Top QB prospect dinged; said to be okay … Oregon junior QB Justin Herbert, the consensus top prospect at the position for the 2019 draft, is still undergoing tests on his throwing shoulder after being knocked out of Friday’s Civil War win over intra-state rival Oregon State. Herbert fell awkwardly on his right shoulder after being sacked late… Read More »
OU QB Murray to stick with baseball plan … for now … Oklahoma junior QB Kyler Murray, one of the 2-3 leading candidates for this year’s Heisman Trophy, confirmed during a Big XII conference championship presser that he still plans to follow through on his plan to move onto baseball at the end of the season. However, Murray… Read More »
First round selection updated … With the Monday nighter in the books, the selection order for the opening round of the 2019 draft has been updated.
Gator DB enters draft … Florida junior safety Chauncey Gardner-Johnson has announced via twitter that will be entering the 2019 draft. Gardner-Johnson, who is currently third on the team with a career-high 66 tackles, including nine for loss, along with two picks, is an interesting second-day prospect who came to Florida as a corner, but quickly found a… Read More »
Jags bench QB Bortles; QB becomes option with top pick … The Blake Bortles era in Jacksonville may have come to an end as he has been benched by the Jags in favor of veteran journeyman Cody Kessler for their game with Indianapolis this coming weekend. Its kind of a shocking development for the Jaguars who appeared to… Read More »
QB Finley, DE Allen head list of 9 new Senior Bowl acceptances … North Carolina State QB Ryan Finley and Boston College DE Zach Allen head the list of 9 new players the Senior Bowl has announced have accepted invitations to this year’s game in Mobile on January 26th. Finley is currently the 6th rated QB on the… Read More »
ASU WR Harry enters draft … Arizona State junior WR N’Keal Harry announced earlier today that he will forego his final year of eligibility and enter the 2019 draft. The 6-4, 220-pound Harry is projected to be a late first round pick this spring after hauling in 73 receptions for just over 1,000 yards and 9 TDs this… Read More »
Michigan DE Gary to enter draft … No big surprise here as Michigan defensive lineman Rashan Gary has reportedly announced that he will be entering the 2019 draft where he projected to be a top 5-10 prospect. The 6-4, 280-pound Gary, who has the kind of athleticism to blow up the combine, posted 44 tackles, including 3.5 sacks and… Read More »
FOX out; ABC in for 2019 draft coverage … The NFL’s experiment with prime time draft coverage will have a different set of characters this coming spring as the league has confirmed that ABC will replace FOX in providing network coverage of the event. Cable coverage by ESPN and the NFL Network will be unchanged and while ABC… Read More »
Top 5 picks unchanged … There are still a couple of games to go on the weekly NFL schedule, but after all 5 teams who came into the week sitting on a top 5 picks in 2019 lost earlier today, it does not appear as if there will be any changes in the early selection order for the… Read More »
Stamps, Redblacks set for 106th Grey Cup … It is championship Sunday in the Canadian league with the Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks set to duke it out for the CFL title in the 106th version of the Grey Cup game in Edmonton. Kick-off is slated for just after 6 PM ET with coverage in Canada on TSN… Read More »
Road to top pick still runs thru Frisco … The road to the top pick at the 2019 draft continues to run through San Francisco. Indeed, after playing three straight games with teams with top 5 picks, the 49ers, who would have the #1 pick were the draft held this week, will play 3-7 Tampa Bay, which currently… Read More »
Ole Miss WR Metcalf enters draft … One of the things to look for over the next few days is underclassmen from programs which did not qualify for a bowl announcing their intentions to enter the 2019 draft no that their season is done. Mississippi redshirt sophomore WR D.K. Metcalf got the ball rolling earlier today declaring for… Read More »
College football notes … For those that got caught up in Black Friday shopping rather than watch college football yesterday, another potential CFP playoff team bit the dust when Washington State lost the Apple Bowl to cross-state rival Washington 28-15 in a snowstorm. Indeed, with the loss the Cougars won’t even play in the PAC-12 conference title game… Read More »
Thanksgiving weekend prospects preview watch; Part Deux … Here’s a quick preview of who to watch in Saturday’s prime college football action including the really big BIG TEN contest between Michigan and Ohio State, which could be quite literally an elimination game for the CFP playoff. Enjoy.
Top OLB prospect headlines first batch of Senior Bowl acceptances … The Senior Bowl has announced the first group of 20 players who have accepted invitations to this year’s game in Mobile in January. Headlining this initial list is star Kentucky OLB Josh Allen, a potential mid-first-round draft pick, who is currently third in nation in 13 sacks.… Read More »
Pigskins weekly prospects review … Here’s an overview of 2019 draft prospects who caught GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s eye in last weekend’s college football action.
Thanksgiving college watch list … Here’s to a very happy and safe holiday weekend to everyone! And, of course, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without plenty of football. The headliners have always been the NFL’s Thursday games, but there are also a number of key college match-ups this weekend which will feature plenty of top prospects for the 2019… Read More »
First-round projection updated … Just in time for the holiday weekend, the GBN projection for the opening round of the 2019 draft has been updated, particularly given the shuffling of the selection order over the course of the past couple of weeks. Note, we are projecting that Oakland is trading incumbent starting QB Derek Carr somewhere, hence the… Read More »
Selection order updated … Often when you get one of those much anticipated match-ups of top teams as we had in tonight’s Monday nighter, it turns out to be a dud. However, all we can about tonight’s game between Kansas City and the L. A. Rams is WOW after the Rams held off the Chiefs 54-51 in the… Read More »
College playoff positioning heats up … Big week in college football coming up with the annual traditional Thanksgiving rivalry games on the schedule. And after another interesting week this past weekend in which just about all the teams still in contention for the 4-team CFP all held serve. Indeed, with just this week, plus next weekend’s conference championship… Read More »
Big Board; position rankings updated … While everyone waits for Monday Night’s big game between conference leaders Kansas City and the Rams in Los Angeles, the GBN Big Board and the positional rankings (see drop down menu above) have been updated and expanded. The big mover on the latest Big Board is Alabama junior DT Quinnen Williams who… Read More »
Race for top pick tightens up … Just when it looked like Oakland might have decided to tank the season in order to come away with the #1 pick at the 2019 draft, the Raiders rose up and knocked off Arizona on a last-second FG for their second win of the campaign. That leaves the Raiders, Cardinals and… Read More »
CFL to pick Grey Cup teams … While the NFL enters the home stretch to the regular season, the CFL is winding down to next week’s Grey Cup game in Edmonton with the league’s semi-final match-ups later this afternoon. In the East, Ottawa will host Hamilton at 1 PM ET, while the western final goes at 4:30 PM… Read More »
More shuffling of top of selection order to come … While most of the football world anxiously awaits tomorrow night’s titanic Monday night match-up of 9-1 teams between Kansas City and the Rams in Los Angeles, there should be some shuffling of the top of the selection order for the 2019 draft with a couple of games involving… Read More »
