Guess who’s coming to dinner! … With the rest of the NFL assuming at this point that USC QB Caleb Williams to Chicago with the first pick at this month’s draft is pretty much a done deal, the focus has shifted to what Washington and New England will do with the 2nd and 3rd picks respectively. And while… Read More »
Prospective top pick QB Williams visits Bears … For the record, USC Caleb Williams, who is widely expected to be the first player selected at this month’s draft – which for the record IS three weeks today – had his official visit with the Bears in Chicago yesterday. And in further confirmation of the likelihood that it is… Read More »
The curious case of JJ McCarthy … Of course, Michigan QB JJ McCarthy’s path to the 2024 draft has been well documented as he appears t be getting plenty of attention from teams picking early in the upcoming draft and needing help big-time at the position. Indeed, there have been at least some rumblings that McCarthy could be… Read More »
Texans get star WR Diggs from Bills for future #2 … While we were out getting a shot, Buffalo traded star WR Stefon Diggs, a 6th round pick this year (#189), and a 2025 5th rounder to Houston in exchange for a 2nd round pick in 2025. Needless to say having already lost WR Gabe Davis who signed… Read More »
QBs Maye, Penix gaining traction??? …While the majority of NFL observers still believe that Washington will select LSU QB Jayden Daniels with the second pick overall at this month’s draft, there is a growing sense that it may not be quite a done deal, especially if the Commanders consider Daniels, the reigning Heisman Trophy holder, to be too… Read More »
Bears shifting focus to 2nd #1 pick … With most NFL teams now back in their respective war rooms plotting their strategy for the 2024 draft, now barely over three weeks away, there isn’t a whole lot of buzz these days. The one thing that does seem to be becoming abundantly clear is that Chicago is going to… Read More »
Iowa CB DeJean cleared for takeoff!! … Iowa CB Cooper DeJean, a top 25 prospect for the upcoming draft who has not been able to work out so far this year as he has been rehabbing from fractured fibula suffered late last season, has informed teams around the league that he has been cleared for football activity and… Read More »
No Foolin’! We are in the homestretch … Its April 1st which means its also April Fool’s Day; it also means we are finally in draft month with the draft set to start in barely 25 days. And with the pro days, with the exception of a few stragglers, now in the books, NFL personnel execs and scouts… Read More »
Movin’ on up; Part Deux … We are in the process of putting the final touches on our Big Board and hope to have something posted in the next few days. And in the process, a couple of noteworthy trends seem to have emerged. First, the players who appear to have been ranked in the top 10-12 positions… Read More »
AA CB Bishop runs well at Big 12 pro day … Through the first two days plus there really hasn’t been much coming out of the combined Big XII conference pro day – or I guess more appropriately pro weekend – to get excited about. However, West Virginia CB Beanie Bishop did make something of a statement earlier… Read More »
UBC OL impress at Canadian pro day … A total of 16 NFL teams sent teams to Vancouver for today’s pro day workout at UBC featuring All-Canadian OT Theo Benedet and Giovanni Manu. And both impressed by all accounts. Benedet, the only two-time offensive lineman of the year in Canadian college football history, measured in at 6-7, 295… Read More »
Details of Chiefs-Titans trade for CB Sneed finally confirmed … It took a little longer than normal but the trade in which Kansas City traded franchised CB l’Jarius Sneed to Tennessee for a 3rd round pick in 2025 has been ratified. To complete the deal, the teams will swap 7th round picks this year with the Chiefs getting… Read More »
Jets get vet DE Reddick from Eagles for conditional future pick … The NY Jets have reportedly acquired veteran DE Hassan Reddick from Philadelphia in exchange for a conditional 2026 3rd round pick that could escalate to a #2 that year if he plays 67.5% of the Jets defensive snaps and records 10 sacks or more.
Movin’ on up … or at least trying! … For awhile now, the buzz around the NFL has been that Minnesota was poised to try and move up into the top 3-4 picks in this year’s draft in order to grab one of the top QBs that will be available on April 25th. Of course, that buzz reached… Read More »
Terps wrap pro day week … The final full week on the annual pro day schedule wraps up later today with workouts at Maryland and Central Florida. There is also a rare pro day at a Canadian university as UBC will hold a workout later today featuring offensive linemen Theo Benedet and Giovanni Manu. The 6-8 Benedet, in… Read More »
QBs Maye, Penix put in solid pro days … Nobody these days knows whether these scripted pro day passing sessions mean anything or not, but if they do Drake Maye of North Carolina and Washington’s Michael Penix had solid performances in their on-field workouts earlier today. Passing in front of pretty much the same throng of scouts and… Read More »
Duke OL Barton runs well at pro day … Duke C Graham Barton was already one of the hottest prospects in the 2024 draft with some legit first-round aspirations and he punctuated that with an outstanding 40 clocking at the Blue Devils’ pro day earlier today. Barton, who did not run at the combine where he weighed 313… Read More »
QBs Maye, Penix hilite second to last full day on pro day sked … Today is the second to last full day on this year’s pro day schedule, but it is a key one nonetheless with two of this year’s top 6 QBs – Drake Maye of North Carolina and Washington’s Michael Penix – slated to go through… Read More »
Other pro day updates … While most of the football world was focused on the LSU pro day where top 5 prospects Jayden Daniels and Malik Nabers were working out among others there were other pro day today. At Tennessee, QB Joe Milton ran what’s been reported as a sub-4.6 40 and then went out and reportedly threw… Read More »
Daniels passes pro day test … The preliminary reviews are in on Jayden Daniels pro day workout earlier today and while it didn’t seem to be a ‘wow’ workout with a few too many misses, the consensus also appears to be that Daniels checked off all the boxes. And while we’ll leave it to those with a higher… Read More »
To QB or not to QB … There appears to be a growing sense around the NFL that QBs could very well go 1-2-3-4 at next month’s draft for the first time ever. There have also been multiple – and sometimes contradictory – rumors as to which team will actually pick which player at which spot. There have… Read More »
LSU pro day updates; Part Deux … Interesting that neither of LSU top ten prospects Jayden Daniels nor Malik Nabers opted to get measured at the combine. Today, Nabers measured in at 6-3.5, 210, which is a little on the light side, but hardly a deal breaker. Nabers, meanwhile, came in at 6-0, 200. Nabers then went on… Read More »
LSU pro day update … Still waiting for some actual results from today’s LSU pro day. Needless to say, all 32 teams are represented at the Tigers’ workout including 6 NFL head coaches. That includes the head coaches of the three teams with the first three picks: Chicago’s Matt Eberflus, Dan Quinn of Washington and New England’s Jerod… Read More »
LSU pro day today with QB Daniels to throw … Over 100 NFL personnel people are expected to be at LSU later today for the Tigers’ pro day which will feature the passing session of star QB Jayden Daniels, this year’s Heisman Trophy winner who is considered to be a likely top 2-3 pick at next month’s draft.… Read More »
NFL trade deadline pushed back … The NFL has announced that henceforth the league’s trading deadline will be after the 9th week of the schedule. That’s one week later than it had been. That means that this this year’s trade deadline will fall on November 5th.
