ollege football Week 3
Good morning New York Giants fans!
Happy Saturday and welcome to Week 3 of the 2026 College Football Season. There are certainly some interesting games on today’s slate, but there’s one that will dominate the conversation: Ole Miss vs. LSU.
Before we get to that game, however, we have a couple others to highlight. As usual, we’re looking at college football from an NFL Draft and NY Giants perspective. So while there will be plenty of intriguing prospects on the field, I want to concentrate on prospects play at (what could be) positions of perceived need for the Giants. Today that means Safety and pass catcher.
Everyone is, of course, encouraged to use this as an open thread to discuss all of college games, but we’ll only be highlighting three players specifically.
Arkansas vs. (2) Georgia
ABC - noon
Highlight Player - KJ Bolden (S, Georgia)
It will be interesting to see how the Giants’ secondary evolves over the course of the 2026 season. However it plays out, Joe Schoen and John Harbaugh will have some tough decisions to make. Cornerbacks Deonte Banks and Greg Newsome II are on one-year deals, and it could be expensive to bring both back if they both prove to be good starting corners over the course of the season. Likewise, Nickel Ar’Darius Washington is on a one-year deal as well, while Dru Phillips, Tyler Nubin, and Jevon Holland are all free agents after the 2027 season.
Georgia’s KJ Bolden is almost custom-built to be a modern NFL nickel defender. He’s listed as a safety, but he is legitimately excellent in coverage as well as in run defense. He’s a bit lean at 6-foot-1, 185 pounds, but plays with a high football IQ, fast processing, and violence at the point of attack.
Rutgers vs. (12) USC
CBS - 3:30 p.m.
Highlight player: KJ Duff (WR, Rutgers)
Rutgers fans and alumni might want to avert their eyes from this game. But for the rest of us, I need to call attention to a potential Giant right in their own back yard.
WR KJ Duff is flying under the radar right now at the national level (that tends to happen when your school isn’t playing well). However, he has the traits to work his way into the conversation with Texas’ Cam Coleman and Indiana’s Charlie Becker in the next tier of wide receiver prospects after Jeremiah Smith.
Duff is listed at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds and comes in at 22nd on the 2026 edition of Bruce Feldman’s “Freaks List” for his strength and agility. Duff is surprisingly agile on tape and reportedly put up a 4.16-second short shuttle time over the summer. For reference, the average short shuttle for a wide receiver is 4.23 seconds — and at 6-foot, 200 pounds. He had an impressive 60-catch, 1,084-yard, 7 TD season as a sophomore in 2025, and could be a real sleeper if the Giants want to add yet more size to their offense in 2027.
(8) Ole Miss vs. (7) LSU
ABC - 7:30 p.m.
Highlight player - Trey’Dez Green (TE, LSU)
This game is high drama… Or maybe melodrama that’s more suitable for a daytime soap opera. The story of the game is going to be the return of Lane Kiffin to Ole Miss following his messy exit and the chaos surrounding his willingness to accept former NFL players who fell through the cracks in the NCAA’s eligibility rules.
On the field, the story will be quarterbacks Trinidad Chambliss and Sam Leavitt. These are two talented, athletic, and competitive passers who each have the potential of being first round picks come April. Chambliss is a far more advanced passer than he was given credit and is definitely the better player right now. However, Leavitt has the kind of mobility and arm talent that will draw comparisons to Caleb Williams, albeit in a much more volatile package right now.
For our purposes, however, I want to concentrate on LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green. Green is the best tight end in the class and be the next “Brock Bowers” or “Tyler Warren” when he enters the NFL. He’s a former basketball player with elite athletic traits at 6-foot 6 3/8 inches tall, 240 pounds, with great long speed as well as agility. Green has the route running skills to separate and is already the most prolific tight end in LSU history, owning both their single-season and career touchdown records — in just 25 games with 9 starts.
Green is still developing as a blocker and is much more of a “move” blocker than a traditional Y tight end. However, given how often the Giants use pulling blockers now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The potential of pairing Green with Isaiah Likely and Theo Johnson is definitely tantalizing.
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