Rounds 2 and 3 - Best Remaining Players (total rankings)

[StarSpangledSteeler]

Sorry for the post length. Here are 4 independent top 100 lists in order (subtracting out the 32 players already chosen). This should give a good idea at who could be available at the Steelers spots (52 + 82) based strictly on overall rankings since teams will likely be trading up like crazy. If anyone has ESPN INSIDER I'd be interested in seeing Kiper's and McShay's.

RICK GOSSELIN'S TOP 100:

33. Jimmy Clausen QB Notre Dame
34. Rodger Saffold OT Indiana
35. Sergio Kindle OLB Texas
36. Taylor Mays S Southern Cal
37. Rob Gronkowski TE Arizona
38. Brian Price DT UCLA
39. Sean Lee MLB Penn State
40. Nate Allen S S. Florida
41. Koa Misi DE Utah
42. Golden Tate WR Notre Dame
43. Daryl Washington OLB TCU
44. Chris Cook CB Virginia
45. Charles Brown OT Southern Cal
46. Everson Griffen DE Southern Cal
47. Terrence Cody NT Alabama
48. Damian Williams WR Southern Cal
49. Tony Moeaki TE Iowa
50. Ben Tate HB Auburn
51. Navorro Bowman OLB Penn State
52. Regus Benn WR Illinois
53. Colt McCoy QB Texas
54. Aaron Hernandez TE Florida
55. Jonathan Asamoah G Illinois
56. Dexter McCluster WR Mississippi
57. Linval Joseph NT E.Carolina
58. Dominique Franks CB Oklahoma
59. Corey Wootton DE Northwestern
60. Dennis Pitta TE BYU
61. Bruce Campbell OT Maryland
62. Jerome Murphy CB S.Florida
63. Zane Beadles G Utah
64. Thaddeus Gibson DE Ohio State
65. Javier Arenas CB Alabama
66. Toby Gerhart HB Stanford
67. Vladimir Ducasse OT UMass
68. Eric Decker WR Minnesota
69. Jimmy Graham TE Miami-F
70. Lamarr Houston DT Texas
71. Morgan Burnett S Ga. Tech
72. Corey Peters DT Kentucky
73. Brandon LaFell WR LSU
74. Chad Jones S LSU
75. Taylor Price WR Ohio
76. Montario Hardesty HB Tennessee
77. Brandon Spikes MLB Florida
78. Emmanuel Sanders WR SMU
79. Ricky Sapp OLB Clemson
80. Al Woods DT LSU
81. Andre Roberts WR Citadel
82. Aaron Spievey CB Iowa
83. Jordan Shipley WR Texas
84. Jason Worilds DE Virginia Tech
85. Andrew Quarless TE Penn State
86. Alex Carrington DE Arkansas St.
87. Myron Lewis CB Vanderbilt
88. D'Anthony Smith DT La.Tech
89. Major Wright S Florida
90. Joe McKnight HB Southern Cal
91. Torrell Troup NT Central Fla.
92. Carlos Dunlap DE Florida
93. Mardy Gilyard WR Cincinnati
94. Jermaine Cunningham DE Florida
95. Selvish Capers OT W.Virginia
96. Brandon Ghee CB Wake Forest
97. T.J. Ward S Oregon
98. Ed Dickson TE Oregon
99. Eric Norwood OLB S. Carolina
100. Dorin Dickerson TE Pittsburgh



