either of those two… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly college football prospects review … With the fifth full weekend of the college season now in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in with some observations about players who caught his eye this week.
LB rankings posted … The GBN positional rankings have been updated for both the ILBs and OLBs for the 2019 draft.
DL rankings posted … The consensus around the NFL is that 2019 will be the ‘year of the defensive lineman’ at the upcoming draft. On the one hand, DE is loaded with Ohio State’s Nick Bosa currently rated as the consensus #1 prospect overall, while Clemson’s Clelin Ferrell and Rashan Gary of Michigan also both have top 10… Read More »
Irish G/T Bars out for year … Notre Dame’s big win over Stanford on Saturday evening came with a cost as the Irish announced this morning that veteran 5th year G/T Alex Bars, one of their team captains this year, will miss the rest of the year after tearing both an ACL and MCL in the game. The… Read More »
Cards NFL’s last winless team; hold #1 pick for another week … After losing 20-17 to Seattle in a late afternoon game, Arizona is the NFL’s last remaining winless team. The Cardinals came into the week as one of three winless teams, but both Houston and Oakland got off the schneid with overtime wins over Indianapolis and Cleveland… Read More »
Super weekend on college sched … After a couple of relatively quiet weeks, the college football schedule really heats up this weekend with as many as five games involving teams ranked in the top 25. In fact, there are a couple of games involving Top 10 teams when #4 Ohio State plays at #9 Penn State in what… Read More »
Who’s#4??? … As noted in a post earlier this week, the sample size is still a bit too small to be posting the full first-round selection order for the opening round of the 2019 draft as it stands this week. However, were the draft to be held this week, the league’s three remaining winless teams would pick 1-2-3… Read More »
Possible big draft year for redshirt sophs … After putting together his first opening round projection of the year earlier this week, it occurred to GBN Investigative College Football Analyst Larry Parker that there could be an unusually large number of redshirt sophomores entering the upcoming draft. Here’s his full thought as well as some of the leading… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly college football prospects review … With the fourth full weekend of the college season now in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in with some observations about players who caught his eye this week.
Star SDSU RB out 6 weeks, will return in 2019 … Emerging San Diego State junior RB Juwan Washington, the 4th leading rusher in college football this fall, will reportedly miss the next 6 weeks after fracturing a clavicle in the Aztecs’ win over Eastern Michigan on Saturday. Washington, who was on pace to run for over 1,800… Read More »
Bosa, Oliver 1-2 in GBN analyst mock … With the 2019 draft 7 months away pretty much to the day, GBN Investigative College Analyst Larry Parker has posted his first mock for the upcoming first-round. And while neither of Parker’s first two picks – Ohio State DE Nick Bosa and Houston DT Ed Oliver – are any big… Read More »
Tiger QB to transfer … Instability is not supposed to be a trademark of the #3 team in the country, but things have been fast and furious at Clemson this week with veteran QB Kelly Bryant announcing earlier this morning that he will be leaving the program and transferring to another FBS school after being replaced by freshman… Read More »
Bills get future Panthers’ pick for vet OT Newhouse … Buffalo has acquired what is being reported as a conditional 7th round pick in 2021 from Carolina in exchange for veteran RT Marshall Newhouse.
The Meek shall inherit the NFL earth … Or some such biblical interpretation after an NFL weekend which saw several major upsets. No upset was bigger than in Minnesota where Buffalo, a 17-point underdog who appeared to enter the game on the fast track to the first pick overall at the 2019, rolled over what many consider to… Read More »
