College expert takes stab at predicting prospects

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    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/stewart_mandel/04/23/2008draft/index.html

    Are you kidding me? It's not like we play the games in shorts."
    -- A major college assistant, speaking to me about the NFL's absurd overemphasis on combines and 40 times.

    "Half [of mock drafts] are put together by NFL writers who watched two Notre Dame games at the airport bar and the second half of the Sugar Bowl."
    -- Dan Patrick in last week's Sports Illustrated.

    My annual overrated/underrated list is based almost entirely on me reading the aforementioned mock drafts and projections and thinking to myself: "Are you serious? Are they really talking about the same guy I watched in college?"
     

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