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Player rankings for defensive ends

April 10, 2008

Updated Wednesday, April 23

Rk.	No.	Player	School	Grade	Height	Weight	Speed	Notes
1.	50	Vernon Gholston	Ohio State	6.80	6030	266	4.58	Jr., OLB
2.	91	Chris Long	Virginia	6.70	6030	272	4.81	OLB
3.	91	Derrick Harvey	Florida	6.35	6045	271	4.88	Jr.,
4.	94	Phillip Merling	Clemson	6.20	6042	276	4.8e	Jr., DT, X
5.	81	Calais Campbell	Miami (Fla.)	5.90	6076	283	5.04	Jr.
6.	96	Lawrence Jackson	USC	5.85	6042	271	4.86	OLB
7.	83	Jason Jones	Eastern Michigan	5.75	6052	275	4.79	DT
8.	98	Jeremy Thompson	Wake Forest	5.70	6043	264	4.76	X, OLB
9.	92	Kenny Iwebema	Iowa	5.55	6040	269	4.81
10.	49	Chris Ellis	Virginia Tech	5.45	6042	263	4.78	X, Ch.
11.	2	Shawn Crable	Michigan	5.40	6047	245	4.63	OLB
12.	98	Kendall Langford	Hampton	5.40	6054	287	4.99	DT
13.	93	Bryan Smith	McNeese State	5.37	6023	231	4.76	OLB
14.	90	Darrell Robertson	Georgia Tech	5.30	6037	255	4.75e	OLB, X
15.	97	Tommy Blake	Texas Christian	5.25	6026	272	4.86	X, Ch., OLB
16.	92	Chris Harrington	Texas A&M	5.20	6043	264	4.88
17.	94	Marcus Dixon	Hampton	5.20	6040	294	5.17	Ch.
18.	1	Louis Holmes	Arizona	5.15	6035	263	4.87	Ch.
19.	93	Chase Ortiz	Texas Christian	5.15	6020	252	4.93
20.	45	Alex Hall	St. Augustine	5.12	6052	243	4.57	PRS
21.	92	Wallace Gilberry	Alabama	5.12	6022	268	4.99	DT
22.	93	Martail Burnett	Utah	5.10	6026	257	4.79
23.	89	Trevor Scott	Buffalo	5.10	6047	256	4.62	TE
24.	33	Hilee Taylor	North Carolina	5.09	6023	244	4.57	OLB
25.	90	Andy Studebaker	Wheaton	5.09	6030	251	4.61	OLB, X
26.	92	Johnny Dingle	West Virginia	5.09	6015	266	4.89	Jr., Age
27.	93	Dorian Smith	Oregon State	5.09	6014	262	4.94	PRS
28.	58	Joe Clermond	Pittsburgh	5.09	6017	253	4.98	OLB, Ch.
29.	42	Adamm Oliver	Georgia Tech	5.09	6036	271	4.9e	X
30.	12	Brandon Miller	Georgia	5.07	6025	259	4.74	LB
31.	7	Greyson Gunheim	Washington	5.05	6054	268	4.71
32.	95	Rob Jackson	Kansas State	5.00	6031	256	4.86
33.	99	Bryan Mattison	Iowa	5.00	6027	287	5.02
34.	99	Rudolph Hardie	Howard	5.00	6017	270	4.8e
35.	82	Angelo Craig	Cincinnati	4.95	6040	252	5.09	OLB, Ch.
36.	41	Bryan Wilson	Morgan State	4.80	6014	249	4.56
37.	52	William Hayes	Winston-Salem State	4.80	6031	261	4.72
38.	51	Casper Brinkley	South Carolina	4.80	6021	259	4.83	OLB
39.	96	Brian Johnston	Gardner-Webb	4.80	6050	271	4.93
40.	9	Jeremy Geathers	UNLV	4.80	6022	259	4.94	Jr.
41.	89	Antonio Reynolds	Tennessee	4.80	6035	266	4.97
42.	94	Nick Osborn	San Diego State	4.80	6036	260	5.04
43.	13	Shaun Richardson	Tennessee State	4.70	6010	242	4.63	X, OLB
44.	93	Kurt Hout	Ferris State	4.70	6012	280	5.01
45.	54	Amani Purcell	Hawaii	4.65	6032	277	5.16
46.	93	Jacob Owens	Fairmont State	4.65	6047	275	5.18
47.	47	Vegas Franklin	Miami (Fla.)	4.60	6020	239	4.87
48.	93	Xavier Mitchell	Tennessee	4.60	6026	258	4.97	X
49.	97	Marque Fountain	Oklahoma State	4.60	6000	255	5.09	X
50.	99	Kyle Clement	Northwood (Mich.)	4.60	6034	315	5.27
51.	98	Alex Boston	Florida State	4.50	6023	261	4.77
52.	8	Sherman Logan	Richmond	4.50	6024	257	4.84	X
53.	91	Robert Henderson	Southern Mississippi	4.50	6032	278	4.89
54.	41	Martrel Brown	North Carolina State	4.50	6013	254	4.91
55.	-	Antonio Smith	Michigan State	4.50	6070	260	5.17	Age
56.	57	Derrick Gray	Texas Southern	4.45	6045	266	5.07
57.	85	Caesar Rayford	Washington	4.40	6056	244	4.56
58.	40	Blair Boynton	Northern Arizona	4.40	6021	250	4.77
59.	94	Keith Saunders	Alabama	4.40	6031	239	5.07	OLB
60.	51	Ervin Baldwin	Michigan State	4.30	6010	256	4.74
61.	96	Dallas Flynn	Northwest Missouri State	4.30	6047	262	5.28	Ch.
62.	11	James Amos	California-Davis	4.30	6030e	250e	4.85e
63.	58	Chris Traylor	Alabama A&M	4.20	5100	223	4.99
64.	97	Nick Schlekeway	Boise State	4.20	6033	269	5.19
65.	41	Chris McKillop	Pittsburgh	4.10	6022	245	4.77
66.	58	Craig Mester	Miami (Ohio)	4.10	6032	257	4.62
67.	94	Kirby Joseph	McNeese State	4.10	6020e	260e	4.9e
68.	92	Bryan Robinson	Wesley (Del.)	4.10	6021	295	5.19
69.	92	Eric Bakhtiar	San Diego	4.00	6031	258	4.79
70.	57	Dwight Stephenson	Notre Dame	4.00	6016	264	4.87
71.	11	Tyler Clutts	Fresno State	4.00	6016	244	4.91
72.	90	Udeme Udofia	Stanford	4.00	6037	252	4.97
73.	91	Alonzo Dotson	Oklahoma	4.00	6035	250	5.03
74.	56	Kenwin Cummings	Wingate (N.C.)	4.00	6017	260	5.07
75.	92	John Scroggins	Grambling State	4.00	6036	250	5.0e
76.	31	Kirby Griffin	California (Penn.)	4.00	6005	264	5.14

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