Clemson loses three more to draft … Three more Clemson players announced earlier today that they will be entering the draft including FS Jayron Kearse, DE Kevin Dodd and safety T.J. Green. Kearse, who figures to be one of the top 2-3 safeties in this year’s draft, had been expected to make the decision to go pro, but… Read More »
You can in fact go home again … The on-again, off-again saga of the NFL’s return to Los Angeles is half done after league owners voted to allow the Rams to move back to LA after a 21-year stay in St. Louis. The Rams will play in an as yet undecided location in L.A. in 2016 before moving… Read More »
List of underclassmen in draft climbs past 90 … Three more juniors announced they will be entering the 2016 draft so far today including Baylor DT Andrew Billings, UCLA TE Thomas Duarte and Delaware P Eric Enderson. Billings, a potential top 15-20 prospect for the upcoming draft had long been thought to be headed to this year’s draft;… Read More »
Clock ticking louder for undeclared underclassmen … Alabama closed out the college football season last night edging Clemson 45-40 in a thriller to win its 4th national title in the last 7 years. All eyes now turn to the half dozen or so Alabama juniors who are known to be thinking seriously about entering the 2016 draft including… Read More »
Falcon WR flying off to NFL … Bowling Green sophomore WR Roger Lewis has announced he will be entering the 2016 draft. For those who have not heard of Lewis, he’s been a super-productive big-play receiver in his two years with the Falcons. This past season, for example, the 6-1, 200-pound Lewis, who projects to run in the… Read More »
Top Tigers in uniform … With the kick-off for tonight’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson just under a half an hour to go, it appears that Clemson’s top two prospects for the 2016 draft – junior DE Shaq Lawson and redshirt sophomore CB Mackensie Alexander – will both give it a go. Both were listed as… Read More »
Aggie LB to enter draft?? There are some very unconfirmed reports that Utah State junior ILB Nick Vigil has decided to enter the upcoming draft. Our investigative reporter is working his sources as we speak and we’ll update ASAP.
Positional rankings updated … A little later than we had planned, but the GBN positional rankings have now all been updated. Perhaps the biggest changes were at safety, although this is still not a particularly talented or deep year at the position. In putting together the latest rankings – and we make the point that while we do… Read More »
That settles that: injured Irish LB enters draft … Notre Dame junior OLB Jaylon Smith announced earlier this morning that he would in fact be entering the 2016 draft. Smith, of course, had been considered to be a potential top 5 pick this year, but underwent surgery late last week after he tore an ACL in the Irish’s… Read More »
Second Husker DT enters draft early … Nebraska junior DT Vince Valentine is the latest underclassman to announce that they will be forgoing their final year of college eligibility to enter the 2016 http://www.viagragenericoes24.com/ draft. In doing so, Valentie becomes the second Husker junior DT to enter the draft after Maliek Collins announced his intention to turn pro… Read More »
Tide-Tigers to battle for college title … The 2015 college national championship will be decided later this evening when unbeaten and top-ranked Clemson plays perennial power Alabama in Glendale with kick-off set for 8:30 PM ET on ESPN. And in many ways this could be the classic dual with the upstart Tigers, who have always been good, but… Read More »
Wild card weekend settles four more picks … With this weekend’s 4 wild card games now in the books, four more picks in the opening round of the 2016 draft have been secured. Washington, which lost late this afternoon to Green Bay, will have the 21st pick on April 28th, while Houston will pick 22nd, Minnesota 23rd and… Read More »
QB Cook to skip Senior Bowl … Former Michigan State QB Connor Cook has reportedly decided to pass on the opportunity to participate in this year’s Senior Bowl. That’s likely to set of some grumbling among the NFL scouting community. Cook is generally considered to be the 2nd and 3rd rated QB for this year’s draft behind either… Read More »
‘Canes’ WR to return to school … Miami junior WR Stacy Coley has announced that he will be returning to school for his senior season.
Hogs RB enters draft … Arkansas junior RB Alex Collins has announced that he will forego is senior season and enter the 2016 draft where he projects to be a second-day pick. The 5-10, 225-poumd Collins, the 3rd rated RB for the upcoming draft on the GBN positional list, rushed for almost 1,600 yards and 20 touchdowns this… Read More »
‘Other’ star weeks kicks off … The major post-season all-star games do not get underway for another week, but this is a big week for second-tier prospects for the upcoming draft. For starters, the College Gridiron Showcase starts today in Bedford, Texas. This a four-day event running through the 13th in which players go through individual and team… Read More »
Bungles clinch 24th pick; 3 others on line today … The only pick that was formally decided after yesterday’s first two wild card games was that Cincinnati will have the 24th pick at the 2016 draft following last night’s absolutely stunning loss to Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, Houston will select no lower than 22nd after losing to Kansas City yesterday… Read More »
Tide OLB rethinking pro decision … Alabama junior OLB Tim Williams indicated at the end of the regular college football season that he would return to Alabama for his senior season. However, Williams has apparently had a change of heart and is at least reconsidering his options. Williams, who had 10.5 sacks in Alabama’s last 11 games, despite… Read More »
Bonus coverage … For those looking for a little football fix before this weekend’s NFL wild-card playoff games – not to mention Monday night’s national collegiate championship game between Alabama and Clemson – the FCS championship game between North Dakota State and Jacksonville State is on ESPN2 as we speak. And NDSU, which is going for its 5th… Read More »
Lions raid Pats for G.M. … Detroit has agreed in principle with New England personnel exec Bob Quinn to become the Lions’ new general manager. The 39-year-old Quinn, who most recently has been the Patriots’ director of pro scouting, replaces Martin Mayhew two months ago along with team president Tom Lewand. The first order of business for Quinn in… Read More »
Surgery reportedly goes well Irish LB Smith … Sports Illustrated is reporting that according to sources, the surgery to repair the knee of star Dame Notre junior OLB Jaylon Smith went about ‘as well as could be expected.’ Smith tore both the ACL and LCL is his knee early in Notre Dame’s Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio State… Read More »
Three more added to Senior Bowl rosters … The Senior Bowl announced the addition of three more players to the roster today including Arkansas QB Brandon Allen, BYU DE Bronson Kaufusi and Alabama CB Cyrus Jones.
Former LSU CB enters draft … One-time emerging LSU CB Rashard Robinson has announced he will be entering the 2016 draft. Robinson looked like a future star when he started several games for LSU in 2013, but was suspended indefinitely mid-way through the following season for undisclosed reasons and spent the 2015 season working out on his own… Read More »
GBN projection updated … The GBN projection for the opening round of the 2016 draft has been updated. As we always do, we advise readers not to get too excited about the particular picks for particular teams, because even the best mocks get very few specific picks dead on; instead what a good mock will do is give… Read More »
Trade mart updated … With the NFL regular schedule now in the books, we have been able to update the GBN trade mart – with a huge assist from reader Michael Z – listing traded picks for the 2016 draft based on their conditions etc. With those trades, we have also been able to put together a very… Read More »
