Measurables matter most in NFL draft

Associated Press | File 2012

Florida State QB EJ Manuel was the first quarterback taken in the 2013 NFL Draft. The Bills’ first round pick was universally panned by analyst — one columnist gave Buffalo an “F,” but Q&A Mac gave the pick a thumbs up.

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2013 NFL Draft

Thursday: Round 1

1. Kansas City, Eric Fisher, ot, Central Michigan.
2. Jacksonville, Luke Joeckel, ot, Texas A&M.
3. Miami (from Oakland), Dion Jordan, de, Oregon.
4. Philadelphia, Lane Johnson, ot, Oklahoma.
5. Detroit, Ziggy Ansah, de, BYU.
6. Cleveland, Barkevious Mingo, de, LSU.
7. Arizona, Jonathan Cooper, g, North Carolina.
8. St. Louis (from Buffalo), Tavon Austin, wr, West Virginia.
9. New York Jets, Dee Milliner, db, Alabama.
10. Tennessee, Chance Warmack, g, Alabama.
11. San Diego, D.J. Fluker, ot, Alabama.
12. Oakland (from Miami), D.J. Hayden, db, Houston.
13. New York Jets (from Tampa Bay), Sheldon Richardson, dt, Missouri.
14. Carolina, Star Lotulelei, dt, Utah.
15. New Orleans, Kenny Vaccaro, db, Texas.
16. Buffalo (from St. Louis), E.J. Manuel, qb, Florida State.
17. Pittsburgh, Jarvis Jones, lb, Georgia.
18. San Francisco (from Dallas), Eric Reid, db, LSU.
19. New York Giants, Justin Pugh, ot, Syracuse.
20. Chicago, Tyler Long, g, Oregon.
21. Cincinnati, Tyler Eifert, te, Notre Dame.
22. Atlanta (from Washington through St. Louis), Desmond Trufant, db, Washington.
23. Minnesota, Sharrif Floyd, dt, Florida.
24. Indianapolis, Bjoern Werner, de, Floida State.
25. Minnesota (from Seattle), Xavier Rhodes, db, Florida State.
26. Green Bay, Datone Jones, de, UCLA.
27. Houston, DeAndre Hopkins, wr, Clemson.
28. Denver, Sylvester Williams, dt, North Carolina.
29. Minnesota (from New England), Cordarrelle Patterson, wr, Tennessee.
30. St. Louis (from Atlanta), Alec Ogletree, lb, Georgia.
31. Dallas (from San Francisco), Travis Frederick, c, Wisconsin.
32. Baltimore, Matt Elam, db, Florida.

Friday: Rounds 2-3

Second round

33. Jacksonville, Johnathan Cyprien, db, FIU.
34. Tennessee (from Kansas City through San Francisco), Justin Hunter, wr, Tennessee.
35. Philadelphia, Zach Ertz, te, Stanford.
36. Detroit, Darius Slay, db, Mississippi State.
37. Cincinnati (from Oakland), Gio Bernard, rb, North Carolina.
38. San Diego (from Arizona), Mantei Te’o, lb, Notre Dame.
Cleveland Exercised in Supplemental Draft.
39. New York Jets, Geno Smith, qb, West Virginia.
40. San Francisco (from Tennessee), Cornellius Carradine, de, Florida State.
41. Buffalo, Robert Woods, wr, Southern Cal.
42. Oakland (from Miami), Menelik Watson, ot, Florida State.
43. Tampa Bay, Johnthan Banks, db, Mississippi State.
44. Carolina, Kawann Short, dt, Purdue.
New Orleans Forfeited.
45. Arizona (from San Diego), Kevin Minter, lb, LSU.
46. Buffalo (from St. Louis), Kiko Alonso, lb, Oregon.
47. Dallas, Gavin Escobar, te, San Diego State.
48. Pittsburgh, Le’Veon Bell, rb, Michigna State.
49. New York Giants, Johnathan Hankins, dt, Ohio State.
50. Chicago, Jon Bostic, lb, Florida.
51. Washington, David Amerson, db, N.C. State.
52. New England (from Minnesota), Jamie Collins, lb, Southern Miss.
53. Cincinnati, Margus Hunt, de, SMU.
54. Miami (from Indianapolis), Jamar Taylor, db, Boise State.
55. San Francisco (from Green Bay), Vance McDonald, te, Rice.
56. Baltimore (from Seattle), Arthur Brown, lb, Kansas State.
57. Houston, D.J. Swearinger, db, South Carolina.
58. Denver, Montee Ball, rb, Wisconsin.
59. New England, Aaron Dobson, wr, Marshall.
60. Atlanta, Robert Alford, db, SE Louisiana.
61. Green Bay (from San Francisco), Eddie Lacy, rb, Alabama.
62. Seattle (from Baltimore), Christine Michael, rb, Texas A&M.

