Quote Originally Posted by LukeDaniel View Post
bmorecareful, you seem to put a lot of time into watching college game film.

What's your opinion of Braxton Cave compared to Joe Madsen? Which do you prefer?

Also, aside from Eifert and Teo, do you see any other ND players getting drafted? Matta? Cierre Wood? (have to imagine he would). Theo Riddick?
I'm not a big expert on ND having not watched a whole ton of their tape but Braxton Cave looks pretty slow on his feet to me. I don't see them running a lot of combo blocks requiring him to get out to the 2nd level like the Ravens do in their zone-blocking scheme. I personally would take a number of centers over Cave in the mid to late rounds; Joe Madsen would be one of them (like his technique and foot quickness a lot), as well as Brian Schwenke (nice prospect, versatile to play both center and guard), Mario Benavides, and Dalton Freeman (latter 2 guys are very undersized but have the agility and technique you like in a zone-blocking center).

Both of the ND RBs should probably get drafted, I don't think either one is anything special. Zeke Motta is a pretty bad/overrated player IMO who could fall out of the draft entirely without a good Combine.

Kapron Lewis-Moore would have been probably a mid-to-late round pick if he wouldn't have blown his ACL in the BCS. I feel really bad for the kid and hope he can catch onto an NFL at some point. He would be a good run-stopping 3-4 DE. ND was already getting gashed by the run before he left the game but you could really see how much they missed him on that DL.