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I picked Huff in the Dallas Morning News draft... Draft Guru Rick Gosselin said "The eight best players in this draft went in the first eight picks, which is a great start for any mock draft. So my hat's off to the selectors at the top. They've obviously been paying attention this draft season." Huff was the 8th out of 8 (obviously). My comment was "They've had bad luck with Michaels from Texas before (Mike Williams in 2002) , but he's the best playmaker on the board. The Bills will go for offensive and defensive line help in subsequent rounds." Complete fan's draft here There were a couple of bad picks - Anthony Fasano in Rd 1, Tye Hill not getting drafted, but overall was fairly true to form.

"NOT-a" worthy pick at #8.

no mock has Hawk dropping below 6.

I'm the official Bills GM for the Dallasnews draft. Open to suggestions. Trades aren't allowed.

Marcus Vick, QB, VT. I think he'll be a 6th or 7th round steal.

Gosselin is usually "in the know" with the GMs. He beats Kiper and the other draftniks. Check out who he has us drafting....has me excited! Rick Gosselin's mock draft 01:23 AM CDT on Sunday, April 16, 2006 In their 46-year history, the Oakland Raiders have never used a first-round draft pick on a player from the University of Texas. But then there has never been a player the caliber of Vince Young available when it came time for the Raiders to pick. Young is easily the most scrutinized player to hit an NFL draft board this decade because he's not the prototypical pro quarterback. At 6-4, 230 pounds, he has a linebacker's size with a running back's legs and a quarterback's arm. He rushed for 1,050 yards, finished third in the NCAA in passing efficiency and took his Texas Longhorns to the national title. But Al Davis is the league's maverick, both on the field and off, and doesn't back off from players different from the norm. So give Young to the Raiders in the first mock draft offering from the Dallas Morning News. Here's the rest of the first round: Team Player Pos. College 1. Houston Reggie Bush HB Southern California Bush was the best player in college football last season and has a Heisman Trophy as proof. He's the best player in this draft and likely will have the first overall pick as proof. Pencil him in today as the 2006 NFL Rookie of the Year. 2. New Orleans Matt Leinart QB Southern California 3. Tennessee Jay Cutler QB Vanderbilt 4. N.Y. Jets Mario Williams DE North Carolina State 5. Green Bay A.J. Hawk OLB Ohio State 6. San Francisco Vernon Davis TE Maryland 7. Oakland Vince Young QB Texas 8. Buffalo D'Brickashaw Ferguson OT Virginia If there's a run of quarterbacks at the top of the draft, as there is in this mock, an elite player is going to slide. In this case it's Ferguson, the best blocker on the board and a top-three value. 9. Detroit Michael Huff CB/S Texas 10. Arizona Haloti Ngata DT Oregon 11. St. Louis Jimmy Williams CB Virginia Tech 12. Cleveland Brodrick Bunkley DT Florida State 13. Baltimore Jonathan Joseph CB South Carolina 14. Philadelphia Ernie Sims OLB Florida State 15. Denver Manny Lawson DE North Carolina State 16. Miami Winston Justice OT Southern California 17. Minnesota Chad Greenway OLB Iowa 18. Dallas Santonio Holmes WR Ohio State With two starting wideouts in their 30s, the Cowboys need some youth on the flank. Holmes brings big-play potential in the Terry Glenn mold, averaging 18.4 yards per catch last season. 19. San Diego Antonio Cromartie CB Florida State 20. Kansas City Tamba Hali DE Penn State 21. New England Bobby Carpenter OLB Ohio State 22. Denver Laurence Maroney HB Minnesota 23. Tampa Bay John McCargo DT North Carolina State 24. Cincinnati Donte Whitner S Ohio State 25. N.Y. Giants DeAngelo Williams HB Memphis A run on defensive players in the teens could push the bulk of the running-back board into the 20s. Good backs like Laurence Maroney and DeAngelo Williams could fall into the laps of good teams. 26. Chicago Tye Hill CB Clemson 27. Carolina LenDale White HB Southern California 28. Jacksonville Ashton Youboty CB Ohio State 29. N.Y. Jets Kamerion Wimbley DE Florida State 30. Indianapolis Joseph Addai HB LSU 31. Seattle Chris Chester G Oklahoma 32. Pittsburgh Jason Allen CB/S Tennessee

Working today....but then again, I'm Jewish! Oh, no beer for me because it's Passover - pass the kosher wine!

IIRC, Byron Franklin was traded straight up for Pete Metzelaars, who was a big part of the offense in the late 80s-early 90s. Riddick made a little contribution for the Bills - if nothing else, he made the Bills draft TT.

