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  Defensive End  Georgia 6-3 266 40 time: 4.72 Draft board overall prospect rank: #8 Draft board defensive end rank: #1 Overall rating: 91* 1/21/10: Great combination of size and speed, and more important an excellent motor and initial explosiveness. He had 12 sacks this year and was also strong against…

Mason has 8 seasons of 70 or more catches and 1000 or more yards in his last 9 seasons, despite spending all of this time with the Titans and the Ravens, two of the most notoriously run heavy conservative offenses in the league. He caught 103 passes in 2007 with…

Mason’s reception totals have dropped in each of the past 4 seasons, from 103 to 80 to 73 to 61 last year and he’s 38 in January so I don’t think he has a ton left, but at the same time, this was never a guy who relied on speed…

  Running Back Kentucky 5-8 188 Draft Board Overall Prospect Rank: #94 Draft Board Overall Running Back Rank: #9 Rating: 69 (Late 3rd) 40 time: 4.46 2/19/11: At 186 pounds, Derrick Locke is not going to be an every down runner in the NFL. However, I think he can hold…

Bio: Derek has been blogging about the Baltimore Ravens (as well as the MLB’s Baltimore Orioles) on his personal website, B’More Birds’ Nest, since 2007.  Since then, his work has been featured on other sites such as Bleacher Report, Baltimore’s WNST Sports Talk 1570, the Baltimore Sun’s Charm City Current,…

  I don’t know how much this deal is for, but if the Panthers plan to start him week 1 like John Clayton suggested they could, they’re just stupid. I understand letting Newton sit behind a veteran presence is a good idea, but what the hell is Newton going to…

  Debate the Denver Broncos’ Offseason Possibilities in The Football Fan Forum 2010 Preview: I don’t like Denver this year and I’ll tell you why. I know what you’re thinking, didn’t you predict they’d be bad last year and then they proved you wrong and even when they were playing well…

  Tight End  BYU 6-4 245 40 time: 4.63 Draft board overall prospect rank: #55 Draft board tight end rank: #3 Overall rating: 77*  2/27/10: Not necessarily known as an elite athlete as rather a guy with good hands, Pitta benched 225 pounds 27 times, 2nd most among tight ends,…

  Demetress Bell, who now spells his name wrong, signed 5 year, 35 million dollar contract with the Eagles. It’s a front loaded deal with not a lot of guaranteed money so he probably won’t be in Philadelphia for much longer than a year. They need a new left tackle…

By Trey Huguley   People stop freaking out. Yes, it stinks to be losing DeMeco Ryans for the season, but it isn’t the end of the world.  In case you missed it somehow, at the end of the first half Ryans fall down without contact as he tore his Achilles tendon; a…