NFL Draft 2012: Selecting Biggest Winners and Losers

Maybe it's the long wait we have until the season starts, but this has been a thoroughly enjoyable NFL draft, with clear winners and losers throughout. 

Obviously, it will be years before we actually know who won and lost this draft. Many players through the bottom rounds will take years to fully develop. 

However, there is already enough evidence in tape, need and draft value to give us some winners and loser from a raucous draft weekend. 

Winners 

Pittsburgh Steelers

The Steelers enjoyed a big weekend, and I mean that in every way possible. They got big, badder and meaner all over the field. 

They did it with sound picks with tremendous value. I love their first-round pick of David DeCastro, whom I had just a touch ahead of their pick. 

They get great  value with Mike Adams, who is forced to prove himself worthy of the NFL. My favorite for the Steelers has to be Alameda Ta'amu, who has the size and first step to one day be a great pass-rusher. 

St. Louis Rams

I like what the Eagles and other teams have done, but the Rams are a bit under the radar, considering how many picks they stockpiled early. 

Brian Quick and Isaiah Pead are gambles that will work out simply for the two players' speed and physicality. Quick is a big, strong receiver, and Pead is a little dynamo out of the backfield. 

The pick I love is the gamble on Janoris Jenkins, who will come in with the impetus to prove he can stick in the pros, amid a myriad of past issues. 

He has elite defensive capabilities, making the Rams a solid team in the secondary. 

Losers

Seattle Seahawks

The Seahawks have done a bang-up job in the later rounds, but we still smell the stench of the first-round pick of Bruce Irvin. 

Jacksonville Jaguars

Love their pick of Andre Branch a round earlier, but they killed momentum by reaching with a punter in the third round. 

New Orleans Saints

This is obvious, but the bounty scandal forced them to the deeper rounds, where they are hardly setting the world on fire. Akiem Hicks was a reach in the third round.

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