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 »
Cards QB Murray to PUP; back-up released … Arizona has placed star QB Kyler Murray on the PUP list as the Cardinals made their first moves to get down to tomorrow’s 53-man roster limit. Going on PUP means that Murray, who tore an ACL in December last year, will miss at least the first four games of the… Read More »
Chargers get late future pick for PK … The LA Chargers have reportedly acquired a 7th round pick in 2025 from Cleveland fo veteran PK Dustin Hopkins.
Texans name rookie QB Stroud starter … There probably wasn’t any real doubt, but Houston has finally confirmed that CJ Stroud, the second-player selected at the 2023 draft, will be the Texans’ starting QB when they open the season at Baltimore on September 10th. That means that all three of the QBs taken in the top 4 picks… Read More »
Vikes get late Pats’ pick for vet OT … Minnesota has reportedly acquired a 6th round pick in 2024 from New England in exchange for second-year OT Vedarion Lowe. Lowe was a 6th round pick by the Vikings in 2022 who played in 4 games last year with no starts.
Clock ticking on roster deadline … With the final pre-season games now in the books, teams around the NFL are down to the painful process of getting down to their 53-man opening day roster by 4 PM ET on Tuesday afternoon. In fact, roughly half the teams in the league have already made at least one move. So… Read More »
Rams get Steelers vet OG Dotson in pick swap … Pittsburgh has ttaded veteran OG Kevin Dotson to the LA Rams in a deal involving the swap of 2024 and 2025 draft picks. The Steelers will get the Rams’ 4th round pick in 2024 and 5th in 2025, while they’ll send Los Angeles their 5th round next year… Read More »
Cuts start trickling in … NFL teams have until 4 PM ET on Tuesday to get down to their opening day 53-man roster limit. However, with just about every team needing to up to 37 players each, some have already started the painful process of getting down to the limit. Carolina, for example, has released 11 players including… Read More »
Irish/Middies KO off college campaign … While the NFL wraps up its pre-season schedule this weekend, there will be actual college games later today, although the full college schedule does not really start until next week. And today’s games do feature a couple of ranked teams including #13 Notre Dame which plays Navy in Dublin, Ireland. Note that… Read More »
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 »