Third round

63. Kansas City, Travis Kelce, te, Cincinnati.
64. Jacksonville, Dwayne Gratz, db, UConn.
65. Detroit, Larry Warford, g, Kentucky.
66. Oakland, Sio Moore, lb, UConn.
67. Philadelphia, Bennie Logan, dt, LSU.
68. Cleveland, Leon McFadden, db, San Diego State.
69. Arizona, Tyrann Mathieu, db, LSU.
70. Tennessee, Blidi Wreh-Wilson, db, UConn.
71. St. Louis (from Buffalo), T.J. McDonald, Southern Cal.
72. New York Jets, Brian Winters, ot, Kent State.
73. Tampa Bay, Mike Glennon, qb, N.C. State.
74. Dallas (from Carolina through San Francisco), Terrance Williams, wr, Baylor.
75. New Orleans, Terron Armstead, ot, Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
76. San Diego, Keenan Allen, wr, California.
77. Miami, Dallas Thomas, ot, Tennessee.
78. Buffalo (from St. Louis), Marquise Goodwin, wr, Texas.
79. Pittsburgh, Markus Wheaton, wr, Oregon State.
80. Dallas, J.J. Wilcox, db, Georgia Southern.
81. New York Giants, Damontre Moore, de, Texas A&M.
82. New Orleans (from Chicago through Miami), John Jenkins, nt, Georgia.
83. New England (from Minnesota), Logan Ryan, db, Rutgers.
84. Cincinnati, Shawn Williams, db, Georgia.
85. Washington, Jordan Reed, te, Florida.
86. Indianapolis, Hugh Thornton, g, Illinois.
87. Seattle, Jordan Hill, dt, Penn State.
88. San Francisco (from Green Bay), Corey Lemonier, de, Auburn.
89. Houston, Brennan Williams, ot, North Carolina.
90. Denver, Kayvon Webster, db, South Florida.
91. New England, Duron Harmon, db, Rutgers.
92. St. Louis (from Atlanta), Stedman Bailey, wr, West Virginia.
93. Miami (from San Francisco through Green Bay), Will Davis, db, Utah State.
94. Baltimore, Brandon Williams, dt, Missouri Southern.
95. x-Houston, Sam Montgomery, de, LSU.
96. x-Kansas City, Knile Davis, rb, Arkansas.
97. x-Tennessee, Zaviar Gooden, lb, Missouri.

Saturday: Rounds 4-7

Fourth Round

98. Philadelphia (from Jacksonville), Matt Barkley, qb, Southern Cal.
99. Kansas City, Nico Johnson, lb, Alabama.
100. Tampa Bay (from Oakland), Akeem Spence, dt, Illinois.
101. Jacksonville (from Philadelphia), Ace Sanders, wr, South Carolina.
102. New England (from Detroit through Minnesota), Josh Boyce, wr, TCU.
103. Arizona, Alex Okafor, lb, Texas.
104. Miami (from Cleveland), Jelani Jenkins, lb, Florida.
105. Buffalo, Duke Williams, db, Nevada.
106. Miami (from New York Jets through New Orleans), Dion Sims, te, Michigan State.
107. Tennessee, Brian Schwenke, c, California.
108. Carolina, Edmund Kugbila, g, Valdosta State.
109. Green Bay (from New Orleans through Miami), David Bakhtiari, ot, Colorado.
110. New York Giants (from San Diego through Arizona), Ryan Nassib, qb, Syracuse.
111. Pittsburgh (from Miami through Cleveland), Shamarko Thomas, db, Syracuse.
112. Oakland (from Tampa Bay), Tyler Wilson, qb, Arkansas.
113. St. Louis, Barrett Jones, c, Alabama.
114. Dallas, B.W. Webb, db, William & Mary.
115. Pittsburgh, Landry Jones, qb, Oklahoma.
116. Arizona (from New York Giants), Earl Watford, g, James Madison.
117. Chicago, Khaseem Greene, lb, Rutgers.
118. Cincinnati, Sean Porter, lb, Texas A&M.
119. Washington, Phillip Thomas, db, Fresno State.
120. Minnesota, Gerald Hodges, lb, Penn State.
121. Indianapolis, Khaled Holmes, c, Southern Cal.
122. Green Bay, J.C. Tretter, ot, Cornell.
123. Seattle, Chris Harper, wr, Kansas State.
124. Houston, Trevardo Williams, lb, UConn.
125. Green Bay (from Denver), Johnathan Franklin, rb, UCLA.
126. Tampa Bay (from New England), William Gholston, de, Michigan State.
127. Atlanta, Malliciah Goodwin, de, Clemson.
128. San Francisco, Quinton Patton, wr, Louisiana Tech.
129. Baltimore, John Simon, lb, Ohio State.
130. x-Baltimore, Kyle Juszczyk, rb, Harvard.
131. x-San Francisco, Marcus Lattimore, rb, South Carolina.
132. x-Detroit, Devin Taylor, de, South Carolina.
133. x-Atlanta, Levine Toilolo, te, Stanford.

