NFL Draft

The NFL draft begins tonight and lasts through Sat.

John Gruden on UF's best draft prospect:

“I love Dante Fowler. In my opinion, he’s the best defensive player in the draft.” — Monday Night Football analyst and former NFL head coach Jon Gruden

 

Most think that Lenoard Williams the USC DL is the best in the draft, other think it's Beasley the Clemson OLB.

This draft is the first one in awhile where an OT is not likely to be in the top 5 or 10 of the draft and where WR's will be.

The big question will be Mariota, today speculation is that Tenn will make a deal with Philly and Kelly will draft Marcus. Kelly has said though that he's not trading up to take him.

Texans have multiple needs and nobody knows who they will take. Local beat writer thinks it's Cameron Irving the OL from FSU. Which is a little bit surprising since OL isn't a huge need for us, not that you can ever have too much depth on the OL though. We really need a stud wR.

 

An OT DID go in the Top 5 and Dante Fowler DID go before Leonard Williams. Gruden knows what he's talking about.

1 Buccaneers Jameis Winston QB
2 Titans Marcus Mariota QB
3 Jaguars Dante Fowler, Jr. OLB
4 Raiders Amari Cooper WR
5 Redskins Brandon Scherff OG
6 Jets Leonard Williams DE
7 Bears Kevin White WR
8 Falcons Vic Beasley OLB
9 Giants Ereck Flowers OG
10 Rams Todd Gurley RB
11 Vikings Trae Waynes CB
12 Browns Danny Shelton NT
13 Saints Andrus Peat OT
14 Dolphins DeVante Parker WR
15 Chargers Melvin Gordon RB
16 Texans Kevin Johnson CB
17 49ers Arik Armstead DT
18 Chiefs Marcus Peters CB
19 Browns Cameron Erving C
20 Eagles Nelson Agholor WR
21 Bengals Cedric Ogbuehi OT
22 Steelers Bud Dupree OLB
23 Broncos Shane Ray DE
24 Cardinals D.J. Humphries OT
25 Panthers Shaq Thompson OLB
26 Ravens Breshad Perriman WR
27 Cowboys Byron Jones CB
28 Lions Laken Tomlinson OG
29 Colts Phillip Dorsett WR
30 Packers Damarious Randall FS
31 Saints Stephone Anthony ILB
32 Patriots Malcom Brown DT

 

Can't believe the Texans passed on Nelson Aglhor.

 

Anyone see the instagram pic. of Winston with crab legs? At least he didn't have a bound up female in the backround.

 

I don't know gip, she could be just starting to feel the effects of the roofie...

 

:roll:

Picks I don't understand:

1. Buccaneers Jameis Winston QB
11. Vikings Trae Waynes CB
15. Chargers Melvin Gordon RB
16. Texans Kevin Johnson CB
23. Broncos Shane Ray DE

I have nothing against any of these players. I just think that there were better players available at each of those slots.

Best 1st Round picks. (IMHO)

22. Steelers Bud Dupree OLB
6. Jets Leonard Williams DE
12. Browns Danny Shelton NT
20. Eagles Nelson Agholor WR
29. Colts Phillip Dorsett WR

 

