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Baltimore Ravens – The Best in the NFL When it Comes to the Draft
Yesterday we wrote about how poorly the 2011 draft went for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Today? The opposite end of the scale, and the Baltimore Ravens, making the most of their first round picks over the last 19 years, including studs like Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Joe Flacco.
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NFL Rumors – San Diego Chargers Interested in Drafting Marcus Mariota; Trading Philip Rivers?
The San Diego Chargers might be moving cities pretty soon. That makes Philip Rivers question his future with the team and his contract running out at the end of this season. It also opens up the possibility for the team to draft a quarterback in 2015. Maybe even Marcus Mariota?
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Jacksonville Jaguars – Nothing Remains From the 2011 NFL Draft
The draft is the foundation for improvement in the NFL, so it’s now wonder that the Jacksonville Jaguars have been doing so bad for so long, looking at the example of not having a single player from their 2011 crop remain on the team.
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NFL Rumors – Philadelphia Eagles Interested in Drafting Marcus Mariota
The Oregon connection can go a long way, and which is why Marcus Mariota, probably the second quarterback to be taken off the board in the 2015 NFL draft, is being linked so strongly to the Philadelphia Eagles and his former head coach.
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NFL Combine – Jameis Winston & Marcus Mariota Doing Just Fine
There are a lot of things to look out for in the NFL combine, but the presence of quarterbacks Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota is obviously getting most of the attention, and the two lived up to their promises both in action and more or less in performance as well, which means the weekend of “feats” isn’t going to hurt their prospects of being a high draft pick and a big contract that comes with it.
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Oregon Ducks – Marcus Mariota, as Expected, Declares for the NFL
After leading Oregon to one BCS Bowl game win, one conference title and the first ever college football playoff final, Marcus Mariota has decided to forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft, where he is projected to be the first quarterback taken off the board.
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Big Ten Quarterbacks Don’t Get Drafted in the First Round
Maybe it’s unrelated to the sad state of Big Ten football these days, but it’s been almost 20 years since a quarterback from the conference was drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. Kerry Collins back in 1995 was the last, going on to have a career that last 17 seasons, making it to the Super Bowl once.
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Iowa Hawkeyes – The Best in Developing NFL Talent
It doesn’t take much to turn five and four-star high school prospects into productive college football players and then into draft picks. But turning two-star or even unrated players that enter college football without too much bell ringing and attention is a much more impressive feat, and no one does it better than Iowa, even if the football program hasn’t been exactly winning a whole lot in recent years.
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San Francisco 49ers – Alex Smith is the Trade That Keeps on Giving
The San Francisco 49ers have been making mostly great decisions in terms of their personnel over the last few years, building a Super Bowl contender. Their biggest move last season was trading Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs for a package of trade picks. While Smith is doing well with his new team, it might be safe to say the Niners came out very happy from their haul in this deal.
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NFL Draft – Texas Longhorns Don’t Get a Single Player in
If their record in the Big 12 and overall decline in the power rankings of college football haven’t been enough, another example of just how far Texas have fallen in recent years came in the terrible draft for the school and its players in 2014, as for the first time in 77 years not a single player was taken in any of the rounds.