Top CB enters draft; another QB to stick with school … No big surprise here, but South Carolina junior CB Cam Smith, a potential top 15-20 pick, has announced that he foregoing his remaining eligibility and will enter the upcoming draft. The 6-1, 190-pound Smith is currently listed as the #2 CB on the GBN positional ranking and… Read More »
Two more added to Senior Bowl roster … The Senior Bowl has announced that 2 more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Nebraska WR Trey Palmer and Oregon DE/LB D.J. Johnson, both of whom are intriguing second-tier types coming off breakout years. The 6-1, 190-pound Palmer, for example, had 71 receptions fo over 1,000 yards… Read More »
Let the debate begin after TCU drops Big XII title game in OT … Heading into the day the CFP picture seemed to be pretty clear. Win the Big XII championship and TCU was in; lose and the 4th and final spot in the national playoff goes to Alabama. Texas Christian did lose today’s conference final 31-28 to… Read More »
Utes knock USC out of CFP; Buckeyes next up … Folks that went to bed a little early last night might be wondering why everyone in Ohio is so happy this morning. However, it appears that after apparently being knocked out of the college football playoff after last weekend’s loss to Michigan in THE game, the Buckeyes look… Read More »
College comings and goings … A number of college players showed up on the transaction wire today with the most notable perhaps that Old Dominion WR Ali Jennings, who had been expected to enter the draft, instead will enter the transfer portal. This past season, Jennings averaged 17.8 yards per catch on 54 total receptions. Same story for… Read More »
Is Canes’ QB next to stay/transfer? … All indications are that Miami redshirt sophomore QB Tyler Van Dyke, who was once thought to be a likely first round pick this coming spring, is on the verge of joining the growing ranks of prominent QBs opting to return to school for the 2023 season. The big question in Miami,… Read More »
Pigskin star game thoughts … We are still almost two months away from this year’s Senior Bowl, but the roster is already more than half confirmed. And our Pigskin Paul Guillemette, who has been a fixture on the ground in Mobile for longer than he probably cares to remember, is also already making his plans for the event… Read More »
BC QB enters transfer portal … Boston College QB Phil Jurkovec has reportedly opted to enter the transfer portal, a pretty clear indication that he’ll be back in college somewhere next fall rather than enter this year’s draft. Jurkovec, who has decent size, arm talent and mobility, has been considered to be one of several possible mid-round picks… Read More »
Who to watch on college conference championship weekend … As noted in an earlier report, college football’s championship weekend has something of an odd feel to it this year. No question that two of the Power 5 title games – Southern Cal and Utah in the Pac-12 game Friday evening and the TCU-Kansas State in the Big XII… Read More »
Another Baker’s half-dozen added to Senior Bowl roster … The Senior Bowl has announced that 7 more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including 3 from Oklahoma: RB Eric Gray, OT Wanya Morris and DT Jalen Redmond. The others accepting invitations to Mobile include Purdue WR Charlie Jones, DEs Ali Gaye of LSU and Missouri’s Isaiah… Read More »
College football comings and goings … With the college football regular season now in the books, we can expect a spate of announcements about various player’s plans for their immediate football futures. It is certainly no surprise, for example, that Kentucky QB Will Levis, a top ten candidate for the upcoming draft, will not take advantage of the… Read More »
Michigan takes two hits … Literally just hours before they are scheduled to played Purdue in the Big Ten conference championship game, Michigan got two doses of bad news. On the one hand, star RB Blake Corum will reportedly undergo surgery to repair a knee issue and obviously won’t be playing this weekend. There is no word, though,… Read More »
Positional rankings updated … With the college football regular season, we have tweaked and updated the various positional rankings for the 2023 draft as per the drop down menu at the top of the page. Again, these rankings are based as mush as we can on what we are hearing from around the NFL as to how teams… Read More »
Pigskin’s weekly college prospects review … As he does every week – even on major holidays – 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. Of course, this will be Paul’s final report of the regular college schedule, but fear not, he’ll… Read More »
PSU CB Porter to enter draft; skip bowl … Penn State junior CB Joey Porter has become the first prominent college player to announce that he’ll be skipping his team’s bowl in order to begin preparations for the 2023 draft. The 6-2, 200-pound Porter, who has two years of college eligibility left, is considered to be one of… Read More »
USC QB Williams heads GBN All-America team … With the college football regular season in the books, the GBN senior staff put their heads together and came with up our annual All-America team as well as our nods to who we fell should win this year’s major awards. And the big winner was Southern California 2nd-year sophomore Caleb… Read More »
Baker’s dozen added to Senior Bowl roster … Over the past few days the Senior Bowl has announced that 13 more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Cincinnati WR Tre Tucker; TEs Dalton Kincaid of Utah and Cincinnati’s Josh Whyle; OGs Nick Broeker of Mississippi, Jarrett Patterson of Notre Dame and Utah’s Braeden Daniels; DEs… Read More »
Selection order updated … With another week in the books, the opening round selection order for the 2023 draft were it to be held this week has been updated.
Top OL prospect to stick with school … In a little bit of a surprising move, rising Penn State OT Olu Fashanu, who has recently emerged as a legit top 10 candidate for the 2023 draft, has announced that he intends to return to school next fall. The 6-6. 310-pound Fashanu, a redshirt sophomore who still hasn’t turned… Read More »
B10 coach reset … We have said – somewhat in jest, but somewhat in truth too – that the Big Ten, which actually has 14 teams, should really be called the Big Three – Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State – and a bunch of other teams. Indeed, in the past five years not including the odd 2020… Read More »
Browns finally activate QB Watson … Cleveland has finally been able to activate QB Deshaun Watson, whom they acquired in that trade with Houston last winter. Watson, of course, hasn’t been able to play since because of that mess of a personal situation in which more than 20 female masseuses accused him of sexual misconduct. Ironically, Watson’s first… Read More »
Texans still #1; top 4 picks for week set, sort of … With just the prime time evening games to go on this weekend’s NFL schedule, the first four picks in this week’s selection order for the first round of the 2023 draft are set. Houston edged even closer to wrapping up the top pick overall with a… Read More »
College conference title games set … With their regular schedule now in the books, college football moves onto the conference championship games next weekend. It gets started when Southern Cal plays Utah in Las Vegas on at 8 PM ET on FOX on Friday night for the Pac-12 championship. Then on Saturday, TCU meets Kansas State in the… Read More »
Stunners shakeup playoff landscape in college football … There were a couple of really almost shocking results in the early games today with major implications for the CFP playoff. Michigan stunned Ohio State 45-23 right in Columbus to really put a dagger in the Buckeyes’ national championship hopes. Ohio State can still get an invite to the 4-team… Read More »
Saturday morning college notes … We are just over two and a half hours away from kicking off the big Big Ten game between Michigan and Ohio State in Columbus and just to update yesterday’s preview of who to watch, it appears that both of injured RBs Blake Corum of the Wolverines and the Buckeyes’ Miyan Williams will… Read More »
