Draft Guides?

[Limee]

We are heading over to California at the end of the month and I want to pick up a draft guide or two while I have the chance. What would you recommend if any and what would you avoid?

[Byron2112]

Well, I just picked up the Sporting News guide just so I'd have something.

They rank Brady Quinn as a 3rd rounder... if that's any indication of the insanity that goes into these things.

I used to like Pro Football Weekly becasue they have a large number of profiles, but it's like $20.

Buyer beware I spose with anything you'll find on the news rack.

[massraider]

Yeah, Pro Football Weekly has a decent one. They publish two, one is a magazine, which is OK, and a book-type thing that is much more in-depth.

[007]

I've got PFW, ESPN, Lindy's and Sporting News.

They all have the main thing in common...Printed before the combine, so a guy like Bryan Robinson and Leon Hall's forty times are .3-.5 off and most of the listed measurables stuff are simply guesses...

I like Lindy's and ESPN's best, with PFW a close third.

Sporting New's is skip worthy this year. They were trying to be too outside the box, ranking Quinn 49th overall and a 3rd rounder, and giving hard working low ceiling guys like Pitcock, Crowder and Harrell 6 an 7th round grades.

Horrible.

[Byron2112]

The really odd thing about the Sporting News is they rank Quinn a 3rd rounder, but put him on the cover?!

WTF?

[Limee]

Thanks for the advice.

[hawaiianboy]

The really odd thing about the Sporting News is they rank Quinn a 3rd rounder, but put him on the cover?!

WTF?


I'm sure they're counting on the Quinn fanboys to spike sales :D ...


I think the cover is a regional thing though... The one with Quinn on the cover must go to areas with a high percentage of pillow biters (no offense intended Limee, but just for your own safety, be sure it's hypo-allergetic) because the TSN distributed where I'm at features Dwayne Jarrett on the cover with the headline "Scouts love him... or hate him"... I glanced through it the other day at Safeway, but as usual, I find TSN pretty unimpressive...

I usually pick up the ESPN one as my reading room material..

[007]

I got the Quinn one with the same heading.

Im not gay though... ;)

[Byron2112]

Wierd, I live in Washington state... maybe Hawaii gets whatever falls off the back a the truck?

[Turo]

While more challenging, you'd think that these draft-guide folks would either:

a) Put out a revised edition post-combine (more sales!)
b) Wait until the combine and THEN put out the comprehensive guide

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