This Might Be A Fun Draft Exercise...

[Flugel]

In terms of pegging the success of draft prospects as professionals, which current college team's grouping below represents your opinion of the strongest group of prospects as specified? If this interests you, rank your team top 9 teams in what you perceive as the best pro candidates as specified below. This wasn't easy to come up with the 3rd and 4th names for some of these teams because they had so many guys with similar rankings for rounds 2-4. Try to keep that in mind when looking at some of the teams if there's a name you feel I missed in lieu of another name. If you want to rank the teams and add notes as to your thought process - RUN IT.

Tennessee:
Eric Berry FS, Dan Williams DT, Monterio Hardesty RB, Chris Scott OT

Oklahoma:
Gerald McCoy DT, Sam Bradford QB, Trent Williams OT, Jermaine Gresham TE

Oklahoma State:
Dez Braynt WR, Russell Okung OT, Perrish Cox CB, Zac Robinson QB

Texas:
Sergio Kindle OLB, Earl Thomas FS, Colt McCoy QB, Lamarr Houston DT

Notre Dame:
Jimmy Clausen QB, Golden Tate WR, Sam Young OT, Eric Olsen C

Florida:
Joe Haden CB, Carlos Dunlap DE, Maurkice Pouncey C/OG, Tim Tebow QB

Georgia Tech:
Derrick Morgan DE, Demaryius Thomas WR, Jonathan Dwyer RB, Morgan Burnett SS

Alabama:
Rolando McCalin ILB, Terrance Cody DT, Kareem Jackson CB, Javier Arenas CB

Penn State:
Jared Odrick DT, Sean Lee ILB, Andrew Quarless TE, Navarro Bowman OLB

USC:
Taylor Mays FS, Joe McKnight RB, Damian Williams WR, Charles Brown OT

Ole Miss:
Dexter McCluster RB, Jevan Snead QB, Shay Hodge WR, Kendrick Lewis SS

LSU:
Brandon LaFell WR, Chad Jones FS, Al Woods DT, Ciron Black OG

Iowa:
Bryan Bulaga OT, Pat Angerer ILB, Troy Moeaki TE, Amari Spievey CB

South Florida:
Jason Pierre-Paul DE, Jerome Murphy CB, Nate Allen SS, George Selvie DE

Clemson:
CJ Spiller RB, Jacoby Ford WR, Ricky Sapp DE, Michael Palmer TE

- Tom F.

[Flugel]

LOL! Bad Idea - sorry folks. I'll post up my favorite 9

1) Tennessee:
Eric Berry FS, Dan Williams DT, Monterio Hardesty RB, Chris Scott OT

2) Oklahoma:
Gerald McCoy DT, Sam Bradford QB, Trent Williams OT, Jermaine Gresham TE

3) Florida:
Joe Haden CB, Carlos Dunlap DE, Maurkice Pouncey C/OG, Tim Tebow QB

4) Texas:
Sergio Kindle OLB, Earl Thomas FS, Colt McCoy QB, Lamarr Houston DT

5) Georgia Tech:
Derrick Morgan DE, Demaryius Thomas WR, Jonathan Dwyer RB, Morgan Burnett SS

6) Oklahoma State:
Dez Braynt WR, Russell Okung OT,Perrish Cox CB, Zac Robinson QB

7) Ole Miss:
Dexter McCluster RB, Jevan Snead QB, Shay Hodge WR, Kendrick Lewis SS

8) Alabama:
Rolando McClain ILB, Terrance Cody DT, Kareem Jackson CB, Javier Arenas CB

9) Iowa:
Bryan Bulaga OT, Pat Angerer ILB, Troy Moeaki TE, Amari Spievey CB

- Tom F. (Is there a better name for a LBer than Angerer? You make the kid a captain and essentially you got some Angerer management going on. Bryan Cox will be a great role model for the kid)

[Alo]

Very interesting idea, but it's hard for me to rank the schools, given that some of them only have three good players. I think your #1 team, Tennessee, is an example of that, but their top three guys are excellent.

[slowmo411]

I think the best group is Oklahoma, then it gets alittle tricky after that

[Flugel]

Originally Posted by Alo

Very interesting idea, but it's hard for me to rank the schools, given that some of them only have three good players. I think your #1 team, Tennessee, is an example of that, but their top three guys are excellent.

Thanks Alo - that's actually what made it sort of challenging to put this together. There were teams like USC where I had no idea who was their 4th best player - same with Florida and I wanted to keep Tebow on their list. There were also some teams that had a good first 2 or so and the rest were kind of late round projections.
- Tom F.

[DaBrowns41]

Oklahoma has 4 first round talents, but Tennessee is a close 2nd, IMO.

It's hard to argue with Oklahoma having two guys that could be drafted in the top 3-5 picks, and then Williams who could go in the middle of round 1. Gresham could sneak into round one if his injury concerns aren't a big issue to a few teams.