‘Orange Bowl’ highlights college football weekend … No true marquee game on this weekend’s college football schedule, but there is at least one literal elimination contest when resurgent Syracuse plays at #5 in a battle between two of the nine remaining teams. There’s also a top-ten match-up in the PAC-12 where #9 UCLA, the conference’s only remaining unbeaten,… Read More »
Okie State DT opts out of season to start draft prep … Oklahoma State DT Brendon Evers announced earlier that he will be skipping the rest of the season to begin preparing for the 2023 draft. The 6-2, 295 Evers, a 6th year senior who has battled a chronic shoulder injury much of his career, isn’t considered to… Read More »
Selection order update posted … With week 6 of the NFL regular schedule in the books, the selection order for the 2023 draft, were it to be held this week has been updated.
Panthers get two picks for embattled WR; is star RB McCaffery next?? … Update: Several sources are now reporting that Arizona is sending Carolina a 6th round pick in 2024 and a 7th in 2025 for embattled WR Robbie Anderson. Anderson was kicked off the sidelines in yesterday’s game after getting into a spat with his position coach.… Read More »
Panthers lose again; keep top pick for another week … With Carolina losing to the Rams in LA this afternoon, the Panthers will hold onto the #1 pick in the proverbial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection order for the opening round of the 2023 draft, at least for another week. Las Vegas, which was on its… Read More »
Top WR prospect dinged … Southern California WR Jordan Addison, arguably the top WR prospect for the 2023 draft, suffered either an ankle or knee injury in last night’s heart-breaking 43-42 last-minute loss at Utah which may have ended any hopes previously unbeaten USC had of making the CFP playoff. Addison landed awkwardly when tackled following a 10-year… Read More »
Selection order on bye week! … There are at least a couple of really anticipated games on today’s NFL schedule with Buffalo playing in Kansas City in a late afternoon battle between the two best teams in the AFC, while Dallas and Philadelphia will play for the division lead in the suddenly tough again NFC East in the… Read More »
Vols win!!! Stun Tide on last-play FG … WOW! Tennessee finally got the Alabama jinx off its back when Chase McGrath hit a tipped 41-yard FG on the game’s final play to give the the 6th ranked Vols a dramatic 52-49 win over the third-ranked Tide to wrap an absolutely terrific college football game. And that final score… Read More »
QB Young starts against Vols … For the record, after missing a couple of weeks with a sprained AC joint in his throwing shoulder, Bryce Young, the reigning Heisman holder, is starting for Alabama in their monster game at #6 Tennessee.
Wolfpack QB out for year … Just a few hours after North Carolina State indicated that star QB Devin Leary would not play in this evening’s game at Syracuse, the program confirmed that Leary will in fact miss the rest of the year with a torn pectoral muscle that will require surgery. Leary had been considered to be… Read More »
One QB back; one not; one iffy as college KO hour nears … Kentucky has confirmed that QB Will Levis will ply this evening when the Wildcats play Mississippi State. Levis, one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2023 draft, has missed the past couple of weeks with foot and finger injuries. On the… Read More »
Prospects to watch in college football this weekend … Great weekend of college football on tap with a pair of huge games between undefeated top ten teams on the docket including a huge test for #3 Alabama when they play at #6 Tennessee, along with a Big Ten Showdown between #5 Michigan and #10 Penn State. Needless to… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly college prospects preview … As he does every week, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs in with his observations from last weekend’s big college games with an eye toward the 2023 draft.
Panthers take QB Levis #1 in GBN mock … Let’s try that again … It appears that there was a cyber-glitch in this projection and some people saw an older one; we think the problem has been corrected. Sorry about that!! Since we just posted the first full current selection order for the 2023 it seemed like a… Read More »
Wolfpack QB likely to miss time … North Carolina State QB Devin Leary, one of the solid second-tier QBs in the 2023 draft class, could miss time after injuring his shoulder in last weekend’s win over Florida State. Leary reportedly does not require surgery so the team is hoping he’ll be back sooner rather than later, but right… Read More »
Trade chatter following Panther coach firing … There are all kinds of rumors floating around the NFL this morning – all unconfirmed – that Carolina could be in the market to dump players and completely rebuild in the wake of the firing of head coach Matt Rhule yesterday. Chief among the rumblings is the likelihood that the Panthers… Read More »
Initial selection order posted … As promised with week 5 of the NFL season in the books, the initial ‘if the draft were held today’ selection for the opening round of the 2023 draft has been posted here. Just a couple of notes. First, there will actually only be 31 first-round picks this year as Miami has forfeited… Read More »
Another shoe falls in Carolina; HC Rhule out … It was just over two seasons ago that former Baylor coach Matt Rhule was the hottest ticket in NFL coaching circles. However, just 38 games later Rhule has been replaced by Steve Wilks by the 1-4 Panthers who would have the #1 pick at the 2023 draft if it… Read More »
Browns swap late pick with Falcons for vet LB … Atlanta has reportedly agreed to trade veteran LB Deion Jones to Cleveland in exchange for one of those late-round draft pick swaps. Atlanta will get Cleveland’s 6th round pick in 2024, while the Browns will get the Falcons’ 7th rounder. Jones, a 2nd round pick in 2016 who… Read More »
Panther QB Mayfield dings ankle, status uncertain … Hard to know how much worse it can get in Carolina, but after this afternoon’s uninspiring home loss to San Francisco which pushed the 1-4 Panthers into the top spot in the current opening round selection order for the 2023 draft QB Baker Mayfield left the building in a walking… Read More »
Panthers move up to #1 for the week … After Houston took advantage of a number of Jacksonville blunders to post their first win of the season to get to 1-3-1 and at least for the week drop out of the #1 pick in the current selection for the opening round of the 2023 draft, Carolina slid up… Read More »
QBs Young, Levis sitting out … Two of the top three QB prospects for the 2023 draft are sitting out tonight’s games with injuries. Bryce Young of Alabama, for example, is not playing for the Tide in this evening’s game with Texas A&M after straining a shoulder joint last weekend. Alabama actually never did announce that Young would… Read More »
Stroud, Anderson, Young atop latest Pigskin Top 25 … Making up for lost time, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has posted the latest (3.0) version of his Top 25 prospects for the 2023 draft. No surprises at the top where Ohio State QB CJ Stroud and DE Will Anderson and QB Bryce Young of Alabama are 1-2-3.… Read More »
Weekly college football prospects preview … You know pretty well for sure that there is no true marquee matchup on the college football schedule when ESPN’s College Gameday sets up shop in Lawrence, Kansas. For the geographically challenged Lawrence is the home of the Kansas Jayhawks, a perennial basketball powerhouse, but a school that has never been confused… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly prospects review … I believe the draft guru’s credo goes something like “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these analysts from the swift completion of their appointed columns” or something like that anyway. And our Pigskin Paul Guillemette more than lived up to that as he has posted his latest piece… Read More »
