Winners and Losers of the First Round

The first round of the 2010 NFL draft is in the books and there are some clear cut winners in the latter half of the first round. The Broncos may have been the most talked about team on Day 1 due to their multitude of trades and the unexpected early pick of Tim Tebow. Tebow will play a part in the Wildcat offense immediately and will sit behind Brady Quinn and Kyle Orton to learn a little more about the pocket. The Broncos also were able to draft highly regarded WR Demaryius Thomas out of Georgia Tech who is now pegged to help replace Brandon Marshall. I think that Tebow and Thomas will be excellent additions to the Broncos organization. The Bengals were able to pick up a great TE in Jermaine Gresham from Oklahoma who will add not only an extra blocking presence on run plays but an extra target for QB Carson Palmer to throw to. The Cowboys also picked up an additional weapon for QB Tony Romo in WR Dez Bryant from Oklahoma State. The embattled WR should be a welcome addition to help Roy Williams and Miles Austin to move the ball down the field. I also see some losers in the First Round in the Giants and Texans. They may take steps to rectify this in the later rounds but the Giants pick in DE Jason Pierre-Paul and the Texans pick of CB Kareem Jackson were not great picks. I feel like the Giants needed to pick up a WR to help with their issues there. The Texans did not need to draft a CB this early as they should have drafted a RB to relieve the responsibilities of Steve Slaton and hopefully they will make steps to correct this. I think the big winner of the first round is the Chargers with their pick up of RB Ryan Matthews from Fresno State. Their hole at running back is a lot closer to getting filled with Matthews as he is slightly underrated and this pick up will do a lot for the team considering that the team had a negative surplus of runningbacks after releasing Darren Sproles and LaDanian Tomlinson. Matthews will be a excellent fit with the scheme of the Chargers and will hopefully prosper here.