The Draft Has Begun - Official Draft Discussion Thread

[aholbert]

The Draft has begun! It will be untimed until 10am Saturday morning and then the following time limits will apply:

Pick Times:
1st Round: 4 hours
Rounds 2-5: 2 hours
Round 6-7: 1 hour
The draft clock runs from 8am to 12 midnight ET.


With the first pick in the 2014 OSFL Draft, the Columbus Catfish select:

WR Shannon Rudzinski from Bethune Cookman

[Matt]

Saw that coming! Great WR. Washington is on the clock...

[BradZ]

With the 2nd pick of the draft WAS selects: T Marcus Martin - Central Florida


BOS is "on the clock"

[Jistic]

Went with Joel Montoya, moving him to CB.

[Jake]

Nice pick Jistic. I had some pipe dreams of grabbing him at 1.10.

[Jistic]

Thanks, had him and one other player almost equal. But his ability to play CB cinched it.

[nflchampion]

Rudzinski was the slam dunk, runaway number 1 pick in this draft. After that I had a bunch of players closely bunched. I strongly considered Montoya, but went with Burmeister because I had him as underrated, really liked his combines and bars, and think pairing him with Segers means I can comfortably make the switch to 4-3 I've been planning on to use the DT depth I've been building up. Whether this is a successful shift is still a matter of debate, but I'm looking forward to see how it plays out.

[Aston]

Is it appropriate to put draft-day trades here? If not, I'll put up a new thread.

Otherwise, Utah's first round pick is for sale.

[Guest]

Burmeister was a bit of a reach at 4 but thats me being sour cause id hoped hed fall LOL . he looks very good great way to begin rebuilding

i am officially jealous

[Guest]

Is it appropriate to put draft-day trades here? If not, I'll put up a new thread.

Otherwise, Utah's first round pick is for sale.

i put mine in the trade sub forum

[aholbert]

Is it appropriate to put draft-day trades here? If not, I'll put up a new thread.

Otherwise, Utah's first round pick is for sale.

Its appropriate to announce that you are interested in trading your pick here but if you actually make a trade, please create a thread in the Trade Announcement forum.

[aholbert]

Pearl Harbor is now on the clock.

[aholbert]

The draft so far:

<table class="data" align="center"><tbody><tr><td class="heading">Pick </td> <td class="heading"> Team </td> <td class="heading"> Name </td> <td class="heading"> Pos </td> <td class="heading"> School </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="light" style=""> 1 - 1 (1) </td> <td class="light" style=""> CLB </td> <td class="light" style=""> Shannon Rudzinski </td> <td class="light" style=""> WR </td> <td class="light" style=""> Bethune Cookman </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dark" style=""> 1 - 2 (2) </td> <td class="dark" style=""> WAS </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Marcus Martin </td> <td class="dark" style=""> T </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Central Florida </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="light" style=""> 1 - 3 (3) </td> <td class="light" style=""> BOS * </td> <td class="light" style=""> Allen Rose </td> <td class="light" style=""> DE </td> <td class="light" style=""> Louisville </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dark" style=""> 1 - 4 (4) </td> <td class="dark" style=""> MOR </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Kendrick Burmester </td> <td class="dark" style=""> OLB </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Indiana </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="light" style=""> 1 - 5 (5) </td> <td class="light" style=""> WAC * (30 min) </td> <td class="light" style=""> Van Humphries </td> <td class="light" style=""> T </td> <td class="light" style=""> Duke </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dark" style=""> 1 - 6 (6) </td> <td class="dark" style=""> CHI </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Joel Montoya </td> <td class="dark" style=""> S </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Auburn </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="light" style=""> 1 - 7 (7) </td> <td class="light" style=""> BKL </td> <td class="light" style=""> Glenn Covington </td> <td class="light" style=""> DT </td> <td class="light" style=""> Wisconsin </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dark" style=""> 1 - 8 (8) </td> <td class="dark" style=""> PC * </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Will Ross </td> <td class="dark" style=""> QB </td> <td class="dark" style=""> Utah </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="light" style=""> 1 - 9 (9) </td> <td class="light" style=""> PH </td> <td class="light" style=""> Rick Krakowiecki </td> <td class="light" style=""> CB </td> <td class="light" style=""> Jacksonville State </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dark" style="font-weight: bold;">
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[Jake]

With the 10th pick in the first round, the Charlotte Knights select:

Fernando Carlin, WR from Fresno State



Charlotte flirted with trading this pick and was committed to the move, but the front office changed it's mind at the last second and did not pass up the talented senior from Fresno State.

GM Jake Wolf felt that Carlin holds similar potential to #1 pick Shannon Rudzinski, although Carlin does not have the return skills or history of Rudzinski.

[Eaglesfan27]

New Orleans is rumored to have wanted Carlin, but is reportedly very happy with consolation prize Norman Sanders.