Super Bowl to decide final two picks … The 2023 season wraps up later this evening with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs facing the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. And that means the final two picks in the 2024 draft – now less than 75 days away – selection order will be… Read More »
Pats tweak front office … It appears New England has settled on a front office structure, at least for the short term, following the departure of Bill Belichik last month. Eliot Wolf, the son of almost legendary long-time Packers GM Ron Wolf, who has been the Patriots director of scouting, will become the team’s de facto G.M., although… Read More »
Big Board updated … With all the new information, the GBN Big Board ranking the top 200+ prospects overall for the 2024 draft has been updated. And as we have noted previously, our board reflects less how we have the players rated ourselves, but as best as we can figure how NFL teams have them ranked on their… Read More »
Defensive positional rankings updated … The GBN defensive positional rankings have been updated (see the drop down menu above.) The biggest changes, and they are pretty significant, are at CB where there appears to have been almost a sea change with an almost entirely new top 3 at the position. In particular, Alabama’s Terrion Arnold appears to have… Read More »
Offensive positional notes … The updates to our positional rankings are now complete for the offence. See the drop-down menu above. A couple of notes along the way. Among the WRs, for example, the top three guys – Marvin Harrison, Rome Odunze and Malik Nabers – remain the same; in fact, it won’t be a total shock if… Read More »
To QB or not to QB continued; ranking updated … We are just in the process of updating our positional rankings starting with the QBs (and as usual the Big Board will be fully updated once the poistional rankings are done). Re the QBs it is still pretty clear that NFL teams have the top 3 guys –… Read More »
Last word on Senior Bowl prospects … Or at least our last word! Assessing how the various skill position players on offence and the back seven people on the other side of the ball is complicated by the fact that we don’t have access to the all-22 tape and what one sees on TV is limited. In particular,… Read More »
Senior Bowl game DL review … Not surprisingly, the defensive line also suffered from several opt outs for the actual Senior Bowl game in Mobile on Saturday as DEs Laiatu Latu of UCLA and Oregon’s Brandon Dorlus and DTs Michael Hall of Ohio State and Tyler Davis of Clemson chose not to play, while Missouri DE Darius Robinson,… Read More »
Senior Bowl game OL review … It was certainly disappointing that in addition to Washington QB Michael Penix a number of other top prospects opted to sit out Saturday’s actual Senior Bowl game in Mobile. And that number including several top offensive line candidates including OTs Taliese Fuaga of Oregon State, Oklahoma’s Tyler Guyton and Christian Jones of… Read More »
Senior Bowl wraps; its onto Indy for draft process … The post-season all-star game phase of the draft process came to an end this afternoon with the Orange team defeating the Gray team 16-7 in a rather lacklustre affair. In fact, we had been very much hoping to spend the afternoon analyzing the QB play, but Michael Penix,… Read More »
QB Penix to skip Senior Bowl game … In a late breaking development, Washington QB Michael Penix has reportedly opted not to play in today’s Senior Bowl game in Mobile which gets underway literally in minutes. It’s an interesting decision as Penix didn’t necessarily have a great week of practice and could have used a good game performance… Read More »
Irish QB has ankle surgery … New Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard has confirmed that he underwent surgery a couple of weeks ago on the ankle he injured back in September and that ultimately derailed his 2023 season. Leonard, who transferred to Notre Dame from Duke this off-season had a TightRope procedure done on the ankle that ironically… Read More »
Senior Bowl set to KO; DE Robinson named top player … The Senior Bowl game is set to get underway at 1 PM ET on the NFL Network. Here are the rosters for the National and American teams. Unfortunately, though, those rosters do not include the players’ numbers; however, those are available in PDF form here in several… Read More »
National team Senior Bowl practice wrap … You know its kind of a lighter practice when the offensive and defensive linemen are running routes, catching passes and working on their Heisman poses! Of course, that’s not all that happened in today’s afternoon practice at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, but like the morning session it was a whole… Read More »
National team Senior Bowl practice review … In no particular order, here are the players we thought really stood out at the Senior Bowl morning practices this week. CB Quinyon Mitchell, Toledo OT Taliese Fuaga, Oregon State WR Roman Wilson, Michigan DT Tyler Davis, Clemson C Jackson Powers- Johnson, Oregon C/G Dominick Puni, Kansas C/G Tanor Bortolini, Wisconsin… Read More »
Jackson, Isaac standout at morning Senior Bowl practice … This morning’s National team Senior Bowl practice was somewhat of a muted affair which wasn’t quite a walk-through but certainly lacked the intensity of the first two days in Mobile. However, a couple of guys did stand out this morning. Oregon CB Khyree Jackson, in particular, was the best… Read More »
Herd RB Ali out with tendon injury … One of the drawbacks of the all-star games is the potential for injury and it got Marshall RB Rasheen Ali who reportedly suffered a ruptured tendon during yesterday’s workout which will require surgery and sideline him for 4-6 months.
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 »
