On to Indy … With the Senior Bowl now in the books, there will be a little down time for personnel people around the NFL before scouting staffs get back together to start to put together their preliminary boards before next month’s scouting combine in Indianapolis. We are still on the job here at the GBN, though, and… Read More »
Colts hire new G.M. … Indianapolis has hired Kansas City Director of Player Personnel Chris Ballard as the team’s new General Manager. Ballard replaces Ryan Grigson who was fired after five seasons on January 21st.
Senior Bowl set to kickoff … Its Senior Bowl Saturday in Mobile with the actual game set to kick-off just after 2:30 PM ET later this afternoon. The NFL Network will provide TV coverage. And for a slightly different flavor, our pigskin Paul Guillemette will be doing the color commentary/expert analysis on WNSP radio in Mobile. You can… Read More »
Pigskin’s Senior Bowl all-practice team … Its a day off for players at the Senior Bowl as they rest up for tomorrow’s actual game in Mobile. And with a night to sleep on it, here is our Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s Senior Bowl all-practice team.
Dispatches from Mobile: Thursday practice … Most of the NFL scouting and personnel community cleared out of Mobile literally minutes after the South practice end late this afternoon, but our Pigskin Paul Guillemette is still on the job and posts this report on Thursday’s practice sessions.
First impressions from Thursday North practice … Another crisp North practice this afternoon under what looked like delightful weather conditions. Our Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be back with his full report from today’s action in Mobile. For now, though, here some observations from today’s North practice gleaned from TV coverage.
To QB or not to QB; Browns’ dilemma … Maybe he was just stating the obvious, but Cleveland head coach Hue Jackson acknowledged at his post-practice interview at the Senior Bowl in Mobile that the #1 priority of the Browns this off-season is to improve at QB. What Jackson wasn’t able to say though was when and how… Read More »
Dispatches from Mobile; Wednesday edition (s) … Today was the real thing at the Senior Bowl in Mobile as the players from both teams went through the first of two days of full-pad practices. Our Pigskin Paul Guillemette files this report from on the ground in Mobile, while Grumpy Lindsay weighs in with his impressions of which players… Read More »
Small-school guys star at Senior Bowl weigh-in … Overall, the results from Tuesday morning’s measurement session at the Senior Bowl in Mobile weren’t particularly impressive. And the exclamation point on the whole business may be that the two guys who had NFL personnel people talking were players from small schools. Read more
Senior Bowl posts weigh-in numbers … Good job Senior Bowl! For the first time, the good folks that run the Senior have actually published the height/weight and other related data from this morning’s measurement session. Here are the numbers for the North team and the South team.
Senior Bowl underway in Mobile … Its that time of year again as the Senior Bowl in officially underway in Mobile. As we speak, the players are being measured and weighed. Courtesy of Draftwire.com here are the running heights and weights of the players in Mobile. Hopefully we’ll get and analyze the other data that gets collected at… Read More »
Shrine game report: offensive line … Not surprisingly, in a game that ended in a 10-3 score with the only TD coming in the 4th quarter, the offensive lines at the East-West Shrine game in St. Petersburg were hardly blowing people off the line of scrimmage. The OTs, in particular, really struggled at times, and while the interior… Read More »
Shrine game report: defensive line … Good thing that NFL teams put a whole lot more stock in all-star game practices that they do in the actual game, because Saturday’s East-West Shrine game in St. Petersburg was kind of a dismal event that ended in a 10-3 win for the West. It was also ‘dismal’ in the sense… Read More »
Good thing that NFL teams put a whole lot more stock in all-star game practices that they do in the actual game, because Saturday’s East-West Shrine game in St. Petersburg was kind of a dismal event that ended in a 10-3 win for the West. It was also ‘dismal’ in the sense that there were very few individual… Read More »
Pack to pick 29th; Pitt 30th … As a result of losses in today’s conference championship games, Green Bay will have the 29th pick overall in the opening round of the 2017 draft selection order, while Pittsburgh will have the 30th pick. Meanwhile, the final two selections, the 31st and 32nd will go Atlanta and New England, the… Read More »
Colts fire G.M. … Indianapolis has fired general manager Ryan Grigson. Grigson had been in the job for five years and was under contract for three more years as is head coach Chuck Pagano. The move immediately set off speculation that former Colts’ HOF QB Peyton Manning could be the Colts’ target going forward, although Manning denied any… Read More »
Final underclassmen list released … The NFL released the list of underclassmen eligible for the 2017 earlier this evening with a total of 103 juniors and redshirt sophs who have been granted entry to this year’s draft. This final tally includes 8 players who have eligibility remaining, but have already graduated. This year’s tally of 103 early entrants… Read More »
Pigskin picks Shrine all-star team … Today is an off-day for the East-West Shrine squads so our Pigskin Paul Guillemette, who has been on the ground all week in St. Petersburg, took the opportunity to pick his all-star team from the Shrine practices. And a little more from Pigskin on the Shrine week as he guests on Cheeseheadtv.com,… Read More »
Top edge rusher facing shoulder surgery … According to an unconfirmed report, UCLA OLB Takkarist McKinley, one of the hottest prospects in the 2017 draft field, is considering shoulder surgery to repair a torn right labrum that has bothered him the past couple of seasons. However, if McKinley is to have the surgery it likely won’t be until… Read More »
Underclassman withdrawal window closes with no takers … Juniors and redshirt sophomores who applied to the NFL for inclusion in the 2017 draft before last Monday’s deadline had until late yesterday afternoon to withdraw their applications if they had not signed with an agent or received any improper benefits. As of this morning it does not appear any… Read More »
GBN Big Board retweaked … This is an interesting time in the draft process. With the college football season done and the underclassmen now on board for the 2017 draft, draft boards around the league are slowly starting to take shape and there are some changes from the consensus board of even just a few weeks ago. One… Read More »
Defections hit Senior Bowl final roster … The Senior Bowl announced their final rosters for next week’s game in Mobile late yesterday and unfortunately three of the higher ranked players who NFL people really wanted to see have apparently dropped out of the game. WRs Corey Davis of Western Michigan and Oklahoma’s DeDe Westbrook and UCLA edge-rusher Takkarist… Read More »
Day Three Shrine report … The players at this year’s East-West Shrine all-star game went through their second day of of full pad practices yesterday in St. Petersburg and our Pigskin Paul Guillemette files this report on who made their case today and maybe who still needs some work. Today is more of a walk-through practice for the… Read More »
Top QB prospect for 2018 has shoulder surgery … Washington has confirmed that star redshirt sophomore QB Jake Browning, one of the leading prospects at the position for the 2018 draft, has had surgery on his throwing shoulder. The exact nature of the injury has not been disclosed, but the recovery time is expected to be about six… Read More »
Clemson QB Watson passes on Senior Bowl invite … Clemson QB DeShaun Watson has confirmed that he will not participate in next week’s Senior Bowl in Mobile. While he is a junior, Watson would have been eligible for the Senior Bowl because he is a 4th year player who has already graduated. Watson cited the grind of the… Read More »