I agree that the draft projections make a lot of sense for the Bills. I still see someone (my guess: Arizona) making the move to #8 to get Cutler. I think the Bills will have the opportunity to trade down. If Farve retires, there's a chance that GB takes one of the QBs (probably Cutler), so 'Zona will have to trade higher to get a QB.

here's his whole draft updated 4 rounds. 8. Buffalo Brodrick Bunkley, DT Florida St. 42. Buffalo Taitusi "Deuce" Lutui, G USC 70. Buffalo (from TEN) Ryan O'Callaghan, T California 73. Buffalo Maurice Stovall, WR Notre Dame 105. Buffalo Elvis Dumervil, DE Louisville Entire draft: First-Round Projections 1. Houston Reggie Bush, RB USC 2. New Orleans Mario Williams, DE NC State 3. Tennessee Matt Leinart, QB USC 4. N.Y. Jets D'Brickashaw Ferguson, T Virginia 5. Green Bay A.J. Hawk, LB Ohio St. 6. San Francisco Vernon Davis, TE Maryland 7. Oakland Vince Young, QB Texas 8. Buffalo Brodrick Bunkley, DT Florida St. 9. Detroit Michael Huff, DB Texas 10. Arizona Jay Cutler, QB Vanderbilt 11. St. Louis Chad Greenway, LB Iowa 12. Cleveland Kamerion Wimbley, DE/OLB Florida St. 13. Baltimore Haloti Ngata, DT Oregon 14. Philadelphia Winston Justice, T USC 15. Denver (from ATL) Chad Jackson, WR Florida 16. Miami Donte Whitner, S Ohio St. 17. Minnesota Ernie Sims, LB Florida St. 18. Dallas Jason Allen, S/CB Tennessee 19. San Diego Johnathan Joseph, CB South Carolina 20. Kansas City Tye Hill, CB Clemson 21. New England Santonio Holmes, WR Ohio St. 22. Denver (from WSH) DeAngelo Williams, RB Memphis 23. Tampa Bay Antonio Cromartie, CB Florida St. 24. Cincinnati Jimmy Williams, CB Virginia Tech 25. N.Y. Giants Kelly Jennings, CB Miami 26. Chicago Richard Marshall CB Fresno St. 27. Carolina LenDale White, RB USC 28. Jacksonville Marcedes Lewis, TE UCLA 29. N.Y. Jets (from DEN) Manny Lawson, DE/OLB NC State 30. Indianapolis Laurence Maroney, RB Minnesota 31. Seattle Ashton Youboty, CB Ohio St. 32. Pittsburgh Sinorice Moss, WR Miami 1st Round | 2nd Round | 3rd Round | 4th Round Second-Round Projections 33. Houston Eric Winston, T Miami 34. New Orleans Nick Mangold, C Ohio St. 35. N.Y. Jets Joseph Addai, RB LSU 36. Green Bay Tamba Hali, DE Penn St. 37. San Francisco Bobby Carpenter, LB Ohio St. 38. Oakland Gabe Watson, DT Michigan 39. Tennessee D'Qwell Jackson, LB Maryland 40. Detroit Davin Joseph, G Oklahoma 41. Arizona Leonard Pope, TE Georgia 42. Buffalo Taitusi "Deuce" Lutui, G USC 43. Cleveland Abdul Hodge, LB Iowa 44. Baltimore Brodie Croyle, QB Alabama 45. Philadelphia DeMeco Ryans, LB Alabama 46. St. Louis Orien Harris, DT Miami 47. Atlanta Cedric Griffin, CB Texas 48. Minnesota Kellen Clemens, QB Oregon 49. Dallas Marcus McNeill, T Auburn 50. San Diego Demetrius Williams, WR Oregon 51. Minnesota (from MIA) Chris Chester, OL Oklahoma 52. New England Brian Calhoun, RB Wisconsin 53. Washington Rocky McIntosh, LB Miami 54. Kansas City Darryl Tapp, DE Virginia Tech 55. Cincinnati Dominique Byrd, TE USC 56. N.Y. Giants Thomas Howard, LB UTEP 57. Chicago Greg Jennings, WR Western Michigan 58. Carolina Joe Klopfenstein, TE Colorado 59. Tampa Bay Andrew Whitworth, T LSU 60. Jacksonville Jason Spitz, C Louisville 61. Denver Mark Anderson, DE Alabama 62. Indianapolis Daniel Bullocks, DB Nebraska 63. Seattle Mathias Kiwanuka, DE Boston College 64. Pittsburgh Danieal Manning, DB Abilene Christian 1st Round | 2nd Round | 3rd Round | 4th Round Third-Round Projections 65. Houston Ko Simpson, DB South Carolina 66. Houston (from NO) Gerris Wilkinson, LB Georgia Tech 67. Green Bay Max Jean-Gilles, G Georgia 68. San Francisco David Pittman, CB Northwestern St. (La.) 69. Oakland Maurice Drew, RB UCLA 70. Buffalo (from TEN) Ryan O'Callaghan, T California 71. N.Y. Jets Brandon Williams, WR Wisconsin 72. Arizona Jon Alston, LB Stanford 73. Buffalo Maurice Stovall, WR Notre Dame 74. Detroit Devin Hester, CB Miami 75. New England (from BAL) Chris Gocong, DE/LB Cal Poly-SLO 76. Philadelphia Claude Wroten, DT LSU 77. St. Louis David Thomas, TE Texas 78. Cleveland Charles Spencer, G Pittsburgh 79. Atlanta Calvin Lowery, DB Penn St. 80. Dallas Charlie Whitehurst, QB Clemson 81. San Diego Paul McQuistan, OL Weber St. 82. Miami Parys Haralson, DE Tennessee 83. Minnesota Will Blackmon, WR/CB Boston College 84. San Francisco (from WSH) Victor Adeyanju, DE Indiana 85. Kansas City Brandon Marshall, WR Central Florida 86. New England Montavious Stanley, DT Louisville 87. N.Y. Giants Kyle Williams, DT LSU 88. Chicago Anthony Fasano, TE Notre Dame 89. Carolina Darnell Bing, DB USC 90. Tampa Bay Willie Reid, WR Fresno St. 91. Cincinnati Stanley McClover, DE Auburn 92. Jacksonville Jerome Harrison, RB Washington St. 93. Atlanta (from DEN) Devin Aromashodu, WR Auburn 94. Indianapolis Dusty Dvoracek, DT Oklahoma 95. Minnesota (from SEA) Le Kevin Smith, DT Nebraska 96. Pittsburgh Brent Hawkins, DE/OLB Illinois St. 97. N.Y. Jets (comp. pick) Roman Harper, DB Alabama 1st Round | 2nd Round | 3rd Round | 4th Round Fourth-Round Projections 98. Houston James Wyche, DE Syracuse 99. New Orleans Demetrice Webb, CB Florida 100. San Francisco Lawrence Vickers, FB Colorado 101. Oakland Anthony Smith, DB Syracuse 102. Tennessee Leon Washington, RB Florida St. 103. N.Y. Jets Alan Zemaitis, CB Penn St. 104. Green Bay Derrick Martin, CB Wyoming 105. Buffalo Elvis Dumervil, DE Louisville 106. New England (from DET) Guy Whimper, T East Carolina 107. Arizona Fred Matua, G USC 108. Philadelphia David Kirtman, FB USC 109. St. Louis Kevin Boothe, OL Cornell 110. Cleveland DeMario Minter, CB Georgia 111. Baltimore Dion Byrum, CB Ohio 112. Cleveland (from ATL) Rodrique Wright, DT Texas 113. San Diego Babatunde Oshinowo, DT Stanford 114. Miami Zach Strief, T Northwestern 115. Minnesota Miles Austin, WR Monmouth 116. Philadelphia (from DAL) Tarvaris Jackson, QB Alabama St. 117. N.Y. Jets (from KC) Greg Eslinger, C Minnesota 118. New England Derek Hagan, WR Arizona St. 119. Denver (from WSH) Owen Daniels, TE Wisconsin 120. Chicago Freddie Keiaho, LB San Diego St. 121. Carolina Jonathan Scott, T Texas 122. Tampa Bay Brandon Johnson, LB Louisville 123. Cincinnati John McCargo, DT NC State 124. N.Y. Giants Jeremy Trueblood, T Boston College 125. Jacksonville James Anderson, LB Virginia Tech 126. Denver Bernard Pollard, DB Purdue 127. Philadelphia (from IND) Hank Baskett, WR New Mexico 128. Seattle John Torp, P Colorado 129. Pittsburgh Andre Hall, RB South Florida 130. Denver (comp. pick) Jeremy Bloom, WR Colorado 131. Pittsburgh (comp. pick) Daryn Colledge, T Boise St. 132. Baltimore (comp. pick) Rob Sims, G Ohio St. 133. Pittsburgh (comp. pick) Omar Jacobs, QB Bowling Green

