Top picks set for week … There are still the late games, as well as this week’s prime time contests, to go this week, but the top 6 picks in the proverbial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the 2017 draft are already set. Of course, still winless Cleveland will hold… Read More »
Upset weekend shakes up college football playoff picture. Or not!! … Upsets reigned supreme in college football yesterday as each of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ranked teams were all knocked from the ranks of unbeaten teams. However, despite the apparent chaos, the path to college football’s 4-team really didn’t change all that much as 3-4 teams still… Read More »
#1 pick secure; rest of top 5 in play today … Cleveland locked up the first overall pick in the proverbial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the first round of the 2017 draft when the winless Browns lost in Baltimore on Thursday night. However, there could be some shuffling of the rest of the… Read More »
Gators lose SS for year … Florida SS Marcus Maye, a solid second-day prospect for the 2017 draft, will miss the final weeks of the schedule after he broke his arm early in the Gators’ win over South Carolina earlier today. The 6-0, 210-pound Maye, who is ranked 4th among safeties on the GBN positional board and the… Read More »
Baylor QB Russell carted off against OU with ankle injury … Updating the status of Baylor QB Seth Russell, who was carted off the field in today’s game against Oklahoma, Russell suffered a dislocated ankle. More tests are planned but it is expected that Russell will miss the rest of the season. Russell also suffered a season-ending injury… Read More »
Star game invites … If it’s mid-November a young man’s fancy turns toward all-star games? Well maybe not quite yet as the major post-season collegiate all-star games are still a couple of months away, however, the names of players who have been invited to the various games this coming January have started to leak out. Dynamic San Diego… Read More »
College football notes … With the start of Saturday’s college football slate of games still a few hours off, here are a couple of injury/draft notes that kind of slipped under our radar this week: Texas A&M QB Trevor Knight will miss the final three games of the year after injuring his throwing shoulder in the Aggies’ loss… Read More »
FIU TE burned – literally – by girlfriend … We live in an era of really weird stories, but this one is right up there as Florida International TE Jonnu Smith, easily the team’s best prospect for the upcoming draft, will miss the rest of the year after his girlfriend, who is 5-months pregnant with their child, poured… Read More »
Bonus coverage … Folks that haven’t seen much of North Carolina junior QB Mitch Trubisky, one of the rising stars of the 2017 draft class, so far this fall have a chance to check him out later this evening when the Tar Heels play at Duke at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN. Indeed, more than one scout around… Read More »
QB Watson, 3 other juniors to be part of Clemson pro day … It doesn’t necessarily mean anything is written in stone, but Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has confirmed that four juniors, including star QB Deshaun Watson, will be honored at the team’s Senior Day game against Pittsburgh this coming Saturday. The others are WRs Mike Williams… Read More »
College football notes … Ouch! There a bunch of injuries around the country that could have an impact on the 2017 draft. Read more
X-Dawg LB to enter the draft … Former Georgia LB Tim Kimbrough announced via twitter that he plans to enter the 2017 draft. Kimbrough, a reshirt junior who technically will not have to apply to the NFL for early entry to the draft as he has already been out of high school for 4 years, started 7 games… Read More »
Div-leading Falcons extend G.M. … Atlanta has reportedly signed G.M. Tom Dimitroff to a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2019 season. Dimitroff has been the Falcons’ G.M. since 2008.
So who is #4 … The college football playoff committee raised some hackles last week when they included once-beaten Texas A&M over unbeaten Pac-12 leader Washington in the top 4 in their initial playoff rankings. And the committee got a bit of a black eye for the troubles – heck the Aggies weren’t even the best one-loss team… Read More »
Top 40 for 2018 posted … For those thinking of doing a little strategic drafting this coming April – that is, passing on a player of need this year because there are expected to be much better prospects at the position the following year – GBN Investigative College Reporter Larry Parker has put together a list of the… Read More »
Ole Miss QB Kelly out for year with torn ACL … In a bit of a late stunner this evening, Mississippi has confirmed that QB Chad kelly, arguably the top senior prospect at the position for the 2017 draft, will miss the rest of the year after suffering what is being described as a ‘serious’ knee injury in… Read More »
Browns, 49ers 1-2 in weekly draft order; top 5 set for week … There was no upset in Cleveland today where the Browns took an early 3-0 lead on Dallas, but it was all downhill from there. Final score was 35-10 Dallas which dropped the Browns to 0-9 and will leave them sitting on the #1 pick overall… Read More »
Winless Browns in tough on Sunday sked … Cleveland’s path to the top pick at the 2017 draft gets a little ‘easier’ later today when the Browns, the NFL’s only remaining winless team hosts 6-1 Dallas in one of this afternoon’s early games. Barring a major upset over the NFC leading Cowboys, Cleveland looks set to hold onto… Read More »
Top QB dinged … Clemson junior QB Deshaun Watson, a potential top 5-10 prospect for the 2017 draft, was forced to leave today’s win over Syracuse with a bruised throwing shoulder suffered when he fell awkwardly late in the opening half. Watson did not play in the second half, but the injury is not believed to be serious… Read More »
Top prospect still dogged by ankle … Texas A&M junior DE Myles Garrett, the consensus top prospect overall for the 2017 draft, has been limited in today’s game with Mississippi State because of that nagging ankle injury that has slowed him over the past month. Garrett is only playing on third downs in today’s game and has limited… Read More »
Bonus coverage … Hands up everyone who had Colorado leading the Pac-12’s southern division heading into November. No one! Didn’t think so, but in fact the long downtrodden Buffaloes are 6-2 overall and 4-1 in conference play with a chance to improve on that record later this evening when they host struggling UCLA (3-5) on Fox Sports 1… Read More »
Miracles can happen … Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs and all their fans, including long-time GBN friend (and radio show host) Eric Lamb, for winning their first World Series in 108 years. One hundred and eight years!! So hang in there fans of the Cardinals, who won their only NFL championship 69 years ago way back in 1947… Read More »
Draft tells in the wind … It its November the draft season is starting to warm up. In fact, the 2017 draft is now ‘just’ 176 days away for those who count stuff like that. Stuff is starting to happen though. Yesterday, for example,we had the first real reports of an underclassman pondering his early entry dilemma. Then… Read More »
Will he or won’t he controversy for Coug QB Falk … Speaking of young Pac-12 QBs and their future draft possibilities, there has been a little back-and-forth controversy surrounding the status of Washington State junior QB Luke Falk. Earlier this week, there were published reports via Bleacher Report, citing unnamed sources, that Falk had already decided to leave… Read More »
Long-term concerns about UCLA QB … School officials have yet to confirm, but all indications are that UCLA sophomore QB Josh Rosen will not play again this fall because of the lingering effect of some nerve issues in his throwing shoulder. Rosen had been expected to be one of the leading contenders to be the #1 pick at… Read More »
