Second surgery for Browns’ QB Watson; could impact #2 pick … Cleveland announced earlier today that enigmatic QB Deshaun Watson underwent another surgery yesterday after he reportedly re-tore the ruptured Achilles tendon that forced him to miss the 2024 season. It also appears now that Watson is also unlikely to play in 2025. There was a chance he… Read More »
Hula Bowl kicks off star season … The 2025 all-star season gets underway Saturday with the Hula Bowl in Orlando. The game gets underway at Noon ET and will be televised by CBS Sports Network. Of course, the primary all-star games – the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine game – start later in the month such that few,… Read More »
Irish on to CFP semis; ‘Horns, Bucks up next … For those who missed it last evening, Notre Dame advanced to the CFP national championship game in Atlanta with a dramatic 27-24 win over Penn State in the Orange Bowl in Miami on a last-minute FG. The Irish will play the winner of tonight’s other national semi-final pitting… Read More »
Vandy TE Stowers to stick with school … Vanderbilt TE Eli Stowers, one of the top 4-5 prospects at the position for the upcoming draft, has announced that he will be returning to the program for his final year of eligibility next fall. The 6-4, 225-pound Stowers was named the All-SEC TE this past season when he hauled… Read More »
Raiders complete housecleaning; fire GM Telesco … Just a couple of days after firing head coach Antonio Pierce, Las Vegas, which holds the 6th pick for the 2025 draft, has now also released GM Tom Telesco. Both had been in their first full season with the Raiders.
UGA QB Beck shifts course; to transfer … Georgia QB Carson Beck, who announced late last month that he would be entering the draft despite having just undergone surgery on his throwing shoulder that was likely to keep him off the field thru the pre-draft process and possibly even into the fall, has changed course and announced instead… Read More »
To QB or not to QB, that is the question … Don’t think NFL quarterbacks were exactly what Shakespeare was thinking about when he penned that iconic soliloquy – or at least something close to it – back in the 17th century, but it just may be close as there appears to be a raging debate, or at… Read More »
Titans, Browns go QB in first post-season 3-round mock … With the NFL regular season in the books we have posted our first 3-round projection for the 2025 draft. As we have noted in the past, the goal here isn’t so much to try and predict which team will select which player, but to give some sense of… Read More »
Ducks’ WR Stewart back to school … Oregon WR Evan Stewart announced earlier today that he intends to bypass the 2025 draft and return to school next fall. Stewart was considered to be a top prospect at the position this year after he transferred from Texas A&M, but he had something of a pedestrian season and should benefit… Read More »
Titans fire GM Carthon … We were going to post an article a little later today noting that the three teams with the top picks for the 2025 draft – Tennessee, Cleveland and the NY Giants – were all keeping their management group intact. Then the Titans messed up that story by firing G.M. Ran Carthon. And from… Read More »
First 3 rounds selection order posted … We have now been able to update the selection order for the 2025 draft to include the first three rounds, although rounds 2-3 still need to be confirmed by the league. Again note that the first 18 picks in each round are set with the remaining picks to be determined by… Read More »
No Monday night football; no problem … Feeling a little blue as there is no Monday night football tonight, while there are still three sleeps until the CFP semi-finals on Thursday and Friday, fear not as there is football this evening with perennial contender North Dakota State facing top-ranked Montana State in the FCS national championship game in… Read More »
Jags, Pats fire coaches; Giants stand pat … Both New England and Jacksonville didn’t wait long to replace their head coaches in the wake of disappointing seasons as the Patriots fired Jerod Mayo and the Jags released Doug Pederson just hours after the season ended. Mayo was let go after just one season and the expectation is that… Read More »
Titans, Browns, Giants to pick 1-2-3 as first 18 picks set … With the NFL’s regular season in the books, the first 18 picks for the 2025 draft have now been set with Tennessee, Cleveland and the Giants scheduled to make the first three picks. The remaining picks will be determined by results from the playoffs which begin… Read More »
Tide LB Lawson to return to school … In a bit of a surprise, Alabama LB Deontae Lawson has announced that he will be returning to school for the 2025 college season rather than enter the upcoming draft for which he was considered to be a second-day prospect. It will be a 5th year in college for Lawson… Read More »
Bahamas Bowl takes center stage … Not sure a post-season bowl in the the Bahamas found itself lodged between the national quarterfinals and semis, but that’s where the cleverly name Bahamas Bowl finds itself as traditional powers Buffalo and Liberty tangle in the Caribbean with kick-off Saturday morning at 11 AM ET on ESPN2. All joking aside there… Read More »
IU QB Rourke has knee surgery … Turns out that Indiana QB Kurtis Rourke played the entire season on a torn ACL and will have surgery to repair the issue later this week. Rourke originally tore an ACL playing for Ohio back in 2022 and then reportedly retore it during training camp in August. He still somehow managed… Read More »
Irish to national semis … The final 4 for the CFP national semi-finals are now set as Notre Dame upset Georgia 23-10 in this afternoon’s delayed Sugar Bowl. The Irish will play Penn State in the Orange Bowl next Thursday with the winner to advance to the national final on January 20th against the winner of the other… Read More »
Tide QB Milroe to enter draft … Just hours after star Alabama LB Jihaad Campbell announced he was entering the 2025 draft, Tide QB Jalen Milroe confirmed that he will also be turning pro this winter. There had been some speculation after a dismal outing in the Tide’s bowl loss to undermanned Michigan that Milroe might opt to… Read More »
Top Tide LB enters draft … While the football world waits for word on what Alabama QB Jalen Milroe decides about his immediate football future, another Tide star has made a decision as All-America LB Jihaad Campbell has confirmed that he will in fact be entering the 2025 draft where he projects to be one of the first… Read More »
It will be SEC versus Big 10 in Cotton Bowl … One of next week’s CFP semi-finals is now set as Ohio State will face Texas in the Cotton Bowl on Friday the 10th. However, they got their in very different ways. The Buckeyes were expected to be a dogfight with top-rated Oregon in this afternoon’s Rose Bowl… Read More »
Sugar Bowl rescheduled to 4 PM ET tomorrow … It has just been confirmed that Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame for a spot in the CFP semi-finals has been rescheduled for 4 PM ET Thursday afternoon on ESPN.
Sugar Bowl postponed … The Sugar Bowl in fact will not be played this evening in the wake of that New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans in which as many as 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured by a lunatic driving a truck thru a group of revellers less than a mile from where… Read More »
No new rushing record as Barkley to sit season-finale … In the end there will be no new single season rushing record in either the NFL or FBS. For those that missed it last night but Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty came up 31 yards shy of breaking Barry Sanders’ decades old college record as the Broncos lost their… Read More »
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