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(4:15): Miami is
on the board as LB Spencer Adkins was the 6th round pick by Atlanta.
(4:05): Goodness, did Denver just trade a 5h
round pick in 2010 to Detroit to move up in the 6th round to get Fresno
State QB Tom Brandstater. Nobody is going to accuse the new Broncos'
regime of being boring, but this just seems like another very
questionable move by Denver this weekend. Brandstater has nice size and
a decent arm, but he's a long way from challenging Kyle Orton or Chris
Simm for playing time and of course neither Orton nor Simms are all
that good by NFL standards these days.
(3:35): Saints must have had an early flight
out of town because they traded a 2010 7th rounder to Philadelphia for
the right to move up into the late 6th rounder to take SMU P Thomas
Morsted. And here we always thought the rule was never draft a kicker.
Hard to imagine some purists aren't gnashing their teeth after
the Saints traded up to get one, especially one who just wasn't all
that good to begin with. Meanwhile, more topremaining prospects have
come off th board late in the round as Dallas nabbed Clemson safety
Michael Hamlin, the highest rated guy left on our board, while Arizona
got bigger, both literally and figuratively by making 375 or so pound
LSU OG Herman Johnson.
(3:25): More reclamations projects late in the
5th round as OT Jamon Meredith went 162nd to Green Bay, while Carolina
took Oklahoma OG Duke Robinson, who had been considered to be the #1
player at the position coming into the draft, wth the next selection.
(3:05): In fact, the theme of the mid part of
the 5th round is reclamation projects as both Ohio State LB Marcus
Freeman and Virginia Tech finally came off the board in the past few
picks. Chicago selected Freeman, while the Eagles, who had just taken
Florida TE Cornelius Ingram, grabbed the Hokies Harris who figures to
be a hbrid type DB at the next level.
(2:55): Nice to see productive collegiate MLBs
Jason Phillip, Scott McKillop and Jasper Brinkley finally come off the
board in the top half of the 5th round. Phillips was actually he first
player taken in the round by Baltimore where he will get the chance to
work alongside perennial Pro Bowler Ray Lewis, while McKillop went to
San Francisco and Brinkley to Minnesota. And Florida TE Cornelius
Ingram finally came off the board going to Philadelphia which keeps
loading up with weapons for Donovan McNabb.
(2:03):Indianapolis brought the
fourth round to an end with the selection of Michigan DT Terrance
Taylor with the 136th pick. That got the Wolverines on the board with
their first pick of the weekend. And in taking the 310-pound Taylor,
the Colts have actally drafted a DT who weighs more than 300 pounds in
like forever. Lo of variety in the fourth round with a number of teams
going way of the board for boom-bust types with special athleticism,
but no big time experience, while others went with safer picks who just
kind of fell through the cracks. The former included San Diego taking
Canadian DT Vaughn Martin, while Dtroit took Stillman DT Sammie Hill -
the first player ever drafted from that school - and Arizona took St.
Paul's CB Greg Toler. Safety first picks included St. Louis who took
Clemson DT Dorell Scott, Chicago CB DJ Moore, Buffalo TE Shawn Nelson,
Giants RB Andre Brown, Oakland WR Louis Murphy, and Tennessee LB Gerald
McRath. Best picks of the round were the Bears' choice of CB Moore, the
Bills' selection of TE Nelson and the Packers choice of OT JT Lang.
Meanwhile, reaches may have included Miami WR Brian Hartline, Dallas
DE/LB Victor Butler, New England OG Rich Orhnberger, Oakland DE Slade
Norris, and Denver OG Seth Olsen.
(1:40 PM): Carolina takes first - and maybe
only FB - in the 2009 draft selecting Tony Fiammetta from Syracuse with
the 128th pick. And the NFL's best rushing attack may have just gotten
better when the Giants grabbed tough NC State RB Andre Brown with the
next pick. He's a guy we had the Giants targetting in the late second
round.
(1:22 PM): Nice picks by both
Chicago and Buffalo
who got CB D.J. Moore and TE Shawn Nelson respectively with the 119th
and 121st picks. Moore was once considered a mid first rounder but
dropped when he ran poorly at pre-draft trials, but he should make a
nice nickle corner if he never starts. Meanwhile, Nelson was one of the
top 2-3 players at the Senior Bowl but fell as teams worried that he's
not big enough to sustain blocks over a 16-game schedule at the next
level. The fact that fellow TE Cornelius Ingram of Florida is still on
the board late in the fourth round suggests that teams are concerned
about his surgically repaied knee.
(1:02): O Canada!
