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The natural response to my blog post listing some potential surprise top ten picks earlier this week is to inquire who might be the highly-rated players most likely to drop into the mid-first round?
There seems to be four players almost certain to hear their name called in the first ten picks on Thursday night, April 28th at Radio City Music Hall: LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson, Auburn quarterback Cam Newton (though some still can't admit it), Texas A&M linebacker Von Miller, and Alabama DL Marcell Dareus.
The large drop in value at wide receiver after Georgia's A.J. Green and Alabama's Julio Jones makes it very likely to be called to the Radio City stage in the top third of the first round.
That leaves four spots up for grabs in the coveted top ten. One or two of these five players will land there, but unfortunately, at least one will not. They are listed in order of least likely to stay in the top ten.
1. Clemson DE Da'Quan Bowers
If new Denver Broncos head coach John Fox is convinced by General Manager Brian Xanders, VP/Football Operations John Elway, or team doctors that Bowers is not the next Julius Peppers, then Bowers could be this year's version of Derrick Morgan.
Like Bowers, Morgan was the ACC Defensive Players of the Year in his junior season but fell to Tennessee with the 16th overall pick in the draft because he lacks great explosiveness as a pass rusher. Bowers was already hearing that talk before his knee injury forced him to put off working out until his private pro day April 1st.
A strong campus workout could help Bowers stay in the top ten, but enough teams could have concerns about his knee that he may fall to Minnesota at #12 or Jacksonville at #16 (again, mirroring Morgan's fall).
http://rob-rang.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/13682485/27857124
There seems to be four players almost certain to hear their name called in the first ten picks on Thursday night, April 28th at Radio City Music Hall: LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson, Auburn quarterback Cam Newton (though some still can't admit it), Texas A&M linebacker Von Miller, and Alabama DL Marcell Dareus.
The large drop in value at wide receiver after Georgia's A.J. Green and Alabama's Julio Jones makes it very likely to be called to the Radio City stage in the top third of the first round.
That leaves four spots up for grabs in the coveted top ten. One or two of these five players will land there, but unfortunately, at least one will not. They are listed in order of least likely to stay in the top ten.
1. Clemson DE Da'Quan Bowers
If new Denver Broncos head coach John Fox is convinced by General Manager Brian Xanders, VP/Football Operations John Elway, or team doctors that Bowers is not the next Julius Peppers, then Bowers could be this year's version of Derrick Morgan.
Like Bowers, Morgan was the ACC Defensive Players of the Year in his junior season but fell to Tennessee with the 16th overall pick in the draft because he lacks great explosiveness as a pass rusher. Bowers was already hearing that talk before his knee injury forced him to put off working out until his private pro day April 1st.
A strong campus workout could help Bowers stay in the top ten, but enough teams could have concerns about his knee that he may fall to Minnesota at #12 or Jacksonville at #16 (again, mirroring Morgan's fall).
http://rob-rang.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/13682485/27857124
