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2010 NFL Draft E-mails – Draft Prospect Ranking Updates
Why haven’t you updated your 2010 NFL Draft Prospect Rankings lately?
–> I’ve been so insanely busy all season. Aside from watching every NFL game, I’ve spent a lot of time on my NFL Picks, Fantasy Rankings and Injury Reports, NFL Game Recaps, NFL Power Rankings, Jerks of the Week, Emmitt on the Brink, weekly NFL Mock Draft updates. I’ve also delegated some time to proof reading and posting the great material Matt McGuire, David Kay and Paul Banks send over.
Now that the NFL regular season is just about finished, expect much more frequent NFL Draft Prospect Ranking updates – and not just for 2010. There will also be more 2010 and 2011 NFL Mock Draft updates. I’ll have the usual as well – 2010 NFL Free Agency lists and 2010 NFL Offseason Needs. And on top of that, expect NFL Draft Re-Grades (2006, 2007) and Re-Mocks from 2003 to 2007.
With that in mind, I’m really going to have to figure something out for next year. I don’t want the 2010 season to have as many lapses in my NFL Draft Prospect Ranking updates as this one did. I apologize for being behind.
First and foremost, I have to yield that I wasn’t a fan of the Lions drafting Matthew Stafford No. 1. However, his play has assured me that he can develop into a franchise QB. I mentioned that to say this, the Lions wouldn’t have won a game this year if it wasn’t for him. So Rams fans, as good as your defensive line could be with Ndamukong, it won’t help if you lose games 17 to 10 with Marc Bulger, Kyle Boller, or Keith Null as QB.
Back to the Detroit Lions, I ask you, would it be wise for the Lions to continue to ignore their horrific defense and pass on a talent like Ndamukong Suh to build the offense in favor of Russell Okung?
–> Great statement for Rams fans. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
If I were in charge, I would definitely take Russell Okung. I believe that you can win consistently in the NFL by doing three things in this order: Getting a franchise quarterback, protecting that quarterback and getting to the other quarterback. The Lions did the first thing by taking Stafford. Now they need a left tackle. Once they do that, they can build in the trenches. In Round 2, I’d look at someone like Brian Price, Greg Romeus, etc.
You guys should really do homework, prior to saying bonehead things like Lions should have taken Michael Oher. He Plays RIGHT TACKLE. We drafted a RT the year before Stafford.
The new lions regime has this thing about drafting morons. Oher couldn�t prolly spell his own name. I totally support the Pettigrew pick. Obviously you don�t watch him play much, because the Ravens and Lions play in the same time zone and your too busy watching Oher. The Red Flag was prolly Up on the draft board, Oher is not a very smart dude and he played the worse game any player could of played last year in his bowl game, he jumped offsides 3 plays in a row… OK Oher… on 3… duhhhhhh I thought it was 2!!
–> Michael Oher has played several games at left tackle this year and has done exceptionally well there. The only reason he’s at right tackle is because of Jared Gaither.
You’re falling into the same trap that befell the Lions and Bills. They judged Oher on his past and not on what he is now. He’s easily the Offensive Rookie of the Year. And you wonder why teams like the Lions and Bills lose year after year, while the Ravens and Giants (William Beatty) always field a winning team. It’s no coincidence.
The Lions and Bills simply don’t know how to put a good team together. Other than a quarterback, the left tackle position is the most important in football. No tight end – not even Antonio Gates or Tony Gonzalez – is worth even close to the value of a franchise left tackle.
A recent ESPN sportsnation poll had 80% of people voting that Colt McCoy would go in the 1st round and 38% actually said early 1st round, and another 24% percent said mid-first round.
I always got the impression that McCoy was nothing more than a 3rd-round prospect with Trent Edwards-esque upside and just assumed that most of sportsnation agreed with me since so many NFL mock drafts I’ve read don’t even include McCoy in the 1st round.
Is this just stupid sports fans being stupid sports fans or could NFL GMs actually take a chance on him in the 1st round given all of the quarterbacks that weren’t actually that good that have gone in the first round in recent years?
–> I guess 80 percent of the people don’t know what they’re talking about.
Colt McCoy is like a version of Kyle Orton who can’t make reads. Orton is physically untalented, but he’s smart and knows what the defenses are doing. McCoy doesn’t read defenses in college. If McCoy were available to me in the sixth round, I wouldn’t take him.
Having said that, the NFL is littered with dumb GMs. Someone will overdraft him – but not in the first round.
I can’t see Bradford going to the Browns; mainly because Mike Holmgren will install a West Coast Offense, either with his new head coach or with his offensive coordinator that Eric Mangini will be forced to take (not like Mangina has any leverage since he is hanging on by a thread).
Now they could trade up and draft Clausen, but they have so many holes on bboth sides of the ball. Hopefully, they’ll play it safe and draft Berry, since they are so desperate for playmakers and speed on defense, but Holmgren is an offensive-minded person.
–> The Browns need a franchise quarterback. If they think Bradford’s shoulder is OK, they will take him if he’s available. There’s no question about that. To win successfully in the NFL on a consistent basis, you need a franchise quarterback. When’s the last time a safety carried a team to a Super Bowl victory?
The Browns are the only AFC North team without a franchise QB, and it’s no coincidence that they’re almost always dead last.
2011 NFL Draft Mailbag Archive:
2011 NFL Draft Mailbag Home
Post-Round 1 E-mail - April 29
Hate Mail Volume 7 - April 10
Crackhead Mail Volume 2 - April 10
Random AFC Questions and Comments Volume 5 - April 10
Random NFC Questions and Comments Volume 5 - April 10
Hate Mail Volume 6 - April 3
Crackhead Mail - April 3
Trade and Prospect Speculation - April 3
Hate Mail Volume 5 - March 28
Cam Newton Mailbag - March 28
Random AFC Questions and Comments Volume 4 - March 28
Random NFC Questions and Comments Volume 4 - March 28
Hate Mail Volume 4 - March 13
Random AFC Questions and Comments Volume 3 - March 13
Random NFC Questions and Comments Volume 3 - March 13
Random Questions and Comments - March 7
Hate Mail Volume 3 - March 7
Combine Questions and Comments - March 7
Combine Hate Mail - March 7
Hate Mail Volume 2 - Feb. 22
Random AFC Questions and Comments Volume 2 - Feb. 22
Random NFC Questions and Comments Volume 2 - Feb. 22
Quarterbacks - Feb. 15
Hate Mail - Feb. 15
Random AFC Questions and Comments - Feb. 15
Random NFC Questions and Comments - Feb. 15
NFL Picks - Dec. 11
2025 NFL Mock Draft - Dec. 11
NFL Power Rankings - Dec. 9
2026 NFL Mock Draft - Nov. 29
Fantasy Football Rankings - Sept. 4
