Big Board tweaked; expanded … With the 2015 draft set to start 6 weeks today, the GBN Big Board has been tweaked again based on the latest intel; its also been expanded up to 256 prospects, which for the numerically challenged is one prospect for each pick this year.
As the QB turns … Multiple league sources are reporting that Cleveland offered at least somebody the 19th pick in this year’s draft for veteran QB Sam Bradford. Bradford was ultimately traded from St. Louis to Philadelphia last week. What isn’t totally clear is whether the Browns offered the pick to St. Louis before the deal or to… Read More »
Who’s #2 … There appears to be a growing sense around the NFL that Tennessee is unlikely to select Oregon QB Marcus Mariota with the second pick overall at the upcoming draft. Instead the thinking appears to be that the Titans will give second-year QB Zach Mettenberger another season to develop and either take a position like Southern… Read More »
QB Mariota to visit Bucs … Interesting day in South Florida where Oregon QB Marcus Mariota will be in Tampa Bay where he hopes to convince the Buccaneers to take him with the #1 pick at the 2015 draft. Because it is an on-site visit, one of 30 each team is allowed to host prior to the draft,… Read More »
Emerging SEC WR Busted for pot … Mississippi State junior WR De’Runnya ‘Bear’ Wilson, a rising prospect for either the 2016 or 2017 drafts, was one of four MSU students arrested late Friday and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia while they were on their way to a friend’s birthday party in Alabama.
No mock today! … Several readers have asked where the GBN mock draft is. Fact is with all the trades last week, the order changed enough that the old one was meaningless, so we took it down. We will hopefully have an updated three-round mock early next week once the free agent feeding frenzy slows down a little.… Read More »
Vikes get WR, pick from Dolphins for better pick … This didn´t get posted yesterday as Minnesota has acquired veteran WR Mike Wallace and a 7th-round draft pick from Miami for a fifth-round pick this year. Earlier today, Miami had acquired WR Kenny Stills from New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Vikings had been expected to look at receivers with the… Read More »
Ducks QB ´okay´at pro day … The reviews are still trickling in, but the overall consensus around the NFL appears to be that while Oregon QB Marcus Mariota was solid enough at yesterday´s pro day workout, there also wasn´t anything that was special about his day. Working almost exclusively under center, Mariota showed plenty of arm strength and… Read More »
Saints add another pick for young WR … New Orleans has traded third-year WR Kenny Stills to Miami for veteran LB Daniel Ellerbe and a third round pick – the 78th overall – at the 2015 draft. Stills caught 63 passes for the Saints last year, but often didn’t really know where he was going! In acquiring anther… Read More »
Who’s who at Ducks’ pro day… updated … Updating the earlier report on who attended today’s pro day at Oregon, turns out that Cleveland was represented in that Marcus Mariota’s workout was run by Browns’ QB coach Kevin O’Connell, who spent 6 weeks preparing prepping Mariota for the draft earlier this winter. However, neither Browns’ GM Ray Farmer… Read More »
Chiefs get vet Saints OG for pick … Kansas City has acquired veteran OG Ben Grubbs from New Orleans for a 5th round pick at the 2015 draft.
Making sense of free agent frenzy … It will take a while for sall the dust to settle from the frenzy of trades and free agent signings activity on Tuesday when the new football season started and GBN Associate Editor Paul Guillemette has weighed in with some thoughts on the implications of several of those key early moves.
Ducks QB under gun at Oregon pro day … It will Oregon QB Marcus Mariota’s turn to show his stuff when the Ducks hold their pro day later today. And while how well Mariota performs will be of first and foremost concern it is always interesting to note which teams send which reps. No doubt Tampa Bay and… Read More »
Pro day updates … All 32 NFL teams were represented at Alabama’s pro day on Wednesday, but its wasn’t the same star-studded celebrity crowd that has turned out to recent Tide workouts. Indeed, Giants’ GM Jerry Reese was the only GM who has been mentioned as attending, while there were no head coaches in Tuscaloosa today. That may… Read More »
That settles that … At a somewhat impromptu meeting with reporters earlier today, Philadelphia head coach and de facto GM Chip Kelly said it was never his plan to try and trade up in the 2015 draft in order to acquire Oregon QB Marcus Mariota, his old college QB. Kelly called Mariota ´the best QB in this year’s… Read More »
Another QB trade for Texans … For the second time in the past two days, Houston has traded away a veteran QB for a future pick. After sending Case Keenum to St. Louis late yesterday, Houston has shipped Ryan Fitzpatrick to the New York Jets for a 7th round pick in 2016 that could become a sixth based… Read More »
One other QB trade … It won’t make the same headlines as yesterday’s other big trades, but Houston sent veteran QB Case Keenum to St. Louis for a 7th round pick in 2016.
Bruins’ workout hilites Tuesday pro day slate … While the NFL was all aflutter over yesterday’s spate of major trades, the mundane work of getting ready for the 2015 draft with several key on-campus workouts. The most interesting was at UCLA where QB Brett Hundley, the consensus #3 QB in this year’s draft, went through a crisp scripted… Read More »
50 Days and counting!!! The 2015 draft is officially just 50 days away. Hang in there guys!! Trading day housecleaning … NFL personnel people are still trying to figure out all the angles on yesterday’s trio of big trades that saw St. Louis and Philadelphia swap veteran QBs Sam Bradford and Nick Foles along with some minor picks;… Read More »
Eagles appear to have hitched hopes to oft-injured Rams’ QB … When the trade between Philadelphia and St. Louis for veteran QBs Sam Bradford and Nick Foles, the general assumption around the NFL was that the deal would only be a steppingstone for the Eagles to find a way to move in the 2015 draft in order to… Read More »
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 »
