Tuesday, March 29, 2011

NFL Draft 2011: Power Ranking the 25 Best Late-Round Steals in NFC History

The glitz and the glamor of the NFL Draft largely rests in the first round. That is where the majority of the "mocking" occurs and the commissioner calls the names we all know

Those players grab the cash and the pressure of expectations. The pressure rests not only on them, but also on the executives that draft them.

It is the rare NFL career that survives whiffing on more than one first-round selection.

The draft is a high-stakes, risky game, and it is an inexact science. One needs look no further than the following players on this slideshow.

All of them had careers that were worthy of a first-round selection, yet every team passed on them again and again in the NFL Draft before some lucky team hit the lottery by selecting them.

There are so many of these kinds of success stories that I am just going to focus on the ones who were drafted and found success in the NFC.

The order of rankings consist of a highly mathematical equation that may simply be viewed as (round selected multiplied by production) divided by pie. I will spare the complex version as it even confused my fellow MIT alums.

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Monet Mazur Rozonda Thomas Rachel Weisz Miranda Kerr Sarah Shahi

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