NFL rookie rankings

this tells us something about Paces drafting

of course, BUT draft was not bad as of know

A point I'd like to make about Floyd ...

I got a chance to sit down and watch the Vikes game a second time off the DVR.  This time doing slo-mo on some of the plays.  The Vikes were doubling both Floyd and McPhee a lot on passing downs.  Both were still getting excellent penetration and forcing the QB to move up in the pocket.  This IMO is how the line got their sacks.

Understand that this is an OL with two crap tackles but it looks to me like Floyd is starting to really put things together.  I expect it will take an off-season S&C program to get him where he needs to be but I am hoping he will be really productive next year.

To a point yes but so far my eyes tell me Whitehair is the real thing.  Any kid who can step into a position like OC that he never even played in college tells me this kid knows football and he's a "baller".  He also now has the versatility to start anywhere on that line.  That's a good pick in anyone's book.

Howard passes the eyeball test too but with a RB you never know.  Some get off to a great start but get nicked up a bit and never fully recover.  He plays a hard game and dishes out some punishment so how that will affect him longer term is harder to say.  But for now he's a bell cow.

Floyd is coming on but his best games have been against less than stellar OLs so with him we really need to see where he's at after 16 games.