Ponder has question marks because of his injury history, but I believe he can be a quality NFL QB if he can stay healthy. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America)

Positives: Ponder has solid size, above average arm strength and good accuracy. He has impressive mobility and very impressive short area quickness for a quarterback. He is an intelligent player, he is very competitive and he has shown the ability to win games for his team late (most notably the UNC Dee Milliner Authentic Jersey comeback his Junior year). He has played hurt and he regularly takes hits to deliver throws which speaks to his toughness. Ponder might not have a rocket for an arm, but he has good zip on throws that are within ten or fifteen yards of the line of scrimmage. He displays a good sense of timing routes and he knows when the ball has to come out and makes routine throws easily. He has good accuracy and places the ball well within fifteen yards very easily. He flashes the ability to throw well on the run and can obviously pick up good yardage with his legs. He also extends plays well and flashes pocket poise to step up and avoid the rush in the pocket. He also flashes the ability to hold defenders with his eyes and with pump fakes which I like to see. He will occasionally throw his man open and isn't afraid to throw the ball into tight windows because he is accurate enough to do so. He also has a good feel for where he should place the ball and won't lead his receivers into big hits over the middle, rather he will slow them down with a throw away from the defender.

Negatives: The most critical thing with Ponder is his injury history. He suffered a shoulder injury at the end of his junior season and he dealt with elbow injuries throughout his senior season as well as a mild concussion that knocked him out of a game. He actually tried to play through the concussion but was pulled after it was obvious something was wrong on the next play. Ponder regressed a bit this season and at times was careless with the ball, his arm strength and zip on his passes was not the same as it was the previous season and he didn't seem like the same player he was the previous year. He also seemed more willing to drop his eyes and scramble rather than step up, buy time www.nikejetsauthenticjerseys.com/27_dee_milliner_jersey_authentic_black_limited_cheap.html and keep his eyes downfield at times and that worries me. He also didn't seem to have a good feel for when he should step up because there were a number of times where he just stood where he finished his drop and ended up getting sacked and occasionally fumbling because he didn't feel the rush and step up in the pocket to buy himself more time. Even when his arm is 100% Ponder doesn't throw a very good deep ball. The throws have a lot of air under them and they aren't often placed well. He does well when he can throw the ball deep without safety help over the top because he can just float the ball down the field and let his receiver run under it but have no safety help over the top is not an overwhelmingly frequent occurrence in the NFL and even when he www.nikejetsauthenticjerseys.com floats the ball he can't throw it more than 45 or 50 yards downfield. At times he will get flustered by pressure in his face and it will hurt his throws but other times he will throw fine in the face of pressure, so that inconsistency is a little hard to get a handle on. He also tends to stare down receivers a lot, which can be a problem. I think he can learn to not do this as much, especially since he flashes the ability to use his eyes well, but it a pretty big concern since he really telegraphed some throws with his eyes this year.

Overall: When it comes down to grading Ponder it comes down to his injuries. Dee Milliner Elite Jersey If Ponder's shoulder and elbow get back to 100% after the injuries then he can be a quality quarterback in the NFL. He won't ever be a ProBowler in my opinion but he can be an effective starter that, if surrounded by a quality supporting cast, can win his team a Superbowl. However, if his arm strength and zip on his throws is never the same then he will be more of a marginal starter and probably a career backup and spotstarter. I tend to believe that his arm strength and zip on his passes will be better in the future than it was this season given his elbow problems that he played through, so I think his arm strength will be better than it was at times this year. I also think the injury hurt his accuracy at times this year, so I think some of his junior tape is more indicative of what he can do as far as zip on his throws and how accurate he can be. However, Ponder is a risk because of his injury history and there is no guarantee he will get back to what he once was. However, he has above average arm strength, good accuracy, impressive mobility and he is smart even if he made some bad decisions this year. He will get the most of his ability and he was in complete command of the Florida State offense, so he shouldn't have any problems with a NFL playbook especially since he has experience dropping back from center and making reads from under center. I think Ponder will be a quality quarterback in the NFL if he can stay healthy, but if he can't (especially if he reinjures his shoulder or elbow again) then he will be a career backup that isn't worth a pick in the first four or five rounds.

Projection: 2nd round. I think Ponder is one of the better quarterbacks in this class. He could slip until the late 2nd round because Gabbert, Newton, Locker and Mallett all figure to go before him, but if you are a team in the 2nd round that needs a quarterback (Minnesota comes to mind) then Ponder could be your guy. He won't turn water into wine as a QB like Favre did at times but he won't make as many mistakes either.

The 2011 Arizona Cardinals season was the franchise's 92nd season in the National Football League and the 24th season in Arizona. For Ken Whisenhunt, it was his fifth season as the head coach of the Cardinals. This was going to be the Cardinals first season with new starting QB Kevin Kolb, but he was replaced by John Skelton. The team improved on their 511 record from the 2010 season, but missed the playoffs for a second consecutive season.

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Arizona opened the third quarter with quarterback Kevin Kolb finding running back LaRod StephensHowling on a 73yard touchdown pass, but Pittsburgh struck back with Roethlisberger completing a 4yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, along with Kolb's intentional grounding penalty in the endzone resulting in a safety. In the fourth quarter, the www.nikejetsauthenticjerseys.com Steelers continued to pull away with Suisham making a 42yard and a 39yard field goal. The Cardinals tried to rally as Kolb found wide receiver Early Doucet on a 2yard touchdown pass (with a failed twopoint conversion), but Pittsburgh held on to preserve the victory.