2nd Round

Pick Team Player School
33 New York Giants S Landon Collins Alabama
34 Tampa Bay Buccaneers OL Donovan Smith Penn State
35 Oakland Raiders DL Mario Edwards Jr. Florida State
36 Jacksonville Jaguars RB T.J. Yeldon Alabama
37 New York Jets WR Devin Smith Ohio State
38 Washington LB Preston Smith Mississippi State
39 Chicago Bears DT Eddie Goldman Florida State
40 Tennessee Titans WR Dorial Green-Beckham Missouri
41 Carolina Panthers WR Devin Funchess Michigan
42 Atlanta Falcons CB Jalen Collins LSU
43 Houston Texans LB Benardrick McKinney Mississippi State
44 New Orleans Saints OLB Hau'oli Kikaha Washington
45 Minnesota Vikings LB Eric Kendricks UCLA
46 San Francisco 49ers S Jaquiski Tartt Samford
47 Philadelphia Eagles DB Eric Rowe Utah
48 San Diego Chargers LB Denzel Perryman Miami
49 Kansas City Chiefs OL Mitch Morse Missouri
50 Buffalo Bills CB Ronald Darby Florida State
51 Cleveland Browns DE Nate Orchard Utah
52 Miami Dolphins NT Jordan Phillips Oklahoma
53 Cincinnati Bengals OT Jake Fisher Oregon
54 Detroit Lions RB Ameer Abdullah Nebraska
55 Baltimore Ravens TE Maxx Williams Minnesota
56 Pittsburgh Steelers CB Senquez Golson Ole Miss
57 St. Louis Rams OT Rob Havenstein Wisconsin
58 Arizona Cardinals DE Markus Golden Missouri
59 Denver Broncos OT Ty Sambrailo Colorado State
60 Dallas Cowboys LB Randy Gregory Nebraska
61 Tampa Bay Buccaneers OL Ali Marpet Hobart College
62 Green Bay Packers CB Quinten Rollins Miami (OH)
63 Seattle Seahawks DE Frank Clark Michigan
64 New England Patriots SS Jordan Richards Stanford

 

3rd Round

65 Indianapolis Colts CB D'Joun Smith Florida Atlantic
66 Tennessee Titans OL Jeremiah Poutasi Utah
67 Jacksonville Jaguars OL A.J. Cann South Carolina
68 Oakland Raiders TE Clive Walford Miami
69 Seattle Seahawks WR Tyler Lockett Kansas State
70 Houston Texans WR Jaelen Strong Arizona State
71 Chicago Bears C Hroniss Grasu Oregon
72 St. Louis Rams OT Jamon Brown Louisville
73 Atlanta Falcons RB Tevin Coleman Indiana
74 New York Giants DE Owamagbe Odighizuwa UCLA
75 New Orleans Saints QB Garrett Grayson Colorado State
76 Kansas City Chiefs WR Chris Conley Georgia
77 Cleveland Browns RB Duke Johnson Miami
78 New Orleans Saints CB P.J. Williams Florida State
79 San Francisco 49ers OLB Eli Harold Virginia
80 Detroit Lions CB Alex Carter Stanford
81 Buffalo Bills OG John Miller Louisville
82 New York Jets DE/OLB Lorenzo Mauldin Louisville
83 San Diego Chargers CB Craig Mager Texas State
84 Philadelphia Eagles LB Jordan Hicks Texas
85 Cincinnati Bengals TE Tyler Kroft Rutgers
86 Arizona Cardinals RB David Johnson Northern Iowa
87 Pittsburgh Steelers WR Sammie Coates Auburn
88 Minnesota Vikings DE Danielle Hunter LSU
89 St. Louis Rams QB Sean Mannion Oregon State
90 Baltimore Ravens DT Carl Davis Iowa
91 Dallas Cowboys OL Chaz Green Florida
92 Denver Broncos TE Jeff Heuerman Ohio State
93 Indianapolis Colts DE Henry Anderson Stanford
94 Green Bay Packers WR Ty Montgomery Stanford
95 Washington RB Matt Jones Florida
96 Cleveland Browns DT Xavier Cooper Washington State
97 New England Patriots (comp.) DE Geneo Grissom Oklahoma
98 Kansas City Chiefs (comp.) CB Steven Nelson Oregon State
99 Cincinnati Bengals (comp.) LB Paul Dawson TCU

 

I thought that the Lions first round move was really smart. They got 2 OGs and 2 draft picks and moved down only 4 spots. If you only look at the player drafted it's not earthshaking but in total it was a very good move.
Abdullah may be a stretch. The knock on him is he has small hands and coughs up the ball too often. He is an exciting runner and could add a dimension to the Lions offence that they were looking for with Javid Best and then Reggie Bush.

