2012 NFL free agency rankings

By Jason Jones (posted by Rick Morris)

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Tier 1	QB	Drew Brees
Untouchables	RB	Arian Foster
	RB	Ray Rice
	OLB	Mario Williams
	RB	Matt Forte
	WR	Mike Wallace
	WR	Wes Welker
	TE	Jermichael Finley
	DE	Aaron Smith
	OG	Carl Nicks
	OG	Ben Grubbs
	WR	Vincent Jackson
	WR	DeSean Jackson
	WR	Marques Colston
	RB	Marshawn Lynch
	DE	Robert Mathis
	C	Jeff Saturday
	RB	LeGarrette Blount
	WR	Tony Gonzalez
	DE	Israel Idonije
	CB	Ronde Barber
Tier 2	WR	Reggie Wayne
	S	Jim Leonard
	DT	Kelly Gregg
	WR	Dwayne Bowe
	S	LaRon Landry
	CB	Cortland Finnegan
	WR	Steve Johnson
	OT	Jared Gaither
	RB	Peyton Hillis
	RB	Michael Bush
	QB	Matt Flynn
	RB	Cedric Benson
Tier 3	RB	Ryan Grant
	MLB	London Fletcher
	WR	Brandon Lloyd
	S	Tom Zbikowski
	WR	Mario Manningham
	CB	Carlos Rogers
	MLB	Bradie James
	OT	Kareem McKenzie
	DE	Anthony Spencer
	DE	Manny Lawson
	S	Michael Griffin
	OLB	Phillip Merling
Tier 4	QB	David Garrard
	TE	John Carlson
	S	Tyvon Branch
	OT	Barry Richardson
	CB	Tracy Porter
	DT	Amobi Okoye
	S	Craig Steltz
	WT	Plaxico Burress
	OT	Khalif Barnes
	DT	Trevor Laws
	OLB	Keith Brooking
	DE	Jason Jones
Tier 5	TE	Scott Chandler
	OG	Deuce Lutui
	S	Gibril Wilson
	OLB	Curtis Lofton
	WR	Pierre Garcon
	CB	Aaron Ross
	OLB	Ernie Sims
	TE	Fred Davis
	OLB	Brenden Ayanbadejo
	CB	Terrell Thomas
	OT	Max Starks
	RB	BenJarvis Green-Ellis
Tier 6	OLB	Stephen Tulloch
	OLB	Philip Wheeler
	RB	Ronnie Brown
	WR	Eddie Royal
	WR	Devin Aromashodu
	OG	Roberto Garza
	S	Brandon Merriweather
	RB	Tashard Choice
	TE	Martellus Bennett
Tier 7	DE	Calais Campbell
	OLB	Kirk Morrison
	QB	Kyle Orton
	WR	Robert Meachem
	QB	Josh Johnson
	QB	Alex Smith
	CB	Eric Wright
	QB	Drew Stanton
	OT	Levi Brown
	MLB	Dan Connor
	S	Abram Elam
	QB	Charlie Whitehurst
Tier 8	DE	John Abraham
	QB	Jason Campbell
	WR	Jerome Simpson
	TE	Kellen Davis
	RB	Tim Hightower
	CB	Al Harris
	DE	Cliff Avril
	OLB	EJ Henderson
	RB	Mike Tolbert
	TE	Visanthe Shiancoe
	QB	Vince Young
	OT	Demetrius Bell
	DE	Quentin Groves
Tier 9	CB/S	Marcus Trufant
	OG	John Greco
	DT	Kendall Langford
	RB	LaDainian Tomlinson
	DT	Broderick Bunkley
	DE	Adam Carriker
	WR	Anthony Gonzalez
	TE	Jeremy Shockey
	QB	Brady Quinn
	DT	Marcus Thomas
	DT	Frank Okam
	QB	Donovan McNabb

2012 NFL Draft rankings by position

By Jason Jones (posted by Rick Morris)