Fifth Round

134. Kansas City, Sanders Commings, db, Georgia.
135. Jacksonville, Denard Robinson, rb, Michigan.
136. Philadelphia, Earl Wolff, db, N.C. State.
137. Seattle (from Detroit), Jesse Williams, dt, Alabama.
138. Seattle (from Oakland), Tharold Simon, db, LSU.
139. Indianapolis (from Cleveland), Montori Hughes, dt, UT-Martin.
140. Arizona, Stepfan Taylor, rb, Stanford.
141. New York Jets, Oday Aboushi, ot, Virginia.
142. Tennessee, Lavar Edwards, de, LSU.
143. Buffalo, Jonathan Meeks, db, Clemson.
144. New Orleans, Kenny Stills, wr, Oklahoma.
145. San Diego, Steve Williams, db, California.
146. Denver (from Miami through Green Bay), Quanteras Smith, de, Western Kentucky.
147. Tampa Bay, Steven Means, de, Buffalo.
148. Carolina, A.J. Klein, lb, Iowa State.
149. St. Louis, Brandon McGee, db, Miami.
150. Pittsburgh, Terry Hawthorne, db, Illinois.
151. Dallas, Joseph Randle, rb, Oklahoma State.
152. New York Giants, Cooper Taylor, db, Richmond.
153. Atlanta (from Chicago), Stansly Maponga, de, TCU.
154. Washington, Chris Thompson, rb, Florida State.
155. Minnesota, Jeff Locke, p, UCLA.
156. Cincinnati, Tanner Hawkinson, g, Kansas.
157. San Francisco (from Indianapolis), Quinton Dial, dt, Alabama.
158. Seattle, Luke Willson, te, Rice.
159. Green Bay, Micah Hyde, db, Iowa.
160. St. Louis (from Houston), Zac Stacy, rb, Vanderbilt.
161. Denver, Tavarres King, wr, Georgia.
162. Washington (from New England), Brandon Jenkins, lb, Florida State.
163. Chicago (from Atlanta), Jordan Mills, ot, Louisiana Tech.
164. Miami (from San Francisco through Cleveland), Mike Gillislee, rb, Florida.
165. Detroit (from Baltimore through Seattle), Sam Martin, p, Appalachian State.
166. x-Miami, Caleb Sturgis, k, Florida.
167. x-Green Bay, Josh Boyd, de, Mississippi State.
168. x-Baltimore, Ricky Wagner, g, Wisconsin.

