Wednesday morning tidbits … Just a little bit of housekeeping updates as of this morning. For those that keep track of these things, the 2022 draft is 50 days away today as we speak!! Hang in there … In addition to the several franchise tags that were announced yesterday, there were several other veteran moves around the league… Read More »
Busy pro day on tap … It didn’t take the pro day schedule long to heat up with a very busy day on tap for Wednesday. Indeed, there’ll be on-campus workouts at Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Arkansas, UCLA, and Kansas State among the others. And among the others will be Texas-San Antonio which could see an unusually large contingent of… Read More »
Four more tags fly; top pick impacted … With the deadline for team’s to designate franchise and transition players passing at the top of the hour, at least three more teams have used a franchise tag as Green Bay designated star WR Davante Adams, Tampa Bay tagged WR Chris Godwin, and Jacksonville tagged LT Cam Robinson. In fact,… Read More »
Broncos go to Plan B; get Seahawks’ Wilson in huge deal … Rebuffed in their pursuit of Aaron Rodgers, who resigned a 4-year deal with the Packers earlier today, Denver has acquired star Seattle QB Russell Wilson in a blockbuster trade in which the Seahawks will reportedly get first and second round picks in what are believed to… Read More »
Combine wrap … As we said at the outset of the combine, one never wants to read too much into the results. Football is a game played in helmets and pads, not shorts, and the grades for most teams are still going to be based largely what they saw on tape during the season. That said, there was… Read More »
As we said at the outset of the combine, one never wants to read too much into the results. Football is a game played in helmets and pads, not shorts, and the grades for most teams are still going to be based largely what they saw on tape during the season. That said, there was a lot to… Read More »
Barnes sizzles in final CB results; Sauce heats up … As noted at the beginning of the note on CB times below we do not want to get too carried away until we get the actual official times. Indeed, according the official times Baylor’s Kalon Barnes came within 1/100th of a second of tying John Ross’ all-time 40… Read More »
No real surprises at safety weigh-in … No real surprise here, but in the end there were no real surprises when the safeties went thru their weigh-in/measurement session at the scouting combine in Indianapolis earlier today. Notre Dame’s Kyle Hamilton, who likely won’t run later today as he is still rehabbing from a foot injury, did look the… Read More »
Tide LB Harris aces 40 test … It is not hard to imagine that Alabama LB Christian Harris has chafed all day as people gushed over Georgia defensive linemen Jordan Davis, Traylon Walker and Devonte Wyatt. However, he was able to get in the act himself this even running a very quick unofficial 4.44 40. Harris had kind… Read More »
TE 40 times … The TEs were the first group to run their 40s at the scouting combine in Indianapolis this afternoon. Unfortunately, though, most of the top guys that the NFL was hoping to see including Trey McBride of Colorado State, Texas A&M’s Jalen Wydermyer, Isaiah Liklely of Coastal Carolina, Iowa State’s Charlie Kolar and Cade Otton… Read More »
Chiq Okonkwo Maryland 4.52 Greg Dulcich UCLA 4.61 Jelani Woods Virginia 4.61 Dan Bellinger SD State 4.63 Grant Calcaterra SMU 4.63 Connor Heyward Michigan St 4.73 Cole Turner Nevada 4.76 Jake Ferguson Wisconsin 4.77 Austin Allen Nebraska 4.79 Jeremiah Hall (FB) Oklahoma 4.79 Peyton Hendershot Indiana 4.80 Curt Hodges Arizona St 4.83
Jahan Dotson, WR, Penn State, 5-10.5, 170, 4.35, SR … Fourth-year senior leaves Happy Valley as one of the school’s all-time leading receivers highlighted by a 2021 season in which he had 91 catches for almost 1,200 yards and 12 TDs. In the process, he made several All-America teams and was a semi-finalist for both the Biletnikoff and… Read More »
The buzz around Indianapolis, and it seems to be getting louder each day, is that, at least in terms of top end talent, the 2022 isn’t all that strong compared to most recent drafts. However, the corollary is that while the top-end talent is relatively weak, there is a ton of depth in this year’s draft class. Indeed,… Read More »
Less than two months to go!!! … It’s March meaning we can start to talk about ‘next month’s draft!’ In fact, the opening round is now just 57 days away. And its going to go fast with the combine this week, the pro days and the start of the new NFL year later this month, and then the… Read More »
Pro day schedule in the works … Speaking of pro days, NFL scouts aren’t going to get much of a break between the end of this week’s scouting combine in Indianapolis and the start of the annual pro day schedule which gets underway next week. Indeed, there are at least two pro days set for next Wednesday, March… Read More »
After a year off in which there was no formal scouting combine because of Covid concerns, we are back on this year. And players will start arriving in Indianapolis tomorrow for what is arguably the most important single week on the pre-draft schedule. Indeed, over the next week a total of 324 players will be poked and prodded,… Read More »
Combine set to kick-off … After a year off in which there was no formal scouting combine because of Covid concerns, we are back on this year. And players will start arriving in Indianapolis tomorrow for what is arguably the most important single week on the pre-draft schedule. Indeed, over the next week a total of 324 players… Read More »
Path to the draft runs thru Indy … Every year we make that statement referring to the fact that the scouting combine in Indianapolis is an indisputably a key element of the pre-draft process. Only this year, we really mean it! Last year, of course, the combine was cancelled because of concerns about Covid. Instead the NFL got… Read More »
Daxton Hill, SAF, Michigan, 6-0, 192, 4.35, JR … Third-year junior with exceptional athletic ability has reportedly run in the low 4.3s with a 43-inch vertical. He’s also a very versatile player who can work as both a nickel safety as well as a straight-up corner in a pinch. He’s also a physical player who is very aggressive… Read More »
USFL draft continues today; former Michigan QB Patterson first pick overall … The fledgling USFL will return this spring with its own version of spring football. And to get there the league is conducting its first player draft literally as we speak. The Michigan Panthers had the first pick in yesterday’s opening round and selected former Michigan QB… Read More »
Tag days underway … The official start of the new football year is still several weeks away, but things are already starting to percolate as today’s is the first day that teams can tag any impending free agents as either franchise or transition players prior to the start of free agency. Players who gets a non-exclusive franchise designation… Read More »
LB profiles added … Inside linebacker tends to be one of those positions that gets overlooked early in the draft. That could change this year, though, with at least a couple of guys at the position – Nakobe Dean of Georgia and Utah’s Devin Lloyd – getting their share of top 10-15 whispers. However, teams that miss out… Read More »
QB carousel starts to roll … So far, its an unconfirmed report, but a local podcaster in Minnesota is reporting that Carolina gave the Vikings a call asking about the availability of QB Kirk Cousins. According to the report, the Vikings said they weren’t interested, although it is believed that they would like Cousins to take a pay… Read More »
Sun Devil QB Daniels to transfer … One of the stories we overlooked a little this week is the fact that rising Arizona State junior QB Jayden Daniels, who figures to be an interesting prospect for the 2023 draft, has confirmed that he has entered the transfer portal. Daniels had originally indicated he would be back with the… Read More »
Profiles added for top WR and rising ER and CB … Note that we have added profiles for three more players to the Prospect Profiles page inching ones for Ohio State WR Chris Olave, Minnesota edge-rusher Boye Mafe and Washington CB Kyler Gordon.
