Nick Mangold became the fifth Buckeye to go in the first round after he was taken by the New York Jets with the 29th pick. Jim Tressell and the Ohio State program should be proud of this showing. Ohio State is definitely one of the elite programs in the country.
Ashton Youboty could have made it six Buckeyes in the first round, but Seattle went with another corner with the 31st pick so Ashton will have to settle for the second round.
As a Browns fan, I hate it when the Steelers make a great draft pick. Unfortunately, they’ve been doing a great job in the draft for years and it finally paid off with a Super Bowl title.
The Steelers have done it again, trading up seven spots to take Ohio State’s Santonio Holmes. This is a great pick for the Steelers. I’m happy for Santonio, but this sucks for Browns fans.
The Ohio State Buckeyes continue to make a statement in the first round. Bobby Carpenter goes higher than expected with the 19th pick to the Dallas Cowboys. Bill Parcells knows Bobby’s father who also played in the NFL, so he knows he getting a high character player. With A.J. Hawk going with the fifth pick to Green Bay and Donte Whitner going very high with the eighth pick to Buffalo, the Buckeyes are off to a very good start. Three down and possibly three more to go in the first round.
Congratulations to Donte Whitner! He went to Buffalo with the 8th pick of the NFL draft. That’s huge. he deserves credit, and he obviously made the right decision going out early.
Phil Savage has called A. J. Hawk the “safest pick in the draft,” so Terry Pluto is asking why don’t the Browns try harder to trade up to get him? He argues the Browns should consider trading their #1 pick for this year and next year for Hawk, as long as they can get some decent late round picks in return.
This would be a very tough call. Hawk is a stud, and he could anchor a team’s defense for ten years. He’s Chris Speilman but with much more talent. If he lives up to that billing, the trade would be worth it. The Browns could have a decent season next year, and that would make next year’s less valuable. Yet the Browns could also end up with a great player at #12.
The one factor holding Savage back might be the huge salary that the team would need to pay for a pick in the top five. That might be enough to make him stay put at #12.
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