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San Fransisco 49ers - C+ (bsp4444/chiefscafan)
1. WR James Hardy
2. DE Calais Campbell
3. MLB Tavares Gooden
4. WR Adarius Bowman
6. QB Colt Brennan
7. WR Jayson Foster
At the end of the day, you can't say the 49ers' Draft lacks character. Calais Campbell? Colt Brennan? A 5'7", 170 lb. midget with one of the strangest college careers I've heard of? That's the 49ers Draft, and it's a head scratcher.
You can't argue with James Hardy or Adarius Bowman, which is probably the best WR tandem to emerge for any team in this Draft. Gooden in the third was solid value as well... but then you get to all these weirdos. Campbell was a beast who last we heard was 20 pounds overweight during Draft season, Colt Brennan in the 6th who's been everybody's favorite disappointment. Foster makes sense as a pure kick returner, but he's going to need about 20 lbs to avoid getting destroyed in the NFL.
Baltimore Ravens - C- (Mr Flopnuts)
1. CB Leodis McKelvin
2. QB Joe Flacco
4. OT John Grecco
6. WR DJ Hall
7. RB Justin Forsett
Mr Flopnuts and I have discussed ad nauseum already how much I disliked his first two picks -- mainly because I dislike McKelvin in the top ten, and I think Flacco is going to be a big bust. All that is old hat, because while he did a little to rectify himself in the last two rounds, I just didn't like the Grecco pick either.
I thought that OT was drastically overvalued in this mock by a lot of teams, and I believe the Ravens fell victim to it too. Grecco's a good guy and unlike a host of OTs in the middle of the Draft, he won't have to move in to OG. But this is a guy who made his living in Toledo and I'm a small school skeptic. It wasn't a bad pick per se, I just thought the Ravens could have used help elsewhere.
Detroit Lions - C+ (BigRock/Archie Bunker)
1. OT Ryan Clady
2. CB Brandon Flowers
3. MLB Philip Wheeler
3. RB Ray Rice
4. TE Jeremichael Finley
5. DT Nick Hayden
6. FS Marcus Griffin
7. QB Ryan O'Hara
I disliked what the Lions did on the second day a lot. I felt there was a better TE or two on the board when Finley was drafted, I felt that Nick Hayden was late round talent, not mid-round talent, and O'Hara was purely a pet pick, not a pick that makes sense strategically, value-wise, or even sensible. After BigRock's perfect first day, only Griffin in the 6th made any sort of sense.
It's impossible to complain about the first day -- well, it's possible I suppose. The Lions have a gigantic hole in their D left by Shaun Rogers and they desperately needed a talented NT or two. They've acquired none. But Ray Rice and Wheeler were brilliant picks in the third, as was Clady in the first. Flowers was a great pick at the time, but since then he's become a gigantic character concern.
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