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The NFL draft is not even 24 hours old, so, of course, that means one thing -- it's time for Mel Kiper Jr.'s draft grades. His annual post-draft grades are here, in an Insider piece. As I expected, he gave good grades to all four AFC West teams, w...

ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. explains that both the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers face dilemmas in the first round. Kiper wonders whether the two rivals could work together on a trade involving the No. 3 and No. 11 picks. Such a trade could ...

Mel Kiper Jr. is getting busy playing general manager and making trades (two involving AFC West teams) in a new three-round mock draft in an Insider piece . Let's take a look: Denver Rd. 1 (28) CB Xavier Rhodes, Florida St. Rd. 2 (58) DE Dam...

ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has offered another mock draft in an Insider piece. This time, Kiper is going two rounds deep. Let's take a look at his choices for the AFC West teams: First round 1. Kansas City: Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&...

ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has offered another mock draft in an Insider piece. Let's take a look at his choices for the AFC West teams: 1. Kansas City: Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&M My take: It's starting to look like Joeckel may be the pi...

Thursday, in Insider pieces, Todd McShay and Mel Kiper Jr. offered updated mock drafts. Friday, the two discussed some of the reasons for their picks . It was interesting to read Kiper Jr.'s thoughts on the Chiefs avoiding a quarterback with the...

ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. re-graded each team for the 2013 draft. Let's take a look at his thoughts on each AFC West team: Denver Original grade: C+ New grade: B My thoughts: Kiper bumped up the grade based mostly on the play of defe...

ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. is offering his first mock draft of the first round of the April 25-27 draft. Let's take a look at his choices for the AFC West teams: 1. Kansas City: Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&M My take: There is no wrong answ...

Are Matt Barkley and Manti Te'o headed to the AFC West? As of now, Mel Kiper Jr. thinks so. Yes, the NFL draft is almost six months away and a lot will change between now and then and there will be countless projections. But any time Kiper thin...

Mel Kiper Jr. takes a difficult tact on his latest mock draft . He assigns players for each round based on the fits he thinks best works and not his usual formula of assigning picks. Let's take a look at his choices for the AFC West: Denver ...

Mel Kiper Jr. looked at 13 biggest quarterback draft busts since 1979. Yes, there's an AFC West presence in the piece. Arguably, the AFC West has produced the two biggest drafts busts of all-time: Oakland's JaMarcus Russell and San Diego's Rya...

ESPN's Mike Tirico, Mel Kiper Jr., Trent Dilfer and Chris Mortensen discuss the Broncos' needs in the NFL draft....

Mike Tirico, Mel Kiper Jr., Trent Dilfer and Chris Mortensen discuss the Chargers' biggest needs in the upcoming NFL draft....

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Michael Mitchell has scrapped his Mel Kiper Jr. motivation plan. The day after the Raiders shocked the league by taking Mitchell in the second round, the safety from Ohio University said he ...

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson One of the most memorable moments of the first day of the NFL draft was Mel Kiper Jr. criticizing Oakland's decision to draft Ohio University safety Mike Mitchell in the second round. Kiper said Mitchel...

Posted by ESPN.com's Bill Williamson Oakland's choice of Ohio University safety Mike Mitchell raised some eyebrows around the league. ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. said he was an undrafted free agent-talent. Some teams did like Mitchell but the fa...