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Patek has looked great for Hawaii, as has a white linebacker. Blaze something or other... he is hitting everything that moves!
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Marty Tadman has looked pretty good for Boise State, as well. especially on punt returns.
 

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Jimmy Chitwood said:
Patek has looked great for Hawaii, as has a white linebacker. Blaze something or other... he is hitting everything that moves!
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Marty Tadman has looked pretty good for Boise State, as well. especially on punt returns.

is Patek on NFL radar?
 

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Jamie Silva just stripped black runningback (or was it option QB?) and took it to the house from 51 yards away. got lots of praise, too. it was a first score of the ACC Championship game
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backrow,

Patek has NFL-caliber tools... but it's hard to say if ANY white defensive back is on the NFL's radar these days.
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i mean, just look at Silva! Rivals only lists him as a third team All American.
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what the crap?!
 

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how will the NFL manage to shun Army's senior strong safety, Caleb Campbell? i'm sure they will find a way despite the facts...

he entered today's game against Navy 10th in career tackles in Army's 117 years of football. as a rare four-year starter in the program, Campbell has put up impressive numbers. he's tallied 304 career tackles, six interceptions, nine pass break-ups, six forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.

before today's game, he had 94 tackles this season.

Campbell, 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds, is projected as a strong safety or an outside linebacker in the NFL. He's being projected anywhere from the third- through seventh-rounds. The question isn't his speed (4.5 seconds in the 40), but where to place him in an NFL defensive scheme?

i mean, he has white skin... and no matter how hard he works, he won't be able to get rid of it.

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jared, you get to watch a lot more Pac-10 football than i do, but i caught The Big Game between Cal and Stanford...

Stanford's white cornerback Nick Sanchez looked GREAT! did he just have a good game? or has he been playing well all season?

he's got 4 interceptions on the season, but only 3 pass break-ups... so going from his performance against Cal, it seems like teams haven't been throwing at him because he's doing a great job ball-hawking. is that an accurate assessment?

of course, he didn't make an All Pac-10 team, either...

additionally, white sophomore safety Bo McNally led the team in tackles this year.

one other player for the Cardinal really stood out to me... sophomore linebacker Clinton Snyder really flies to the football! he could be the next great linebacker in the Pac-10.
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Jimmy, it's been hard for me to watch as many games as I normally do this year because I'm an ASU season ticket holder (8 home games this year). Nick Sanchez has been pretty low key this year as far as I can tell until the Cal game. Too bad for him that that he was injured last year, he just hasn't generated enough buzz to be noticed. McNally has been a stud tackler though (7th among all DB's) and he's only a soph.
 

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well, he looked good. he had 2 interceptions in the game, including the game-clincher on the 2-yard line. the announcers raved about him, saying he got the best of his match-up all game long, only getting beat on one pass.

i hope he gets a chance to impress at Stanford's Pro Day, because i doubt he will get an invite to the Combine. too bad he has white skin, because if it weren't for that he'd certainly have impressive athletic ability...

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Jimmy Chitwood,

What about Campbell's obligation to the Army? Doesn't he have to serve five years in the Army?

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Ex-LSU star Steltz works his way back

April 25, 2008

By Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE â€â€￾ Craig Steltz is just about back where he was, which was making a bone jarring tackle right out of the tackling textbook. Unfortunately, the last one he made fractured one of his bones.

Steltz is nearing full recovery from a hairline fracture of his scapula, or shoulder blade, in the national championship game last Jan. 7.

"It was just a head-on tackle like I've made a thousand times," Steltz said this week. "It just happened. I guess it hit in the perfect spot to hurt it."

Steltz stopped Ohio State running back Brandon Saine after a 22-yard completion at the LSU 21 with the game tied 10-10 midway in the second quarter. He tried to play the next play, which was a third-and-3 from the LSU 21.

"I couldn't even lift my arm," he said.

Still, the defense held. After an incompletion on third down, Ricky Jean-Francois blocked a field goal. LSU took over and scored three unanswered touchdowns for a 31-10 lead and was off to a 38-24 victory for the national title. Steltz, a first team Walter Camp and ESPN All-American and Thorpe Award finalist, had to do something he has rarely done. He had to watch the rest of the game.

"I'd never been hurt in college enough to miss a game," Steltz said. "I never missed a whole game in high school either. It was hard. But I had an opportunity to play in two quarters of the national championship game, and I played in the 13 games before that. I grew up wanting to play for LSU in the national championship game, and I did. So it wasn't that bad."

Steltz remained in pain for weeks though, barely able to lift his arm. He had to miss the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., which is ideal for mid-round draft hopefuls to improve their stock. He could not work out at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Finally, his shoulder healed without surgery. He impressed NFL personnel at LSU's Pro Day last month.

"It's almost all the way back," Steltz said. "The only thing is I need is to get the muscle stronger. It wasn't displaced so it didn't need surgery. I'm ready to go."

Steltz was worried right after the injury, but in the end he will likely not hurt his draft position. He was considered a fourth or fifth rounder before the injury and is still in that range.

"I'm expecting to be a Sunday pick," he said. "The third, fourth or fifth round. That'll be great. It'll be exciting."

Steltz was scheduled to be honored this morning at his alma mater Rummel High School in Metairie, where his No. 10 jersey for the Raiders will become the first retired number in the 40-plus years of the school. He is also the first All-American out of Rummel and will be the highest draft choice.

"He's a very tough kid," NFL draft expert Mike Detillier said. "He'll come up and knock you into next week. And he's a leader. It said a lot about him that he was voted a team captain at LSU last year because he had not started a lot before his senior year."

Steltz, who waited behind starting safety Jessie Daniels for most of his career before 2007, led LSU in tackles in 2007 with 97, including 66 solos. He had 16 tackles each against Florida and Arkansas. He also was No. 1 in the Southeastern Conference and No. 8 nationally with six interceptions.

"He's not great in man coverage because he doesn't have great speed," Detillier said. "But he's smart. He's alert. He understands the passing game. He would be great on a zone coverage team like Tampa, Denver, Indianapolis, Chicago, New England. Those teams play a lot of coverages, and he would fit in there very well. He's got to get stronger, but the injury has really not dropped him. I know the scouts like how he catches the ball."

Steltz has visited the Baltimore Ravens and had talks with the Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears, among others.

"I'm ready to get going," Steltz, who usually can't stand not doing anything. "It was hard when I was hurt because for a long time, I couldn't work out. It's time."
 

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