Sixth Round

169. Jacksonville, Josh Evans, db, Florida.
170. Kansas City, Eric Kush, c, California (Pa.)
171. Detroit, Corey Fuller, wr, Virginia Tech.
172. Oakland, Nick Kasa, te, Colorado.
173. Denver (from Philadelphia through Cleveland, San Francisco and Green Bay), Vinston Painter, ot, Virginia Tech.
174. Arizona, Ryan Swope, wr, Texas A&M.
175. Cleveland, Jamoris Slaughter, db, Notre Dame.
176. Houston (from Tennessee through Minnesota, Arizona and Oakland), David Quessenberry, ot, San Jose State.
177. Buffalo, Dustin Hopkins, k, Florida State.
178. New York Jets, William Campbell, g, Michigan.
179. San Diego, Tourek Williams, lb, FIU.
180. San Francisco (from Miami), Nick Moody, lb, Florida State.
181. Oakland (from Tampa Bay), Latavius Murray, rb, UCF.
182. Carolina, Kenjon Barner, rb, Oregon.
183. New Orleans, Rufus Johnson, lb, Tarleton State.
184. Oakland (from St. Louis through Houston), Mychal Rivera, te, Tennessee.
185. Dallas, DeVonte Holloman, lb, South Carolina.
186. Pittsburgh, Justin Brown, wr, Oklahoma.
187. Arizona (from New York Giants), Andre Ellington, rb, Clemson.
188. Chicago, Cornelius Washington, de, Georgia.
189. Tampa Bay (from Minnesota), Mike James, rb, Miami.
190. Cincinnati, Rex Burkhead, rb, Nebraska.
191. Washington, Bacarri Rambo, db, Georgia.
192. Indianapolis, John Boyett, db, Oregon.
193. Green Bay, Nate Palmer, lb, Illinois State.
194. Seattle, Spencer Ware, rb, LSU.
195. Houston, Alan Bonner, wr, Jacksonville State.
196. Minnesota (from Denver through Philadelphia and Tampa Bay), Jeff Baca, g, UCLA.
197. Cincinnati (from New England), Cobi Hamilton, wr, Arkansas.
198. Houston (from Atlanta through St. Louis), Chris Jones, db, Bowling Green.
199. Detroit (from San Francisco through Baltimore and Seattle), Theo Riddick, rb, Notre Dame.
200. Baltimore, Kapron Lewis-Moore, de, Notre Dame.
201. x-Houston, Ryan Griffin, te, UConn.
202. x-Tennessee, Khalid Wooten, db, Nevada.
203. x-Baltimore, Ryan Jensen, c, Colorado State-Pueblo.
204. x-Kansas City, Braden Wilson, rb, Kansas State.
205. x-Oakland, Stacy McGee, dt, Oklahoma.
206. x-Pittsburgh, Vince Williams, lb, Florida State.

Seventh Round

207. Kansas City, Mike Catapano, lb, Princeton.
208. Jacksonville, Jeremy Harris, db, New Mexico State.
209. Oakland, Brice Butler, wr, San Diego State.
210. Jacksonville (from Philadelphia), Demetrius McCray, db, Appalachian State.
211. Detroit, Michael Williams, te, Alabama.
212. Philadelphia (from Cleveland), Joe Kruger, de, Utah.
213. Minnesota (from Arizona), Michael Mauti, lb, Penn State.
214. Minnesota (from Buffalo through Seattle), Tarvis Bond, g, North Carolina.
215. New York Jets, Tommy Bohanon, rb, Wake Forest.
216. Green Bay (from Tennessee through San Francisco), C.J. Johnson, wr, Grand Valley State.
217. Cleveland (from Miami), Armonty Bryant, de, East Central.
218. Philadelphia (from Tampa Bay), Jordan Poyer, db, Oregon State.
219. Arizona (from Carolina through Oakland), D.C. Jefferson, te, Rutgers.
220. Seattle (from New Orleans), Ryan Seymour, g, Vanderbilt.
221. San Diego, Brad Sorenson, qb, Utah State.
222. Buffalo (from St. Louis), Chris Gragg, te, Arkansas.
223. Pittsburgh, Nick Williams, db, Samford.
224. Green Bay (from Dallas through Miami), Kevin Dorsey, wr, Maryland.
225. New York Giants, Eric Herman, g, Ohio.
226. New England (from Chicago through Tampa Bay), Michael Buchanan, de, Illinois.
227. Cleveland (from Cincinnati through San Francisco), Garrett Gilkey, ot, Charon State.
228. Washington, Jawan Jamison, rb, Rutgers.
229. Minnesota (from Minnesota through New England and Tampa Bay), Everrett Dawkins, dt, Florida State.
230. Indianapolis, Kerwynn Williams, rb, Utah State.
231. Seattle, Ty Powell, lb, Harding.
232. Green Bay, Sam Barrington, lb, South Florida.
233. Oakland (from Houston), David Bass, dt, Missouri Western.
234. Denver, Zac Dysert, qb, Miami (Ohio).
235. New England, Steve Beauharnais, lb, Rutgers.
236. Chicago (from Atlanta), Marquess Wilson, wr, Washington State.
237. San Francisco, B.J. Daniels, qb, South Florida.
238. Baltimore, Aaron Mellette, wr, Elon.
239. x-Philadelphia, David King, db, Oklahoma.
240. x-Cincinnati, Reid Fragel, ot, Ohio State.
241. x-Seattle, Jared Smith, g, New Hampshire.
242. x-Seattle, Michael Bowie, ot, Northeastern State (Okla.).
243. x-Atlanta, Kemel Ishmael, db, UCF.
244. x-Atlanta, Zeke Motta, db, Notre Dame.
245. x-Detroit, Brandon Hepburn, lb, Florida A&M.
246. x-San Francisco, Carter Bykowski, ot, Iowa State.
247. x-Baltimore, Marc Anthony, db, California.
248. x-Tennessee, Daimion Stafford, db, Nebraska.
249. x-Atlanta, Sean Renfree, qb, Duke.
250. x-Miami, Don Jones, db, Arkansas State.
251. x-Cincinnati, T.J. Johnson, c, South Carolina.
252. x-San Francisco, Marcus Cooper, db, Rutgers.
253. x-New York Giants, Michael Cox, rb, UMass.
254. x-Indianapolis, Justice Cunningham, te, South Carolina.

