Wrist surgery sidelines Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly … Misfortune appears to have thrown Mississippi QB Chad Kelly yet another curveball as he reportedly had to undergo surgery yesterday to repair a ruptured ligament in his wrist. Kelly, who is the nephew of former Bills’ QB Jim Kelly had to abandon his pro-day workout at the school last… Read More »
We get around … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette recently sat down with Mike Cuomo of the Orange and Brown report to talk about Cleveland’s options at this month’s draft. Here is the full text!
Are Fournette, Trubisky still in play for #1? … There has been a bit of a stir around the NFL the past 24 hours or so after Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports suggested that Cleveland may be considering selecting LSU RB Leonard Fournette with the #1 pick overall at this month’s draft. Lord knows this draft needed a… Read More »
Bill, Jets work out top QB prospects … Both Buffalo and the New York Jets worked out a top QB prospect over the weekend. The Bills, for example, were in North Carolina yesterday to work out QB Mitch Trubisky. What made the Bills interest a little more intriguing is that team owner Terry Pegula was part of the… Read More »
New 3-round projection … We weren’t planning on posting any new mock drafts until perhaps just before the draft, but with the lack of any kind of buzz surrounding the upcoming draft, we thought we’d throw one out there just to spice things up a little. We only do so with the proviso that people remember – and… Read More »
Big Board tweaked … We will be posting a final ranking of the top 300-plus prospects for this month’s draft; in the meantime, though, we have tweaked the GBN Big Board with some of the latest intel. Also, please remember that the GBN Big Board reflect as much as possible what we are hearing as to how NFL… Read More »
Draft goes all in … On another quiet morning around the NFL, the big news of the day appears to be that U.S. Sports books will now be allowed to take bets on the draft. In the past, regulations prohibited domestic bookmakers from taking bets on events that don’t take place on the field, although offshore sportsbooks have… Read More »
Who’s hot; who’s not … We have noted that the run-up to this year’s draft has been unusually quiet; however, that doesn’t mean there isn’t necessarily any movement just beneath the surface. Indeed, if one listens really carefully, there rumblings out there about players on the rise and others who may end up going the other way come… Read More »
Pigskin’s top prospects ranking extended to 200 … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has extended his overall ranking of the top prospects for the 2017 draft from to 200 prospects. Note that Paul’s ranking is based on his own grading scale and may differ from the overall GBN Big Board which are based primarily on how we… Read More »
Guess who’s coming to dinner; Part III … With the pro day schedule winding up, the draft focus such as it is, shifts more to the ongoing private workouts and on-site visits for various prospects. And while there is hardly a one-to-one correlation between a team checking out a player and actually selecting him, the fact that multiple… Read More »
Sleeper TE prospect becomes free agent … The NFL has declared that Virginia Commonwealth basketball star turned TE Mo Alie-Cox is not eligible for the 2017 draft and in fact is a free agent free to sign with any team. Alie-Cox is not draft eligible because he is more than 4 years removed from high school and would… Read More »
LSU RB Fournette lighter, S Adams faster at LSU pro day … Still waiting for the full results of today’s LSU pro day, but among the highlights were the facts that star RB Leonard Fornette weighed in almost 12 pounds lighter than he was at the combine, as well as that FS Jamal Adams ran under 4.40 seconds… Read More »
LSU last of big pro days … Interesting that while Alabama effectively kicked off this year’s pro day schedule way back in early March, SEC rival LSU will effectively wrap up things up when the Tigers holds their pro day later today. And a big crowd of NFL personnel people is expected in Baton Rouge today as the… Read More »
Eagles trade for Raven’s vet DT … As we suggested in an earlier report today about how quiet everything around the NFL is, Philadelphia, which for the record is hosting this month’s draft, spiced things up a tad today when they acquired DT Timmie Jerignan from Baltimore in exchange for a swap of third round picks. The Ravens… Read More »
Its dead out there!!!! Indeed, anyone thinking that it has been a pretty quiet draft year so far wouldn’t be far wrong. Indeed, here we are three weeks and a bit from the first picks coming off the board at the 2017 draft and there is almost no buzz out there at all. last year, at this time,… Read More »
Romo retires; leaves Texans, Broncos in lurch … A day after being given permission to seek a new team for himself, Dallas QB Tony Romo took another route and announced his retirement with the intention of finding a job as a network color commentator. And Romo appears to be getting far from interest from the networks, with at… Read More »
Top 10 by positional rankings updated … GBN Investigative College Football Reporter Larry Parker has updated his positional rankings for this month’s draft; he’s also upped the number from the top 5 per to the top 10.
Tech QB Mahomes stays busy and other visit notes … We note in an earlier post that Texas Tech Patrick Mahomes, who has visits or workouts planned with 18 teams prior to the draft, may be the ‘most interesting man’ in the draft. In fact, the legend of Mahomes, or at least his itinerary, continues to grow. The… Read More »
Another snag for Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly … Mississippi QB Chad Kelly hoped to finally show his stuff in front of NFL personnel people at the team’s pro day today, but his day was cut short because of wrist injury. Kelly had planned to go through a scripted 45-throw workout, but had to cut things short after… Read More »
The ‘most interesting man in the draft’ … He’s not even a consensus first-round prospect for the upcoming draft, but Texas Tech QB Patrick Mahomes may be the most popular guy in the class. Mahomes had what is being described as a very impressive pro day today in Lubbock where he showed what is considered to be the… Read More »
Guess who’s coming to dinner … There is all kinds of stuff other than the pro days going on around the NFL with the draft now less than a month away. Cleveland, for example, worked out Clemson QB Deshaun Watson on Thursday and will host Mitch Trubisky for a workout on Friday as part of their local visits.… Read More »
Are Panthers-49ers talking trade for #2 pick … Our friends over at The Huddle Report are reporting that Carolina and San Francisco have talked about a deal involving a flip of the 2nd and 8th overall picks at next month’s draft. As far as we can tell nobody else in either the national or local press has picked… Read More »
4 weeks and counting … For those who keep track of these things the 2017 draft gets underway 4 weeks today. Hang in there guys!
Saints out of CB Butler talks … for now … New Orleans head coach Sean Payton confirmed this morning that the Saints will not extend an offer to New England restricted free agent CB Malcolm Butler. The Saints had what was reported to be a productive meeting with Butler earlier this month, Payton said the organization is unwilling… Read More »
CB ranking tweaked … You won’t get much argument from very many NFL personnel people that CB is the most talented, deepest position in the 2017 draft class. Indeed, it’s very possible that as many as 20 corners could go in the first three rounds of next month’s draft. However, there is still some fluidity in how the… Read More »
