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 »
Big Board updated … With most of the 2024 draft class now in place, we have updated the GBN Big Board ranking the top 200-plus prospects for the upcoming draft.
KC edges Bills in thriller; Bills to pick 28th … In the end, it came down to a missed, very makeable FG, in the final two minutes as Kansas City advanced to the AFC championship game next Sunday in Baltimore with a 27-24 win over Buffalo. As a result, the Bills will have the 28th pick in the… Read More »
Bucs loss wraps two more draft spots; one to go … Tampa Bay gave it a go in today’s early game but came up a little short in a 31-23 loss in Detroit. As a result, with Green Bay having secured the 25th spot in the opening round selection order of the 2024 draft with their loss to… Read More »
Pack to pick 25th after tough loss to 49ers … One more spot in the opening round selection order for the 2024 draft was wrapped up as a result of yesterday’s playoff action as Green Bay will pick 25th as a result of a tough 24-21 loss in rainy San Francisco last evening. Arizona will also pick either… Read More »
NFL announces list of draft eligible underclassmen … The NFL released the formal list of underclassmen eligible to enter the 2024 draft earlier today. The list includes a total of 58 players, including 54 who needed special permission to enter the upcoming draft and 4 who had already graduated and didn’t need special entry. That total, though, in… Read More »
Window for underclassmen to withdraw from draft closes; no one leaves! … The 72-hour window for underclassmen who applied to the NFL for early admission to the 2024 draft to withdraw their names closed yesterday afternoon without anyone reportedly doing so. Sometime in the next day or so the league will announce the full list of underclassmen eligible… Read More »
Another star game on weekend sched … There is a second all-star game scheduled this weekend with the Tropical Bowl set to go in Daytona on Saturday afternoon. Kick-off is set for Noon ET. Unfortunately, it appears that the only TV coverage available is through the Al-America TV streaming service. Anyone interested can apply here. It also does… Read More »
Combine to stay in Indy thru 2025 … The NFL announced earlier today that the annual scouting combine will be in Indianapolis again in 2025. There has been some talk that the league would like to start moving the combine around as it does with the draft, but that won’t happen now at least for a couple of… Read More »
Cards in catbird seat early at 2024 draft … Obviously, the numbers likely will change between now and April, but for now Arizona appears to be the team in the best position to do some damage in the early going at the upcoming draft. Indeed, the Cardinals currently have 6 picks through the first three rounds of the… Read More »
Other Tagovailoa to enter draft … Former Maryland QB Taulia Tagovailoa, the younger brother of Miami QB Tua Tagovailoa, will be entering the upcoming draft after his appeal for an extra year of eligibility was denied by the NCAA. However, unlike Tua who was a top 5 pick by the Dolphins in 2020, Taulia is more of a… Read More »
Updated selection order … Just in case anybody missed it, the selection order for the first three rounds of the 2024 draft, was updated last evening.
National champs get RB, ER back … The one 3rd year junior we were actually still waiting to hear from with the deadline for underclassmen to apply to the NFL for early entry to the 2024 draft coming up in just a few hours was Michigan RB Donovan Edwards and he just announced that he will be returning… Read More »
Two more picks decided; four to come … Usually by this time on wild card weekend we know which teams will get the earliest playoff picks. This year, though, the only two picks that have been settled thru the first 4 wild card games are spots 23 and 24. Dallas will pick 24th in next year’s opeming round… Read More »
Deadline looming for underclassmen … Underclassmen wishing to enter the 2024 draft have until the end of business Monday afternoon to file paperwork with the NFL in order to be eligible to selected this spring. However, all the usual suspects have been heard from already, although it is still possible that some lesser known 3rd and 4th juniors… Read More »
Michigan QB McCarthy enters draft … With a national championship now securely on his resume and with his head coach flirting with the NFL, Michigan QB JJ McCarthy has announced that he will be entering the 2024 draft. However, where he actually fits in the 2024 draft class is still to be determined; for now, it appears McCarthy… Read More »
