Double-dip kicks off first full pre-season week … The first full weekend of NFL pre-season action gets underway Thursday evening with a couple of games. Carolina will be at New England, while Detroit will be in New York to play the Giants. Both games have 7 PM ET KOs with the Panthers-Patriots game live on the NFL Network,… Read More »
Updating 49er WR Aiyuk situation; Pats out, Steelers back in … As of this morning star San Francisco WR Brandon Aiyuk is still a 49er; in fact, Aiyuk is still participating in team meetings, although he has not practised as he and the team sort through his contract situation. It was reported yesterday that the 49ers had the… Read More »
Bears/Texans kick-off pre-season sched in HOF game … The NFL’s pre-season schedule gets underway later this evening when Chicago plays Houston in the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton. Kick-off is set for 8 PM ET with coverage on ABC and ESPN. Unfortunately, though, rookie Bears’ QB Caleb Williams, the #1 pick at the 2024 draft, will… Read More »
Initial Top 50+ 2025 Big Board posted … With the start of the upcoming college football season now essentially a month away, we have posted our initial Big Board ranking of the Top 50+ prospects for the 2025 draft. A couple of thoughts that emerged along the way. On the one hand, the very top of the board… Read More »
Pre-season 2025 draft safety preview … The safeties were shut out of the first round in both of the past two drafts; indeed, the first player at the position selected in both 2023 and 2024 wasn’t taken until the middle of the second round. That could change this year, though, as Georgia All-American Malaki Starks is currently rated… Read More »
NFL teams reporting for duty … Its like the first day of school in the NFL today as veterans will be reporting to training camp today on 23 of the league’s 32 teams. The final four teams – Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh – to report tomorrow. For the record, the pre-season schedule kicks off next week with… Read More »
Last 2024 #1 pick signs … There will be no holdouts from any of the players chosen in the first round of this year’s draft after the last unsigned 2024 #1 picks came to terms over the weekend. Cincinnati OT Amarius Mims, the 18th player chosen this past April was the last to sign, as he agreed to… Read More »
2025 draft preview: Cornerbacks … As with pretty much the rest of the defence, the 2024 draft was something of a disappointment for the CBs. Three were selected in the opening round, but not until the very latter part of the round. In fact, it was the first draft since 2019 that a corner wasn’t selected with a… Read More »
2025 draft preview: Linebackers … The 2024 draft was not a particularly good year for the defence and it a particularly not good year for the linebackers. Indeed, no LBs were selected in last April’s opening round and just one – Edgerrin Cooper of Texas A&M who was taken in the middle of the second round – was… Read More »
Pats shuffle front office … New England has announced a number of front office moves including officially hiring Alonzo Highsmith, who previously worked with Patriots’ new executive VP of player personnel Eliot Wolf with Green Bay and Cleveland, as a senior personnel executive, while Casey Belongia was hired as a midwest area scout after spending 10 years with… Read More »
Texans release 7th rounder … In something of a rarity, Houston has released a draft pick as the team opens camp. The Texans have released former Michigan OG LaDarius Henderson, a 7th round pick this past April. Henderson was released with an injury designation as he has a foot injury that will require surgery. It is possible that… Read More »
2024 Draft Preview: Defensive tackles … The 2024 draft was an interesting one for the DT position. Only two DTs were selected in the opening and only one – Byron Murphy of Texas who was selected 16th overall by Seattle – was taken before the 25th pick. At the same time, though, DT was very much a position… Read More »
Bears sign top picks … Chicago avoided holdouts from its two first round picks at the 2024 draft, inluding QB Caleb Williams the #1 pick overall, when the Bears came to terms with Williams and WR Rome Udunze with rookies supposed to start training camp today. Williams, who represented himself, signed a $40M contract with $26M guaranteed, while… Read More »
DE/ER 2025 preview … The 2024 draft was something of a mixed bag for the edge rushers. Four were actually selected within the first 21 picks, but none went before the 15th pick; in fact, the first 14 players taken last April were all offensive players. However, on first blush, it does not appear as if that situation… Read More »
College football updates … There are updates to a couple of college football stories reported earlier this summer. On the one habd, star Oklahoma State RB Ollie Gordon, who led DI in rushing last fall with over 1,700 yards, will not face any additional team discipline after he was charged with a DWI infraction last month. That means… Read More »
Interior offensive line preview … The interior isn’t very often a premium position at the NFL draft and all signs tend to point to the fact that that will be the case again this coming April. At the same time, this could still be one of the more interesting position groupings in 2025. On the one hand, it… Read More »
Panthers continue reshaping front office … Carolina continues to remake its front office personnel staff with the somewhat surprising announcement last last week that VP of player personnel Adrian Wilson was no longer with the organization. Wilson, the former star Arizona safety, had been with the Panthers for just over a year. Earlier this spring Carolina had parted… Read More »
Another kick at the can?? … Way back in 1999 when the GBN was in its infancy – in fact that was just our second draft – we thought we made something of a splash when we were the first website to include former Oregon QB Akili Smith in our top 100; we were the first to list… Read More »
Vikes pick killed in car crash … Every once in a while real life intercedes in the football world and it did so last night when rookie Minnesota CB Kyhree Jackson and two former high school teammates were killed in a car crash. Jackson, who played collegiately at Oregon, was a 4th round pick by the Vikings this… Read More »
ESPN posts pre-pre-season mock … For those that have not seen it yet, ESPN has a mock 2025 draft up this week. And as we have noted in the past we would almost never ever say a mock draft was ‘too early’. What is too early is getting overly excited or upset a particular pick by a particular… Read More »
Top RB prospect arrested on DUI suspicion … Star Oklahoma State RB Ollie Gordon, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for 2025, was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence. Gordon led the country in rushing last fall with over 1,700 yards and 21 scores, despite not playing much early on… Read More »
Guide to betting recreationally on the NFL … We don’t normally advocate that folks bet on the NFL or any other sporting event for that matter; however, we do realize that many do and for those that do betting in the NFL can be an exciting way to enhance their enjoyment of the game. For those who want… Read More »
Star Cincy DT sidelined by blood clots … Cincinnati DT Dontay Corleone, one of the top prospects at the position for the 2025 draft, has been sidelined indefinitely after blood clots were found in his lungs earlier this month. Corleone, a 6-foot-2, 320-pound junior who is considered to be an early to mid second day prospect for the… Read More »
Happy Canada Day weekend … A very happy and safe Canada Day weekend to all our Canuckster cousins. The big day is actually Monday, but the CFL kicks off the weekend in style with Montreal playing in Toronto later this evening in a match-up of two of the league’s three remaining unbeaten teams. Kick-off is at 7:30 PM… Read More »
No summer supp draft … The NFL has informed teams that for the 4th time in the past 5 years there will not be a special supplemental draft this summer. There were a couple of players available in last summer’s supp draft, although neither was selected after there were no supplemental drafts in the years 2020-2022. In fact,… Read More »
