75th NFL Draft Getting Ready To Start

From the Truman Sports Complex

The phone lines around the National Football League are on fire right now as the 32 teams get ready for the start of the 2010 NFL Draft, the 75th version of the selection meeting.

It all begins just after 6:30 p.m. with the St. Louis Rams on the clock. Teams in the first round will have 10 minutes to make their pick.

The latest news out of the Loo has the Rams keeping the first pick and selecting QB Sam Bradford. A team source told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch there will be “no surprises.” They have fielded calls all day from teams checking to see what St. Louis wanted to trade out of the top spot. Cleveland Browns head football honcho Mike Holmgren told ESPN that he would be willing to trade most of the Browns’ 10 picks and maybe some 2011 picks for Bradford. “They shouldn’t do it,” Holmgren said. “They need a quarterback more than anyone in the world.”

With the second choice, Detroit appears to be considering linemen, either DL Ndamukong Suh or OT Russell Okung. At No. 3, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seemed headed for selecting DT Gerald McCoy.

It’s the No. 4 spot that remains in doubt, as Washington continues to send out different smoke signals, the latest being a big interest in S Eric Berry.

That brings the Chiefs and the fifth choice into play. If the league follows their clock, the Chiefs choice should come right around 7:30 p.m.