Official 2014 NFL Draft Discussion Thread

[TopekaRoy]

2014 NFL Draft

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Scout.com's top 32 draft prospects:

Player	Pos.	School	Grade
1. Jadeveon Clowney*	DE	S Carolina	98
2. Greg Robinson	OT	Auburn	97
3. Khalil Mack	OLB	Buffalo	96
4. Sammy Watkins*	WR	Clemson	96
5. Jake Matthews	OT	Texas A&M	95
6. Aaron Donald	DT	Pittsburgh	94
7. Mike Evans*	WR	Texas A&M	94
8. Taylor Lewan	OT	Michigan	94
9. Zack Martin	OT	Notre Dame	93
10. O. Beckham Jr.*	WR	LSU	93
11. Eric Ebron*	TE	N Carolina	92
12. Darqueze Dennard	CB	Michigan St	92
13. H. Clinton-Dix*	S	Alabama	92
14. C.J. Mosley	ILB	Alabama	92
15. Kyle Fuller	CB	Virginia Tech	92
16. Morgan Moses	OT	Virginia	92
17. Ryan Shazier	OLB	Ohio State	92
18. Blake Bortles*	QB	UCF	91
19. Brandin Cooks*	WR	Oregon St	91
20. Justin Gilbert	CB	Oklahoma St	91
21. Calvin Pryor*	S	Louisville	91
22. Johnny Manziel*	QB	Texas A&M	90
23. Jason Verrett	CB	TCU	90
24. Marqise Lee*	WR	USC	90
25. Anthony Barr	OLB	UCLA	90
26. Bradley Roby*	CB	Ohio State	89
27. Stephon Tuitt	DE	Notre Dame	89
28. T. Bridgewater*	QB	Louisville	89
29. Dee Ford	DE	Auburn	89
30. J. Attaochu	OLB	Georgia Tech	89
31. Joel Bitonio	OT	Nevada	89
32. Cyrus Kouandjio	OT	Alabama	88

Notes: The NFL has reduced the amount of time to make each pick in the first round from 15 minutes to 10.
This year, the prospective draftees are permitted to select their own "Walk up" music. That should be interesting!

The Houston Texans are on the clock.

Discuss...

[brdempsey69]

Thanks, TopekaRoy. I'll start with some pre-draft speculation that I've been reading & that's the top 5 WR's may be off the board by the time the Chiefs pick at #23. If that happens, then I suspect the Chiefs could be furiously trying to trade down.

[TopekaRoy]

It looks like there will be a lot of teams looking to trade back in this draft. That could make it harder for the Chiefs to find a willing partner or force them to settle for less in return.

What if nobody wanted to trade up or nobody wanted, say, picks 4 through 9? That could get weird!

[brdempsey69]

Regardless of what happens with the top draft pick, the Chiefs have got to hit on those choices in rounds 3 through 6. This is what catapulted Seattle into SB contention -- hitting on those mid-to-late round choices, consistently.

[brdempsey69]

It figures. There's already talk of the Falcons trying to trade out of the #6 spot and seemingly trying to avoid taking one of the top 3 Tackles and you know that Pioli is leading the charge. All the pundits have been saying the Falcons need to take one of the top 3 Tackles to bolster Matt Ryan's protection & for obvious reason. Ryan got sacked 44 times and hit somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 times. If the Falcons pass on one of those Tackles, I wouldn't blame Matt Ryan for sending Pioli a personal message saying "Thanks, prick". What a mindless idiot the Falcons are stuck with in Pioli.

By contrast, Andy Reid just stated that Eric Fisher is working like a maddog to get ready for the upcoming season and you can bet Alex Smith is happy about that. Although Fisher has lots of room for improvement, I'm still glad the Chiefs took him.

[TopekaRoy]

it sounds like Rich Eisen has a crush on Johnny Football.

[brdempsey69]

Clowney at #1 to Houston as projected. Talent is there, but he has to learn to bring it 100% every time. I thought Lewan handled him pretty well in the Bowl game over a year ago.

Rams up next.

[TopekaRoy]

the Texans take Clowney. No surprise there.

Rams are on the clock.

[TopekaRoy]

It looks like everyone is going to take the full 10 minutes hoping to trade back, but nobody is biting.

[TopekaRoy]

Scout.com has 4 OT in the top 10. That makes the Brandon Albert signing luck REALLY dumb!