Andre Woodson QB Kentucky:
It wasn’t too long ago that Woodson was neck and neck (and neck) with Matt Ryan and Brian Brohm, in the battle to be the first Quarterback off the board. Since then, Ryan and Brohm have both settled in nicely at the top of the first round, while Woodson has been free falling. Blessed with a prodigious 6′5 inch frame, and surprisingly nimble feet in the pocket, Woodson made scouts fall in love with him this season when he threw 325 consecutive passes without an interception, and led his team to a victory over eventual national champion LSU. Pointing to his accuracy as a sign of future stardom, scouts shot Woodson up the draft boards, before a rough ending to the season brought him back down to Earth, and a horrendous showing at the Senior Bowl sent him even lower. Woodson advocates claim that Mike Martz’s timing based offense didn’t fit Andre’s style, and was largely responsible for Woodson’s poor showing in Mobile. He desperatley needs an accurate showing in Sunday’s passing drills in order to convince people that he can contribute on the next level.

Jonathan Stewart RB Oregon:
Stewart isn’t on this list because he needs to stop the plummet of his stock, as Woodson is, but rather because he has a prime opportunity to improve it. Stewart, who possesses a rare blend of power and agility, is widely regarded as the underdog in his battle with Rashad Mendenhall for the right to be the second running back off the board (following Darren McFadden). He was able to wow scouts all season as a compliment to Dennis Dixon in the Ducks high powered offense, but was probably most impressive in his last game of the year, the Sun Bowl. Taking the field against a solid South Florida defense, as part of an offense that had been stagnant to say the least following Dixon’s season ending injury, Stewart ripped off 253 yards on 23 carries including a touchdown (not to mention 29 receiving yards and another trip to the endzone). Stewart could move past Mendenhall if he is able to post comparable numbers in the weight room, and beat him by a considerable margin in the 40 yard dash.

Limas Sweed WR Texas:
Sweed entered the 2007 college football campaign as the top receiver prospect in the 2008 draft, but a left wrist injury forced him to miss the entire year. Anxious to re-implement his name into scout’s minds, Sweed tried to play at the Senior Bowl, but his attempts backfired greatly as an injury shortened his week, and consequently made scouts even more weary of his inability to stay on the field. When healthy, Sweed is a can’t miss receiver prospect, with the ideal size and speed to be a dominant force at the next level. Scouts have combared him to Andre Johnson, which is a lofty comparison, but one that Sweed could easily justify if he added a little more explosiveness to his game. Missing the combine due to injury would be devastating to his stock but if he is able to give it a go, he could remind everybody of all of the skills that made him a potential top 10 pick to begin with.

Kellen Davis TE Michigan State:
Even in the Big Ten, Davis often found himself a man among boys physically. The 6′6 Vin Diesel look alike from Michigan State has all the physical dimensions necessary to be the next big thing in the NFL, and he will probably impress early on in Indianapolis, as the week starts with a measure of height, weight, and body fat. However, he should in turn find many curious eyes on him after his impressive showing at the weigh in, and if he looks at lost during the positional drills as he did during Senior Bowl week, he could be written off as a lost cause. The latter would be a shame, because with the proper coaching he could be a force for years to come at the highest level of competition. Without being given a chance, he could find himself bouncing around practice squads for the majority of his professional career.

Jake Long OL Michigan:
Rarely does the top prospect at a position qualify in the category of “has the most to prove”, but even Long himself feels that he belongs here. One of the few negatives on Long’s scouting report is that his lack of straight line speed and quickness makes him a detriment when run blocking, and possibly a disaster in the screen game. Long has been working at the famed Shaw combine training facility, trying desperately to improve his 40 time, and show scouts throughout the land that he is more than just a dominant pass blocker. If Long can prove that he is a complete blocker, he could be an even hotter commodity in the Top 5 of the draft than anybody had ever anticipated.

Glenn Dorsey DL LSU:
The consensus number 1 overall pick after his dominant performance in the national championship, it seems inactivity has been Dorsey’s downfall. While he has floated into relative anonymity during the offseason, another defensive lineman (Virginia’s Chris Long), has surpassed him as the favorite to go number 1 overall, and perhaps more importantly, USC’s Sedrick Ellis has used the strength (no pun intended) of a dominant Senior Bowl week to drastically close the gap between he and Dorsey for the honor of being the first Defensive Tackle selected. In fact, a significant minority of people have gone so far as to put Ellis ahead of Dorsey. Lineman help or hurt the stock in the weight room more than anything else during the combine, which could present a problem for Dorsey, because as rumor has it, USC had to order new weights for their training facilities because there wasn’t anything heavy enough for Ellis to lift. Dorsey needs to be able to at least hold his own with Ellis during the bench press session if he wants to remain the consensus top lineman in the draft.

