Last year, John Fox and the Carolina Panthers selected Jimmy Clausen with the No. 48-overall pick in the 2010 draft. Last year, Clausen went out on the field and proved that all the teams that passed on him were right. He was terrible. So, this year, with a new regime in place down there, they [...]
Remember the 2010 NFL Draft? Remember how so many people thought that Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen was a good bet to go to the Washington Redskins at No. 4 overall? Well, that didn’t happen, and he slid all the way down to No. 16…in the second round. What makes matters worse for Clausen, is [...]
When we look around the NFL, it’s not hard to spot guys that just must be miserable. We don’t know for sure that they are, but they should be. We are talking about top talents that are on awful teams with no hope of going anywhere. Nnamdi Asomugha comes to mind in Oakland (yes, we [...]
Former Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen has signed a four-year deal with the Carolina Panthers today, according to ESPN‘s Adam Schefter. A league source tells PFT that his bonus is $2.533 million and the fourth year of his deal has an escalator of $2.85 million in 2013. This is probably a very different contract than [...]
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 [...]
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.
Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen is expected to be a pretty high pick in the upcoming NFL draft, even if someone people think he’s going to stink. And it doesn’t help that all last season he was battling a bum toe. MRI’s showed that he did the tendon damage against Michigan State and as of [...]
OTR was able to get a hold of a few Wonderlic scores for this year’s crop of quarterbacks. And when we say “get a hold of,” we mean they were posted online somewhere and we read them. Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford scored an impressive 36 out of 50 on the intelligence exam, according to an NFL [...]
One of the events at the Combine is measuring the hands of all the top quarterbacks. It’s a thrilling event and tends to separate the men from the boys. On Friday after the measuring, it was revealed that Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen had the smallest hands in the group at only nine inches. Sam [...]
NFL Network’s Charley Casserly is reporting that Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen won’t be 100% before the draft. Clausen recently had surgery on his right big toe, so he won’t be able to participate in a full workout consisting of running, cutting, and dropping back to pass. Ironically, these are three things Clausen isn’t really [...]
A league source tells Jason Reid of the Washington Post that Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan wants to use the fourth-overall pick on a young QB for him to develop. This means that he is thinking like everyone else in the 202 area code that Jason Campbell is not the answer. Photo Caption: “Wish I [...]
Mike Lombardi of the National Football Post says that former Cleveland Browns QB Bernie Kosar is going to interview former Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen on behalf of the Browns. Did anyone else see the ESPN 30-in-30 special on the University of Miami on Saturday night? Was anyone else embarrassed every time they cut to [...]
Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen has announced that he will skip his senior season and head into the 2010 NFL Draft. Teammate Golden Tate, who caught passes from Clausen for several years, said that he’s outtie 5000 too. “After the season, in talking to my parents and obviously Coach Weis, I just feel it’s the [...]
In yet another example of fans not keeping their crap together, Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen was punched in the face by an irate fan outside a bar in South Bend following a loss to UCONN, according to an ESPN source. South Bend police say that no reports were filed in this incident over the [...]