If the Indianapolis Colts — or any other team, for that matter — are needing significant help in the 2010 NFL Draft, there may be good news.
This may be the best draft in a significant period of time.
Charley Casserly, a longtime, respected NFL General Manager with the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans, on Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine said the general managers, coaches and personnel officials may be scouting at Lucas Oil Stadium the best class in nearly three decades.
And he said that’s particularly true early.
“This is the best first round I’ve seen since 1983,” Casserly said at the combine, which will continue through Tuesday, March 2. “In talking to general managers throughout the league, decision makers. I think it’s the result of two things: Last year, there was a concentrated effort to keep players in school. Conversely, both sides in the labor negotiations have talked about a rookie wage scale, so when you have those two things working, players without a motivation to stay in school will say, ‘the players who stayed in last year, you have a perfect storm to have the best junior crop you’ve had since all the way back to ‘83.
“So I think this is the best first round I’ve seen going into a draft since 1983.”
