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Todd McShay's final mock draft is out, so let's take a look at the NFC South portion. At No. 14, McShay has the Panthers taking Utah defensive tackle Star Lotulelei. At least in mock drafts, Lotulelei's stock seems to be dropping in recent days....

It's going to be a long and busy day with the NFL draft starting Thursday night, so let's kick it off with a trip through the headlines from around the division: ATLANTA FALCONS In his final mock draft, D. Orlando Ledbetter has the Falcons taki...

For the past month or so, the universal opinion in mock drafts seemed to be that the Carolina Panthers would take defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson in the first round, the New Orleans Saints would take a defensive player and the Atlanta Falcons wou...

With the 14th pick in ESPN.com's #bloggermock draft, I chose Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson for the Carolina Panthers. The choice was easy. I also had my eye on safety Kenny Vaccaro, but I was pretty much locked in on Richardson from...

Darrelle Revis and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been dominating the news, but let's take a quick spin through some odds and ends from around the rest of the division: ATLANTA FALCONS In his latest mock draft, D. Orlando Ledbetter has the Falco...

Let's take a look at the team-by-team highlights from Friday's NFC South chat: ATLANTA FALCONS David (Atlanta): Hey Pat. If the falcons mortgage another draft to get someone like Milliner, do you really think it is worth it? Falcons are one of ...

What's the ideal first-round scenario for each team? Atlanta Falcons: There have been rumblings that the Falcons may try to trade up in the first round and I'm not ruling that out because general manager Thomas Dimitroff has done it before. But le...

At this time of year, most mock drafts seem to look pretty similar. But, as I read through Mel Kiper Jr.'s latest Insider offering in which he plays general manager for three rounds, I found one big surprise in the NFC South. Kiper has the Saints...

For those of you that read this blog regularly, you know I see LSU defensive end/linebacker Barkevious Mingo and Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones as the two most logical draft possibilities for the New Orleans Saints at No. 15. My thinking hasn't c...

As I prepare to make the ESPN Blog Network mock draft pick for the Carolina Panthers at No. 14 next week, I'm trying hard to think beyond Sheldon Richardson. It seems just about every mock draft I've seen has the Panthers taking Richardson. It mak...

The ESPN Blog Network mock draft is coming next week and I've got some good ideas of what I plan to do for all four teams. But this isn't like the 2011 draft when I knew weeks in advance that I'd be taking Cam Newton for the Carolina Panthers at N...

Let's take a run through some odds and ends from around the NFC South: ATLANTA FALCONS D. Orlando Ledbetter throws out the scenario of the Falcons trading up to get Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner in the draft. I'm not ruling this out. General ...

Although it was dominated by talk of a potential trade by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to get cornerback Darrelle Revis, Friday's NFC South chat drew all sorts of good questions from all around the division (that even included a question about Revis and ...

It's time to focus in on the upcoming NFL draft and that's exactly what I did with Scout's Inc.'s Steve Muench. In the attached video, we talked about first-round scenarios for all four NFC South teams. Of course, when you talk about the Tampa ...

Time for a swoop through some odds and ends from around the NFC South: ATLANTA FALCONS In this "First Take" video, Atlanta wide receiver Roddy White ranks the top five teams in the NFL. As you might expect, White puts the Falcons at No. 1. He a...

Todd McShay's latest Insider mock draft is out and this one comes complete with three first-round scenarios for each team. Let's take a look at what he's picturing in the NFC South. Although McShay acknowledges Tampa Bay could go with a cornerbac...