2010 NFL Draft Links

Tusekan Raiders · January 3, 2010

Collection of the best free NFL draft information on the net. I don't include a site if most of their draft content is premium (e.g. ESPN). The first post has general links and resources. The second has unclassmen declared. The third has all-star game coverage. The fourth has Combine and Pro Day/individual workout coverage.

NFL DRAFT LINKS

FFToday.com

Draft Tracker

FFToday's Draft Contest

Mock Draft Version 3.0 - from yours truly

Draft websites

NFL.com Draft Central

Draft information on the NFL’s official website. Mike Mayock's analysis and the Combine updates and Pro Day tracking by Gil Brandt are the best features. Some 2010 articles in link, but still mostly 2009 draft stuff.

Draftguys

Premier ff podcast pioneers and draftniks Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom began this site a couple years ago and dropped "nfl" from the front of the site name last year.

CBS NFL Draft home - CBS partnered with Frank Cooney's NFLDraftScout.com and now provides some fantastic free content, including lots of Rob Rang's stuff. A lot of the detailed NFLDraftScout.com stuff is still pay, but their stuff for the current class is great and free. I'm not a big fan of CBS due to their price gouging of fantasy, but this is top notch content.

NFL Draft Countdown

For one-stop shopping of NFL draft information, Scott Wright has one of the better independent free draft websites. Nice layout, easy navigation, solid ranking, decent profiles, and Scott produces one of the better mocks every year. Also has a good blog.

Sports Illustrated Draft Central - not up yet

SI.com has been the best in class of the big box brands, and continues to be free. Their ranking (link by position) are typically excellent and include video clips. Look for Tony Pauline stories (click here), he is one of the best guys out there covering NFL prospects and the draft.

TFY Draft - Mostly premium content, but I include it b/c it's Tony Pauline's site and he provides great free content to SI (see above).

NFL Draft Bible - John Murphy, one of the better draft experts out there, left Yahoo! last year and is now affiliated with this site, so it becomes worth visiting for that.

National Football Post - hot new addition launched by a collection of former scouts, execs, and players last year. They had a dedicated draft site last year, currently it is just mapping to their main page.

Draft Daddy

First turned on to this site for their undrafted free agent coverage, but they have all kinds of solid draft content. I'm a big fan and by far the best feature is their blog, the best one out there for a constant stream of draft info.

Football's Future

One of the more improved sites the last couple of years. Originally known for their mock draft links, they also have comprehensive and original profiles and team needs analysis.- Rankings and prospect profiles

New Era Scouting

Bloom turned me on to this site and I was an instant fan. Solid rankings, in-depth profiles with original content (still growing) and some other good stuff.

Dallas News NFL Draft Home - featuring Rick Gosselin, one of the most respected newspaper draftniks.

Gosselin rankings

- Gosselin archive

- Dallas Morning News college football blog

Great Blue North Draft Report

Best feature of Canuck Colin Lindsey’s site is the running news updates on the main page. Another nice feature is the frequently updated Junior Scoreboard, tracking the status of underclassmen.

Pro Football Weekly NFL Draft Home

Nolan Nawrocki and this site grew on me for the first time last year since the Joel Buschbaum days. Free content is a little more robust. NOTE: also prospect talk in the College Notes and College Football Extras sections.

Rivals.com NFL Draft home - some great free articles and all-star coverage. Frank Coyle, who I'm not the biggest fan of, is the main contributor to the rankings, though.

ScoutNFLExperts.com - part of Scout.com network. In-depth stuff and profiles are not free, but rankings and enough good articles are. Fox Sports is partnered with Scout.com, so most is pay, but their partnership with CFN.scout.com is free and in Pete Fiutak's articles you can find draft content.

War Room Report

hR mock draft links - Nice compilation of mocks, bills themselves as the largest such resource on the net.

Consensus Draft Services

NFLfans.com (formerly The Draft Exchange)

Quirky site whose brutally crowded layout is a sensory overload. Look on the left for prospect rankings and profiles. Forums seem to find some unique and hard-to-find information, especially during the Combine and workouts.

Fantasy Football Toolbox Draft Index

Busy site with a lot of adds and occasional pop-ups, but a lot of content, especially mock drafts from their writers and around the net. Rankings with a lot of profiles, but some lacking content and/or out-of-date.

KFFL Draft Central

WalterFootball.com - not too in-depth, but solid rankings and quick bios.

The Z Report - Houston Chronicle blog - Chronicle draft/ff blog writer Lance Zierlein has sporadic, Texan-focused coverage.

AOL Fanhouse NFL prospect blog entries - AOL blogs filed under 'NFL prospects' keyword

AOL Fanhouse NFL Draft blog entries - AOL blogs filed under 'NFL draft' keyword

Draftboard Insider - mostly a blog w/good Senior Bowl coverage and some other basics.

NFL Draft Dog - started in 2008, pretty basic.

The NFL Draft Site - blog with some pretty basic stuff.

