Top 3 picks hold … There will not be any change to the first three picks in this week’s updated selection order for the opening round of the 2017 draft. Cleveland inched all that much closer to clinching the first overall pick after losing 23-10 to Cincinnati. And San Francisco will end up keeping the #2 pick for… Read More »
Early draft order to be impacted by top 5 dual … There will a further shuffling of the current first-round selection order for the 2017 draft this week as San Francisco, which holds the 2nd pick overall heading into today’s games, hosting the New York Jets who would have the 5th pick were the draft held this week.… Read More »
Young stud OT look to be staying in school … According to a tweet from former Sooners’ OT, and family friend, Jammal Brown, Oklahoma redshirt sophomore LT Orlando Brown will be returning to school for the 2017 college campaign. The 6-8, 340-pound Brown has the potential to be a top 10-type prospect for the 2018 draft. At the… Read More »
More NFLPA star game additions … The NFLPA college all-star game has announced the addition of 5 more players including Louisiana Tech QB Ryan Higgins, South Dakota PK Miles Bergner, Nevada P Alex Boy, and safeties Xavier Woods of Louisiana Tech and Lorenzo Jerome of St. Francis (PA). The NFLPA game is scheduled for January 21st in Carson,… Read More »
Pitt RB Conner enters draft … Pittsburgh junior RB James Conner has announced that he will be entering the 2017 draft. Conner was regarded as a potential top prospect after he ran for almost 1,800 yards and 26 TDs as a sophomore in 2014, but then missed the 2015 season while undergoing treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Conner, who… Read More »
UNC DT enters draft … North Carolina junior DT Nazair Jones has announced that he will forego his final season of eligibility and enter the 2017 draft. The 6-5, 295-pound Jones was a productive enough player at North Carolina where he started 21 of 34 career games and had 62 tackles, including 1.5 sacks and 6 other tackles… Read More »
RGIII back as Browns’ starter … Cleveland has confirmed that Robert Griffin will be the starter at QB when the 0-12 Browns host Cincinnati on Sunday. Griffin entered the season as the Browns’ starter, but fractured a bone in his shoulder in the team’s season-opener and has not played since. The Browns are hoping, of course, that Griffin… Read More »
More NFLPA star game roster additions … The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl all-star game scheduled for January 21st in Carson, California has announced that 5 more players have accepted invites including Minnesota QB Mitch Leidner; OTs Storm Norton of Toledo and Minnesota’s Jonah Pirsig; LSU DT Christian LaCouture; and Idaho P/PK Austin Rehkow. Other notes from the NFLPA game… Read More »
Updated first-round projection posted … With the NFL regular season now at the 3/4 pole, the GBN projection for the opening round of the 2017 draft has been updated based on the latest intel. And some astute readers will note that some of the picks in this particular projection don’t always necessarily jive with the latest GBN Big… Read More »
Pigskin’s championship week prospects review … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in on which prospects caught his eye in last weekend’s conference championship games and other key college football games.
Cardinal RB confirms draft entry … Turns yesterday’s unconfirmed media reports that Stanford junior RB Christian McCaffrey has decided to enter the 2017 draft were true as the star RB confirmed his decision to pass on his final year of eligibility and enter the upcoming draft where he projects to be a mid-to-late first round pick. McCaffrey led… Read More »
Top 5 safeties … GBN regular guest contributor Steve Callahan ranks the top 5 safeties for the 2017 draft.
NFLPA game announces 4 more players … maybe … The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl college all-star game has announced 4 more players who have accepted invitations to their Carson, California game on January 21st. They include Grambling WR Chad Williams, Illinois State OG Cameron Lee, and OLB Jayon Brown and CB Fabian Moreau from UCLA. However, it should be… Read More »
Spartans’ DT enters draft … Michigan State junior DT Malik McDowell has announced that he will forego his final year of eligibility and enter the 2017 draft. McDowell had been considered to be a potential top 5 pick this year throughout much of the season, although his grade appears to have slipped several spots following a somewhat inconsistent… Read More »
Star game invites … Both the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine all-star games announced their latest batches of players who have accepted invites to the respective events. Read full story
Ole Miss WR enters draft … Mississippihas announced that junior WR Damore’ea Stringfellow will skip his senior season and enter the 2017 draft. The 6-2, 220-pound Stringfellow caught 46 passes for over 700 yards and 6 TDs this fall. He actually started his college career at Washington, but left the Huskies after one season after pleading guilty to… Read More »
Heisman finalists named … The Heisman trust announced earlier this evening that the 5 finalists for this year’s award are Louisville sophomore QB Lamar Jackson, Michigan LB Jabrill Peppers, Clemson QB DeShaun Watson, and QB Baker Mayfield and WR DeDe Westbrook of Oklahoma. This year’s award will be presented on Saturday.
LSU RB Fournette, 2 others entering draft … LSU junior RB Len Fournette confirmed one of football’s worst-kept secrets when he announced earlier this afternoon that he will indeed be entering the 2017 draft where he is projected to be a top 10-20 pick. Meanwhile, it kind of slipped under the radar but Akron junior WR Jerome Lane… Read More »
49ers-Bears dual for #2 pick hilites Sunday sched … With Cleveland on its bye week, the still winless Browns will hold onto the #1 pick in the proverbial “if the draft were held this week” first-round selection order for the 2017 draft. However, there will be some shuffling of the remainder of the top 5 as San Francisco,… Read More »
NFLPA star game releases more roster additions … The NFLPA college all-star has announced the addition of another ten players to the roster including East Carolina QB Philip Nelson; WRs Robert Davis of Georgia State, Stanford’s Michael Rector, R.J. Shelton of Michigan State, UConn’s Noel Thomas; Jamir Tillman of Navy, and Robert Wheelwright of Wisconsin; UCLA DT Eli… Read More »
Sooners QB to return … Oklahoma junior QB Baker Mayfield announced after the Sooners’ 38-20 victory over Oklahoma State on Saturday that gave OU the Big XII conference title, that he will be returning to school for the 2017 season ostensibly to “play for a national championship.” Mayfield is classified as a redshirt junior after the conference voted… Read More »
College football conference championship bonus coverage … In addition to the college football conference championship games previewed by our GBN colleague Pigskin Paul Guillemette yesterday, there are some interesting players to watch in Saturday’s other title games. Read more
Pigskin previews, picks for championship weekend … Championship week in college football continues on Saturday with a number of title games, some of which matter, and some of which don’t. GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s highlites some of the top prospects to watch in the games he’ll be watching this weekend.
Friday championship games previewed … Its championship weekend in college football coming up with much on the line several games and less so in others. The action kicks off Friday evening with a couple of games including the critical Pac-12 title game between #4 Washington and #8 Colorado at 9 PM ET on Fox and #17 Western Michigan… Read More »
Bears QB Cutler done for year; forever??? …. Chicago announced earlier this afternoon that QB Jay Cutler will undergo surgery this weekend to repair a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder and will miss the last five games of the year. Cutler will replaced by veteran backup Brian Hoyer when the 2-10 Bears host San Francisco in a… Read More »
