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[cstjohn17]

Terrific breakdowns of the Patriots and Ravens rosters, from ESPN.com's Hashmarks. Really great stuff...

Patriots
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/hashmarks/0-4-4/Diving-into-the-Patriots--roster.html

Items of note, despite the love affair with late round draft picks most rosters are made up of players drafted in rounds 1-4. There are the occasional, out of the park homeruns (Brady) but it is rare for a late rounder to become a starter. Next year we have 6 picks in rounds 1-4, time to make some hay.

Ravens
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/hashmarks/0-4-5/Diving-into-the-Ravens--roster.html

 

[psychoPat]

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[xmarkd400x]

• 14 undrafted free agents are on the active roster
• 1 player drafted under carrroll still exists (Kevin Faulk)
• 2 players drafted under Parcells still exist (Bruschi, Brown)
• Russ Hochstien was drafted by Tony Dungy at tampa (2001)
• Junior Seau was drafted in 1990
• 1990 was before the internet
• 25 players the pats drafted are still here
• 22 draftees remain from the Belichick era
• 2 undrafted players are listed as started (Steven Neal and Pierre Woods) [Wait... Pierre Woods?!?!]