NFL Draft 2011: Latest Draft Rumors and Trade Speculation

April 23, 2011   ·   Mark Miller   ·   Jump to comments

With less than a week until the NFL draft gets underway, teams are making their final decisions and preparing for a few long days in their respective war rooms.
The current labor battle may put the status of the 2011-2012 season up in the air, but it's certainly not doing anything to tame fans' excitement about which players their teams might add to their rosters.
The labor agreement has taken on a different significance with regard to this year's NFL draft, as teams are now forced to fill their holes with the draft first, as opposed to a traditional offseason in which a team would address its biggest voids through free agency.
It's becoming more and more likely that we'll see Cam Newton's name called first on Thursday, but beyond that it seems that every draft expert has a different perspective on what teams will do.
With the possibility of as many as four or five other quarterbacks going in the first round, including Blaine Gabbert, Jake Locker, Ryan Mallett and C...

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