NFL.COM

33 Clausen, Jimmy QB 6'3" 222 Notre Dame 8.6 7
34 Kindle, Sergio DE 6'3" 250 Texas 8.3 19
35 Gronkowski, Rob TE 6'6" 264 Arizona 8.2 --
36 Saffold, Rodger OT 6'4" 316 Indiana 8.1 --
37 Washington, Daryl LB 6'2" 230 TCU 8.1 --
38 Mays, Taylor FS 6'3" 230 Southern Cal 8.1 23
39 Brown, Charles OT 6'5" 303 Southern Cal 8.1 29
40 Lee, Sean LB 6'2" 236 Penn State 8.1 --
41 Griffen, Everson DE 6'3" 273 Southern Cal 8.0 30
42 Cody, Terrence DT 6'4" 354 Alabama 8.0 31
43 Wootton, Corey DE 6'6" 270 Northwestern 7.9 --
44 Bowman, Navorro LB 6'0" 242 Penn State 7.9 --
45 Tate, Golden WR 5'10" 199 Notre Dame 7.9 --
46 Price, Brian DT 6'1" 303 UCLA 7.9 --
47 Campbell, Bruce OT 6'6" 314 Maryland 7.8 21
48 Houston, Lamarr DT 6'3" 305 Texas 7.8 --
49 Asamoah, Jon OG 6'4" 305 Illinois 7.8 --
50 Sanders, Emmanuel WR 5'11" 186 Southern Methodist 7.8 --
51 Briscoe, Dezmon WR 6'2" 207 Kansas 7.8 --
52 Joseph, Linval DT 6'4" 328 East Carolina 7.8 --
53 Benn, Arrelious WR 6'1" 219 Illinois 7.7 --
54 Dickerson, Dorin TE 6'4" 226 Pittsburgh 7.7 --
55 Murphy, Jerome CB 6'0" 196 South Florida 7.7 --
56 Allen, Nathaniel FS 6'0" 207 South Florida 7.7 --
57 McCoy, Anthony TE 6'4" 259 Southern Cal 7.7 --
58 Decker, Eric WR 6'3" 217 Minnesota 7.7 --
59 Dickson, Ed TE 6'4" 249 Oregon 7.6 --
60 Ducasse, Vlad OT 6'4" 332 Massachusetts 7.6 --
61 McCoy, Colt QB 6'1" 216 Texas 7.6 --
62 Burnett, Morgan SS 6'1" 209 Georgia Tech 7.6 --
63 Misi, Koa DE 6'3" 251 Utah 7.6 --
64 Gerhart, Toby RB 6'0" 231 Stanford 7.5 --
65 Cook, Chris CB 6'2" 212 Virginia 7.5 --
66 McCluster, Dexter RB 5'9" 172 Mississippi 7.5 --
67 Sapp, Ricky DE 6'4" 252 Clemson 7.5 --
68 LaFell, Brandon WR 6'2" 211 LSU 7.5 --
69 Pitta, Dennis TE 6'4" 245 BYU 7.4 --
70 Spikes, Brandon LB 6'3" 249 Florida 7.4 --
71 Franks, Dominique CB 5'11" 194 Oklahoma 7.4 --
72 Dunlap, Carlos DE 6'6" 277 Florida 7.4 32
73 Hernandez, Aaron TE 6'2" 245 Florida 7.4 --
74 Carrington, Alex DE 6'5" 285 Arkansas State 7.3 --
75 Graham, Jimmy TE 6'6" 260 Miami 7.3 --
76 Woods, Al DT 6'4" 309 LSU 7.3 --
77 Price, Taylor WR 6'0" 204 Ohio 7.3 --
78 Williams, Damian WR 6'1" 197 Southern Cal 7.3 --
79 Norwood, Eric LB 6'1" 245 South Carolina 7.3 --
80 Thomas, Cam DT 6'4" 330 North Carolina 7.2 --
81 Jerry, John OT 6'5" 328 Mississippi 7.2 --
82 McKnight, Joe RB 5'11" 198 Southern Cal 7.2 --
83 Owusu-Ansah CB 6'0" 207 Indiana (PA) 7.2 --
84 Williams, Mike WR 6'1" 221 Syracuse 7.2 --
85 Cunningham, Jerm DE 6'3" 266 Florida 7.2 --
86 Jones, Chad FS 6'2" 221 LSU 7.1 --
87 Mitchell, Carlton WR 6'3" 215 South Florida 7.1 --
88 Thomas, Kevin CB 6'0" 192 Southern Cal 7.1 --
89 Dwyer, Jonathan RB 5'11" 229 Georgia Tech 7.1 --
90 Shipley, Jordan WR 5'11" 193 Texas 7.1 --
91 Arenas, Javier CB 5'9" 197 Alabama 7.1 --
92 Gilyard, Mardy WR 6'0" 187 Cincinnati 7.0 --
93 Ghee, Brandon CB 6'0" 192 Wake Forest 7.0 --
94 Warren, Donovan CB 5'11" 193 Michigan 7.0 --
95 Gibson, Thaddeus DE 6'2" 243 Ohio State 7.0 --
96 Harbor, Clay TE 6'3" 252 Missouri State 7.0 --
97 Beadles, Zane OT 6'4" 310 Utah 7.0 --
98 Cox, Perrish CB 5'11" 195 Oklahoma State 6.9 --
99 Veldheer, Jared OT 6'8" 312 Hillsdale 6.9 --
100 Roberts, Andre WR 5'11" 195 Citadel 6.9 --



