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1. Taylor Lewan, Michigan Grade-1st Round
2. Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M Grade-1st Round
3. Jake Matthews, Texas A&M Grade-1st Round
4. D.J. Fluker, Alabama Grade-2nd Round
5. Eric Fisher, Central Michigan-2nd Round
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1st Team Offense
RB
Mark Ingram
Alabama
RB
Dion Lewis
Pittsburgh
WR
Michael Floyd
Notre Dame
QB
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The draft order for this mock is based on a highly scientific formula. I simulated an entire season of Madden 2010 on the Xbox 360 and this was the order it gave me.
Pick
Team
Player
Pos
College
1
Jacksonville Jaguars
Jake Locker
QB
Washington
2
Buffalo Bills
Ryan Mallett
QB
Arkansas
3
Cleveland Browns
Michael Floyd
WR
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Of the hundreds of guys who go undrafted each year, some of them give up the dream of playing football and opt for further education like New Hampshire's Scott Sicko (DBI wishes you the best of luck by the way Scott). Some give up on the NFL and go play elsewhere but some of the luckier ones get picked up by NFL teams as Undrafted Free Agents. Some of these guys even end up being paid more than their colleagues drafted in rounds 5 onwards. How does that happen? Well quite simply, some of these guys are in very high demand with several teams chasing their signature. Competition, as any agent will tell you, is going to get you paid more.
Sure lots of guys signed as UDFAs are nothing but camp fodder but for some they have a chance to earn a spot in the league and for some, it's as more than a Special Teams demon and backup. Take a look at this lineup:
Offense
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A really early look at 2011 Positional rankings
Quarterbacks
1
Ryan Mallett
Arkansas
2
Jake Locker
Washington
3
Andrew Luck
Stanford
4
Nick Foles
Arizona
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Every draft I am asked to list the 100 players I believe that will be drafted in the first 100 picks. This is always a difficult task, mainly because rather than simply consider who the best 100 prospects are, you have to take into consideration which teams are picking when. Good players, and I mean really good players slip out of those first 3 rounds, because they aren't positions of need or they are just plain missed by the league. I have always felt pretty good that I can usually pull about 80 of the first 100 picks and I will continue to do it and hope to improve. But this year, I am going to add a little something. This is my list of the 50 best prospects from what I've seen regardless of where or by whom they will be drafted. To make it a little easier to follow, I have broken the players into groups, based on where I rate them compared to their peers.
Tier 1-The elite. It's normally not hard to get a group of ten guys you consider trul Continue Reading >>>
I arrived fashionably late for the North’s Wednesday morning practice, deciding to get right to the meat of it – and upon my arrival North is running 11-on-11 and BANG!
B.J. Raji blows Alex Mack way back, all the way back into Graham Harrell before the play even develops. I was still a little groggy, but I think there was a RB under that pile, perhaps a stretch play.
Harrell had a pocket on the next play, makes it through his progressions, but not at an NFL pace and not surprisingly Sheets drops the dump off with a little help from the defender bearing down on him – simply too slow to develop. Sheets redeems his part a bit by taking a hard hit square in the back and hangs on to the ball.
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North practice began with the same format and routine of drills – OL working in pairs with blocking pads, nothing noteworthy in there until they get working to a point when guys want to fight each other.
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The first afternoon of practices presented the choice of attending the North squad’s at Ladd-Peebles or the South’s at Fairhope Stadium about 8 miles away at the exact same time. Besides being closer, I opted for the North because it’s a larger collection of less familiar names to most people.
But before perhaps the most interesting tidbits of Monday came before leaving the hotel – first, seeing Todd McShay, hopefully I’ll catch him later in the week and second, the entire Patriots scouting staff and before they split up to cover both practices, standing and sitting around me, discussing a number of topics:
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