We understand why there is a Combine for the NFL. NFL teams need to get a good look at these guy so they don’t go drafting one-eyed receivers like Wesley Walker and not find out about him having one eye until after they took him (turns out it didn’t matter, he was really good). But, [...]
The Washington Redskins haven’t had a decent quarterback since…well, Brad Johnson? Hell, even when they were winning Super Bowls years ago it was with the likes of Doug Williams and Mark Rypien. Hardly Hall of Famers. So, it comes as no shock that they would be looking at an upgrade at QB after telling us [...]
In case you didn’t notice, and judging by the ratings you didn’t, the NBA draft lottery was met with some controversy on Tuesday night after the Cleveland Cavaliers miraculously ended up with the No. 1- and No. 4-overall picks in this year’s draft. Some have chirped that the lottery is fixed, but most of those [...]
Every year before the NFL draft, there is tons of speculation about this player and that player and whose stock is rising, whose is falling and what players have been erased off of teams’ draft boards completely. And as far as that last point, there are rumors that some teams have wiped Colorado CB Jimmy [...]
One of the biggest topics of this year’s NFL Draft (besides, you know, will these guys even have a rookie season?) has been the knee of Clemson DE Da’Quan Bowers. At one point a few months ago, some had him projected to go No. 1 overall. There has been absolutely none of that talk recently. [...]
In the last couple of months, there have been rumors speculating that Auburn DT Nick Fairley was slipping. He took plays off and has maturity issues. Alabama DT Marcell Dareus is the better pro prospect. Or is that just a bunch of nonsense? According to Sporting News writer Russ Lande, Fairley is still the better [...]
If Stanford QB Andrew Luck is as smart as we associate Stanford student athletes with being, he’ll make one more pass. He’ll pass up the opportunity to return for another season as QB of the Cardinal. Yeah, yeah, yeah…he should go to school, get his degree and sit in a cubicle earning 50k a year. [...]
And so it starts. Underclassmen have until January 15th to declare their eligibility for the 2011 draft, and it’s already starting. University of Maryland wide receiver Torrey Smith has announced on his Twitter page that he’s done with the NCAA and is going to head to the NFL. “I’m forgoing my last year of eligibility [...]
Before the NFL draft, then Oklahoma State WR Dez Bryant was getting upset at some of the questions that he was being asked by teams in their interviews. We broke his balls a little bit, but the bottom line is that the Dallas Cowboys first-round pick had a point. Some of these questions were just [...]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have gotten a stud defensive tackle for the next ten years when they took Gerald McCoy No. 3-overall. Or, he could be a total bust. Or, he could be somewhere in between. No one knows for sure. But what Tampa GM Mark Dominik says he knows, is that even if [...]
The Atlanta Falcons selected DE Jamaal Anderson with the #8-overall pick back in 2007 out of Arkansas. He was expected to be beast for the Falcons, but now it seems that he’s viewed as much as a defensive tackle as he is an end. This usually means you weren’t kicking a lot of rear end [...]
According to Manish Mehta of NJ.com, the New York Jets have released all-world (he was at some point anyway) guard Alan Faneca. There had been rumors that he was being shopped, but apparently they don’t care about what they get for him at all. With no salary cap right now, there are no cap consequences. [...]
A source tells Adam Caplan of Scout.com that second-round pick Vladimir Ducasse will be a guard with the New York Jets. Ducasse was a tackle at UMass, but the Jets obviously would like to utilize his abilities on the interior of the line. “U r on to something. Source said Ducasse to play guard. RT [...]
This is odd. The Kansas City Chiefs will be treating former Ole Miss RB Dexter McCluster as a wide receiver, according to Kent Babb of the Kansas City Star. “FYI: The Chiefs will officially list McCluster as a wide receiver,” Babb tweets. Wow. Ever see any film on McCluster? This kid is a speedy little [...]
Some of more astute readers know that USC safety Taylor Mays was once coached by former USC coach Pete Carroll. And some of our really sharp readers know that Pete Carroll is now the head coach of a Seattle Seahawks team that drafted a safety in the first round on Thursday. Knowing these things makes [...]
Former University of Texas star QB Colt McCoy saw his free fall finally end. Considered one of the top QB prospects in the draft, McCoy slid past the first round (pretty much expected) and then out of the second round (maybe expected) and fell past team after team that needed a QB. Finally, the Browns [...]
OTR spoke to a source with knowledge of the Giants draft strategy that said they were very high on DE Brandon Graham, who the Philadelphia Eagles ultimately moved up to select. We’ll never know how high for sure, because the Eagles moved up and didn’t give the Giants the chance to select him. And in [...]
Former Oklahoma State WR Dez Bryant has some red flags around the NFL when it comes to his work habits and off-the-field issues. Projected to be a first-round pick, Bryant popped off a few weeks ago at his critics. Now, he’s trying one last time to hurt his draft stock by showing that he could [...]
OTR is proud to say we have had one of our most successful months as a blog and we wanted to reward our readers with one final NFL mock draft. It may not be as good as our first or as accurate as our second, but you better believe it will provide you with the [...]
Ian Rapport of the Boston Herald points out that Missouri LB Sean Weatherspoon is a top prospect who is supposed to go in the first round of this year’s NFL draft. But as Nolan Nawrocki of Pro Football Weekly tells Rapport, it could be buyer beware with Weatherspoon. “[H]e never shuts his mouth,” Nawrocki says. [...]
OTR was rattled last Sunday when Donovan McNabb was traded to the Washington Redskins. Not because the former Eagles quarterback was traded within the division, but months of research, scouting, combine visits, and OTR conference calls seemed to have gone down the drain. In our first mock draft of the season we had the ‘Skins [...]
Here at OTR, we take a deeper look into the world of sports. As such, you can be sure that our 2010 NFL mock draft isn’t just a mock draft, but a sure thing of what is to come in late April. We have yet to miss a pick and you can be absolutely certain [...]
ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay has raised numerous questions about Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen’s leadership abilities and maturity. While we have no way of knowing for sure, other draft analysts such as Mel Kiper, Jr. have disagreed with that assessment and think he’ll be just fine at the NFL level.
If anyone else said this or wrote this, we’d probably ignore it. But when it comes to having insider information ESPN’s Adam Schefter is about as good as they get. FOX’s Jay Glazer is up there as well. So when Schefter tells a St. Louis radio station that we need to believe it, that the [...]
The University of Illinois announced on Wednesday the decision of WR Arrelious Benn to declare for the 2010 NFL Draft. Benn says that is has been a “lifelong dream” to play in the NFL. He is expected to be the top WR in the draft, but who knows where he’ll actually be selected. We guess [...]
