Category Archives: News

Paul on Senior Bowl MIAs

Senior Bowl MIAs … One of the frustrating aspects of the Senior Bowl every year is that too many quality seniors who get invited to Mobile decline for one reason or another. Certainly, Senior Bowl organizer Phil Savage didn’t sound like a happy guy when he addressed the situation last week. GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has… Read More »

Jan 28 update

Sexual assault allegation against top QB prospect still out there … Any hopes by former Florida State QB Jameis Winston, or for that matter the NFL, that the allegations f sexual assault against the former Seminoles’star would just quietly go away, well just don’t look like they are going to go quietly away. Indeed, the female FSU student… Read More »

Mock update

Mock updated … With the Senior Bowl in the books, the GBN first-round projection for the 2015 draft has been updated. Note that as much as possible the picks are based on which player we think the respective team will take given the latest intel rather than who we would take ourselves.

SB DL

Senior Bowl game defensive line review … The tapes showed kind of what we saw live from the defensive linemen during the actual Senior Bowl game and that’s that the position was something of a mixed bag in Mobile last week. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the highlights and lowlites for the defensive linemen during Saturday’s… Read More »

Eagles hunt Mariota

Are the Eagles Duck hunting ?? … One of the rumors swirling around at last week’s Senior Bowl was that Philadelphia was looking at ways to possibly move up from the 20th spot in the 2015 draft to get into range to select Oregon QB Marcus Mariota. Mariota, of course, played for current Eagles’ head coach and de… Read More »

Big Board updated

Big Board updated … With the passing of the deadline for underclassmen to enter the draft as well as the completion of the Senior Bowl last weekend, the GBN Big Board ranking of the top 225 prospects for the 2015 draft has been updated. As well, so have the individual positions as per the drop-down list above. Again,… Read More »

Mariota injury

Top QB may not throw at combine … According to a report in his hometown newspaper, Oregon QB Marcus Mario is unsure whether he will be able to throw at next month’s scouting combine in Indianapolis. Mariota, a potential top pick overall at this year’s draft, sprained the AC joint in his throwing shoulder in the Ducks’ loss… Read More »

On to Indy

On to Indy … With the Senior Bowl now in the books, the focus of the college scouting departments around the NFL now turns to the annual Scouting Combine which gets underway on February 17 in Indianapolis, although most NFL teams give their scouting staffs some kind of break during the Super Bowl period. Each team then reconvenes… Read More »

Senior Bowl game day

Game day in Mobile … Its game day in Mobile with the Senior Bowl set to kick-off at 4 PM ET. The NFL Network will be providing national TV coverage. And while most NFL personnel execs and scouts headed home after Thursday’s final practice sessions, there is still a lot at stake in the game as the players… Read More »

PPs top players on SB teams

GBN top Senior Bowl practice players … With a little time to reflect on everything that went on in Mobile this week, GBN Chief Scout Pigskin Paul Guillemette has put together his list of the top 10 or so players from both the North and South teams at this week’s practice sessions at the Senior Bowl.

SB MOP

Iowa DT named top player at Senior Bowl practices … Iowa OT Carl Davis was voted the outstanding player during practice sessions at this week’s Senior Bowl in Mobile by a panel of NFL scouts. Other positional winners by the panel included Colorado State QB Garrett Grayson, Duke OG Laken Tomlinson and TCU CB Kevin White. Here’s the… Read More »

Day three PPP post

Day three wrap from Mobile … Anybody who is anybody in the NFL scouting community has already headed home from Mobile, but GBN Chief Scout Pigskin Paul Guillemette is still on the job and has filed his report on the highlights and lowlights from the third and final day of full practice sessions at the Senior Bowl in… Read More »

Senior Bowl roster moves

Roster changes at Senior Bowl … There are some new faces at today’s Senior Bowl practice sessions in Mobile. Mississippi State OT Blaine Clausell and Central Florida LB Terrance Plummer have been added to the South roster. Clausell, who is actually a Mobile native, is replacing TCU OT Tayo Fabuluje, who is out with with a hip flexor… Read More »

Saints change top scout

Saints shake up top scout staff … In a surprising move in more than one way, New Orleans has fired director of college scouting Rick Reiprish and are believed to be repacing him with former Miami G.M. Jeff Ireland who was just added to the staff. Reiprish, who has been with the Saints the past decade, was apparently told… Read More »

Mobile dispatches

More dispatches from Mobile … For those that haven’t seen them, here are several more reports from Mobile on who stood out at the first day of Senior Bowl practices from Dane Bugler of CBS Sports here and a couple more from NFL.com here and here. Meanwhile, Jeff McLane has a nice overview of the defensive backs in… Read More »

Late Jan 20 news update

Tigers’ QB moves to DB sooner rather than later … Former Auburn QB Nick Marshall’s move back to the corner came a whole lot sooner than expected. Marshall, who was invited to Mobile when it became apparent that Oregon QB Marcus Mariota was not not going to come, told reporters when he arrived that he would most likely… Read More »

Senior bowl hts wts

Senior Bowl data updated … The measurement data from this mornings Senior Bowl weigh-ins has been completed in the roster section.

Bonus coverage

Bonus Senior Bowl coverage … For those that aren’t aware of the change, the NFL Network will be providing coverage of the Senior Bowl practices this afternoon. In the past, they only provided live coverage of the two days of full-pad practices on Tuesday and Wednesday, but with the schedule having been moved back a day, it now… Read More »

Senior bowl start

Senior bowl weigh-in about to start … The real Senior Bowl week is about to start at 10 AM ET with the beginning of the measuring of the players heights and weights. Not sure how it is going to work but the Mobile Register seems to be indicating that they are covering it live in some fashion. On… Read More »

Shrine game report

Shrine game winners and losers … GBN Chief Scout warmed up for this week’s Senior Bowl in Mobile locked in the war room scouring over the tape from last Saturday’s East-West Shrine game in St. Petersburg and files this report on which players stood out and which didn’t.

Jan 18 update

Final list of draft eligible underclassmen released … The NFL has released a final list of 74 underclassmen who have been granted special eligibility for the 2015 draft, along with another 10 players who are still juniors but have graduated and are also eligible for this year’s draft. The number of underclassmen entering this year’s draft is down,… Read More »

Sunday nite update

Two more draft slots sets; two more to go … As a result of today’s NFL conference championship games, two more positions in the opening round selection order for the 2015 draft have been set. Indianapolis, which was dismantled in the AFC title game by New England, will have the 29th overall selection, while Green Bay which lost… Read More »

Shrine, PA games

Shrine, NFLPA star games on sched … Both the East-West Shrine Classic in St. Petersburg and the NFLPA All-star game in Carson, California will be played later this afternoon as the all-star game season kicks into high gear. And in a bit of scheduling genius, both games will be played at 4 PM ET with the Shrine game… Read More »

TCU RB enters draft

TCU RB enters draft … Nothing official was ever announced by either the player or school, but the mother of TCU junior RB B.J. Catalon has tweeted that he has applied for early entry to the 2015 draft. The 5-9, 190-pound Catalon started the first 8 games of the year for the Horned Frogs, but missed the better… Read More »

Paul- shrine latest

Even more dispatches from St. Pete … GBN Chief Scout Pigskin Paul Guillemette has filed his final overview report on this week’s East-West Shrine game practice sessions in St. Petersburg.