2006 Live DRAFT Thread

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

Dam!!!!! I wasn't a member yet and had no idea it went to 113 pages. I'm suprised the site didn't blow up. :P

I will be here this year and hopefully it goes even higher. Do you think I should go back and try to read all those pages?

[GrnBay007]

Wow, this was a blast to read with 20/20 hindsight. Especially the Reggie Bush rumor.

And I missed it all over at JSO. Damn.

Goes to show you, PackerRats is the PLACE to be for draft coverage!!!

[BallHawk]

Wow, this was a blast to read with 20/20 hindsight. Especially the Reggie Bush rumor.

And I missed it all over at JSO. Damn.

[b bulldog]

Good question, I guess some think my honesty in regards to a certain QB makes me a basher.

[Iron Mike]

Spitzlicious.....I think I need to get that in the Packer Rats Dictionary.....

[RashanGary]

Bull,

You have less posts than I do yet you are a basher rat...How the hell do I change mine.

[b bulldog]

Gettin their post numbers up there

[Guiness]

292 replies? I think there are probably 2 or 3 posters (Bretsky? MJziggy?) that posted on this thread 292 times.

[b bulldog]

Just got back from a long weekend, did I miss anything?

[oregonpackfan]

Matt Bernstein, the UW Madison fullback, did not get drafted

I really liked Bernstein as a fullback. He was a tough blocker and was a fullback who could run effectively with the ball.

I read somewhere that Bernstein's sports hernia that took him out of the second half of the season is inoperable. That may be the reason why the teams passed on him.

Oregonpackfan

[Iron Mike]

.......well, I'm surprised noone else mentioned it--so I will.

JSO packer draft thread: 15 pages, 292 replies, 9618 views

Packer rats draft thread: 113 pages, 2250 replies, 23426 views


Guess who's coverage was Spitzlicious???

[billy_oliver880]

Matt Bernstein, the UW Madison fullback, did not get drafted

The pack should pick him up...wait they don't pick up UW prospects.

[Bretsky]

Matt Bernstein, the UW Madison fullback, did not get drafted

[Guiness]

SUNDAY, April 30, 2006, 5:08 p.m.

By Rick Klauer
Tollefson fishing, closes out Packers' draft

Heh. He'll fit it. Too bad Riviera isn't around any more to take him to Alaska for salmon.

So, who was that Jewish hammer guy, and did he get drafted?

[Scott Campbell]

By John Clayton
ESPN.com
Archive

NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be a draft of linebackers and defensive backs, but the surprise position Saturday on Day 1 of the 2006 NFL draft was offensive line.

Ten offensive tackles went during the first three rounds. That's the most since 2000, when 10 tackles went in a year that produced Chris Samuels of the Redskins, Mark Tauscher of the Packers and Marvel Smith of the Steelers.

Even though D'Brickashaw Ferguson was the only tackle to go in the first round, nine went between picks 39 and 89.

One reason so many tackles went in the first 89 picks is that the position is thin. Teams felt more urgency to draft offensive linemen in the first day.

"There aren't a lot of offensive linemen, and the class is pretty thin," Steelers vice president Kevin Colbert said. "There aren't a lot as you go forward."

The second round was full of surprises. The Packers raised a few eyebrows by taking Daryn Colledge from Boise State in the second round with the 47th pick after Winston Justice of USC went to the Eagles with the 39th pick. Colledge is considered a pretty good developmental tackle, but it was surprising to see him go before Marcus McNeill of Auburn.

Tthe bigger surprises came when the Vikings used a second-round pick on tackle Ryan Cook of New Mexico, and the Panthers used a third-rounder on Rashad Butler of Miami. Another surprise was the Raiders taking Weber State's Paul McQuistan in the third. Those three all were considered second-day prospects.

"If you are going to go for an offensive lineman, you have to go for them a little earlier, because there aren't a lot of them," Panthers general manager Marty Hurney said.

The rush to draft tackles cost guards, a position that usually gets hot in the second and third rounds. Only four guards went in first three rounds. Two of big name guards -- Max Jean-Gilles of Georgia and Fred Matua of USC -- sat through the first day without being selected.

Teams had to be strategic in getting their linemen. Credit the Jets with being smart. But, of course, they had the most urgent needs. The Jets might have had the least-talented offensinve line in the NFL heading into Sautrday. But after drafting Ferguson and center Nick Mangold in the first round, that will change. Both are considered to be among the best at their positions in the past few years.

The Texans might have been the luckiest team in terms of offensive linemen. After years of waiting for the offensive line to come together, the Texans sat back and grabbed tackle Eric Winston of Miami and guard Charles Spencer of Pitt with the 65th and 66th picks, giving them second-round values in the third round.

"We were fortunate to get Winston and Spencer after the second round," Texans general manager Charley Casserley said. "We think they could really help us."

Overall, it was a strange day for offensive linemen. More tackles went than expected, and it could be a thin draft for blockers after the fourth round, when some of the top remaining guards will go.

Teams still needing offensive line help will have to tackle the already depleted free-agent market.