2010 NFL Undrafted Free Agents

Following the NFL draft, teams can then begin to sign players from college who were not drafted. If you need to look at a quick snapshot of each team's activities following the draft in order to fill their roster needs, take a look at Pro Football Weekly's "2010 undrafted free agents" which includes Sicko.

If you're not familiar with Scott Sicko's story, he's a TE out of New Hampshire. Since he wasn't drafted, he gained noteriety from Peter King's MMQB, declaring he was going to go on in his schooling to do his master's degree and PhD in history in order to be a college professor since he wasn't drafted. He then changed his mind and decided to try out for the Dallas Cowboys, one of his pursuers.

Anyhow, check out the link to the "2010 undrafted free agents" and see if you can find the next fantasy football stud akin to Tony Romo et al.

2010 NFL Draft Coverage

The NFL Draft is the priority of fantasy football fans today. They will wait, watch, and see what their favorite teams do and figure out any sort of fantasy impact there might be. Who's the next Calvin Johnson WR? Who's the next stud RB? Who's the next Matt Ryan at QB? What trades will happen? Regardless of what actually goes down, you can watch and listen to a lot of it live via NFL Network, ESPN Radio, or live blogging and draft tracking on the internet. The draft news will continue hot and heavy for the next 3-5 days with all sorts of specualtions and evaluations.

Here's the skinny on the time between picks: 10 min per pick in round 1. Tomorrow, 7 min per pick rd 2, then 5 min per pick rds 3-7.
On Tuesday April 20th there was a live chat with the Jarretsville MD native Mel Kiper Jr:
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/31976/football-guru-mel-kiper

On Wed April 21 there was a live chat with NFL Network analysts Brian Billick, Charles Davis and Mike Mayock:
http://chat.nfl.com/front/index/870

Here's a pre-draft chat with Matthew Berry at 3pm Eastern/ 2pm Central
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/31965

Here's some good NFL Draft Trackers (which are awesome if you just ignore the whole event live since you can look at it on the fly after the fact):
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2010/tracker

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft/rounds

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/drafttracker?tag=globalNav.nfldraft;fastFacts



Tonight there will be the 2010 NFL Draft Live Blogs/Chats/Streaming during the first round of the draft:
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/live/?callsign=ESPNRADIO

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/draft/live

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.cbssports.com/video/player/nfl-draft-live?tag=coverlist_active;coverlist_footer

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2010

http://fantasyfootball.com/no-plans-thursday-night-join-us-instead/

http://www.thefantasysportschannel.com/

If you have ESPN or NFL Network you, too, could just watch it on TV.
http://thefantasysportschannel.com/blogs/?p=544


(more to come probably since this will be the important part of this blog; including twitter feeds)

Let's try this twitter feed code:






Here's some good articles on the business end of the NFL Draft related to market efficiency etc. Pretty in depth:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=697121

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010/04/rethinking-massey-thaler-draft-study.html

Here's another article on NFL draft day mistakes:
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=5117713

If you have ESPN Insider access you can see how the different front offices rank in their abilities in the NFL Draft:
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=5114845

Mock Draft Databases

Basically, FFToolbox has become the one stop shop for the 2010 NFL Mock Drafts. They've collated 74 published mock drafts:

2010 Mock NFL Drafts Database


Some other mock draft databases:

TheFootballExpert NFL Mock Draft Database

NFL Mock Draft Database at dcprosportsreport.com
NFL Draft Today Mock Draft Database

HailRedskins.com Mock Draft Database

NFL Draft Dog

The Huddle Report

NLS Fantasy Football

SundayKickoff.com



Next week the 2010 NFL Schedule and the 2010 NFL Draft takes place.

2010 NFL Draft: Mocks and Reality

The NFL Draft chatter is heating up. All I know is that on the door of the professor who has two PhD's are written two Latin words: ad fontes. For all of you who do not "habla Espanol" it stands for "to the sources" or "to the founts." Always good advice when trying to obtain good clean water. Might I just say that all the NFL Draft coverage on the internet is just a lot of hot air and intrigue for fandom to think about and so writers can make money. All of it gets thrown out of the window when the actual draft occurs... trades and all. If anyone thought they should apply ad fontes to only believing what the front offices say this time of year, forget it. They are full of lies as admitted by the front office of the Baltimore Ravens.

