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.
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 April’s draft. For now, if the draft were held this week, Las… Read More »
Okay, so maybe the Giants weren’t going to go 17-0 after all. And last night’s loss to the Cowboys was disappointing as the Giants didn’t play all that well. The offensive line was a sieve, especially in the first half; the receivers were no-shows and probably should have been asked to buy a ticket to get into the… Read More »
Offensive 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 today including the QBs, RBs, WRs, TEs, OTs, OGs and Cs.
Raiders to hold top pick for week … As we noted last week, we will not be posting the weekly selection order for the upcoming draft for another couple of weeks or so until we get a few more games in the books and some real trends start to emerge. That said, we can confirm that when this… Read More »
So who is #4? … NFL teams looking to draft a future franchise QB generally follow one of two patterns. They either identify one guy they really like and if they can make a move to get that guy if they need to. More often, though, teams identify a certain number of players they feel are worthy of… Read More »
‘Cane QB benched in stunning loss … Miami QB Tyler Van Dyke, who has generally been considered to be one of top 4-5 prospects at the position for the 2023 draft was benched in the 3rd quarter of the Hurricanes stunning 45-31 loss to Middle Tennessee State of C-USA who came into the game as 25-point underdogs. Van… Read More »
Bonus coverage: Cavs-Cuse do Friday nite lites … Pretty good weekend of college football coming up with several games worth checking in on as noted in this week’s ‘who to watch‘ column. One of the themes of that post was programs fighting to regain football relevancy. That certainly also goes for Syracuse which hosts Virginia in the ESPN… Read More »
It’s another week on the college football schedule without a true marque match-up of top ten teams, but once again this week there are a number of really interesting games featuring intriguing prospects for the 2023 draft. Here are the games – and – players we’ll be focused on this weekend. FLORIDA (2-1) at #11 TENNESSEE (3-0); 3:30… Read More »
Falcons, Raiders with top two picks … We’ve had several correspondents ask today whether we’ll be posting the updated selection order for the 2023 draft this week. The simple answer is ‘no’. We’ll wait until after the 4th or 5th week of the schedule to give some trends time to start to emerge. That said, we can say… Read More »
Bulldog QB Haener out indefinitely … Fresno State QB Jake Haener, one of several decent second-tier prospects at the position for the upcoming draft, is out indefinitely after suffering a high ankle sprain in last night’s loss at Southern California. The Bulldogs, though, say they hope to get Haener back before the end of the campaign. Thru three… Read More »
Sunday morning college football thoughts … Heading into the season, the thinking around the NFL season was that the 2023 draft could very well be the ‘year of the QB’ with so many good passers dotting the college football landscape. Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Bryce Young of Alabama, the two rated QBs this year, have generally held… Read More »
Who to watch in college football this weekend … After the first couple of weeks on the college football schedule which featured some truly big games between traditional powers, it does appear as if there are any games in the class this weekend. However, what this week lacks in quality it makes up for in quantity with at… Read More »
After the first couple of weeks on the college football schedule which featured some truly big games between traditional powers, it does appear as if there are any games in the class this weekend. However, there are still a number of intriguing match-ups with some intriguing prospects for the 2023 draft. Let’s start with Miami at Texas A&M… Read More »
UK RB to return October 1; college injury notes … Star Kentucky RB Chris Rodriquez has reportedly been cleared to return the to the team as of October 1. Rodriquez, the second leading rusher in the SEC last fall when he piled up almost 1,400 yards on the ground, is currently suspended after he plead guilty to charges… Read More »
Is Jerry J thinking about call for Jimmy G … That’s the buzz around the league this morning after Dallas QB Dak Prescott was injured late in last night’s loss to Tampa Bay. Prescott will be back later in the season, but will require surgery to repair a thumb injury and is expected to miss the next 6-8… Read More »
Tide-Texas, top QB duel headline second full week on college sked … Another terrific slate of college football coming up this weekend with #1 ranked Alabama playing at Texas the headliner. And while Alabama has the consensus top draft class ahead of the 2023 draft including QB Bryce Young and DE Will Anderson, one can make the case… Read More »
#1 Alabama (1-0) at Texas (1-0); Noon ET; FOX … Alabama and Texas hook-up in Austin on Saturday for the first time since the 2009 national championship game. Of course, they’ll be seeing plenty more of each other down the road as the Longhorns will be moving to the SEC sometime in the next 2-3 years. This is… Read More »
‘Hawks nab Buckeye QB Stroud first overall in latest mock; 4 QBs in top ten … We actually tried to post our latest first-round projection for the 2023 draft last night, but the only thing we could link to for some reason was our mock from earlier this spring. So let’s try that again here. As noted in… Read More »
Bills GBN staff Super Bowl pick … Could this be the year that the Buffalo Bills win their first Super Bowl. The GBN staff thinks that the answer just may be yes as each of Editor Colin Lindsay, Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette and Chief Scout Larry Parker tabbed the Bills to win it all this year in… Read More »
It’s not necessarily unanimous, but there does seem to be a solid consensus out there, both among the fans and media, that 6-7 wins this season is pretty much the ceiling for the Giants this coming season. Here’s an example from the NY press from this weekend. Call me a cockeyed optimist if you want, but my sense… Read More »
Monday morning college comments; updated … Just a follow-up to the note on LSU WR Kayshon Boutte below after his very disappointing outing against Florida State late night. There are now actually some concerns that he’s even still with the program. However, Boutte has reportedly scrubbed any and all references to LSU from his social media profile which… Read More »
Waiting for injury update on star OSU WR … We are still waiting further information on the status of star Ohio State WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba who was injured early in the Buckeyes’ big 21-10 win over #5 Notre Dame in Columbus last night. Smith-Njigba went down awkwardly when tackled on his first reception early in the game. He… Read More »
Sunday night college football preview … At this time next week we’ll be watching NFL football, but for this week, Sunday night football will be college football as Florida State plays at LSU at 7:30 PM ET on ABC. And it wouldn’t be FSU-LSU without some pretty good prospects on display, although they are almost exclusively Tigers. Indeed,… Read More »
