Curt Popejoy
Curt Popejoy
I have scouted and reported on college and professional football players for over 15 years. I have created detailed scouting dossiers for players, agents and teams, been published in major newspapers, and done numerous radio interviews on ESPN affiliates from Boston to Honolulu. I founded and have maintained www.draftboardinsider.com since 2004 and have been online since 2000. I devote hundreds of hours a year evaluating prospects for website. I look at prospects with a critical but realistic eye choosing to give readers an understanding of the player without boring them with cliche'. There is no offseason and the work done goes 12 months a year. This amount of time commitment and dedication has allowed me to publish one of the more accurate mock drafts available, and particularly my top 100 prospects is among the very top of all published. I am a proud member of the Football Writers Association of America, and pushe myself every year to provide the most informative, accurate and entertaining product I can. I share my passion for football with everyone who reads my work. I would rather inspire people to love the sport I love than to make a million dollars. But a million dollars would be nice too.
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Former LSU Player Tyrann Mathieu to enter Drug Rehab in Houston
I know that you all know me for my NFL coverage here at Rant Sports, but deep down for the past 15 years, covering college football and tracking and analyzing NFL Draft prospects has been a huge part of my life. So I felt like I needed to speak on this news that has just [...]
TweetRanking the Pittsburgh Steelers Defense
If we were doing word association and I have you Pittsburgh Steelers, the first word that comes to mind for many would be “defense”. Historically speaking the Steelers are a team built around a stifling defense and the front office has made a point to try and find NFL players who relish that sort of [...]
TweetTim Tebow Trying to get Former Teammate to the New York Jets
File this one under, “I can’t believe this doesn’t happen a lot more”. It’s being reported by Profootballtalk that New York Jets Quarterback/H-Back/Gunner/Hot Dog Vendor Tim Tebow is putting in work to try and get former Florida Gator teammate Jeff Demps to sign with the Jets. The Jets are interested in signing the current Olympic [...]
TweetNFL Rumors: Pittsburgh Steelers Starting Running Back Could Start Season on PUP List
I hope you didn’t come to this article looking for an update on Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall. It’s a given at this point that Mendenhall is going to miss the first six weeks of the season on the PUP(and likely more than that), but this is about a rumor that the current Steelers [...]
TweetMeet Your Pittsburgh Steelers: Robert Golden
Did you know that if you check the rosters of all the team in the NFL, nearly 20 percent of the players went undrafted? I am not saying that they are starters, and I’ve broken it down statistically that your team’s best players on average are first round picks. This doesn’t change the fact that [...]
TweetMeet Your Pittsburgh Steelers: Chris Rainey
I hate to say I told ya so, but I told ya so. Let’s talk a little about a player I have been touting since high school and one of the newest members of the Pittsburgh Steelers, running back/wide receiver Chris Rainey. He’s the Swiss Army knife of football players and how he got to [...]
TweetNFL Rumors: Chad Johnson has been released by the Miami Dolphins
Just 24 hours after his arrest for domestic violence, troubled Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson has been released by the Dolphins. This is per NFL.com and Fox Sports reporter Jay Glazer. Yesterday social media sites like Twitter were abuzz with the news that Johnson had been arrested for assaulting his new wife of [...]
TweetPreseason Breakdown: Pittsburgh Steelers
First off, apologies I didn’t get this up sooner. Having scouted college players for the past 15 years, I watch football with a pretty critical eye. I’ve also gotten to a point that because I watch and re-watch so many games, I rarely if ever watch a game live. This was the case with the [...]
TweetNFL Rumors: Dwayne Bowe is in Kansas City
Earlier today there were a couple of random Tweets re-tweeted that some folks flying from Atlanta Georgia to Kansas City had seen Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe on the flight. I started doing some snooping around, and I can confirm at this point that indeed Bowe is back in Kansas City. He was [...]
TweetNFL Rumors: The Real Impact of San Diego Chargers Running Back Ryan Mathews Injury
If you are just getting up and around, and decided to turn in early last night you probably missed the news that San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews broke his clavicle on his first carry of the preseason. I didn’t get to see the game live, but I watched the replay late last night [...]
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