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Post-Draft Impressions-Part II
I’m wrapping up the weekend with my impressions of the NFL Draft. Yesterday was the first part. Today is the final half.
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2012 Post-Draft Skill Player Impressions Part-I
I don’t believe in grading the draft. Many of my colleagues, ones I respect a great deal, will be providing draft grades this week. Some of them will say that they don’t believe a draft can be graded accurately for a few years, but two paragraphs later they are grading away like they’re teaching middle…
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Walk on the Wildside: My Draft to Mock-Part II
After the response I got from last night’s Draft to Mock, apparently there’s a side to many of you that have also grown a little bored of mock drafts. So here’s Part II of My Draft to Mock. For those of you with the scanning virus, this is not a real mock. Carolina Panthers select…
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No-Huddle Series: New Mexico State RB Kenny Turner
I came home from work today and watched an E:60 segment about Titans running back Chris Johnson and his best friend Kenny Turner. If you haven’t seen the segment, you can read the full story about their friendship and the events that transpired that led to a felony conviction and five years in jail. If…
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Walk on the Wildside: My Draft to Mock – Part I
Everyone is doing mock drafts. I’m waiting for President Obama to do one on ESPN any minute now – especially with the ladies of The View likely scheduled to do one on Wednesday. For fear that my football card might be taken away, I thought it was time I do one. Like Greg Cosell, I…
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No-Huddle Series: Iowa State WR Darius Reynolds
As Jon Gruden said during his QB Camp episode with Brandon Weeden, Iowa State is “a pretty good football team. Quietly, they’ve become formidable.” You don’t become that quietly formidable without some quietly formidable players. I think that pair of words fits wide receiver Darius Reynolds. The Cyclones receiver ran a 4.54-40, bench pressed 225…
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No-Huddle Series: RB Bobby Rainey, Western Kentucky
The first person who tipped me off to Bobby Rainey was NFL.com writer and researcher Chad Reuter, who worked at CBS Sportsline and NFL Draft Scout. Like many of the great tape grinders out there, I don’t get a chance to talk with them often or at great length because they are busy doing what…
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Q&A on Eagles Draft at Moving The Chains
I want to thank Sheil Kapadia for the Q&A session we had on his blog Moving The Chains. You can find here. If you haven’t signed the petition to get Greg Cosell on TV for the draft, I recommend you do it. I view it as a way to inform producers that their perceptions are…
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No-Huddle Series: RB Chris Polk, Washington
I lied to you. The RSP No-Huddle Series was something I initially created to write about prospects likely to get drafted in the late rounds, if at all. I’m still going to do more of those players, but sometimes there are plays you remember that you want to share with people. One of these plays…
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NY Times Fifth Down Top-Five Series: No.1 WR Michael Floyd
1. Michael Floyd, Notre Dame (6-2, 220) From the standpoint of on-field performance, I believe Floyd has the best all-around skills and talents among the receivers in this draft class. This is a talent-rich group, but none of the prospects in this class have all of the qualities that Floyd brings to the game. When…