The 2011 NFL Draft is set to kick off in primetime at 6 p.m. MDT on Thursday, April 28.
WHAT: 76th Annual National Football League Player Selection Meeting.
WHERE: Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, New York City (Between 50th and 51st Streets).
WHEN: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, April 28 (Round 1).
6:00 PM ET, Friday, April 29 (Rounds 2-3).
Noon ET, Saturday, April 30 (Rounds 4-7).
The first round will conclude on Thursday by approximately 11:30 PM ET. In 2010, the first round consumed three hours and 28 minutes. The second and third rounds will conclude on Friday by approximately 10:15 PM ET. The second and third rounds took four hours and six minutes in 2010. The draft will conclude at approximately 7:15 PM ET on Saturday with the final four rounds. Rounds 4 through 7 took seven hours and eight minutes in 2010.
DRAFTING: Representatives of the 32 NFL clubs by telephone communication with their general managers, coaches and scouts.
ROUNDS: Seven Rounds – Round 1 on Thursday, April 28; Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday, April 29; and Rounds 4 through 7 on Saturday, April 30.
There will be 254 selections, including 32 compensatory choices that have been awarded to 16 teams that suffered a net loss of certain quality unrestricted free agents last year.
The following 32 compensatory choices will supplement the 222 regular choices in the seven rounds – Round 3: Carolina, 33. Round 4: Tennessee, 33; Green Bay, 34. Round 5: Baltimore, 33; Baltimore, 34. Round 6: New York Giants, 33; Kansas City, 34; Minnesota, 35; San Diego, 36; New York Giants, 37; Carolina, 38. Round 7: San Diego, 33; Miami, 34; Minnesota, 35; Philadelphia, 36; Tampa Bay, 37; San Francisco, 38; Philadelphia, 39; Oakland, 40; Seattle, 41; New Orleans, 42; Carolina, 43; Buffalo, 44; Cincinnati, 45; Denver, 46; Cleveland, 47; Arizona, 48; San Francisco, 49; Tennessee, 50; Dallas, 51; Washington, 52; Houston, 53.
New England (Nos. 17 and 28) has two selections in the first round. Oakland does not have a first-round pick. All other teams have one first-round selection.
TIME LIMITS: Round 1: 10 minutes per selection. Round 2: Seven minutes per selection. Rounds 3 through 7: Five minutes per selection.
TELEVISION: NFL Network and ESPN/ESPN 2 will televise the draft on all three days.
INTERNET & MOBILE: Exclusive coverage and behind-the-scenes features on NFL.com and team websites for draft weekend will include: “Draft Tracker” with real-time selection information as well as exclusive pick-by-pick analysis from NFL.com’s experts; exclusive interactive features, including “Fan War Rooms” where fans can discuss their favorite team’s picks, an aggregation of tweets and Twitter predictor tool enabling fans to follow the Draft conversation happening on Twitter; and polls on the NFL’s Facebook page; NFL.com’s LIVE coverage complementing NFL Network’s telecast with live look-ins, exclusive analysis and reports from New York in primetime on Thursday and Friday, plus all day on Saturday; and in-depth coverage from each team website. In addition, “NFL Mobile only from Verizon” will have extensive coverage leading up to and during the 2011 NFL Draft including a live stream of NFL Network and its 2011 NFL Draft coverage, a live draft tracker and draft pick analysis from NFL experts, and the first mobile “Fan War Rooms” integrated with those of NFL.com.
2011 FIRST ROUND DRAFT ORDER
1. Carolina Panthers
2. Denver Broncos
3. Buffalo Bills
4. Cincinnati Bengals
5. Arizona Cardinals
6. Cleveland Browns
7. San Francisco 49ers
8. Tennessee Titans
9. Dallas Cowboys
10. Washington Redskins
11. Houston Texans
12. Minnesota Vikings
13. Detroit Lions
14. St. Louis Rams
15. Miami Dolphins
16. Jacksonville Jaguars
17. New England (from Oakland)
18. San Diego Chargers
19. New York Giants
20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
21. Kansas City Chiefs
22. Indianapolis Colts
23. Philadelphia Eagles
24. New Orleans Saints
25. Seattle Seahawks
26. Baltimore Ravens
27. Atlanta Falcons
28. New England Patriots
29. Chicago Bears
30. New York Jets
31. Pittsburgh Steelers
32. Green Bay Packers
Tags: 2011 NFL Draft
Wow even the 25th pick is looking to trade down for more picks. Lol good news for PP fans there is the ticket to get back into the first and get Paea it will only cost us 2 2nds. Oh and they also need a QB so I still see a very very slim chance of trading down.
