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2010 NFL Draft - The Team Rankings
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Mike Iupati & Antony Davis
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CollegeFootballNews.com
Posted Apr 26, 2010
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What teams got the best value? Who had the best and worst drafts based on where they could've gotten the prospects they picked up? CFN ranks all 32 NFL teams and their latest hauls of talent.
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2010 NFL Draft
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2010 NFL Draft Analysis
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- CFN 2010 Draft Central
While it takes a few years to figure out if a draft
class worked, it's possible to take a good guess on
who got the best value. Who took the players at the
right time and who over and underpaid?
Based on the CFN talent rankings, along with where
the players were taken, here's the ranking of all 32
teams and how much value they got for their efforts.
The Score is based on picks and time. For example,
Cleveland's score is 15, meaning the average pick
was 15 slots better value-wise. Meanwhile, Oakland
took players roughly 16 spots before they deserved
to go.
1. Cleveland
Score: 15.125
Top Value Pick: Carlton Mitchell, WR South
Florida (6th round, 177th pick)
Worst Value: Shawn Lauvao, OG Arizona State
(3rd round, 92nd pick)
Summary: Mike Holmgren came up with a few
reaches, like safety T.J. Ward early in the second
round, but Colt McCoy, Carlton Mitchell, and Clifton
Geathers were tremendous value selections and great
chances to take at the time.
2. San Francisco
Score: 11.5
Top Value Pick: Anthony Dixon, RB
Mississippi State (6th round, 173rd pick)
Worst Value: Kyle Williams, WR Arizona
State (6th round, 206th pick)
Summary: The Niners came up with a strong
draft with solid pick after solid pick. Taylor Mays
was a steal in the middle of the second round, while
Navorro Bowman and Anthony Dixon could've gone far
earlier.
3. San Diego
Score: 7
Top Value Pick: Cam Thomas, DT North
Carolina (5th round, 146th overall)
Worst Value: Jonathan Crompton, QB
Tennessee (5th round, 168th overall)
Summary: The Chargers got one of the best
pure run defender prospects in the draft in Cam
Thomas in the fifth, and Donald Butler was a great
linebacker pickup in the middle of the third round.
Considering there was only one pick in the top 78,
this was a strong draft.
4. Green Bay
Score: 4.714
Top Value Pick: James Starks, RB Buffalo
(6th round, 193rd pick)
Worst Value: Mike Neal, DT Purdue (2nd
round, 56th pick)
Summary: Mike Neal might have been taken a
few rounds too early, but that was about it for any
gray areas. Bryan Bulaga was a fantastic tackle to
get late in the first round, and East Carolina DE
C.J. Wilson was an absolute steal in the seventh.
5. Carolina
Score: 3.4
Top Value Pick: Tony Pike, QB Cincinnati
(6th round, 204th pick)
Worst Value: Armanti Edwards, WR
Appalachian State (3rd round, 89th pick)
Summary: Outside of reaching for a prospect
in Armanti Edwards, the Panthers did a great job
getting quarterbacks Jimmy Clausen and Tony Pick
well after they should've been taken, and game up
with great gets for the pass rush in Eric Norwood
and Greg Hardy.
6. Seattle
Score: 2
Top Value Pick: Dexter Davis, LB Arizona
State (6th round, 236th pick)
Worst Value: E.J. Wilson, DE North Carolina
(4th round, 127th pick)
Summary: Along with some nice trades,
including the pickup of RB LenDale White, Pete
Carroll had a whale of a first draft. Getting
Russell Okung at the six and Earl Thomas at the 14
were steals, and USC TE Anthony McCoy was a nice get
in the sixth round.
7. Dallas
Score: 1.5
Top Value Pick: Sam Young, OT Notre Dame
(6th round, 179th pick)
Worst Value: Jamar Wall, CB Texas Tech (6th
round, 196th pick)
Summary: The Cowboys didn't have a negative
value pick in the first four (up until the sixth
round), traded up to get Dez Bryant at the perfect
time, and Akwai-Owusu-Ansai was a nice corner find
late in the fourth.
