While these scouting websites do miss, they are also probably as accurate as is humanly possible when predicting the college futures of 18 year olds.  If you ever really doubt these guys, go back through their top 10 rankings for basketball players from 2007 and before.  Rivals’s predictions are uncanny good.

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If you have a chance, I encourage you to check out Don Banks’ revised 2008 NFL Draft.  It’s a pretty insightful piece, and best of all, Mr. Banks suggests that the Lions should have taken a wide receiver.  That seems so ridiculous to Lions’ fans, until your realize that Keary Colbert and John Standeford lined up with Calvin Johnson at WR last Sunday.  Although Pete Carroll and Joe Tiller would probably be happy to see these bums, as a Lions fan, if I never see either of them again, it would be too soon.

We decided to piggyback on Don Banks’ idea and check out the big surprises and big flops in this year’s NFL draft.  There are quite a few players that were supposed to have an impact but didn’t and just as many guy that weren’t expected to do much and excelled.  Let’s take a look:

Big Surprises of the 2008 Draft:

Jerod Mayo – LB – 10th Pick – New England Patriots - I guess it isn’t too much of a surprise that the New England Patriots made a great draft pick.  Jerod is the only rookie with over 100 tackles and he looks like another great LB at a position at which the Patriots were still strong, but aging.

Here he is “de-bucketing” Ray Rice

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We could analyze the NFL draft with 40 times, bench press reps, game film and other useless metric that draftniks use to make everyone think that they’re smart. Every real draft insider knows that the only way to evaluate potential draft talent is to search for the best porn names. As the old football adage, “Show me a player whose name sounds like something related to a wiener or a penis, and I show you a Pro-Bowler.” So, that’s exactly what we did. Here is the All-Porn Name team for all draft eligible players:

Offense -

QB – Brandon Cox – Auburn (Honorable Mention: John David Booty, Dennis Dixon)

RB – Danny Woodhead – Chadron State

WR- Logan Payne – Minnesota (Honorable Mention: Sean Penix – Arkansas)

WR- Josh Hyman – Virginia Tech (HM: Terry Love – Michigan State)

TE –Keith Zinger – LSU (I enivision “The Zinger” as some yet undiscovered sexual move)

FB –Justin Valentine – Minnesota

LT- Jake Long – Michigan

LG – Ryan Poles – Boston College (Honorable Mention – Brandon Rodd – Arizona State)

C - John Masters – Michigan State

RG – Hercules Satele – Hawaii

RT – Michael Butterworth – Slippery Rock

Defense –

CB – Scorpio Babers – Sam Houston State (HM – Alton Widemon – Baylor)

CB – Stanley Franks – Idaho (HM – Ambrose Wooden – Notre Dame)

S – Quinn Gooch – BYU

S – James Yearwood – Brown

LB – Mike Hump-al – Iowa

LB – Wesley Woodyard – Kentucky

LB – Rodrick Johnson – Oklahoma State

DL – Johnny Dingle – West Virginia

DL– Curtis Gatewood – Vanderbilt

DL – Dexter Manley – West Texas A & M

DL – Marcus Dixon – Hampton

Did I miss any? If so, let me know.

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