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2012 NFL Draft Grades for First Round
by Robert Ferringo - 4/27/2012

Well, the 2012 NFL Draft results are less than 24 hours old so you know what that means: time for some instant analysis! The picks were flying fast and furious Thursday night in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft and teams were efficient and decisive. However, that doesn’t mean that everyone made wise decisions with their selections and there was still plenty of controversy to go around.
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NFL Draft Analysis: Six Reasons Robert Griffin III Will Be A Bust
by Robert Ferringo - 4/25/2012

Washington’s trade has the potential to go down as one of the worst in NFL draft history. I firmly believe that there have maybe been a half-dozen players in NFL history that would’ve been worth that many premium picks coming straight out of college. And there is absolutely no guarantee that Griffin will find his way onto that short list. In fact, the odds are pretty overwhelming that he will end up as a bust at worst or an underachiever at least.
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NFL Draft Analysis: Five Reasons Andrew Luck Will Be A Bust
by Robert Ferringo - 4/25/2012

For about eight months now we, the football-loving public, have had the idea that Andrew Luck is an absolute can’t miss stud prospect and the Next Big Thing crammed down our throats. Well, I’m not buying it. I have been thinking of reasons why he is closer to becoming the next Tim Couch than he is to become the next Peyton Manning. And they aren’t all that unreasonable or that difficult to come up with.
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2012 NFL Mock Draft
by Robert Ferringo - 4/25/2012

The 2012 NFL draft will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City beginning with the first round on Thursday, April 26 and concluding on Saturday, April 28. There will be trades, inexplicable reaches, and plenty of airtime to fill by the networks. But when all is said and done there will be 32 selections in the first round on Thursday, 32 more for the second round on Friday, and then the rest of the selections through Saturday as the future of the league begins to form.
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2012 NFL Draft Props and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/24/2012

We know exactly two things, and probably only two, about the 2012 NFL draft, which begins on Thursday night. But outside of those two certainties the draft should be a wild one and full of surprises, with the real fun beginning at No. 3 with the Minnesota Vikings.
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2012 NFL Mock Draft
by Robert Ferringo - 3/28/2012

The 2012 NFL Draft will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City beginning with the first round on Thursday, April 26, and concluding on Saturday, April 28. The last month has had plenty of stunning events and there is still plenty of time left for more moving and shaking over the next month. But the predictions below are based on how I see the football landscape today and we’ll roll with any changes as they happen.
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NFL Draft Predictions: Late-Round Sleeper Projections
by Trevor Whenham - 3/21/2012

This week we have seen Matt Flynn become a reasonably rich man after signing with the Seahawks. He was only a seventh-round draft pick, and is the latest to prove that good things can come from the later rounds of the draft. Every time the Patriots are on TV we are reminded a dozen times by the commentators that the best quarterback in football was a sixth-round pick. Brady is a unique case, but every year there are several guys drafted well after the spotlights have been turned off that go on to be very valuable members of their teams.
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2012 NFL Draft: Top Defensive Players on the Board
by Trevor Whenham - 3/20/2012

Today’s task is simple — let’s look at my ranking of the top five defensive players in the upcoming NFL Draft. Before I get to the five players that are on this list, though, I want to talk about three who aren’t. On many boards they would be, but all make me nervous. Melvin Ingram has had durability issues, he’s slightly undersized, and I’m not convinced he’s as fast as can be.
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2012 NFL Draft Predictions: Players Who Will Surprise
by Trevor Whenham - 3/7/2012

The first-round guys in the NFL Draft are the ones that get the bulk of the attention. They were the stars in college, they are freakish physical specimens, and their talent and big contracts mean that they will get every chance to contribute right away. Often times, though, there are guys who go off the board on the second or third day of the draft that end up being every bit as valuable and impressive as the best of the first-rounders.
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2012 NFL Draft Analysis: Players with Character Issues
by Trevor Whenham - 3/7/2012

Every year in the NFL Draft there are players who have been branded as having the dreaded ‘character issues’. When those players are talented and otherwise worthy of a first-round selection teams are faced with a real challenge. Is the player worthy of a gamble, or are their issues too much for them to overcome? With the overwhelming success of Cam Newton last year despite all the baggage he carried it’s going to be hard for teams to give up on a player even if he has some real issues.
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2012 NFL Draft Projections: Potential First-Round Disappointments
by Trevor Whenham - 3/2/2012

Teams invest their hopes and dreams, and a whole lot of money, in their first-round draft picks every year. Some guys are stars right away. Some guys grow into that role. Each year, though, there are a lot of guys that just don’t wind up contributing at the level expected of a first rounder.
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2012 NFL Draft Prospects: Immediate Contributors
by Trevor Whenham - 3/2/2012

NFL teams would love to pick a player in the NFL Draft that changes their team for years to come. That kind of player is incredibly rare, though — there isn’t necessarily even one in every draft class. Most teams, then, would settle for players who can contribute at a high level immediately.
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2012 NFL Mock Draft
by Robert Ferringo - 2/9/2012

Hey, Giants fan, the rest of the NFL outside of New England (and probably Philly and Dallas) was happy for you for winning the Super Bowl. For about 12 seconds. But now the 2011 season is in the books and it is officially the start of the 2012 NFL betting season. And whether it is a new wave of Super Bowl futures odds or a brand-spanking new NFL mock draft, the rest of the football world is moving on and looking forward to next season and our own shot at a trip to Disney Land.
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