Packerrats Big Board Draft Project

[Partial]

Far too soon for a big board.

With that said, the bowl games have turned me off from the Alabama LT, Everette Brown, Mount Cody.

the first person on your list prooves your lack of research... Andre Smith, Alabmas real LT was suspended for the game.
Brown had a good game, idk why you keep saying he got shut down

That probably explains why I was not impressed or did not know his name.

I just knew they had a highly ranked LT, and I saw their LT get beat by a little guy on the edge more than a few times.

I don't think Brown had a very good game. That's the beauty of opinions. Everyone has one. Agree to disagree, I guess.

[jmbarnes101]

I'll give it a go. Other than Crabtree and Mays every player is at a position I would like to see upgraded.

1. Aaron Curry - LB Wake Forest
2. Malcolm Jenkins - CB Ohio St.
3. Brian Orakpo - DE Texas
4. Andre Smith - OT Alabama
5. Eugene Monroe - OT Virginia
6. Matt Shaughnessy - DE Wisconsin - way too early I know, but I believe he has a chance to be an outstanding DE
7. Jermaine Gresham - TE Oklahoma
8. Taylor Mays - S USC
9. Michael Crabtree - WR Texas
10. Michael Oher - OT Mississippi

Honorable Mentions for later rounds:
Graham Gano - K/P Florida St. - 5th/6th round to be our punter - emergency K
DeAndre Levy - OLB Wisconsin
Jonathan Casillas - OLB Wisconsin - The last of Barry's guys

[PackerPro42]

1. Brian Orakpo, DE, Texas
2. Aaron Curry, OLB, Wake Forest
3. Michael Oher, OT, Ole Miss
4. Malcolm Jenkins, CB, Ohio State
5. Jason Smith, OT, Baylor
6. Rey Maualuga, MLB, USC
7. Michael Johnson, DE/OLB, Georgia Tech
8. Taylor Mays, S, USC
9. Terrence Cody, DT, Alabama
10. B.J. Raji, DT, Boston College

[Bretsky]

OK, I'll give this a shot in NO PARTICULAR ORDER

1 Aaron Curry
2 Brian Orakpo
3 Taylor Mays
4 Ray Mauluga
5 Michael Crabtree
6 Malcolm Jenkins
7 Terrence Cody
8. Everette Brown
9. Michael Johnson

10. And the final selection is in honor the Bikini Girls........who want...a big....leg

Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet our New Punter !!!!!!

10. Kevin Huber

INCINNATI – Senior punter Kevin Huber (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas) was named to the Football Writers Association of America all-America Team Saturday.

The FWAA All-America team, the second longest continuously published team in major college football was announced during a one-hour show on ABC that was sponsored by AT&T. The FWAA has named an All-America team in some form since 1944.

It is the second-straight season UC has had a player honored on the FWAA team. Mike Mickens was a first-team honoree a year ago.

It is Huber’s third all-America honor of the postseason as he was named First-Team all-America by Rivals.com and earned a spot on the American Football Coaches Association All-American squad. He was also a First-Team All-BIG EAST selection.

Huber leads the BIG EAST and ranks seventh nationally with a 44.9 yards per punt average. He has a long kick of 64 yards in 2008, 21 punts inside the 20 and 18 kicks of 50 yards or more. Only two of his 56 kicks this season have been touchbacks.

Stats Overview Punting
YEAR PUNTS AVG LNG YDS TB TB% IN20 IN20% RET YDS AVG NET

2007 57 46.9 62 2672
2008 60 45.0 64 2697


THIS GUY IS A WEAPON !!

[red]

that guy was friggen awesome

i wouldn't mind seeing us draft him sometime after the 4th round

not to mention in their bowl game the guy put like 3 punts inside the 1 yard line or something insane

[Pack-man]

1. Rey Maualuga, MLB, USC
2. Brian Orakpo, DE/LB, Tex
3. Michael Johnson DE, G.T.
4. Taylor Mays, S, USC
5. Tyson Jackson, DL, LSU
6. Malcom Jenkins, CB, OSU
7. Jason Smith, OT, Baylor
8. Aaron Curry, LB, WF

[chain_gang]

Alright, it's still pretty early for this and who knows who'll actually declare, but here's my top 5 and a couple sleepers I like in Round 2 or later.

1. Taylor Mays- For people wondering if he can play coverage, he's the the deep guy on most plays, their Centerfielder. He's the main reason teams don't take deep shots on USC's D. He can lay the wood and has great closing speed. If we hire Mike Nolan I could see the his Big Nickel Package consisting of 3 safeties(Collins, Mays, Rouse), which I think could have the potential to turn into one hell of a package on D.

2. Michael Oher- I like him a lot more than Andre Smith, If he is their at #9 I think landed the best Tackle in the Draft, and someone else can worry about Andre Smith's struggles in pass protection.

3. Brian Orakpo- Hell of a pass rusher, with a great burst. Should be a great Pass rusher, but with the #9 pick hopefully he'd turn out to be a 3 down player.

