The best thing about the NFL Draft is that it's so big and important and well covered that everyone can have an opinion. It doesn't matter if you have seen players work out or even play. It just matters that you have an opinon and you can passionately defend it. It provides endless fodder for conversation and debate. In the spirit of having opinions, here are four predictions about the 2010 NFL Draft, which will take place over three days this year from April 22-24.

The Rams will pick Sam Bradford first overall - St. Louis is in a situation where it will be very hard for them to screw this draft up. They have virtually endless needs, and are atop a good, deep draft, so it's hard to imagine them making a bad pick.

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Their two biggest needs also happen to be the two best availabilities - a franchise quarterback to take the reins from Marc Bulger, and an interior defensive line presence to plug the holes against the run and provide some pressure on the quarterbacks. Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy both have the potential and the measurables to be once in a generation type of special players. They don't seem to have a lot of risk involved in picking them - at least compared to some high draft picks. You couldn't fault either pick, but I still think they'll go with Bradford.

For one thing, Bradford is an exceptionally good quarterback - he's smart, he was quickly successful when thrown to the wolves in his first season at Oklahoma, he has a solid arm, and he just looks like a guy who will succeed. There's a bigger advantage than just what he can do, though. There's an expectation among fans and the media that a quarterback is going to take some time to adjust and find his game. There's less sympathy for other players in other positions. The management and coaching staff in St. Louis knows that they are facing a major rebuilding task, but are smart enough to realize that they are a long way from respectability. Drafting Bradford will buy them more time and more flexibility to do what needs to be done than Suh or McCoy will.

DTs will outnumber OTs - The last couple of years, and especially 2008, have been the drafts of the left tackle. The classes were very deep in that crucial position, and teams filled their need. Teams still need to protect their quarterbacks, so left tackles are still in high demand, and there is some quality in this class.

More than the last couple of years, though, this is the draft of the defensive tackle. McCoy and Suh will both be off the board in the first three picks, but they are far from alone. There are five or six guys that have first round grades, and a couple more that teams could stretch for if they felt inclined. There are almost as many offensive tackles that could go in the first. The NFL seems to move in trends, though, and the trend this year seems to be for DTs. I think we'll see one or two more big men on defense than offense.

There won't be a shocker like Darrius Heyward-Bey - Last year, Heyward-Bey came off the board as the first receiver in one of the biggest draft shocks of all time. Michael Crabtree seemed like a total lock to be first receiver drafted. He was a freakish talent, and seemed close to a sure thing. Heyward-Bey had been brilliant at the Combine, but his numbers on the field didn't measure up to his performance in the drills, and he was seen as the fourth best choice behind Maclin and Harvin on a lot of boards. The Raiders took a serious flyer on him for some inconceivable reason, and it has turned into a disaster. His numbers paled in comparison to what Crabtree did, and Crabtree held out for a long time.

This year there isn't going to be an unexpected shocker like that coming off the board in the first round. The Raiders are one of the few teams crazy enough to make picks like that, and they have learned from what happened last time. Other teams aren't going to be as likely to make a reach like that partly because of what happened in Oakland, and partly because the financial uncertainty the league faces makes a gamble less attractive.

There will be three first round QBs - Bradford is a given, and Jimmy Clausen, to the detriment of the team that picks him in my eyes, is also unlikely to make it beyond the top 10. Those two are first round locks, but the third is less certain. That third quarterback has been, by the numbers, Colt McCoy for much of the draft process. No one expects McCoy to be a first rounder. There has been an interesting wrench thrown into things lately, though. Tim Tebow has reworked his throwing motion and got rave reviews at his pro day. It still seems inconceivable to me that the guy would move into the first round based on that workout - his grade before that pro day was well away from a first round level.

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There is a report, though, that Tebow has been invited to attend the draft. The NFL doesn't invite a lot of players, and doesn't like to embarrass the ones that it does invite, so it seems unlikely that he would be invited if he weren't fairly certain of going in round one.