Pittsburgh Pirates Top Prospects

1) Gerrit Cole .... RHP
2) Josh Bell ... OF
3) Jameson Taillon ... RHP
4) Alen Hanson ... SS
5) Luis Heredia ... RHP
6) Starling Marte ... OF
7) Tony Sanchez .... C
8) Robbie Grossman ... OF
9) Clay Holmes ... RHP
10) Gregory Polanco ... OF
11) Jeff Locke ... LHP
12) Victor Black ... RHP
13) Rudy Owens ... LHP
14) Nick Kingham ... RHP
15) Alex Dickerson ... 1B
16) Colton Cain ... LHP
17) Bryan Morris ... RHP
18) Justin Wilson ... LHP
19) Kyle McPherson ... RHP
20) Zack Von Rosenberg .. RHP

2012 Top 100 Prospects

As promised, top 100 prospects..

1) RGIII qb
2) Matt Kalil LT
3) Andrew Luck QB
4) Justin Blackmon WR
5) Trent Richardson RB
6) Melvin Ingram MLB
7) David DeCastro OG
8) Quinton Coples
9) Luke Kuechly MLB/ILB
10) Morris Claiborne CB
11) Mark Barron FS
12) Fletcher Cox DL
13) Michael Brockers DL
14) Dontari Poe DL
15) Stephon Gilmore CB
16) Dre Kirkpatrick CB
17) Dont'a Hightower ILB
18) Nick Perry HYBRID II (3-4 OLB)
19) Janoris Jenkins CB
20) Riley Reiff OG|G/T
21) Coby Fleener
22) Courtney Upshaw
23) Whitney Mercilus
24) Stephen Hill
25) Jerel Worthy
26) Devon Still
27) Jonathan Martin
28) Mike Adams
29) Andre Branch
30) Chris Owusu
31) Cordy Glenn
32) Michael Floyd
33) Ryan Tannehill
34) Shea McClellin
35) Kelechi Osemele
36) Peter Konz
37) Alshon Jeffery
38) David Wilson
39) Kevin Zeitler
40) Amini Silatolu
41) Zach Brown
42) Kendall Wright
43) Mychal Kendricks
44) Chandler Jones
45) Lamar Miller
46) Brandon Brooks
47) James Brown
48) AJ Jenkins
49) Josh Robinson
50) Harrison Smith

2012 WR CLASS

Potential Non-Dime-A-Dozen
1) Justin Blackmon
2) Stephen Hill
3) Chris Owusu
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Non Dime Potential
5) Tommy Streeter -- hit or miss big time, i like him a lot
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Dimes
4) Michael Floyd
6) Kendall Wright
7) Alshon Jeffrey
8) Kendall Wright
9) AJ Jenkins
10) Travis Benjamin
11) Chris Givens
12) Greg Childs (non dime potential)
13) Ryan Broyles
14) Reuben Randle
15) Junior Hemingway
16) Danny Coale
17) Joe Adams
18) TY Hilton
19) Devier Posey
20) Marvin Mcnutt

2012 QB CLASS

Tier 1 -- franchise QBs

1) Robert Griffin III ***
2) Andrew Luck ***

-- two three star QBs in this class, just TWO! FST is our formula for ranking players if you don't know (three star max)
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3) Ryan Tannehill -- i guess
4) Kirk Cousins *FST (3rd-4th)
5) Russell Wilson
6) Nick Foles
7) Case Keenum
8) Ryan Lindley
9) Brandon Weeden -- and you Weeden, you're too fucking old! get outta here (fight club), actually he's not bad
10) Jacory Harris
11) Darron Thomas
12) Kellen Moore

Key: *FST, means underrated, love this guy

Top Tier: A-  -- two studs for a long time, had Barkley declared you're looking at 2004. Deja Vu. Tannehill is your JP Losman, some think he's Roethlisberger trying to lump him in with the two *** QBs in this class.. oops
Overall Class: C+

2012 TE CLASS

1) Coby Fleener -- round one
2) Orson Charles -- looks more explosive on field than he really is
3 Michael Egnew
4) Dwayne Allen -- overrated
5) James Hanna
6) Ladarius Green *FST , get his ass in the gym tho
7) Drake Dunsmore
8) Deangelo Peterson

