FanHouse Jasper Brinkley

Who moved to the head of the NFL class during the draft? Find out with FanHouse's team-by-team 2009 Draft Grades.

If everything works out, the addition of first-round pick Percy Harvin and second-round pick Phil Loadholt will help ensure that it doesn't really matter who is playing quarterback for the Vikings.

If it all works out with Adrian Peterson, Bernard Berrian, Visanthe Shiancoe and Harvin, the Vikings will move the ball even with quarterbacks prone to short-hopping receivers. Putting the massive 335-pound Loadholt at right tackle on a team that already has Steve Hutchinson and Bryant McKinnie should help create even more holes for Peterson and backup tailback Chester Taylor. The defense led by Jarred Allen and the Williams wall, should continue to be one of the game's best.

NEW YORK -- Just arrived back at Radio City Music Hall for the second day of the NFL Draft, and let's just say there's a little more room to spread out today. The NFL says nearly 750 members of the media showed up to cover Day 1, but looking around this room now I think we'd struggle to get near 75. Maybe everybody's sleeping in. Or maybe people don't actually come and cover Day 2, and I'm in the wrong place. Hey, we're learning.

Regardless, there are a couple of things worth mentioning here in the moments before the third round begins. The Jets need somebody for Mark Sanchez to throw to. The Lions need people who can stop the other team from scoring and get Matt Stafford and Brandon Pettigrew on the field. And a number of folks seem to have the wrong idea about the way I feel about the Patriots. So let's look ahead and clear a couple of things up with four Day 2 Questions.

Not fair! When guys who are Phil Steele preseason 4th Team All SEC enter serious consideration for "Best Player" in the SEC, its obvious picking just five "best "players is done at the expense of several dozen other worthies.

Oh well, welcome to SEC football. I think you know the guy below.

1. Tim Tebow, QB, Florida

Tim Tebow's still but a true junior yet he's already reached a hype saturation point similar to what met Matt Leinart to start the 2004 season. Needless to say, people are starting to get sick of this guy and the fluffy nice guy stories and the photos with buxom women and the circumcisions and the ... well anyway. Say what you want about Tebow, but he was the main engine for one of the best offenses in SEC history, personally accounting for over 50 touchdowns. I can overcome my cynicism to say "that's awesome!". You should, too. Florida is threatening to protect Tebow and dial down all the rush attempts, but we're calling that an idle threat until Florida decides its found a feature back or two and can field a defense that won't hemorrhage half the time in league play. Expect a senior return to the top of this list next year since its unlikely the regimented, cookie-cutter NFL can change its game in enough time to be more inviting to the Tim Tebow and Vince Young's of the world.

Yeah, this is Old Ball Coach. I told you he could really run. Yeah... click--- what? #*&$*!

A major blow in South Carolina's quest to get smacked around by LSU in the SEC championship game:

South Carolina's standout linebacker Jasper Brinkley will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, coach Steve Spurrier said in a news release Monday.

Ouch. With the Blake Mitchell experience coming to an end, South Carolina now attempts to forge a place in the SEC east without it's best defensive player and sporting a quarterback named Smelley. Ha. He's named Smelley. Still... they're probably better than everyone in the East that's not Florida or... Kentucky? Jebus. Any time now this football season will be revealed to be a crazed fever dream, I'll wake up, and Michigan will pound Appalachian State 56-0.

Come on... come on... any day now...

Pick five great players from the SEC. It's not hard to do. In fact you'll come up with way more than five. Now try to pick just five and justify them as the best five in all the conference. Yeah, it's pretty tough.

It gets even tougher when you figure the number one spot has to go to Darren McFadden, Heisman runner-up, unanimous All-SEC, digital wonder, commander of the "Wildcat" package, driver of the pimped-out Crown Victoria. Humanity Advanced. In 2005, McFadden ran for 1,113 yards, crushing Arkansas' freshman rushing record by more than 450. Last year he ran for more than 1600 yards and 14 touchdowns. And in neither year was he been 100% healthy all the time. By staying relatively healthy this fall, D-Mac will break Arkansas' all-time rushing record, say mid-Octoberish. And he'll be a top-five NFL draft pick should he forgo his senior year.

McFadden is easily the best player in the SEC, and he just might be the best player in college football, so I'm excluding him from the list to make room for other guys who deserve the spotlight. Still, I'm sure I botched something on this list, just feel free to add your picks for the SEC's best in the comments at the end.

We start with a guy who, like most of the players on this list, could have left the SEC for the NFL last April...

He likes them so much that he might start a pair of pairs on his South Carolina defense in 2007. This stuff is fodder for lazy writers and announcers ... and bloggers like myself?

South Carolina could start two pairs of twins on defense: LB Dustin and DE Jordin Lindsey and LBs Jasper and Casper Brinkley.

This twins story has the potential to get very annoying, very fast. Oh well, CBS' problem in figuring out how not to tell this story a dozen times this year.

As far as the twins themselves, I haven't seen as much from the Lindseys but the Brinkley brothers performed well last year. The fun part this year will be figuring out which of the various brothers is actually any good.

For whatever reason with athletics, there's often one quality twin and one just good enough to get by. Look at the Lopez brothers at Stanford. One is clearly better than the other. I'd mention UCLA's Bosworth twins but neither has made much of an impact beyond Kory Bosworth's heroic stepping in front of a runaway freight train named Thomas DeCoud. Same thing with the hyperactive but ultimately average (and steroid-using) Ting Twins who played at USC. Luckily for the Brinkleys they've managed to distinguish themselves and hopefully the same can be said for the Lindseys.