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The Vikings capped their organized team activities this afternoon, meaning they have only a minicamp left in their offseason program before they head to Mankato for training camp in late July. But even if we moving closer to substantive football, there are still a few scraps of offseason news hanging around.

The first item involves Miami Dolphins receiver Mike Wallace, whose father Mike is once again claiming his son had a bigger offer from the Vikings than Wallace ultimately accepted from the Dolphins. Take it for what it worth. This time, Wallace father put a number on it: He says the Vikings offered Wallace $76 million, and Wallace wound up signing with the Dolphins for $60 million.

Is it possible the Vikings gave Wallace that big of an offer? It is, though I mention again what we know about how free agency played out. They called Greg Jennings representative, Eugene Parker, shortly after the start of the freeagent negotiating window on March 8 to express their interest in the receiver. General manager Rick Spielman finalized the trade that sent Percy Harvin to Seattle on March 11, and Wallace signed with the Dolphins on March 12 an hour after the start of free agency and the end of a negotiating period during which there could be no formal offers. So if the Vikings did make such an offer to Wallace, they would have had to do so while courting Jennings and trying to trade Harvin, and Wallace wouldn have had long to consider it.

The other point to consider here is guaranteed money: The Vikings could well have offered more to Wallace than the www.nikejetsauthenticjerseys.com/87_jeff_cumberland_jersey_authentic_black_limited_cheap.html Dolphins did, but this isn baseball, where every dollar is guaranteed and overall contract value is king. It football, and Wallace will reportedly get $20.5 million of his $30 million guaranteed money over the next two seasons. Jeff Cumberland Elite Jersey To top that, the Vikings either would have had to do some cap gymnastics this season or stick a massive cap hit on their books for 2014, like the Dolphins are doing by guaranteeing Wallace $15 million base salary. Consider what else the Vikings have to figure out for 2014 the futures of Jared Allen, Brian Robison, Kevin Williams, Everson Griffen, Fred Evans, Chris Cook, among others and ask yourself if it would have made sense for them to pin an eightfigure cap number on their payroll. If they did offer $76 million, it possible the structure of the deal was such that Wallace didn have to make much of a choice, especially when you consider the lack of income tax in Florida and Wallace stated preference for warm weather.

Moving on we keep this next item short.

Terrell Owens is back in the news, having told NFL Network he wants to play in 2013. He mentioned the Chiefs and the Vikings as possible fits, and it not hard to see why: Owens played for Chiefs coach Andy Reid in Philadelphia, and Vikings receivers coach George Stewart helped launch Owens career in San Francisco. But I make two observations, and be done:

1. Spielman often talks about finding players who are fits usually young, hungry and devoid of drama.

2. Owens turns 40 in December. He hasn played an NFL game since 2010. And he well Owens.

Sound like a fit to you? Me, neither.

The Vikings conclude their second week of organized team activities today; they be back for four of them next week before a threeday mandatory minicamp from June 1820. That the last we see of the team on the field before training camp, so these next couple weeks are big for a number of players trying to make an impression.

One player we heard about over and over yesterday was tight end Kyle Rudolph, who won Pro Bowl MVP honors after being named to the game as an injury replacement. That experience had coach Leslie Frazier talking well beyond his normal measured tones when discussing Rudolph yesterday.

try not to get too far ahead of myself, but the Jeff Cumberland Black Jersey Kyle Rudolph that I see now is so much more confident and more sure of himself than the Kyle I saw a year ago at this time, Frazier said. like night and day to me, personally. I'm anxious to see how he does when we get to training camp from a blocking standpoint, but that Pro Bowl, it's flipped the switch. He knows he has a chance to be a premier tight end in this league after what he did over there being MVP and it's evident by the way he's practicing, the way he runs his routes, the control he has in the meetings. But it's obvious he's taken his game up to another notch but we're still only in June so I have to temper my emotions a little bit. I'm excited about what I see. was more. Chad Greenway said he thinks Rudolph is to be the breakout star in the NFL. When you're Pro Bowl MVP it's hard not to be confident. has made a number of impressive plays in OTAs so far. He looked more able to do damage on seam routes, and after a year where just 27 of his 89 targets came more than 10 yards down the field, Rudolph might turn into the kind of downfield threat Christian Ponder needs.

His runblocking, though, is what Frazier is still waiting to see. Rudolph had to adjust to playing more of a traditional tight end role coming out of Notre Dame, and though he only allowed one hit on the quarterback last year, he was less effective blocking for Adrian Peterson. That one of the last pieces of his game the Vikings need to see improve, and while it dangerous to draw too many conclusions about runblocking during OTAs, when there isn much contact, the Vikings seem to like everything else they seen from Rudolph. We have to stay tuned on how that plays out, and what it would mean for John www.nikejetsauthenticjerseys.com Carlson ability to get on the field.

difficult, for similar reasons, to gauge Xavier Rhodes this time of year. His ability to play press coverage will have plenty to say about whether he can start in his first year in the league, but the Vikings want their corners to be more physical, and Rhodes certainly fits that bill. With Jacob Lacey out until training camp after thumb surgery, Rhodes will get plenty of time in the nickel during the rest of the Vikings offseason program. He can make his case for a spot in the base defense from there.