Sparty LT to return – sometime – and other college notes … For what its worth Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio told local reporters that the Spartans have no new season-ending injuries to report. The implication is that the Spartans’ standout junior LT Jack Conklin, who left Saturday’s game with a knee injury, will play again sometime… Read More »
College Football is over for the month of September, which means it is time for PIGSKIN PAUL’s initial Top 25 rankings. This is my ranking list to reward teams that have gotten off to a fast start and posted all victories for one month. No doubt some of these programs have been beating up on weak sister teams… Read More »
College football notes … Auburn has announced that star sophomore DE Carl Lawson will be out for “an extended period of time because of that hip injury. Lawson, who missed the entire 2014 season with a torn ACL, hurt his hip late in the first half of the Tigers’ season opener against Louisville. Lawson has been listed as… Read More »
College football notes … UTEP junior RB Aaron Jones, one of the best runners in the country, will miss the rest of the year after undergoing surgery to repair torn ligaments in his ankle; Jones was injured in last weekend’s game with Texas Tech. The 5-9, 205-pound Jones, who also plays with the Miners basketball team, ran for… Read More »
Cowboys trade for Raiders WR … With star WR Dez Bryant sidelined for as much as the next two months, Dallas has acquired veteran WR Brice Butler from Oakland for a conditional 2016 draft pick. If Butler is on the 53-man roster for six games, the Raiders will get a 5th round pick from Cowboys, while Dallas will… Read More »
Bucks-Hokies wrap first week of college football … The first week of the college football season wraps up with a really intriguing match-up later this evening with a special Monday nighter between defending national champion Ohio State and Virginia Tech at 8 PM ET on ESPN. Normally, there wouldn’t be a ton of intrigue in any game between… Read More »
2015 draft passes test … Back in the spring, the consensus around the NFL was that the 2015 draft, and especially the later rounds, just wasn’t all that strong in comparison to other recent draft years. However, while its hardly a perfect measure, at least based on the number of players selected this past spring who are still… Read More »
Pair of college QBs done for the year … BYU QB Taysom Hill suffered a Lisfranc fracture early in the Cougars’ dramatic last-play Hail Mary win at Nebraska and will miss the rest of the year. In fact, its the third time in the last four years that the athletic Hill will have his season ended prematurely. Meanwhile,… Read More »
Pair of trades on cut-down date … As teams made moves to get down to the opening day 53-man roster, there were a couple of minor trades. Kansas City gets a 5th round pick from Seattle in exchange for SS Kelcie McCray, while Baltimore gets a conditional pick from San Francisco for C Nick Easton, an undrafted rookie… Read More »
Everybody kind of got their feet in the opening week of the college football season. And now the heavy lifting starts with a number of key intra-sectional games with none bigger than Oregon at Michigan State. Indeed, both the Ducks and Spartans have post-season playoff aspirations and the loser of Saturday’s game will find itself behind the 8-ball… Read More »
Pigskin picks/previews the colleges … Each week this fall, GBN Associate Editor and Chief Scout Pigskin Paul Guillemette will be previewing the college games – and prospect – he’ll be watching with an eye toward the 2016 draft. Here’s this week’s edition.
Are you ready for some football (that matters)? While the NFL dawdles away another perfectly good early fall weekend with yet another round of essentially meaningless pre-season exhibition games this week, college football gets underway in earnest gets underway later tonight with a slew of games, perhaps the most interesting of which has #2 Texas Christian playing at… Read More »
DE class previewed … With the start of the upcoming college football season now just days away we continue our series of positional previews for the 2016 draft by looking at the defensive ends today, which looks like it could be one of the dominant positions in the early going at the upcoming draft. Also note our initial… Read More »
Bad news for junior RBs … A couple of quality junior RBs with the potential to impact the early going at the 2016 draft. Kareem Hunt of Toledo was suspended for the first two games of the 2015 season for an unspecified violation of team rules. The 5-10, 215-pound Hunt Hunt, who led the Mid-American Conference last fall… Read More »
Broncs IR early pick TE … Denver got closer to meeting tomorrow’s 75-man roster by placing TE Jeff Heuerman, a 3rd round pick at the 2015 draft on injured reserve. Heuerman tore an ACL earlier this year at the team’s post-draft minicamp.
Bucs cut late rounder … Tampa Bay released FB Joey Isoefa, a 7th round pick at the 2015 draft, among moves the team made to get down to this week’s 75-man roster limit. All teams have to be down to that limit by 4 PM ET on Tuesday.
QB class previewed … With the start of the upcoming college football season now less than three weeks away – and with just 275 days to until the 2016 draft – we’ll be previewing each position with an eye toward the upcoming draft over the next few weeks starting with the quarterbacks today, including an initial ranking of… Read More »
The Duke, UGA edge rusher and Duck QB all back in college football update … Auburn WR Duke Williams has been re-instated to the team after he was for all intents and purposes suspended for 6 days for what Tigers’ head coach Gus Malzahn described as a ‘discipline issue.’ The 6-2, 225-pound Williams, who emerged as a big-play threat… Read More »
The remainder of the NFC South will be struggling to keep their collective heads at .500 again in 2015, But in this division that still gives them a shot at catching the PANTHERS if that club trips up. The SAINTS seem the logical, best of the rest, primarily because they still have SEAN PAYTON and DREW BREES leading… Read More »
Two work out prior to supp draft … According to Baltimore Sun beat reporter Aaron Wilson as posted in the National Football Post , more than a dozen NFL teams attended yesterday’s pro day work out of West Georgia DE Darrius Caldwell and DT Dalvon Stuckey, both of whom will be in next week’s supplemental draft. Caldwell, a… Read More »
Missou DT injured in car crash … Missouri junior DT Harold Brantley was reportedly seriously injured in a car crash yesterday. While a little undersized at 6-3, 280, Brantley is considered to be a decent second-tier prospect for the 2017 draft with some upfield ability after he posted 54 tackles and 5 sacks last fall.
College football musings … With the NFL now undeniably in the ‘off-season’ such as it is, GBN Associate Editor Pigskin Paul Guillemette has turned his attention – albeit briefly he promises us – to some recent developments at the college level which are highlighted in the latest edition of Pigskin’s football musings.
More post-draft musings … The 2015 draft is now almost three weeks in the rear-view mirror, but our Pigskin Paul Guillemette is still poring over his notes trying to make sense of everything that took place earlier this month and weighs in with some more post-draft analysis starting with his thoughts on Dallas’ signing of former LSU G/T… Read More »
CFL draft wrap … The CFL draft wrapped up late last evening when Calgary made University of Calgary QB Andrew Buckley the equivalent of the NFL draft’s ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ by selecting him with the 62nd and final pick in the league’s annual draft of Canadian-born players. And in the sometimes wacky world of the the CFL, its ‘Mr… Read More »
KC releases undrafted rook signings … Kansas City has announced signing 10 undrafted free agents from the 2015 draft class including former Mississippi State DB Justin Cox, ex-Iowa State DT David Irving and Harding WR Dontella Luckett who were still on the GBN Big Board after the draft. Kansas City was the final team to announce its rookie… Read More »
