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 »
Titans announce UDFA signings … Tennessee, one of the two remaining teams that had yet to formally announce the names of its undrafted rookie signings following the 2015 draft, did release their list earlier today leaving Kansas City as the only team left to announce their undrafted rookie signings. The Chiefs will likely announce their undrafted rooki signings… Read More »
Another rook out for year after tearing ACL in mini-camp … Denver TE Jeff Heuerman reportedly will miss the upcoming season after tearing an ACL in today’s mini-camp practice. Heuerman was the Broncos’ 3rd round this year. Meanwhile, Cleveland has confirmed that WR Vince Mayle, the Browns’ 4th round pick this year, will undergo surgery to repair a… Read More »
Texans, Bears sign full draft classes … Houston became the latest team to sign all the players it selected at last weekend’s draft including CB Kevin Johnson whom they selected with the 16th pick overall. Meanwhile, Chicago signed C Hroniss Grasu, the Bears last remaining pick, while Carolina signed three picks including OLB Shaq Thompson the team’s first… Read More »
Eagles, Jets shake up scout staff … Philadelphia has continued to make over its personnel department under head coach Chip Kelly by cutting ties with director of college scouting Anthony Patch, director of pro personnel Rick Mueller and area scout Brad Obee. Patch and Mueller, in particular, were tied to former G.M. Howie Roseman, who was pushed aside… Read More »
THat’s a really solid pick for Chip’s Offense. Maybe a bit early, but he was a rising prospect, especially after running a 4.42/40 at the Combine. Gets lots of yards after catch which is big in a KELLY offense. Great work ethic per USC coaches. BENGALS could use a thumper like LANDON COLLINS as their SS. La’el Collins… Read More »
RAIDERS are looking at LEONARD WILLIAMS to anchor their DL or AMARI COOPER/WR to give them a No. 1 target for DEREK CARR. Any other pick is over thinking by REGGIE McKENZIE and his people. It’s only 4 Picks in but this Draft is making sense so far. Insanity must be lurking just around the corner. Hey is… Read More »
SO as usual the QB position trumps all the BS talk about best available athlete. Kudos to ERIC GALKO who ranks his QB prospects separately from all the other players each year. Now do the JAGS draft COOPER, WHITE, FOWLER or WILLIAMS? Remember that both FOWLER & WILLIAMS are from Florida and would give the franchise a local… Read More »
Will some team be silly enuf to give up the farm to trade up for MARIOTA? I luv MARIOTA, but a deal like the SKINS made for RG3 is suicidal to a franchise and its roster. Plus Marcus may not be ready to play big time for 2-3 seasons no matter who gets him. By the way… what… Read More »