WALTER FOOTBALL'S TOP 100:

33 Jimmy Clausen, QB, Notre Dame
34 Damian Williams, WR, USC
35 Bruce Campbell, T, Maryland
36 Arrelious Benn, WR, Illinois
37 Charles Brown, T, USC
38 Brian Price, DT, UCLA
39 Nate Allen, FS, South Florida
40 Golden Tate, WR, Notre Dame
41 Daryl Washington, OLB, TCU
42 Brandon Ghee, CB, Wake Forest
43 Everson Griffen, DE, USC**
44 Sergio Kindle, OLB, Texas**
45 Jerome Murphy, CB, South Florida
46 Andre Roberts, WR, The Citadel
47 Taylor Mays, S, USC
48 Rob Gronkowski, TE, Arizona
49 Chad Jones, S, LSU
50 Ed Dickson, TE, Oregon
51 Terrence Cody, NT, Alabama
52 Corey Wootton, DE, Northwestern
53 Dominique Franks, CB, Oklahoma
54 Rodger Saffold, G, Indiana
55 Aaron Hernandez, TE, Florida
56 J.D. Walton, C, Baylor
57 Vladimir Ducasse, OL, UMASS
58 Brandon LaFell, WR, LSU
59 Ricky Sapp, DE/OLB, Clemson
60 Chris Cook, CB, Virginia
61 Perrish Cox, CB, Oklahoma St.
62 Anthony Dixon, RB, Mississippi St.
63 Matt Tennant, C, Boston College
64 Jermaine Cunningham, DE, Florida
65 Eric Decker, WR, Minnesota
66 Navarro Bowman, OLB, Penn St.
67 Riley Cooper, WR, Florida
68 Carlos Dunlap, DE, Florida
69 Morgan Burnett, FS, Georgia Tech
70 Koa Misi, DE/OLB, Utah
71 Jon Asamoah, G, Illinois
72 Dexter McCluster, ATH, Ole Miss
73 John Jerry, G, Ole Miss
74 Tyson Alualu, DT, California
75 Ben Tate, RB, Auburn
76 Eric Norwood, LB, South Carolina
77 Jarrett Brown, QB, West Virginia
78 Dennis Pitta, TE, Brigham Young
79 Alex Carrington, DE, Arkansas St.
80 Jordan Shipley, WR, Texas
81 Thaddeus Gibson, DE/OLB, Ohio St.
82 Jamar Chaney, ILB, Mississippi St.
83 Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, CB, IUPUI
84 Jonathan Dwyer, RB, Georgia Tech
85 Jeremy Williams, WR, Tulane
86 Amari Spievey, CB, Iowa
87 Brandon Spikes, ILB, Florida
88 Mike Johnson, G, Alabama
89 Mike Neal, DT, Purdue
90 Dekoda Watson, OLB, Florida St.
91 D'Anthony Smith, DT, Louisiana Tech
92 Sean Lee, LB, Penn St.
93 Jason Worilds, DE/OLB, Virginia Tech
94 Corey Peters, DT, Kentucky
95 Tony Pike, QB, Cincinnati
96 John Conner, FB, Kentucky
97 A.J. Edds, OLB, Iowa
98 Mardy Gilyard, WR, Cincinnati
99 Darrell Stuckey, SS, Kansas
100 Walter Thurmond III, CB, Oregon




FF TOOLBOX'S TOP 100:

