Tag Archives: Keith Rivers

2008 NFL Draft Winners: Chiefs and Dolphins take big steps towards rebuilding

Now that the NFL Draft is over, it’s time to take a look back at some of the big winners from the weekend. Two teams who came into the draft needing a great weekend to aid their rebuilding process were the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins. They did just that, but they weren’t the [...]

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2008 NFL Draft First Round Questions: Picks 9-16

Yesterday, I analyzed the options that teams with picks 1-8 in the upcoming NFL Draft have, and what talented prospects they’re most likely to pin their hopes and dreams on.

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Eddie Griffin’s Updated Mock Draft

The NFL Draft is less than a week away, and I’ll be updating my mock draft within the next day or two to include a third round, but for now, you can still check out my current mock.

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2008 NFL Draft Needs: NFC West

The NFC West, at least in its current incarnation, has never produced a Super Bowl champion, and the last team in the division to win the Big Game was the St. Louis Rams in 2000. Needless to say, the division has been fighting for respectability for nearly a decade.

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Who is ‘Linebacker U?’

When Penn State’s Dan Connor and USC’s Keith Rivers are chosen in this year’s NFL Draft, they will continue a tradition that has entrenched their schools as two of the preeminent linebacker-producing schools in the country.

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Monday combine updates: Top prospects and sleepers alike steal the show.

On Monday, the defensive linemen and linebackers had their auditions in front of scouts at the combine. There were several impressive performers, and at the same time, there were a few guys who fell flat on their faces. Here’s a look back at many of the notable performances from the next-to-last day of competition at [...]

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2008 NFL Draft Analysis: LBs – Rivers and Connor lead the way.

In this year’s class of linebackers, top prospects Keith Rivers and Dan Connor are sure-fire first round draft picks. But after those two, things drop off significantly.

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