2013 NFL Draft: Grading the AFC West
For 3/4 of the AFC West, the mission for the draft was simple: try and catch up to the Broncos. Meanwhile, Denver had quite a different goal, as they're looking to make it to the Super Bowl with a very talented roster and an aging quarterback.
Did the AFC West as a whole have a strong draft class? Did the Broncos find the talent they need to get them to the next level? Mark Dulgerian explores that and more and he grades each class in the AFC West.
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The NFC West was one of the most competitive divisions in the league last season, and that's only become more true after both Seattle and San Francisco put together stellar off seasons prior to the draft. In the mean time, St. Louis is still a team on the rise and Arizona is looking to undergo a culture change in 2014.
A team's success in the draft is important regardless of what division they play it, but when it's a division that is home to the Super Bowl champions, keeping up is even more important. That's the task for the teams in the AFC North this season.
Every season there a few undrafted free agents that go on to have succesful careers. The key to that surprising success? Finding the right fit to sign with in April.
For all 32 NFL teams, the end of the draft Saturday night wasn't the end of the process, but instead it was the start to another key part of the offseason: signing undrafted free agents before another team convinces them to sign elsewhere.
With the 2013 NFL Draft now in the books, it's now time for the yearly tradition of analyzing every pick each team has made. While it's impossible to truly grade a draft until each player has had a couple of seasons under his belt, it's still interesting to evaluate the class that each team put together. 
After an eventual and unexpected 2013 NFL Draft for all three days, here are the Top 120 players that went undrafted.
In an eventful first two days of the NFL Draft, each of the twenty-five players in attendance got the chance to hear their name called, shake the commissioner’s hand, and have their first professional football press conference.
I had projected there would be four quarterbacks in round one, and eight in the Top 100. Only one went in the Top 32, with just three total in the Top 97 picks thus far. That being said, the 3rd day is when teams really try to capture value as well as go after “developmental” quarterbacks with the idea that if they fail, they at least got an adequate backup out of the pick.