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On Tuesday this week, we looked at how NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock ranked the top five players per position in this year’s draft.

Rankings like that always lead to interesting questions about positional value. Is a tackle more valuable than a corner or a pass rusher? [...]

Looking for members to help GSOM and Robert out on our Mock Team this year. If you like to Mock we have contests, a Big Board, A Mock Draft Database, and need input on our own SJ Official Mock Draft and Player Profiles. If you have an hour to spare a week or more and love this time of year, we hope you can help us out.

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2012 NFL Draft prospect, Wisconsin Quarterback Russell Wilson, has many attributes that make him an attractive target for NFL scouts. The arm, mobility, leadership, and those numbers. But there is one thing that is going to hold him back, no matter how much he tries to dismiss it. Size. Five-foot, 10 1/2 inches. Sure, we [...]

Indianapolis Colts beat writer, Mike Chappell, has a strong feeling the Colts will use the first over all pick on Stanford QB, Andrew Luck. Posed with the question from a reader as to whether there was a chance or not on if the Colts may use the pick on Baylor QB, Robert Griffin III, Chappel outlined factors that would contribute to the decision, but ultimately felt the pick [...]

I am not sure why I have spent the past few hours listening to readings of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” on YouTube. Maybe I like poetry. Perhaps I share a spiritual bond with a fellow former West Pointer who walked the Long Gray Line many years before I did. Maybe the raven speaks to me as well. We, Cowboys fans, have lost our Lenore. The dynasties of old are Nevermore to return to Dallas. We must build new ones or we will be left to be tortured [...]

It won’t be long before we will be subjected to an endless barrage of continuously changing mock-drafts.  In anticipation of the mock draft season, we give you this week’s fan question:
Drew Knight, Ontario,Canada:  I know it is difficult to predict the draft this early, most draft projections are not finished and [...]

With questions surrounding the Oregon Ducks after LaMichael James left, where will Darron Thomas go? The dual-threat quarterback is coming off a solid Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin.
Many were wondering what the 6′3″, 215-pound QB would do: Will he enter the NFL with James or will he stay for his senior year [...]

UPDATED 12/20/11

Draft order is unofficial & obviously subject to change.

1. Indianapolis- Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford
2. Miami- Matt Barkley, QB, USC
3. Carolina- Justin Blackmon, WR, Oklahoma State[...]

Prior to the 2011 college football season, all the quarterback talk belonged to Stanford Cardinal signal-caller Andrew Luck. The talk was about how Luck was destined to win the Heisman and he was the future #1 pick in the NFL Draft. While those may still hold true, it’s another player who has risen as the player to watch. He’s a man who has turned a program around; a man who keeps fans [...]

Two years ago Toby Gerhart, now with the Minnesota Vikings then with the Stanford Cardinal, ran for over 200 yards on Notre Dame. The performance moved him up the Heisman Trophy pecking order, and he lost (by the slimmest margin of all time) to current member of the New Orleans Saints then member of the Alabama Crimson Tide Mark Ingram. Tonight Andrew Luck, the mortal [...]