Here is the link.
http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/09000d5d81f52b43/article/seahawks-might-trade-down-for-more-midround-draft-picks
Well the hawks want to be in that early 2nd round spot for a chance at Mallet, Plonder and Locker. And we have number 36, so makes sense. But I don’t see a reason for us trading up, to many holes to fill and not enough picks, I think we stay put and see who falls to us.
Speaking of root canals – I was in the dental clinic at U of Iowa getting a root canal the day John Kennedy was shot – so – just the words “root canal” make me shiver …
By the way – I wonder if the little kid who used to call the talk show after every Bronco game and ask “how many yards did Floyd Little get?” is a contributor to this blog????
Hey, BA, same thing Ive been saying, just cuz austin and paea are first round talent don’t mean they go in the first, possible but they are currently ranked the 5th and 5th DTs. Its deep at DL. I don’t think a trade up will be necessary to snag Paea. Just me tho. Like you I believe there is more than one approach to set up the defense but most Darcell guys believe thats he is the only way.
Everyone always wants to trade down and get more picks when they suck so much. Doubt it will happen tho. So much unsureness in this years draft its outstanding. But maybe the unsureness is just for the guys on the outside looking in. They on the inside know what they wanna do. The speculations and rumors are just more than I can remember in the offseason. TRB out…
Always more than one way to get it done TRB haha. I have a feeling we trade down and will be with either Titans or Dallas for me.
But I think there are more rumors flying around because of the uncertainty of this offseason compared to others.
What about the safety position? That’s a need that is rarely mentioned here. Rahim Moore should be available at #36, but we have so many other needs I think we might have to adress that through free agency or maybe even a trade.
I think that Dareus goes #1 to Carolina because i dont believe they are sold on this drafts QBs. I cant figure out if that is a good thing or bad for trade options. Plus they can tank another year like they did the last and score Luck.
Good- Top QB will be available for possible trade partners. I think most of the movers in the draft will be after the QB’s. We trade down and get Peterson.
Bad- All the top QB’s are available and most teams dont feel we will take one off the board i.e Arizona would still most likely get Newton or Gabbert.
If Dareus is there at two we are going to take him because of his talent and larger need than Peterson. I wish for PP + the trade down.
What do you guys think?
list of the RBs brought in to Dove Valley:
The Broncos have looked at some big backs available in this draft, including Illinois’ Mikel Leshoure (5-11, 227 pounds) and Kansas State’s Daniel Thomas (6-0-1/4, 230). They have made predraft visits to Dove Valley.
The Broncos also brought in Baylor’s Jay Finley (5-10, 205), North Carolina’s Johnny White (5-9, 209), Oklahoma’s DeMarco Murray (5-11, 211) and Oklahoma State’s Kendall Hunter (5-7-1/4, 199).
That points to a couple of things, the Broncos are most likely not looking to trade somewhere up or down into the mid to late first round because they have not invited Ingram over and that’s where you’d have to be to have a shot at him. And it also tells me they are eyeing either Leshoure or Thomas in the second, whichever one is available then.
Kengro…
While I would like the Panthers to take Dareus, there is no way that they pass on Newton. They have already spent soo much money with scouts with him and already put too much money and time into him. I am 90% sure that we will have the first defensive player off the board and unfortunately that looks like it will be Dareus!
Cdud…
I would love for us to take Jarrett in the third round. I do not think we should spend any 1st or 2nd round picks on offensive players of S. Our picks should hopefully go as follows but then again we’ve always picked differently than what we all really think!