Houston Texans 2009 Draft Central - good coverage for a team site, but obvious focus on Texans. Not updated for 2010 yet.

About.com NFL Draft home - hit or miss quality, as you know if used about.com to ever find any kind of info.

Draft news

ProSportsDaily.com NFL Draft News

Google news on NFL Draft

Profootballtalk.com Rumor Mill - infamous rumor mill has been known to break stories before the mainstream media. This is all NFL news, but I've found interesting draft stuff on here too.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS

College Football News.com

I'm rather disappointed collegefootballnews.com mergered with scout.com (now cfn.scout.com). The content is more or less the same, the best college football website on the net. However, the layout suffers from merging with the crowded scout.com format, as well as their pop-ups. Although almost all the content remains free, scout.com is fee-driven, so we could be losing another great free site soon. Look for articles by Pete Fiutak who covers draft stuff there.

College Sports TV (CSTV)

USA Today conference reports

TSN D-IA Coverage

TSN D-IAA Coverage

College Sporting News (CSN)

Top D-IAA football website. The former I-AA.org merged with them.

D2football.com

One of the top websites covering NCAA Division II football reviews some dark horses. Pro hopefuls is their preseason review of top DII NFL prospects.

RESOURCES

DraftHistory.com

NFL.com Draft History

CBSSportsline.com Draft History

Wikipedia entry for NFL Draft

Official NCAA football statistics (all divisions)

2010 traded draft picks (courtesy of Draft Insiders' Digest)

2010 free agents (courtesy of Football's Future)

2010 free agents (courtesy of The Red Zone)

Official site of NFL Combine

THR Mock Draft scores (2009 ranking, obviously)

2009 NFL Draft Links thread

2008 NFL Draft Links thread

2007 NFL Draft Links thread

2006 NFL Draft Links thread

Tusekan Raiders · January 3, 2010

UNDERCLASSMEN

Deadline for underclassmen to apply - January 15th (then 72 hours to withdraw).

53 underclassmen declare - AP article from SI.com

QB (3): Bradford, Sam - OK; Clausen, Jimmy - ND, Snead, Jevan - MISS

RB (6): Best, Jahvid - CAL; Dwyer, Jonathan - GT; Marshall, Darius - Marshall; Mathews, Ryan - Fresno St; McKnight, Joe - USC; McNeal, Shawnbrey - SMU

WR (9): Benn, Arrelious - IL; Briscoe, Dezmon - KU; Brown, Antonio - CMU; Bryant, Dez - OK St; Mitchell, Carlton - USF; Tate, Golden - ND; Thomas, Demaryius - GT; Williams, Damian - USC; Williams, Mike - Syracuse

TE (3): Gresham, Jermaine - OK; Gronkowski, Rob - AZ; Hernandez, Aaron - FLA

OL (4): Pouncey, Maurkice - FLA; Bulaga, Bryan - Iowa; Campbell, Bruce - MD; Davis, Anthony - Rutgers

DL (11): Basped, Kevin - Nevada; Dunlap, Carlos - FLA; Geathers, Clifton - USC; Gibson, Thaddeus - OSU; Griffen, Everson - USC; Morgan, Derrick - GT; Pierre-Paul, Jason - USF; Worilds, Jason - VaTech; Joseph, Linval - ECU; McCoy, Gerald - OK; Price, Brian - UCLA

LB (3): Bowman, Navorro - PSU; Curran, Rennie - GA; McClain, Rolando - Alabama

DB (14): Berry, Eric - TEN; Burnett, Morgan - GT; Franks, Dominique - OK; Haden, Joe - FLA; Jackson, Kareem - Alabama; Jones, Chad - LSU; Jones, Reshad - GA; Moore, Joshua - KSU; Norton, Jerell - Arkansas; Rogan, Dennis - TEN; Spievey, Amari - Iowa; Thomas, Earl - TX; Warren, Donovan - Michigan; Wright, Major - FLA

Scout.com Underclassmen Tracker

NFL Draft Bible Underclassmen Tracker

CBSSports.com article - Prepare for Overload of Underclassmen

Tusekan Raiders · January 3, 2010

ALL-STAR GAMES

Senior Bowl

Saturday, 1/30/10 4pm EST

Official website

NFL.com Senior Bowl coverage

AL.com coverage and Mobile Register (AL) stories

GBN report

PFW coverage

NFL Draft Countdown Senior Bowl HQ - must change text size to largest on IE

PFW Blog

Google news search on "Senior Bowl"

East-West Shrine Game

Saturday, 1/23/10 3pm EST

Played every year since 1925, it is the longest running college all-star game and now, with the end of the Hula Bowl, a clear second in prestige to the Senior Bowl.

Official website

Google news search on "Shrine Game"

Cactus Bowl - DII

Friday, 1/8/10 7:35pm EST

Official website

Texas vs the Nation

Saturday, 2/6/10 2pm EST

Official Website

East Coast Bowl

Saturday, 11/28/09 Noon EST

Official website

Game Recap