Key: *FST, means underrated, love this guy

Top Tier: B
Overall Class: C+

2012 RB CLASS

Tier 1 -- think '08 RB class talent, also "cant miss" players, not necessarily ***

1) Trent Richardson -- love this kid, takes a big ole dump on Mark Ingram
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Tier 2 -- -- think Shady Mccoy, Shonn Greene level talent

2) Lamar Miller
3) David Wilson -- borderline tier 2, hit or miss no doubt, probably dont like his value where he'll be drafted either

---not good enough value for either, tier 3 will suffice
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Tier 3 -- share the load types, skat backs, sleepers/underrated, depth RBs

4) Doug Martin -- if you want Mark Ingram here ya go, i hate when people spend so much $$$ on a name, i guess Trent Richardson is kind of like that bc he's a top 5 pick but i like his name ha and FST measurables
5) LaMichael James -- i love this kid, skat back, way better than J. Best (whom he should be compared) size bit of concern, explosive, fast, id take him over Doug Martin, tier 2 type really but question ability to carry full load
6) Isaiah Pead *FST
7) Bernard Pierce *FST ---PHYSICAL RUNNER, wit sufficient speed
8) Chris Rainey (fourth round) -- skat back
9) Robert Turbin *FST
10) Cyrus Gray -- fast, question agillity/explosiveness
11) Chris Polk -- a glorified Baron Batch
12) Edwin Baker
13) Brandon Bolden
14) Dan Herron
15) Tauren Poole

Key: *FST means UNDERRATED, love this guy

Overall Class: B-
Top Tier: D

Tigers Sometimes Change Their Stripes

After some deliberation i have decided to give my final decision on this years draft class. I like RGIII more than Andrew Luck and those two are the only franchise caliber type quarterbacks of this class. Sprinkled in are some potential gems but they need some serious shoe shine. I rank each class assuming each qb i have ever seen somehow found himself in the same draft with all of his peers.

1) John Elway
2) Dan Marino
3) Joe Montana
4) Peyton Manning
5) Cam Newton
6) Steve Young
7) Michael Vick
8) Aaron Rodgers
9) Brett Favre
10) RG III
11) Tom Brady
12) Jim Kelly
13) Ben Roethlisberger
14) Andrew Luck
15) Johnny Unitas
16) Eli Manning
17) Terry Bradshaw
18) Drew Brees
19) Joe Namath
20) Troy Aikman


Michael Vick we will never know about and it is hard to argue but he is FST with his electrifying nature and in his prime was unstoppable. I remember the game he tied against the Steelers he converted four 3rd & 20's and two of which happened on the same drive. It was like phew 3rd & 20 again and the guy converts again and again. He keeps hanging around, hanging around ..

FST Big Board

I was thinking about how many prospects for my big board and this just made too much sense.  Darche McShay uses 32. That kinda makes sense because there are 32 teams. My man Mel uses 25 and i like that and all but i feel the magic number should be more like 20.  These teams are not playoff teams and shrinking the talent pool per se is kinda like the reason we use a *** system of ranking players instead of 5.  More consistency a la more precision.  And if you're picking top 10 and you're busting every year left and right a top 20 list gives teams a better guide on what the true talent is.  As usual, we will release the top 100 prospects in April.

1) Andrew Luck QB ***
2) Robert Griffin III QB ***
3) Justin Blackmon WR ***
4) Matt Kalil OT
5) Trent Richardson
6) Quinton Coples (HYBRID) -- DE in lehman terms and for everyone else ( 4-3 DE) but in my created defense a HYBRID .. these type of players rush the QB ALMOST every play. Hybrid II are like the Demarcus Ware types.
7) Dre Kirkpatrick CB
8) Morris Claiborne CB
9) Jonathan Martin OT
10) Devon Still DL
11) David DeCastro OG
12) Vontaze Burfict LB
13) Mark Barron S
14) Fletcher Cox DL
15) Riley Reiff OT
16) Courtney Upshaw LB
17) Jerel Worthy DL
18) Luke Kuechly LB
19) Melvin Ingram DL
20) Whitney Mercilus NFL Hybrid DE/OLB (HYBRID II)

Just Missed
25-35 Michael Floyd WR
25-35 LaMichael James RB
25-35 Alfonzo Dennard CB

.. this means these players are late 1st/early 2nd round picks and FST ranking does not merit a top 20 pick