Here's I've picked up working the phone the last couple of days:
-- Fletcher Cox is the defensive lineman with the biggest buzz at the moment. There's feeling he could go in the top 10.
-- Quinton Coples may fall into the 20s. The claim is that character concerns have teams uneasy. One source wondered if a team or teams in the teens were trying to spook their neighbors into passing on Coples, but this rumor came up more than once.
-- I hear conflicting things about Memphis DL Dontari Poe. On the one hand, I'm hearing his stock may have peaked and he, like Coples, could fall.
Conversely, I hear that he could make sense for a team like Kansas City at pick 11, if he does not go sooner. Wherever he goes, it seems safe to say that Poe won't fall out of the top 20.
-- Nobody I spoke to had much buzz to report on LSU DE Michael Brockers. One person told me he's aware that a lot of teams like Brockers and he believes they're trying to keep that interest quiet, in the hope they can land him.
Tonight: draft teasers on pass rushers and secondary players.
