Tide ER heads strong DE/ER contingent for 2023 … Here’s a bit of an interesting stat: more DEs have been selected with top 5 picks over the past decade than QBs. That includes this past April’s draft when three DEs were taken in the top 5 picks including former Georgia DE Travon Walker who Jacksonville chose with the… Read More »
Colts lose 6th round TE to knee injury … Indianapolis rookie TE Drew Ogletree will miss the upcoming season after tearing an ACL in practice earlier today. Ogletree was a 6th round pick at the 2022 draft from Youngstown State.
Vegas gets late future Titans pick for DB … Las Vegas has acquired a conditional 7th round pick in 2024 from Tennessee in exchange for safety Tyree Gillespie, a 4th round pick in 2021 who played sparingly as a rookie last fall and was buried on the Raiders depth chart this fall.
2023 offensive line preview … It should be another good year for teams looking to find reinforcements along their offensive line at the 2023 draft, although it may not quite as good as last year when 8 OL were selected in the opening round, including three in the Top 10. However, there is still a better than even… Read More »
Chiefs release DB Johnson; likely get late pick back … We are still waiting for confirmation, but one would have to assume that Kansas City will get back the 2024 conditional 7th round pick they sent to Houston in a trade for DB Lonnie Johnson back in May after the Chiefs released Johnson earlier today as part of… Read More »
Tiger troubles: Clemson DE Thomas out for start of season; LSU QB retires … Clemson DE Xavier Thomas, a second-day prospect for the upcoming draft, will undergo surgery to repair a foot injury and will miss up to 6 weeks. The 6-2, 270-pound Thomas has 12 career sacks to date. Meanwhile, veteran LSU QB Myles Brennan has announced… Read More »
Giants Report: Observations from first week of pre-season play … We have a pretty strict rule when it comes to assessing stuff in the football world and that is ‘Never, ever base conclusions on just one game!’ The corollary is never, ever, ever base anything on a pre-season game, especially the first one. So we aren’t going to… Read More »
First pre-season weekend round-up … Fans in Cleveland maybe can be forgiven if they hope that QB Deshaun Watson’s suspension ends up being more than 6 games after a rather dismal outing in the Browns’ pre-season opening win over Jacksonville. Watson was suspended for the first 6 games of the year by an arbitrator earlier this month, but… Read More »
2023 TE preview … Tight end has never exactly been considered to be a glamor position when it comes to the NFL draft; however, it does seem that every couple of years there’s a really talented guy at the position who ends up going very early. Two years ago, for example, Atlanta selected Kyle Pitts with the 4th… Read More »
2023 WR Preview … One of the stories of the 2021 NFL season was the meteoric rise of the WR position as a real position of value in the league to almost rival QB and DE as the prime positions. WRs were signing cap busting contracts, while others were being traded for hauls more associated with deals involving… Read More »
Texans-‘Phins deal for TE Shaheen nixed … This week’s trade between Houston and Miami in which the Texans acquired TE Adam Shaheen from Miami in a trade involving a swap of later 2023 picks has been rescinded after Shaheen failed his medical with the Texans. As a result, Houston gets back the 6th round pick they sent to… Read More »
Pre-season kicks off in earnest … The shortened NFL pre-season schedule gets underway in earnest later this evening with a couple of games tonight starting with the Giants at New England at 7 PM ET on the NFL Network, while Tennessee plays at Baltimore at 7:30 PM ET. Arguably, the most interesting game of the week, though, will… Read More »
2023 RB preview … A RB hasn’t been selected with a top 10 pick since the Giants took Saquon Barkley with the second pick overall in 2018. That could change this year, though, as Bijan Robinson of Texas is the top-rated back to come along in the past few years. Robinson, though, is the only back this year… Read More »
Tide DE bumps QBs at top of Pigskin pre-season Top 25 … Alabama DE Will Anderson gets the top spot in GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette’s first ranking of the top 25 prospects for the 2023 draft. Anderson edges out QBs CJ Stroud of Ohio State and Anderson’s Tide teammate Bryce Young for the top spot, while… Read More »
Wake QB Hartman out for ‘extended’ period … Wake Forest has confirmed that star QB Sam Hartman, one of the more intriguing prospects at the position, will miss what is being described as an ‘extended’ period because of a non-football related health issue. In fact, it appears there is a good possibility that Hartman won’t play at all… Read More »
2023 QB preview … With most of the football world focused on NFL training camps these days, one should not forget that fall camps are also now underway at college campuses all across the country. In fact, we are less than 20 days away from the opening of college football’s regular season, although the blockbuster early season games… Read More »
Pigskin punks NFL training camps … With training camps now well into their second weeks and the pre-season set to get underway in earnest, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette reports with some observations from some of the league’s more interesting sites, plus he’s got a couple of players to watch in the CFL.
Giants pick to IR … The NY Giants have confirmed that G/T Marcus McKethan, a 5th round pick from North Carolina this past spring, tore an ACL during a scrimmage late last week and has been placed on IR.
Jags-Raiders kick-off pre-season slate … Are you ready for some football. Well, pre-season football anyway as Jacksonville and Las Vegas will kick-off the pre-season later this evening in the Hall-of-Fame game in Canton, Ohio. Game time is 8 PM ET on NBC. No surprise, though, that Jags’ QB Trevor Lawrence, the first player selected at the 2022 draft,… Read More »
Clemson S retires; ex-Tiger RB now with Vols … With college football training camps set to open across the country this week, there were a couple of roster moves involving Clemson. On the one hand, Tigers’ safety Lannden Zanders has opted to retire from football because of an injured shoulder that has forced him to the sidelines for… Read More »
Former NJ AG to hear Watson appeal … NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has named former New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey to hear the league’s appeal of Cleveland QB Deshaun Watson’s 6-game suspension for violating the league’s personal-conduct policy. The NFL had been asking for a full-year suspension, but the independent abritrator the league and players’ union had… Read More »
And then there were none; last unsigned rook comes to terms … Baltimore has come to terms with DE/OLB David Ojabo, the last unsigned player selected in the 2022 draft. Ojabo, the former Michigan star, was selected in the 2nd round with the 45th pick overall. He had, of course, been considered to be a lock to be… Read More »
Owner suspended; Dolphins lose two picks in tampering case … While most of the football world has been focused on the Deshaun Watson case, the NFL was also undertaking a second investigation involving allegations of tampering against Miami. And that case was resolved earlier today with word that Dolphins’ owner Stephen Ross has been suspended from all football… Read More »
Watson gets 6 game suspension … There are multiple reports at this hour that Cleveland QB DeShaun Watson has been suspended for the first 6 games of the upcoming season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Both sides now have three days in which to file an appeal. The NFLPA has already indicated they’ll live with the… Read More »
Aggie WR re-instated after charges dropped … Updating that story from earlier this month about Texas A&M senior WR Ainias Smith, a second-tier prospect for the 2023 draft, who was suspended indefinitely after he was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and possession on an unregistered gun. Smith’s suspension has now been lifted after… Read More »
