Bonus coverage: blue field prospect watch … Usually the only reason to watch the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl is to marvel at the blue field in Boise. This year, though, pro scouts will actually be watching the action when Eastern Michigan (8-4) plays San Jose State (7-4) at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon on ESPN as both teams have some… Read More »
More college coming and goings … A couple more junior RBs announced today that they will be entering the 2023 draft including Pittsburgh All-American Israel Abanikanda and FCS star Ronnie Brown of Shepherd. Abanikanda is a 3rd year junior who ran for over 1,400 yards and 20 scores this year, while Brown averaged 9 yards per carry and… Read More »
Star ‘Horns’ RB to enter draft … No real surprise at all as star Texas RB Bijan Robinson announced this morning that he will in fact be entering the 2023 draft where he is projected to be a top ten pick after running for almost 1,600 yards this past season.
One QB in draft, one out and other college comings and goings … No big surprise here as TCU QB Max Duggan has announced that he’ll be entering the 2023 draft despite having another year of college eligibility remaining. No surprise, too, that Duggan ain’t going anywhere before the Frogs New Year’s Date with Michigan in the Fiesta… Read More »
Broncos win pushes Bears to #2 pick … In a battle of back-up QBs, Denver defeated Arizona for its fourth win of the year in a late afternoon game. As a result, Chicago will move up into the #2 spot in this week’s selection for the 2023 draft were it to be held this week, while Seattle, which… Read More »
Texans close again; still inch closer to securing top pick … For the second week in a row, Houston gave one of the NFL’s best team all it could handle, but for the second week in row came up just short. Last week, the Texans took Dallas down to the wire; this week they took Kansas City into… Read More »
#1 Texans, #3 Bears in tough this weekend … Houston, which would have the top pick overall were the 2023 draft held this week, will be home tomorrow, but still has every opportunity to move closer to locking up the #1 pick as they host Kansas City in an early game. Same story for Chicago, which would have… Read More »
SU back; Pitt DB enter draft … A couple of more underclassmen have announced this weekend that they will be entering the 2023 draft including Syracuse RB Sean Tucker, one of the most productive backs in the country over the past couple of seasons, along with Pittsburgh safety Brandon Hill. Both are juniors with Tucker a 3rd year… Read More »
Half dozen bowls on Saturday sched … For those that don’t want to burn themselves for Sunday’s NFL slate of games watching the three pro games on TV on Saturday, there are a full half dozen college bowls also tomorrow. Unfortunately, as is now the custom, most of the best prospects in the non-CFP playoff games opt not… Read More »
Pigskin’s all-star game chatter … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs this day with some thoughts on the evolving post-season all-star lineups and who some of the players he’ll be watching in Mobile and elsewhere early next year.
Two juniors in draft; two out … Northwestern OT Peter Skoronski has become the latest underclassman to confirm that they will be entering the 2023 draft. Skoronski is a 3rd year junior who is considered to be one of the top 2-3 offensive line prospects for the upcoming draft. He is currently #17 on the GBN Big Board.… Read More »
Two to enter draft; two others to Senior Bowl … A couple more juniors indicated in the past 24 hours that they will be entering the upcoming draft including Syracuse CB Garrett Williams and Cincinnati WR Tyler Scott. SU’s Williams is particularly interesting to pro scouts; he was one of the better cover corners in the country last… Read More »
Bowl season kicks off with twofer … The preliminary bowl season gets underway on Friday with a doubleheader including the Bahamas Bowl (11;30 AM ET; ESPN), which is played in the Bahamas, and the Duluth Trading Cure Bowl (3 PM ET; ESPN), which fortunately isn’t played in Duluth, but in Orlando. And while in most years the very… Read More »
Cards GM on personal leave; QB done for year … Hard to imagine a team having a worse day than Arizona had to today. First, the team announced that G.M. Steve Keim will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the team because of an undisclosed health situation. In his absence the G.M. duties will be shared… Read More »
Update updated: Fifth junior enter draft fray … And then there were 5! True juniors entering the 2023 draft as Tennessee WR Jalin Hyatt, this year’s Biletnikoff winner and a consensus 1st team All-American, has announced that he will be entering this year’s draft where he is another player projected to be a late first or early second… Read More »
More Senior Bowl additions … Over the past day or so the Senior Bowl has announced that a half dozen more players have committed to this year’s game including Ohio State DE Zach Harrison, Clemson DT Tyler Davis, CBs Rejzohn Wright of Oregon State and South Carolina’s Darius Rush, Florida OT Richard Gouraige, and Oklahoma FB/TE Brayden Willis.… Read More »
Coach Mike Leach passes away at 61 … Once again real life interjected itself into the college world with news overnight that Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach passed away from complications of a heart condition. He was 61. Leach also had tenures as head coach at Texas Tech and Washington State. He was a polarizing figure at… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week in the books, the selection order for the opening round of the 2023 draft, were it to be held this week, has been updated.
Star Coastal QB to transfer; other college notes … Once again college football fans will need a program next fall to figure out who is QBing who! And yet another top QB appears to be on the move as Grayson McCall of Coastal Carolina, one of the most efficient passers in college football, has entered the transfer portal… Read More »
Star Army ER, two others added to Senior Bowl … The Senior Bowl has announced that three more players have committed to this year’s game including Army DE/OLB Andre Carter who if he played anywhere else in the country could very well be being talked about as a top ten pick for the upcoming draft. Carter will be… Read More »
Three more juniors enter draft … A trio of promising true 3rd year juniors have indicated that they will be entering this year’s draft including LSU DE B.J. Ojulari, Wisconsin LB Nick Herbig and Penn State WR Parker Washington. The 6-3, 250-pound Ojulari is a late first round prospect who is currently ranked #33 on the GBN Big… Read More »
Broncos loss boosts Seahawks to #2 pick … Like Houston, which gave Dallas all they could handle earlier this afternoon, Denver threw a scare into Kansas City, rallying from a 27-0 deficit to make a game of it against the Chiefs, but ultimately fell short and dropped to 3-10. As a result, Seattle, which owns the Broncos first-round… Read More »
Texans close, but still inch closer to top securing top pick … Houston threw a scare into Dallas earlier this afternoon, but still came up short when the Cowboys scored with just 41 seconds on the clock to beat the Texans 27-23. That dropped Houston to 1-11-1 and leaves them with a magic number of 3 to clinch… Read More »
Quiet day at top of board … It will be a relatively quiet day for teams currently sitting on early picks in the 2023 draft selection order. Indeed, of the ten teams with the first ten picks at next April’s draft, only 4 are in action today. And all four are in tough. Houston, which would have had… Read More »
Cardinal get top FCS coach … It is not quite the sexy hire that several other prominent FBS programs made in filling their vacant head coaching position, but Stanford may have got a good one when they hired Troy Taylor away from Sacramento State, the #2 ranked team in the FCS ranks this fall. That would be the… Read More »
