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Sean Weatherspoon, LB, Missouri

At 6’1″, 241 lbs, some say that Weatherspoon is too small to play middle linebacker in The NFL. Despite that, Weatherspoon had 155 tackles in 2008 and was a finalist for The Butkus Award as well as a First Team All-Big 12 selection.

Weatherspoon was a solid defensive leader during The Senior Bowl for The North team, and played the middle linebacker position very well in that game (showing the critics that he can play in the middle).

Weatherspoon has great sideline to sideline range and has a knack for making big plays. If you have ever watched Missouri, you will almost always see Weatherspoon blowing up a screen, getting a sack, or just causing disruption.

This is the kind of force The Giants need defensively. I don’t know whether the ever- enthusiastic Weatherspoon will be the defensive leader that Antonio Pierce was from day one. But when I think about his potential in The NFL, one quote by Jerry Reese comes to mind.

“It’s not my job to make sure The Giants will contend for a championship this year. It’s my job to make sure they contend for one every year.”

Reese said that when asked why he didn’t go out and make a trade for a receiver last season. He is always looking to improve the team in the long run.

If New York is going to contend for years to come, the ultra-diverse and ultra- enthusiastic Weatherspoon would be the perfect defensive captain.

Im becoming increasingly convinced that Weatherspoon is indeed the man New York will select.

CJ Spiller, HB, Clemson

Spiller is the most dynamic offensive player in this coming draft, and would be welcomed in New York. Players like Chris Johnson and Adrian Peterson who can score on any given play are hard to come by these days.

Anyone who is a threat to go the distance is valuable, and the Giants lack that presence right now (Bradshaw is their closest thing). If they could add a threat like Spiller to an Eli Manning-led offense, let me be the first to say that The Giants would sport one of the best offenses in The NFL.

Even when healthy, a player like Brandon Jacobs is limited in his skill-set. He rarely makes something out of nothing. He is a battering ram whose best work comes when he gets in the open field and can gain a head of steam.

He, Spiller, and Bradshaw would immediately be the best set of backs in the NFL if the offensive coaching staff did their jobs.

Lamarr Houston, DT, Texas

Houston has developed into one of my favorite prospects over the past few months.

Turn on the BCS Championship game looking for the likes of Earl Thomas and Sergio Kindle and you will be pleased with what you see out of Lamarr Houston.

In 2009, Houston had 68 tackles and 8 sacks from his tackle position (171 in his career at Texas).

That type of production can not be ignored.

As Ernie Accorsi once said:

“If You’ve seen it, then it’s there.”

When it comes to Houston, I believe it is there.

In looking at the 3 who were outlined in this piece, I strongly believe that Weatherspoon and Houston are New York’s top targets in the first 2 rounds (if they sit where they are in terms of draft position).

Both have great skill sets at great positions of need for New York and will bring youth and energy to those respective positions.

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