Yesterday, we looked at the best all-time second-round picks on offense.  I won’t bore you with some fancy-shmancy intro today.

Let’s get right to it with the best defensive players selected in the second-round of the NFL Draft over the last twenty-five years. (more…)

Are you excited yet?  Is the anticipation at a boiling point?

For most of us, the NFL Draft is a great time of year.  We can all watch, hope and pray that our team takes that stud player who will vault them to the top of the league.

Unfortunately, we spend so much of our energy focusing on the first round that we fail to pay enough attention to the rounds that follow.  You can always get a stud player in the first round – you should, afterall.  Those stud players are not limited to the first round, however.

It’s those rounds that we will be focusing on in a twelve-part series.  Hopefully, we accomplish our objective – to prove that great players don’t always come from round one.

We will be looking at the best players from rounds two through seven from the last twenty-five years.  We’re making an attempt to build a starting lineup from each round.  When possible, we’ll also include bench players.

Let’s begin with offensive players from round two… (more…)