We are 3 days away from welcoming the newest class of players into the NFL at the 2012 NFL Draft. Each team, after months of going over almost every player in college football, will be ready to hunker down in the war rooms with their Top-Secret Draft boards. Teams will be calling other teams, they will be calling players, they will be calling agents. Teams will be getting calls from other teams offering trades of both picks and players to get “their guy.” Players will be waiting, either at home or possibly in the green room at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, for the phone to ring and the Commissioner, Roger Goodell, to read off their name and the name of the team they will start their future with.
So who will be the top of the class? We already know the 1st pick will be Stanford QB Andrew Luck, as the Colts informed both Luck and the media this week that he will be their pick at #1. Who else will be millionaires in just a few days?
To answer that, lets take a look at...
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