8. Baltimore
Score: -2.714
Top Value Pick: Arthur Jones, DT Syracuse
(5th round, 157th pick)
Worst Value: Ramon Harewood, OT Morehouse
(6th round, 194th pick)
Summary: The Ravens got good pick after
good pick with Sergio Kindle for the pass rush,
Terrence Cody for the run defense, and two excellent
tight ends in Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta.
9. Detroit
Score: -4.5
Top Value Pick: Willie Young, DE NC State
(7th round, 213th pick)
Worst Value: Amari Spievey, CB Iowa (3rd
round, 30th pick)
Summary: The Lions got Ndamukong Suh.
Everything else is gravy. Jahvid Best will be a nice
toy to play with, but outside of the top two picks
(both in the first round), the Lions might not have
another player who'll be a sure-thing. Amari Spievey
will make the roster, but he was taken too high.
10. Pittsburgh
Score: -5.9
Top Value Pick: Jonathan Dwyer, RB Georgia
Tech (6th round, 188th pick)
Worst Value: Emmanuel Sanders, WR SMU (3rd
round, 82nd pick)
Summary: The Steelers, as always, drafted
to a type making reaches like Stevenson Sylvester
and Chris Scott not that bad. Jonathan Dwyer
should've gone in the third round.
11. New England
Score: -6.17
Top Value Pick: Zoltan Mesko, P Michigan
(5th round, 150th pick)
Worst Value: Aaron Hernandez, TE Florida
(4th round, 113th pick)
Summary: The Patriots seemed to alternate
between strange reaches and tremendous
best-player-available picks. For every stretch like
Jermaine Cunningham and Taylor Price, there were
great timing picks like Brandon Spikes and Aaron
Hernandez.
12. Philadelphia
Score: -6.77
Top Value Pick: Jamar Chaney, LB
Mississippi State (7th round, 220th pick)
Worst Value: Trevard Lindley, CB Kentucky
(4th round, 105th pick)
Summary: After a great get in Brandon
Graham in the first round, the Eagles have some
puzzling way-too-early disasters value-wise with
Daniel Te'o Nesheim, Trevard Lindley, and Keenan
Clayton going several rounds too early. Graham was
the only good value in the first seven picks, and
then came the steals in Jamar Chaney, Ricky Sapp,
and Jeff Owens.
13. Houston
Score: -7.78
Top Value Pick: Dorin Dickerson, TE Pitt
(7th round, 227th pick)
Worst Value: Sherrick McManis, CB
Northwestern (5th round, 144th pick)
Summary: The Texans came up with a few off
picks, but they weren't that bad. Garrett Graham and
Dorin Dickerson are tremendous tight end prospects,
and RB Ben Tate was a perfect fit.
14. Tampa Bay
Score: -9.33
Top Value Pick: Dekoda Watson, LB Florida
State (7th round, 217th pick)
Worst Value: Brent Bowden, P Virginia Tech
(6th round, 172nd pick)
Summary: Getting Gerald McCoy and Brian
Price for the middle of the defensive line and
coming up with Arrelious Benn and Mike Williams for
the receiving corps made this a nice draft, but
Brent Bowden and Cody Grimm weren't solid. Getting
Dekoda Watson in the seventh made up for it.
15. New Orleans
Score: -11
Top Value Pick: Sean Canfield, QB Oregon
State (7th round, 239th pick)
Worst Value: A. Woods, DT LSU (4th round,
123rd pick)
Summary: If you believe Al Woods can play,
then the Saints might have hade a top five draft
with just five picks. Sean Canfield is a nice late
developmental QB pick and 6-6 tight end Jimmy Graham
was a fun flier.
16. Washington
Score: -11.667
Top Value Pick: Selvish Capers, OT West
Virginia (7th round, 231st pick)
Worst Value: Perry Riley, LB LSU (4th
round, 103rd pick)
Summary: The Redskins made the most noise
by dumping Jason Campbell on Oakland, but the drafts
is all about the O line. Erik Cook and Selvish
Capers were fantastic late gets to go along with
Trent Williams, a slight reach at the four. However,
with only one pick in the top 102, it's hard to do
too much.
