Showing posts with label Mock Drafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mock Drafts. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

Grading the Mock Drafts: Peter King is Your Champ

Peter King, your 2012 Backup Quarterback Blog Mock Draft Champion

Last Monday's post looked at 7 mock drafts published at the time.  Most mock drafters change their picks as often as The Bachelorette, so the picks we saw three days before the draft only slightly resemble most of these drafters' "final" mock drafts.  But we happened to capture them at a point in time, and it's that point in time that we'll use in grading them.

As a reminder, we used 7 mock drafters: ESPN's Mel Kiper, Jr. and Todd McShay, Peter King of Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports, Rob Rang of CBSSports.com, Evan Silva of ProFootballTalk.com, Charley Casserly of NFL Network, and some dude named Kash Money from MockingTheDraft.com.  And we considered only the first 11 draft picks.

After the jump, our final rankings and where the mock drafters hit and missed.  Also, you can see our ranking of how the teams drafted, 1 through 32, here.


Monday, April 23, 2012

Draft Preview: The Ryan Tannehill Factor and Why Jacksonville Should Think Hard About Trading Down


Welcome to the inaugural post of The Backup Quarterback Blog.  This site’s mission is to provide NFL analysis from the perspective of the objective NFL fan.  Our first topic?  The NFL Draft, which starts Thursday night and runs through Saturday.  ESPN is already hyping its coverage ad nauseam, with Cee Lo Green’s “Bright Lights Big City” evidently playing the role of “song ESPN will beat to death."  Here’s hoping Cee Lo shows up at Radio City Music Hall to meet Roger Goodell in his Super Bowl outfit.

After the jump:
  • A look at 7 mock drafts and how everyone's afraid to be different
  • The Ryan Tannehill phenomenon, who might trade up for him and with whom
  • The historic nature of QBs in this draft