NFL Draft starts today at 5pm. I thought I would post for anyone that is interested. QB Jamarcus Russell QB Brady Quinn OT Joe Thomas WR Calvin Johnson RB Adrian Peterson seem to be the top 5 prospects, and we will see which order they go in later this evening.
At the end of every season they put all the college players in a pot (not literally of course) and then the NFL teams take turns to pick a player that they want. It goes in reverse order, hence the team that finished last gets the first pick, and the team that won the superbowl picks last in each round. There are 7 rounds of picking and it lasts 2 days. The players that I posted are the pundits top 5 players and are expected to be the first 5 players chosen. My money is on QB Jamarcus Russell being picked first but it is rarely a given who goes first. Hence, the teams that finish near the bottom get the players who are supposedly 'better' than the teams that came near the top. That and the salary cap keeps the NFL competitive.
Here is the top 12 picked so far. Mention should go to Brady Quinn who is yet to be picked which is suprising. 1 Oakland Russell, JaMarcus QB Louisiana State 2 Detroit Johnson, Calvin WR Georgia Tech 3 Cleveland Thomas, Joe OT Wisconsin 4 Tampa Bay Adams, Gaines DE Clemson 5 Arizona Brown, Levi OT Penn State 6 Washington Landry, LaRon FS Louisiana State 7 Minnesota Peterson, Adrian RB Oklahoma 8 Atlanta (from Houston) Anderson, Jamaal DE Arkansas 9 Miami Ginn Jr., Ted WR Ohio State 10 Houston (from Atlanta) Okoye, Amobi DT Louisville 11 San Francisco Willis, Patrick ILB Mississippi 12 Buffalo Lynch, Marshawn RB California
Selections 13-27 13 St. Louis Carriker, Adam DE Nebraska 14 N.Y. Jets (from Carolina) Revis, Darrelle CB Pittsburgh 15 Pittsburgh Timmons, Lawrence OLB Florida State 16 Green Bay Harrell, Justin DT Tennessee 17 Denver (from Jacksonville) Moss, Jarvis DE Florida 18 Cincinnati Hall, Leon CB Michigan 19 Tennessee Griffin, Michael FS Texas 20 N.Y. Giants Ross, Aaron CB Texas 21 Jacksonville (from Denver) Nelson, Reggie FS Florida 22 Cleveland (from Dallas) Quinn, Brady QB Notre Dame 23 Kansas City Bowe, Dwayne WR Louisiana State 24 New England (from Seattle) Meriweather, Brandon FS Miami (Fla.) 25 Carolina (from N.Y. Jets) Beason, Jon OLB Miami (Fla.) 26 Dallas (from Philadelphia) Spencer, Anthony DE Purdue 27 New Orleans Meachem, Robert WR Tennessee
Just got in, very surprised to see Quinn so low down. Thought Cleveland would pick him up. It isn't on tv is it?
Wasn't Quin meant to be the expected first choice a while ago? I get the draft system and understand it fairly well, it is when they do those weird trades like a player for first 2nd round pick in the draft etc. Then it gets confusing. When I was in America a few years back, I got to see a few games, it is a great day out even the college games, 4hours of drinking and eating with the occaional 10 seconds of play, similar to watching Watford really!
I am going to ignore that ;D You can watch it online, go to nfl.com and select 'Watch now'. Obviously there will be nothing on atm - second day starts again today at 5pm. The teams at the top needed a QB but only Oakland picked one leaving Brady Quinn to go unselected for almost half the round. Then towards the end of the First round when it looked like he would make it into the second round to when the teams that needed a QB would have a chance to pick him, Cleveland made a trade with the Dallas Cowboys to get in at the end of the first round to select Quinn. It is a shame he went so low, but to be fair all the teams that passed on him really didn't need him.
