Mock drafts send Tech’s Hill to Houston, S.F.
If the mock drafts are to be believed, former Georgia Tech wide receiver Stephen Hill is going to be either a Houston Texan or San Francisco 49er. I don’t put a great deal of credence in mock drafts; it seems like they tend to mirror one anther and rely on conventional wisdom, which isn’t usually how teams actually pick. Plus, one surprise pick at the top or middle of the actual first round can change everything down the stream.
Regardless, what I take from it is that Hill will likely go in the first round or early in the second, which, as I’ve written before, is remarkable considering that his draft evaluation said that he didn’t have the potential to go in the first three rounds.
The logic with Houston is that wide receiver is considered a “need” position. Starters Andre Johnson and Kevin Walter will both turn 31 before the season starts. Johnson has missed 12 games in the past two seasons. The 49ers had needs at wide receiver, but signed Randy Moss and Mario Manningham, and re-signed Ted Ginn Jr. Moss is obviously a question mark and Ginn has 31 catches in the past two seasons with San Francisco, so one could say the need is still present.
An aggregation:
On nfl.com, three have Hill going at No. 26 to Houston, another slots him with San Francisco at No. 30 and one doesn’t have him in the first round.
Sports Illustrated’s Don Banks gives Hill to San Francisco. ESPN’s Mel Kiper also pegs Hill for the 49ers, as does his colleague Todd McShay, who wrote that Hill had “one of the most impressive combine workouts I’ve ever seen from a receiver.” (Both ESPN mock drafts are behind a pay wall.)
Two more mocks on cbssports.com place Hill in San Francisco and out of the first round.
Wes Bunting of the National Football Post also pegs Hill for the Texans, as does John McClain, the NFL writer for the Houston Chronicle.
He’s generally considered the fourth receiver in the draft, after Justin Blackmon from Oklahoma State, Notre Dame’s Michael Floyd and Baylor’s Kendall Wright.
The first round of the draft is April 26.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
UOAD, you munching on some hashbrowns too?
Ghost
March 30th, 2012
8:28 pm
Bengals rookie WR A.J. Green has been voted to the AFC team for this season’s Pro Bowl game, the NFL announced Tuesday. The game will be played on Sunday, Jan. 29, televised nationally on NBC beginning at 7 p.m.
Green, from the University of Georgia, was the Bengals’ first-round selection (fourth overall) in the 2011 draft. He is the first rookie WR voted to the Pro Bowl since the 2003 season, when Anquan Boldin of the Arizona Cardinals made the list, and he is the first Bengals rookie at any position voted to the Pro Bowl since WR Cris Collinsworth in the 1981 season.
Ghost
March 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
5150, The key word is VOTED.1st rookie wr since 2003
jadams
March 30th, 2012
8:31 pm
How about a practice update Ken
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:31 pm
UOAD, you been satisfying your munchies with some hashbrowns?
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
8:31 pm
OK GHOST………did you see the VOTE count? A lil over 1/2 what the TOP 2 got but OK he made it. You happy now?
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
UOAD, sorry for the repetition, I didn’t think the first one went through
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
damn, Ghost, you’re obsessing over this, Who really gives a damn?
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
8:33 pm
SS I gave up smoking that stuff in the early 90’s a lil after college.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:41 pm
aww, shucks, UOAD, I guess that means no brownies at the firetruck next Fall.
LOL
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
No I will pay for enough Makers Mark to BBQ a pig with but no Mary Jane snacks.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:55 pm
if you actually use it to marinate the pig, I would much rather have that anyway
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
8:57 pm
OK, I’m outta here. Time for my weekly Anna Torv fix —- “Fringe”, if you don’t know what I am talking about.
Big Crimson 75
March 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
damn — Iman is killing the Hawks tonight!!
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
Bi Cri 75 that is as hard as getting a UGa coed in bed.
Big Crimson 75
March 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
Sad but True!!
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
75 if you Drive hard enough to the Hole you will always sore against either.
5150 UOAD
March 30th, 2012
9:49 pm
SCORE or is that get a Sore? LOL
Big Crimson 75
March 30th, 2012
10:22 pm
Poor Pups — Their Season is un-raveling & it’s not even April!!!
Derrick Lott is now transferring.
They have to move their best Player to CB to make up for the knuckle-heads in their Secondary.
Whatever Richt is saying – they ain’t listening!!
Their Players are scared of being great!
I love watching it. What a great 48 hrs!!
HighTech
March 30th, 2012
10:37 pm
This is pure WnE gold. Notice his admonishing someone for childish name-calling and then engaging in childish name-calling himself. I’m sorry I can’t stop laughing at this.
