Sentences with phrase «draft choice in»

Wade was asked if it made him realize how much he meant to some people, particularly in South Florida, where he emerged from being the Heat's first - round NBA draft choice in 2003 to helping lead the franchise to its three NBA championships.

Meier was a seventh - round draft choice in 2000.

James Jones was a third - round draft choice in 2007 and caught balls from both Favre and Rodgers every day.

The 36 - year - old Strahan, a second - round draft choice in 1993 and a seven - time Pro Bowler, considered retiring last summer and sat out all of training camp while deciding if he still wanted to play.

A third - round draft choice in 2003, the 6» 4» McMullen is a good target over the middle in three - and four - receiver sets, but he has to become more physical if he expects an expanded role.

Denver also will receive the Mays» first - round draft choice in 1986.

The Dolphins gave up their first draft choice in 1971 for Shula, which makes him only half as valuable as Dave Parks, a wide receiver signed by the Saints in 1968 after he had played out his option with the San Francisco 49ers.

The Patriots have had some blown draft choices in the past few years, but they haven't suffered because they stockpile picks better than any team in football.

The Nuggets put him with one of their first - round 1991 draft choices in a package and traded him back to the Bullets for Washington's higher first - round draft choice last June.

Actually, the college draft part of the plan is of secondary interest to Marion, since even a team composed of the top 10 draft choices in any year would not be in the same class with one of today's NBA pro teams.

Among the top 80 draft choices in 2004, three are under contract with the team that originally picked them: Fitzgerald, Dansby and Roethlisberger.

Not exact matches

It isn't just athletes who fail to live up to their early potential — if you are a «high draft choice» in life, you have a responsibility to focus your gifts.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

The other draft had been sponsored by German cardinal Julius Doepfner; it represented a grave misreading of what God had inscribed in human sexuality «in the beginning,» the Cracovians believed, and did so in a way that emptied individual choices and acts of their moral significance.

Now, six years later, Garett Bolles was the NFL's No. 20 overall choice and first offensive lineman taken by the Denver Broncos in this year's draft.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

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Ewbank made no mistake in letting Kick Returner Earl Christy go in favor of No. 12 draft choice Mike Battle, one tough, flaky, glass - eating kid out of USC.

Jan 04,2016... Pittsburgh, often a contender but never a champion, puts no great store in high - priced draft choices...

With the fifth choice in the entire draft?

Maybe not as much power as you'd like in a high draft pick, but with everything else he seems to offer for tools (and he does have some pop in that bat), he's probably my 3rd favorite choice in that spot.

But Barzal was voted as the choice by the readers of this site in the SBNation mock draft, and Provorov was right there as well.

(The Chargers dealt the No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft to the Atlanta Falcons, who selected Vick, then took Tomlinson with the fifth choice.)

As a youth growing up in Canoga Park, Calif., the son of an Italian - American father and an Irish - French mother, Tim Foli was such a talented athlete that by the time he graduated from high school he was offered both football and baseball scholarships to the University of Southern California and Notre Dame and a $ 75,000 baseball bonus by the Mets, who had made him their first choice in the 1968 free - agent draft.

Last year in the college draft he selected Center Bob Johnson and Defensive Tackle Bill Staley as his first and second picks and Running Back Paul Robinson as one of three No. 3 choices.

Revel in the better draft choices!

Probably 5 right handers, given that Singer and Hankins seem to be the top choices in the draft.

Texas, with four losses in its last five efforts, has scheduled top draft choice David Clyde for a June 27 debut against Minnesota.

They've made good choices in free agency, but the team has so many holes the draft has no margin for error, they need to hit every pick through the 4th.

New York reached its nadir in 1975 when Coach Charley Winner, thinking his team was just a few players away from playoff contention, traded his first, fourth and sixth draft choices for three defensive linemen, two of whom now are out of football.

And Robbie got a bargain in Shula, even with giving him a part of the club and dealing the Colts a first draft choice.

Additionally, I have no issue with the 49ers drafting a guy that would compete with Trent Taylor for snaps in the slot (the 49ers need depth there), I just don't think Kirk is even close to a good choice to be that guy when compared to other slot WRs the 49ers should be able to get in rounds 4 - 7.

Inevitably the hiring of these coaches will impact the choices made re selection of players in the draft.

This was a morning to strategize about the 34th pick in the draft — San Francisco's second - round choice.

In 1979, the Niners were a year removed from making one of the worst trades in NFL history: acquiring a broken - down O.J. Simpson from Buffalo for five draft choices, including the first overall pick in the 1979 drafIn 1979, the Niners were a year removed from making one of the worst trades in NFL history: acquiring a broken - down O.J. Simpson from Buffalo for five draft choices, including the first overall pick in the 1979 drafin NFL history: acquiring a broken - down O.J. Simpson from Buffalo for five draft choices, including the first overall pick in the 1979 drafin the 1979 draft.

Tennessee, his second - choice last year, may well be looking for a replacement for Peyton Manning, the predicted No. 1 pick in the 1997 NFL draft.

Atlanta's No. 1 draft choice, Third Baseman Bob Horner, hit two home runs and a double in a 6 - 4 defeat of the Expos, then added another pair of homers in a 9 - 6 win over Montreal the next day.

He was the second choice in the 1969 NBA draft — a very distant second choice, behind Lew Alcindor.

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.

Dave Halprin of Blogging the Boys is here to make the choice in the SB Nation NFL writers» mock draft for the Cowboys.

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.

When the Redskins made a trade with the San Francisco 49ers last Feb. 25 that left them with the second and third choices in the first round of the 2000 draft, coach Norv Turner knew before his head hit the pillow that night that he'd be using one of those picks on another tackle.

It's Jets defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson, the fourth choice in the April draft.

Actually, the Colts can thank themselves for making the common sense choice of taking Andrew Luck with the first overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft.

Center Bryan Trottier and top draft choice Mike Bossy, a 75 - goal scorer for the Laval (Quebec) juniors last season, seem to be the only Islander forwards who don't specialize in hitting goal posts or shooting the puck over the net and into the crowd, but Bossy's checking deficiencies may keep him on the bench in many games.

A little - known draft choice has made a name for himself, thanks in part to a 40 - minute routine focused on speed

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.

In 1961 San Diego and Buffalo were the only two AFL teams to sign their top two draft choices, and the Chargers got themselves a pair of future all - leaguers.

When he joined the Niners in 1979, they had just gone 2 - 14 and had traded their No. 1 draft choice.

Bradley was a second - round draft choice of the Expos in» 96, but he quickly found trouble.