Draft

Updated Feb. 15, 2010. I’ve received a ton of e-mails from people asking me why I think Eric Berry is a reach for the top three, and why I think he will ultimately fall out of the top five. Rather than slap all of those e-mails together into one NFL Draft Mailbag, I thought I’d…

Send Matt an e-mail here: [email protected] All other e-mail, including advertising and link proposals, send to: [email protected] “With the first pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Atlanta Falcons select Alex Mack, center, California.” You know this will NEVER happen in a billion, zillion years. Why is that? Why is a center not worth taking…

I’ve said the following countless times in my 2010 NFL Mock Draft and NFL Draft Mailbag: New regimes mean new quarterbacks. When a new head coach and/or general manager are hired, they usually want to bring in “their guy.” Unless the team’s signal-caller is on a Pro Bowl level or is being paid tons of…

Send Matt an e-mail here: [email protected] All other e-mail, including advertising and link proposals, send to: [email protected] You’ve debated who the best long snapper in the NFL has been for months… yes it is that time of year again. No football games to be played until the Hall of Fame game on Aug. 3. That…

Atlanta and Kansas City general managers Thomas Dimitroff and Scott Pioli worked together in New England. This March during the NFL Owners’ Meeting, the two were discussing the Chiefs’ options at No. 5. Dimitroff brought up Berry in a conversation logged by Peter King. “Scott, this guy’s your pick,” Dimitroff said. Pioli apparently didn’t agree….

“Quarterbacks usually bust.” “Quarterbacks are too risky, let’s take the sure thing.” “Going with a quarterback isn’t the safe pick.” These are comments frivolously thrown around the NFL Draft community. Spend enough time on an NFL Draft forum, and you’re bound to run into posts containing those words in between reading about how great/awful Tim…

We believe that offensive tackles are the safest position to draft because that’s what the media tells us. The media also tells us that quarterbacks are risky picks, yet as proven in a previous article, defensive tackles bust more than quarterbacks. So, which is it? Are offensive tackles less risky than other positions, or do…

Send Matt an e-mail here: [email protected] All other e-mail, including advertising and link proposals, send to: [email protected] In the last installment of NFL Draftology (205A), I gave a briefing on positional value then addressed positional demand. Today we are going to look at recent trends in the NFL Draft and which positions are the most…

Updated April 22 – Order is based on worst record (unless denoted by a * – which determines playoff elimination sequence). Tie-breaker is strength of schedule. Find the NFL Strength of Schedule here. 2010 NFL Mock Draft to be updated Thursday (4/16). Round 1 St. Louis (1-15) Detroit (2-14) Tampa Bay (3-13) Washington (4-12) Kansas…

There’s a common NFL Draft myth out there that goes, “Coach X is a defensive-minded guy. He’ll take a defensive player with his first-round pick.” This belief has been used countless times over the years. In 2007, some, including myself, believed Bill Parcells would take Chris Long over Jake Long because he’s a defensive coach….