More Senior Bowl updates … Just a quick update to this morning’s earlier update from the Senior Bowl’s morning practice in Mobile. In addition to UCLA’s Laiatu Latu, a umber of other top prospects did not participate in the 11-on-11 reps for the National team including OT Taliese Fuaga and C Jackson Powers-Johnson, two of the better OL… Read More »
WashComs hire Cowboys Quinn as new head coach … Washington has hired Dan Quinn as head coach. Quinn, who had been defensive co-ordinator with Dallas the past few years, had a previous head coaching stint with Atlanta.
Senior Bowl updates … Just a couple of quick updates from this morning’s practice session at the Senior Bowl in Mobile. UCLA DE Laiatu Latu, the highest-rated prospect coming into the week, does not appear to be in uniform but instead is on the sidelines with his leg in some sort of sleeve. At the same time, Toledo… Read More »
Final day of Senior Bowl practices; Shrine game tonight … It is a very big day on the college all-star game schedule. On the one hand, it is the third and final day of practises at the Senior Bowl in Mobile with sessions again at 10:30 AM and 1 PM ET later today. And remember that NFL teams… Read More »
Notes from PM Senior Bowl practice … Arguably the best players on the field in Mobile Wednesday afternoon were defensive linemen Darius Robinson of Missouri and Texas’ T’Vondre Sweat. Robinson, a rising prospect with some late first-round aspirations had a quiet practice session on Tuesday, but rebounded nicely earlier today with a dominating performance. He’s not necessarily going… Read More »
Preliminary Senior Bowl Day 2 morning practice observations … The morning practice session at this week’s Senior Bowl in Mobile is in the books. Again, one doesn’t want to draw too many conclusions as there is a limited sample of plays for each player in the all-star game format. As well, while the players were in full pads,… Read More »
With the first day of practice at this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, here is a rundown of some of our observations from this afternoon’s workout, although we note that the players were only in shells and there was no tackling per se. To put it simply, none of the QBs in today’s afternoon session which included Joe… Read More »
Preliminary observations from AM Senior Bowl practice … With the players warming up for this afternoon’s Senior Bowl practice, here are a couple or three or more preliminary observations from this morning’s workout, although we note that the players were only in shells and there was no tackling per se. It didn’t appear as if Michael Penix threw… Read More »
Bolts sign Ravens exec as new GM … The LA Chargers completed the makeover at the top of their football ops org chart by hiring long-time Baltimore exec Joe Hortiz as the team’s new general manager. Hortiz, of course, will now be paired with new coach Jim Harbaugh who was hired by the Chargers last week. Hortiz, who is… Read More »
Senior bowl HT/WT data released … For what we believe is the first time, the Senior Bowl itself has released the numbers from today’s weigh-in and measurement session. Again, there we4en’t necessarily and huge surprises, but we have highlighted some of the hilites and lowlites here.
Senior Bowl players gathering in Mobile … Participants in this year’s Senior Bowl are gathering in Mobile as we speak for the start of the three-days of practices on Tuesday. And while very few of the very top prospects for the 2024 draft will be in Mobile this week, almost all the leading second-tier candidates will be on… Read More »
Shrine updates … The players at this week’s East-West Shrine game in Frisco are halfway thru their 4-days of practice. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a whole of news coming out of those sessions. It does appear, though, that are several pretty prominent prospects at the Shrine game that we did not report on earlier that we… Read More »
Lions lose in SF; to pick 29th … For a long while this evening it looked like one of the NFL’s longest streaks of futility might just becoming to an end as Detroit, which last won an NFL championship 66 years ago, and is the only remaining NFC never to appear in a Super Bowl, led San Francisco… Read More »
Loss to Chiefs gives Ravens 30th pick … As a result of this afternoon’s very disappointing loss to Kansas City, Baltimore will have the 30th in the opening round of the 2024 draft. At the same time, the loser of this evening’s NFC championship game between Detroit and San Francisco will have the 29th selection. Meanwhile, Kansas City… Read More »
Cards, Pack, Rams and 49ers lead way with most 2024 picks … By our still very unofficial count including known regular picks, as well as projected compensatory selections, Arizona, Green Bay, San Francisco and the LA Rams currently have the most picks at the 2024 draft with 11 each, followed by Buffalo with 10 and Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Philadelphia… Read More »
Shrine practices set to get underway … While most of the football world is focused on Sunday’s NFL conference championship games, all-star week also gets underway this weekend with the 4 days of practices for Thursday’s East-West Shrine game set to start on Saturday. And assuming the Shrine organization follows the normal pattern, Saturday’s practices will be in… Read More »
Falcons tab Morris as new head coach; Rams to get comp picks … Atlanta confirmed this evening that they have agreed to terms with LA Rams’ defensive co-ordinator to be the team’s new head coach. Interesting choice in that the Falcons interviewed Bill Belichik, arguably the most successful coach in NFL history, twice, but ultimately settled for a… Read More »
Updates to selection order … There are a couple of updates re the selection order for the first three rounds of the 2024 draft posted last week. At the time, it was not clear which of Denver’s two third rounders Seattle would get to complete a 2023 draft trade. Turns out is the pick that Denver acquired from… Read More »
Harbaugh to Bolts … And there you have it! Jim Harbaugh, coach of the national champion Michigan Wolverines, sent shock waves through two sports this evening when he agreed to return to the NFL as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. In fact, in the space of barely a couple of weeks, two of college… Read More »
Titans name Carthon GM; Callahan head coach … Tennessee completed the restructuring of the top of their football operations program by promoting Ran Carthon to the position of executive VP and G.M., while Brian Callahan, who spent the past five years as offensive co-ordinator in Cincinnati, has been named head coach. At the same time, Chad Brinker has… Read More »
Eagles, 49ers, Rams projected to lead comp pick haul … The NFL won’t be announcing the actual compensatory picks for the 2024 draft until early in March, but several sources have gotten pretty accurate at predicting which teams will get extra picks each year. One of those is Over The Cap which is projecting that Philadelphia, San Francisco… Read More »
Raiders hire Telesco as new GM … Las Vegas stayed inside the AFC in finding a new GM as the Raiders have hired Tom Telesco, who spent the last 11 years in the same job with the LA Chargers, to be their new general manager of the L.A. Chargers has landed on his feet, as the G.M. of… Read More »
Pats’ Mayo narrows draft options … Normally at this time of the year, NFL teams don’t say much about their upcoming draft options other than perhaps to claim ‘we’re looking at everything and will be taking the best player!’ However, new New England head coach Jared Mayo, whose Patriots have the 3rd overall pick in this year’s draft,… Read More »
Panthers name former star LB Morgan GM … Carolina began restructuring its football operations staff earlier today by naming Dan Morgan, who had been the team’s assistant GM under Scott Fitterer, as the Panthers’ new general manager. Prior to returning to the Panthers, who he played for between 2001 and 2007 before retiring because of injuries, Morgan worked… Read More »
Mock updated … Given that several players in our last projection for 2024 ultimately opted to return to school, not to mention the fact that we also have a revised Big Board, it seemed like a good time to also give another shot at a 3-round mock. In doing this mock we worked from the assumption that there… Read More »
