Green Riders make former Sooner OT 1st pick in CFL draft … Saskatchewan selected 6-6, 310-pound former Oklahoma OT Josiah St. John with the 1st pick in the CFL’s annual draft of Canadian players. In fact, 4 of the first 5 picks in this year’s CFL were offensive linemen as Montreal chose Laval OG Phillippe Gagnon with the… Read More »
Bears stay in-house for top college scout … Chicago has reportedly named veteran scout Mark Sadowski as the team’s new director of college scouting. He replaces Joe Douglas who left the team to become personnel director at Philadelphia. Sadowski was the Bears’ senior national scout last year.
Pats get pick for vet LB … New England has acquired a conditional 7th round pick at the 2017 draft from Detroit in exchange for veteran MLB Jon Bostic.
Browns sign pair of top 10 UDFAs; legacy C … Cleveland continued to add to its haul of quality prospects from the 2016 draft class as the team announced the signings of former Florida State DT Nile Lawrence-Stample and former MLB Dominique Alexander, two of the top rated undrafted rookie free agents this year. Larwence-Stample was the 7th… Read More »
Colts sign top pick … Indianapolis became the second team to come to term with their 2016 first round pick as they have signed former Alabama C Ryan Kelly to a 4-year deal. The Colts selected Kelly, last year’s Rimington Trophy winner as the nation’s top collegiate center, with the 18th pick last Thursday. He joins Atlanta FS… Read More »
A big thanks … Thanks to all those who so kindly forwarded copies of the final GBN Big Board.
CFL draft adds round … With less than a week to be before the CFL draft, the league threw its 9 teams for a bit with a loop with the announcement that this year’s draft would have 8 rounds instead of 7. The CFL draft is scheduled for next Tuesday with Saskatchewan currently holding the first pick overall.
Titans add to front office … Tennessee has reportedly hired Ryan Cowden as the team’s new director of player personnel. Cowden, who will report to G.M. Jon Robinson, had been Carolina’s assistant director of college scouting.
Falcons first to sign top pick … Atlanta has signed FS Keanu Neal, their first-round pick at the 2016 draft. Neal, the 17th player selected this year, signed a 4-year deal with a club option; he’s the first first pick to come to terms this year.
Star game draft report … Every year, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette goes to as many college all-star games as he can and then follows it up with an overview of how each games players did at the draft. Here’s this year’s report.
Browns, Titans, Vikes in good shape for 2017 … Finally got a chance to catch our breath and do a little housekeeping. In particular, with a little help from reader Ray H., the future trades table has been updated with trades from last weekend’s draft. Not surprising, after all their major deals this past weekend, Cleveland is well positioned… Read More »
German import first to sign … Minnesota WR Moritz Boerhringer is the first player selected at the 2016 draft to sign. Boehringer, of course, is the German whom the Vikings selected in the 6th round of last weekend’s draft despite the fact he has never played football in the U.S. after some amazing workouts prior to the draft.
How the Giants ended up with a 2nd Eli and other notes from their 2016 draft … We’re still not sure of all the details because we never got the full story from one trusted source, but this is our best take on how the 10th pick went last Thursday based on nuggets of information we have been… Read More »
Mother of all upsets in the ‘other’ football … For those who do not follow British football, Leicester City, the minnows of all minnows, just won the English Premier League title when Chelsea rallied to tie Tottenham Hotspurs 2-2. That leaves Leicester 7 up on Spurs with just two games to play. Just how surprising is it. Prior… Read More »
More draft thoughts … Contrary to what many millennials think being 2-4 days old does not make the draft ancient history to be stored in an archives section.In fact, it will actually take several years before the final story on the 2016 draft is written. That said, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some preliminary thoughts on… Read More »
Cane DE dinged … Miami junior DE Al-Quadin Muhammad, a rising prospect for the 2017 or 2018 drafts, will reportedly miss at least a couple of weeks of football activity after he had minor arthroscopic knee surgery late last week. The 6-3, 260-pound Muhammad led Miami with 5 sacks and 8.5 tackles for loss last season and is… Read More »
Mixed bag for underclassmen in draft … Every year, one of the enduring questions revolving around the draft is whether too many underclassmen are leaving for the NFL with eligibility remaining. No question, though, that underclassmen tend to dominate the top of the board. At the 2016 draft, for example, 8 of the top 10 picks and 21… Read More »
Bucks rule draft; B1G makes b1g gains; 2016 draft by the numbers, Part I … Ohio State left little doubt which was the top school at the 2016 draft as the Buckeyes had a record 10 players taken in the first three rounds and twelve overall to lead all schools. However, despite the Buckeyes’ dominance on the board,… Read More »
Just 364 days until the 2017 draft … Hang in there guys!!! To help wile away the time, here’s our very first, very, very preliminary projection for the first round of next year’s draft. However, everyone is reminded of one the very few GBN house rules in that anyone even thinking of sending a missive along the lines… Read More »
Preliminary observations from the draft’s final round … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some early thoughts on the proceedings of the final day of the 2016 draft.
Draft wraps; 8th round underway … With the Tennessee Titans making x the final pick of this year’s 7th round, not to mention Mr. Irrelevant, the 2016 draft is in the books. However, there won’t be any rest for weary NFL personnel departments as all teams are now frantically trying to sign the best undrafted free agents. And… Read More »
Pigskin punks second day picks … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette was the first one in the GBN War Room yesterday and the last one out this morning and he weighs in with his views on the hits, misses and surprises from the second day’s picks of this weekend’s draft.
And we are back … with Cleveland on the clock with the 99th pick to start the fourth round of the 2016 draft. We’ll be falling the business with the picks as they come off the board, the updated GBN board and the updated list of picks by team. Please note that for some reason our link to… Read More »
So in reality the league has supposedly skimmed the cream off the top of the 2016 NFL Draft. And to a great extent that is true, but.. As we all know this is far from an exact science, which in essence means that the 98 players selected so far are not necessarily the absolute best of the huge… Read More »
Browns back on the clock … The second round of the 2016 NFL draft is in the books, but it will be short night for NFL team execs as we’ll be back at it at Noon ET Saturday afternoon for the final four rounds. And once again it will be Cleveland on the clock when the fourth round… Read More »
