No’ love’ for Bonus coverage … Updating our earlier report (see below) on Stanford RB Bryce Love, the Cardinal just announced that their star RB will not play in tonight’s nationally televised game against Oregon State (9PM ET; ESPN). For those that don’t follow college football all that closely, maybe the best player in the country that nobody… Read More »
Bolts get conditional Bears late pick for vet WR … Chicago has acquired a conditional 7th round pick at the 2018 draft from the Los Angeles Chargers in exchange for WR Dontrelle Inman. The conditional aspect of the pick is believed to be tied to the player’s production this fall. Inman had just 2 receptions for the Chargers… Read More »
Kizer back at QB – again – for Browns … Cleveland has re-instated rookie QB DeShone Kizer as the starter for the team’s game this Sunday against Minnesota in London. Kizer was benched for the second time this season in this past weekend’s overtime loss in Tennessee after he turned the ball over on successive series. Kizer was… Read More »
Hogs’ C Ragnow done for year … Arkansas All-American C Frank Ragnow, a second-day prospect for the 2018 draft, will miss the rest of the year with an ankle injury. Ragnow, who is rated as the 4th best prospect at the position in the latest GBN rankings, suffered a severe high ankle sprain in the first quarter of… Read More »
Offensive positional rankings posted … With the college football season now past the mid-point, the first official GBN positional rankings have been posted for the offensive positions including: QB, RB, FB, WR, TE, OT, OG, and C.
SC QB Darnold dinged – in more ways than one – in thumping loss to Irish … Going into Saturday’s big national TV game at Notre Dame, Southern California redshirt sophomore QB Sam Darnold, who entered the season as the consensus favorite to be the first player selected at the 2018 draft, but has had his ups and… Read More »
More QB issues for Browns … If Cleveland does in fact end up with the #1 pick overall at the 2018 draft there is a very good chance that the Browns will be looking at QBs. At the start of the season, the Browns thought they may have found their QB of the future in DeShone Kizer whom… Read More »
Browns, 49ers, Giants still -1-2-3 in weekly selection order … There are still a couple of games to go to wrap up the week, but we can confirm already that there will be no changes to the first half dozen picks when the weekly ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the… Read More »
College sched heats up; who to watch this weekend … After several rather blasé weeks on the college football docket, the season starts to heat up this weekend as the season passes the midway point. And the biggest games on this weekend’s schedule are in South Bend and Happy Valley as Notre Dame hosts Southern California in their… Read More »
Dallas to host 2018 draft … NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced earlier today that Dallas will host the 2018 draft at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas next April 26th to 28th. This will be the first time the draft will be held at an actual NFL stadium. Its also the 4th year that the draft has been on… Read More »
Star Cal LB Downs out for year … California’s huge upset win over 8th ranked Washington State last weekend came at a cost as the Bears’ star MLB Devante Downs, one of the most productive defensive players in the country, will miss the rest of the year with what is being described as a ‘lower-body injury’. The 6-2,… Read More »
Husky LT out for year with ACL … Washington junior LT Trey Adams, who had been considered a potential first-round prospect for the upcoming draft, will miss the rest of the season after tearing an ACL in the Huskies upset loss to Arizona State this pat weekend. The 6-7, 327-pound Adams, a first-team All-Pac-12 selection in 2016, reportedly… Read More »
4th pick on the line in Monday nighter … Want to know how wacky the NFL season has been to date. Look no further than tonight’s Monday night game in which 2-3 Tennessee hosts 2-3 Indianapolis. The winner of tonight’s game takes over first place in the AFC South, while the loser will end up sitting on the… Read More »
Pigskin posts GBN college Top 10 … With the college football season essentially at the mid-point, the road to the national playoff is starting to take shape, although after this past weekend’s craziness in which 4 top ten teams were upset suggests just about anything can still happen. With all that in mind, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul… Read More »
Trojans rally for big win despite QB Darnold struggles … Southern California kept alive its national playoff hopes rallying from a 21-7 deficit to defeat previously unbeaten Utah 28-27 when the Utes failed to convert a two-point conversion in the game’s dying seconds. Despite the win it was not a particularly memorable outing for USC redshirt sophomore QB… Read More »
Friday the 13th upsets jumble NFP picture … For those that went to bed early last night just hoping to survive another Friday the 13th, college football’s national playoff picture got turned on its head by a couple of huge upsets last evening. Indeed, for much of the year, the race to the national championship game has looked… Read More »
Another interesting weekend on college football docket … Another week in which there is no true national marquee match-ups on the college football schedule, but there’s still plenty to see this weekend, especially with an eye toward the 2018 draft. As usual, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted his weekly picks of the games he’ll be… Read More »
How’d we get here?? … As a long-time Giants’ fan/analyst we have, not surprisingly, been inundated with emails from other Giants’ followers asking how it came to be the the team is 0-5. There’s no simple answer, though, we do have some thoughts that are likely a little off the beaten path. More in the Giants Report.
Browns bench QB Kizer; Hogan to start … In the wake of an 0-5 start to the season, Cleveland has confirmed that third-year pro Kevin Hogan will start this weekend against Houston in place of rookie DeShone Kizer. Kizer won the Browns’ starting gig with a strong fall camp, but he has struggled to date completing just 51%… Read More »
Cards get RB Peterson from Saints for conditional pick … Arizona has acquired veteran RB Adrian Peterson, one of the NFL’s best ever backs, from New Orleans for what is being reported as a conditional 6th round pick in 2018. So far, the conditions remain undisclosed but are believed to relate to Peterson’s productivity with the Cardinals this… Read More »
Bolts win; three stay winless in race to top pick … In our view, its still a tad early to be posting the draft order for the 2018 draft; we normally like to wait until every team has at least 5 games in the books which will happen next week. However, while its still early in the campaign,… Read More »
Big upset in early college football … The national playoff landscape in college football may have shifted dramatically after Iowa State came from 14 down to shock 3rd ranked Oklahoma 38-31 right in Norman. That breaks an 18-year losing streak for the Cyclones against the Sooners. And they did it with a 3rd string QB – senior Kyle… Read More »
Top prep recruit commits to Dawgs … QB Justin Fields, the consensus top-rated high school recruit in the country, has confirmed that he will be attending Georgia next year. The 6-3, 220-pound Fields, who hails from Kennesaw, Georgia, is thought by more than one observer, to be the best overall prep prospect to come along in a while,… Read More »
Bonus coverage … Interesting game on the NFL Thursday night schedule as the suddenly .500 New England Patriots (2-2) play at 2-1 Tampa Bay (8:25 PM ET; CBS). Across the dial, there is also a potentially intriguing match-up on the college docket as #17 Louisville (4-1) plays at resurgent North Carolina State (4-1), which is ranked 24th. And… Read More »
Couple more college injury updates … LSU junior RB Derrius Guice will play this Saturday when the struggling Tigers play at Florida, but it will only be in a limited capacity because of a lingering knee issue. Guice, who had been considered to be a top 10 prospect at the start of the season, has been in and… Read More »