33 Jimmy Clausen, QB, Notre Dame - 6'2 - 223
34 Bruce Campbell, OT, Maryland - 6'7 - 310
35 Everson Griffen, DE, USC - 6'3 - 280
36 Taylor Mays, S, USC - 6'3 - 230
37 Brian Price, DT, UCLA - 6'2 - 300
38 Golden Tate, WR, Notre Dame - 5'11 - 195
39 Carlos Dunlap, DE, Florida - 6'6 - 290
40 Charles Brown, OT, USC - 6'5 - 290
41 Arrelious Benn, WR, Illinois - 6'2 - 220
42 Jonathan Dwyer, RB, Georgia Tech - 6'0 - 235
43 Sergio Kindle, LB, Texas - 6'4 - 255
44 Greg Hardy, DE, Mississippi - 6'4 - 270
45 Terrence Cody, DT, Alabama - 6'5 - 360
46 Jermaine Cunningham, DE, Florida - 6'3 - 252
47 Colt McCoy, QB Texas - 6'3 - 210
48 Jermaine Gresham, TE, Oklahoma - 6'6 - 261
49 Rodger Saffold, OT, Indiana - 6'5 - 318
50 Chris Cook, CB, Virginia - 6'2 - 210
51 Brandon LaFell, WR, LSU - 6'3 - 206
52 Dominique Franks, CB, Oklahoma - 6'0 - 192
53 Ricky Sapp, LB, Clemson - 6'4 - 240
54 Sean Lee, LB, Penn State - 6'2 - 236
55 Morgan Burnett, S, Georgia Tech - 6'1 - 210
56 Vladimir Ducasse, OT, Massachusetts - 6'5 - 330
57 Corey Wootton, DE, Northwestern - 6'7 - 285
58 Linval Joseph, DT, East Carolina - 6'5 - 328
59 Brandon Spikes, LB, Florida - 6'3 - 255
60 Eric Norwood, LB, South Carolina - 6'1 - 252
61 Mardy Gilyard, WR, Cincinnati - 6'1 - 187
62 Damian Williams, WR, USC - 6'0 - 190
63 Daryl Washington, LB, TCU - 6'3 - 234
64 Jared Veldheer, OT, Hillsdale - 6'8 - 312
65 Brandon Ghee, CB, Wake Forest - 6'0 - 190
66 Jason Worilds, DE, Virginia Tech - 6'1 - 254
67 Perrish Cox, CB, Oklahoma State - 6'0 - 198
68 Aaron Hernandez, TE, Florida - 6'2 - 250
69 Reshad Jones, S, Georgia - 6'2 - 212
70 Jimmy Graham, TE, Miami (FL) - 6'6 - 260
71 Selvish Capers, OT, West Virginia - 6'5 - 298
72 Navorro Bowman, LB, Penn State - 6'1 - 232
73 Cam Thomas, DT, North Carolina - 6'3 - 330
74 Rob Gronkowski, TE, Arizona - 6'5 - 260
75 Nate Allen, S, South Florida - 6'2 - 205
76 Dexter McCluster, WR, Mississippi - 5'8 - 165
77 Tyson Alualu, DE, California - 6'3 - 295
78 Jon Asamoah, OG, Illinois - 6'5 - 315
79 Koa Misi, DE, Utah - 6'3 - 244
80 Thaddeus Gibson, LB, Ohio State - 6'2 - 240
81 Chad Jones, S, LSU - 6'3 - 230
82 Ben Tate, RB, Auburn - 5'11 - 218
83 Lamarr Houston, DT, Texas - 6'2 - 300
84 Anthony McCoy, TE, USC - 6'5 - 252
85 John Jerry, OG, Mississippi - 6'6 - 340
86 Tony Pike, QB, Cincinnati - 6'6 - 210
87 Eric Decker, WR, Minnesota - 6'3 - 220
88 Dorin Dickerson, FB, Pittsburgh - 6'2 - 230
89 Amari Spievey, CB, Iowa - 6'0 - 190
90 Joe McKnight, RB, USC - 6'0 - 190
91 Major Wright, S, Florida - 6'1 - 204
92 Anthony Dixon, RB, Mississippi State - 6'1 - 235
93 Jerome Murphy, CB, South Florida - 6'1 - 192
94 Torrell Troup, DT, Central Florida - 6'3 - 314
95 Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, CB, Indiana (PA) - 6'0 - 207
96 Dekoda Watson, LB, Florida State - 6'2 - 226
97 Montario Hardesty, RB, Tennessee - 6'0 - 215
98 Jordan Shipley, WR, Texas - 6'0 - 190
99 Toby Gerhart, RB, Stanford - 6'1 - 235
100 Al Woods, DT, LSU - 6'4 - 317

[steelblood]

Given those, my Steelers wish list would look like this.....

