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The Senior Bowl announces first prospects to accept invites, revamped interview schedule

The Senior Bowl announces the first prospects to accept invites and also a revamped interview schedule and structure for NFL teams

The Senior Bowl is starting to reveal the first few prospects who have accepted invites to play in the 2024 edition of the all-star game. There are several players committed to heading to Mobile, Alabama, in the first week of February to participate in one of the biggest events on the NFL draft calendar.

Some of the initial acceptances:

Kris Abrams-Draine, CB, Missouri

Cooper Beebe, OL, Kansas State

Jaheim Bell, TE/FB, Florida State

Jacob Cowing, WR, Arizona

Jalyx Hunt, LB, Houston Christian

Dylan Laube, RB, New Hampshire

Ricky Piersall, WR, Florida

Michael Pratt, QB, Tulane

Ben Sinnott, TE, Kansas State

Among the early acceptances, Kansas State offensive lineman Cooper Beebe is the biggest fish. Beebe is a potential top-50 overall pick and a prospect scouts want to see in the individual practice matchups. Abrams-Draine is another player with significant upward mobility entering the Senior Bowl.

In addition to the early acceptances, Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Nagy announced the event is revamping the player/team interaction and interview process. From Nagy’s release on social media,

After consulting with numerous #NFL scouts, front office execs, & GMs the following upgrades will be implemented this year:

* Every Senior Bowl player will meet with every NFL team for a minimum of 10 minutes (Mon & Thurs).

* Similar to Combine format, every team will get 64 players upon request for an additional 15 minutes (Tues & Wed), meaning that teams will leave Mobile with 25 minutes of interview time with roughly half roster, which is significantly more time than at any all-star event to date.

* Quarterbacks will be removed from the 10-minute scheduled interviews (Mon & Thurs) in favor of new format where they will be on 40-minute rotations with pods made up of 5-6 teams (2 reps per club). Each QB pod will have game film & whiteboards available. Under this new setup, if teams also include QBs in their 15-minute requested interviews, they will get 55 minutes with QB prospects in Mobile.

* All specialists will be setup on 30-minute group Zoom calls with special teams coaches from all 32 NFL clubs. Logic here is that ST coaches are the ones essentially drafting these players in April so we want to connect our players with them as early as possible in pre-draft process. Specialists will also be available for the 15-minute requested interviews.

* All interviews will conclude by no later than 9:30 pm on Monday & Thursday and 9 pm on Tuesday & Wednesday so players have ample rest/recovery time each night.

It’s a welcome layer of organization and formality to the process, which has been somewhat chaotic in recent years.

Browns 2024 NFL mock draft: Re-tooling the offensive line

The Browns could look to address turnover on the offensive line

It looks like the Cleveland Browns have their right tackle of the future in rookie Dawand Jones out of Ohio State. But there could be even more turnover soon with Joel Bitonio getting older and Wyatt Teller’s contract situation. On top of that Jedrick Wills Jr. at left tackle hasn’t earned a second contract yet. Can they re-tool this Summer? That is what we attempt to do in this 2024 NFL mock draft.

For those reasons, I think an offensive lineman could likely be the top pick for Cleveland and they may even draft more than one. Andrew Berry has shown that he likes to draft answers a year or two in advance as opposed to the exact year you need to replace them.

For the upcoming year, Cleveland currently has a second-round pick, a third, two fifths, and three seventh-round picks. It s really early in the process with plenty of football and testing before any teams truly build their big boards. Here is a look at how I could see the Browns attack the first five rounds of next April’s draft.

Scouting notebook from CFB Week 8: Big Ten stars on the rise, another McCaffrey and more

2024 Scouting notebook from CFB Week 8: Big Ten stars on the rise, another McCaffrey and more

The Week 8 matchups in college football provided several key proving grounds for some prominent NFL draft prospects for 2024. Some looked worthy, while others showed more potential flaws. It also was a weekend where a couple of unheralded players shone.

Here are some notes and observations from a busy scouting weekend.

49ers address offensive line and secondary in new NFL mock draft

In the latest NFL mock from Draft Wire, the San Francisco 49ers addressed the interior offensive line and secondary with their first two picks.

While the start of the NFL season is still a few days away, the college football season closed its opening week of action with a flurry of entertaining contests over the weekend. With college football back, NFL draft chatter is already in the air.

Following week one of the new college football campaign, Curt Popejoy of USA Today’s Draft Wire dropped a new two-round mock draft featuring two picks from the San Francisco 49ers.

