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Falcons' Defense First in Line

Do the Falcons really have to debate what they need to do with their first-round draft pick? There are plenty of fans who want them to get another playmaker to pair with Roddy White. There are plenty of others -- myself included -- who want Atlanta to draft a player who can harass a quarterback, either a defensive end or...

Cam Newton Shouldn't Change for Us, the NFL or Anybody

INDIANAPOLIS -- Cam Newton felt the need to apologize, or at least explain himself, but he needn't have. The biggest star at the NFL scouting combine began his news conference by reading a prepared statement intended to explain his eyebrow-raising "entertainer and icon" comments from earlier in the week. He was contrite....

Panthers Taking Look at Cam Newton

Ron Rivera, new head coach of the Carolina Panthers, told reporters at the NFL Combine that the Panthers have to "come up with our own" in terms of a franchise quarterback. Rivera was looking around the NFC South at the Saints with Drew Brees, the Falcons with Matt Ryan, and the Bucs with Josh Freeman and he understandably...

Defense Likely to Lead Way in Draft After Racking Up Numbers on Quarterbacks

Each year throughout the NFL season, experts, media and football fans constantly complain and act baffled as to why offenses cannot execute on a consistent bases. And now, there's a new complaint that is suddenly popular: Why do certain quarterbacks hold the ball long? Well, here's the answer, defensive players get...

Strong Combine Could Move Cam Newton to Top of 2011 Draft

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL scouting combine begins here Thursday, and Cam Newton isn't sneaking into town quietly. The superstar quarterback who led Auburn to the national championship last month told Sports Illustrated's Peter King earlier this week, "I see myself not only as a football player but an entertainer and an...

NFL draft News From the Web

02/22/12 NFL Draft 2012: New York Giants First Round Candidate:... Source: Bleacher Report We have a little over two months until the 2012 NFL Draft.
02/22/12 Compare Your 40 Time With Rich Eisen, NFL Draft... Source: WebProBlog The NFL Scouting Combine begins today (2/22) as teams get ready for the meat market-like approach to evaluating future NFL prospects, in preparation for the upcoming NFL Draft.
02/22/12 NFL Combine tests at Lucas Oil Stadium: NFL draft... Source: New Jersey Newsroom More than 300 of the top college prospects in the country will participate at the NFL Combine in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the next week.
02/21/12 NFL Draft 2012: Highlighting the 5 Biggest Medical... Source: Bleacher Report Before the NFL Combine turned into a full three-ringed circus of stopwatches, cameras, vertex measurements, accelerometers, cones and simulcasts, the primary reason the NFL Scouting Combine came into being was in order to get all draft prospects in one place for physical examinations and medical checks.
02/20/12 Trent Richardson preparing for NFL Draft in Phoenix... Source: Alabama Football on AL.com Alabama running back Trent Richardson is expected to be the first running back taken in the upcoming NFL Draft but how high he'll be picked, and thus how much money he'll make, will depend in part on his performance at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week.

Background on NFL draft

The National Football League Draft is an annual event in which the National Football League (NFL) teams select eligible college football players and it is their most common source of player recruitment.

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