3 round mock

[HoosierCat]

You want a high motor over-achiever? Look no further than Jesse Maholena.

...or Justin Smith. Another high motor overachiever who's been solid...but unspectacular. You can find examples both ways. My point is just that I tend to pay more attention to how a guy's ranked early vs. late, because 99% of what goes on between the end of Bowl Season and draft is so much draft hype PR BS. It's fun to track...one reason why I was happy to volunteer to be the guy tracking all the mocks around the net...but I'd rather see the Bengals take a guy like Wright vs. Joe Schmozvich, DT, Nowhere State, who suddenly jumps from the 4th into the 1st becasue he benched 2,000 lbs. at the combine.

[HairOnFire]

My point is just that I tend to pay more attention to how a guy's ranked early vs. late, because 99% of what goes on between the end of Bowl Season and draft is so much draft hype PR BS.

Go figure. My take is that almost everything written about the draft right now is incredibly wrong, and the most accurate draft projections are the ones you hear about only in the 11th hour.

No kidding. It's why I haven't picked one favorite player to pimp. Instead, at times like these I'm all about adding as many players to my short list as possible. In short, BingBangBoom needs company in case he isn't as highly thought of as early rankings implied.

Yup, at this point I'm all about "inclusion" and it'll be that way until the combines have come and gone and the last phenom has had his pro day. Only then will I put on my pimp hat and shoes.

BTW, I have a nasty suspicion that some teams war rooms are the heavily guarded sealed environments that we are led to believe and occasionally a beat writer will be granted a pre D-Day glimpse so that they can be better prepared for the draft day bombshell that is sure to go off when the team drafts a player that my Sporting News Draft Guide implies is going three rounds earlier than he should.

[HoosierCat]

My point is just that I tend to pay more attention to how a guy's ranked early vs. late, because 99% of what goes on between the end of Bowl Season and draft is so much draft hype PR BS.

Go figure. My take is that almost everything written about the draft right now is incredibly wrong, and the most accurate draft projections are the ones you hear about only in the 11th hour.

Oh, I agree. I didn't say that the draft projections from right now would be any more accurate. But that's my point: a great deal will change between now and late April, all of it based on workouts and hype and measureables, i.e. stuff that happens off the actual playing field. I simply tend to count how the players actually performed for more than how fast they run the 40 at the combine.