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NFL Mock Draft 4.0, by James Fedewa
The San Diego Chargers have many options they can go with for next months NFL Draft. As much as I’d really like wide reciever Cordarrelle Patterson as a Charger, San Diego may have to pass on his amazing running skills for a more important need in the first round.
Patterson can do most of his route running on short/quick routes, whereas Rivers doesn’t have to hold the ball to long and quick pass to him, helping the offensive line with quick blocking assignments. Plus Patterson can take direct snaps, run reverses, option-pass and special teams (and amazing kick/punt returner). He’s a type of wide receiver that MUST demand double coverage from opponents, not like any receiver on the current roster. Patterson is a top 7 to 15 talent in this upcoming draft and I have him MOCKED (projected) going to Buffalo (as the Bills can get a good QB prospect in the 2nd or 3rd round, like QB Ryan Nassib or QB Mike Glennon). Cordarrelle Patterson is a work in progress and needs some heavy coaching, but the way he can run is really fun to watch.
However, I think Eric Fisher could actually be available at #11 overall for San Diego to take. Here’s my latest MOCK DRAFT- (PLEASE RATE and share your thoughts):
2013 *NFL*Mock Draft* Scenario 4 (3/19/13)
2013 NFL Mock Draft | ||||
No. | Team | Player | ||
1 | Kansas City Chiefs |
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Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&M | |
2 | Jacksonville Jaguars |
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Sharrif Floyd, DT, Florida | |
3 | Oakland Raiders |
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Dion Jordan, DE, Oregon | |
4 | Philadelphia Eagles |
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Dee Milliner, CB, Alabama | |
5 | Detroit Lions |
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Jarvis Jones, DE/OLB, Georgia | |
6 | Cleveland Browns |
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Barkevious Mingo, OLB, LSU | |
7 | Arizona Cardinals |
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Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia | |
8 | Buffalo Bills |
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Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, Tennessee | |
9 | New York Jets |
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Ezekiel Ansah, DE, BYU | |
10 | Tennessee Titans |
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Sheldon Richardson, DT, Missouri | |
11 | San Diego Chargers |
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Eric Fisher, OT, Central Michigan | |
12 | Miami Dolphins |
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Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida Sate | |
13 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
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Bjoern Werner, DE, Florida State | |
14 | Carolina Panthers |
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Chance Warmack, OG, Alabama | |
15 | New Orleans Saints |
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Lane Johnson, OT, Oklahoma | |
16 | St. Louis Rams |
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Damontre Moore, DE/OLB, Texas A&M | |
17 | Pittsburgh Steelers |
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Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington | |
18 | Dallas Cowboys |
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Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas | |
19 | New York Giants |
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Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia | |
20 | Chicago Bears |
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Johnathan Cooper, OG, North Carolina | |
21 | Cincinnati Bengals |
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Johnthan Banks, CB, Mississippi State | |
22 | St. Louis Rams (from Redskins) |
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Keenan Allen, WR, CAL | |
23 | Minnesota Vikings |
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Tavon Austin, WR, West Virginia | |
24 | Indianapolis Colts |
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Star Lotulelei, NT, Utah | |
25 | Minnesota Vikings (from Seahawks) |
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Datone Jones, DE, UCLA | |
26 | Green Bay Packers |
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Matt Elam, SS, Florida | |
27 | Houston Texans |
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DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Clemson | |
28 | Denver Broncos |
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Sylvester Williams, DT, North Carolina | |
29 | New England Patriots |
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D.J. Fluker, OT, Alabama | |
30 | Atlanta Falcons |
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Tyler Eifert, TE, Notre Dame | |
31 | San Francisco 49ers |
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Jesse Williams, DT, Alabama | |
32 | Baltimore Ravens |
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Kevin Minter, ILB, LSU | |
2nd Round |
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Pick (overall) | Team |
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1 (33) | Jaguars |
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Sam Montgomery, OLB/DE, LSU | |
2 (34) | San Francisco 49ers (from Chiefs) |
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Margus Hunt, DE, SMU | |
3 (35) | Eagles |
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Kyle Long, OT, Oregon | |
4 (36) | Lions |
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Jamar Taylor, CB, Boise State | |
5 (37) | Bengals (from Raiders) |
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Eddie Lacy, RB, Alabama | |
6 (38) | Cardinals |
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Menelik Watson, OT, Florida State | |
7 | Browns |
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(exercised pick in Supplemental Draft) | |
8 (39) | Jets |
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Manti Te’o, ILB, Notre Dame | |
9 (40) | Titans |
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Jonathan Cyprien, S, Florida International | |
10 (41) | Bills |
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EJ Manual, QB Florida State | |
11 (42) | Dolphins |
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Zach Ertz, TE, Stanford | |
12 (43) | Buccaneers |
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Cornellius Carradine, DE/OLB, Florida State | |
13 (44) | Panthers |
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Logan Ryan, CB, Rutgers | |
14 | Saints |
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(forfeited) | |
15 (45) | Chargers |
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Alex Okafor, 34OLB/DE, Texas | |
16 (46) | Rams |
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Giovani Bernard, RB, North Carolina | |
17 (47) | Cowboys |
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Arthur Brown, LB, Kansas State | |
18 (48) | Steelers |
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Justin Hunter, WR, Tenn | |
19 (49) | Giants |
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Blidi Wreh-Wilson, CB, Connecticut | |
20 (50) | Bears |
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Robert Woods, WR, USC | |
21 (51) | Redskins |
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Kawann Short, DT, Purdue | |
22 (52) | Vikings |
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Jordan Poyer, CB, Oregon State | |
23 (53) | Bengals |
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Eric Reid, FS, LSU | |
24 (54) | Dolphins (from Colts) |
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Corey Lemonier, DE/OLB, Auburn | |
25 (55) | Packers |
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Travis Frederick, C, Wisconsin | |
26 (56) | Seahawks |
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Johnathan Hankins, DT, Ohio State | |
27 (57) | Texans |
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Matt Barkley, QB, USC | |
28 (58) | Broncos |
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Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State | |
29 (59) | Patriots |
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Khaseem Greene, OLB, Rutgers | |
30 (60) | Falcons |
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John Jenkins, DT, Georgia | |
31 (61) | 49ers |
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David Amerson, CB, North Carolina State | |
32 (62) | Ravens |
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Shamarko Thomas, SS, Syracuse |
Be Smart
The human brain, our intellect (or lack of), with “guesstimation decision-making” can dictate a personality. Stupidity, ignorance, charisma and social normalcy can vary within that personalty making someone believable or a somewhat of a joke. I guess whichever of these things controls you most, that makes you; YOU! Yet one fluctuation of these traits can make you look like a complete idiot regardless of how smart you really are…
POINT IS: BE SMART, shut up and listen!
