2011 NFL Mock Draft: Seven Round Mock Yields Nice Haul For Colts
by Brad Wells on Apr 4, 2011 10:00 AM EDT
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PrintSB Nation's NFL Draft blog, Mocking the Draft, held a massive community seven round live draft yesterday, coordinated by writer CByers of John Bena's Fear The Sword blog. Fans for all the teams made picks, and (as a full body of work) it is a truly impressive mock draft.
The first five picks went as many expect the real draft to go:
Carolina Blaine Gabbert QB Missouri
Denver Von Miller OLB Tx AM
Buffalo Marcell Dareus DT Alabama
San Fran-Cincinnati Patrick Peterson CB LSU
Arizona ROBERT QUINN DE UNC
Interesting that Cam Newton falls out of the Top Five. In fact, he fell all the way to Miami at No. 14. After the jump, check out the Colts haul.
First Round
Second Round
Third Round
Fourth Round
Fifth Round
Brandon Fusco, C, Slippery Rock
Sixth Round
No Seventh Round Pick
I must say, if the Colts walk away with a haul like this in the real 2011 NFL Draft, I'm a happy man. The solids picks are Nate Solder and Jalil Brown. Solder is the left tackle prospect the Colts have been needing since Tarik Glenn retired, and Brown provides more talent at a corner position that, quite frankly, is not as strong as everyone says it is. Both Jerraud Powers and Kelvin Hayden are injury prone, and Jacob Lacey was, quite simply, awful in 2010. So, solid pick up in getting Brown.
The pick I'm very impressed with is Quinton Carter. Very much like that pick. With Bob Sanders gone and Melvin Bullitt possibly not coming back, the safety position is very weak for Indy. A kid like Carter, who has a nose for the football, would do a lot for helping this D. I also like the Sione Fua pick. Solid tackle who can anchor a line. Nothing fancy, but offers more as a NT than Daniel Muir or Fili Moala.
MtD reader Jamkel made the selections. Nice work.
[UPDATE]: Looks like Joe Baker made some of the Colts picks as well. Again, nice work overall.
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Good haul
I did like some of the late round OTs better than Fusco and Rolle, but covered needs that’s for sure. I would be pleased with this draft, but not entirely estactic.
BBS – weren’t there some UDFAs as well? I didn’t recognize the names.
All in all, good work Jamkel.
Jamkel ended up without internet for the weekend (rounds 3 and on) so I filled in.
Evan Royster, RB, Penn St
Allen Reisner, TE, Iowa
Rich Lapham, OT, Boston College
Jeff Tarpinian, LB, Iowa
Royster was very productive and highly touted, then Penn State’s line seriously declined. Reisner is a low ceiling, high floor type guy. Not a great athlete or particularly big, but has a well rounded skillset and could definitely displace Gijon Robinson. Lapham was just one of the best tackles still available from the lists I looked at. Was the RT opposite Castonzo the past two years. Tarpinian is a STs beast, didn’t get a lot of starting time at Iowa thanks to great LB talent ahead of him and two very poorly timed injuries, but he’s got the talent and can at least be a big help on STs.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all and women are even cooler" JFK
by shake n bake on Apr 4, 2011 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Well I guess it's Shake that we need to thank for everything other than rounds 1-3
Love Iowa guys, so no problem there. Don’t know much about Lapham. Big 10 running back – yup fits the mold for a Colt UDFA.
Great mock draft guys, but...
anybody want to take bets on the possibility that Polian & son go the entire draft and only pick up one offensive player? I think they ignore the CB position and look for a WR around round 4 or 5.
In any case, thanks for giving me something to read!
Nice haul
Good job by Jamkel
"Cat in the wall, eh? Ok, now you're talking my language. I know this game."
-Charlie
by Addai Another Aday on Apr 4, 2011 12:16 PM EDT reply actions
Nice Draft!
I would be happy. If the Colts feel Solder is ready to be a NFL OT soon and if we could get Carter and Fua. Carter has moved up most mocks, top 10 on the 2nd round.
I'm ok with it but
I feel that Solder is no where near the talent of Sherrod. Lets just put it this way Sherrod is to Solder what the SEC is the the Pac 10 or what Auburn was to Oregon. There is better talent in the SEC so why not take the better player that just so happens to be in the SEC? There is a reason why the SEC wins the championship every year.
I know Jamkel has watched a fair amount of tape on Sherrod and came away very unimpressed
the gist of it as I remember is that the offense Miss St. ran gave Sherrod tons of help on the edge and he really wasn’t very effective when he had to take on defenders alone.
Choke/Clutch is the fetishization of the small sample size.
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all and women are even cooler" JFK
When you constantly
Have the DEs from SEC coming at you every saturday you are gonna need some help.
Great job by Jamkel and Shake.
Drugs are bad.
by An Actual Fan of the Colts on Apr 4, 2011 4:41 PM EDT reply actions
Nice draft for the Colts...
…but if you get 1 right i’ll be absolutely shocked! No offense, but thats just how mock drafts go. No one ever predicts anything right, except for possibly the top 5 overall picks
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