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Shrine prospects heading to Frisco as star week set to kick-off … NFL hopefuls participating in next week’s East-West Shrine all-star game are gathering in Frisco as we speak for the start Shrine activities. Players will start their interviews tomorrow and we presume get weighed and measured, while the 4 days of practice get underway on Friday culminating… Read More »

January mock updated … With the 2026 draft class now pretty well set, the GBN projection for the first round of the upcoming draft has has been updated. Again, please note that our goal is not to try and predict which particular player a particular team will select 3 months plus down the road; rather we are primarily… Read More »

Peeking ahead to what may be loaded 2027 draft … Now that the field for the 2026 draft – now just 95 days away – has been pretty well set, we can also get a sense of what the 2027 draft class might look like. And while the current draft class isn’t exactly blowing anyone away, especially at… Read More »

Saints, Browns, Giants and Pats get top ESPN 2025 draft grades … For those that didn’t see it last week, ESPN ran a piece last week grading the productivity and potential of every team’s 2025 draft with New Orleans, Cleveland, New England and the NY Giants getting the highest grades.

Reports have Simpson still leaning to draft … With just over 24 hours for underclassmen to file paperwork in order to be eligible for the 2026 draft, there is still no definitive word on whether former Alabama QB Ty Simpson will follow thru on an earlier announcement that he will be entering the draft or opt to accept… Read More »

Is Tide QB Simpson rethinking draft commit? … Now former Alabama QB Ty Simpson announced that he would be bypassing his final year of eligibility to enter the 2026 draft. However, that has not stopped a number of prominent programs from throwing some big NIL numbers at Simpson to see if they can possibly change his mind. In… Read More »

Ducks get one of top portal QBs … There is an interesting development at Oregon which just got a transfer commitment from former Nebraska QB Dominic Raiola, one of the better young passers in the league. The Ducks – not to mention the NFL – are waiting for word from incumbent Oregon QB Dante Moore on his plans… Read More »

Trio of Duck stars to return; 4 to declare … With the clock ticking on underclassmen thinking of entering this year’s draft who have until the end of business on Tuesday to file the appropriate paperwork with the NFL league office, Oregon DE Matayo Uigalelei, OLB Teitum Tuioti and C Iapani Lalloulu have all confirmed that they will… Read More »

Panthers to pick 19th … Carolina threw a scare into the LA Rams in their first-round playoff game earlier this afternoon when the Panthers took a 4-point lead with just over 2 minutes to play following a blocked punt. But Rams QB Matt Stafford was able to lead a go-ahead TD march that culminated in a go-ahead score… Read More »

Hoosiers advance to CFP final … It will be Indiana versus Miami in the CFP national championship game on January 19th in the Hurricanes home stadium. The Hoosiers advanced to the final with a crushing win over Oregon that was never really close. Meanwhile, the big question for Oregon is does QB Dante Moore opt to enter the… Read More »

Top UM RB prospect to portal … Michigan junior RB Justice Haynes, who had been considered one of the top 2-3 prospects at the position for the 2026 draft, has opted to stay in college for the upcoming season, but will transfer. Haynes was having an All-American type year with the Wolverines this past season as he was… Read More »

Future college transfer notes … Despite the fact that the deadline for underclassmen thinking of entering the 2026 draft to apply to the NFL for early entry is now less than a week away, that column of the college football transfer wire has been relatively quiet the past couple of days. However, there have been a number of… Read More »

WRs hilite latest Senior Bowl adds … The Senior Bowl, which for the record gets underway in just over two weeks, announced another batch of prospects who have committed to this month’s game in Mobile including a quartet of WRs: KC Concepcion of Texas A&M; Southern Cal’s Ja’Kobi Lane, Eric Singleton of Auburn, and Jordan Hudson of SMU.… Read More »

Buckeye S Downs enters draft … Ohio State FS Caleb Downs has confirmed that he will be foregoing his final year of eligibility and entering the 2026 draft. Downs, in fact, is considered to be one of the very best players in this year’s draft with top 2-3 physical tools, but he could slip down slightly as safety… Read More »

Tide QB Simpson enters draft … The first major QB domino for 2026 just fell as Alabama’s Ty Simpson announced that he will be foregoing his final year of eligibility and entering the upcoming draft. The big question re Simpson now is where does he fit in the 2026 draft class? Simpson was considered a rising star in… Read More »

January mock posted … With the regular schedule in the books and at least the first 18 picks in the selection order for the 2026 draft now set, we have updated the GBN projection for the upcoming first round. Again, please note that our goal is not to try and predict which particular player a particular team will… Read More »

LSU QB off to Senior Bowl … The Senior Bowl announced a major get earlier today when it was disclosed that LSU QB Garett Nussmeier had accepted an invitation to participate in this year’s game later this month in Mobile. Nussmeier was considered to be one of the top prospects at the position earlier this year, but struggled… Read More »

FCS championship on tap tonight … For anyone suffering from Monday Night football withdrawal, there willing fact be a game this evening as Illinois State is facing Montana State in the FCS championship game at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN. Players to watch include Montana State DT Paul Brott (#41, 6-3, 300) and WR Daniel Sobkowski (#2, 6-2,… Read More »

Selection order posted … With the regular season in the books the selection order for the first-round of the 2026 draft has been updated here. The first 18 picks for the non-playoffs are final, barring any future trades, while the other 14 picks for the playoff teams will be decided as the playoffs evolve.

FCS combine getting underway … In conjunction with the FCS national championship game in Nashville on Monday evening, the NFL is holding a mini-combine over the next couple of days involving some of the top NFL draft prospects from outside the FBS ranks. Each NFL team was asked to provide a list of 10-15 FCS players they’d like… Read More »

Raiders’ Smith to sit out Sunday … The path to the first pick at the 2026 draft got a little murkier today when Las Vegas confirmed that starting QB Geno Smith will not play Sunday when the Raiders wrap up their regular schedule against Kansas City. And while the ‘tanking’ finger will be pointed at the Raiders, who… Read More »

SEC LB, WR enter draft … A couple of SEC stars announced today that they’ll be foregoing their final year of eligibility and entering the 2026 draft including Missouri LB Josiah Trotter and Aubur WR Eric Singleton. Singleton is a 5-10, 180-pound possession receiver type who had over 150 receptions in his three years in college for close… Read More »

LSU LB Weeks to return to school … LSU junior LB Whit Weeks has confirmed that he will be returning to the program in 2026 after a somewhat disappointing, injury-plagued campaign this past fall. Weeks made some all-America teams as a sophomore in 2024 when he posted 120 tackles, a pick and a couple of forced fumbles, but… Read More »