Mel Kiper's Top 5 Seniors by Position for 2011 - From 2010

[Jason]

Prior to the 2010 Draft Mel Kiper did his top 5 seniors by position for 2011. I saved it then thinking it would be an interesting look back.

Well, here it is:

QB:
1. Jake Locker
2. Ryan Mallett
3. Case Keenum
4. Christian Ponder
5. Jerrod Johnson

RB:
1. Daniel Thomas
2. Noel Devine
3. DeMarco Murray
4. Roy Helu
5. Evan Royster

FB:
1. Owen Marecic
2. Stanley Havili
3. Charles Clay
4. Marcus Simms
5. Quentin Castille

WR:
1. Terrance Tolliver
2. Armon Binns
3. Leonard Hankerson
4. Vincent Brown
5. Niles Paul

TE:
1. Weslye Saunders
2. D.J. Williams
3. Zach Pianalto
4. Luke Stocker
5. Jeffery Anderson

OT:
1. Anthony Castonzo
2. Clint Boling
3. Marcus Cannon
4. James Carpenter
5. Jason Pinkston

OG:
1. Rodney Hudson
2. Justin Boren
3. Mike Pouncey
4. Stephen Schilling
5. Orlando Franklin

C:
1. Kristofer O'Dowd
2. Stefen Wisniewski
3. John Moffitt
4. Ryan McMahon
5. Tim Barnes

DE:
1. Adrian Clayborn
2. Allen Bailey
3. Greg Romeus
4. Cameron Heyward
5. Ryan Kerrigan

DT:
1. Marvin Austin
2. Jerrell Powe
3. Jarvis Jenkins
4. Stephen Paea
5. Drake Nevis

ILB:
1. Quan Sturdivant
2. Greg Jones
3. Brian Smith
4. Alex Wujciak
5. Mike Mohamed

OLB:
1. Bruce Carter
2. Von Miller
3. Michael Morgan
4. Ross Homan
5. Nate Irving

CB:
1. Ras-I Dowling
2. Curtis Brown
3. Prince Amukamara
4. Rashard Carmichael
5. Chimdi Chekwa

S:
1. DeAndre McDaniel
2. Deunta Williams
3. Ahmad Black
4. Zac Etheridge
5. Chris Culliver

K:
1. Kai Forbath
2. Alex Henery
3. Wes Byrum
4. Thomas Weber
5. Justin Kahut

P:
1. Ryan Donahue
2. Derek Epperson
3. Trevor Hankins
4. Rob Long
5. Travis Baltz

Anything strike you in particular?

Some of the names are not surprising, others are "Who the heck is that?"

UNC could have been awfully good if not for the suspensions.

[Bengals1181]

man, no one's even talking about Casey Keenum anymore. Did he get an extra year of eligibility?

Edit: yes he did.

[happyrid]

It's interesting, but there are so many underclassmen that its hard to judge the rankings. Seems like most of the top guys are all juniors (Newton, Gabbert, AJ Green, Julio, Dareus, Fairley, Bowers, Ingram, Peterson, etc.) and wouldn't have been eligible for these rankings.

[bengaled]

[quote name='Jason' timestamp='1300996637' post='979643']


UNC could have been awfully good if not for the suspensions.
[/quote]

a little known fact (i'm assuming). the guy who got marcel dareus his two game suspension for providing him with an illegal airline ticket to attend a party in miami (hosted by potential NFL agents) was none other than marvin austin, who also served a even heavier suspension this year for his association with those same agents. it would appear they are close friends.

marcel got off with a slap on the wrist and a 2 game suspension for this incident (thank you alabama boosters for all that help). also keep in mind it's not dareus who's considered the DT with character issues, it's nick fairley... go figure! nick's character issues have more to do with his sticking georgia's QB's face in the dirt than anything else. oh, that and the phantom call against 'bama's QB, that was unwarranted. i'm like coach hayes, if that's all we have to coach out of them, fine. we can work with that.