Orange LB top pick in CFL draft … Montreal selected Syracuse LB Tyrell Richards with the first pick overall at tonight’s CFL draft. Montreal had acquired the first pick earlier in the day from Edmonton in exchange for the 4th pick and the rights to OT Carter O’Donnell. Ottawa then took OT Zach Pelehos from the University of… Read More »
Giants draft review … Over the course of the past couple of days we have been wracking our brain trying to come up with a word the best encapsulates the Giants 2022 draft. In the end we settled on ‘strange.’ Of course, there was nothing strange about the Giants first-round selections of former Oregon DE Kayvon Thibodeaux and… Read More »
UDFA Ivy QB switches teams … One reason that we are reluctant to list undrafted free agents until their team officially announces its UDFA signings is that stuff can change. This year, for example, we have seen former Oklahoma FB Jeremiah Hall listed among signings by both Seattle and NY Giants (although we do believe that its the… Read More »
Bears, Giants reorg scout staffs … Once the draft is done is when teams usually start to reshape their personnel departments if they plan to do so. And at least two teams have taken major axes to their scouting staffs. Chicago, for example, has fired both college scouting director Mark Sadowski, college scouting coordinator Bobby Macedo and national… Read More »
Draft lite up north … As they do every year, the Canadian Football League will hold its annual draft of Canadian players just days after the NFL draft. The CFL draft will be held this evening beginning at 8 PM ET with coverage on TSN. Edmonton has the first pick this evening followed by Ottawa and B.C. Here… Read More »
8th round off and running … As noted at the end of the 7th round on Saturday evening, the draft doesn’t end with Mr. Irrelevant as NFL teams scramble to sign the best available undrafted players. Indeed, most teams will have started reaching out to their prime targets even before the draft itself was done. and most will… Read More »
Pigskin posts top pickers … Having had a couple of days to chew over what transpired at last weekend’s draft, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette weighs on the four teams he felt had the most impactful draft this year, as well as several other random comments.
Texans get late Chiefs’ future pick for vet CB … After selecting CB Derek Stingley with their first pick at last weekend’s draft, Houston has traded veteran CB Lonnie Johnson to Kansas City for what is being described as a conditional 7th round pick in 2024.
Tide CB Ricks booked for speeding, possession … New Alabama CB Eli Ricks, a top 10-15 prospect for the 2023 draft was booked over the weekend on charges of speeding, driving without insurance and possession of marijuana in Mississippi. Ricks was a freshman All-American at LSU in 2020, but opted to transfer to rival Alabama this winter. It… Read More »
Pitt WR Addison thinking USC transfer … According to local media reports, star Pittsburgh junior WR Jordan Addison, last year’s Biletnikoff Award winner and a top 10-15 prospect for the 2023 draft is seriously considering transferring to Southern California, although he still has not totally ruled out returning to Pitt. Last year, the 6-0, 175-pound Addison had 100… Read More »
Coulda, maybe shoulda stayed in school … As with most drafts these days, underclassmen dominated the top of the board at this weekend’s draft. Indeed, 9 of the first ten picks were either juniors or redshirt sophomores as were 19 of the 32 players selected in the opening round. However, it wasn’t all peaches and cream for this… Read More »
Armed and dangerous for 2023 … We’re hoping to get some confirmation from our GBN colleague Pigskin Paul if he puts together an analysis of the draft day trades as he has in previous years, but it is our preliminary sense that there were fewer overall trades this year than in the recent past. We also got the… Read More »
SEC leads conference again; AAC and MVFC surprise … Just to follow-up the earlier breakdown of picks by school, the SEC once again had the most players of any conference selected at the 2022 draft. Led by Georgia’s record 15 picks, the SEC had 65 players taken at this weekend’s draft which tied last year’s record haul. In… Read More »
Dawgs, Cats have record drafts … Just in case anybody missed it, defending national champion Georgia led all colleges at the 2022 draft with 15 players selected. For the record, that’s the most by any school since the league went to a 7-round draft in 1994. The previous high was 14 set by Ohio State in 2004 and… Read More »
Draft just 364 days away!! … With the 2023 draft just 364 days away, our Larry Parker has put together a ‘way-too-early’ projection for next year’s draft. And while its done with more than a little tongue-in-cheek – so please don’t anybody write in asking what we are smoking because the Buckaroos would never take a … –… Read More »
That’s a wrap; THE end, finish!! … The 2022 draft came to a fitting close just before 7 PM ET this evening when San Francisco selected former Iowa State QB Brock Rurdy with the 262nd and final pick of the draft. Of course, that makes him ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ for the year. And while the actual draft is in… Read More »
Third day looming … Just a reminder to everyone – as anyone needs it – that today’s 4th round begins at Noon ET with Tampa Bay currently on the clock. Certainly the story of yesterday’s second and third rounds – and maybe of the whole draft – was the dramatic slide of the top-rated QBs. Remember there was… Read More »
That’s a wrap; part deux … The second and third rounds of the 2022 draft came to a close just a few minutes ago when San Francisco selected former SMU WR Danny Gray with the 105th and last pick of the third round. However, as usual there won’t be much rest for NFL personnel people, though, as teams… Read More »
Off and running again … Tampa Bay is on the clock with the first pick of the second round at the 2022 draft!! Enjoy! And remember its 7 minutes per week in the second round and 5 in the third.
Coming at the draft from a different perspective … Allow me a personal moment. Been covering the draft for 25 years, been following it for almost 50. Tonight will be a little different though. Of course, I’ll still be reporting on the NFL draft, but up here the Ontario Hockey League also has its priority draft of 16-year-olds… Read More »
Pigskin draft thoughts … Having had a little time to chew over last night’s drafting, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has some thoughts on what happened last night and what to expect this evening.
Jets, Eagles get biggest first-round thumbs up … The old saying is that you can’t really grade a draft for 2-3 years. The old saying is actually wrong. What you find out after 2-3 years is whether your picks actually worked out. The question today is whether team’s got good value for their picks which is something quite… Read More »
Next morning thoughts … Probably a lot of groggy folks – if they are awake at all – out in Las Vegas after the opening night of the 2022 draft. If there is a word to describe this year’s first round it might be ‘interesting’. The expected fireworks, at least early on, never happened. In fact, the big… Read More »
That’s a wrap … The opening round of the 2022 draft came to a close just a few minutes ago when the Minnesota Vikings selected former Georgia S Lewis Cine with the 32nd and last pick of the night that was acquired during the evening from Detroit, but which actually originally belonged to the Super Bowl champion LA… Read More »
And we are underway … Well, almost anyway with the Jacksonville Jaguars on the clock – almost – with the first pick in the 2022 draft.