Picks 28-32 28 San Francisco (from New England) Staley, Joe OT Central Michigan 29 Baltimore Grubbs, Ben G Auburn 30 San Diego Davis, Craig WR Louisiana State 31 Chicago Olsen, Greg TE Miami (Fla.) 32 Indianapolis Gonzalez, Anthony WR Ohio State
Second Round Picks: 1 Arizona (from Oakland)*Branch, Alan DT Michigan 2 Buffalo (from Detroit)* Posluszny, Paul OLB Penn State 3 Tampa Bay* Sears, Arron OT Tennessee 4 Philadelphia (from Cleveland through Dallas)* Kolb, Kevin QB Houston 5 San Diego (from Washington through N.Y. Jets and Chicago)* Weddle, Eric SS Utah 6 Oakland (from Arizona)* Miller, Zach TE Arizona State 7 Atlanta (from Houston)* Blalock, Justin OT Texas 8 Miami* Beck, John QB Brigham Young 9 Atlanta (from Minnesota)* Houston, Chris CB Arkansas 10 Indianapolis (from San Francisco)* Ugoh, Tony G Arkansas 11 Detroit (from Buffalo)* Stanton, Drew QB Michigan State 12 Minnesota (from Atlanta)* Rice, Sidney WR South Carolina 13 Carolina* Jarrett, Dwayne WR Southern California 14 Pittsburgh* Woodley, LaMarr DE Michigan 15 N.Y. Jets (from Green Bay)* Harris, David ILB Michigan 16 Jacksonville* Durant, Justin ILB Hampton 17 Cincinnati* Irons, Kenny RB Auburn 18 Tennessee* Henry, Chris RB Arizona 19 N.Y. Giants* Smith, Steve WR Southern California 20 St. Louis* Leonard, Brian FB Rutgers 21 Cleveland (from Dallas)* Wright, Eric CB Nevada-Las Vegas 22 Kansas City* McBride, Turk DT Tennessee 23 Seattle* Wilson, Josh CB Maryland 24 Denver* Crowder, Tim DE Texas 25 Philadelphia* Abiamiri, Victor DE Notre Dame 26 Detroit (from New Orleans)* Alama-Francis, Ikaika DE Hawaii 27 Carolina (from N.Y. Jets)* Kalil, Ryan C Southern California 28 Miami (from New England)* Satele, Samson C Hawaii 29 Detroit (from Baltimore)* Alexander, Gerald FS Boise State 30 Chicago (from San Diego)* Bazuin, Dan DE Central Michigan 31 Green Bay (from Chicago through N.Y. Jets)* Jackson, Brandon RB Nebraska 32 Tampa Bay (from Indianapolis)* Piscitelli, Sabby SS Oregon State
Third Round Picks: 1(65) Oakland Quentin Moses DE GEORGIA 2(66) New Orleans (from Detroit) Usama Young CB KENT 3(67) Dallas (from Cleveland) James Marten OT BOSTON COLLEGE 4(68) Tampa Bay Quincy Black OLB NEW MEXICO 5(69) Arizona Buster Davis ILB FLORIDA STATE 6(70) Denver (From Washington) Ryan Harris OT NOTRE DAME 7(71) Miami Lorenzo Booker RB FLORIDA STATE 8(72) Minnesota Marcus McCauley CB FRESNO STATE 9(73) Houston Jacoby Jones WR LANE 10(74) Baltimore (from Buffalo through Detroit) Yamon Figurs RS KANSAS STATE 11(75) Atlanta Laurent Robinson WR ILLINOIS STATE 12(76) San Francisco Jason Hill WR WASHINGTON STATE 13(77) Pittsburgh Matt Spaeth TE MINNESOTA 14(78) Green Bay James Jones WR SAN JOSE STATE 15(79) Jacksonville Mike Walker WR CENTRAL FLORIDA 17(80) Tennessee Paul Williams WR FRESNO STATE 18(81) NY Giants Jay Alford DT PENN STATE 19(82) Kansas City (From St. Louis) Tank Tyler DT NORTH CAROLINA ST 20(83) Carolina Charles Johnson DE GEORGIA 21(84) St. Louis (From Kansas City) Jonathan Wade CB TENNESSEE 22(85) Seattle Brandon Mebane DT CALIFORNIA 23(86) Baltimore (from Denver through Jacksonville) Marshal Yanda OT IOWA 24(87) Philadelphia (from Dallas) Stewart Bradley OLB NEBRASKA 25(88) New Orleans Andy Alleman OG AKRON 26(89) Green Bay (from NY Jets) Aaron Rouse S VIRGINIA TECH 27(90) Philadelphia Tony Hunt RB PENN STATE 28(91) Oakland (from New England) Mario Henderson OT FLORIDA STATE 29(92) Buffalo (From Baltimore) Trent Edwards QB STANFORD 30(93) Chicago (from San Diego) Garrett Wolfe RB NORTHERN ILLINOIS 31(94) Chicago Michael Okwo OLB STANFORD 32(95) Indianapolis Daymeion Hughes CB CALIFORNIA 33(96) San Diego (Compensatory selection) Anthony Waters ILB CLEMSON 34(97) San Francisco (Compensatory selection) Ray McDonald DE FLORIDA 35(98) Indianapolis (Compensatory selection) Quinn Pitcock DT OHIO STATE 36(99) Oakland (Compensatory selection) Johnnie Lee Higgins WR UTEP
