2017 Draft: What's in a name?

Pants

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What’s in a name? Plenty in the 2017 NFL Draft. In looking over my own spreadsheet with 299 names on it, some of the trends I am seeing.

· Multiples you ask? There are 8 Jones, 6 Williams, 5 each of Browns, Davis’ and Johnson’s, 4 Taylor’s, and 3 each of Evan’s, Walkers, White’s and Wilson’s

· Feeling Presidential? We have the following covered: Adams, Jackson, Grover (yeah, I know, a first name for Stewart but how many Grover’s do you know?) Wilson, Johnson, Ford, McKinley, Taylor

· Illegal entries? I don’t think so unless you think OJ (Howard) will “cut” thru defenses or if Bolles and Boulware have names that would be REALLY tempting for a guy like Gregory

· Color Blind? Ask the 5 Browns or 3 White’s

· It is fast approaching Easter which makes me feel religious and that is good with the likes of Christian (McCaffery), Budda (Baker), Noah (Brown), Godchaux (Davon) being around

· Fans of comics? We have a Calvin (Munson) & Dobbs (Josh)

· No War Daddy for us, but how about a Mama (Damien)

· Gotta eat, right? You a Hunter (Dimick)? No? Can’t catch a Fish (Smithson) without a Wormley (Chris), but you can always have a Taco (Charlton), perhaps you can Sprinkle (Jeremy) a little Peppers (Jabrill) on that

· Oh, and for every Hooker (Malik), there are 5 Johns(ons) (too much?)

What the Heck (Jon), when it is all said and done, may the force be with you Obi (Melifonwu) Wan and remember, there is only one player that is Myles (Garrett) ahead of the rest, as far as being the consensus #1.

Here are my Top 12....this based on using a bunch of other mocks and scoring everything; then taking the opinions of many of the NFL pundits out there to tweak it...more to come

Rank PROFILE PLAYER Off/ Def O/D Rank POS Pos Rank Func Func Rank TEAM Height Wght
1 MG Garrett, Myles DEF 1 DE 1 Dline 1 Texas A&M 6' 3" 264
2 ST Thomas, Solomon DEF 2 DE 2 Dline 2 Stanford 6' 3" 227
3 JA Allen, Jonathan DEF 3 DT 1 Dline 3 Alabama 6' 2" 205
4 ML Lattimore, Marshon DEF 4 CB 1 2ndry 1 Ohio State 6' 4" 245
5 JA Adams, Jamal DEF 5 S 1 2ndry 2 LSU 6' 0" 205
6 MH Hooker, Malik DEF 6 S 2 2ndry 3 Ohio State 6' 1" 187
7 LF Fournette, Leonard OFF 1 RB 1 Skill 1 LSU 6' 1" 331
8 OJH Howard, OJ OFF 2 TE 1 Skill 2 Alabama 5' 9" 170
9 DB Barnett, Derek DEF 7 DE 3 Dline 4 Tennessee 5' 8" 181
10 RF Foster, Reuben DEF 8 ILB 1 LB 1 Alabama 6' 0" 190
11 MT Trubisky, Mitch OFF 3 QB 1 QB 1 UNC 5' 11" 180
12 MW Williams, Mike OFF 4 WR 1 Skill 3 Clemson 6' 3" 225
 

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This sounds like something Norm would do during the drafts when I would listen a few years ago.

Good Job
 

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Not bad. Sometimes you know guys will be stars just based on their name. Like DeMarcus Ware, I didn't know much about him from college at the time we drafted him but you knew a guy with that type of name wasn't gonna be a JAG.
 

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of course, there is a guy with a first name of "corn" that I missed :rolleyes:
 
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