Cowboys get 49ers bust Lance for 4th … The Trey Lance era in San Francisco is mercifully over as the 49ers have traded Lance, the 3rd pick overall as recently as 2021, to Dallas in exchange for a 4th round pick in 2024.
Cards stay busy; trade 2 more vets for picks … Just hours after trading LB Isaiah Simmons to the NY Giants for a 2024 7th round pick, Arizona made two more moves today sending veteran OT John Jones to Houston, while acquiring QB Josh Dobbs from Cleveland. In the Jones deal with the Texans, Arizona acquired the Browns’… Read More »
Giants get Cards LB Simmons for late pick … The NY Giants have acquired veteran LB Isaiah Simmons from Arizona in exchange for a 7th round pick that the 2024 draft. Simmons was the 8th player selected at the 2020 draft, but has never lived up to that billing. Ironically, he was one of the player’s that were… Read More »
Top DT prospect Smith to miss season opener … LSU DT Maason Smith has reportedly been suspended from the Tigers’ season opener against Florida State on September 3rd for a improper benefit violation stemming from an autograph signing event that predated the current much more liberal NIL era. Smith rep Smith is generally considered to be the top… Read More »
The Turk warming up as final week of pre-season set to KO … The third and final weekend of NFL pre-season games gets underway on Thursday with a couple of game including Pittsburgh at Atlanta on the NFL Network with kick-off set for 7:30 PM ET. Thursday’s other game has Indianapolis playing at Philadelphia at 8 PM ET.… Read More »
Bulldogs, Buckeyes top Pigskin pre-season Top 15 … With the start of the college football season literally just hours away, GBN Associate Editor Pigksin Paul Guillemette has posted his annual pre-season ranking of the top 15 college programs the we sees them at the outset of the season. And there’s probably no surprise that two-time defending national champion… Read More »
USC QB Williams ‘coy’ on 2024 draft prospects … Not sure what else he could say at this time, but Southern California QB Caleb Williams, the consensus favorite to be the first player selected at the 2024 draft, was rather non-committal when asked in an ESPN interview about the upcoming draft. Williams, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner after… Read More »
As the QB turns … In addition to the news today that Tampa Bay has named Baker Mayfield as the starting QB for the season opener, a couple or three other QB-related tidbits from the wire today. ESPN, for example, has a quick review of the progress to date of the leading QBs selected at the 2023 draft… Read More »
Bucs name Baker starting QB … Tampa Bay has confirmed that Baker Mayfield will be their starting QB when the Buccaneers open the 2023 regular season on September 10th against Carolina. Mayfield, the first overall pick in 2018 who has also played with Cleveland, Carolina, and the LA Rams, beat out second-year pro Kyle Trask to win the… Read More »
Cowboys lose 3rd round LB to ACL … Dallas rookie LB DeMarvion Overshown will likely miss the entire 2023 season after teraing an ACL in the team’s pre-season loss to Seattle on the weekend. Overshown was a 3rd round pick this past April from Texas and was reportedly playing well in camp.
SEC DEs top early list of top prospects for 2025 … We have been talking a lot over the past couple of weeks about the top college prospects for the 2024 draft, and all indications are that it could be a pretty good draft year. However, that said, a number of the best players in college football this… Read More »
WashComs name Howell starting QB … Washington has confirmed that second-year pro Sam Howell will be the starting QB when the Commanders open the 2023 regular season at home on September 10th against Arizona. Howell, who had been in a battle with veteran journeyman Jacoby Brissett for the job, was a 5th round pick from North Carolina in… Read More »
Lions waive WR Mims; Jets trade nixed … Detroit has waived injured WR Denzel Mims who had been acquired in a trade with the New York Jets earlier this year involving of late-round 2025 picks. Because the trade was conditional on Mims making the Lions’ 53-man roster, the Lions will get back their 6th round pick in 2025,… Read More »
Ten to watch for 2024 … While we were putting together our latest Big Board we were struck by the fact that there seemed like a lot of players with the potential to go considerably higher than where they appear to be currently rated. The list includes a couple of guys who are already considered to be pretty… Read More »
Browns, Eagles KO week two of pre-season … The second full weekend of the NFL pre-season gets underway later this evening when Cleveland plays at Philadelphia with KO set for 7:30 PM ET on the NFL Network. Then it wraps up with Baltimore at Washington Monday night at 8 PM ET on ESPN. And that will leave barely… Read More »
Top 2024 prospect profiles … Continuing our pre-season preview for the upcoming campaign, here are profiles of the top 40 college prospects for the 2024 draft.
Colts name rook QB week one starter … Indianapolis confirmed earlier today that rookie Anthony Richardson, the 4th player picked at this past April’s draft, will be their starting QB when the regular season kicks off next month. Richardson had been in a dead-heat battle with veteran Gardner Minshew to win the job. And it appears no one… Read More »
Positional rankings; Big Board updated … For the record, the GBN positional rankings for 2024 have been updated with the start of the college season a little over three weeks away as per the drop-down menus above. The GBN Big Board has also been updated and expanded now to include the top 50 prospects for the upcoming draft.… Read More »
Giants Report: Some thoughts a month before season set to kick off … With the 2023 regular season opener now basically a month away we thought it might be a good time to dust off the Giants Report which we haven’t posted on for a few weeks. And what we thought we would do is answer some of… Read More »
Top pick has rocky start in pro debut … It probably wasn’t the start to his pro career that he was hoping for as Carolina’s Bryce Young, the first player selected overall at the 2023, struggled in his first NFL live action earlier this afternoon in the Panthers rather dismal 27-0 home loss to the NY Jets. Young… Read More »
CFL’s Elks snatch defeat from the jaws of victory to set futility record … For about a quarter and half, the CFL’s Edmonton Elks appeared to be on the verge of ending their 21 game home losing streak when they raced to a 22-0 lead over the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers last evening. To boot, the Bombers had… Read More »
Still ‘armed and dangerous’: an update on the 24 QB preview … All signs continue to point to the fact that the 2023 college season could very likely be ‘the year of the QB.’ And that could make the position just as interesting when it comes to next year’s draft. It starts with Southern Cal’s Caleb Williams, the… Read More »
Colts make it 3-for-3 for top rook QBs to start … Indianapolis confirmed earlier today that they will be starting rookie Anthony Richardson, the 4th player selected at the 2023 draft, when the Colts open their pre-season schedule Saturday afternoon in Buffalo. Richardson has been splitting first -team snaps with veteran Gardner Minshew through the first part of… Read More »
#2 pick kicks off full pre-season sked … The first full weekend of NFL pre-season games gets underway Thursday evening with a doubleheader of games on the NFL Network starting with Houston at New England at 7 PM ET, followed by Minnesota at Seattle at 10 PM ET. And Houston fans won’t have to wait to get an… Read More »
A few thoughts on college realignment … Needless to say, the ongoing college football conference realignment hardly ended with last week’s virtual decapitation of the Pac-12 when literally within hours Oregon and Washington jumped to the Big Ten, while Colorado, Arizona and Arizona joined the Big XII leaving the Pac-12 with just four teams. And attention could very… Read More »
