‘Hawks shuffle top scout staff … Not much going on these days; late last week, though, Seattle made a number of moves in its personnel department promoting Nolan Teasley to assistant G.M. from director of pro personnel, while Matt Berry, the team’s director of college scouting was promoted to senior director of player personnel. In their places, Willie… Read More »
Path to the draft runs thru Indy … Every year we make that statement referring to the fact that the scouting combine in Indianapolis is an indisputably a key element of the pre-draft process. Last year, for example, almost 85% of all players selected at the 2022 draft participated in some way in the combine. However, that is… Read More »
Late Colts pick gets boost … When Indianapolis sent veteran RB/KR Nyheim Hines to Buffalo late last season, they received a conditional 6th round pick as compensation. Because the conditions were ultimately met, the Colts will now receive the Bills 5th rounder this coming April.
Pre-combine mock posted … With this year’s Super Bowl now in the books, we have updated our 3-round projection for the first two days of the 2023 draft. This one has a bit of a twist in that both Pigskin Paul and myself made picks, we’re just not saying where. And, as we always like to point out… Read More »
Giants report: Principles to draft by … With the Super Bowl in the books, we are clearly onto 2023 starting with the draft which is now just over 70 days away. It may still be a little early, though, to be talking about specific players and/or needs; however, we thought that its probably not to early to give… Read More »
Raiders’ cut QB Carr … To absolutely no one’s surprise, Las Vegas has released QB Derek Carr a day before the $40M contract extension he signed last year kicked in fully guaranteed. Carr contract extension kick in. Carr did spend a couple of days in New Orleans late last week at this hour visiting with the Saints for… Read More »
Colts, Cards raid Eagles staff for new coaches … Two more teams announced today that they have filled their vacant head coaching jobs and both found their guy on the Philadelphia Eagles staff. Indianapolis, for example, has hired Eagles’ offensive coordinator Shane Steichen, while Arizona has agreed to terms with former Eagles’ defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon. Both hires… Read More »
Chiefs to pick 31st; Eagles 30th … Well, that is that as the KC Chiefs came from behind to upset the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 on a last-minute FG to win this year’s Super Bowl. And with the win the Chiefs will have the final regular pick in every round including the 31st in the opening round, the 63rd… Read More »
It is Super Bowl Sunday!!! … For those that have been out of the universe this week, it is Super Bowl Sunday with the Kansas City Chiefs set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFL title this evening in Phoenix. Kick-off time is 6:30 PM ET. Of course, while its supposed to be about football, the… Read More »
Sooners, ‘Horns to move to SEC a year early … After several weeks of rather intense negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 a total of $100M to join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they had originally intended. The agreement is still subject to the final approval by the… Read More »
Raiders QB Carr still talking with Saints; other NFL QB notes … Hard to know what exactly it means but Las Vegas QB Derek Carr is reportedly still in New Orleans at this hour visiting with the Saints for a second day. Carr has been given permission by the Raiders to explore trade options for himself late last… Read More »
Pigskin’s top 12 from Shrine game … After posting his report on the top dozen performers at last weekend’s Senior Bowl, GBN Associate Editor and all-star game guru, Pigskin Paul Guillemette went back over the tape and his notes from last week’s East-West Shrine game and has come up with his list of the Top 12 Shrine prospects.
MAC DT biggest combine snub … Its kind of a big deal which players get invited to the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis because year in and year out the large majority of players selected that year attended the combine. In fact, it usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 85% selected at the draft in April were at… Read More »
Combine invitees announced … The NFL announced today that 319 potential prospects for the 2023 have been invited to the annual scouting combine which gets underway later this Monday in Indianapolis. Here is the full list of those that will be in Indy later this month by position.
Big board; positional rankings updated … Please note that the GBN Big Board ranking the top overall prospects for the 2023 draft has been updated and expanded. As well, the positional rankings per the drop-down menu above has also been updated. Note, though, that we are still trying to confirm which players, especially at the fringes, are actually… Read More »
Eagles, Chiefs chasing Patriots, Steelers Super Bowl record … With the 57th Super Bowl just around the corner, fans are excited about who whether the Philadelphia Eagles or Kansas City Chiefs will take the Lombardi Trophy home this year. However, whether the Eagles or Chiefs come out on top on Sunday, they will still have a ways to… Read More »
Top dozen Senior Bowl players … After a thorough review of the tape, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has just posted his list of the top 12 players in last week’s Senior Bowl.
Senior Bowl defensive line review … One of the big questions that pro scouts wanted to be able to answer out of this year’s Senior Bowl was who was the real Army DE Andre Carter? Was he the guy who dominated in 2021 when he posted 17 sacks and made multiple All-america teams or the guy who barely… Read More »
New Senior Bowl trend … Here’s a bit of a trivia question coming out of this year’s Senior Bowl: what do QB Jaren Hall, WRs Tank Dell, Rashee Rice, Dontayvion Wicks and Puka Nacua, OTs Jaelyn Duncan, Ryan Hayes, and Dawand Jones, C Jarrett Patterson, DEs Keion White, Ade Adebamore, Ike Foskey, and Will McDonald, LB Dorian Williams,… Read More »
Senior Bowl offensive line review … We were really keen to recheck the tape of yesterday’s Senior Bowl game as we thought we saw some pretty good play from the offensive lines. And on further review there was some really solid play for the OL, especially some of the interior guys. We also thought that the OL produced… Read More »
Senior Bowl QB review … With none of the top-rated QB prospects for the upcoming draft in Mobile this week for the Senior Bowl, the questions for the QBs who were there were more about positioning among the second-tier of the position after the pretty much acknowledged top 5. However, it was something of an up-and-down day for… Read More »
Senior Bowl done; on to Indy! … The Senior Bowl wrapped up in Mobile just moments ago with the Orange team winning today’s actual game 27-10. Fresno State QB Jake Haener was named the game’s MVP after he completed 12 of 19 passes for 139 yards that included a 44-yard TD pass to Stanford’s Michael Wilson. And with… Read More »
Vet QB carousel continues to percolate … For the second year in a row, the veteran FA QB market needs to be sorted out to bring which teams will actually need to address the position at the 2023 draft. The first domino fell, of course, when Tom Brady announced that he was in fact retiring again, only this… Read More »
Need some help … With the Senior Bowl set to kick-off in just over three hours we realized that there does not appear to be a published roster with the players’ numbers on it. We have a call into the Senior Bowl itself, but if anyone has access to a proper roster we’d really appreciate it if we… Read More »
Senior Bowl set to KO … The annual Senior Bowl game kicks off at 2:30 PM ET later this afternoon in Mobile with coverage on the NFL Network.