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	QB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Andrew Luck	1st Pick	Stanford	6'4	235	4.72
2	Robert Griffin III	Top 10	Baylor	6'2	220	4.52
3	Matt Barkley (U)	Top 10	USC	6'2	230	4.83
4	Landry Jones (U)	Top 15	Oklahoma	6'4	216	4.81
5	Aaron Murray (U)	Rd 1	Georgia	6'1	211	4.81
6	Ryan Tannehill	Rd 1	Texas A&M	6'4	219	4.61
7	Tyler Bray (U)	Rd 1	Tennessee	6'6	210	4.82
8	Tyler Wilson (U)	Rd 1-2	Arkansas	6'3	220	4.82
9	Nick Foles	Rd 2-3	Arizona	6'5	235	5.01
10	Tyler Wilson	Rd 2-3	Arkansas	6'3	220	4.85
11	Kirk Cousins	Rd 3-4	Michigan St	6'3	202	4.85
12	E.J. Manual (U)	Rd 3-4	Florida St	6'5	234	4.61
13	Jacory Harris	Rd 3-4	Miami	6'4	200	4.72
14	Brock Osweiler	Rd 4-5	Arizona St	6'8	240	4.68
15	Brandon Weeden	Rd 4-5	Oklahoma St	6'4	220	4.92
16	Case Keenum	Rd 4-5	Houston	6'1	210	4.83
17	Russell Wilson	Rd 5-6	Wisconsin	5'11	201	4.68
18	Kellen Moore	Rd 5-6	Boise St	6'0	187	4.93
19	Dominique Davis	Rd 5-6	East Carolina	6'3	215	4.68
20	Jordan Jefferson	Rd 5-6	LSU	6'5	223	4.69
21	Jarrett Lee	Rd 6	LSU	6'2	206	4.82

	RB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Marcus Lattimore (U)	Top 10	South Carolina	6'1	232	4.48
2	Trent Richardson	Top 15	Alabama	5'11	220	4.49
3	Lamar Miller	Rd 1-2	Miami	5'11	212	4.49
4	Montee Ball	Rd 1-2	Wisonsin	5'11	214	4.53
5	Michael Dyer (U)	Rd 1-2	Auburn	5'9	210	4.48
6	Chris Polk	Rd 2	Washington	5'11	215	4.46
7	LaMichael James	Rd 2-3	Oregon	5'9	185	4.38
8	David Wilson	Rd 2-3	Virginia Tech	5'10	205	4.59
9	Edwin Baker (U)	Rd 3	Michigan St	5'9	208	4.54
10	Doug Martin	Rd 3-4	Boise St	5'9	215	4.46
11	Cyrus Gray	Rd 3-4	Texas A&M	5'10	198	4.47
12	Andre Ellington (U)	Rd 3-4	Clemson	5'10	190	4.49

	WR	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Justin Blackmon	Top 10	Oklahoma St	6'1	208	4.48
2	Alshon Jeffrey	Top 20	South Carolina	6'4	233	4.51
3	Michael Floyd	Top 20	Notre Dame	6'3	218	4.51
4	Dwight Jones	Rd 1-2	UNC	6'4	215	4.55
5	Robert Woods (U)	Rd 1-2	USC	6'1	180	4.51
6	Kendall Wright	Rd 1-2	Baylor	5'10	190	4.39
7	Keenan Allen (U)	Rd 1-2	Cal	6'2	215	4.55
8	Mohamed Sanu	Rd 1-2	Rutgers	6'2	215	4.49
9	Kenny Stills (U)	Rd 1-2	Oklahoma	6'1	189	4.53
10	Marquess Wilson (U)	Rd 1-2	Washington St	6'4	183	4.58
11	Marvin McNutt	Rd 2	Iowa	6'4	215	4.58
12	Tommy Streeter	Rd 2-3	Miami	6'5	215	4.52
13	Rueben Randle	Rd 2-3	LSU	6'4	207	4.51
14	Nick Toon	Rd 2-3	Wisconsin	6'3	217	4.58
15	Jordan White	Rd 2-3	W.Michigan	6'0	215	4.48
16	T.Y. Hilton	Rd 3	FIU	5'10	183	4.41
17	A.J. Jenkins	Rd 3-4	Oklahoma	5'11	185	4.46
18	Tarvarres King (U)	Rd 3-4	Georgia	6'1	191	4.49
19	Rueben Randle (U)	Rd 3-4	LSU	6'4	207	4.49
20	B.J. Cunningham	Rd 4-5	Texas A&M	6'1	206	4.55
21	DeVier Posey	Rd 4-6	Ohio St	6'2	213	4.51

