Shake's Final Mock Draft

It's Draft time so time I set my best guesses in stone.

				Round 1
1	St Louis	Sam Bradford	QB	Oklahoma	Not the pick I'd make, but what the Rams appear set to do.
2	Detroit	Ndamukong Suh	DT	Nebraska	The top player in the draft at the position of the Lions biggest need, Lions fans rejoice. The Lions passed on Oher for Pettigrew last year, they shouldn't have any qualms about passing Okung for Suh.
3	Tampa Bay	Gerald McCoy	DT	Oklahoma	Elite player at a major need position.
4	Washington	Trent Williams	OT	Oklahoma	Word is Shanahan loves Williams' athleticism for their zone blocking scheme. The pick would be reminiscent of the Branden Albert pick. Williams isn't very LT ready, but he has the tools or else he wouldn't have been picked this high. Interestingly the very next pick could be a major endorsement or indictment of the Albert depending on whether the Chiefs pick or pass on Russell Okung.
5	Kansas City	Eric Berry	S	Tennessee	And I think it'll be an endorsement. The ugly sack total falls partly on Cassel who had issues with pocket presence in his year starting in NE and partly on the OL which has upgraded a guard spot and improved it's protection late in the year. There's no pick in the draft that I feel is more likely to be traded than this one. Safeties and ILBs are rare this early and Dan Williams is a serious reach. If the pick is made by KC, Eric Berry is the rare talent to justify the rare pick of a safety in the top 5.
6	Seattle	Russel Okung	LT	Oklahoma St.	Rumors are swirling that Pete Carroll could generate some head scratchers this weekend, but with Okung there I can't imagine them passing.
7	Cleveland	Joe Haden	CB	Florida	The Browns added Sheldon Brown, but Brown is over 30 and knocking Eric Wright and Brandon McDonald to nickel and dime would make for a very nice group of CBs
8	Oakland	Taylor Mays	S/LB	USC	As shown by the firesale price level tenders put on the Raiders RFA linebackers, Al Davis isn't happy with the current corps. A 4-3 WILL is one of the roles that Mays could succeed in (the other being as a Adrian Wilson type box safety).
9	Buffalo	Jimmy Clausen	QB	Notre Dame	The Bills have a long list of needs to address but this is their only chance to address Franchise QB (NO Tebow in the 2nd does not count).
10	Jacksonville	Rolando McClain	MLB	Alabama	Earl Thomas to replace Reggie Nelson is the other major option here, but McClain is one of the top handful of players in the draft, falling only because of the relative rarity of LBs picked very early in the draft.
11	Denver	Dez Bryant	WR	Oklahoma St.	Not all character concerns are created equal. Marshall was a malcontent. Dez seems to just be flakey and uncomfortable under media/NCAA investigator attention.
12	Miami	Earl Thomas	S	Texas	The Dolphins safety play caused major struggles in pass D last year. Earl Thomas along with Sean Smith and Vontae Davis will give the Phins a nice young DB corps.
13	San Francisco	Bryan Bulaga	OT	Iowa	Questions about Bulaga being a cornerstone LT will be moot in SF with Joey Staley in the position. Bulaga can excel at RT and slide over to LT if/as needed in a pinch.
14	Seattle	Derrick Morgan	DE	Georgia Tech	If Okung and Morgan fall I don't think even Pete Carroll could screw it up. Top OT and top DE in the draft class.
15	NY Giants	C.J. Spiller	RB	Clemson	It didn't seem like too long ago the Giants had an elite 3 back system. Now they, and the Chargers who were in similar shoes are both in the market for another back early in the draft.
16	Tennessee	Jason Pierre-Paul	DE	South Florida	Wishful thinking that a division rival will pass up Brandon Graham and Jerry Hughes along with some good CB prospects for a roll of the dice on JPP? Probably.

				Round 1
17	San Francisco	Mike Iupati	G	Idaho	The Niners OL is set to roll with Bulaga and Iupati on the right side.
18	Pittsburgh	Kyle Wilson	CB	Boise St.	The Steelers could make the blockbuster move with a Big Ben trade, but if Ben stays around the Steelers will be looking for DB help.
