Sunday, May 15, 2016

This year's host city: Minneapolis

Normally, the TUFF Draft rotates among its 16 cities, but two deaths made Minneapolis a natural choice to host this year's draft.  The first was Ken Mach, who owned the Minnesota Fats for 14 seasons, including a TUFF Bowl championship in 2011.  He passed on last August.  (They are now owned by Bob Andrews and called the Minnesota Fighting Saints.)  The other, just last month, was the unexpected loss of 1980s pop superstar Prince.

Here's a quick review of the icons next to some of the names and what they mean:

Significant improvements on a TUFF team's starting lineup, could be cornerstone players for that team, and/or are great values for where they were taken.
High risk/high reward picks (e.g. players picked relatively high because of his upside, even in spite of character, medical, low college productivity and/or job situation concerns).
Either a reach and/or there was at least one player the team should have taken.
Picks that leave me asking why a team didn't take a player I expected them to take or address another need on the roster (example from 2011: Cleveland moving up to 1.05 to take RB Mikel Leshoure instead of going with a QB or WR at 1.09).

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