Sentences with phrase «draft choice at»

Like 2014, when UNC slipped to 6 - 7 and 71st in S&P + before surging, Fedora's Heels have a lot to replace, particularly on offense: a top - 10 draft choice at QB, two running backs who combined for 1,500 yards, five of the top six receiving targets, and two all - conference offensive linemen.

The Texans finally made their first draft choice at 8:35 p.m. Friday, and even though they had more pressing needs at offensive tackle and tight end, general manager Brian Gaine decided Stanford free safety Justin Reid was too good to pass up.

Not exact matches

Anthony Davis headlines the list of green room invitees at the NBA Draft, which features surprise choice Terrence Ross.

Fridge lumbered more or less into America's consciousness as a 360 - pound All - America nosetackle at Clemson and a 330 - pound first - round draft choice, presumably as a defensive lineman, of the Chicago Bears last spring.

Then: Andrew Luck was an easy choice at No. 1 overall, narrowly edging out Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III at the top of the draft.

When Todd Van Poppel made his major league debut at age 19 in 1991, he was sporting a $ 1.2 million contract, which had been a record for a draft choice the year before, and had the weight of unrealistic expectations on his shoulders.

The retirement of Charlie Krueger leaves the 49ers woefully weak at defensive tackle, and their success at running the ball depends on rookie Wilbur Jackson, the No. 1 draft choice from Alabama.

Don't know if I'd make the same one, although I do agree that you shouldn't take your 2nd choice at a position with the # 2 pick in the draft.

The Canucks are loaded with good young forwards, particularly Dennis Ververgaert, Don Lever, Rick Blight and top draft choice Jere Gillis, but new General Manager Jake Milford will have to trade at least one of them in order to correct glaring weaknesses on defense and in goal.

With its own first - round choice, 28th overall, San Diego made a surprise pick in Luis Castillo of Northwestern, who had been the top - rated defensive tackle in the draft until he tested positive for androstenedione at the scouting combine in February.

But if the draft falls as you speculate, and those are our choices at # 14: that's where I'd be listening hard to trade offers.

All this from a 19th - round draft choice, for heaven's sake, who was thought to be too slow ever to make it as a singles hitter and too punchless ever to make it at first base.

The final choice of the day in the 12th annual SB Nation NFL writers» mock draft is the Denver Broncos at No. 5 overall.

Eventually the left corner might go to No. 1 draft choice Darrell Green, a shrimp at 5» 8» but a tough hitter and probably the fastest man ever to wear a Skins uniform.

North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb recently visited the Giants, and there is increasing speculation that Chubb could be the choice for the Giants at No. 2 in the 2018 NFL Draft if the Cleveland Browns select Sam Darnold No. 1.

I hope someone is keeping score on the damage that Pryor has done to education in Connecticut and at some point we can effect a trade of Malloy, Pryor, Finch, and Vallas for a tenth round draft choice and a free trip to Starbucks.

Missing from the draft bill was portability for Title I funding, which would allow students in impoverished families to use their federal education funding at any public school of their choice.

So you can imagine my frustration at hearing that a new draft is being proposed and I have no choice about whether or not I want to use it.

(Please be aware that your novel may still be at the first draft stage, even if you've written several drafts... Many new authors fiddle with sentence structure and word choice, and imagine that they're writing a draft.

At some point in our editing process, we usually have to get nitpicky about our word choices because the right words often don't come out in the first draft.

At The Prison Hill Brewing Company, both pub - style menu items and draft beer choices make a connection with the historical Yuma Territorial Prison.

A defensible choice at the time of drafting the survey would have been to quote the latest IPCC number of 0.85 (0.65 to 1.06) degrees warming over the time period 1880 - 2012, even if current temperatures have gone up sharply since then.

«The possibility to have disputes resolved independently and locally can only be a positive development in offering parties choice and flexibility,» says Thomas Kendra, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells and one of the KIAC board members who helped to prepare and draft the KIAC's arbitration rules.

In addition to helping identify the appropriate business entity choice for new businesses, the Minnesota business law attorneys at TMB routinely draft and counsel its startup business clients regarding the following documents:

However, the latest draft guidelines from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) attacks the very first feature of the above mentioned list and restricts choice by mandating that at least 25 % of ULIP funds be invested in central government securities (G - secs).

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.