First battle for 7-4 Zach Edey and Purdue is FDU, the shortest team in Division I

Coach Tom Herman faces a huge burden in trying to pull a Longhorns program rich in resources and tradition out of a long cycle of mediocrity.

Now less than two weeks away from the NFL draft, a few things are coming into focus. After that, evaluations tend to be all over the place, and the last 12 selections of the first round in particular could be filled with some twists and turns and players being called who weren’t found on a lot of mock drafts. It’s still a little early in terms of being able to sort out the best information possible about which teams are truly leaning which way, but you do continue to hear the same names mentioned as the best of the best in this draft: Saquon Barkley, Quenton Nelson, Bradley Chubb, Minkah Fitzpatrick and Denzel Ward. The consensus I get from the evaluators I speak with is that those five are the best players in this draft overall, and if not for all of the extreme demand for passers, that is how picks 1-5 would likely play out in some order.