Phillip Wheeler LB Georgia Tech:
Wheeler, one of many insanely productive collegiate linebackers in the upcoming draft, is an enigma among the NFL scouts. It is impossible to ignore his success at Georgia Tech, and he reinforced his success by showing great quickness, instinct, and tackling ability at the Senior Bowl. However, his lack of strength, and bulk sticks out like Nick Saban at an honesty convention (any excuse to hate on Saban). Wheeler needs to show the scouts that with time to prepare for the combine he has been able to add weight to his upper body, in order to compliment his playmaking potential with run stopping potential. A decent showing in the weight room could solidify his status as the second best MLB behind Penn State’s Dan Connor. A poor showing could put him in the class of other big time collegiate tackle machines who scouts have labeled as players who “don’t translate to the next level” (along with USF’s Ben Moffitt and Illinois’ J Leman).

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie DB Tennessee State:
Calling DRC’s week in Mobile impressive would be the understatement of the century. He didn’t move up the draft board, he shot up it, and instantly became the defensive back with the highest upside in the class. It doesn’t hurt that his cousin Antonio had a Pro Bowl year in San Diego, and that Dominique compares very well with Antonio’s game. He is a tall, fluid athlete, with playmaking ability that is unrivaled throughout the entire draft class on the defensive side of the ball. However, with his lack of experience against top level competition, scouts will be looking to the combine to see if he can provide consistency, or if he was just having am on week in Mobile. Regardless of how he does, some team will take a shot on him in Day 1, but if he can impress in positional drills, round one isn’t out of his realm of possibilities.

Something that I find interesting is that while Pryor will not sign today, he is still going to meet with his media. That to me is a bit of overkill on this story. Let the players that are going to decide on this date have their time in the lime light as he will once he decides. The young man has until April 1^st to make his decision. There is no set date when Pryor will now give his decision to the teams and the media.

From sources close to this recruiting it was believed that Michigan had the upper hand, since at Ann Arbor Terrelle Pryor would be starting right away, while at Ohio State he would have to wait his turn. However Pryor’s father has told the media that his son is “not worried about playing right away.” I will say that while I believe this to be true, I would not be surprised if it came down to one thing on where Terrelle is going to go the fact if he was to start right or way or not might just come into play.

The best part of this class is the wide receiver core, with Dan Buckner leading the way. Out of the four WR I could easily see three of them having major impact, both in the college ranks and even in the next level. Another good player coming to play for the Longhorns is cornerback Aaron Williams, who is with Buckner a five star recruit.

I have only seen highlight videos from the internet on any of these players.

Name & High School	Pos.	Rank	HT/WT	Commit  Date
Jeremy Hills (Alief Elsik HS)	RB		5′11″/185	02/11/07
Tre Newton (Carroll HS)	RB		6′0″/195	02/24/07
Dan Buckner (Allen HS)	WR		6′4″/206	02/11/07
Derrick Grant (Johnson HS)	WR		6′2″/191	12/16/07
Desean Hales (Klein Oak HS)	WR		5′11″/180	06/10/07
Antoine Hicks (Mansfield Timberview HS)	WR		6′0″/190/	02/16/07
David Snow (Gilmer HS)	OG		6′4″/295	02/02/07
Mark Buchanan (Austin HS)	OT		6′5″/270	02/11/07
Luke Poehlmann (Brenham HS)	OT		6′5″/260	02/16/07
Jarvis Humphrey (Cedar Hill HS)	DT		6′2″/290	03/13/07
Kheeston Randall (Monsignor Kelly HS)	DT		6′4″/270	02/26/07
Emmanuel Acho (St. Mark’s School of Texas)	LB		6′1″/210	02/11/07
Dravannti Johnson (Nederland HS)	LB		6′2″/230	04/23/07
Ryan Roberson (Brenham HS)	LB		5′11″/215	02/11/07
Brock Fitzhenry (Giddings HS)	CB		5′9″/175	02/11/07
D.J. Monroe (Angleton HS)	CB		5′9″/165	02/11/07
Aaron Williams (McNeil HS)	CB		6′0″/174	02/11/07
Nolan Brewster (Mullen HS)	S		6′1″/195	03/19/07
Blake Gideon (Leander HS)	S		6′1″/190	04/01/07
Justin Tucker (Westlake HS)	K		6′1″/175	02/11/07