2014 NFL Draft: All You Need to Know About Each of CBS’ Top 40 Players in One Sentence
As we get closer to the NFL Draft, it’s critical that fans and media alike find ways to aggregate the mountains of information they have and concisely explain what we need to know about the top prospects about to enter the NFL. In the interest of doing so, I’ve compiled one sentence scouting reports on the Top 40 players as determined by CBS’ draft rankings—among the best in the industry.
- Jadeveon Clowney, DE South Carolina – He’s great, but he’s no Julius Peppers
- Greg Robinson, OT Auburn – He’s great, but he’s no Orlando Pace
- Khalil Mack, OLB Buffalo – He’s great, but he’s no Lawrence Taylor
- Sammy Watkins, WR Clemson – He’s great, but he’s no Wes Chandler
- Jake Matthews, OT Texas A&M – He’s great, but he’s no Ron Yary
- Blake Bortles, QB Central Florida – He’s great, but he’s no John Elway
- Johnny Manziel, QB Texas A&M – He’s great, but he’s no Joe Namath
- Taylor Lewan, OT Michigan – He’s great, but he’s no Tony Mandarich
- Mike Evans, WR Texas A&M – He’s great, but he’s no Calvin Johnson
- Justin Gilbert, CB Oklahoma State – He’s great, but he’s no Deion Sanders
- Eric Ebron, TE North Carolina – He’s great, but he’s no Vernon Davis
- Anthony Barr, OLB UCLA – He’s great, but he’s no Chris Doleman
- Aaron Donald, DT Pittsburgh – He’s great, but he’s no Ndamukong Suh
- Darqueze Dennard, CB Michigan State – He’s great, but he’s no Charles Woodson
- Teddy Bridgewater, QB Louisville – He’s actually very good and we shouldn’t go out of our way to unnecessarily diminish that
- Zack Martin, OG Notre Dame – He’s great, but he’s no John Hannah
- Hasean Clinton-Dix, FS Alabama – He’s great, but he’s no Sean Taylor
- Odell Beckham Jr., WR LSU – He’s great, but he’s no Johnny Jones
- Timmy Jernigan, DT Florida State – He’s great, but he’s no Dan Wilkinson
- Brandin Cooks, WR Oregon State – He’s great, but he’s no Don Hutson
- Calvin Pryor, FS Louisville – He’s great, but he’s no Bennie Blades
- C.J. Mosley, ILB Alabama – He’s great, but he’s no Tom Cousineau
- Ryan Shazier, OLB Ohio State – He’s great, but he’s no Junior Seau
- Dee Ford, DE Auburn – He’s great, but he’s no Simeon Rice
- Louis Nix, DT Notre Dame – He’s great, but he’s no Joe Greene
- Derek Carr, QB Fresno State – He’s great, but he’s no Jim Kelly
- Kyle Fuller, CB Virginia Tech – He’s great, but he’s no Patrick Peterson
- Marqise Lee, WR USC – He’s great, but he’s no Keyshawn Johnson
- Jason Verrett, CB TCU – He’s great, but he’s no Shawn Springs
- Allen Robinson, WR Penn State – He’s great, but he’s no Charles Rogers
- Tom Savage, QB Pittsburgh – He does not deserve to be here, by any reasonable stretch of the imagination. Why is he here?
- Bradley Roby, CB Ohio State – He’s great, but he’s no Terence Newman
- RaShede Hageman, DT Minnesota – He’s great, but he’s no Cortez Kennedy
- Cyrus Kouandjio, OT Alabama – He’s great, but he’s no D’Brickashaw Ferguson
- Kony Ealy, DE Missouri – He’s great, but he’s no Bubba Smith
- Xavier Su’a-Filo, OG UCLA – He’s great, but he’s no Bill Fralic
- Morgan Moses OT Virginia – He’s great, but he’s no Jake Long
- Jace Amaro, TE Texas Tech – He’s great, but he’s no Kellen Winslow Jr.
- Donte Moncrief WR, Ole Miss – He’s great, but he’s no Desmond Howard
- Stephon Tuitt, DT Notre Dame – He’s great, but he’s no Ray Childress
It should be noted there are also no Bo Jacksons, Bronko Nagurskis, Jim Thorpes or Chuck Bednariks. It truly is one of the weakest drafts in NFL history. Prospects that just missed the cut were no Tony Bosellis, Eric Dickersons, Aundray Bruces or Bruce Smiths.
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