Three more added to Senior Bowl; roster hits 100 … The Senior Bowl has announced that three more players have committed to this year’s game including Miami CB Tyrique Stevenson, Alabama OT Tyler Steen and LS Robert Soderholm from VMI. With the addition if these three, the total number of senior Bowl acceptances to date has hit 100.… Read More »
UNC WR Downs enters draft … North Carolina 3rd year junior WR Josh Downs has confirmed that he will be entering the 2023 draft where figures to be either a late-first or early second round pick. Downs isn’t all that big at 5-10, 175, but he’s got sub-4.4 speed and was very productive for the Heels catching 195… Read More »
Badger C enter draft; ‘Noles OT stays put … Wisconsin C/G Joe Tippmann, a 4th year junior with mid-round potential, has announced that he will be entering this year’s draft, while Florida State 3rd year junior OT Robert Scott has indicated that he is returning to school for the 2023 college season.
Irish DE; three more added to Senior Bowl roster … The Senior Bowl has announced that four more players have committed to this year’s game including Notre Dame DE Isaiah Foskey, a top 15-20 prospect for the upcoming draft who will be one of the higher rated players in Mobile this year. Meanwhile, the other additions include a… Read More »
Thursday night stunner leaves top of draft order unchanged … The expectation prior to last night’s prime time midweek NFL game was that Las Vegas wouldn’t have much trouble with the injury depleted LA Rams. And that was pretty much the case for almost 55 minutes of what was essentially a lifeless game, but just when you thought… Read More »
Cardinal QB McKee enters draft … Stanford QB Tanner McKee, a 3rd year junior, has announced that he will be leaving school and entering the 2023 draft. At 6-6, 230 with a strong arm, McKee looks like a prototype NFL pocket passer, but he’s coming off a couple of somewhat disappointing seasons with the disappointing Cardinal. This year,… Read More »
Kiper updates top 25; DT Carter to #1, Levis top QB … For those that haven’t seen it, ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper has updated his top 25 prospects for the 2023 draft with the regular college football season having been completed. we note it because there are several noteworthy changes. On the one hand, Kiper has slipped… Read More »
Star Heels’ QB staying put; Irish DE entering draft; Tide WR returning in busy day of college moves … It was a busy on the college football waiver wire with a number of moves and/or announcements. Star North Carolina redshirt freshman Drake Maye, who is currently considered to be a potential elite prospect in the 2024 draft, has… Read More »
UM DT Smith takes plea; to keep playing … Michiagn DT Mazi Smith, a second-day prospect for the 2023 draft, has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor weapons possession charge stemming from a traffic stop early in October. Smith was originally charged with a felony weapons charge of possessing a concealed weapon without… Read More »
Three more added to Senior Bowl roster … The Senior Bowl has announced that three more players have committed to this year’s game including Alabama DT D.J. Dale, LSU S Jay Ward and Clemson TE Davis Allen. With the addition if these three, the total number of senior Bowl acceptances to date is up to 94. This year’s… Read More »
Draft implications in Thursday nighter … It probably wasn’t at all what the NFL schedule makers were thinking when Las Vegas was drawn to play the defending Super Bowl champion Rams in this week’s Thursday night game in what was expected to be a battle between two contending teams with serious playoff aspirations. The Raiders do still have… Read More »
Falcons pull plug on QB; rook Ridder to start … After losing 4 of their last 5 starts to drop to 5-8, Atlanta is making a change at QB. Veteran Marcus Mariota is being benched and replaced by rookie Desmond Ridder, the Falcons’ 3rd round pick at the 2022 draft. At least Ridder will have a little time… Read More »
Pigskin updates Top 25 … With the regular college season in the books, GBN Associate Editor Pigkin Paul Guillemette has updated his personal Top 25 ranking for the 2023 draft with some near misses to boot.
Irish TE Mayer to enter draft; same with Northwestern RB Hull … To no one’s surprise, Notre Dame All-American TE Michael Mayer, a 3rd year junior, has confirmed that he will be entering the upcoming draft; he will also be skipping the Irish’s bowl game. Mayer is the consensus top TE in the 2023 draft class with top… Read More »
QBs go 1-2 in post-season mock … With the college football now in the books it seemed like as a time as any to take another shot at projecting the opening round of the 2023 draft, which is now just 117 days away. As noted in the post releasing the GBN’s latest Big Board earlier this week, its… Read More »
More players sticking with school … The list of players choosing to return to school continues to grow with another half dozen announcing in the past 24 hours or so that they will be back in college next fall including North Carolina CB Tony Grimes and Stanford C Drake Nugent, a pair of juniors with second-day potential, along… Read More »
Senior Bowl corners market on Byron Youngs! … The Senior Bowl has announced that Alabama DE/DT Byron Young has accepted an invitation to this year’s game. That will make it two Byron Youngs in Mobile as the Tennessee DE/ER of the same name had earlier accepted his invitation.
Who’s #1? Updated GBN Big Board posted … With the college football season now in the books, save for the bowls, the GBN Big Board for the 2023 draft has been updated and expanded. A couple of things stood out. On the one hand, even though what appears to be an inordinate number of players are opting to… Read More »
Aggie RB Achane enters draft … Texas A&M RB Devon Achane, a 3rd year junior, has confirmed that he will be entering the 2023 draft where he figures to be one of the first 2-3 backs off the board after Bijan Robinson of Texas. Achane isn’t all that big at just 5-9, 185, but he has world class… Read More »
Have arm will travel! QB Daniels on the move again … We now know what the T in J.T. Daniels refers to; its for travelling or maybe transferring. Whatever, the much-travelled Daniels, who played at West Virginia last year after stops at Southern Cal and Georgia is on the move again as he has put his name back… Read More »
Titans fire GM Robinson … In something of a shocking move, Tennessee has relieved G.M. Jon Robinson of his duties. Robinson will be replaced in the interim by Ryan Cowden, the club’s vice president of player personnel, who will oversee player personnel for the rest of the season. The move comes just two days after the Titans suffered… Read More »
Hogs LB latest to enter draft … Arkansas junior LB Drew Sanders has confirmed that he will be foregoing his remaining college eligibility and entering the 2023 draft where he projects to be a mid-first round prospect. In fact, the 6-5, 240-pound Sanders, who transferred to from Alabama last winter, is a really intriguing prospect, in part, because… Read More »
Cav WR to enter draft … Virginia junior WR Dontayvion Wicks has announced that he will be entering the 2023 draft where he figures to be one of the more interesting second-tier receivers. Wicks has good size at 6-2, 210 and had a phenomenal year in 2021 when he set a school record single season receiving yardage record… Read More »
Two more juniors to return to school … Along with LSU junior WR Kayshon Boutte, who announced late yesterday that he will be returning to school next fall rather than entering the 2023 draft, two other 3rd year players including Oregon LB Justin Flowe and South Carolina TE Jaheim Bell have also made that decision. Both had been… Read More »
Four top OL added to Senior Bowl roster … Teams looking to add some quality to their interior offensive lines at the 2023 draft could be just a little excited this morning with the announcement by the Senior Bowl that 4 of the top C/G prospects for this year’s have draft have committed to this year’s game. That… Read More »
