Mock Draft for the Ages

[gmlane]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=ages1/090420&sportCat=nfl

What if we could hop in a time machine and bring back all the best prospects in history for this year's draft? Of course, professional accomplishments don't count. This exercise is based strictly on the scouting reports at the conclusion of college careers. Our big board is an amalgam of only the most ballyhooed prospects. With a few exceptions, these are players who were drafted in the top five overall. Players such as Joe Montana and Tom Brady, who were seen as too physically limited by many evaluators, need not apply.

8. Jaguars: Calvin Johnson, WR, Georgia Tech
Team needs: cornerback, wide receiver, defensive tackle
The Jaguars get arguably the most physically gifted wide receiver in college history by reaching for Georgia Tech's career leader in receiving yards and touchdown receptions. Check out these measurables: 4.35 seconds in the 40, 42½-inch vertical leap and an 11-foot, 7-inch standing broad jump. This pick should give Jacksonville the elusive star receiver the team has sought by using first-round picks on R. Jay Soward, Reggie Williams and Matt Jones since 2000. Johnson admitted in pre-draft interviews with teams that he has smoked marijuana, but he passed drug screening at the NFL combine.
AFC South blogger Paul Kuharsky: Jacksonville believes it will end a long, bad stretch of receiver selections with big, athletic Johnson, who is viewed as a can't-miss talent coming out of Georgia Tech, where he averaged 16.4 yards a catch and scored 28 touchdowns in three seasons. The biggest other temptation was cornerback Charles Woodson.

 

[GTJackets]

8th pick seems kind of like a stretch but I'll take it. I miss Calvin.

 

[gnats67]

8th pick seems kind of like a stretch but I'll take it. I miss Calvin.

Quite a mouthful right there. Don't we all! Too bad we didn't have a QB that could hit the numbers at the time and sadly we still don't so far.

Wonder what this new kid, Hill, will be like? Looking forward to Jordan Luallen as well.

Can we get a QB that can hit an open receiver? Why is this assignment so hard? Too busy running the big 3-O? I don't buy it anymore than saying they're not making footballs the same anymore.