Note: This is not a draft projection or mock draft, it's an overall ranking ... knowing full well that certain players will never be drafted in the TOP 20 if they do not play a premium position {i.e. C/OG}, while other may rise if they do play a premium position ... but regardless of position and draft projections, this is my overall TOP 20 01. RB Reggie Bush 02. DE Mario Williams 03. QB Jay Cutler 04. OT Brick Ferguson 05. LB AJ Hawk 06. RB LenDale White 07. QB Matt Leinart 08. DT Haloti Ngata 09. DE Tamba Hali 10. DB Michael Huff 11. LB Chad Greenway 12. RB DeAngelo Williams 13. DB Jimmy Williams 14. C/G Nick Mangold 15. OG Max Jean Gillies 16. OT Winston Justice 17. OT Marcus McNeill 18. TE Vernon Davis 19. TE Leonard Pope 20. DT Gabe Watson Honorable Mention: DT Brodrick Bunkley The Good news for the Jets in RD 2 {#35 Overall}, there's a good chance they can steal a TOP 20 talent in that spot because even the best C's and OG's tend to slide, even into RD 2, and I have two in my TOP 20 Overall {Mangold and Gillies} And if that doesn't happen, I can definitely see the Jets having a crack at an outstanding OLB at 35 Overall ... someone like Bobby Carpenter, Thomas Howard, or D'Qwell Jackson {whom I believe can just as easily play OLB as ILB because he has the skills, and he'd make a good fit for Mangini's fluctuating 4-3/3-4 because he can do both, OLB in the 4-3 and ILB in the 3-4}
I must know something since I don't see a certain QB that people are drooling over. Maybe I am right, Vince Young is way over-rated.
Sorry, but Cutler is not better than Leinart. One half-decent year doesn't make you better than a two time National championship and Heisman finalist.
Young has proven twice that he can single-handedly take over a game when he is in the spotlight. He's got the extra dimension of a runner to scare the living hell out of you on every down. How is he not in the top 20 overall players in the draft? Insanity... What has Cutler done? No winning seasons... no bowl games... no big upsets. I do see a bit of Bret Farve in him... but with his ability to throw the living hell out of the ball where no one can catch it (in the senior bowl he threw a lot of incompletions because he threw it too hard). A guy like this is going to be very erratic in the pros and there will be 3-5 games a year where he just can't find a completion. I don't want a Farve... Farve was blessed to have guys like Donald Driver throughout his career... and you saw last year when he had no receivers- he had arguably the worst season out of any QB in the league. Cutler will only be worth the pick if a team can surround him with numerous receivers with great hands... and because of this there is no way Cutler should be ahead of Leinart.
I've def. been on board the D'Qwell bandwagon. I think the guy could easily be the best LB in this class when it is all said and done. Also, I thought it would be impossible for us to draft him since he is so similar to Vilma, but if we do go 3-4 (which although it is all over the media that we are, I haven't heard anything from the coaches to think that we definately will) he could fit in perfectly. He did play 3-4 all throughout college at Maryland. Put him and Vilma in the middle and it won't matter who plays outside.
Do you really think Giles deserves to be in the top 20 after running a 5.4 and 5.5 40? Giles is overweight, he needs to trim down to the mid 310's.
Wow, Vince not even in top 20- that's just sad. No matter how much one can hate on Vince, saying he aint a top 20 prospect is rediculous.
