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f an NFL team was going to have one of their scouts attacked by a bird, of course it had to be the Ravens. To make the story even more surreal, Johnny Manziel is involved. We'll explain. Baltimore Director of College Scouting Joe Hortiz was supposed to watch Manziel work out in late March. While driving to College Station, Hortiz spotted a few large birds on the road ahead of him. As Hortiz drove closer to the birds, one of them flew up and attacked Hortiz's windshield (see the damage here). "I remember seeing the full bird right in front of me, and I ducked, felt this thing hit my arm and focused on keeping the wheels straight. Glass was everywhere. It was like an explosion. When I opened my eyes, I expected to find a giant turkey buzzard in my lap. Turns out what had hit my arm was the light console from right behind the window. The bird didn't come all the way through the windshield, but the force of the hit burst the inside of the window," Hort...

We’re just eight days away from the 2014 first round kicking off, and there’s still so much we don’t know about how the 2014 draft will shake out. Uncertainty lingers in what the Texans will do atop the draft, where the quarterbacks will land and who will be the surprise players to leap into round one. In the second-to-last mock of the 2014 draft, this is my best two-round effort in projecting how the early part of the draft will shake out. 1. Houston Texans – Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina -A trade is certainly likely with either Atlanta or Jacksonville, but the Texans won’t give up Clowney without getting a great return. In the end, the Texans could just stand to keep the best player in the draft and add to their defense. 2. St. Louis Rams – Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn -This pick seems like a consensus, as the Rams (and multiple NFL teams) view Robinson as only a small step down from Clowney as a prospect. They could slide Robinson at left guard for a year before moving on fro...

Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff and head coach Mike Smith expressed no concern about top prospect Jadeveon Clowney's motivation as the team prepares for next week's NFL Draft. There has been talk of the Falcons possibly trading up from the sixth-overall spot to as high to No. 1 overall with the Houston Texans in order to draft Clowney, although Dimitroff, of course, did not address such speculation. Dimitroff did, however, give his impressions of Clowney after spending extensive time with the defensive end last week at the Falcons facility and on the University of South Carolina campus. "Jadeveon Clowney, he's obviously a top-notch talent," Dimitroff told ESPN.com during a charity event Monday night. "He's a fun, upbeat player with a lot of passion for the game. We got a chance to spend a lot of good time with him, not only in our building but at South Carolina. He continues to impress us as an individual." During the NFL Combin...

Have you ever heard a more repeated phrase about NFL team building? It is the public goal of every owner and general manager, even those whose teams routinely participate in veteran free agency. Young players are cheaper and healthier and can be bound to their initial team for at least four years. Here's a better question: How closely have teams actually followed that practice? The graph at the bottom of this post offers one, albeit imperfect, way to measure that commitment. The number associated with each team is the total original draft picks remaining on the roster as of late last week, via ESPN Stats & Information data. You will see most teams are bunched in the 20s, and as is often the case, the most illuminating revelations sit on the fringes. The Green Bay Packers have an NFL-leading 33 players they drafted currently on their roster, more than twice that of the Chicago Bears (15) and nearly twice the Jacksonville Jaguars (17) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (17). There are ...