Couple of notes from another very quiet weekend … With the draft now just over ten days away, the NFL appears to still be on pretty much total lockdown. This weekend, for example, we scoured newspapers from all the cities whose teams have picks in the top half of the opening round round next week and there was… Read More »
Are Cards, Vikes playing a little chicken with 4th pick? … We are just kind of spitballing here, but we are starting to get a sense that what happens with the 4th pick overall at this month’s draft could come down to whether Arizona or Minnesota blinks first. As noted earlier, people around the league are now pretty… Read More »
Browns get late Titans’ pick for vet OT … Tennessee has acquired 2nd year pro OT Leroy Watson from Cleveland in exchange for a 7th round pick, the 227th overall, at this month’s draft. Given that Watson is a former undrafted free agent who has never started an NFL game, his acquisition likely isn’t going to change’s the… Read More »
NFL announces 13 players to attend draft … The NFL announced earlier today that 13 players including QBs Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye have confirmed that they will be attending this year’s draft in Detroit which will be getting umderway in just over 2 weeks as we speak. The 3 QBs, of course, are expected to… Read More »
UGA’s Bowers, Mims do work out, but don’t run … In the end, both star TE Brock Bowers, a potential top 10 candidate, and OT Amarius Mims, who has top 20 potential of his own, did work out for pro teams today at Georgia, but only did positional drills and passed on any field testing including the 40.… Read More »
Let me count the ways: 1-2-3-4 … There are still 15 days to the draft, and the opening round seldom goes just by the number, but there really does appear to be a growing sense around the league that QBs could indeed go 1-2-3-4 with the first four picks for the first time in history when the clock… Read More »
UGA S Starks out for spring; shoulder … Georgia All-America safety Malachi Starks, potentially one of thr top prospects at the position for the 2025 draft, is not practising with the Bulldogs as he recovering from off-season shoulder surgery. Starks, though, is expected to be ready for the start of the upcoming season. The Bulldogs open the season… Read More »
Iowa CB DeJean passes pro day test … NFL teams had to wait a little bit extra to finally get to check out Iowa CB Cooper DeJean, but it may have been worth the wait as the former Hawkeyes’ star reportedly had a pretty good workout at a private pro day earlier today. DeJean, who had been sidelined… Read More »
‘Horns’ DT Sweat booked on DWI charge … From the ‘not what you wanna be doing 2-3 weeks before the draft’ but former Texas DTe T’Vondre Sweat, a potential late first, early second round pick at the upcoming draft, was arrested in Austin early this morning and charged with driving while intoxicated, a Class B misdemeanor in Texas.Swet… Read More »
Final medical re-checks underway in Indy … It is actually one of the more important weekends on the NFL draft schedule as 2024 prospects with significant injury concerns will be back in Indianapolis for final medical checks. Needless to say, the results don’t get published but will be passed on to every team.
The draft, QBs and the long game … The NFL has gone pretty much stone quiet the past few days which has led us to think a little bit about the QB situation at the very top of the board. And this isn’t based on anything really concrete in terms of verifiable evidence, but we still wonder if… Read More »
Big Board updated … With less than 3 weeks to go until the 2024 draft, the GBN Big Board has been updated and extended to the 350 top prospects for this year’s draft. There is still the possibility – even the likelihood – that they will be some tweaking over the next couple of weeks, but this is… Read More »
Guess who’s coming to dinner! Part deux … One of the things we try and do during the course of the ’30’ visits process is identify under-the-radar prospects who making an unusual number of visits suggesting that the league may actually have them rated higher than they are generally credited with. And while its still early in the… Read More »
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 »