19	Atlanta	Sean Weatherspoon	OLB	Missouri	Weatherspoon moved up the board nicely with a good senior bowl and combine. He won't make it out of the 1st round.
20	Houston	Dan Williams	DT	Tennessee	With the demand for NTs there's a good chance Dan goes even earlier despite concerns about him coming from a 4-3 and only having one big season. The Texans would be thrilled to get a big plugger in the middle of their 4-3.
21	Cincinnati	Jermaine Gresham	TE	Oklahoma	Cincy hasn't used the TE much recently, but they've shown interest in Gresham who would be a great weapon for them.
22	New England	Jared Odrick	DE	Penn St.	The front 7 rebuild starts on the line with the stout Odrick.
23	Green Bay	Anthony Davis	OT	Rutgers	Anthony Davis can take the Tarik Glenn (another 1st round LT talent with weight issues) route, beginning his career at guard and kicking outside in the near future.
24	Philadelphia	Devin McCourty	CB	Rutgers	The Eagles secondary is extremely thin right now. They'll need to devote several draft picks to DBs.
25	Baltimore	Brandon Graham	DE/OLB	Michigan	Ravens grab value on a fantastic defensive talent.
26	Arizona	Sergio Kindle	OLB	Texas	Joey Porter was signed, but he's on in years and Kindle can really get after the passer.
27	Dallas	Maurkice Pouncey	C/G	Florida	Dallas would like OT ideally, but Pouncey would provide some much needed OL help.
28	San Diego	Ryan Mathews	RB	Fresno St.	Mathews' solid build compliments Sproles pretty nicely
29	NY Jets	Everson Griffen	OLB	USC	With Jason Taylor in the fold the Jets can take a project rusher.
30	Minnesota	Kareem Jackson	CB	Alabama	Jackson's a sleeper for the 1st round and fits a team that likes the Tampa-2 well. Lito Shepard couldn't cover Collie or Garçon last year, he's no real solution.
31	Indianapolis	Charles Brown	OT	USC	Brown upgrades the LT and a guard spot for the Colts, filling two glaring needs.
32	New Orleans	Brian Price	DT	UCLA	Price fits the Saints attack attack attack style of D.

				Round 2
33	St Louis	Carlos Dunlap	DE	Florida	The Rams get a talented edge rusher to place opposite Chris Long over the aged Leonard Little
34	Detroit	Javhid Best	RB	Cal	The Lions O should be a potent one with Megatron, Bryant Johnson, Brandon Pettigrew, Tony Sheffler and a thunder/lightning RB combo of Kevin Smith and Best supporting Matt Stafford
35	Tampa Bay	Golden Tate	WR	Notre Dame	The WR poor Bucs get to turn the tables on their division rivals with the player since as the 2nd coming of Steve Smith.
36	Kansas City	Terrence Cody	NT	Alabama	Pick does the double duty of finishing out the Chiefs 3 man front and keeping NT talent out of their division rival, the desperately NT needing, Chargers
37	Philadelphia	Nate Allen	S	South Florida	Eagles get a very talented safety who sneaks into the 1st in some mocks
38	Cleveland	Colt McCoy	QB	Texas	No one can really think Jake Delhomme backed by Senneca Wallace is a long term solution.
39	Oakland	Bruce Campbell	OT	Maryland	Freak athlete at a need position.
40	San Diego	Brandon Spikes	ILB	Florida	Timed speed has become a major issue of discussion, but any issues with his game speed where rarely noticed or mentioned.
41	Buffalo	Rodger Saffold	OT	Indiana	With the Franchise QB in place defensive needs take a backseat to protecting the top 10 investment.
42	Tampa Bay	Jerry Hughes	DE	Clemson	Bucs get a nice athletic pass rusher, as is vital to a Tampa-2 D.
43	Denver	Tim Tebow	QB	Florida	I think it's dumb, but someone is going to do it.
44	New England	Koa Misi	OLB	Utah	Pats get their edge rusher now that he's protected by Odrick.
45	Denver	Ricky Sapp	OLB	Clemson	Sapp is a good pass rusher with great athleticism for the 3-4 OLB spot and even some cover skill.
