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Gilmore's Still Got More

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   Stephon Gilmore's career looked like it was coming to an end back in 2021. After winning the Super Bowl with the Patriots in 2018 and then winning Defensive Player of the Year in 2019, he finished 2020 with a quadriceps injury and opened the 2021 season on the Physically Unable to Perform list. By October of that year, the 31 year old defensive back was traded to the Carolina Panthers for a sixth round draft pick (which was later used to draft Kayshon Boutte).    Cornerback careers are notorious for coming to sudden ends at a certain age, especially after lower body injuries. The speed that is essential to their position doesn't always fully return, and without the ability to keep up with younger receivers, their drop off is usually pretty steep. Most players in Gilmore's position would quietly fade out of the league within a year or two of that injury and subsequent trade.   Instead, Gilmore beat the odds. He recovered from his quad injury and in t...
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2025 NFL Mock Draft #1 - Round 1

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   With Super Bowl LIX in the books and the Combine still a few weeks away, it's officially Mock Draft season. Here is our first try at mocking the first round based on what we know so far:    As a quick disclaimer, these picks are not the same as our positional rankings. We make our mock drafts based on what we think the real NFL teams will do, not necessarily who we think would be the best player to select at that spot.  Round 1, Pick 1: Tennessee Titans -  Cam Ward (QB)   The Titans cleaned house this off-season and are now being run by general manager Mike Borgonzi and head coach Brian Callahan. There has been a lot of talk in the weeks since they were hired about "generational talent" and whether or not the Titans would be willing to pass on drafting a quarterback this year and build up the rest of the roster instead, but we believe this is mostly smoke to try and get another team to offer a trade. For the time being, we think the T...
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I Have No Wins and I Must Draft (Part 10 - the Finale)

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(I Have No Wins and I Must Draft is our ongoing series that follows the 2025 NFL draft order and the players projected to be taken at the beginning of that draft. You can find all the previous parts, as well as a few supplemental articles about the 2025 NFL Draft  here ) Super Bowl LIX is less than one week away, and we now have enough information about the 2025 NFL Draft order to break down all 32 draft picks of the first round. We have gone over the first 25 picks already, but we will be revisiting those picks in the near future since there have been a lot of changes to the head coaches, general managers, or both roles for some of the teams picking near the top of the draft. For now, let's dive into the final 7 picks of Round 1: Pick #26: Los Angeles Rams The Rams are one of the more surprising teams around right now. Since going "all in" for a championship in 2021, they were expected to go through a few rebuilding years and slump through the post-Stafford era until the...
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