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Virginia Tech's Fuller, Painter selected in 6th round of NFL draft

WR Corey Fuller goes to Detroit and Denver tabbed lineman Vinston Painter in a span of three picks.

The Roanoke Times | File 2012

Receiver Corey Fuller (83) was one of two Hokies drafted on Saturday. Photo by Daniel Lin and shot on 11/08/2012.

The Roanoke Times | File 2012

Lineman Vinston Painter is the 173rd pick.

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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

Virginia Tech fans waited and waited and waited Saturday for one of their players to finally come off the board in the NFL Draft. Then, in a matter of minutes, two Hokies were gone.

The Detroit Lions picked Hokies wide receiver Corey Fuller and the Denver Broncos selected offensive tackle Vinston Painter in a span of three picks early in the sixth round.

It was the longest wait for the first Hokie to come off the board since 1993, the last time Virginia Tech didn’t have anyone selected. But it didn’t spoil the moment for either Fuller or Painter.

“It feels great. It’s hard to breathe right now,” Fuller said, an hour after he’d been selected. “I don’t know if I’m still dreaming or what.”

Fuller, the second-oldest of the four football-playing brothers from Baltimore who have attended or will attend Virginia Tech, had grown tired of watching on TV and walked outside for a break when he got a call from a Michigan phone number. It was Detroit coach Jim Schwartz.

Fuller hadn’t spoken with the Lions in the lead-up to the draft, but Schwartz coached Corey’s older brother, Vincent, as a defensive coordinator with Tennessee and later as head coach of Detroit.

“He was just saying that he’s been following me since high school,” Corey said. “He wants me to have the type of character that [Vincent] has, come in and work hard and do everything I can do to help out the team. ...

“I just know Detroit is a city where you roll your sleeves up and get to work. And that’s what I’m ready to do.”

It continues a meteoric rise for the 6-foot-2, 204-pound Fuller, who originally ran track at Kansas, transferred to Virginia Tech in 2010 to play football and didn’t emerge as a solid threat until his senior season, when he caught 43 passes for 815 yards and five touchdowns.

“This time last year, I would say even the start of the season this year, my mindset was hopefully I can get a shot at free agency, hopefully I can have a pretty decent year,” he said. “I came in when my name was called, I took advantage of it and now I’m here.”

Painter was selected two picks later at No. 173 overall, rising up draft boards after starting one year in college and turning in an impressive combine performance, where he put his size (6-4, 306), physical skills and football smarts on display.

“It’s just a big relief, man, I can tell you that much,” Painter said.

Once one of the top recruits in the state coming out of Maury High School in Norfolk, Painter bounced around several positions before settling in as a tackle. He started all 13 games at right tackle last year, earning honorable mention All-ACC honors by the coaches.

Denver was one of the teams he flew out to meet with after his pro day in March.

“I can’t really say that I got a serious feel that they would take me, but I definitely feel good about it,” Painter said. “It was nice. ... Looked like a good place to go to work.”

Painter talked to several members of the Broncos’ staff when he got the phone call. The third was John Elway, the Broncos’ Executive Vice President of Football Operations. Did he think his day would include talking to a football Hall of Famer?

“Naw,” he said with a laugh. “I don’t think that’s something that really crossed my mind.”

Several undrafted Hokies agreed to free agent deals Saturday night, including linebacker Bruce Taylor (Bengals), offensive tackle Nick Becton (Chargers), outside linebacker Alonzo Tweedy (Giants) and defensive tackle Antoine Hopkins (Steelers).

Saturday, September 14, 2013