(round 2)
Dominique Franks - great at off man and zone coverage. Teams avoided him this year.
Koa Misi - good pass rusher, tackler, playmaker. Could play 3 of 4 linebacker positions.
Cam Thomas - Position flexibility. Can play NT and DE in the 3-4.
Bruce Campbell - Has skill to become a great left tackle. Tomlin can motivate him.

(round 3)
Alex Carrington - great nickel pass rusher/3-4 DE
Brandon Spikes - if he falls, he'd be a great value.
Brandon LaFell - Underrated imho. Big target, tough, runs good routes, breaks tackles.
Mardy Gilyard - a poor man's santonio, which is pretty good in the 3rd.
Perrish Cox - 1st round talent with some off the field issues, worth the risk here.

[Oviedo]

Given those, my Steelers wish list would look like this.....

(round 2)
Dominique Franks - great at off man and zone coverage. Teams avoided him this year.
Koa Misi - good pass rusher, tackler, playmaker. Could play 3 of 4 linebacker positions.
Cam Thomas - Position flexibility. Can play NT and DE in the 3-4.
Bruce Campbell - Has skill to become a great left tackle. Tomlin can motivate him.

(round 3)
Alex Carrington - great nickel pass rusher/3-4 DE
Brandon Spikes - if he falls, he'd be a great value.
Brandon LaFell - Underrated imho. Big target, tough, runs good routes, breaks tackles.
Mardy Gilyard - a poor man's santonio, which is pretty good in the 3rd.
Perrish Cox - 1st round talent with some off the field issues, worth the risk here.

I would add Golden Tate, Damien Williams, Ben Tate as Round 2 candidates and Toby Gerhardt as a Round 3.

IMO Spikes, LaFell and Gilyard will be available in Round 4.

[papillon]

Toby Gerhart, Linval Joseph, Sean Lee, Brandon Spikes or Vladimir Ducasse would be good by me, with Ducasse being the least favorable.

Now that Terrence Cody has fallen out of the first round, is he a possibility?

Pappy

[flippy]

Could we take a chance on:

Round 2
Bruce Campbell
Taylor Mays

Round 3
Akwasi Owusu-Ansah

Those 3 guys to me seem like they'll either be All Pros or complete busts. Those 3 are freakish athletes. Bruce and Akwasi seem like gambles we must take if they're there since they are freaks at such premium positions.

By no means do I think these picks are safe. But there's just too much potential upside to pass up imho.

[ramblinjim]

Campbell or Mays would be hard to pass up with our second round pick if they were to fall to us....

[Shawn]

I think Cody is a real possibility in the second. But, where is Ghee on that list...many sites had him as a top 10 db.

I would love in order

Round 2

1) Tate
2) Williams
3) Cody
4) Gerhart
5) Franks

Round 3

1) Jordan Shipley WR Texas
2) Jason Worilds DE Virginia Tech
3) Torrell Troup DE
4) Brandon Ghee
5) Linval Joseph

[Oviedo]

Could we take a chance on:

Round 2
Bruce Campbell
Taylor Mays

Round 3
Akwasi Owusu-Ansah

Those 3 guys to me seem like they'll either be All Pros or complete busts. Those 3 are freakish athletes. Bruce and Akwasi seem like gambles we must take if they're there since they are freaks at such premium positions.

By no means do I think these picks are safe. But there's just too much potential upside to pass up imho.

AOA may be gone by the end of Round 2 or early Round 3. Lots of buzz about him. Steuber projects we take him in Round 2 on Scouts.com