With the No. 29 overall pick in the first round, Popejoy inked Kansas State’s Cooper Beebe to the 49ers. According to Popejoy, Beebe is a “powerful drive blocker.”

Via Draft Wire:

Niners get a powerful drive blocker who can pull and operate at the second level.

During the 2022 season, Beebe was named a first-team All-American along with earning the title of Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year. Beebe earned back-to-back First-Team All-Big 12 honors in 2021 and 2022. With the Wildcats, Beebe helped lead the way for now-Cowboys running back Deuce Mason.

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Early list of the top 2024 NFL draft prospects to watch at key positions

Wer’e taking an early look at the top 2024 NFL draft prospects for the Philadelphia Eagles to watch at key positions

The Eagles are just 22 days from the start of training camp, but it is never too early to look at the 2024 NFL draft.

Next spring will see guaranteed locks like Heisman Trophy Winner Caleb Williams (USC), Marvin Harrison Jr. (Ohio State), Drake Maye (UNC), Joe Alt (Notre Dame), Brock Bowers (UGA), and Olumuviwa Fashanu (Penn State) all battle to round out the top five.

With teams around the league praying to be on the clock, here’s an early of the top 2024 prospects at critical positions.

Full list of Eagles’ 2024 NFL draft picks with projected compensatory selections

We’re looking at the Philadelphia Eagles’ complete order of 2024 NFL draft picks with compensatory projections.

The Eagles made several critical signings during the 2023 NFL free agency process, with all of the additions being one-year deals.

Philadelphia GM Howie Roseman watched ten contributors leave on the open market.

Thanks to his shrewd maneuvering and roster building, the Eagles are in line for four valuable compensatory picks in 2024, according to NFL.com draft expert, Lance Zierlein.

The Eagles played the compensatory pick game perfectly. They knew they would have a large number of players depart in free agency, and they didn’t add any projected qualifying free agents to the team. Philadelphia should receive the maximum number of picks, including a third-rounder for Hargrave.

The Birds were slated to have six picks in the 2024 NFL draft, but thanks to the compensatory formula, they’ll have 10.

Here’s an early look at the Eagles’ 2024 NFL draft picks.

Eagles stick to the motto of reloading the trenches in early 2024 NFL mock drafts

Philadelphia will likely reload in the trenches, while some experts have the Eagles targeting other critical positions in early 2024 NFL mock drafts

The 2023 NFL draft is complete, and as teams add undrafted free agents, the experts are looking ahead to the 2024 selection process.

Next spring will see guaranteed locks like Heisman Trophy Winner Caleb Williams (USC), Marvin Harrison Jr. (Ohio State), Drake Maye (UNC), Joe Alt (Notre Dame), Brock Bowers (UGA), and Olumuviwa Fashanu (Penn State) all battle to round out the top five.

With teams around the league praying to be on the clock, here’s an early 2024 NFL mock draft roundup.

12 Kansas State players to know ahead of matchup with the Oklahoma Sooners

Get ready for Oklahoma’s matchup with Kansas State by getting to know these 12 Wildcats ahead of Saturday’s game.

When the Oklahoma Sooners kickoff Saturday’s game with the Kansas State Wildcats, they’ll be looking to avenge losses from each of the last two seasons. In 2019, it was their only blemish heading into the College Football Playoff. In 2020, the loss attempted to derail their Big 12 title defense.

The Sooners recovered and won the Big 12, but their back-to-back losses to Kansas State continue to hang over their head. Is this the year Lincoln Riley overcomes Chris Klieman in an intriguing Big 12 matchup?

Kansas State is once again a solid team. There are still some questions as to who will play quarterback. After sources indicated Skylar Thompson might play earlier in the week, Chris Klieman stated it was unlikely he would play. Tim Fitzgerald of GoPowercats on 247Sports still leaves some possibility that Thompson could play, but also leaves quite a bit of doubt in his update yesterday.

If Thompson is unable to play Kansas State will likely go with Will Howard as well as Jaren Lewis.

The biggest threat is running back Deuce Vaughn who our own Bryant Crews discussed in this profile ahead of Saturday’s matchup. If the Sooners can slow him down, then they’ll have a great chance at slowing down the Kansas State offense.

Let’s dig deeper than Deuce and get you ready for this pivotal Big 12 matchup by taking a look at six Kansas State players on offense and six on defense you should know.