Inside Texas Player Draft, Pick No. 1
If you were putting together a football team with only the current
Longhorns available, who would be your first pick? Who would be your
second? And on and on?
Introducing the Inside Texas Player Draft, where both the Inside Texas
community and the Inside Texas staff draft current Longhorn players.
Fan voting will be on-going and over the next four weeks we'll release
both the Inside Texas staff and Inside Texas community picks.
Voting for pick No. 1 closed on Sunday night and sophomore wide receiver Mike Davis earned the Inside Texas community pick in very tight voting while the Inside Texas staff (Co-Publisher Clendon Ross, Lead Writer Bill Frisbie, Photographer Will Gallagher, Magazine Editor Mike Blackwell, Contributor Ross Lucksinger, Recruiting Analyst Blake Munroe) struggled to pick from among a senior DT, a junior QB and a true freshman RB before finally settling on the true freshman, RB Malcolm Brown. Voting for pick No. 2 is open till Monday evening at 10 p.m. Click to vote and to join the conversation: Inside Texas Longhorn Football Draft: Pick 2 (vote now) Inside Texas Community Pick: Mike Davis, So., WRMike Davis – 19.53%Kheeston Randall – 17.67%Jackson Jeffcoat – 16.74%Malcolm Brown – 10.70%Keenan Robinson – 10.70%Alex Okafor – 9.30%Garrett Gilbert – 6.98%Kenny Vaccaro – 4.65%Emmanuel Acho – 3.72%Sample of reader quotes from the Pick No. 1 discussion:Voted for Davis "Mike Davis because he's proven already to be a force to contend with. No DB can cover him one on one. He's a big play guy..just get him the ball."-wrbddsinc2002 "Davis because a receiver with wheels, who runs good routes and catches the ball...I want us to be a downhill, play action type of attack and we have got to make sure there is not 8-9 in the box..."-Bandit18 Voted for Randall“Randall is our best player regardless of position so I picked him. Plus, being his senior year I expect he'll go all out to impress the NFL.”–UTGrad91 "I picked Randall for several reasons: 1. I'm a firm believer of building a team from the inside out. 2. It might be our weakest position and will need him to play at a high level (which I think he's capable of). 3. I'm hoping he can provide some upper classmen leadership since this team is relatively young."–LonghornCougar Voted for Jeffcoat“I think Jeffcoat will eventually be a 1st round draftpick. This year he is going to dominate.”–coachdave44 Voted for Malcolm Brown“I went with Malcolm Brown. Maybe it's just wishful thinking as much as anything, but I think the key for us to do anything on offense next season is to get the dad-gummed running game going.”–UTBear Voted for Robinson “I went with Keenan Robinson, to me he's the best player on this team RIGHT NOW as far as production and consistency goes, we're going to need his leadership on defense this year if we have any hopes of turning around the disaster that was last year.” –throwdest in the game Click here to see the community conversation about pick No. 1. Inside Texas Staff Pick: Malcolm Brown, True Freshman, RB Yep, you read that right. The staff went with a true freshman as its No. 1 pick and although the pick wasn't unanimous, all agreed that the fact that a true freshman was even in serious discussion for the top overall pick speaks volumes about the 2011 squad. At the beginning of the discussion, a poll of the six participating staff members showed three distinct camps: Bill and Will for Malcolm Brown, Blake and Mike for Garrett Gilbert and Clendon and Ross for Kheeston Randall. After each camp made an initial attempt to sway opinions, the 2-2-2 division remained, but Bill, Will, Clendon and Ross all said they would not consider Gilbert for the pick, basically eliminating the junior QB from consideration. Clendon also said he would not consider a true freshman. Will, though, held strong in favor of the true freshman back: "I think if Texas does anything big this year, it’ll be because Brown comes in, runs really, really well, and takes the pressure off (Gilbert) and gives the offense an identity. I don’t know that he’s the best player on the team, but I think that he has the ability to make this team really good if he is what we think he might be." Ultimately, Ross tilted the scales in Brown's favor, saying, "As much as Gilbert can be key to the team because he’s the quarterback, Bill brought up the point if someone is going to make this team great, who is it? If Malcolm Brown becomes the running back that Texas thinks he can be, that changes the season."For more details on the draft process, see Announcing the Inside Texas Longhorn Football Draft