Ol’ Wrecks aka WrecksNEffect
December 29th, 2010
8:25 am
re:
Jesse Stone
December 29th, 2010
8:08 am
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Simple Challenge;
Please prove that my comments are wrong rather than acting like a school-aged little girl and hurling out meaningless rants, and childish name-calling.
Quite simple IMPEACH my comments and all the readers of this blog will know what I am or am not, but when you name-call and don’t disprove anything I write, then you make the intelligent readers look closer at my comments to see if they are true and many cases they do see them as having a lot of validity.
Your name-calling simply makes my comments more legit to the intelligent readers that wonder WHY you can’t just simply disprove what I have written.
Thanks for the validation, you putz.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 30th, 2012
11:23 pm
WOW. I can’t believe he actually had the gall to post that. Hell, he indicted himself this morning when he said things totally contrary to what he has said in the past, and HT validated that indictment by posting his original remarks. The man (WnE, that is) is truly a fool
Ghost
March 31st, 2012
10:11 am
Big Crimson, Sad to see LOtt go, But he wasn’t going to see the field unless someone got injured.
Moving Drew and Washinton to DE sealed his fate. Losing a 4th team DE really hurts.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
10:19 am
WnE expressing his love for UGA in the wee hours of the morning. Can you imagine a Tech grad writing this stuff? I didn’t think so. Notice the lack of childish name-calling by WnE on the UGA blog. I can imagine, “If Lott didn’t play in the TRIPLE-QUATTRO defense of Coach Kung Fu Foaming At The Mouth Chokedawg Moobs Panda Grantham, he would be a TOP DRAFT PICK. CTG has clearly failed in preparing Derrick Lott for the NFL.”
WnE
March 31st, 2012
12:29 am
I feel sorry for UGA fans, actually I feel sorry for GT fans also, this state deserves better than what our FB programs are giving us in recent years.
If you play a position like DL that rotates a lot of players in-and-out, then there’s no reason to transfer for more PT, something doesn’t add up here.
You’re already playing in the SEC, so you ‘re not going to transfer to a better conference, you can’t say that the coaching staff hosed you because at this point Garrison Smith is the better player, and it isn’t really close, rather than transfer there is always the possibility of playing the other DE opposite of G. Smith, with injuries you never know you could be the starter in a split-second.
The way this looks I doubt that a 2nd teamer in the Spring is transferring for more PT.
At the BCS level here in Ga. it seems as if both teams are frustrating as heck to their fans and make it really hard to pull for them.
BLT
March 31st, 2012
10:32 am
I read that too HighTech. 12:30am and WnE is crying over UGA’s problems. He reserves the insults for all things GT. He’s a piece of work.
BLT
March 31st, 2012
10:42 am
Ghost, I assume you are here to avoid the drama on the UGA boards. I don’t blame you. I think there should be standard testing for drugs at all schools. Every requirement should be the same for all schools. That includes academic requirements. I bet if they get rid of Special Admits many of the drug issues go away. The problem is getting the NCAA involved. They tend to make things worse. There’s a reason the NCAA never overturns any of their decisions. If they did it would set a predecence. Who investigates the NCAA?
BGA
March 31st, 2012
11:08 am
What’s amazing is we had a first round receiver who was severely underutilized because the coach is too dumb to realize the prized player he has.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
11:28 am
WnE
March 8th, 2011
1:44 pm
re:
GTBob
March 8th, 2011
1:38 pm
________________
Please point out one FALSE statement that I have made in this Blog, just one.
Thought so!
Weasels like you focus on the messenger rather than the MESSAGE!
Simply prove me wrong and I’ll write a written retraction and never post another comment in any AJC blog.
I await your response.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
11:36 am
HT, I would say he was caught lying Friday when he claimed he had never said Hill didn’t have the natural talent (or something like that), and you then pasted in the post he made saying that very thing. But will he admit it or will he write a retraction or will he never post another comment? HELL NO!!! He’s a lying, hypocritical POS.
BLT
March 31st, 2012
12:16 pm
BGA, did you watch any of the games last season? I’m not sure what you wanted to happen? Throw the ball to Hill every play? That’s one heck of a game plan genius! Go back to the UGA boards and cry over there.
BGA
March 31st, 2012
12:32 pm
Uh yeah I did watch every game. And the play calling in the second half of the season was a joke. Oh I don’t know..how about 5-7 passes to SH per game over 1-2.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
12:55 pm
WnE
March 8th, 2012
10:35 am
re:
Ken, since, from what I have heard, Chip Towers is able to ban posters at will who “offend” him, isn’t there something you can do about WnE? If anybody deserves being banned, he does.
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I have never posted vulgarities, profanity or hinted at vulgar sex-based innuendo like the people that you call “good GT Fans”.