Price had trouble getting on the field in Dallas trying to beat out the legendary Patrick Crayton and Terence Copper for the 3rd and 4th WR jobs. I'll believe in Peerless when (if) I see him on the field.

We just make change.

D'Brick takes football seriously. He knew that the combine was a "job interview" and dressed in appropriate attire - suit and tie.

Rohan Davey was Josh Reed's QB.

Today's a better day for a birthday!

Andre Davis is a great guy - a high character player with some talent. If the Bills sign him, I'll tell you the story about meeting him. He's from upstate NY, so the weather won't bother him.

If the Bills cut Moulds, give me Givens to replace him. I think he'd flourish with the Bills or wherever he ends up.

I thought that Summer intentionally got herself kicked off the show. She acted as if she didn't want to be there.

Does Miro's baby have the monobrow???

"Look at that blubber fly" - Homer Simpson

While in Vail, stop by Montaneros and say "HI" to Keith (the GM of the property). In addition to being the best man at my wedding, he's a Bills fan from Williamsville.

His throwing motion has been compared to flinging *poo* from his hand. Once I heard that, I couldn't watch him throw without laughing. If you noticed during the Rose Bowl, he didn't complete a pass longer than 15 yards. I think he's going to have a problem throwing the ball in the NFL.

Seattle thought about selecting a punter, but instead selects: Jerious Norwood, RB, Mississippi State

They lost to Warroom HS in Minnesota Link thingy

1. No Use In Crying, Rolling Stones 2. tepid 3. they'd all be wearing tooks and carrying hockey sticks, eh? 4. Nate Clements 5. Reggie Bush