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For the first time ever this years NFL draft will go prime time. This Thursday 255 college football player's dreams will come true as they watch their name come off the famous big board. There are only a hand full of players that will actually travel to New York City where the draft will be held to witness all the action. Typically it is only the projected first rounders that make the trip. One big surprise of the draft so far is that Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen will not be attending the draft. According to a ESPN mock draft he is projected to go number 9 overall to the Buffalo Bills. I personally feel that he might be preparing for the best, but expecting the worse. He doesn't want to have what happened to former Notre Dame standout Brady Quinn happen to him.

There aren't too many surprises I feel throughout the first round mock draft. 2010 will be one of the most quarterback oriented drafts we have seen in a long time! This years draft is showcased by Sam Bradford, quarterback from Oklahoma. He is projected as the number one overall pick to go to the Rams. This pick could make or break the Ram's GM career in Saint Louis. In 2009 Bradford led the Sooners to a National Championship game as a sophomore. He was then defeated by fellow draft classmate Tim Tebow of Florida. There was speculation after that game weather he would forgo his Junior and Senior season to enter the draft? He passed up the millions of guarantee money he would of received to come back for his Junior season with goals to win a National Championship. Little did he know that could potentially be labeled the biggest mistake in his short lived career. In the first game on his Junior season against BYU Bradford sprained his throwing shoulder when he was tackled to the turf on a hard, clean hit by BYU linebacker Coleby Clawson in the closing seconds of the first half. That is when the speculation arose saying what was he thinking passing up the draft when he had already won the Heisman, and led his team to the National Championship game as a Sophomore? He ended up playing in just in one full game before re-injuring his right shoulder on October 17, 2009 in the Red River Rivalry against Texas on the second drive of the game.

It is obvious that Bradford has the talent, and potential to be a NFL QB someday but I don't know if he would be the smartest pick for the Rams. It is common knowledge that the Rams need all the help they can get including a franchise quarterback. I just don't know if using your number one pick to get one will pan out in years to come. More times then not it's not the first round quarterbacks that win Superbowl's and live to have prosperous careers in the NFL it is the typically the 4-6 round quarterbacks that do. It is the Cinderella stories of the draft like Tom Brady who was drafted 199 overall. He has since then lead the New England Patriots to a record of 101-27 (.789) in regular-season and playoff games. which is the best record of any NFL quarterback in the Super Bowl Era. He has also won a totally of 3 Super Bowls.

The Rams best bet would be try and trade the number one pick for more picks in the draft, and then draft a quarterback in the later rounds. There will be plenty of quarterbacks to go around with this being labeled one of the deepest quarterback drafts in years.