NFL issues ‘clarification’ on 2024 comp picks; selection order … The NFL has just issued what they are quaintly calling a ‘clarification’ to the 2024 selection order. In particular, due to some kind of error, Cincinnati has actually been awarded a 3rd round compensation pick – #97 overall – but will only get one comp pick (#214) in… Read More »
Lions get vet CB, picks from Bucs for 3rd … Detroit took a step to shoring up its sometimes shaky secondary by acquiring veteran CB Carlton Davis from Tampa Bay for a 3rd round pick. The Lions will also get a 6th round pick (#92) this year as well as a 6th rounder on 2025.
Giants get star ER Burns from Panthers for picks; updated … Jut hours after they lost one of their few star players to free agency, the Giants returned the favor by trading for Carolina ER Brian Burns. In exchange the Panthers will get the first of two Giants’ 2nd round pick this year – #39 overall – as… Read More »
Falcons sign former Vikes’ QB Cousins … One of the big free agents on the market this year did not take long to sign as QB Kirk Cousins has agreed to a 4-year deal with Atlanta. Cousins, of course, is not the only veteran free agent QB to make noise in the past few days as Russell Wilson… Read More »
Big, big week on tap in NFL … The 2024 season really starts to heat up this week. Indeed, the new football year begins at 4 PM ET on Wednesday when teams can start to sign free agents as well as make trades. At the same time, the pro day schedule also gets going in earnest this week… Read More »
Report: Pats to move QB Jones to Jags … New England is reportedly close to finalizing a deal with Jacksonville that would send QB Mac Jones to the Jaguars in exchange for what is believed to be a 6th round pick this April. For the record, the Jags have two 2024 6th round picks, the 192nd and 212th.… Read More »
Cards, 4 others lead NFL draft pack with 11 picks … With the 2024 selection order now set, of course barring future trades, Arizona, Green Bay, San Francisco, Buffalo and the LA Rams have the most picks with 11 each. The Cardinals haul, though, may be the most impressive as 6 of Arizona’s 11 selections come on either… Read More »
Browns get Broncos WR Jeudy for late picks … Cleveland has reportedly agreed to a deal with Denver in which the Browns will get WR Jerry Jeudy in exchange for the 135 pick overall in the 5th round and 202 in the 6th this year. The trade will only become official though when the new league year begins… Read More »
Illini DT Newton, OT Pearl sit out pro day … The first week of the annul pro day circuit wound up yesterday with Illinois holding its workout. Unfortunately, though, though, star Illini DT Johnny Newton, a first-round prospect for the upcoming draft, was not able to participate as he continues to rehab from post-season surgery to repair a… Read More »
Full 7-round selection order posted … With the compensatory picks having been announced, here is the full, 7-round selection order for the upcoming draft.
Comp picks announced … The NFL has just released the compensatory picks that have been awarded for the 2024 draft. A total of 32 new comp picks were awarded to 14 teams. Leading the way are the LA Rams, San Francisco and Philadelphia each of which received the maximum number of 4 picks awarded for their net loss… Read More »
Post-combine Big Board posted … With the combine in the books and now less than 50 days until the actual picks start coming off the board at the 2024 draft, the GBN Big Board has been updated as well as expanded now to the top 250 prospects. For the record, there was a little rearranging of the deck… Read More »
Pro day sched underway … The annual pro day schedule is now comfortably underway. In fact, Ball State, which is of course just down the road from Indianapolis where the scouting combine was held last week, held its pro day on Monday, while Indiana went on Tuesday and Northwestern on Wednesday, while scouts will be back in Indiana… Read More »
50 days and counting … For those who keep track of these things, the 2024 draft gets underway just 50 days from today. Hang in there guys!!
Busy tag day in the NFL … The window for NFL teams to tag impending free agents with either a franchise or transition designation just closed on what was a relatively busy day. Indeed, a total of 4 players were designated as franchise players including Baltimore DT Justin Maduike, DBs Antoine Winfield of Tampa and Chicago’s Jaylon Johnson,… Read More »
Tag day in the NFL … Today is the deadline for teams to apply a franchise or transition tag to impending free agents. So far, two players have been designated as franchise players: Cincinnati WR Tee Higgins and Kansas City CB L’Jarius Sneed.
Broncos to release QB Wilson; other league updates that could impact the 2024 draft… After an unsuccessful 2-year run in Denver, the Broncos have told QB Russell Wilson that he will be released before the new NFL football year kicks on March 15th. In doing so the Broncos will absorb a monster $85M cap hit, although they will… Read More »
Big uglies bench press wraps combine … The 2024 NFL scouting combine wraps up in Indianapolis later this morning with the offensive linemen doing their bench press. In fact, though, NFL teams have already gone home. However, there won’t be much of a break for their scouts and top personnel execs as they’ll have just enough time to… Read More »
OT Fashanu dinged at combine … Penn State OT Olu Fashanu’s day is done at the combine after he reportedly strained something during his 40 run. However, the injury is not believed to be serious and Fashanu hopes to do some field work at PSU’s pro day on March 15th. For the record, Fashanu measured in today at… Read More »
Both groups of OL times available … We now have unofficial times for both groups of offensive linemen running today at the combine. Here are the updated unofficial results for the OTs, OGs and Cs. For the record, while none of the top OTs posted anything close to a ‘WOW’ figure all ran well enough with John Alt… Read More »
Big uglies are big!! … The offensive linemen are starting to warm-up for their on-field physical testing and positional drills, but even before they hit the track we can say it one big group. Indeed, it was if they held a combine weigh-in session for the OL and a basketball game broke out. Indeed, more than a half… Read More »
Big uglies wrap combine workouts … The on-field workouts aspect of the scouting combine wrap up later today with the offensive linemen doing their physical testing and positional drills. Remember that this afternoon’s session starts at 1 PM ET on the NFL Network. Certainly, there was plenty to chew on at yesterday’s workout for the QBs, WRs and… Read More »
Wow!! Saving the best for last … We now have times for all the WRs (although note that the numbers for the second group are still unofficial.) And the last guy down the track – Xavier Worthy of Texas – blew the field away with a remarkable. now-official 4.21 clocking, breaking John Ross’ long-standing all-time 40 record at… Read More »
And then were two; no three; maybe four … On further review Sam Hartman was not the only QB t run the 40 at the positional testing today at the scouting combine. Hartman was the only one to run in the first group, but three more did in the second group includin BYU’s Kedon Slovis who posted a… Read More »
First group of WR times official … A little later than we hoped, we now have the official 40 times for the first group of WRs that ran earlier this afternoon. They featured an outstanding 4.34 run by Adonai Mitchell of Texas. The big winner so far today though may be Ladd McConkey, who has generally been thought… Read More »