46	NY Giants	Daryl Washington	LB	TCU	Washington gives a great cover LB at WILL or in the middle if the Giants want to run T-2.
47	New England	Montario Hardesty	RB	Tennessee	The Pats inject a RB sleeper into their RBBC.
48	Carolina	Demaryious "BeyBey" Thomas	WR	Georgia Tech	BeyBey is a nice fit for a run heavy team. He can really contribute run blocking and going deep on PA while he learns the rest of the pro WR skills.
49	San Francisco	Chad Jones	S	LSU	Jones gives Singletary's D a thumper at SS.
50	Kansas City	Arellious Benn	WR	Illinois	Benn, Bowe and Chambers would be a nice trio for Matt Cassell
51	Houston	Toby Gerhart	RB	Stanford	Gerhart gives them a compliment to the speedy shifty Slaton.
52	Pittsburgh	Damian Williams	WR	USC	Damian is one of the best route runners available, making it likely he can help fill the void left by Holmes early.
53	New England	Brandon Ghee	CB	Wake Forest	More young CBs to push out the aging vets.
54	Cincinnati	Tyson Alualu	DT	Cal	Alualu is considered a boardline first rounder by some. Good value for a Bengals front that could use some boost.
55	Philadelphia	Jermaine Cunningham	DE	Florida	Cunningham can give the Eagles a nice edge rusher opposite Trent Cole
56	Green Bay	Jason Worilds	OLB	Virginia Tech	Worilds can really get after the passer, though some question how well he can transition to OLB.
57	Baltimore	Rob Gronkowski	TE	Arizona	Gronk can take over TE receiving duties since Todd Heap is morphing into an offensive tackle.
58	Arizona	Navarro Bowman	ILB	Penn State	Bowman fills the hole left by Dansby's exit. Bowman has fantastic talent if he can keep his head on straight.
59	Dallas	Brandon LaFell	WR	LSU	Another Roy Williams is a bust in Dallas.
60	Seattle	Lamarr Houston	DT	Texas	With Morgan and Houston added to the DL the Seahawks should have a much easier time disrupting the pocket.
61	NY Jets	Vlad Ducasse	OL	Massachusetts	A young project for an OL that's getting on in years in places.
62	Minnesota	Linval Joseph	DT	East Carolina	Big successor to Big Pat Williams.
63	Indianapolis	Corey Wootton	DE/DT	Northwestern	Wootton can contribute right away in the Raheem Brock role and if his explosiveness rebounds another year removed from ACL injury the Colts have a massive steal.
64	New Orleans	Jonathan Dwyer	RB	Georgia Tech	Dwyer is a project in the passing game, but he can run the football and the Saints are in the market for a power back.
				Round 3
65	St. Louis	Geno Atkins	DT	Georgia
66	Detroit	Jared Veldheer	OT	Hillsdale
67	Tampa Bay	A.J. Edds	OLB	Iowa
68	Kansas City	Sean Lee	ILB	Penn State
XX	Washington	Forfeit			3rd round supplemental bid
69	Oakland	Mitch Petrus	G	Arkansas	Need position player that lit up the combine.
70	Philadelphia	Patrick Robinson	CB	Florida State	Philly gets great value on the last piece of their secondary overhaul. Robinson is 1st round caliber according to some.
71	Cleveland	Morgan Burnett	S	Georgia Tech
72	Buffalo	Arthur Jones	DE	Syracuse
73	Miami	Cam Thomas	NT	North Carolina
74	Jacksonville	Dominque Franks	CB	Oklahoma
75	Chicago	Mike Johnson	G	Alabama	Sorry NotJay, no word on any sisters.
76	NY Giants	Matt Tennant	G/C	Boston College
77	Tennessee	Perrish Cox	CB/KR	Oklahoma St.	Fills the CB and returner need in Tennessee
78	Carolina	Alex Carrington	DE/DT	Arkansas St.	With needs an addressed at DE and DT the Panthers snag a tweener to hold the edge at DE and get after the passer from the 3-tech.