Some facts: It has been announced that the 2010 NFL Draft will begin Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET, with the second and third rounds on Friday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. ET, followed by Rounds 4-7 on Saturday, April 24 at 10 a.m. ET.

I do not pay much attention to college football. However, I do know the importance of the college game for the NFL Draft and therefore for fantasy purposes. This blog post will be more about information one can seek to keep up to date with the 2010 NFL Draft. The best information will be the final NFL Draft results after all the hot air balloons of the internet are deflated. Then there will be more hot air about who will perform and who will not perform with each NFL team getting graded for their draft. No one knows until the fresh bodies play on the professional turf.

The 2010 Senior Bowl, usually considered the initial start toward the NFL Draft study among NFL Draft aficionados (other than watching a lot of college football games), was on January 30th at 3pm CT on the NFL Network. Here's the Box Score.

2010 NFL Combine is usually the next step. Most sites with the results of the combine are pay sites. Here's some links for the Combine, but most info is being tweeted on Twitter live:

Combine preview: What to watch for at Indy show

Researching the NFL Scouting Combine

http://views.washingtonpost.com/theleague/predraft/2010/02/2010-scouting-combine-preview.html

http://www.nfldraftbible.com/Combine-Results-2010/combine-time-day-one-news-a-notes.html

Football Outsiders Combine Reports:
Thursday Combine Report
Friday Combine Report
Saturday Combine Report
Sunday Combine Report

CBS Sports Combine Wrap-Up

MMQB: Notes from Combine

2010 Combine Results from FFToolbox
QB
RB
WR
TE
OL

Combine wrap-up: Value runners, DT conundrum, diva QBs

Combine 'stars' rarely pan out
Myth busters for the combine
Combine an idiotic way to find NFL players


Pro-Day Results
Pro Day Results: Florida (Tebow, Haden, Spikes...)

Top 2010 NFL Draft Prospects by Position
FFToolbox


2010 NFL Draft Websites of Note
NFL.com

ESPN

CBS Sports

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/front-office-total-access.html

2010 NFL Draft Discussions
http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4825609&name=nfl_draft

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/332950-2010-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-rankings

Post-Combine NFL Mock Draft

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/insider/news/story?id=5020735

Should QBs sit? http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?page=NextLevel1

2010 NFL Draft Order Update
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/16491/2010-nfl-draft-order-updated-2

2010 NFL Draft Compensatory Picks
There is one blogger who has a great niche in the NFL Draft coverage. He knows the compensatory draft pick stuff pretty accurately although the NFL has never published the rules. So check him out his accuracy and then check out 2010's NFL Draft Compensatory Projections.

2010 NFL Draft Order Coin Tosses
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2010/day-draft-order-coin-tosses

Coin tosses firm up first-round order

2010 NFL Draft Restricted Free Agent Tender Impact
Update: The Great Big Tender Thread
Will need to combine this information with the Free Agent Trackers available:
See Off-Season Player Tracker and KFFL's Tracker.

2010 NFL Mock Drafts
Kiper 1st Mock http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/insider/news/story?id=4841432

http://www.nfldraftbible.com/NFL-Insider-Insider-info/reverendralphsmockdraft.html

Post-Combine NFL Mock Draft

First Round Mock

FFToolbox

4/15/10
Pat Kirwan (NFL.com)

2010 NFL Mock Draft 4.0 (SI.com)

GREAT BLUE NORTH DRAFT REPORT

CBS Sports and NFLDraftScout.com

FanHouse's 2010 NFL Mock Draft 3.0

National Football Post: NFL mock draft: Version V

Drat Site

New NFL Draft.com

NFL Draft Blitz

The Football Expert

FFToolbox

The Draft King

The Football Guys.com


2010 NFL Draft Talent Rankings
http://www.thehuddle.com/x10/nfl_draft/j2v-pre-draft-rankings.php



2010 NFL Reality Draft
TO BE LINKED

2010 NFL Draft Grades
TO BE LINKED

I apologize that this post is not as polished as most of my posts on this blog, but I am more concerned about sending you ways to start looking into the NFL Draft on your own. Not trying to be exhaustive on the subject at all. It would be an endless task to keep up with it all, but I'll update the stuff I think is legitimate to post. The results of the draft might not be known for a few years however.