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  Tight End Stanford 6-6 247 Draft board overall prospect rank: #28 Draft board overall tight end rank: #1 Overall rating: 81 (Borderline 1st/2nd round) 40 time: 4.45 Games watched: Stanford/Arizona, USC/Stanford, Stanford/Washington, Stanford/Oregon,  California/Stanford Positives ·         6-6 vertical threat ·         End zone weapon (10 touchdowns as a senior, 17 touchdowns from 2010-2011) ·        …

By Sean Geddes  Even though this will go down as a “W” in the win/ loss column, it was not without significant losses to the Steelers. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Max Starks, the Steelers starting tackle for both Superbowl wins this decade (once at right and once…

  The Jaguars needed a linebacker, but spending 29 million over 5 years, with 11.5 million guaranteed on a marginal linebacker like Clint Sessions wasn’t a smart move. Clint Sessions is a system linebacker that had some success with the Colts’ because he fit their scheme, but he could easily…

  Guard Georgia 6-5 310 Draft board overall prospect rank: #87 Draft board overall guard rank: #8 Overall rating: 70 (mid 3rd) 40 time: 5.37 (projected) 3/27/11: There was a time when I really liked Clint Boling. I actually had him as my top rated offensive tackle (this is not…

    3-4 Defensive End South Carolina 6-7 299 40 time: 4.97 Draft board overall prospect rank: #191 Draft board 3-4 defensive end rank: #13 Overall rating: 54*             4/7/10: Clifton Geathers made the surprise decision to come out a year early this year, despite only recording 5.5 career sacks…

  Debate the Browns’ offseason possibilities in The Football Fan Forum 2010 Projection:   The Browns figure to be one of the worst teams in the league this year once again. They appear to be heading in somewhat the right direction, drafting a new quarterback to try to fix this mess.…

  Spotlight #1: Clemson TE Dwayne Allen Spotlight #2: Clemson DT Brandon Thompson  1st quarter 13:41: Interception by Clemson safety Jonathan Meeks, a talented junior player. 12:33: Allen drops a low screen, heard footsteps from Zach Brown. 10:55: Zach Brown in on a sack by himself. 10:02: Thompson gets into…

Spotlight #1: Boston College MLB Luke Kuechly Spotlight #2: Clemson DE Andre Branch  1st quarter 14:51: Branch run at, disengages, helps stuff the runner for a short gain. 10:22: Touchdown goes over Kuechly’s head, doesn’t notice a guy get open behind him. He needs to show better awareness than that.…

  About a month ago all the talk for the first pick was about Gerald McCoy or Ndamukong Suh. I did not do any comparison or debate between which of them was better for one simple reason, I didn’t think either of them had a shot at the #1 pick…