I simply debate CFB, debate GT FB.
Don’t turn to KS for “help” because you cannot “win the debate”, it makes you look like a WUSS.
Believe it or not, but many Fans of CFB that aren’t GT fans do recognize that majority of what I post
is based on good CFB logic and does have LEGITIMATE MERIT.
I discuss CFB in a solid, non-vulgar way, and yet you want me banned.
What you want is a bunch of guys that sit around and make life easy on each other by agreeing all the time.
The GT fans that you call “friends” that post profanity & vulgarities, do you want them banned also?
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WnE
March 26th, 2012
4:06 pm
re: FL Jackoff
WnE…
That’s just it, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Look at the 2012 class…Chase Roberts, Pat Gamble, Justin Thomas, Francis Kallon, Rod Chungong. No “C” or “D” list guys there…
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All those guys are C & D list guys.
Kallon on played one yr. of HS FB
Tomlinson was the DL that GT really wanted as was the 2 guys that UGA got from the same team DeLoach & the other guy. Gamble & Kallon were fallback B list guys maybe not C or D guys.
Ether way they were NOT GT’s A-list guys that they targeted as the ones to get.
Justin Thomas was a 4* but ONLY as a DB or WR, not as a QB which is what Gt brought him in as.
You just put out a list of LOW-B or C list guys and you’re trying to pass them off as GT’s A-list guys.
Anyone that follows GT recruiting knows better.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
1:12 pm
HT, you are preaching to the choir. The rest of us who post here know how stupid and offensive (even without vulgarity) Wiener’s posts are. There’s no need to repeat them unless he is here to attempt to counter your arguments, which of course he can’t do anyway.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
1:32 pm
Sorry to bore you, Supersize. Just putting them all in one place to make them easier to find later. His continuously contradicting himself is amusing. WnE is truly an ELITE TROLL.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
2:38 pm
HT…..not bored, just wasn’t sure what your point was. I don’t like the use of the word ELITE when it comes to trolls, but I get the meaning there. Pretty sharp actually
WnE
March 31st, 2012
2:43 pm
re:
BGA
Uh yeah I did watch every game. And the play calling in the second half of the season was a joke. Oh I don’t know..how about 5-7 passes to SH per game over 1-2.
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Stop wasting your time, the majority of GT fans know NOTHING about BCS-level CFB, what little they do know they get from the CPJ call-in Radio show where Wes Durham fawns for an hour over every word that CPJ says.
Believe it or not, but at one time, I think it was the 2009 season(?), but GT had Bay-Bay Thomas (6-3 235lbs. 4.38- forty), Stephen Hill (at the time 6-4 190lbs 4.36- forty ), Kevin Cone (6-2 210lbs. 4.37 – forty) on the roster at the SAME TIME playing WR, yet CPJ, the offensive Genius only averaged 13 passes per game, in 2010 he still had Cone & Hill and still didn’t throw the ball enough.
CPJ “lucked” into 2 great physical specimens at WR already on the roster (Cone & Thomas) and got lucky again when Hill & his father fell for his recruiting spiel, and then when they were all the roster at the same time, he chose to run his triple-SLOPtion and give the ball to pint sized A-backs instead.
If you don’t throw the ball with 3 guys that are 6-2 & up and all run under 4.40 in the forty, and are all likely to be in the NFL at the same time, then you aren’t likely to ever be serious about passing the FB better.
Too many so-called GT fans on this blog would rather pull old comments from me from 16 months ago, rather than analyze what is going on with GT FB.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
3:01 pm
Stephen Hill and his father fell for CPJ’s recruiting spiel because CPJ is such a crappy recruiter. Brilliant.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
3:03 pm
@WnE, the reason for pulling those old comments is because you PROMISED that if you were caught in a lie, you would retract it and never post again. You have been caught in MANY lies, and then just ignore whoever calls you down on them, and you never retract and continue to post. You are a joke, and NOBODY on these blogs takes you seriously IN THE LEAST.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
3:04 pm
Ironic, huh, HT? LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
3:09 pm
Also ironic that WnE literally stalked one of CPJ’s prize recruits (Vad Lee) trying to make him think that he (WnE) knew more about things than CPJ did. Seems like he thought more of CPJ’s recruiting skills than he is willing to admit. What a LOSER (WnE, that is)
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
3:17 pm
Typical troll logic and doublespeak. WnE doesn’t want ELITE RECRUITS to play in CPJ’s triple SLOPtion offense and then he criticizes CPJ for not signing ELITE RECRUITS.