CB/DT- Peterson
DT/LB- Paea/Wilson
LB/DT- Wilson/Austin
S- Jarrett
Morning Bay!
TRB…
I believe you are right in your evaluation on Paea, he is looked at being an early 2nd round pick, however, Austin has moved up into the late first round on most mock draft boards now. If we trade down with Arizona, and get their 2nd round pick as well, which is only 2 picks behind our first 2nd round pick, then I would love to get Austin and Paea both if they are there. But most likely one of them will be taken in the 1st round but we can always hope!! If we do not get both of them, I would love to get at least one of them and get Nevis as well!
And today is Von Miller day at the DP, I will spare you the details since there are no less than three articles about him all by Legwold.
I do still think that if Fox doesn’t go with Dareus or can’t because Carolina takes him, his next choice will probably be Von Miller, and the fact that we have Doom won’t change that because Fox is hell bent on pressuring QB’s.
Yea Bay…
I have said for a while that I would be thrilled with either Peterson or Miller. Miller is a pass rushing specialist and has the speed to cover any TE and RB that is put up against us!! He completely dominates offensive lines and would be a great piece to add along to doom and ayers!!
Those three players there would be a HUGE part of our defense!! If we do trade down however, no way we get him. I do not see him making it past Buffalo to be honest but then again if Panthers do take Dareus or Green, which is highly unlikely, Bills would be up for taking the 1st QB in the draft so who knows??
Now whenever I talked about numbers and stats yesterday with different players, I won’t mention his name, but Millers stats are hands down some of the best I’ve seen from a LB! Dude is just unstoppable and is a front 7 player that will automatically improve our defense from day 1
And pay very close attention to the draft master at work, not necessarily what he says about the possibilty of trading his picks but what he says in the last three paragraphs about the quality of the front 7 in this draft and what it will all be about:
Maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that coach Bill Belichick acknowledged he’s received tons of calls from teams interested in the Patriots’ slew of early-round draft picks.
Maybe it’s less of a surprise that Trader Bill also told Sirius NFL Radio hosts Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan that he wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger on draft day if the right deal came along.
“We’ve definitely been contacted by teams below us, offering (us) to move back, and (teams) seeing if we want to move up into a better position,” Belichick said. “Of course, that usually doesn’t get finalized until draft day, but there definitely seems to be a lot of interest in our draft picks.
“As you know, we’re not afraid to trade them,” he went on, hanging a bit on the last line for emphasis. “We’ll do what’s best for the team. We’ll evaluate those opportunities if they come up on draft day and take it from there.”
Belichick theorized that with so many teams wanting and needing a quarterback it may figure into a potential trade. The Pats hold picks Nos. 17 and 28 in the first round, and the coveted No. 33, the first pick in the second round, as part of their six picks in the opening three rounds. Belichick said the combination of Nos. 28 and 33 has the potential for some interesting possibilities.
“We kind of have two picks there, pretty close to each other, and sometimes that has some dynamics. It’s one of two spots somebody can move into, instead of just one,” he said. “One way or another, if teams want to deal, I think we’ll be one of the teams that they might want to talk to.”
The one area Belichick did zone in on with respect to the draft was the front seven on defense. He believes that area is pivotal and could make or break a team’s draft.
“I think that’s really going to be a key part in this whole draft. I think when we look back on it in a couple of years, and evaluate it, it will probably come down to which teams are able to evaluate those front seven positions the best,” he said. “There are going to be a lot of those players taken high, whether they (are) defensive linemen or defensive ends/outside linebackers.”
Belichick said it’s tough to get an accurate evaluation on those positions because there aren’t a lot of true rush outside linebackers in the college game.”
And Belichick offers us a couple more insights into his mad world:
“You have to make that decision, with the Robert Quinns and the Justin Houstons of the world, and all those guys, how well you think they can play on their feet, or how much you want to play them down,” Belichick said. “We dealt with that last year when we drafted Jermaine Cunningham, but when you look through the league, just about everybody’s got those players. Last year, it was Koa Misi down to Miami. You just have to project how well those guys are going to be able to play on their feet, or how much you want to play them down, and treat them pretty much as defensive ends even though you have a 3-4 base defense. Those are tough decisions, tough evaluations, but they are every year.”