 

Bryce Petty a 5th rounder and Hundley the UCLA kid a 5th rounder....we were lead to believe that at one point they were sure 1st round choices.

 

There was a ton of B.S. floating around before the draft and most of it surrounded the QBs. The truth is, this may have been the worst year for QBs...ever. Hundley really blew it. He was a first-rounder in 2013, but played his way lower last year. IMHO there was NOT a true 1st Round QB in this year's draft...

 

What two schools had more players drafted than any other school except for FSU..... ?

Florida with 8 is one.....Louisville (7) is the other.

Looks like ol Willy boy and Charlie Strong could recruit pretty darned well.

Good news for Texas and Auburn fans...... :wink:

 

Miami had 7 selected and this makes me want to hurl this evenings dinner with our losing record. Doesn't say much for the coaching staffs who had excellent talent but never showed it on the field.....

 

Ditto on Muschamp as a head coach. However... when you consider how impotent his offenses were he is a helluva defensive coach.

The two games as head coach that is his legacy to me at UF were the Missouri game this year in which Mo. scored 42 points and yet only had about a 100 yards of offense and the FSU game where the defense came up with 4 picks on Winston in the first half and yet UF only led 12-0. The last pick resulted in a first down at the FSU 7 yard line but the offense turns the ball over over on a pick six.... 12-7 game suddenly and the rest was history.

Maddening....

 

Ralph, dwelling on things like that could scar you for life.

Like me, for instance;

In the 1973 draft Purdue had 8 players drafted; 3 first rounders and 2 second rounders; Dave Butz, Otis Armstrong, Daryl Stingley, Gary Hrivnak, Steve Baumgartner, Gregg Bingham, Brent Myers, and Donn Smith...

and with great coaching we managed to finish 6-5 including a loss to Bowling Green.

But who remembers things like that?

 

Meanwhile, the Buckeyes are looking at losing quite a few to the draft next year;

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/05/ohio_state_football_nfl_draft.html

 

Ironic in that Ohio State won the in 2002 and 2014 National Championship and no first rounders from either year.

Yet those individuals who were not drafted, were vital cogs in our winning those championships. Teams, not individuals, will always win championships!

 

Yeah there is some difference between having a great team and a team full of NFL prospects...sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.

During Lou Holtz's run from 87 through 93 he had teams loaded with future NFL draft picks, and while he did win the '88 Nat'l Title, some of his later teams maybe had more talent but couldn't win another Nat'l Title. He was always in the hunt but couldn't get that 2nd Title.

BTW: Seahawks are getting some criticism for their draft of ex-UM player Frank Clark who was kicked off the team after a domestic violence incident. According to the Seahwaks GM they never would have drafted Clark if they thought the charges were credible, but they did extensive investigation and determined he was ok. Well it turns out that extensive investigation was asking Clark if he did it. The Seatte Times has an expose of what the incident was about and how the Seahawks really didn't investigate it at all.

I guess the question is now what do you do with players involved in domestic violence? 2nd chance, counseling, etc. Twitter and the media sort of get on a roll of seeing who can be more outraged about domestic violence without offering any solutions. Can the individual be seperate on the field from his off the field. Can you root for Mayfield? Look at that OL from LSU who was at one time a 1st rounder, went undrafted though. So far he's not been charged with anything. Several players had their draft status affected by off the field issues, Dorial Green-Bechham would have been a 1st rounder if he'd not had the incident at Missouri that resulted in him being dimissed and not playing at all last year. Randy Gregory of Neb, and Shane Ray of Missouri all got busted for weed and it affected their draft status.

In the new "no nonsense" NFL teams are having to make some hard choices with regards to players.

 

Interesting that Georgia was #2. Fla, Calif and Texas always used to be ahead of Georgia.