FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[CarollFan]

Seeing some D3 players getting invited to rookie minicamps.


UWL's OL Dain Walter. I saw UWL posted he was invited to Packers minicamp and then on a Bears site it said the Bears invited him too.

[Patrick Coleman]

Seeing some D3 players getting invited to rookie minicamps.


UWL's OL Dain Walter. I saw UWL posted he was invited to Packers minicamp and then on a Bears site it said the Bears invited him too.

And add Reed Breckheimer to the list, with the Miami Dolphins.
https://www.d3football.com/notables/2026/04/nfl-free-agent-signings-2026

[CarollFan]

Nice to see Reed get a look with the Dolphins. I wonder if teams are talking to any other CCIW players?

https://d3football.com/notables/2026/04/nfl-free-agent-signings-2026

Frank has an interesting post on X where he is advocating a 8th round in the NFL draft.

https://x.com/FrankRossi/status/2048482264997298352?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[D3fanboy]

Frank has an interesting post on X where he is advocating a 8th round in the NFL draft.

https://x.com/FrankRossi/status/2048482264997298352?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

the International Player Pathway is designed to grow the league internationally, what would forcing the NFL to draft small school players accomplish? Even the dying spring league, whatever it is called, isn't going crazy for D3 players. 

It's time to face the facts, while it might be more evenly distributed, the talent level for D3FB is at its lowest point in decades.  NIL and NCAA free agency is 100% to blame.  The top level D3 talent will be picked off by upper levels...maybe, maybe some top D3FB programs can keep their top talent with NIL.

There will never be another D3FB player drafted, unless they are some sort of unicorn that is a late developer, who loves academics, or has extremely loyalty to a D3 program