[Direckshun]

I'm going to appease Marco Polo and do a few team gradings of their first three days, now that we're at our 4th-round-and-beyond stretch.

This is all my opinion, by the way.

New England Patriots (Marco Polo) - B+

Out of the Patriots' four picks in the first three rounds, I thought two of them were reaches by a full round. OLB Xavier Abidi is barely a hair over 220 lbs, which is going to need a hell of a lot of work to play the tougher smashmouth run games that the Patriots struggled with, and CB Chevis Jackson was taken very prematurely (his ceiling's too low to warrant a 3rd).

But I give them a B+ almost entirely on their pick of Jake Long at #7, a steal if there ever was one. I don't think there's any way Jake Long falls that far, but since he did the Patriots made a dynamite pick there. Shawn Crable is a dynamic OLB that should do very well in the Patriots pass-rushing scheme. He was picked waaaay too late, and the Pats got their second piece of incredible value there.

Dallas Cowboys (htismaqe) - A

I've gone rounds with Mecca on this, but OT Chris Williams and CB Aqib Talib were a great one-two punch in the first. Flozelle Adams did sign a contract through the age of 40, but if you believe he's holding that down for any more than a year or two, you're welcome to that opinion but I disagree. Williams should provide the Cowboys a future LT, and Talib will fare better than some here have assumed.

I also loved his two picks later on in the Draft. They got a home run type runner in Jamaal Charles late in the second for solid value, and Eddie Royal was a fair pick in the 3rd to give them some youth at the position. I still think Steltz would have been the better pick in the third but Royal can provide the Cowboys some extra options on offense.

Buffalo Bills (Direckshun/sfeihc/OnTheWarpath58) - A-

The Bills have a legitimate CB of the future in Jenkins in the 1st, eschewing reaching for WR Malcolm Kelley in the 1st. It was a smart pick (mine, of course) that gave their thinning CB corps some life. It wasn't a conventional pick but it was the right one to make, as was Earl Bennett in the third. Bennett was great value at that point and though he doesn't have the prototypical size of a possession receiver, his route-running and sheer force of will should help Edwards get some tough yards.

Now, I wasn't crazy about Fred Davis in the second, but it's a pick I can live with. Despite being a hair undersized, Davis was a solid blocker at USC, but it remains to be seen if he can continue that trend in the NFL. He does add an element of dynamism across the middle, so with Bennett, Losman may have himself a good receiving corps in a year or two.