What kind of fan or alumnus hates his coach, his team, his school, and his fellow fans so much that he tries to sabotage recruiting efforts? Only our resident raving lunatic, WnE, who in reality is a UGA fan and troll.
Ghost
March 31st, 2012
3:38 pm
Blt, I don’t think there is any drama a DE that would see very little playing time, and a safety that was 3rd team, I hate to see them leave from a depth perspective, but wish them well playing on lower level.The UGA policy is so restrictive , but it is what it is , looks like everyone is back by week 3 ,Smith may get 1 game, Ogletree is yet to be determined , plenty of talent left to fill the void.Just have to hope everyone stays healthy.
WnE
March 31st, 2012
3:47 pm
re:
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
3:17 pm
&
Supersize that order, mutt
March 31st, 2012
3:09 pm
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You continue to bring up that dated stuff that hasn’t stopped me from nor will it stop me from posting yet you two strangely over-look our Genius HC that had 3 future NFL WRs, all with elite athleticism on the roster at the same time, yet he has never averaged more than 13 pass attempt per game since he came to GT.
Wouldn’t a genius HC be able to look at those types of WRs and be able to convince at least ONE decent passing QB to come to GT?
Wouldn’t a genius HC look at those types of WRs and be able to decide to get a REAL QB coach and not some guy that splits time coaching QBs AND B-backs (Bohannon)?
Maybe GT’s passing troubles stem from the fact that GT doesn’t have a coach dedicated to QB development, most BCS-LEVEL schools have either a QB-coach or OC that works exclusively with QB development?
What works at the crappy D1-AA level or the crappy Service Academy level with 1 guy coaching BOTH QBs & B-backs might NOT work at the BCS-level.
Nowhere else in a BCS conference do you see a coach that develops QBs splitting his time with coaching RUNNING BACKS also.
Maybe CPJ is in over his head with the way he has set up his staff, after all were it not for a scumbag, cheating asst coach we would still have TWO O-line coaches and no STs coach.
This is called FB analysis people, that not trolling above, that’s analyzing CFB, too bad that so many weak minded GT fans can’t handle the truth.
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
3:59 pm
That is not analysis, football or otherwise. That is childish name calling and trolling.
WnE
March 31st, 2012
3:59 pm
re:
Stephen Hill and his father fell for CPJ’s recruiting spiel because CPJ is such a crappy recruiter. Brilliant.
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Regardless of the PR-guided answers that Hill has been giving to the media since he did so well at the combine, I have good sources that say that Hill & his father regret going to GT & playing for coach Kung Fu Panda.
After seeing his Combing performances, Hill & his Father know deep down inside that playing for CPJ could have very well cost them 15-20 spots in this draft and a LOT of money, but for PR reasons they’ll never come out and say anything, they don’t want to sound like they are another “diva-WR” (TO, Chad Ocho-Cinco, etc).
Those answers that Hill has been giving about “loving” his time at GT are nothing more than pre-draft PR & posturing, too bad that GT fans are too naive to to understand this.
See if GT signs anymore WRs out of DeKalb County while CPJ is here.
George Stein
March 31st, 2012
4:01 pm
Kevin Cone was a transfer from Shorter College, wasn’t he?
Beautiful day here at Russ Chandler. We won the first game of the double header 1-0.
BLT
March 31st, 2012
4:02 pm
Won WnE, what you call analysis I call poo. “scumbag” and “cheating”, that’s some great CFB analysis.
Since you’re the expert, can you answer some questions?
Who should be coach? (At Georgia Tech not UGA)
What was your opinion of Gailey?
Why do you claim to be a fan of Tech?
George Stein
March 31st, 2012
4:03 pm
So Stephen Hill is a liar and WnE has sources. This is awesome. WnE will be here all week, folks.
BLT
March 31st, 2012
4:03 pm
Wrexie has his sources! LOL
BLT
March 31st, 2012
4:04 pm
I’m sorry, LMAO!!!!
HighTech
March 31st, 2012
4:08 pm
Good point, BLT. I don’t think WnE has ever had anything positive to say about Georgia Tech or its coaches.
Another thing that is comical, is you were saying the exact same thing about Chan Gailey in 2005.
WrecksNEffect
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11-02-2005, 03:42 PM
Any HS recruit that is D1-A caliber has a mind of their own and they can see what kind of offense CCG runs, also, they will consult HS coaches and other D1-A prospects to get an “inside feel” as to what kind of coach CG really is; a bunch of “couch potatoes” sitting behind their keyboards giving CG FALSE ACCOLADES isn’t going to sway these kids one iota, they can see through the Bullshiite; which is why we are constantly beating out E. Carolina, Memphis, Wake & UAB for recruits!
Instead of responding with whiny emotional BS, try impeaching my FACTS!