December 28, 2014

Selection order updated … With the 2014 NFL regular schedule now in the books, the first twenty selections at the 2015 have now been settled as per the updated first-round selection order for the upcoming draft. The final twelve picks will be settled over the course of the playoffs with the losers of next weekends wild card games picking 21st thru 24th; the losers of the conference semi-finals will fill the 25th thru 28th picks; the losing conference finalists will pick 29th and 30th, while the Super Bowl loser will pick 31st and the Super Bowl winner 32nd.

Not wasting any time … Having acquired the first and second picks overall respectively at the 2015 draft, Tampa Bay and Tennessee will both have contingents at Thursday’s Rose Bowl game in Los Angeles on Thursday to check out the opposing QBs Marcus Mariota of Oregon and Florida State’s Jameis Winston, who just also happen to be the top two-rated passers for the2015 draft. And in both cases the team’s GM – Jason Licht of Tampa Bay and Tennessee’s Ruston

Webster – will be leading those delegations. Of course, there are no guarantees that either team

will ultimately take a QB with their opening round pick, although its hard not to make the case

that each team has a hug need at the position.