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 »
Raiders win; Texans up to #1 … Just a quick update on the selection order for the 2023 draft. As noted yesterday, there will be a new #1 in this week’s ‘unposted’ selection order after Las Vegas knocked off Denver for its first victory. That leaves 0-3-1 Houston as the league’s only remaining winless team after the Texans… Read More »
Clemson DT Bresee sits out State; so does UGA DT Carter … Star Clemson DT Bryan Bresee, a top 5-10 prospect for the upcoming draft, did not suit up for tonight’s Top 10 show-down with North Carolina State Clemson because of a non-football medical issue that required bloodwork and observation this week. Reportedly, everything is fine and Bresee… Read More »
Breaking news updated: Tide QB Young dinged … Alabama QB Bryce Young, the reigning Heisman Trophy holder and a top 5 prospect for the 2023 draft, who left the Tide’s game with Arkansas in the first half with an apparent shoulder injury, returned to the field in the second half with his helmet on but remains on the… Read More »
Happy Birthday Austin!!! … Many happy returns to second grandson Austin who turns 12 today. Cool!!
Vols WR Tillman has ankle surgery … Tennessee WR Cedric Tillman, one of the better prospects at the position for the 2023 draft, underwent a surgical procedure that the team hopes will speed his recovery from a high-ankle sprain suffered two weeks ago in the Vols’ win over Akron. Tillman reportedly had what is known as ‘tightrope’ surgery… Read More »
Tide DE Anderson, Buck QB Stroud still 1-2 on GBN Big Board … Alabama DE Will Anderson is still the #1 prospect on the latest, updated GBN Big Board ranking the top 50 prospects overall for the 2023 draft. Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud also stays at #2, with Georgia DT Jalen Carter at #3. Ohio State WR… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … Another pretty good week on the college football schedule with as many as four games between ranked teams including one between a pair of top-ten teams. And there are lots of good prospects for the upcoming draft to check out this weekend, including several of the top QB prospects.… Read More »
Bonus coverage: Rising BYU Cougs featured in college Thursday niter … We’ll be posting a full ‘who to watch in college football’ tomorrow – and its an intriguing weekend with as many as four games between ranked teams. And no doubt NFL scouts will be all over Saturday’s games. There’s a good chance, though, they’ll also be all… Read More »
Defensive rankings posted … With the college football season now pretty much a month in, we have enough info to post our initial positional rankings for the 2023 draft starting with the offensive positions yesterday and concluding with the defensive positions today including the DEs, DTs, LBs, CBs, and safeties.
Early odds to get the #1 pick at the 2023 draft … The 2022 NFL season is just three weeks old, but already we have a pretty idea as to which teams are the likely contenders for this year’s Super Bowl title. Not so much yet, though, for which team will ultimately get the first pick at next… Read More »