4. Vontae Davis- I know most like Malcolm Jenkins as the No. 1 CB is this draft, but I don't see where he has an advantage over Vontae except in the run support area. Davis has great speed, has can bring some more attitude to our defense. We passed on one VD already, but this is the Good kind of VD, and I would be more than happy to have this VD in GB.

5. Rey Maualuga- Has the potential to be an impact linebacker, and will likely be gone by the Packers Selection, the main question on him is can he become a leader at a position that usually requires it in the NFL.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Last year I pimped up Rodgers-Cromartie during the last part of the regular season, and all offseason. Well, this year I found my new Fascination, and this guy is a DRC clone, minus a dash of speed. Domonique Johnson, CB, Jackson State, is 6'2 190lbs, and is suppose to run a 4.35 40. The past 2 seasons he has 10 INTs, after having to sit out a season due to his transfer from Missouri. He's a player to keep an eye on during the offseason workouts.

I have one more that I would like to see, but overall I just believe it is a huge team need. We lack a Speedster in our backfield, you know the type, the type that makes opposing teams cringe on trying to find out how to cover this guy out of the backfield or that they have to make sure that they know where he's at on the field. Enter Devin Moore, RB, Wyoming. At 5'9 190lbs he more than likely will never be an every down back, but he'd be one hell of a matchup nightmare for opposing teams. He may be this years version of Chris Johnson, from a smaller school, but he can flat out fly. This would help a lot on our screen game, and also our Kickoff return game. We need a gamebreaker on offense and he's a threat to take it the distance every time he touches the ball. The offseason workouts will be huge for him, he needs to prove that he can be a reliable receiver out of the backfield, that said I wouldn't mind taking him in the 4th round or with our second third round pick.

[Pack-man]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Rey-Maualuga-smooth-operator-just-don-t-tell-E?urn=ncaaf,131994

Nice move Rey!

[TennesseePackerBacker]

I have one more that I would like to see, but overall I just believe it is a huge team need. We lack a Speedster in our backfield, you know the type, the type that makes opposing teams cringe on trying to find out how to cover this guy out of the backfield or that they have to make sure that they know where he's at on the field. Enter Devin Moore, RB, Wyoming. At 5'9 190lbs he more than likely will never be an every down back, but he'd be one hell of a matchup nightmare for opposing teams. He may be this years version of Chris Johnson, from a smaller school, but he can flat out fly. This would help a lot on our screen game, and also our Kickoff return game. We need a gamebreaker on offense and he's a threat to take it the distance every time he touches the ball. The offseason workouts will be huge for him, he needs to prove that he can be a reliable receiver out of the backfield, that said I wouldn't mind taking him in the 4th round or with our second third round pick.

I agree wholeheartedly with the need for an explosive player at RB and also endorse Devin Moore. I had no idea who he was until I saw him rip Tennessee's very good defense last year. He seriously draws comparisons to Brian Westbrook.

[chain_gang]

I agree wholeheartedly with the need for an explosive player at RB and also endorse Devin Moore. I had no idea who he was until I saw him rip Tennessee's very good defense last year. He seriously draws comparisons to Brian Westbrook.

Yeah, the main thing question I have is as a receiver out of the backfield but he had 60+ receptions throughout his career, so I think he should be fine. The Westbrook comparison is a good one, I remember Moore had one hell of a game against San Diego St., I know their not a top team but he definitely showed his playmaking skills in that game, and in the Tennessee game he was just solid, may not have had a ton a yards, but he showed he could play with the against tougher competition.

[jmbarnes101]

Alright, it's still pretty early for this and who knows who'll actually declare, but here's my top 5 and a couple sleepers I like in Round 2 or later.

4. Vontae Davis- I know most like Malcolm Jenkins as the No. 1 CB is this draft, but I don't see where he has an advantage over Vontae except in the run support area. Davis has great speed, has can bring some more attitude to our defense. We passed on one VD already, but this is the Good kind of VD, and I would be more than happy to have this VD in GB.

Like the other VD though this one is supposedly a head case and doesn't take coaching very well. I don't know him but from what I've heard he's not a Packer player and I don't think they'd look at him.

[Lurker64]

Very preliminary Packerrats top 13 (based on rankings by ten posters)
1) Brian Orakpo DE, Texas.
2) Aaron Curry, SLB Wake Forest
3) Malcom Jenkins, CB Ohio State
4) Taylor Mays, S USC
5) Michael Oher, OT Ole Miss
6) Rey Maualuga, ILB USC
7) Jason Smith, OT Baylor
8) Eugene Monroe, OT Virginia
9) Michael Johnson, DE Georgia Tech
10) Andre Smith, OT Alabama
11) Terrence Cody, DT Alabama
12) Everette Brown, DE Florida State
13) Michael Crabtree, WR Texas Tech

Rankings are compiled by: every first place vote a player receives is worth 10 points, every second place 9 points, etc. Total points for a player are summed, and ranked from top to bottom. I cut off the list at 13 now since 14 was the highest ranked player that was supported by only one of ten posters, while each of the top 13 made the top ten of at least 30% of those doing rankings.