Voting for pick No. 1 closed on Sunday night and sophomore wide receiver Mike Davis earned the Inside Texas community pick in very tight voting while the Inside Texas staff (Co-Publisher Clendon Ross, Lead Writer Bill Frisbie, Photographer Will Gallagher, Magazine Editor Mike Blackwell, Contributor Ross Lucksinger, Recruiting Analyst Blake Munroe) struggled to pick from among a senior DT, a junior QB and a true freshman RB before finally settling on the true freshman, RB Malcolm Brown. Voting for pick No. 2 is open till Monday evening at 10 p.m. Click to vote and to join the conversation: Inside Texas Longhorn Football Draft: Pick 2 (vote now) Inside Texas Community Pick: Mike Davis, So., WRMike Davis – 19.53%Kheeston Randall – 17.67%Jackson Jeffcoat – 16.74%Malcolm Brown – 10.70%Keenan Robinson – 10.70%Alex Okafor – 9.30%Garrett Gilbert – 6.98%Kenny Vaccaro – 4.65%Emmanuel Acho – 3.72%Sample of reader quotes from the Pick No. 1 discussion:Voted for Davis "Mike Davis because he's proven already to be a force to contend with. No DB can cover him one on one. He's a big play guy..just get him the ball."-wrbddsinc2002 "Davis because a receiver with wheels, who runs good routes and catches the ball...I want us to be a downhill, play action type of attack and we have got to make sure there is not 8-9 in the box..."-Bandit18 Voted for Randall“Randall is our best player regardless of position so I picked him. Plus, being his senior year I expect he'll go all out to impress the NFL.”–UTGrad91 "I picked Randall for several reasons: 1. I'm a firm believer of building a team from the inside out. 2. It might be our weakest position and will need him to play at a high level (which I think he's capable of). 3. I'm hoping he can provide some upper classmen leadership since this team is relatively young."–LonghornCougar Voted for Jeffcoat“I think Jeffcoat will eventually be a 1st round draftpick. This year he is going to dominate.”–coachdave44 Voted for Malcolm Brown“I went with Malcolm Brown. Maybe it's just wishful thinking as much as anything, but I think the key for us to do anything on offense next season is to get the dad-gummed running game going.”–UTBear Voted for Robinson “I went with Keenan Robinson, to me he's the best player on this team RIGHT NOW as far as production and consistency goes, we're going to need his leadership on defense this year if we have any hopes of turning around the disaster that was last year.” –throwdest in the game Click here to see the community conversation about pick No. 1. Inside Texas Staff Pick: Malcolm Brown, True Freshman, RB Yep, you read that right. The staff went with a true freshman as its No. 1 pick and although the pick wasn't unanimous, all agreed that the fact that a true freshman was even in serious discussion for the top overall pick speaks volumes about the 2011 squad. At the beginning of the discussion, a poll of the six participating staff members showed three distinct camps: Bill and Will for Malcolm Brown, Blake and Mike for Garrett Gilbert and Clendon and Ross for Kheeston Randall. After each camp made an initial attempt to sway opinions, the 2-2-2 division remained, but Bill, Will, Clendon and Ross all said they would not consider Gilbert for the pick, basically eliminating the junior QB from consideration. Clendon also said he would not consider a true freshman. Will, though, held strong in favor of the true freshman back: "I think if Texas does anything big this year, it’ll be because Brown comes in, runs really, really well, and takes the pressure off (Gilbert) and gives the offense an identity. I don’t know that he’s the best player on the team, but I think that he has the ability to make this team really good if he is what we think he might be." Ultimately, Ross tilted the scales in Brown's favor, saying, "As much as Gilbert can be key to the team because he’s the quarterback, Bill brought up the point if someone is going to make this team great, who is it? If Malcolm Brown becomes the running back that Texas thinks he can be, that changes the season."For more details on the draft process, see Announcing the Inside Texas Longhorn Football Draft
