Jags hire Rams exec Gladstone and new GM … After what may have been the most exhaustive search for a new GM in NFL history, Jacksonville has hired former LA Rams executive James Gladstone to replace Trent Baalke as the Jaguars new general manager. The 34-year-old Gladstone, who becomes the league’s youngest GM spent the last 9 years… Read More »
Article on ‘myths’ about drafting a QB … For those that have not seen it, Cleveland.com has an interesting piece by Tim Bielik this day entitled ‘Dispelling 3 Myths about Drafting a QB.’ The article is obviously aimed at Browns’ fans as Cleveland contemplates selecting a QB with the 2nd overall pick at the upcoming draft. And we’ve… Read More »
Looking ahead to potential 2026 impact position players … Following up on that earlier report on the potential 2026 QB draft class, we also took a little peak ahead to the players at several impact positions including DE/edge, WR and RB that may be available at next year’s draft. And while there are plenty of good players at… Read More »
HBCU Legacy star game set for weekend … The HBCU Legacy Classic, an all-star game featuring the top draft-eligible prospects from historically black universities and colleges will be played in New Orleans on Saturday with KO set for 4 PM ET with coverage on the NFL Network. Unfortunately, in recent years the black colleges have not had a… Read More »
NFL salary cap up big again … NFL teams were informed earlier today that there would be another big jump in the salary cap this year. In particular, teams were told that the salary cap for 2025 would be between $277.5M and $281.5M, up at least 22M, or 9%, from last year’s figure which in turn was up… Read More »
Looking ahead to 2026 QB class … It certainly appears that there is a growing consensus that this year’s QB crop is not as good as last year’s stellar group which saw 6 players at the position selected in the first dozen picks last April. And that has a lot of people, especially fans and media of QB… Read More »
Tag day in the NFL … Today is the first day that NFL teams can sign free agent-to-be players to either a franchise or transition tag. The window of opportunity to tag potential free agents runs for two weeks.Generally speaking players signed to a franchise tag can negotiate with other teams but if they sign their original team… Read More »
Path to the draft runs thru Indy … We made the point both when the NFL released the names of the players invited to next week’s scouting combine in Indianapolis, as well as in yesterday’s post listing some of the top prospects who were not invited this year, that simply who gets invited to the combine is crucial… Read More »
Buff star Hunter listed as CB for combine … Interesting development regarding Colorado star Travis Hunter who is being listed as a CB for the upcoming combine. Hunter, one of the top 2-3 prospects overall for the 2025 draft, was an all-American at both corner and WR this fall for the Buffalos and has indicated that he would… Read More »
Guess who’s not coming to dinner … or at least not invited to this month’s scouting combine in Indianapolis. One of the always interesting aspects of the NFL’s announcement of which players have been invited to the combine is which players did not get invites. Clearly, every year a certain number of players do get drafted who were… Read More »
NFL releases combine invite list … The NFL released the names of 329 players who have been invited to the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis later this month. The combine gets underway on February 24th and runs thru March 3rd. And who is on the list is a big deal because generally the large majority of players that… Read More »
QB Sanders to visit Browns, Giants … We are still several weeks away from when draft prospects can actually visit team facilities, but Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders reports that he has already scheduled visits with Cleveland and the NY Giants which hold the 2nd and 3rd picks respectively at the upcoming draft. While Sanders is expected to also… Read More »
New 3-round projection posted … We have been reluctant to post a new mock draft in large part because we felt that there was just too much uncertainty with the first 4 picks. However, upon further review, at least from a projection point of view, what could happen in the those initial picks this coming April, is in… Read More »
Season over, season begins … With Philadelphia’s impressive win over two-time defending champion Kansas City in last night’s Super Bowl in new Orleans, the 2024 season is now formally in the books. For the record, the Eagles will now have the 32nd pick in every round this coming April, while the Chiefs will have the 31st pick. There… Read More »
The Sanders spill a few draft tea leaves … Several comments by Deion and Shedeur Sanders in recent days may have left some potential draft related hints. Shedeur, the QB, indicated, for example, that he would be perfectly fine not being the #1 pick at the overall draft, while dad deion said he expects Shedeur to be selected… Read More »
Big Board updated, expanded … With the all-star games now in the books, the GBN Big Board for 2025 which, for the record, is now just over 75 days away, has been updated and expanded to include the top 200+ prospects overall for the upcoming draft. Again, we note that these are less our personal rankings of how… Read More »
Update on QB ranking … Just a quick update to our note in that earlier report today regarding the sense that Ole Miss QB Jackson Dart appears to have emerged as a clear QB3 in this year’s draft behind Miami’s Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders of Colorado. For starters, even though Dart appears to be the 3rd ranked… Read More »
Positional rankings updated … With the all-star games now in the books, we have updated the various positional rankings for the upcoming draft per the drop-down menu above. We also plan to post a fully updated Big Board either late tomorrow or early on Thursday. And while there aren’t necessarily a lot of truly major changes in the… Read More »
The Chiefs have a four-game winning streak against the Eagles, setting up a much-anticipated Super Bowl LIX clash with history on the line. The Chiefs’ dynamic offense, led by Patrick Mahomes, faces an Eagles’ defense crafted under Vic Fangio’s watchful eye. With each team boasting unique strengths and tactical ingenuity, you’ll witness a gridiron duel capable of reshaping… Read More »
Senior Bowl defensive line review … he defensive line in the Senior Bowl game was actually somewhat harder to review than the OL group, in large part because of some questions about level of competition. In particular, the National team defensive linemen, led by Arkansas SE Landon Jackson and Central Arkansas’ David Walker, were blowing past their American… Read More »
Senior Bowl offensive line review … We always start these things with the proviso that there has seldom been much of a direct correlation between which players at the Senior Bowl actually play well, which ones get drafted where, and which ones turn out to be good pros. That said, we thought it was pretty clear cut at… Read More »
Senior Bowl wraps; on to Indy … The Senior Bowl just ended in Mobile with the American team pulling out a dramatic 22-19 win when Memphis QB seth Henigan hit TCU WR Jack Bech with a 2-yard scoring play with no time left on the clock. For the most part, this game was generally dominated by the defensive… Read More »
QB Sanders has Shrine games best moment … He wasn’t even playing in Thursday night’s East-West Shrine game in Frisco, Texas, but Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders may have had the games best moment during an in-game interview on the NFL Network. When asked about his father Deion’s calls during some of the interviews, Sanders the younger laughed and… Read More »
Shrine game observations … Just finished re-watching last night’s East-West Shrine game in Dallas which was kind of a sloppy affair with 7 turnovers, multiple sacks, and way too many penalties for an all-star game that as pretty lop-sided to boot with the East team cruising to a 25-0 shutout win. Of course, as we have noted in… Read More »
Senior Bowl observations: Thursday morning report … The final practice session ahead of Saturday’s game just wrapped up in Mobile. And that likely means there is already a race to the airport among NFL personnel people. A couple of notes from this afternoon’s practice: both of QBs Jalen Milroe and Jaxson Dart, currently the #3 and 4 prospects… Read More »
