Five more Hokies go on day two of NFL Draft
Five more Virginia Tech Hokies have been tabbed by NFL squads on day two of the professional draft. Chris Ellis, Xavier Adibi, Carlton Powell, Josh Morgan and Justin Harper were all selected.
Defensive End Chris Ellis was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in round three as the 72nd overall pick. As a Senior in Blacksburg, Ellis recorded 53 tackles and 8 and one half sacks.
Xavier Adibi was the next Hokie to go as the 118th overall selection in the fourth round. He'll join Hokie teammate Duane Brown in Houston. The Texans will be getting a linebacker that had 115 tackles as a Senior.
Carlton Powell will also be joining a Hokie teammate; the Denver Broncos selected Powell. He'll join Eddie Royal out west.
Powell and Royal won't be going as far as Josh Morgan though, whose new home is San Francisco. The 49ers selected Morgan in the sixth round with the 174th overall pick.
Justin Harper was the last Hokie tagged. The Balitmore Ravens drafted the wideout in the final round, with the 215th pick. Harper
Ellis, Adibi, Powell, Morgan and Harper will join Virginia Tech's first round selection Duane Brown in the NFL.
Three Virginia Tech players eligible to be drafted were not picked up. Barry Booker, Vince Hall and and D.J. Parker were passed over.
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No sir… rather than Dilfer or Shuler, the Colts chose Marshall Faulk.
It’s a man, look at the hands !
Right wing corporate whore media. Is anyone surprised.
At my university they give out +s and -s. It counts more for the GPAs.
Disclaimer: Pats fan.Ok, this whole thing seems crazy to me. Yes, the Patriots violated league rules in taping the signals. And they were punished. Gotcha.But this whole OMFG CHEATING WILL RUIN THE NFL is ridiculous.Cheating goes on all the time in the NFL, that is why they have the yellow hankies in the back pockets of the referees. Many penalties are exactly that, someone caught cheating. (some penalties are just physical mistakes, for instance, a non-intentional facemask.)If a defensive lineman learns the quarterbacks snap count and jumps it, is that cheating or smart play?If a quarterback sees a particular shift, and knows it is going to be a blitz based on watching game tape, and tells his lineman to pick up the blitzers, is that cheating too?Are you not allowed to LOOK at the opposing teams defensive coordinators during the game? Would you not be allowed to take notes?So what is really the issue here? That they used a camera to make it easier to put all the pieces together? Ok, gotcha, using a camera on the sidelines is illegal. What if he is in the stands with a camcorder?Also, if you have a security/crypto scheme, like, say, calling in defensive signals, if you decide to encrypt your signals, what does that imply? That you are expecting them to be intercepted. So what is the big deal here? That it was the Patriots?
They also had the fifth pick. It was that selection (Trev Alberts) that prompted Mel’s comments. He (obviously) had no problem with the Faulk pick.EDIT: Faulk went #2 overall.
Even cable news outlets desperate for viewership should have some standards, and those standards should be high enough to not put that woman in front a camera.
Isn’t that his name?
“We got a guy up here … and who in the hell is Mel Kiper, anyway? I mean, here’s a guy who criticizes everybody, whoever they take. He’s got the answers to who you should take, to who you shouldn’t take. He tells us about your team. He tells us about the Rams. Mel Kiper is a tortoise. He tells us about Tampa and everything else. In my knowledge of him, he’s never even put on a jockstrap, he’s never been a player, he’s never been a coach, he’s never been a scout, he’s never been an administrator, and all of a sudden, he’s an expert. He’s in our paper two days ago, telling us who we have to take. We don’t have to take anybody that Mel Kiper says we have to take. Mel Kiper has no more credentials to do what he’s doing than my neighbor, and my neighbor’s a postman and he doesn’t even have season tickets to the NFL.”source
Goooo Pack!
Pity the man that ever marries that She-Beast.
Ann Coulter does not exist.
Kiper’s response: “I’m secure in my position. Obviously, Bill Tobin’s not very secure in his position. … You cannot go with Jim Harbaugh and pass up Trent Dilfer. That’s why the Colts are the laughingstock of the league year in and year out.”Now, Dilfer wasn’t Joe Montana, but he was an adequate QB who ended up winning a Super Bowl. And the Colts selected Trev Alberts. TREV ALBERTS. Seriously?!?!?!Mel Kiper Jr. 1, Bill Tobin 0
Coulter has been referring to Barack Hussein Obama by his middle name for a couple years now. She has also been appearing on cable news for several years now.This “story” is not a story. Coulter’s gimmick is just that, a catchphrase to get herself readers and viewers by earning a chuckle or two from her target audience… like Ivins calling Bush “shrub.”This submission should be titled “cable news gets commentary from rabid partisans to increase viewership.” Did we just figure that out?
He shouldn’t be allowed to rate with + and -. Does he really think he’s that accurate?