Pair of Ducks fly off to draft … A couple of 3rd year Oregon Ducks have announced they’ll be entering the upcoming draft including rising C Jackson Powers-Johnson, who has a chance to be the first player at the position off the board this coming April, and scatback Bucky Irving, who isn’t all that pick, but he is… Read More »
Selection order updated … With a very wild and woolly week in the books, the first-round selection order for next April’s draft has been updated.
QB2 enters draft; other college notes … North Carolina QB Drake Maye, the consensus #2 prospect at the position behind USC’s Caleb Williams, has confirmed that he will in fact be entering the 2024 draft; Maye will also be skipping the Tar Heels bowl game later this month. At the same time, a couple of other veteran prospects… Read More »
Top pick musings … A couple of thoughts related to the top pick overall at the 2024 draft. First, we haven’t really highlighted it, but Chicago is very close to wrapping up the top pick with still a month to go in the regular schedule. The Bears, of course, own Carolina’s pick courtesy of the 2023 draft trade… Read More »
Another Top 100 posted … We are in the late stages of updating our positional rankings and Big Board and hope to have them finalized early next week. In the meantime, long-time NFL draft analyst Frank Coyle over at Draft Insiders Digest has just released his latest ranking of the top 100 prospects for the upcoming draft. What… Read More »
Top 3 picks unchanged; everything else on hold … With this week’s games in the books, save for tonight’s potentially epic battle between Philadelphia and the Cowboys in Dallas for what the NFC East lead, as well as tomorrow’s Monday night double-header, we can confirm that the top three picks in this week’s opening round selection order for… Read More »
Lite Sunday at top of ’24 selection order … There likely won’t be a whole lot of change to the top of this week’s selection order for the 2024 draft, at least for this week as a result of today’s schedule as literally half of the teams currently sitting on top 8 picks aren’t scheduled today. Arizona and… Read More »
LSU QB Daniels wins Heisman … Pretty much as expected, LSU QB Jayden Daniels was awarded this year’s Heisman Trophy at the annual ceremony in New York. Daniels edged out Washington QB Michael Penix for the award, with Oregon QB Bo Nix a little farther behind at #3 in the voting and Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison 4th.… Read More »
OU QB Gabriel moves to another OU … The first domino among big-time transferring QBs fell today when Dillon Gabriel confirmed that he has transferred from Oklahoma to Oregon where he will replace Bo Nix, one of 4 Heisman finalists, who is off to the NFL next fall. With all the great seasons turned by college QBs this… Read More »
Clemson LB Carter to return to school … In a bit of a surprise, 3rd year Clemson LB Barrett Carter, one of the top 4-5 prospects at the position, has announced that he has unfinished business with the program and will return to school for the 2024 season. Carter’s fellow Clemson LB Jeremiah Trotter, as well as rising… Read More »
QB Daniels, WR Harrison headline GBN All-America team … Its award season in college football and we thought we’d get in on the fun posting our annual All America team headed by LSU QB Jayden Daniels and Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison. Of course, both are among the four finalists for this year’s Heisman Trophy – along with… Read More »
Draft race goes prime time Thursday nite … Its probably not what the NFL schedule makers were hoping for when they drew New England to play Pittsburgh in this week’s mid-week prime time game, but game has as much relevance for the early selection order at the 2024 draft than it does for any late-season push for playoff… Read More »
FSU WR Wilson confirms draft entry … Florida State WR Johnny Wilson, a 4th year junior, has confirmed that he will pass on his final season of college eligibility and enter the 2024 draft where he figures to be an early 2nd day selection. Wilson will also be skipping the Seminoles’ bowl game, but has accepted an invitation… Read More »
Post (college) -season mock posted … With the regular college football season now nicely in the books it seemed like a good time to post an updated projection for the first round of the upcoming draft. And again we remind readers that the value of a projection at this time is not that we, or anyone for that… Read More »
Penn State DE Robinson to enter draft … Penn State DE Chop Robinson has confirmed that he will be passing on his remaining eligibility and entering the 2024 draft where he figures to be a mid-to-late first round candidate; Robinson will also miss the Lions bowl game. The 6-3, 255-pound Robinson was actually being mentioned as a possible… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week in the books, the first-round selection order for next April’s draft has been updated.
Top prospect Williams to skip bowl … Southern California has just confirmed that star QB Caleb Williams, the consensus top prospect for the 2024 draft, will not play in the Trojans’ bowl game later this month. USC is scheduled to play Louisville in the Holiday Bowl on December 27th. Normally when a player skips their bowl its to… Read More »
Two more QBs enter portal … A couple more prominent college QBs have entered the transfer portal as both Dillon Gabriel of Oklahoma and Ohio State’s Kyle McCord will be moving on. Gabriel, in fact, had a terrific year with the Sooners as he was among the nation’s leading passers this past fall throwing for almost 3,700 yards… Read More »
Pats to 2nd; Cards to 3rd in early selection order shuffle … The early selection order for the 2024 draft will look a little different this week as New England and Arizona will flip the 2nd and 3rd picks after the Cardinals shocked the Steelers right in Pittsburgh, while the Patriots were shut out enroute to a home… Read More »
No 3-peat for UGA as CFP playoff teams announced … Pretty much as we thought, it will be #1 ranked Michigan against Alabama in the Rose Bowl on January 1st and Washington versus Texas in the Sugar Bowl later that day in the CFP semi-finals. The winners will play on January 8th in Houston for the national championship.… Read More »
Eagles, Niners hilite Sunday NFL sked … If its Sunday in America, it must be time for another big test for the Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL’s top team. This week, for example, the 11-1 Eagles will be hosting San Francisco after facing Dallas, Kansas City and Buffalo the past three weeks. Of course, there are also a number… Read More »
CFP playoff decision coming up at Noon … This year’s 4-team college football playoff participants will be announced at Noon ET later today on ESPN (and TSN in Canada). And as noted yesterday the committee has a bit of a conundrum on its hands after Alabama stunned top-ranked Georgia in the SEC final. To wit: too many worthy… Read More »
Houston, we have a problem! … Or at least wherever the CFP playoff committee is based after Alabama upset 2-time defending national champion Georgia 27-24 in this afternoon’s SEC championship game in Atlanta. One just has to assume Alabama, the SEC champ gets in; and with Washington and almost asuredly Michigan already pretty much guaranteed spots in the… Read More »
Report: UT QB Ewers ‘likely’ to return … ESPN is reporting this morning that the chances that Texas QB Quinn Ewers returns to the Longhorns for the 2024 season have increased ‘exponentially’ in recent weeks. Ewers has been all over the map this season in terms of how NFL teams appear to view him, and while it also… Read More »
More college conference championship previews … Of course, the SEC title game between #1 Georgia and #8 Alabama is THE big game of the day Saturday, but there are in fact three other Power 5 conference championship tilts on the schedule for the day some which have implications for the CFP playoff lineup and some which don’t including… Read More »
