More random thoughts on the latest CFP playoff rankings … Again, for those that don’t follow college football all that closely and may have missed it, but the CFP playoff committee released their weekly rankings. And no surprise, the top 4 teams – Oregon, Ohio State, Texas and Penn State – were unchanged, while Notre Dame, Miami, Georgia,… Read More »
Early start to race for top pick … The three teams – Jacksonville, NY Giants and Las Vegas – which appear to have the best chance of ending up with the #1 pick overall at the 2025 draft all are in relatively tough this weekend. And it starts early with both the Giants and Raiders playing in Thanksgiving… Read More »
Jags, Giants, Raiders 1-2-3 in updated weekly selection order … At least for this week, the top three picks in the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft will belong to Jacksonville, the NY Giants and Las Vegas. Note, that the SOS figures are based on each team’s full 17-game schedule rather than just the games played… Read More »
Tide LB Lawson done for year … Alabama confirmed earlier today that LB Deontae Lawson, one of the top prospects at the position for the upcoming draft, will miss the remainder of the Tide’s season after suffering what is being described as a ‘serious’ lower leg injury in their loss at Oklahoma on Saturday. There is no word… Read More »
College football Sunday morning update … It was supposed to be a quiet weekend in college football as teams warmed up for next week’s rivalry games and regular season finales, but instead it turned into upset Saturday as a number of prominent teams suffered upsets that have severely jeopardized their playoff aspirations. That list included Alabama which was… Read More »
ECU CB Revel declares for draft … East Carolina junior CB Shavon Revel announced earlier today that he will be entering the 2025 draft despite tearing an ACL earlier this season. The 6-2, 195-pound Revel, who had been considered to be a rising star in the upcoming draft class with first-round potential, tore an ACL in practice back… Read More »
Saturday college QB coverage … There are only 2 more weeks in the regular college football schedule which means there’ll only be 2 more chances to see the top QB prospects for the 2025 draft, at least in a regular season setting. Fortunately, though, almost all will be playing in nationally televised games tomorrow. In no particular order,… Read More »
The ‘other’ big game in college football … Several readers have asked why we didn’t also preview Saturday’s game (7 PM ET; NBC) in New York between #6 Notre Dame and #19 Army, one of the only 3 remaining unbeaten FBS teams. OK! I guess. Clearly, it will be a huge game if Army can actually pull off… Read More »
Giants release QB Jones … Somewhat surprisingly, the NY Giants have outright released QB Daniel Jones ending a rather tumultuous 6-year stint with the team. In fact, it was a rather dramatic slide for Jones who was officially benched on Monday, demoted to #3 QB on Tuesday and then further demoted to 4th string on Wednesday. In fact,… Read More »
Browns win shuffles early draft order … For those that missed it late last evening as Cleveland upset Pittsburgh 24-19 in near blizzard conditions for their third win of the year. That means the Browns, which had been sitting on the 3rd pick overall in this week’s first-round selection order for the 2025 draft, will drop all the… Read More »
Let’s move on over to the defensive side of the line-of-scrimmage for a few profiles of some very good defensive Combine performers, who deserve more attention over the next month. I’m not sure any one performer proved more in Indy than CB/JAIRE ALEXANDER of Louisville. Going into the Combine I think many scouts felt that Alexander was right… Read More »
Sorry again for the time delay in getting this up, but remember it has only been a week since the Combine ended. Patience and reflection are still virtues in my book. Besides i have been distracted by John Dorsey cleaning up his roster in Cleveland. Here are some of my players who made strong impressions on me in… Read More »
As I was half-watching some of the pre-game filler before the College Football Championship game last night I decided to put down in writing what significant college players we were still waiting to hear from, relative to declaring for the 2018 NFL Draft. To say that list is fluid at this time of year would be an understatement… Read More »
We have noted that the run-up to this year’s draft has been unusually quiet; however, that doesn’t mean there isn’t necessarily any movement just beneath the surface. It’s hard not to sense, for example, that Texas Tech QB Patrick Mahomes continues to gain momentum. Indeed, there’s a palpable sense around the league that Mahomes is now the second… Read More »
Every Draft season we have our standard categories for articles about Prospects: Mock Drafts, Top 100 lists, Sleepers, Overrated/underrated etc. Not to get too cute or play semantical games with you, I would like to put a slight twist and abstain from referring to players as underrated, but rather to term them as Under Valued. So here is… Read More »
With the scouting combine now nicely underway in Indianapolis, here are some passing thoughts on what we have been picking up in terms of some of the players who are hot in this year’s draft class and some who are not …. It does not appear at this time as if there is a true consensus #1 top… Read More »
Interesting! Intriguing! Challenging! All pretty good words to describe the potential 2016 draft class at QB. On the one hand, it appears there could be an inordinate number of very good prospects at the position for the upcoming draft. At the same time, though, none of the top-rated guys at the position has yet to firmly solidify themselves… Read More »
So where are we now: The 2015 scouting combine is now on the books so what did we learn from 6 days in Indianapolis. And the #1 thing that seems to have learned at the combine is that with all due respects to QBs Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota, both of whom put to bed many doubts with… Read More »
The 2015 draft in a word … Last year at this time the words ‘talented’ and ‘awesome’ were being flung about describing the 2014 draft which most observers felt was among the most talented in a generation. Not so much this year, though, in a draft class which certainly has talented players, but far more questions. Indeed, if… Read More »
by Pigskin Paul Guillemette I almost forgot to relate to you, what I felt, was one of the first newsworthy events of Senior Bowl week. Maybe it’s fitting to wrap up our coverage with the first thing that happened at the beginning of the player weigh-in. For the second year in a row Game Director PHIL SAVAGE informed… Read More »
by Colin Lindsay Defensive line: Nobody is going to make a tape of the defensive line play at this year’s Senior Bowl as a teaching guide as, with some notable exceptions, the unit really struggled against their offensive counterparts. One of those notable exceptions was Washington DT Danny Shelton, who didn’t make many real impact plays, but wasn’t… Read More »
by Colin Lindsay Offensive line: Normally in an all-star game setting the defensive line tends to have something of a competitive advantage over the offensive line which usually takes some time to jell as a unit. However, somebody forgot to tell the OL group at this year’s Senior Bowl game in Mobile who went out and pretty much… Read More »
