Who to watch in college football’s really big games this weekend … Truth be told, there haven’t necessarily been a lot of truly must-see games through the first three weeks of the college football schedule. However, that all changes on Saturday with as many as a half a dozen key contests all with major conference and national implications.… Read More »
Vikes get Rams RB Akers; swap future picks … Minnesota has acquired veteran RB Cam Akers in a conditional trade with the LA Rams. The Vikings will also send a 7th round pick in 2026 to the Rams and will get a 6th rounder that year in exchange. Both picks have been described as conditional.
LSU S Brooks has brain tumor removed … LSU Safety Greg Brooks did not play in last week’s win over Mississippi because of what was described as a family medical emergency. Now we know the reason. Brooks, a second-tier prospect for the position had a brain tumor removed on Friday and is now waiting for the results of… Read More »
QBs Sanders, Leonard up on Kiper ranking … For those that missed it late last week, ESPN analyst Mel Kiper updated his top 25 for the 2024 draft late last week. Kiper’s top ten includes most of the usual suspects including Southern Cal QB Caleb Williams and Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison as the top two prospects; however,… Read More »
Broncos would pick first if draft held this week … We noted over the weekend, that we don’t intend to start posting a weekly selection order for the 2024 draft for a least another couple of weeks when we should start to see some real early trends. However, we can say of the 8 teams that are 0-2… Read More »
Hogs hope to have top RB Sanders back this week … One other college injury of note, Arkansas hopes to have star RB Raheim Sanders, arguably the top prospect at the position for the 2024 draft after he ran for over 1,400 yards and 10 TDs last fall, back when the Razorbacks open their SEC campaign on Saturday… Read More »
UGA OT Mims out with foot injury … Georgia will be without rising 3rd year OT Amarius Mims, one of the top 4-5 prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, for at least the next month after he underwent a procedure to repair what is being described as a ‘severe’ high ankle sprain. Mimis, in fact, is… Read More »
Cards, Broncos snatch defeat from the jaws of victory … For much of the afternoon it looked like Arizona might have to rethink any plans of tanking this fall in order to get one of the very top picks at the 2024 draft when they led the struggling NY Giants by 21 points midway through the 3rd quarter.… Read More »
Colts lead big at half, but rook QB out … Just to update that key ‘draft’ game between Houston and Indianapolis, the visiting Colts have jumped to a big 28-10 half-time lead, thanks in part to two rushing TDs by rookie QB Anthony Richardson; however, Richardson has since been ruled out with a concussion after completing 6 of… Read More »
Colts-Texans hilite low end of Sunday sked … It is still a little early in the season to be talking about key games on the way to the top picks at the 2024 draft, but one has to figure that today’s game between in Houston between the Texans and Indianapolis Colts has to be one of them as… Read More »
Orange TE/WR Gadsden to miss rest of year … Syracuse confirmed earlier today that star receiver Oronde Gadsden will miss the rest of the season because of a Lisfranc injury suffered the first week of the schedule. While nominally a TE, Gadsden is more a WR in a TE frame. He had been considered to be a late… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … There are no really key games on this weekend’s college football schedule so it gives folks a chance to do watch a bunch of players of interest to pro scouts who just weren’t all that likely to get much national TV exposure this season. In no particular order, here… Read More »
Some late thoughts on weekend college games … In the wake of Texas’ big upset win over Alabama right in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night, questions whether the Longhorns are indeed back have swirled about the college football landscape. Meanwhile, the other big question being asked this week is whether Alabama has any realistic chance to still make the… Read More »
MRI confirms torn Achilles for Jets’ QB Rodgers; pick likely to be downgraded … Updating the early report on the injury suffered by NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers early in the team’s season-open OT winning over division rival Buffalo last night. The Jets have now confirmed that an MRI confirmed that Rodgers did indeed tore his Achilles which… Read More »
WR/TE Gadsden dinged in Orange win … Folks in Syracuse are holding their breaths today after star receiver Oronde Gadsden was forced to leave yesterday’s easy win over Western Michigan with an undisclosed lower leg injury that occurred on just the second play of the game. Gadsden spend the second half of the game on the sidelines on… Read More »
‘Canes AA safety carted off late in win over Aggies … All-American Miami FS Kamryn Kinchens, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2024 draft, was carted off the field late in the 4th quarter of the Hurricanes huge win over Texas A&M. Kinchens came up to make what appeared to be a routine… Read More »
Who to watch in college football’s big games on Saturday … College football fans can only hope that Saturday’s return match-up between Alabama and Texas is as good a game as last year’s meeting in Austin when when the Tide pulled out a dramatic one-point win thanks to some late heroics by QB Bryce Young, who of course… Read More »
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 »
