Update to Ravens-Steelers pushed back another day … The on-again, off-again game between division-rivals Baltimore and Pittsburgh has been moved again and is now scheduled for Wednesday afternoon with kick-off at 3:40 PM ET. The game was originally scheduled to be played last Thursday as the night-cap to the NFL’s Thanksgiving Day triple-header, but it was first postponed… Read More »
NFL announces Xmas sked updates … The NFL revealed this morning the three games that will be played on Saturday, December 26th. Tampa Bay will be in Detroit to start that day with a 1 PM ET kick-off, followed by San Francisco at Arizona at 4:30 PM and Miami in Las Vegas at 8:15 PM ET. There is… Read More »
QB Darnold to start for Jets this weekend … Barring a late setback, the NY Jets are expected to have Sam Darnold back at QB when they play Miami on Sunday. The Jets, of course, are the NFL’s last remaining winless team and are on track to end up with the #1 pick at the 2021 draft. Darnold… Read More »
Star Gophers WR Bateman opts out again … Minnesota WR Rashod Bateman, who was one of the first players to opt out of the 2020 season back in the summer when the option was first made available, but then opted back in when the Big Ten got going, has formally opted out again and will begin preparations for… Read More »
And then there were two: Ravens-Steelers Turkey Day game pushed back … Because of covid concerns, tomorrow night’s game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh has been rescheduled for Sunday afternoon. There are as many as 7 Baltimore players that would have been unavailable to play tomorrow because of covid tests. That leaves Houston playing at Detroit in the early… Read More »
Jets, Jags inch closer to top picks … Interesting afternoon in the NFL this PM with the NY Jets and Jacksonville both moving closer to a top 1-2 pick at the 2021 draft, while just about everybody else moved on, sort of. The Jets led early, then rallied late in Los Angeles against the Chargers, but in the… Read More »
Clicker QB fest in college football Saturday … Interesting situation in college football tomorrow afternoon when all of the top QB prospects for the 2021 draft will be on the menu. In fact, three of the top 4 guys will be playing opposite each other in nationally televised games getting underway at Noon ET tomorrow afternoon. Clemson’s Trevor… Read More »
Hula Bowl staying put … The Hula Bowl has confirmed that the 2020-21 version of the all-star game is still on as scheduled for January 31st in Hawai’i. That comes as both the East-West Shrine and NFLPA star games have been cancelled, while the Senior Bowl is still a go for that same week. And while the Senior… Read More »
Draft QB notes … The NY Jets, the NFL’s last remaining winless team who would have the #1 pick overall were the 2021 draft held this week, have confirmed that nominal starting QB Sam Darnold will miss at least one more game due to the sprained throwing shoulder that has already cost him four games this season. Veteran… Read More »
Senior Bowl adds rising Gator QB Trask; 13 others … The Senior Bowl announced its biggest ‘get’ of the year in its roster recruiting process with word that rising Florida QB Kyle Trask plans to be in Mobile for this year’s game at the end of January. Trask, who is having a sensational senior campaign, is starting to… Read More »
Heart condition forces PSU RB Brown to retire from football; other college notes … Penn State has confirmed that emerging junior RB Journey Brown has been told he’ll no longer be able to play football because of a medical condition that was discovered during covid testing. Brown has a condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease in which… Read More »
Four more Senior Bowl additions … The Senior Bowl has confirmed that four more players have accepted invitations to this year’s game including Mississippi OG Royce Newman, Central Florida CB Aaron Robinson, Virginia TE Tony Poljan and Alabama-Birmingham WR Austin Watkins.
Star FSU DT Wilson out for year … Florida State has confirmed that star DT Marvin Wilson will miss the rest of the year after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed leg injury suffered in last weekend’s game with Pitt. While Wilson did undergo surgery, the word out of the program is that the injury isn’t all that serious… Read More »
Rich QB class gets richer … With Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields at the very top of the board, and rising FCS star Trey Lance not that far behind, 2021 was always going to be one of those ‘year-of-the-QB’ drafts. However, the buzz around the NFL scouting community is that two other QBs – Zach Wilson of BYU… Read More »
College football notes … If things weren’t bad enough already for Michigan, which is an uncharacteristic 1-2 in the early going of the Big Ten schedule, the Wolverines have confirmed that junior DE Aidan Hutchinson, an early second round prospect for the upcoming draft, will miss the rest of the season with a leg fracture that will require… Read More »
Multiple games on weekend sched with major draft implications … When was the last time that a game involving New England and the NY Jets had draft implications for both teams? Anyone? Whenever, it happens on Monday night when the Jets, the NFL’s last remaining winless team, hosts the 2-5 Patriots who would have the 10th pick overall.… Read More »
College football updates … Mississippi State has confirmed the worst kept secret in college football that RB Kylin Hill has in fact officially opted out and has declared for the draft. The 5-10, 210-pound Hill, who ran for over 1,300 yards last season, is one of the top 5 or so backs available in the upcoming draft. At… Read More »
UGA S LeCounte injured in post-game traffic accident … Star Georgia FS Richard LeCounte, one of the top prospects at the position for the 2021 draft, was injured in a multi-car traffic accident after the team returned to Athens from their game at Kentucky on Saturday evening. LeCounte was reportedly driving a motorcycle and was hit by at… Read More »
Shrine game cancelled … It kind of slipped under the radar a couple of days ago, but the East-West Shrine Classic, the oldest continous pre-draft all-star game has been cancelled for 2021 because of Covid concerns. This year’s Shrine game had been scheduled for January 23rd in St. Petersburg. As far as we can tell, the other major… Read More »
Is Trevor Lawrence hedging on draft … There is a bit of a buzz around the NFL this day about whether star Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence, the presumptive #1 pick this coming April, might be hedging on whether he will in fact turn pro this winter after an interview with a local source earlier this week. Lawrence was… Read More »
As I noted in this week’s Studs and Duds report reviewing the loss to the Eagles on Thursday night, this was the first loss of the year that really didn’t make it into the ‘moral victory’ column despite the fact that it was the fourth time so far this fall that a Giants loss wasn’t decided until the… Read More »
College football updates … Star Purdue WR Rondale Moore, who opted back in after he had originally opted out of the season, did not play in the Boilermakers’ season-opening win over Iowa on the weekend. No reason was given. Moore emerged as one of the most electric playmakers in the country as a freshman in 2018, but played… Read More »
SEC cancels second game this week … The SEC has formally postponed Saturday’s game between #10 Florida and defending national champion LSU after the Gators had 19 players test positive for COVID-19. The game has been tentatively rescheduled for December 12th, the league’s built-in bye week before its title game. It’s the second the SEC game has bumped… Read More »
Star SU S Cisco, SMU WR Roberson both done for year … A couple of top prospects for the 2021 draft have been ruled out for the rest of the year with knee injuries suffered earlier this month. Syracuse, for example, that SS Andre Cisco, one of the top 2-3 safety prospects this year, will miss the rest… Read More »
Top three picks unchanged; #2 Falcs clean house … The three teams that came into the week sitting on the top 3 picks at the 2021 draft were it held this week all lost earlier today meaning there won’t be any change at the top of this year’s selection order, at least for this week. For the third… Read More »
