Pats stay atop weekly selection order … For the second week in a row, New England would have the #1 pick overall if the 2025 draft were held this week. Here is the full, updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just… Read More »
Jags send vet DT to Seahawks; get late future pick … Seattle has acquired veteran DT Roy Robertson-Harris from Jacksonville in exchange for a 6th round pick in 2026.
Irish CB Morrison out for year … Notre Dame has confirmed that star CB Benjamin Morrison, a first-round prospect for the 2025 draft, will miss the rest of the season after suffering a hip injury that will require surgery this past weekend. So far, there is no timeline on his recovery and no word whether he will still… Read More »
Pats hold top pick for another week; Browns up to #2 … With just this evening’s Monday night game to go for the week, we can confirm that New England, which dropped to 1-5 with a loss against Houston on Sunday, will hold onto the #1 pick in the 2025 selection order were the draft to be held… Read More »
Top prospect Hunter; OSU OT injured … There were a couple of draft-related injuries of note in a wild day of college action yesterday. Star Colorado Wr/CB Travis Hunter, who is considered to be the top prospect overall for the 2025 draft one at least some team’s boards, was forced to leave the Buffs 31-28 loss to #18… Read More »
Are 2025 QBs slipping? … For those that haven’t seen it yet, ESPN’s Mel Kiper posted an updated ranking of his top 25 prospects for the upcoming draft and in a major change does not have a QB rated in the top 10. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders is the top player at the position at #13, followed in order… Read More »
Best week ever in college football? Who to watch … Okay so that might be a bit of stretch, but if it isn’t at least one of the best weeks ever, its close with three games matching up top 20 teams including a potentially titanic contest between #2 Ohio State and #3 Oregon on Saturday evening on the… Read More »
Pats nab star WR/CB Hunter with first pick in updated projection … Having updated the GBN Big Board a week or so back as well as having posted the initial weekly selection order for next April’s draft, it seemed like a good time also to post an updated first-round projection for 2025. Again, though, we caution folks not… Read More »
Pats make move at QB; to start Maye … New England has just confirmed that they will be starting rookie Drake Maye, the 3rd pick overall at the 2024 draft, at QB when they host Houston on Sunday. Maye will replace Jacoby Brissett who has been at the helm during the Patriots 1-4 start to the
Jets first to fire head coach … In a somewhat shocking move early the morning, the NY Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh in the wake of a 2-3 start to the season in which the team was expected to be very competitive with QB Aaron Rodgers back in uniform. Saleh will be replaced on an interim basis… Read More »
Pats atop first full weekly selection order … Given the proverbial old ‘if the draft were held today’ New England would have the #1 pick overall if in fact the 2025 draft were held this week. Here is the first full, updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each… Read More »
Tide DT to sit rest of year, transfer … In what has become the latest trend impacting the rapidly changing college football landscape, Alabama junior DT Jeheim Oatis has announced he will not play any more this season and will ultimately transfer. The 6-5, 325-pound Oatis was once considered one of the top prospects at the position, but… Read More »
Jags end winless skid; Pats to #1, Bengals #2 as first 9 picks sort of set … With the late Sunday afternoon games now in the books we can update further what the top of the 2025 selection order will likely look like when post the first full, updated order after tomorrow night’s Monday nighter. After Jacksonville finally… Read More »
UGA LB out for awhile …Georgia LB Smael Mondon, one of the top prospects at the position for the 2025 draft, did not play in the Bulldogs win over Auburn yesterday and according to the program this ‘ may not be the only game he ends up missing.’ Mondon has a foot issue that he’s apparently been dealing… Read More »
College rankings thrown for a loop as #1 and 4 go down … What a day in college football land yesterday as two of the top 4 ranked teams – and 5 of the top 11 – were knocked off. The biggest upset of the day came in Nashville where Vanderbilt, where the Commodores had never, ever defeated… Read More »
ESPN talks ‘muddy’ QB waters … For those that haven’t seen it, ESPN did a poll of NFL scouts and other personnel people asking which QB they’d take first at the 2025 draft. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders got the most votes, but it was hardly unanimous which kind of confirms what we’ve been saying the past few weeks. Indeed,… Read More »
Wolfpack QB McCall out again after hit to head … North Carolina State QB Grayson McCall was carted off the field on a stretcher after taking a hit to the head in this afternoon’s game with Wake Forest. Unfortunately, its not the first such injury for McCall who transferred from Coastal Carolina this past off-season as he suffered… Read More »
Big Board, positional rankings updated … With the first month plus of the college season now in the books we have updated both the GBN Big Board ranking of the top 50+ prospects for the upcoming draft, along with the specific positional groupings (as per the drop-down menu above.) A couple of things that kind of jumped out.… Read More »
QB fallout from Tide-Dawgs thriller … We have had more than a few readers asked who we think is the better QB prospect for 2025, Carson Beck of Georgia or Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, in the wake of Saturday’s thrilling SEC battle between the Tide and Bulldogs. In fact, we don’t like to make such evaluations based on one… Read More »
Raiders’ WR Adams appears to be headed out the door in Vegas … The oft-troubled relationship between Las Vegas and star WR Davante Adams appears to be headed for a divorce. Adams has reportedly told the team that would like to be traded, while several sources around the league have indicated that the Raiders have let it be… Read More »
Making sense of the NFL’s new KO rules … We’ve had several readers ask what we think of the NFL’s new kick-off regulations in the past couple of weeks. Truth be told, other than thinking it all just looks kinda weird, we tend to be somewhat agnostic on the subject in that it really hasn’t changed the game… Read More »
Browns’ DT Hall gets 5-game suspension … The NFL announced earlier today that rookie Cleveland DT Michael Hall, a 2nd round pick by the Browns this past April, has suspended for 5 games without pay for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Hall plead no contest to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct stemming from a domestic altercation… Read More »
Titans win; Jags last still winless team … Thanks to what can only be called an inept Dolphins’ offence, Tennessee was finally able to get its first win of the season in one of the two Monday night games this week. Of course, there’s a bit of a caveat to Miami’s struggles as star QB Tua Tagovailoa, who… Read More »
Bengals end winless skid; Jags don’t in early action … It wasn’t necessarily easy but Cincinnati finally got its first win of the season earlier this afternoon with a 34-24 win in Carolina. However, Jacksonville wasn’t as lucky as the Jags fell to 0-4 with a tough 24-20 loss in Houston when the Texans pushed across the game-winning… Read More »
Tide edges Dawgs in SEC thriller … Just in case anyone missed it last evening, but #4 Alabama edged out #2 Georgia 41-34 in a thriller in Tuscaloosa that wasn’t decided until freshman CB Zabien Brown picked off a Carson Beck pass in the Alabama end zone in the final minute to seal to end Georgia’s final drive.… Read More »