2012 NFL Mock Draft “POINT” game
By James Fedewa 5/1/12
This is a mock-draft GAME played by “PROFESSIONAL DRAFNIK” sports writers with their respected 2012 mock drafts, giving POINTS to where you projected players/team to PICK NUMBER and what number that player actually was drafted (with NO baring of trades). So we can TOTAL up any mock draft, based on these given points to grade your predictions.
Using their “rules” my score was 81! Not too bad! (which could have been 10 points HIGHER if I didn’t change my mind at the last second and move Tannehill later in the mock)…
Here is the LINK and the rules:
http://backupquarterbackblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/grading-mock-drafters-peter-king-is.html
Last Monday’s post looked at 7 mock drafts published at the time. Most mock drafters change their picks as often as The Bachelorette, so the picks we saw three days before the draft only slightly resemble most of these drafters’ “final” mock drafts. But we happened to capture them at a point in time, and it’s that point in time that we’ll use in grading them.
As a reminder, we used 7 mock drafters: ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr. and Todd McShay, Peter King of Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports, Rob Rang of CBSSports.com, Evan Silva of ProFootballTalk.com, Charley Casserly of NFL Network, and some dude named Kash Money from MockingTheDraft.com. And we considered only the first 11 draft picks.
After the jump, our final rankings and where the mock drafters hit and missed. Also, you can see our ranking of how the teams drafted, 1 through 32, here.
First of all, there were so many trades this draft that we don’t even consider teams swapping spots. For these purposes, we only care about whether the drafter got the correct player in a given spot or, if he didn’t, whether his selection for that spot was close to where that player actually went.
A drafter got 10 points if his pick for a given slot was correct. If it wasn’t, he got 9 points if that player went 1 spot before or after, 8 points if he went 2 spots before or after, etc., etc., with a floor of 0 points if the player went 10 or more spots before or after the given pick. For example, Rob Rang had Fletcher Cox going sixth overall. Cox went 12th, so since Rang was 6 picks off, his score for that pick is 10-6 = 4.
Backup Quarterback Blog Mock Draft Rankings (based on mock drafts on 4/23/2012)
1. Peter King, 95 points
2. Evan Silva, 89 points
3. Rob Rang, 83 points
4. Mel Kiper, Jr., 82 points
T-5. Todd McShay, 81 points
T-5. Charley Casserly, 81 points
7. KashMoney, 80 pointsAs we discussed last week, there was a lot of commonality in the picks. Everyone nailed Luck (1), RG3 (2), and Tannehill (8), and everyone was one spot off on each of Trent Richardson, Matt Kalil, and Morris Claiborne.
Each of King’s remaining picks were within 3 spots of where the player actually went:
– Justin Blackmon (King picked him 6th, he went 5th)
– Stephon Gilmore (King picked him 7th, he went 10th)
– Fletcher Cox (King picked him 9th, he went 12th)
– Michael Floyd (King picked him 10th, he went 13th)
– Luke Kuechly, (King picked him 11th, he went 9th)Only Silva was remotely close to King, with each of his picks within 7 spots of the actual pick.
Kiper, McShay, Casserly, KashMoney, and Rang tied for worst pick of the mock drafts; the first 4 each had Riley Reiff going 10th to the Bills (Reiff went 23rd to the Lions), and Rang had David DeCastro going 11th to the Chiefs (DeCastro went 24th to the Steelers).
# | MOCK PLAYER | MY POINTS | ACTUAL PICK | ||
1 | Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford | 10 | Colts | Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford | QB |
2 | Robert Griffin III, QB, Baylor | 10 | Redskins | Robert Griffin III | QB |
3 | Trent Richardson, RB, Alabama | 10 | Browns | Trent Richardson | RB |
4 | Matt Kalil, OT, USC | 10 | Vikings | Matt Kalil | OT |
5 | Morris Claiborne, CB, LSU | 9 | Jaguars | Justin Blackmon | WR |
6 | Justin Blackmon, WR, Oklahoma St. | 9 | Cowboys | Morris Claiborne | CB |
7 | Stephon Gilmore, CB, South Carolina | 7 | Buccaneers | Mark Barron | SS |
8 | Fletcher Cox, DT, Mississippi St. | 6 | Dolphins | Ryan Tannehill | QB |
9 | Melvin Ingram, DE, South Carolina | 1 | Panthers | Luke Kuechly | ILB |
10 | Luke Kuechly, LB, Boston College | 9 | Bills | Stephon Gilmore | CB |
11 | Riley Reiff, OT, Iowa | 0 | Chiefs | Dontari Poe | D |
81 |