Star Ute DE looks to be heading back to school … Still nothing official but it appears that All-America Utah DE Jonah Elliss will return to school for the 2024 season rather than enter the upcoming draft. Elliss was among the nation’s leading QB sackers this past season with 12 in just 10 games, but he missed the… Read More »
Would the real ‘Year of the QB’ please stand up! … Back at the beginning of the current season the word around the NFL was that any team looking for an upgrade at QB probably didn’t want to delay as the 2024 class at the position looked to be potentially one of the best ever while pickings in… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week down and just three to go in the regular season, the first-round selection order for next April’s draft has been updated.
Players to watch in Tuesday bowl … The annual bowl fest leading up to the only bowls anyone really cares about continues on Tuesday with a Frisco Bowl (9 PM ET: ESPN) match-up between 8-4 UTSA and 6-6 Marshall. And as luck would have it there are several players worth watching; unfortunately, it could have even been more… Read More »
One UGA QB in, one out; Hog QB transferring … Its been a busy afternoon for college players, and especially college QBs, thinking abut entering the 2024 draft. The biggest news is that Georgia’s Carson Beck has opted to return to the Dawgs for another shot at a national title next fall. However, with Beck back in the… Read More »
Another Duck off to draft; Vols DE transfers … There are a couple of draft-related dispatches on the college football wire at this hour. Star Oregon WR Troy Franklin has announced that he will be entering this year’s draft; he’s the 3rd Duck 3rd year player to declare joing RB Bucky Irving and C Jackson Powers-Johnson. Franklin is… Read More »
QB3 enters draft … LSU QB Jayden Daniels, this year’s Heisman Trophy winner, just announced that he will in fact be entering the 2024 draft where he is currently rated as the #3 prospect at the position behind USC’s Caleb Williams and Drake Maye of North Carolina. The big question for the NFL regarding Daniels is whether he… Read More »
Couple of interesting players to watch in Monday bowl … We don’t usually highly recommend throw-away bowls between a 6-6 Sun Belt team and a 7-5 CUSA squad, but what makes Monday’s Famous Toastery Bowl in Charlotte (2:30 PM ET; ESPN) between Old Dominion and Western Kentucky is that each side features one of the most productive players… Read More »
Top 5 picks set for week; 6-8 too close to call … In the end, there won’t be any changes to the top 5 positions in this week’s first-round selection order for the 2024 draft. It will be Chicago, with Carolina’s pick at #1, followed by New England, Arizona, Washington and Chicago with its own pick. On the… Read More »
Race for top pick back on as Panthers nip Falcons … All of a sudden, the race to see who gets the #1 pick overall at the 2024, is back on after Carolina notched its second win of the campaign by upsetting Atlanta 9-7 on a walk-off FG. Chicago, which owns the Panthers’ pick thanks to a 2023… Read More »
Home cooking to impact top of selection order … Interesting that for the first time in quite some time there are no games this weekend between teams with early picks in the current first-round selection order for the 2024 draft. In fact, the closest thing this week was on Thursday night when #6 Las Vegas hosted the LA… Read More »
CFL ROY thinking about entering NFL draft … There is an interesting story out of the Canadian league where 2023 Rookie of the Year Qwan’Tez Stiggers, a CB with the Toronto Argonauts, is reportedly contemplating putting his name into the upcoming NFL draft. Stiggers signed with DII Lane College out of high school, but he never played there… Read More »
UGA LB to portal, out of draft; other college moves … Georgia LB Jumon Dumas-Johnson, who had been considered to be one of the better prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, instead has announced that he will be putting his name into the transfer portal. Dumon-Johnson was a consensus All-American in 2022 and entered the current… Read More »
Bowl season set to kick off … Yes, Virginia, there are still bowl games. Lots of ’em in fact, although nobody knows why. They never did matter all that much, at least the non-New Year’s Day big games, and now they matter even less with the evolution of the CFP playoffs. This year’s bowls get underway with 6… Read More »
Bolts fire GM, head coach in wake of blowout loss … An ugly week for the LA Chargers got a little uglier this morning as the team has fired both G.M. Tom Telesco and head coach Brandon Staley following last night’s embarrassing 63-21 loss to Las Vegas on national TV. The loss to the Raiders also pushed the… Read More »
One RB in; one out of draft; other college moves … A couple of top-ranked 3rd year RBs made their 2024 choices known today. Notre Dame All-American Audric Estime, for example, has confirmed that he will be foregoing his remaining eligibility and entering the upcoming draft after he exploded for over 1,300 yards and 18 TDs on the… Read More »
3rd year players: Who’s in, who’s out … As noted in an earlier report today, Notre Dame OT John Alt became the latest top 3rd year prospect to put his name earlier this afternoon. Of course, underclassmen not already automatically eligible for the 2024 draft have until January 15th to file paperwork with the NFL office in order… Read More »
Irish OT Alt enters draft … Notre Dame OT John Alt, a potential top 10 prospect, has confirmed that he will be foregoing his remaining eligibility and entering the 2024 draft. At the same time, the Irish added a potentially useful transfer as former Duke DE R.J. Oben, who had been included on the GBN Big Board ranking… Read More »
Sooner LB to return; ‘Cane QB to Badgers … Oklahoma LB Danny Stutsman confirmed yesterday that he will be returning to the Sooners next fall; Stutsman had been considered to be an early 3rd day prospect for this year’s draft. At the same time, former Miami QB Tyler Van Dyke, one of the seemingly small army of top… Read More »
Big board, positional rankings updated … Due to several unforseen technical glitches it took a little longer than originally planned, but the GBN Big Board ranking the top 200+ prospects for the 2024 draft has been updated as have the positional rankings per the drop-down menu above. Again, the goal here from our perspective is not to present… Read More »
Aggie LB enters draft; Duke QB to Irish … Texas A&M LB Edgerrin Cooper, a 4th year player who had a breakout season in 2023 with 8 sacks has announced he will be foregoing his remaining eligibility and entering the upcoming draft where he figures to get at least some early-to-mid second day interest. Meanwhile, Notre Dame did… Read More »
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 »