	TE	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Dwayne Allen	Rd 1-2	Clemson	6'4	255	4.65
2	Coby Fleener	Rd 2-3	Stanford	6'6	248	4.79
3	Tyler Eifert	Rd 2-3	Notre Dame	6'6	242	4.69
4	Orson Charles	Rd 2-3	Georgia	6'3	241	4.66
5	David Paulson	Rd 3-4	Oregon	6'4	245	4.71
6	Evan Rodriguez	Rd 3-4	Temple	6'3	250	4.71
7	Jake Stoneburner (U)	Rd 3-4	Ohio St	6'5	245	4.71
8	Kyler Reed (U)	Rd 3-4	Nebraska	6'3	230	4.69
9	Michael Williams (U)	Rd 4-5	Alabama	6'6	270	4.77

	OT	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Matt Kalil	Top 5	USC	6'7	295	5.01
2	Jonathan Martin	Top 15	Stanford	6'6	305	5.18
3	Riley Reiff	Top 15	Iowa	6'6	300	4.98
4	Seantrel Henderson (U)	Top 20	Miami	6'8	360	5.19
5	Jake Matthews (U)	Top 20	Texas A&M	6'5	305	4.98
6	Barrett Jones	Rd 1	Alabama	6'5	311	5.19
7	D.J. Fluker	Rd 1-2	Alabama	6'6	335	5.11
8	Xavier Nixon (U)	Rd 1-2	Florida	6'5	300	4.95
9	Jeremiah Sirles (U)	Rd 1-2	Nebraska	6'6	320	5.22
10	Mike Adams	Rd 2	Ohio St	6'8	320	5.12
11	Nate Potter	Rd 2	Boise St	6'6	300	5.14
12	Luke Joeckel (U)	Rd 2	Texas A&M	6'6	310	4.98
13	Matt Reynolds	Rd 2-3	BYU	6'6	325	5.18
14	Ricky Wagner	Rd 2-3	Wisconsin	6'6	320	5.21
15	Zebrie Sanders	Rd 2-3	Florida St	6'5	306	5.16
16	Levy Adcock	Rd 2-3	Oklahoma St	6'5	318	5.14
17	Bobby Massie	Rd 2-3	Ole Miss	6'6	312	5.09
18	Don Barclay	Rd 3-4	West Virginia	6'4	305	5.16
19	Tanner Hawkinson	Rd 3-4	Kansas	6'6	295	4.93
20	Blake DeChristopher	Rd 3-4	Virginia Tech	6'5	320	5.14
21	Andrew Datko	Rd 3-4	Florida St	6'6	312	5.09

	OG	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	David DeCastro	Rd 1	Stanford	6'5	312	5.14
2	Cordy Glenn	Rd 1-2	Georgia	6'5	330	5.28
3	Kelechi Osemele	Rd 2	Iowa St	6'5	347	5.36
4	Alvin Bailey (U)	Rd 2	Arkansas	6'5	319	5.36
5	Kevin Zeitler	Rd 2	Wisonsin	6'4	312	5.21
6	Ryan Miller	Rd 2-3	Colorado	6'8	310	5.25
7	Lonnie Edwards	Rd 3-4	Texas Tech	6'4	322	5.16
8	Lucas Nix	Rd 3-4	Pittsburgh	6'6	305	5.19
9	Brandon Washington (U)	Rd 3-4	Miami	6'4	320	5.21
10	Rokevious Watkins	Rd 3-4	South Carolina	6'4	340	5.27

	OC	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Peter Konz	Rd 1	Wisconsin	6'5	315	5.58
2	Ben Jones	Rd 2-3	Georgia	6'3	316	5.17
3	Michael Brewster	Rd 2-3	Ohio St	6'5	293	5.08
4	Philip Blake	Rd 2-3	Baylor	6'3	320	5.58
5	William Vlachos	Rd 2-3	Alabama	6'1	294	5.13
6	Ben Habern (U)	Rd 2-3	Oklahoma	6'2	291	5.28
7	Mario Benavides (U)	Rd 3-4	Louisville	6'4	300	5.15
8	T.J. Johnson (U)	Rd 3-4	South Carolina	6'5	316	5.25
9	David Molk	Rd 3-4	Michigan	6'2	280	5

