Trades update … The new NFL season isn’t even an hour old yet and already the league has been rocked by three major deals. Philadelphia and St. Louis, for example, have agreed to swap veteran QBs Nick Foles and Sam Bradford. There are also reportedly picks changing hands between the two teams with the Eagles getting the Rams… Read More »
More tweaks to GBN Big Board … While most of the focus of the NFL world this week is focused on the start of the new football year, including the start of the free agent signing period, on Tuesday afternoon, the draft continues to percolate. In fact, there has been some major percolation ongoing of late as reported… Read More »
Free agent market grows … In a move that really wasn’t all that unexpected, Houston has released long-time offensive stalwart WR Andre Johnson who is free to sign with any team in the league. Same story for New England CB Darrelle Revis as the Patriots have reportedly decided to not pick up his contract option. That will make… Read More »
Monster week on pro day schedule … The busiest week of the annual pro day schedule gets underway later today with several on-campus workouts planned. The real action this week, though, comes later in the week. On Wednesday, for example, pro days are scheduled at Alabama, Southern California, Wisconsin and Oklahoma among other schools. Then on Thursday, Oregon,… Read More »
Home-cooking dominates first day of tampering period … The NFL’s three-day ‘tampering period’ in which teams can negotiate with players set to become unrestricted free agents in advance of the start of the new football year on Tuesday is now a day old, but most of the action so far has involved teams resigning their own free agents.… Read More »
Tampering window open … With the start of the 2015 NFL football year set to open at 4 PM ET on Tuesday, teams are now permitted to discuss contract parameters with players set to become unrestricted free agents. Players can’t actually formally sign any free agents until Tuesday but can have an agreement in place.
Post-Combine Pigskin Paul has revamped his prospect rankings by position @ http://gbnreport.com/pigskin-pauls-top-5-position Check it out before the total chaos of NFL Veteran Free Agency steals the football news coverage, officially starting next Tuesday. We’re thinking that it will be interesting to see how the League’s own medium, NFL Network, covers the start of VFA vis-a-vis ESPN. Initial reports… Read More »
Hawks keep Beast in the fold … For those that missed the news last evening, two-time defending NFC champion Seattle has resigned star RB Marshawn lynch to a 3-year deal worth an estimated $31M. Lynch had hinted he might retire if talks balked down. And while we don’t normally post the veteran free agent scoreboard tracking UFA comings… Read More »
Even more from the combine … Never one to rest on his laurels, GBN Associate editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has added some new information to his post detailing thoughtssome of the players that stood out and others that didn´t.
Bears dump vet WR Marshall for pick … Chicago has traded enigmatic WR Brandon Marshall to the New York Jets for what is being reported as a 5th round pick at this year’s draft. The 31-year-old Marshall has been one of the most productive receivers in the NFL, but he also been one of the most mercurial. And… Read More »
First pro day week wraps … The first week of the pro day schedule wraps up today with workouts at Arizona State, Southern Miss, Northern Illinois, Appalachian State, and Newberry. The most attention today should be on ASU WR Jaelen Strong, a potential first round pick at the upcoming draft, who will be looking to build on a… Read More »
Our apologies for the somewhat irregular posting over the past couple of days, but we are on the road – no problem in itself – and our new travel notebook froze up a couple of times earlier in the week and then we were hit with a really nasty allergic reaction to something and haven’t been able to… Read More »
Top QB visits Bucs … In a somewhat unprecedented move, Florida State QB Jameis Winston is in Tampa Bay today for a series of interviews with top Buccaneers’ execs.The scheduling is unusual because prospects don’t generally visit team facilities until after the pro days are over in April. Winston, of course, is generally considered to be the top… Read More »
Cap, tag days in NFL … The NFL announced that the salary cap for the 2015 football year is $143.3M, up a full $10M from last season. All teams have to under that figure when the new football year starts next Wednesday. Today was also the deadline for teams to apply the franchise or transition tags to veteran… Read More »
IT IS OVER!!! …. February that is; the coldest month this old Canadian geezer can ever remember. Onward and upward!!!
Pro days coming up … The next phase of the draft evaluation process are the pro days which get underway on Monday. Here is the pro day schedule as we have it to date. Anybody aware of other on-campus workouts please let us know. Meanwhile, we’ll be reporting on the key workout numbers, as well as their draft… Read More »
Big Board updated … The GBN positional rankings and the overall Big Board ranking of the top 225 or so prospects for the 2015 draft has been updated based on information from last week’s scouting combine. Please note that we are still having some problems figuring out the best way to update big tables like these with our… Read More »
Browns ink vet QB McCown … Cleveland has agreed to terms with veteran QB Josh McCown on a three-year deal. The Browns beat out Buffalo in a bidding war for McCown, who was released by Tampa Bay at the end of the season. In signing McCown the Browns are now unlikely to sign QB Brian Hoyer, last year’s… Read More »
Wrist surgery for Frog QB … Texas Christian junior QB Trevone Boykin will miss part of spring practice this year as he will undergo surgery on the wrist on his non-throwing arm. Boykin actually suffered the injury way back in October, but never missed a snap. While he will miss the final weeks of the Frogs spring workouts,… Read More »
Is Rams’ QB on the market? … There’s a real question around the post-combine NFL whether St. Louis is shopping veteran QB Sam Bradford. The last couple of days there have been rumors that Buffalo and Cleveland have some interest, however, the Rams have denied that Bradford is even on the market. What is sort of known is… Read More »
More combine impressions … With at least a few hours to have reflected on all that went on at last week’s scouting combine, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has had a chance to watch the tapes (several times over) and has some a number of impressions of what in Indianapolis as they affect each positional group heading… Read More »
How To Keep Up With GBN: – Hi everyone. This is Gary, the GBN web guy. With the Combine over and draft season in full swing, I just wanted to remind everyone of all the various ways you can get your Great Blue North news and updates. Follow us on Twitter, we’ll be posting regular updates. Like us… Read More »
We are here !!! The 2015 scouting combine is now on the books and while the combine is in fact only a small, albeit significant, part of the draft process there were a number of things learned in Indianapolis last week. That and where we stand as we head forward are the theme’s of this week’s scout’s notebook… Read More »
Combine winners and losers: The turned the lights off in Indianapolis as the final group at this year’s scouting combine packed up their gear and headed for the exits. If nothing else it was an interesting week with arguably at least as many hits as misses. Here’s a quick rundown of the week’s big winners and losers in… Read More »
Combine wraps with DB workout … What’s the old saying: Time flies when you’ve got good duty! Seems like barely a week when the first players were arriving in Indianapolis for the scouting combine and now it wraps up later today after the defensive backs have done their thing on the field. And while there aren’t many, if… Read More »