The
Chargers take
330-pound Western Ontario DT Vaughn Martin with the 113th pick overall;
Martin has some special athletic ability but he is still as raw as
uncooked moose meat. in fact, for just a moment, more players had been
taken from a Canadian university, which play at a NAIA DII level than
from Notre Dame. One pick after the Martin selection, though, Denver
grabbed former Irish DB David Bruton with the 114th pick.
(12:55): Hard to
imagine RB Mike Goodson getting a lot of touches early on at
Carolina.
(12:50): Really like the
selection of OT T.J Lang
at #109 by Green Bay; really nice draft by the Packers so far.
(12:18): Don't know if Tony Romo is starting to
worry but Dallas kicks
off the fourth round by taking athletic Texas A&M QB Stephen McGee.
(12:12):
Round three is in the books after the Giants
wrapped up the round
selecting Wisconsin TE Travis Beckum. Best moves in the round though
were by New England which added a couple of very valuable second round
picks in next year's draft. In one of those the rich get richer things,
the best picks in the round were probably by defending Super Bowl
champion Pittsburgh which added three quality players in Wisconisin G/T
Kraig Urbik, Ole Miss WR Mike Wallace and Oregon State CB Keenan Lewis.
Worst move in the round was probably by Jacksonville, one of the teams
that traded a 2010 seond rounder and then used the pick to take small
school DB Derek Cox, who can run, but was 9th on his team in tackles
last fall, although he did have 4 picks.
(11:45): Patriots
just traded their second 2009 third rounder for a 2010 second rounder
of this draft; Tennesssee then used the pick to take the first of those
athletic TEs in Jared Cook of South Carolina.
(11:25): Giants
cap an intriguing run on WRs when they trade up with division rival
Philadelphia to take 6-6 Cal Poly WR Ramses Barden, who the Giants hope
can replace the size lost when Palxico Burress shot himself in the leg.
Barden followed a sting of 4 picks of receivers Derrick Williams by
Detroit, Brandon Tate by the Patriots and Mike Wallace by the Steelers.
The Lions' Williams was clearly the highest rated of the quartet but we
had him rated on all 'overrated' team. In fact, the run may show why
the Patriots, Steelers and Giants win Super Bowls while the Lions go
0-16. The Patriots' Tate, for example, is coming off a torn ACL and has
had some recreational drug issues but he is a true big-lay threat who
is also dangerous return man, while the Steelers Wallace can really run
and was productive in college and really should have been rated higher.
(11:15): Hard
not to notice that all those athletic, tweener type TEs - Ingram,
Coffman, Nelson and Cook - each of whom were thought to be potential
mid-second rounders, are all still on the board well into the third
round.
(11:08): Nice
pick by the Steelers in picking up rugged Wisconsin G/T Kraig Urbik at
#79; he's a Pittsburgh type player who can play both OG and RT.
(10:50): Jags
have back-to-back picks and kind of go off the board with selections of
Temple DT Terrence Knighton and Williams & Mary DB Derek Cox who we
didn't have rated on our big board. Cox, in particular, was an
intriguing sleeper, but did the Jags really need to trade a #2 pick in
2010 to the Patriots to move up in the third round to get Cox.
(10:40): It
does not appear that Oakland owner/GM Al Davis has been working off the
GBN 'Big Board'. After taking WR Darrius Heyward-Bey, who we had rated
the 19th best player this year, 7th overall, the Raiders' second and
third round picks were ranked 262nd and 111th respectively on our
board. For the record, #111 was Wisconsin DE Matt Shaughnessy.
(10:36): Bengals
take best looking player in the draft in Georgia Tech DE/LB Michael
Johnson. Figure if nothing else that Bengal rookies Johnson, Rey
Maualuga and OT Andre Brown should come to camp with burrs under their
saddles as each has something to prove.
(10:30): Cowboys
go for the gusto with Western Illinois OLB Jason Williams, who started
exploding up draft boards after a great pro day workout; still a boom
or bust type pick although Williams certainly has the speed and
athleticism to be a boomer. Plus JJ always want to look smart. For the
record,Williams is the first non-D1A player selected at the 2009 draft.
(10:25): Bears
may take their 1st pick of the 2009 draft selected the aforementioned
Gilbert of San Jose State. Cowboys, the last remaining team to make a
pick are on the clock.
(10:18): Chiefs end run
of 63
picks
without a pick with selection of Purdue DE Alex Magee who should end up
playing the other side of the line to 1st rounder Tyson Jackson.
(10:05): Interesting start
to
the morning as the Lions send the first pick in the third round to the
Jets for the Jets 3rd (#76), 4th (#115) and 7th (#228) round. The Jets
get physical Iowa RB Shonn Greene. That leaves the Jets with just one
remaining pick on the day.
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