	DT	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Devon Still	Rd 1	Penn St	6'5	311	5.03
2	Sharrif Floyd (U)	Rd 1	Florida	6'3	301	4.98
3	Brandon Thompson	Rd 1-2	Clemson	6'2	310	5.15
4	Alameda Ta'amu	Rd 1-2	Washington	6'3	330	5.42
5	Marcus Forston (U)	Rd 2	Miami	6'3	310	4.97
6	Fletcher Cox	Rd 2	Mississippi St	6'4	295	4.93
7	Baker Steinkuhler (U)	Rd 2	Nebraska	6'6	290	4.92
8	Jerel Worthy	Rd 2-3	Michigan St	6'3	305	4.99
9	Derek Wolfe	Rd 2-3	Cincinnati	6'5	302	4.92
10	Dontari Poe	Rd 2-3	Memphis	6'5	350	5.48
11	Josh Chapman	Rd 2-3	Alabama	6'1	310	5.22
12	Kawann Short	Rd 2-3	Purdue	6'3	305	5.18
13	Jared Crick	Rd 3-4	Nebraska	6'6	285	4.88

	DE	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Quinton Coples	Top 10	UNC	6'6	285	4.71
2	Donte Paige-Moss (U)	Top 20	UNC	6'4	260	4.69
3	Brandon Jenkins (U)	Top 20	Florida St	6'3	250	4.67
4	Devin Taylor (U)	Rd 1	South Carolina	6'7	250	4.69
5	Jonathan Massaquoi (U)	Rd 1	Troy	6'2	250	4.69
6	Damontre Moore (U)	Rd 1	Texas A&M	6'4	245	4.67
7	Melvin Ingram	Rd 1-2	South Carolina	6'4	276	4.75
8	Wes Horton (U)	Rd 1-2	USC	6'5	265	4.73
9	Nick Perry (U)	Rd 1-2	USC	6'3	250	4.57
10	Frank Alexander	Rd 2-3	Oklahoma	6'4	255	4.73
11	Shea McClellin	Rd 2-3	Boise St	6'3	262	4.77
12	Alex Okafor	Rd 2-3	Texas	6'4	260	4.68
13	Julian Miller	Rd 3-4	West Virginia	6'4	268	4.72
14	Brad Madison (U)	Rd 3-4	Missouri	6'4	265	4.81
15	Cam Johnson	Rd 3-4	Virginia	6'4	265	4.64
16	Jake Bequette	Rd 3-4	Arkansas	6'5	271	4.78
17	Brandon Lindsay	Rd 3-4	Pittsburgh	6'2	250	4.65
18	Jamie Blatnick	Rd 3-4	Oklahoma St	6'3	265	4.69
19	Oliver Vernon (U)	Rd 4-5	Miami	6'4	265	4.75

	4-3 OLB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Zach Brown	Rd 1	UNC	6'2	230	4.41
2	Ronnell Lewis	Rd 1-2	Oklahoma	6'2	244	4.55
3	Nico Johnson	Rd 1-2	Alabama	6'3	245	4.59
4	Jelani Jenkins (U)	Rd 1-2	Florida	6'1	223	4.53
5	Ron Powell (U)	Rd 1-2	Florida	6'4	248	4.59
6	C.J. Mosley (U)	Rd 1-2	Alabama	6'2	234	4.65
7	James Morris (U)	Rd 1-2	Iowa	6'2	227	4.63
8	Lavonte David	Rd 2	Nebraska	6'1	225	4.55
9	Chase Thomas	Rd 2	Stanford	6'4	239	4.61
10	Travis Lewis	Rd 2-3	Oklahoma	6'2	232	4.48
11	Danny Trevathan	Rd 2-3	Kentucky	6'1	232	4.56
12	Sean Spence	Rd 2-3	Miami	6'0	225	4.49
13	Emmanuel Acho	Rd 3-4	Texas	6'2	240	4.62
14	Bobby Wagner	Rd 3-4	Utah St	6'1	230	4.67
15	Nigel Bradham	Rd 3-4	Florida St	6'3	241	4.54
16	Keenan Robinson	Rd 3-4	Texas	6'3	239	4.55

	3-4 Hybrid OLB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Courntey Upshaw	Rd 1	Alabama	6'2	263	4.68
2	Whitney Mercilus	Rd 1	Illinois	6'4	265	4.65
3	Brandon Jackson	Rd 1	Florida St	6'3	265	4.67
4	Nick Perry	Rd 1-2	USC	6'3	250	4.57
5	Vinny Curry	Rd 1-2	Marshall	6'5	263	4.66
6	Andre Branch	Rd 2	Clemson	6'5	260	4.73