17. Cincinnati
Score: -14.89
Top Value Pick: Dezmon Briscoe, WR Kansas
(6th round, 191st pick)
Worst Value: Otis Hudson, OG Eastern
Illinois (5th round, 152nd pick)
Summary: Carlos Dunlap might have been the
right pick at the right time in the second round,
but not for Cincinnati, who has had a troubled
history with sketchy players. The Texas selections,
Jordan Shipley and Roddrick Muckelroy, were taken a
few rounds too early.
18. Oakland
Score: -15.89
Top Value Pick: Jacoby Ford, WR Clemson
(4th round, 108th pick)
Worst Value: Jared Veldheer, OT Hillsdale
(3rd round, 69th pick)
Summary: The Raiders made some nice, sound
picks in Rolando McClain and Lamarr Houston, but
they spent the back half of the draft throwing
things at the wall to see if they could stick.
Getting Bruce Campbell early in the fourth round was
the right time for the workout warrior.
19. Tennessee
Score: -18.56
Top Value Pick: Rennie Curran, LB Georgia
(3rd round, 97th pick)
Worst Value: Robert Johnson, CB Utah (5th
round, 148th pick)
Summary: A few big, big reaches in
CB Robert Johnson and QB Rusty Smith hurt the
overall value, but there were some nice picks like
LB Rennie Curran and DE Derrick Morgan which filled
holes with good values.
20. Buffalo
Score: -19.75
Top Value Pick: Kyle Calloway, OT Iowa (7th
round, 216th pick)
Worst Value: Ed Wang, OT Virginia Tech (5th
round, 140th pick)
Summary: The Bills went with the fun pick
of C.J. Spiller at the nine, and got a speedy WR in
Marcus Easley in the fourth, but there were also
some big misses timing-wise with DT Torrell Troup in
the second and OT Ed Wang in the fifth.
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22. St. Louis
Score: -21.45
Top Value Pick: George Selvie, DE South
Florida (7th round, 211th pick)
Worst Value: Fendi Onobun, TE Arizona (6th
round, 170th pick)
Summary: It's all about Sam Bradford. The
Rams could hit on the other ten picks and it won't
matter if the No. 1 overall selection isn't a
superstar. There were too many reaches from TE
Michael Hoomanawanui to Fendi Onobun to even Rodger
Saffold at the end of the first (even though that
was when many expected him to go). For a team that
needed a ton of talent, it didn't get a massive
upgrade even with all the picks.
22. Chicago
Score: -23.6
Top Value Pick: Dan LeFevour, QB Central
Michigan (6th round, 181st pick)
Worst Value: Joshua Moore, CB Kansas State
(5th round, 141st pick)
Summary: For a team that needed offensive
linemen in the worst way, taking J'Marcus Webb in
the seventh round isn't going to cut it. There
wasn't much to do with this draft considering the
top picks were given away for Jay Cutler.
23. NY Jets
Score: -27.5
Top Value Pick: Joe McKnight, RB USC (4th
round, 112th pick)
Worst Value: John Conner, FB Kentucky (5th
round, 139th pick)
Summary: The Jets only had four picks and
made some interesting choices. The ranking would be
much higher if it wasn't for the pickup of John
Conner, but with Joe McKnight, a potential beast of
a blocker in Vlad Ducasse, and a great corner in
Kyle Wilson to go on the other side of Derrelle
Revis, this was about value.
24. Arizona
Score: -29
Top Value Pick: Daryl Washington, LB TCU
(2nd round, 47th pick)
Worst Value: O'Brien Schofield, LB/DE
Wisconsin (4th round, 130th pick)
Summary: This could turn out to be a great
draft if O'Brien Schofield's knee is fine in a year
or so and if Andre Roberts quickly grows into a deep
threat. Getting DT Dan Williams and LB Daryl
Washington ensures something good is coming out of
this class.
