This year’s linebacker draft class isn’t particularly strong. There are a handful of 3-4 pass-rushing OLBs that highlight this class, but for teams who need a traditional 4-3 LB, they may opt to wait until the middle rounds. Selecting the right LB is no easy task as well. Each team uses linebackers in their own way. Some teams utilize a Cover 2 (Tampa, Indy and Chicago) and rely on linebackers who excel at ...

While LSU’s Patrick Peterson and Nebraska’s Prince Amukamara are garnering all the attention and headlines of the national media, there is a large second tier of defensive backs who deserve praise as well. Think back to the 2008 NFL Draft’s second and third round. Guys like Brandon Flowers, Tracy Porter, Terrell Thomas, Kenny Phillips and Charles Godfrey were all drafted by their respective team and are ver ...

A run right up the middle is the most basic play in football. If a team can't defend that, they need better defensive tackles. When you close your eyes and imagine a football player, what do you see? Do you see a 5'11" athletic man? Or do you see a hulking, 6'5", 300-pound agent of death? Personally, I see the latter. In my mind's eye, a football player looks like a defensive tackle: Big, strong and physica ...

  Below you will find a depth chart for all the relevant defensive players we feel will be selected at the 2011 NFL draft. To help you out, I've gone ahead and listed a round that I believe each player will be taken off the board on draft day. You can download, printout or just take a quick look at the position players below to help you prepare for the draft. Hopefully, your team will get the players t ...

Below you will find a depth chart for all the relevant offensive players we feel will be selected at the 2011 NFL draft. To help you out, I've gone ahead and listed a round that I believe each player will be taken off the board on draft day. You can download, printout or just take a quick look at the position players below to help you prepare for the draft. Hopefully, your team will get the players they nee ...

Fantasy-Info.Com NFL 2011 Mock Draft From the writers at Fantasy-Info.com, here is our 2nd annual three round mock draft. This year our I decided to add each teams draft selections by position. My main reason for breaking down the first three rounds is that they tend to be critical for each team and missing on draft picks (busts) in these rounds year after year creates more losers than winners. Yes, some di ...

The closer a position is to the football, the more valuable the position. On defense then, defensive ends are the second-most valuable and for good reason. They factor into nearly every play whether it be a pass or run. A good defensive end seals the edge, collapses the pocket, occupies blockers, rushes the passer, fills running lanes, swats down passes, covers the flat and the list goes on and on. But give ...

The 2011 NFL draft it coming in a few weeks, and it's time to get ready but looking at the round by round draft orders. This list is printable and downloadable in case you want to keep a copy for your own use before draft day. Starting in the third round you will notice some picks are highlighted in blue because they are compensatory picks. This basically means the NFL has awarded teams an extra pick in var ...

If there is truly an all-guts, no glory position in the NFL, it is the interior offensive linemen on any given NFL team. Most fans wouldn't recognize their favorite team's starting left guard if he lived next door to them. But the big nasties upfront provide quarterbacks room to step up into the pocket to make all their big throws. They drive defensive linemen from side to side to create lanes for running b ...

Every year, it seems an offensive tackle is one of the first few picks off the board. This year, the first tackle may slip down to the No. 9 pick held by the Dallas Cowboys. This would be the latest for a tackle to be drafted since 2005 when the New Orleans Saints wisely selected Jammal Brown with the No. 13 pick. The 2008 NFL Draft is what really put offensive tackles on the map for the first round. That y ...