	ILB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Luke Kuechly	Top 20	Boston College	6'3	237	4.68
2	Vontaze Burfict (U)	Top 20	Arizona St	6'3	245	4.63
3	Manti Te'o (U)	Top 25	Notre Dame	6'2	245	4.55
4	Don’t'a Hightower	Rd 1	Alabama	6'4	260	4.85
5	Tom Wort (U)	Rd 1-2	Oklahoma	6'0	229	4.65
6	Tanner Brock (U)	Rd 3-4	TCU	6'3	250	4.68
7	Audie Cole	Rd 3-4	NC State	6'5	239	4.65
8	Kevin Reddick (U)	Rd 3-4	UNC	6'3	240	4.67
9	Jerry Franklin	Rd 3-4	Arkansas	6'1	245	4.72
10	Kevin Reddick	Rd 3-4	UNC	6'3	240	4.67
11	Tank Carder	Rd 3-4	TCU	6'2	237	4.65
12	Carmen Messina	Rd 3-4	New Mexico	6'2	236	4.62

	S	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Mark Barron	Rd 1-2	Alabama	6'2	215	4.61
2	T.J. McDonald (U)	Rd 1-2	USC	6'2	205	4.49
3	Tony Jefferson (U)	Rd 1-2	Oklahoma	5'10	199	4.55
4	Matt Elam (U)	Rd 1-2	Florida	5'10	205	4.51
5	Rashard Hall (U)	Rd 2-3	Clemson	6'2	195	4.48
6	Ray Ray Armstrong (U)	Rd 2-3	Miami	6'4	220	4.57
7	Robert Lester	Rd 2	Alabama	6'2	210	4.51
8	Bacarri Rambo	Rd 2	Georgia	6'0	218	4.57
9	Markelle Martin	Rd 2-3	Oklahoma St	6'1	202	4.58
10	Winston Guy Jr	Rd 3-4	Kentucky	6'1	210	4.49
11	Brandon Taylor	Rd 3-4	LSU	6'0	191	4.51
12	Trenton Robinson	Rd 3-4	Michigan St	6'2	210	4.53
13	Neiko Thorpe	Rd 3-4	Auburn	6'3	191	4.52

	CB	Round	School	Ht	Wt	40 Time
1	Morris Claiborne	Top 10	LSU	6'0	188	4.38
2	Dre Kirkpatrick	Top 20	Alabama	6'3	190	4.46
3	Jayron Hosley (U)	Top 25	Virginia Tech	5'10	172	4.48
4	Alfonzo Dennard	Top 25	Nebraska	5'10	205	4.45
5	Cliff Harris (U)	Top 25	Oregon	5'11	180	4.42
6	Janoris Jenkins	Top 25	N. Alabama	5'10	188	4.45
7	Chase Minnifield	Rd 1	Virginia	6'0	185	4.46
8	Desmond Trufant	Rd 2	Washington	6'0	184	4.42
9	Stephon Gilmore	Rd 2-3	South Carolina	6'1	190	4.48
10	Casey Hayward	Rd 2-3	Vanderbilt	5'11	188	4.47
11	Xavier Rhodes	Rd 2-3	Florida St	6'2	215	4.44
12	Micah Hyde	Rd 2-3	Iowa	6'1	185	4.51
13	Shaun Prater	Rd 3	Iowa	5'11	180	4.47
14	Donnie Fletcher	Rd 3	Boston College	6'1	200	4.49
15	DeQuan Menzie	Rd 3	Alabama	6'0	195	4.52
16	Keith Tandy	Rd 3-4	West Virginia	5'10	198	4.48
17	Coryell Judie	Rd 3-4	Texas A&M	5'11	188	4.39
18	Leonard Johnson	Rd 3-4	Iowa St	5'10	195	4.48

	Board of My Favorite Players
1	Andrew Luck	QB	Stanford
2	Matt Kalil	OT	USC
3	Robert Griffin III	QB	Baylor
4	Justin Blackmon	WR	Oklahoma St
5	Morris Claiborne	CB	LSU
6	Quinton Coples	DE	UNC
7	Marcus Lattimore	RB	S.Carolina
8	Michael Floyd	WR	Notre Dame
9	Matt Barkley	QB	USC
10	Donte Paige-Moss	DE	UNC
11	Trent Richardson	RB	Alabama
12	Alshon Jeffries	WR	S.Carolina
13	Dre Kirkpatrick	CB	Alabama
14	Luke Kuechly	MLB	Boston College
15	Jonathan Martin	OT	Stanford