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

This week's Q&A-Mac is brought to you by The Big Uglies: exacting their revenge after all those years of being ignored.

Q: Nine of the first 14 picks of the NFL draft were offensive or defensive linemen - 10 if you count Dion Jordan, an end/linebacker hybrid who went third overall to the Dolphins. What does this say about the state of pro football?

A: Two things:

1) NFL decision-makers hated this year's quarterbacks class just as much as all the analysts did; and

2) We all should have spent a little more time at the Sizzler buffet growing up. We could have been rich.

Q: Anything surprise you about the high picks?

A: I don't purport to be any kind of NFL expert, but I'm surprised at how little production and/or football experience seem to matter anymore. Consider: Jordan had five sacks his final season at Oregon.

Ezekiel Ansah, who went fifth to the Lions, has only played three years of organized football and logged just nine college starts at BYU.

Barkevious Mingo, nabbed by the Browns with the sixth pick, didn't start playing until his junior year of high school. He wasn't even a first team all-SEC selection for LSU in 2012. He was second team.

Q: Yes, but they are all athletic freaks. Isn't that what counts?

A: Now more than ever. Which is why it was never ridiculous to suggest that Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas could have been selected fairly high in this year's draft had he chosen to declare, despite some of his struggles last year.

Given Thomas' measurables and potential - along with what would have surely been impressive interviews at the combine - I don't think NFL scouts would have cared much what his numbers were in Blacksburg.

Q: Speaking of quarterbacks, how about the ACC having the first signal-caller selected, in Florida State's E.J. Manuel?

A: This pick was universally panned by the analysts - CBSSports.com senior NFL columnist Pete Prisco gave it the only F among his first round grades - but I love Manuel. Forget that he has a dog named Maximus and another one named Titan. Forget the fact that when he was 6, he scored the only goal his youth soccer team tallied all season ("We were really good, right?" he joked).

Manuel is smart, dedicated, charismatic - and oh, yeah, he's also 6-foot-5, 237 pounds and runs a 4.59-second 40. I know he threw a few bad interceptions as a Seminole, but if results don't matter for the big guys, they needn't matter for the quarterbacks.

No way this guy's an F. Good pick, Bills.

Q: Thoughts on last Sunday's arrest of Virginia Tech tailback Michael Holmes on one count of malicious wounding and two counts of simple assault?

A: Not sure what I - or anybody else who wasn't there that morning during the alleged fight - really has to add to the situation at this point. The school suspended him, as it its policy, until the case is adjudicated or the charges are dropped.

No problem at all with how it's been handled.

Q: Comment of the week on the blog?

A: Let's go with 540Hokie, during a discussion on N.C. State quarterback Mike Glennon (who wound up going in the third round to Tampa Bay): "Always thought Sean Glennon got a bad rap from most Hokie fans. There were many more positives than there were negatives. Plus, I don't think you should ever boo your own players. That's just my opinion."

Q: What's your opinion on booing your own team's players?

A: Can't say I've never done it with pros - repeated lax effort running out ground balls by guys making millions doesn't sit well with me - but I've never been a big fan of booing your own guys, either.

Then again, that's why you'll probably never see 540Hokie or me at Radio City Music Hall on draft night. We just wouldn't fit in.

Monday, August 12, 2013