25. Miami
Score: -33.25
Top Value Pick: Reshad Jones, S Georgia
(5th round, 163rd pick)
Worst Value: A.J. Edds, LB Iowa (4th
round, 119th pick)
Summary: It was almost like the Dolphins
were trying to make a point about how many players
they could overdraft. DE Koa Misi, LB A.J. Edds, and
CB Nolan Carroll are okay, but they're just guy ...
nothing special. The pickup of S Reshad Jones in the
fifth might have saved their draft.
26. Minnesota
Score: -35.625
Top Value Pick: Everson Griffen, DE USC
(4th round, 100th pick)
Worst Value: Chris Degeare, OT Wake Forest
Summary: The Vikings got a good value pick
in Everson Griffen in the fourth, but they overpaid
for just about everyone else. Chris Cook is a
corner, nothing more, while OT Chris Degeare and LB
Nathan Triplett are fifth rounders who likely won't
make the team.
27. Indianapolis
Score: -42.625
Top Value Pick: Jerry Hughes, DE/LB TCU
(1st round, 31st pick)
Worst Value: Jacques McClendon, G Tennessee
(4th round, 31st pick)
Summary: Indy always gets the exact guys it
wants and is never afraid to overpay. That happened
again this year with Jerry Hughes the only player
taken with a great value. Everyone else likely
could've been had later, but against, the Colts
always get the right players for them.
28. NY Giants
Score: -45.174
Top Value Pick: Jason Pierre-Paul, DE
South Florida (1st round, 15th pick)
Worst Value: Phillip Dillard, LB Nebraska (4th round, 115th pick)
Summary: The Giants failed to get a good
value with any pick, overpaying from start to finish
for average talents. Granted, they try to take
certain players to fit their systems and attitudes,
and there weren't any mega-whiffs, but this was a
foundation draft for the lines and defense without
any star power and one of the riskiest picks in the
draft up top in Jason Pierre-Paul.
29. Denver
Score: -49.667
Top Value Pick: Perrish Cox, CB Oklahoma
State (5th round, 137th pick)
Worst Value: Zane Beadles, OT Utah (2nd
round, 45th pick)
Summary: Josh McDaniels and company
appeared to be out to prove a point of some sort.
While the Tim Tebow pick might get the most
attention, the Broncos overpaid BIG TIME for other
top picks like OT soon-to-be-guard Zane Beadles in
the second, the always injured Eric Decker in the
third, and and even Demaryius Thomas in the first
(after passing on Dez Bryant).
30. Atlanta
Score: -54
Top Value Pick: Dominique Franks, CB
Oklahoma (5th round, 135th pick)
Worst Value: Joe Hawley, OG UNLV (4th
round, 117th pick)
Summary: It's hard to get excited about a
draft with two guards (Mike Johnson and Joe Hawley)
and a run stopping defensive tackle (Corey Peters)
taken early, and if they're not building blocks,
this draft will be a waste. Montana S Shann
Shillinger wasn't worth the flier in the sixth.
31. Jacksonville
Score: -55.667
Top Value Pick: D'Anthony Smith, DT
Louisiana Tech (3rd round, 75th pick)
Worst Value: Larry Hart, LB Central
Arkansas (5th round, 143rd pick)
Summary: The Jaguars might have overreached
for every single pick. Tyson Alualu is a great
tackle prospect, but he could've been had at the end
of the first round instead of at the ten. It's not a
plus to take four non-FBSers and a WAC tackle (D'Anthony
Smith), even though Murray State DE Austen Lane and
Southern Illinois RB Deji Karim are interesting.
32. Kansas City
Score: -60
Top Value Pick: Eric Berry, LB Tennessee
(1st round, 5th pick)
Worst Value: Javier Arenas, CB Alabama (2nd
round, 50th pick)
Summary: KC got Eric Berry handed in its
lap and then managed to overpay for every pick from
then on. Each pick has issues, and while Illinois
guard Jon Asamoah could've gone earlier, he's not a
top 70 talent. Several of the picks should stick,
but the Chiefs paid for a lot of fliers.
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