10 ROOKIES TO WATCH
1 Marrone’sLEONARD FOURNETTE235-pound hammer(RB, Jaguars):wolf take Doug the heat off QB Blake Bortles. 2 DESHAUN WATSON (QB, Texans): Bill O’Brien traded up for the former national champion from Clemson to help forget the Brock Osweiler nightmare and get him closer to the Super Bowl. 3COREY DAVIS (WR, Titans): A 6-foot-3, 209-pounder who has drawn comparisons to Terrell Owens and will be Marcus Mariota’s go-to guy sooner rather than later. 4MYLES GARRETT (DE, Browns): Coordinator Gregg Williams will make sure that the firstoverall draft pick will be a menace. 5CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY (RB/KR, Panthers):
Cam Newton and Ron Rivera ought to make sure this guy gets 15 touches every game, because he is dangerous catching passes out of the backfield. 6JOE MIXON (RB, Bengals): Might have been the first back drafted if not for a domestic-violence incident that caused him to fall to the second round, into the laps of the NFL’s Home For Wayward Boys.
7 TARIK COHEN (RB, Bears): The 199th pick of the draft, a 5-foot-6, electrifying 179-pounder nicknamed “The Human Joystick” at North Carolina A&T who ran 4.42 at the Combine. Also labeled “Chicken Salad” for his ability to make it out of ... er, manure. 8MALIK HOOKER (S, Colts): A ballhawking free safety who is a threat to take any interception to the house in a division filled with inexperienced quarterbacks. 9DALVIN COOK (RB, Vikings): Fell to the second round because of durability, fumbling and entourage baggage, but he is an explosive, big-play talent who has moved ahead of Latavius Murray (ankle) in the race to replace Adrian Peterson. 10DeSHONE KIZER (QB, Browns): Brock Osweiler and Cody Kessler are holding the fort for the latest hope to break the franchise’s endless quarterback curse.