Every year, the NFL draft provides a springboard for some teams while others simply fall flat on their faces. It’s nice to talk about which teams made the biggest leaps forward, but it’s a lot more fun to talk about teams that stumbled right before the jump, causing them to wipe out in an epic […]

Back to school, here are some draft grades from the AFC East. Buffalo Bills: B+ The Bills did a good job of marrying need and BPA with their first pick. Gilmore stormed up the draft board a couple of weeks before the draft being rumored to the Jags or Bucs but once he fell to […]

The Cleveland Browns turned some heads during the NFL draft, especially in the first round. Some of their critics think they’ve taken a big step in the right direction while others think they buried themselves for years to come with another poor draft. The Browns’ draft class is centered around their first round selections of […]

For only the fifth time in NFL history, quarterbacks were selected with the first two picks of last night’s draft. And as a result of the hype surrounding Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, the draft’s next-best quarterbacks, Ryan Tannehill from Texas A&M and Brandon Weeden from Oklahoma State, saw their respective stocks rise artificially. […]

Earlier today, I wrote about the teams I thought were winners in the opening round of the draft. Now, it’s time to look at the big losers from the first day of the draft. As with the winners, the list is in order of when the teams made their picks. With that, let’s jump right […]

If the first round of the 2012 NFL draft felt a little different than usual, it’s not because you stopped taking your medication. Well, that could be a factor, too, but this year’s draft was truly and remarkably unique because teams were jumping around more than ever.  Seriously. Ever. And it’s not even close. Prior […]

The perception of winners and losers on draft day is tough to call, rather impossible actually, but that won’t stop me from making an attempt. Because there’s no way of knowing whether specific players will pan out or become huge busts, I’ll speak in terms of popular beliefs and perceptions from both the team executives […]

The NFL is always looking for ways to increase the entertainment value of its events, and last night’s first round of the draft was no different. It’s funny, though, because while Thursday’s opening round was chock-full of drama, the suspense of the evening had nothing to do with the league’s latest effort to add intrigue […]