Weekly college football prospects preview … You know pretty well for sure that there is no true marquee matchup on the college football schedule when ESPN’s College Gameday sets up shop in Lawrence, Kansas. For the geographically challenged Lawrence is the home of the Kansas Jayhawks, a perennial basketball powerhouse, but a school that has never been confused… Read More »
#17 TCU (5-0) at #19 KANSAS (5-0); Noon ET; FS1 … There is yet another weekend on the college football schedule without a true marquee contest, but with several games with prospects worth watching for the 2023 draft. And you know for sure there is no true marquee match when ESPN’s College Gameday sets up shop in Lawrence,… Read More »
ER, CB emerging positions for 2023 … We always get a lot of questions at this time of year what are the strongest positions for the upcoming draft. And until recently, we would have said for 2023 that QB looked to be the position of choice with the rest of the top prospects spread across the other positions.… Read More »
As the QB turns … Houston head coach Lovie Smith stated rather emphatically earlier today that the team, the NFL’s only remaining winless squad who would have the #1 pick overall were the 2023 draft held this week, currently have no thoughts of replacing Davis Mills at QB. According to Smith, Mills is ‘the last of the Texans… Read More »
Tide QB still ‘day-to-day’; Dawg DT Carter out 2-4 weeks … Updating this weekend’s injuries to several top prospects for the 2023 draft, Alabama head coach Nick Saban reiterated that star QB Bryce Young, the reigning Heisman holder and one of the top 2-3 rospects at the position for the upcoming draft, is still being listed as ‘day-to-day’… Read More »
Clemson DT Bresee sits out State; so does UGA DT Carter … Star Clemson DT Bryan Bresee, a top 5-10 prospect for the upcoming draft, did not suit up for tonight’s Top 10 show-down with North Carolina State Clemson because of a non-football medical issue that required bloodwork and observation this week. Reportedly, everything is fine and Bresee… Read More »
Tide DE Anderson, Buck QB Stroud still 1-2 on GBN Big Board … Alabama DE Will Anderson is still the #1 prospect on the latest, updated GBN Big Board ranking the top 50 prospects overall for the 2023 draft. Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud also stays at #2, with Georgia DT Jalen Carter at #3. Ohio State WR… Read More »
#7 KENTUCKY (4-0) @ #14 MISSISSIPPI (4-0); NOON ET; ESPN … If its Saturday there is probably an SEC game with a couple of top QB prospects going head-to-head. That’s certainly the case where 7th ranked Kentucky and star QB Will Levis (#7, 6-3, 235) go against Ole Miss and former Southern Cal QB Jaxson Dart (#2, 6-2,… Read More »
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 »