With a little more than a week to go before the draft, Belichick indicated the Pats are now setting their final values and going through medical checks of players.
“Then you get to the last couple of days before the draft and you really can start to formulate some draft strategy based on other teams, other needs, and the calls you start getting,” he said.
Yea, there are 4 articles on Miller today at the denverpost
The N.F.L. will announce its regular-season schedule Tuesday, but it acknowledged for the first time a deadline by which a resolution to the labor stalemate is necessary to avoid disrupting the season. The N.F.L. said that if the standoff was not resolved by Aug. 1, the Oct. 23 game between the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that is scheduled for Wembley Stadium in London would revert to Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium. It is the fifth year in a row the N.F.L. has scheduled a game in London.
And to me that would be a good thing, this american football played in the land of rugby and soccer is for the birds, sorry to the UK fans here but I think that week is very disruptive to our league and the inconvenience of it far outweighs whatever international gains the NFL wants to achieve. Like if overall they give a crap about american football in Europe!!! Been there done that, it’s just a sorry side show hardly anyone understands over there. That’s an area where the owners and the league need to be more grounded, don’t think world wide, think best game in the U.S. because football IS now the American game and obviously the league has enough problems here with its business to work on! Like a cba would be nice…
I guess the schedule release has been pushed to tomorrow as Shefter tweets:
Get your popcorn ready. NFL schedule released tomorrow.
CBA would be grand!
Haha, go figure. Just like the CBA. Push it back another day. Makes no sense to release a schedule when there is potentially no season…
NFL says the show is still on at 5pm MST!?!?
They do have to reserve the stadiums though, otherwise they would be in deep dodo when they resume, haha.
Don’t know about that, just saw that tweet was posted by Shefter just 5 minutes ago.
This was as of 16 hours ago:
The NFL has confirmed the 2011 regular season schedule will be released on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. (ET). NFL Network (and ESPN) will carry a schedule release special.
Maybe that Shefter tweet was posted last night and for whatever reason delayed til just a while ago….
I guess we’ll find out at 7pm eastern tonight.
Bay agree 100% on the NFL match at wembley in the UK. I am in Belfast and would not pay to see it as it is too artificial. Let the team with homefield advantage play at home I say. Its always about the money. If someone said to me Manchester United are going to play Liverpool at Mile High as an actual league match I would tell them to wind their neck in.
Thank you for understanding Collie.
Is that a hint of sarcasm Bay? lol
I had to google “wind your neck in”!
Dont mind if I start using it!!!!!
(means to sit down, shut up, you are wrong! as defined by the urban dictionary!)
Yeah, I loved it and couldn’t help noticing he calls a football game an NFL match, haha.
No, that was from the heart, serious.
I must be really rough on a lot of you guys since very few think I can be genuinely nice, haha.
Thats the problem with the written word. lol. If you were being sarcastic I think I like it more, bit of humour never hurt anyone.
sndvl, just so you know mate, wind your neck in means in Irish terms take a step back. In other words your going to far. And by all means buddy feel free to use it, lol.
Thanks collies10!
I mentioned last year that I don`t like the NFL going to London. The NFL has no bussiness playing a regular season game away from home. It takes away from the fans, especially the home team that wants to see their team play live. It`s just wrong I think.
And Collie10, I like your analogy of watching a Futbol game at Mile High. It would just have a bad feel to it, not good.
Simple solution to the overseas game- make it an away game for both teams.
Maybe too simple I suppose!
New blog on schedule release today.
I see nothing wrong with the games outside the country. Its a great way for foreign fans to enjoy. We’ve been to both London and Japan if I remember correctly. The thing is Football is growing overseas so it makes sense. Playing a soccer game here will be slightly different cuz soccer is not unique to any one country. Its international and each Nation has its clubs so if you want to watch some good soccer just watch the clubs in your country. Football on the other hand is ONLY played in America on a largescale for the most part. I do agree it takes away from I guess a home game but I think its for a good cause and like sndvl says maybe it can be an away game for both teams lmao. TRB out…
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