Unlucky

The NFL regular season has come to an end. Playoffs are set to begin but some of us have started to think ahead to the draft. Don't get me wrong, i love the playoffs, but the NFL Draft has always intrigued me. In the Draft the Panthers (2-14) have been given the first pick. Many people have picked Andrew Luck out of 5 Stanford to go 1st overall to Carolina. Luck has lead a passing game that has seen Stanford go from one of the worst college teams to an elite one. Luck threw 32 TD passes, completed over 70% of his passes and had a passer rating of 107.2. Luck is 20-5 (over two years) as a starter at Stanford. Although there are at least two other QB's expected to go in the 1st round Luck should and would have gone first overall. Now i say would have because Luck has announced that he is going to spend another year at Stanford to finish his degree in architectural design.

For Luck i think this is great and i will not criticize his decision after all he is in school so it makes sense to get a degree. Luck's decision, however, has created a very interesting situation in the NFL. The Panthers may still take a QB with the first pick and if they do the Vikings are going to be in serious trouble. The Vikings have the 12th pick in this years draft and they need a QB. The Favre era is done (or at least it should be) and the Vikings need to find themselves someone to make their offence a vertical threat. With Luck in the draft it looked like Jake Locker out of Washington would be available for them but now Locker could go as high as 1st if the Panthers see him as their man moving forward. The other QB to go in the first is Ryan Mallett out of 8 Arkansas. Mallett will most likely go to either Carolina or Buffalo with the 5th pick because they can not afford to pass a QB again.

The Vikings are in trouble and they have some serious decisions to make. Will they trade up or will they trust to luck that a QB will still be available? Whatever the case the draft is shaping up to be very interesting this year and i, for one, am getting very excited.

I'm sure i will have more to say and maybe a mock draft the closer to the draft it gets.

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