See my earlier entry for an introduction to what I'm doing here.

Here is my current list of potential first-round NFL draft picks in this year's draft, sorted by position and alphabetically.  As noted in the earlier post, this is a rough list and who knows, maybe I've completely overlooked an obvious player through some sin of commission or omossion.  Either way, leave a little note in the comments section and if there's a good case to be made for that player, I'll add him onto this list.

Please remember today's entry is for defenders.  I'll return tomorrow with the offensive list.

Defensive Line (name, school, PS #)

• Brodrick Bunkley, Florida State-#65
• Elvis Dumervil, Louisville-#54
• Tamba Hali, Penn State-#13
• Orien Harris, Miami (FL)-#6
  
• Mathias Kiwanuka, Boston College-#45
• Manny Lawson, North Carolina State-#186 LB
• Haloti Ngata, Oregon-#1
• Gabe Watson, Michigan-#5
• Mario Williams, North Carolina State-#10
• Rod Wright, Texas-#2
• Claude Wroten, LSU-#5 JC [write-in]
  

Linebackers

• Bobby Carpenter, Ohio State-#26
• Chad Greenway, Iowa-#48 QB
• A.J. Hawk, Ohio State-#40
• Abdul Hodge, Iowa-#51 WR
• Thomas Howard, UTEP-N/A
• D'Qwell Jackson, Maryland-#67
• DeMeco Ryans, Alabama-#143

Defensive Backs

• Jason Allen, Tennessee-#17 RB
  
• Darnell Bing, USC-#4
• Daniel Bullocks, Nebraska-#87 [write-in]
  
• Antonio Cromartie, Florida State-#3
• Tye Hill, Clemson-#134 RB
  
• Michael Huff, Texas-N/A
• Kelly Jennings, Miami (FL)-#84
• Johnathan Joseph, South Carolina-#89 JC [write-in]
  
• Richard Marshall, Fresno State-#94
  
• Ko Simpson, South Carolina-#84
• Ernie Sims, Florida State-#5
• Pat Watkins, Florida State-#1
• Donte Whitner, Ohio State-#9
• Jimmy Williams, Virginia Tech-#38
• Ashton Youboty, Ohio State-#30
• Alan Zemaitis, Penn State-#72
  

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