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How does each NFC West team look at running back, and what still needs to be done? Arizona Cardinals: This is a transitional year at the position for Arizona. Free-agent addition Rashard Mendenhall gets a shot to revive his career following a disa...

NFC West teams naturally expect more from earlier draft choices such as 2013 first-rounders Jonathan Cooper, Tavon Austin, Eric Reid and Alec Ogletree. All four of those early choices could wind up starting in 2013. It's an upset if they do not. ...

All players are equal, but some players are more equal than others. That's the basis of our Most Important Player series. First off, quarterbacks are excluded to make things more interesting. It goes without saying, for example, that Oregon's Marc...

The NFL's rookie wage scale has diminished the negotiating part of contract negotiations. As a result, the Seattle Seahawks announced Friday they had signed seven draft choices. The San Francisco 49ers announced they had signed five of theirs. The...

Sometimes it takes a few years to fully assess an NFL draft class' impact. Imperiled veterans can't afford to wait that long. Among the NFC West veterans on alert as 2013 rookies arrive for minicamps Friday: Arizona Cardinals: Adding guards Jo...

College graduation dates can affect whether a rookie draft choice participates in his team's offseason program, and to what extent. Beanie Wells (2009) and Isaiah Pead (2012) are two higher-profile examples from the NFC West. Rules prevented both ...

NFC West teams loaded up on halfbacks (as opposed to pure fullbacks) during the recently completed 2013 NFL draft. The division selected six of them, two more than any other division selected. 2013 NFL Draft: Halfbacks by Round Range ...

Unlike last year, there is no quarterback competition at Stanford. But the recently released post-spring depth chart does reveal some potentially interesting developments to eye-ball heading into fall. Starting on offense -- there are only two run...

Matt Williamson, NFL scout for ESPN.com, is back with post-draft thoughts regarding the recently published NFC West positional rankings. We won't cover every position. Some haven't changed enough. But with the four NFC West teams combining to draf...

The St. Louis Rams had a long list of needs heading into the 2013 NFL draft. They have addressed most of them by selecting receiver Tavon Austin, linebacker Alec Ogletree, safety T.J. McDonald, receiver Stedman Bailey, center/guard Barrett Jones a...

Happy Friday. Arizona is looking for a few good tight ends. Arizona State LB Carl Bradford is coping with a heavy loss this spring. Ten questions for California coach Sonny Dykes. Colorado has a long way to go on its D-line, but things are ...

Running back Tyler Gaffney talks about his return to football from pro baseball, replacing Stepfan Taylor and how he missed football....

Stanford's new offensive coordinator, Mike Bloomgren, talks about what might be different for the Cardinal this fall, QB Kevin Hogan and replacing RB Stepfan Taylor and TE Zach Ertz....

Starters in, starters out. That's college football. Players' eligibility expires, and they leave for the rest of their lives, whether that includes the NFL or not. And they leave behind shoes of various sizes that need to be filled. Our concern...

You might have noticed a theme this week. We kicked off the "Biggest Shoes" series and had two polls (North and South) on replacing departed players. So that means it's now time for your Pac-12 bloggers to weigh in on which two players we believe lea...

On Tuesday we looked at the departing players in the South Division who would be the most difficult to replace. And the poll results are quite exciting. So far, it's a tie between Utah's Star Lotulelei and USC's Matt Barkley with 26 percent of the vo...