More rumblings from USC QB Williams’ camp … People around Southern California QB Caleb Williams, the consensus favorite to be the first player selected at the 2024 draft, continue to create a little noise about the draft. A couple of weeks ago, Williams, the returning Heisman Trophy winner from 2022, left the door open to possibly returning to… Read More »
Saints rook QB suspended 6 weeks for PEDS … Rookie New Orleans QB Jake Haener, a 4th round pick at the 2023 draft has been suspended for the first 6 weeks of the season for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. Haener, from Fresno State, had been listed as the Saints’ #3 QB behind veterans Derek Carr and… Read More »
Bengals, Niners to Super Bowl in GBN fearless forecast … With the Lions and Chiefs set to kick-off the 2023 regular season Thursday evening it is time for our annual ‘Fearless Forecast’ of the upcoming NFL season in which we see Cincinnati playing San Francisco in the Super Bowl. Here’s the full forecast including our picks for the… Read More »
Cards nab QB Williams, WR Harrison in first mock of the campaign … It says here that you just can’t start the season off on the right foot without a projection for next year’s draft, which for the record, is now just 230 days away. So here we go, although needless to say much will change between now… Read More »
Prospect profiles posted … Continuing with our series previewing the college season in anticipation of the 2024 draft, here a quick profiles of most of the top 40 or so prospects for the upcoming draft. Note that the list of players profiled closely approximates the updated GBN Big Board which was posted yesterday, but not all players on… Read More »
Positional rankings; Big Board updated … The GBN positional rankings (see the list above) and Big Board ranking the top 50 prospects for the 2024 draft have been updated.
Bonus, bonus coverage … With no Monday night football in the NFL until next week, the colleges are going to fill the gap this week, with a conference game to boot as Clemson plays at Duke on ESPN with kickoff set for 8 PM ET. And the neat thing about some of the early season games on the… Read More »
Bonus Coverage: #5 LSU at #8 Florida State; Orlando; 7:30 PM ET; ABC … When the 2023 college football schedule came out earlier this year a half dozen or so games jumped off the page as must-see, key contests with huge national playoff implications. This was one of them. LSU comes ranked 5th in pre-season polls, while the… Read More »
ACC morphs into A&PCC … Not sure if they’ll now have to call itself the Atlanta&Pacific Coast Conference as the ACC confirmed earlier today that Pac-12 orphans Stanford and California and Southern Methodist will be joining the conference next fall. Stanford and Cal, of course, became free agents when the Pac-12 when the Pac-12 essentially disintegrated earlier this… Read More »
Who to watch in college football on Saturday … The best game of the first full weekend of college football games isn’t until Sunday when LSU hosts Florida State in a match-up of top 10 with legitimate national championship aspirations. And we’ll post a preview of who to watch in that classic on Sunday morning. At the same… Read More »
Draft innovator Brandt passes at 91 … Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys’ Director of Player Personnel Gil Brandt, who did more than anyone to revolutionize the draft process, has passed away at the age of 91. Brandt joined the Cowboys in 1960 and through his long career with the team and later as a media analyst helped bring… Read More »
Kiper posts updated top 25 … For those that haven’t seen it, long-time draft guru Mel Kiper has posted an updated Top 25 just in time for the start of the 2023 season over at ESPN. And for the most part, Kiper has the usual suspects – QBs Caleb Williams of USC and North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Ohio… Read More »
College football set to kick-off first full weekend … The first full weekend on the 2023 college schedule kicks off in just a few hours in what has the potential to be a really wacky season. And not just because its the final season before the CFP playoffs expand from the current 4 teams to amore reasonable in… Read More »
Rams, Pack lead NFL rookie parade … It is almost guaranteed that there will be a lot of tweaking of NFL rosters between now and when the regular season opens next weekend. For now, though, the LA Rams and Green Bay have the largest number of rookies on their current rosters including both players selected at the 2023… Read More »
Undrafted rookie class continues bounce back from Covid slump … With training camps limited earlier this decade because of the pandemic, it really was particularly hard for undrafted rookies to break through and make an NFL roster. In 2021, for example, just 25 undrafted rookies survived the final round of cuts as teams around the league got down… Read More »
Updated draft numbers… We have had a chance to go over the results of yesterday’s transaction frenzy as teams around the NFL got down to their opening-day, 53-man rosters. In the end, by our unofficial numbers, a total of 18 players drafted in 2023 were released, while another 13 were placed on an exempt list such as the… Read More »
Troubled Husker TE in trouble … The long, winding football story of Nebraska TE Arik Gilbert took another strange turn last night when he was arrested and charged with burglary after a botched attempted robbery of a liquor store. Gilbert was originally a big-time recruit at LSU, but transferred originally to Florida and then shortly afterward to Georgia.… Read More »
Waiver deadline passes; teams start to build practice squads … With the Noon ET today deadline to claim players who were waived yesterday off waivers having passed NFL teams can now start to sign up to 16 players to their practice squad. In fact, several teams have made waivers claims. One of note saw Arizona claim WR Elijah… Read More »
Record number of picks survive the Turk … All 32 teams from around the NFL have now gotten down to their opening day 53-man rosters, and while there will still be plenty of roster tweaks around the league before the regular season kicks off in just under two weeks, but for now, at least according to our unofficial… Read More »
Jags first to cut 2023 picks … Jacksonville was one of the first teams to get down to today’s 53-man roster limit; the Jags were also the first to release members of their 2023 draft class as the cut CB Eric Hallett and TE Derek Parish, who were 6th and 7th round picks respectively.
Two more trades to report … There were a couple of more trades announced in the past few moments as teams around the NFL scramble to get down to the 53-man roster limit, the deadline for which is coming up in just over an hour. In an intra-league deal, Las Vegas sent second-year DT Neil Farrell to Kansas… Read More »
Kickers on the mover; two get traded … Because kickers are people too they can be traded and a couple of veteran PKs are in fact on the move at this hour. New England has traded Nick Folk. a 17-year veteran to Tennessee for a 7th round pick in 2025, while New Orleans has sent Will Lutz, the… Read More »
Giants get DE Basham from Bills … The NY Giants have acquired reserve DE Boogie Basham in a trade with Buffalo. Terms have not been confirmed but have been reported as a swap of late round picks in 2025.
Dolphins, Chiefs in pre-cut trades … There were a couple of minor trades announced overnight as teams look to get down to today’s 53-man opening day roster limit. In one, Miami sent veteran back-up C/G Dan Freeney to Chicago in exchange for a 6th round pick in 2024. At the same time, Kansas City sent WR Ihmer Smith-Marsette… Read More »
QB Burke heads preliminary CFL draft ranking … The Canadian Football League has released its first ranking for the 2024 CFL draft. And there isn’t much of a surprise at the very top of the board as Ohio QB Kurtis Rourke heads the list. In fact, players at US colleges dominate the Canadian league’s first ranking as 8… Read More »