79	San Francisco	Akwasi Owusu-Ansah	CB/FS	Indiana (Pa.)	Niners get a versatile DB to finish shoring up the D's backend.
80	Denver	Jimmy Graham	TE	Miami
81	Houston	Chris Cook	CB	Virginia
82	Pittsburgh	Reshad Jones	S	Georgia
83	Atlanta	Anthony McCoy	TE	USC
84	Cincinnati	Eric Norwood	OLB	South Carolina
85	Cleveland	J.D. Walton	G	Baylor
86	Green Bay	Trevard Lindley	CB	Kentucky	Given a 2nd round grade by the NFL advisory committee last year, Lindley returned to school and struggled mightily with injuries. If he stays healthy the Packers will have a very nice man to man cover CB.
87	Philadelphia	Jon Asamoah	G	Illinios
88	Arizona	Aaron Hernandez	TE	Florida	With the linebackers shored up and another pick coming the Cardinals can get Leinart a receiving TE.
89	Arizona	Jerome Murphy	CB	South Florida
90	Dallas	Ciron Black	T/G	LSU	Black's stock took a massive tumble last season, but he could still become a good RT or guard with some coaching, maybe even show some of the LT skill that had him projected top 10.
91	San Diego	Torrell Troup	NT	Central Florida
92	Cleveland	Kyle Calloway	RT	Iowa	Walton and Calloway should fix that rickety right side of the Browns OL.
93	Minnesota	Dan LeFevour	QB	Central Michigan	Miss out on Tebow? How about Tebow-lite?
94	Indianapolis	Amari Spievey	CB	Iowa	Spievey is a great fit for a Tampa-2 scheme and has the speed to run deep when needed. Run support a massive plus.
95	New Orleans	Greg Hardy	DE	Mississippi	Hardy gives NO a potentially great DE, who if his waistline keeps heading the way it's been going this offseason will instead fix their need for a beefy interior guy.
96	Cincinnati	T.J. Ward	S	Oregon
97	Tennessee	Donald Butler	MLB	Washington
98	Atlanta	Austen Lane	DE	Murray St.
				Round4
99	St. Louis	Dezmon Briscoe	WR	Kansas
100	Detroit	Javier Arenas	CB	Alabama
101	Tampa Bay	Ben Tate	RB	Auburn
102	Kansas City	Dennis Pitta	TE	BYU
103	Washington	John Jerry	G	Mississippi
104	Seattle	Anthony Dixon	RB	Mississippi St.
105	Philadelphia	Rodderick Muckelroy	OLB	Texas
106	Oakland	Thad Gibson	DE/OLB	Ohio St.
107	Buffalo	Marty Gilyard	WR	Cincinnati
108	Jacksonville	Willie Young	DE	NC St.
109	Chicago	Selvish Capers	OT	West Virgina
110	Miami	Brandon Lang	OLB	Troy
111	Tennessee	Jordan Shipley	WR	Texas
112	Carolina	Jevan Snead	QB	Mississippi
113	San Francisco	Zane Beadles	G	Utah
114	Denver	Jeff Owens	NT	Georgia
115	NY Giants	Pat Angerer	MLB	Iowa
116	Pittsburgh	Jason Fox	OT	Miami
117	Atlanta	Eric Decker	WR	Minnesota
118	Houston	Marshall Newhouse	G	TCU
119	New England	Carlton Mitchell	WR	South Florida
120	Cincinnati	Shaun Lauvao	G	Arizona St.
121	Philadelphia	Ed Dickson	TE	Oregon
122	Green Bay	LeGarrett Blount	RB	Oregon
123	Arizona	Clay Harbor	FB	Missouri St.
124	NY Jets	Dexter McCluster	WR	Mississippi
125	Dallas	Major Wright	S	Florida
126	San Diego	Ed Wang	OT	Virginia Tech
127	Seattle	Taylor Price	WR	Ohio
128	Minnesota	Rennie Curran	OLB	Georgia
129	Indianapolis	Te'o Nesheim	DE	Washington	Colts snag a undersized but phenomenally productive edge rusher to backup their star ends.
130	New Orleans	Dekota Watson	OLB	Florida St.
131	Cincinatti	Robert Johnson	SS	Utah

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