When the mock draft’s are all about the small school sleeper or the All-American from Georgia and not the usual cast of characters featuring LT, Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning- it’s still all good for fantasy fanatics because we love football in any way shape or form, and the NFL’s annual rookie draft takes a backseat to no one.
Unfortunately, so many of the mock drafts that are out there in the worldwide web regurgitate the same names, over and over again, providing very little insight into what will really shake out in late April.
Consider this article an intervention to provide you with relief from reading about James Laurinaitis and how his father (Animal) made up one half of the infamous Road Warrior tag team championship duo for the 360th time. It was fun the first time I stumbled across that factoid three years ago, when “Little Animal” was beginning his rise to prominence in Columbus. Or the fact that Georgia’s Matthew Stafford will be the number one overall pick. Or that in the dueling offensive tackles category- the Smith that did everything right at the Combine (Jason) has quickly surpassed the Smith that did everything wrong (Andre) in Indianapolis.
The real rubber hits the road in the heart of the Draft, with the players that NFL teams have duly noted as “Risers”, the type of players that the countless Draft websites and their self-proclaimed experts completely miss as they remind us about Mark Sanchez projecting in the 1st round or how Michael Crabtree will be drafted fourth overall by the Seattle Seahawks.
I can’t tell you how many times I have seen wide receiver rankings for this year’s draft, which is an exceptionally talented and deep group, stack the usual suspects Crabtree, Harvin, Heyward-Bey, Britt, etc., and then place wide receiver Kevin Ogletree from Virginia near the bottom of the list and project him as a 6th-7th rounder. That’s just draftnicks being lazy and not doing their homework.
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