Texans’ rookie WR Metchie diagnosed with leukemia … Houston rookie WR John Metchie announced earlier today that he has been diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and likely will not play this season. Metchie, whom the Texans traded up in the second round of the 2022 to acquire, was already sidelined with an torn ACL suffered in last fall’s… Read More »
Titans sign rook QB Willis … All of this year’s first-round picks have long been signed, but several players selected in later rounds are still to be signed. However, with training camps opening across the country, that list got shorter this weekend as Tennessee signed QB Malik Willis and CB Roger McCreary. McCreary was a second round pick,… Read More »
Giants Report: Will the real Saquon please stand up … Its clearly still the off-season, or at least until Tuesday when veterans report to the opening of the Giants’ 2022 training camp. And we guess people just have too much time on their hands waiting for camp to get going because we keep getting queries asking how we… Read More »
Gator QB dumps nickname … Florida QB Anthony Richardson has announced that he will no longer use the nickname AR-15 due to its being associated with the weapon used in so many recent mass shootings across the U.S. Richardson, whose initials are A. R. and who does wear #15 with the Gators, also indicated that he will be… Read More »
Bills, Raiders open camps … Are you ready for some football??? The 2022 season technically gets underway on Monday when Buffalo and Las Vegas open their respective training camps to rookies. As many as 8 other teams will be opening their camps for rookies on Tuesday. The Raiders will also be the first team to open their full… Read More »
Star game coaching changes … As first reported by Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, there will be a major change beginning this year as to how coaches are assigned to Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine all-star games. In the past, both teams in the Senior Bowl had full NFL coaching staffs, however, this year, the two full… Read More »
Shrine Watch List posted … With college football training camps set to open in 2-3 weeks, the East-West Shrine All-Star game has posted its annual Watch List of approximately 1000 players eligible to participate in this year’s game. The list includes seniors, super seniors and some selected 4th year juniors.
Pats get Bears late, future pick for vet WR Harry … New England has traded WR N’Keal Harry, the Patriots’ #1 pick in 2019, to Chicago for a 7th round pick in 2024.
Bombers cruise in key early season CFL battle of unbeatens … As we noted in our pre-game preview, you don’t often get much buzz about early season CFL games, but there was some real interest in tonight’s match-up between Winnipeg and the B.C. Lions, the league’s last-two remaining unbeaten teams this evening in Vancouver. Unfortunately, the two-time defending… Read More »
Top players in just completed USFL season … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette spent the past few weeks watching the inaugural USFL season and weighs in some of the most interesting players in the new league this spring.
Baker to Panthers … Cleveland has finally unloaded QB Baker Mayfield who they traded to Carolina this afternoon for what is being reported a conditional 5th round pick at the 2024 draft. The pick could escalate to a #4 depending on Mayfield’s playing time with the Panthers. Ironically, Mayfield, the #1 pick overall in 2018, will join Sam… Read More »
Tide, Bucks, Dawgs top list of 2023 draft classes … There is a theory around college football these days that the rich are just getting richer. And if the early returns on the 2023 draft are any indication that may very well be the case as traditional powers Alabama, Ohio State and defending national champion Georgia look to… Read More »
Giants report: opening the summer mailbag … With the Giants rookies scheduled to hit the field for the first practice of this year’s training camp two weeks today literally as we speak we thought it would be a good time to empty the Giants mailbag with a collective response to some of the most often queries we get… Read More »
HAPPY 4th!!! … A very Happy and safe Independence Day celebration to everyone!!! Party responsibly but party!!!
USC, UCLA moving to Big 10 … That didn’t take long! Literally just hours after it was revealed that Pac-12 powers Southern California and UCLA were ‘considering’ joining the Big Ten comes word that they have in fact been accepted by the Big Ten and will begin play there in 2024. That would give the Big Ten 16… Read More »
ACC to drop divisions … The ACC has confirmed that the conference will scrap its divisional format starting in 2023. Starting next year, the ACC will move to a 3-5-5 format in which every team will have three permanent rivalry games each year, while playing 5 of the remaining 10 teams on a rotating basis every-other-year. And the… Read More »
NFL cancels supp draft; camp dates set … The NFL announced earlier today that for the third straight year, there will no summer supplemental draft this year. Meanwhile, the league also announced training camp dates and sites for all teams. In fact, all camps will be fully open in just over a month by July 26th, although several… Read More »
Latest Manning signs with ‘Horns … The drama surrounding where Arch Manning, the grandson of Archie Manning and the nephew of Eli and Peyton Manning who is generally considered to be the #1 recruit in the 2023 class, will play his college football is over as Manning III has announced that he will be attending Texas starting next… Read More »
Last unsigned #1 pick comes to terms … There are several media reports out there including one in the Boston Herald that New England did in fact come to terms with OG Cole Strange, their 2022 first-round pick, yesterday. According to the report, Strange, the surprise 29th pick in this year’s draft, signed a standard 4-year deal worth… Read More »
Steelers sign top pick … Pittsburgh has signed QB Kenny Pickett, the 20th player selected at the 2022 draft, to standard 4-year deal worth an estimated $14.1M with a club option for a 5th year. Pickett came into the week as one of two still unsigned first-round picks from this year’s draft along with New England OG Cole… Read More »
Preliminary Watch List posted … With just over 300 days to go until the 2023 draft, we have posted our annual pre-season watch list of the top prospects for next year’s draft. It wasn’t necessarily all that easy putting this year’s list together, in part because of all the transfers that occurred this off-season as a result of… Read More »
More Pigskin picks v grades … GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette takes a look at the drafts of four more teams – Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh from the AFC North and Buffalo – compared with where he had their players graded here.
Cards, Browns shuffle scout staffs … Arizona made a number of moves to fill out its scouting staff this week. In particular, Josh Scobey, who had been the Cardinals’ western regional scout the past three year, was promoted to director of college scouting, while pro scout Glen Fox was promoted to director of pro personnel. In other moves… Read More »
Star BC OG out for year … Boston College OG Christian Mahogany, one of the top interior offensive line prospects for the 2023 draft, confirmed that he tore the ACL in his right knee in May and underwent surgery at the end of the month. As a result, the 6-3, 335-pound Mahogany will likely miss the entire upcoming… Read More »
College realignment taking shape … The American Athletic Conference confirmed earlier today that six new members, including Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, and Texas-San Antonio will officially join the AAC on July 1st next year. All of the new AAC teams were part of Conference USA last year. That announcement came just a couple of days… Read More »