Interestingly, no player made everybody's top 10 list, while two players (Brian Orakpo and Taylor Mays) made 9 of the 10 lists. The player most often picked as #1 was Aaron Curry.

This is pretty silly without more lists, so I encourage everybody to participate. Even if you think your list will be silly. Especially if you think your list will be silly. In a year, this will be much more fun to look at if we're all terribly wrong at this point.

[DonHutson]

Thanks for putting in the effort on the rankings, Lurker. It's a good early overview.

[TennesseePackerBacker]

Ok ok, I'll make a list..without the combine it's really tough to tell where a player might go.

1. Aaron Curry
2. Rey Malualuga
3. Jason Smith
4. Taylor Mays
5. Michael Oher
6. Michael Johnson
7. B. J. Raji
8. Brian Orakapo
9. Knowshon Moreno
10. Eugene Monroe

First off, I dont think either of the top 2 cb's this year will become a difference maker. Also, I believe the draft will be much deeper this year than previous. While it's fun to think about the top pick, Ted has a chance to really get some talent deep in to the middle rounds.

[Deputy Nutz]

Good job Lurker,

Here is my top ten, and with most of these guys the are so highly ranked that unless they get arrested or totally bomb in the combine most of them will be in the top ten or worst top 20.

1. Brian Orakpo DE Texas, The Packers are weak at defensive end. Jenkins has not been healthy since he has been the starter. Jenkins is a good football player when healthy and does a nice job at taking up blockers in the running game and allowing AJ Hawk freedom to make tackles. Without Jenkins Hawk had a miserable time at weakside linebacker. Orakpo is a workout demon who might be more bark than bite if you are going off his career totals. Up until this year he has had 10.5 total sacks. He is a bit undersized at 260 pounds, but he is about 6-4 which might allow 10 or 15 more pounds, but if the Packers do move to a 3-4 defense he does have the ability to possibly move outside to a rush linebacker spot.

2. Ray Maualuga ILB USC, He is higher on this list if the Packers move to a 3-4. They would need a big nasty inside linebacker that can take on lead blockers and still make plays. Right now the Packers have no one on the roster that fills the ability to stone an offensive linemen or a fullback in the hole and make the tackle. Maualuga is also athletic enough to play a decent zone coverage, but if the Packers moved to a nickel he most likely would be the first linebacker on the side line.

3. Micheal Oher OT Ole' Miss, Big freakish athletic tackle that could take over on the right side of the line in 2008. He was the subject of a book written by Micheal Lewis called "Blind Side". Naturally gifted football player, but the game might not come as fast to him mentally as it does physically, so although he might be ready for prime time he might not have the playbook completely digested

4. Tyson Jackson DE LSU, Again if the Packers move towards a 3-4 he is a prototypical end for the system. He is 6-5 and 290 pounds, and can take on blockers in a way a defensive tackle can. He is someone that isn't going to make his paycheck in rushing the passer, but he will stand sturdy against the run and allow the linebackers to make plays.

5. Micheal Crabtree WR Texas Tech, He most likely will be coming out this year and he is by far the most talented offensive weapon in this draft. The Packers have no need for another wide receiver, but even Ted Thompson couldn't pass on this player if he lasts to number 9.

6. Aaron Curry LB Wake Forest, Curry is an athlete with size and flexibility at the linebacker spot that might have the ability to play inside or outside in either the 3-4 or 4-3. If the Packers stay in a 4-3 they might not use their 9th pick on a linebacker.

7. Malcolm Jenkins CB Ohio St, The Packers have a some young depth in their secondary but Jenkins is everything you want in a corner, he has size, he has agility, toughness, and speed. Jenkins might just be too good to pass up considering after Harris and Woodson no other cornerback on the roster has proven capable of starting consistently.

8. Eugene Monroe OT Virginia, The Packers eventually will need replacements at RT and LT but does Ted Thompson value offensive linemen enough to spend a high draft pick on a sure deal rather than consistently using late round picks on developmental projects. Monroe is a big road grader type of linemen that is most likely going to make it in the pros as a left tackle.

9. Micheal Johnson DE Georgia Tech, He is a project with great upside but production numbers at the college level just don't quite match up to his physical abilities. He might be hard to pass up, especially if the Packers stay with the 4-3 defense. Johnson is tall at 6-7, and certainly could add weight but as far as a 3-4 end he is just too lean at this time for him to hold up at the point of attack.

10. William Moore SS Mizz, Big and physical safety that could make his living being the 8th man in the box, but then you look at his INT numbers and recognize that he picked off 8 passes in 2007. He is one of those safeties that can just about do it all. The Packer have yet to solidify their safety position outside of Nick Collins. Bigby has been hurt for all of 2008 and Rouse was also hit by the injury bug. Neither one has proven themselves as full time starter in 2009.