Pigskin reviews Lions draft … Continuing his series of post-draft team reviews, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette takes a look at the Detroit Lions who had one of the most interesting drafts this year if nothing else!
Colts request tampering investigation of Commanders … Indianapolis has reportedly formally asked the NFL to investigate a possible tampering infringement against Washington after media reports circulated this weekend that the Commanders had reached out to retired Colts’ QB Andrew Luck last season. While Luck has been retired for several years, the Colts retain his rights which could put… Read More »
Big changes coming to college football in 2024 … For those that haven’t seen it yet, the CFP playoff committee has announced the schedule for the first 12-team playoff at the end of the 2024 college season. There will be four on-campus first round games just before Christmas with the four quarte-final games set for December 31st and… Read More »
Titans hire new Assistant GM … Tennessee has hired long-time Atlanta exec/scout Anthony Robinson to fill the team’s new assistant G.M.role. Robinson spent the last 16 seasons with the Falcons, most recently as director of college scouting after working his way up from the scouting ranks.
Pigskin reviews Steelers draft … Continuing his series of post-draft team reviews, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette takes a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2023 draft.
Pigskin analyzes Cards draft and where they go from here … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette continues his series of post-draft evaluations with a look at what Arizona accomplished at the 2023 draft and where they might go having accumulated – so far – the most premium picks for 2024.
Eagles, Colts add to A drafts with top UDFA signings … You won’t get much argument from NFL watchers that Philadelphia and Indianapolis had the two best drafts at last weekend’s draft. And both added to their impressive hauls earlier today when they each signed one of this year’s top undrafted free agents. Philadelphia, for example, signed former… Read More »
Preliminary Top 40 posted for 2024 … Needless to say there will be many changes before the actual 2024 draft, now 355 days away!, but here is our first stab at a top 40 for next year’s draft. It is interesting as it appears there is already a very solid, consensus top 10 emerging for next April, but… Read More »
Pigskin Paul’s remedial draft class grades … Of course, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for every team at the 2023 draft and GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s has a few draft grades that maybe didn’t quite hit the pass mark here. And props to Paul as he finished tied for 8th on the Huddle Reports annual… Read More »
Eagles’ Carter first 1st to sign … That didn’t take long! Philadelphia became the first team to sign an opening round pick from last weekend’s draft as the Eagles came to terms with DT Jalen Carter, the 9th player selected overall this year, on a 4-Y, $21.8M fully guaranteed deal. Of course, the Eagles will also have the… Read More »
Giants Report: If the draft gods give you lemons, make lemonade!! … That’s the theme of our review of the Giants 2023 draft, which we don’t think went anywhere near where the team thought it would go, but it all turned out as the team ultimately ended up with one of the best drafts in the league last… Read More »
No bull, Bull top pick in CFL draft … Pretty much as expected, CFL teams are passing overall the NFL bound top-rated prospects for tonight’s Canadian league draft and instead have concentrated on players who’ll be available when the CFL kicks off its regular season in July. Ottawa with the first pick, for example, chose Fresno State OT… Read More »
Panthers first to sign 2023 pick … Carolina had the first pick overall at the 2023 draft; the Panthers also became the first team to sign a player selected at last weekend’s draft when they signed former Florida State S Jammie Robinson to a standard 4-year deal.
Cowboys make 8th round statement … Dallas’ 2023 draft class was generally panned by analysts around the country. However, Jerry Jones and company may have made up for it bit by signing a pretty good undrafted free agent class. Indeed, the Cowboys UDFA signings included 6 players on our list of top undrafted post-draft free agents including Kansas… Read More »
Draft lite up north … The Canadian Football League holds its annual draft of Canadian born players this evening beginning at 8 PM ET. Coverage is available on TSN.Ottawa has the first pick in this year’s CFL draft, followed by Edmonton, Saskatchewan and Calgary. Here is the full selection order. Former Syracuse OT Matt Bergeron and the Brown… Read More »
8th round off and running … As noted at the end of the 7th round on Saturday evening, the draft doesn’t end with the selection of Mr. Irrelevant with the final pick of the weekend as NFL teams are in full-scramble mode to sign the best available undrafted players. Indeed, most teams will have started reaching out to… Read More »
Fave picks by round … While my colleague Pigskin Paul puts together his grades from this past weekend’s draft, I had a little fun with it and went back and on sober reflection picked my favorite picks in each round. And it was interesting in the sense that in several rounds, including both the 6th and 7th rounds,… Read More »
Colts, Eagles ace draft on Pigskin report card … As a general rule we don’t really like to grade drafts here at the GBN. And its not that you have to wait 2-3 years. That’s something quite different in that 2-3 years down the road one can grade a draft based on how it turned out. What we… Read More »
NFL schedule up next … For those that haven’t heard the NFL has tentatively set a week Thursday (May 11th) as the date that the 2023 schedule will be released.
If you are looking at the title of this article, and scratching your head wondering if this is April 1st, and this is bad April Fools Day joke, just relax. No, it is indeed May 1st, and it is not a joke. But you would be correct in thinking to yourself that your friend Pigskin has proclaimed that… Read More »
Cards well positioned for 2024 … There are still 361 days o go until the 2024 draft gets underway in Detroit next April, but at least for now, Arizona looks to be the team best positioned to do some damage next spring. After the smoke had cleared from this past weekend’s draft, the Cardinals currently have 6 picks… Read More »
Two thumbs up; one down for NFL Net draft coverage … I pretty much always watch the NFL Network’s draft coverage and this year I give them two thumbs up for their coverage on the first two nights of the draft as they did their best to provide some reasonably serious draft coverage with what often seemed to… Read More »
Canadians set draft record … Speaking or record at the 2023 draft, it was a great day for Canada as a record number of players from up north were selected. Indeed, a total of 5 Canadians were selected this weekend, breaking the old record of 4. And there was nothing cheap about the Canadian selections as all were… Read More »
Trade record set … Personally it didn’t seem that there were all that many trades this weekend – maybe they were just spread out relatively evenly over the three days – but when the smoked had cleared we actually had a new record for trades. Indeed, there were a total of 43 trades this weekend which broke the… Read More »
Tide, UGA lead school picks; SEC top conference again … To absolutely no one’s surprise, Alabama and Georgia had the most players selected by any school at this weekend’s 2023 draft. In the end, 10 players from each school were selected this weekend, although neither school had a particularly dominant individual year as Georgia did last year and… Read More »
