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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Neat story. I also saw something on him in the Tampa press talking about they may grab him at the end of the third round if he’s available. The NFL draft begins Thursday (first round). He won’t get drafted that day but maybe he does on Friday (rounds 2-3). For sure, he will go Saturday if he isn’t drafted on Friday.
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-20-2024 02:58 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote: Great article in the Athletic with quotes from Luke, Bloom and Antoin Bolden...
https://theathletic.com/5427496/2024/04/...ed_article
(04-21-2024 04:09 PM)Almadenmike Wrote: (04-21-2024 08:50 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Neat story. I also saw something on him in the Tampa press talking about they may grab him at the end of the third round if he’s available. The NFL draft begins Thursday (first round). He won’t get drafted that day but maybe he does on Friday (rounds 2-3). For sure, he will go Saturday if he isn’t drafted on Friday.
This BucsNation article includes a 2:02 video packed with McCaffrey's Rice highlights:
https://www.bucsnation.com/2024/4/17/241...ffrey-rice
https://twitter.com/i/status/1777083234347544799
And there's this from JoeBucsFan: https://www.joebucsfan.com/2024/04/the-b...e_vignette
The article in The Athletic concentrated on the appeal of Luke McCaffrey to the 49ers. In their 1st round pick tonight, the Niners chose Florida WR Ricky Pearsall, who looks to me to be very similar to Luke, although ranked higher by the draft watchers. The highlights shown on the ABC/ESPN broadcast looked a lot like Luke's, including a sick one-handed catch.
These folks thought SF would draft a cornerback tonight with its #31 pick: https://www.ninersnation.com/2024/4/25/2...rst-round.
And Luke is not in their pre-draft Top 20 list of eligible WRs: https://www.ninersnation.com/2024/4/15/2...-nfl-draft .
I hope things work out well for Luke in the coming rounds. But I'm now wondering if the 49ers will spend another pick on a WR like Luke. (Only if he falls to the 6th round, I'd think.)
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2024 12:08 AM by Almadenmike.)
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Yea, I think Niners drafting him in 3rd round is now out of the question. A team like Pittsburgh, who visited with Luke and could draft more than 1 WR, could take him in 4th round.
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04-26-2024 11:33 AM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-26-2024 11:33 AM)Buho Wrote: Yea, I think Niners drafting him in 3rd round is now out of the question. A team like Pittsburgh, who visited with Luke and could draft more than 1 WR, could take him in 4th round.
Tampa could take him in the 3rd round.
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04-26-2024 12:39 PM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
It's not every day I see a picture of a Rice Owl prominently on the front page of the digital Chicago Tribune!
(I'd link it, but i assume the front page will change soon, and the actual article that's linked from the front page, which is about several top prospects for the Bears, doesn't have the picture.)
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04-26-2024 01:55 PM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-26-2024 12:39 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote: (04-26-2024 11:33 AM)Buho Wrote: Yea, I think Niners drafting him in 3rd round is now out of the question. A team like Pittsburgh, who visited with Luke and could draft more than 1 WR, could take him in 4th round.
Tampa could take him in the 3rd round.
Denver too. I don’t think the odds are great (maybe 20 percent or so), but if there continues to be a lot of receivers drafted, he may go tonight. San Francisco is also rumored to be trading some of their star receivers for more picks. If that happens, they could still pick Luke.
But chances are probably strongest he goes in the fourth round. I would be very surprised if he lasts all the way to the fifth round.
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-26-2024 01:55 PM)erice Wrote: It's not every day I see a picture of a Rice Owl prominently on the front page of the digital Chicago Tribune!
(I'd link it, but i assume the front page will change soon, and the actual article that's linked from the front page, which is about several top prospects for the Bears, doesn't have the picture.)
This image? (Scrolled down about one-third of the way from the top of to see this just now.)
I didn't see Luke in the list of 25 prospects ... before the paywall shut down my access ... long before I was shown the full 25. If Chicago resident Walt has subscription access, perhaps he can tell us what the Trib said about Luke.
(The article link is: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/2...nfl-draft/)
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2024 06:11 PM by Almadenmike.)
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Luke goes to Washington with the last pick of the third round!
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Pick number 100. Congratulations Luke!
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04-26-2024 10:24 PM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Very nice. Congrats Luke!
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04-26-2024 10:26 PM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Highest Rice draft pick since 2013 I think? McDonald went in the second round and Gaines was also a third round pick.
First draftee under Bloomgren.
A few picks earlier, HCU had its first draft pick ever (a DE/edge transfer from Cornell).
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
Washington’s new GM was in San Francisco the past few years so he had a McCaffrey connection there. Good landing spot for Luke - Daniels to McCaffrey lives on!
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04-27-2024 07:25 AM |
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
As a lifelong Washington fan, I’m just thrilled all the way around! Congratulations to Luke!!
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-27-2024 08:20 AM)4GOwls Wrote: As a lifelong Washington fan, I’m just thrilled all the way around! Congratulations to Luke!!
Do you go back to the Bill McPeak days? And the Mark Russell version of "Hail to the Redskins"?
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Hail to the Redskins!
Praise be their name.
Why are we cheering?
They have-n't won a game!!
:-)
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
No more Rice guys drafted (as expected). A few guys may get a chance to be an undrafted free agent. But I doubt anyone else gets much of a chance to make a team.
I could see several guys drafted in 2025 though.
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
(04-27-2024 09:26 AM)Almadenmike Wrote: (04-27-2024 08:20 AM)4GOwls Wrote: As a lifelong Washington fan, I’m just thrilled all the way around! Congratulations to Luke!!
Do you go back to the Bill McPeak days? And the Mark Russell version of "Hail to the Redskins"?
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Hail to the Redskins!
Praise be their name.
Why are we cheering?
They have-n't won a game!!
:-)
Funny! I remember Mark Russell but not his version of our classic touchdown song. My family moved to the DC area in ‘66, when Otto Graham took over from McPeak. When Frank Ryan, a friend of my parents, came to finish up his career I was sold. For better or worse!
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RE: Luke McCaffrey
I grew up in the south during the Joe Kuharich/Mike Nixon/Bill McPeak era. Under the NFL's then regional TV approach, we got the Redskins games. After being forced to watch a decade of ineptitude, I became a Redskin hater, and nothing since has changed me. I got tired of the Redskins about the time Lombardi made the Packers winners, and with Aabama grad Bart Starr at QB I became a fan.
When the AFL came along, we got the Oilers games and they were winning, so I became a fan. I got to Rice about the time the Cowboys starte winning and became a fan of theirs, particularly when being closer to the picture made me understand just how ineptly the Oilers were being run after Don Suman left the organization.
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