Buckeyes top pre-season ranking of 2024 draft classes … Needless to say, a whole lot is going to change between today and April 25th when the 2024 draft gets underway in Detroit, but for now Ohio State leads heads our pre-season ranking of the top 15 draft classes for the upcoming draft. In fact, the Buckeyes have quality… Read More »
College football camps getting underway … As of Monday just about all fall college football training camps should be in full operation with the start of the 2023 season now less than a month away. For the record, there are a handful of games scheduled for August 26th, with the initial full week of the college slate set… Read More »
First full college football Saturday a month away … For those that like to keep track of these things, we are just a month away from the 1st full Saturday on the college football schedule. And there are some interesting games on the schedule for September 2nd including Colorado, suddenly relevant again with the arrival of Deion Sanders,… Read More »
Last one out the Pac-12 door, please turn off the lights … Just a few weeks ago, the Pac-12 conference looked like it had the potential to be a real power conference this year with as many as 4 teams with legitimate CFP aspirations. And that should still happen; however, for all intents and purposes to conference no… Read More »
Are you ready for some (sort of ) football? … The 2023 NFL pre-season gets underway in less than 24 hours when the NY Jets and Cleveland hook up in the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio with KO set for just after 8 PM ET on Thursday evening. Coverage will be on NBC. Of course,… Read More »
Steelers IR 7th round CB … Pittsburgh has placed rookie CB Cory Trice, a 7th round pick from Purdue, on injured reserve after he was carted off the field yesterday with an undisclosed leg injury. As a result, Trice, a 6-3 corner who had been considered something of a sleeper prior to the draft and had reportedly impressed… Read More »
And then there were none: Seahawks CB last 2023 pick to sign … Seattle reportedly came to terms with CB Devon Witherspoon, the last remaining unsigned player chosen at this year’s draft, on a 4-year contract earlier today. That ends a brief 2-day holdout by Witherspoon, whom the Seahawks selected with the 5th pick overall this past April,as… Read More »
Seahawks CB last unsigned pick … Just a quick update on the signing status of players selected at the 2023 draft. It appears to have kind of slipped under the radar just a tab, but Indianapolis was able to sign QB Anthony Richardson, the 4th player taken at this year’s draft, and get him in camp for the… Read More »
That didn’t take long; QB Young confirmed as Panthers’ #1 … Barely a day into training camp and Carolina has confirmed that rookie QB Bryce Young, the first player selected at the 2023 draft will be the Panthers’ starting QB to open the season. Young had been getting almost all the Panthers’ first-team snaps in workouts to date,… Read More »
Texans sign #2 pick … Houston has reportedly come to terms with former Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud, the second player selected at the 2023 draft. Stroud signed a standard 4-year deal worth a reported $36M. With this signing just two 2023 first round picks remain unsigned: Indianapolis QB Anthony Richardson and Seattle CB Devon Witherspoon, who were… Read More »
Top pick, two others sign today; three 2023 #1s still unsigned … Carolina QB Bryce Young, the first player selected overall at the 2023 draft, has signed with the team. Young agreed to a 4-year, fully guaranteed deal worth a reported $38M. In signing today, Young and the Panthers avoided a holdout as Carolina’s rookies are due to… Read More »
Lions get vet Jets WR Mims for future pick flip … Detroit has acquired veteran WR Denzel Mims from the New York Jets in exchange for a swap of 2025 late round picks. The Jets will get a conditional 6th round pick from the Lions while Detroit will get a 7th from the Jets. The condition for 6th… Read More »
WR Hopkins set to sign with Titans … For those that have not heard, former Arizona WR DeAngelo Hopkins will reportedly be signing with Tennessee in the next day or so. Hopkins, one of the best receivers in the game if he’s healthy and still really wants to play, was released by Arizona this spring after the Cardinals… Read More »
Are you ready for some football … sort of … The NFL off-season is almost over as training camps begin opening. Nine teams will open their camps for rookies and selected veterans on Tuesday, while the NY Jets will be the first team to welcome their full complement of players the following day. The Jets get to open… Read More »
NFL passes on supp draft receivers … The first NFL summer supplemental draft in the post-covid era came and went earlier today with neither of the two players that were available being selected. That means that WRs Milton Wright from Purdue and Jackson State’s Malachi Wideman are now free agents free to sign with any team. Of the… Read More »
Things we learned doing the positional previews … Having completed our pre-season positional previews for the 2024 draft (see above), it was kind of interesting to go back and reread them just to see if there were any more general observations to be made about the upcoming draft. The first thing that still kind of jumped out at… Read More »
Draft analyst McShay out at ESPN … In something of a surprise, veteran ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay was one of almost two dozen prominent staffers who were essentially fired earlier today in a major cost-cutting exercise by the network. McShay, who has been with ESPN since 2006, had appeared to be the heir apparent to Mel Kiper… Read More »
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! … To all our fellow Canucksters. What is it: 156 and counting!!
Pack signs top pick Van Ness … Green Bay has reportedly come to terms with former Iowa ER Lukas Van Ness, the Packers first-round pick at the 2023 draft. Van Ness, the 13th player chosen overall this past April, signed a standard 4-year deal with a club option for a 5th. The signing of Van Ness leaves 8… Read More »
2024 Safety Preview: Still not getting much respect! … Unfortunately, safety is one of those positions, along with the interior offensive line and inside LBs, that just don’t know have a lot of value on draft day, especially in the very early rounds. No safety, for example, was selected in the opening round in three of the past… Read More »
Preliminary 2024 CB preview: Question marks … The cornerback position has been on kind of a nice little role in the past few years. Indeed, in 4 of the past 6 drafts, at least one CB was taken with a top 5 selection. That includes Devon Witherspoon, whom Seattle nabbed with the 5th pick this past April, as… Read More »
Cards reportedly happy with QB Murray off-season work effort … A bit of an interesting headline out of Arizona this past weekend where the Cardinals organization has reportedly at least been impressed with the work being put in by QB Kyler Murray. There has been speculation that if the Cardinals do end up with the #1 pick overall… Read More »
Majority of 2023 picks now signed … According to a report on NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk that with training camps still just over a month from opening, the majority of players chosen at the 2023 draft have signed with their respective teams. Per the report, as of this weekend, just 31 players taken at this past April’s… Read More »
Bills extend GM, head coach … Buffalo announced earlier today that both G.M. Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott have signed contract extensions through the 2027 season.
Texans ink one top pick; one to go … Houston has signed former Alabama DE Will Anderson, the 3rd player selected at the 2023 draft, to a fully guaranteed 4-year, $35M contract which includes a $23M signing bonus. The Texans were able to acquire Anderson when they traded up from the 12th pick with Arizona after Houston had… Read More »
