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 »
QB prospect Levis dinged; status questionable … It may ultimately come down to the fact that we’ll have to ask the last top prospect for the 2023 draft standing to turn off the lights. With 4 of the top 6 rated players for this year’s draft already either out of this weekend’s game or questionable, comes word that… Read More »
ER, CB emerging positions for 2023 … We always get a lot of questions at this time of year what are the strongest positions for the upcoming draft. And until recently, we would have said for 2023 that QB looked to be the position of choice with the rest of the top prospects spread across the other positions.… Read More »
Buckeye WR also on injury watch … Over the last week or so we have noted that three of the top 5-6 prospects for the upcoming draft – Alabama QB Bryce Young and star DTs Jalen Carter of Georgia and Clemson’s Bryan Bresee – are all currently on the injury list for one reason or another. In fact,… Read More »
Texans back to #1 on early board … With San Francisco upsetting the LA Rams in the Monday night game, we can confirm that Houston, the league’s only remaining winless team at 0-3-1, would have the #1 pick were the 2023 draft to be held this week, while Carolina and Las Vegas would flip for the 2-3 picks.… Read More »
As the QB turns … Houston head coach Lovie Smith stated rather emphatically earlier today that the team, the NFL’s only remaining winless squad who would have the #1 pick overall were the 2023 draft held this week, currently have no thoughts of replacing Davis Mills at QB. According to Smith, Mills is ‘the last of the Texans… Read More »
Tide QB still ‘day-to-day’; Dawg DT Carter out 2-4 weeks … Updating this weekend’s injuries to several top prospects for the 2023 draft, Alabama head coach Nick Saban reiterated that star QB Bryce Young, the reigning Heisman holder and one of the top 2-3 rospects at the position for the upcoming draft, is still being listed as ‘day-to-day’… Read More »
Changing of the guard??? … As we noted in the piece earlier today, there is still a ton of football to be played this season, but a couple of things did kind of jump out when we were calculating which teams would have early picks at the 2023 draft if we were in fact posting the current selection… Read More »
College injury notes: Young, Carter, Bresee … It’s never a particularly good week in college football when three of the top 6 or so prospects for the upcoming draft are sidelined with some kind of health issue. And we were hoping to get some kind of update on the situation for Alabama QB Bryce Young, Georgia Jalen Carter… Read More »
