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2004 NFL Draft Prospect Profiles

About Football provided these official scouting reports of all the top 2004 NFL Draft prospects.

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Shawn Andrews, OT - Arkansas
Shawn Andrews is a devastating run blocker, probably the best in the country, and should be a top-15 pick in the 2004 NFL Draft.

Nathan Vasher, CB - Texas
Nathan Vasher ia an excellent cover corner with big-play ability. He doesn't have great size, but he's not overmatched by bigger receivers.

Nat Dorsey, OT - Georgia Tech
Nat Dorsey has the great size and agility it takes to play left tackle in the NFL. He has good overall strength, especially in the lower body, and is a powerful run blocker.

Marquise Hill, DE - LSU
Marquise Hill is an oversized defensive end who possesses a good burst off the line, decent straight-line speed, and the strength to bull-rush opponents.

Ricardo Colclough, CB - Tusculum
Ricardo Colclough is a tremendous natural athlete with decent size and tremendous physical tools. He doesn't have blazing speed, but he does have good speed and exceptional quickness.

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Jacob Rogers, OT - USC
Jacob Rogers is probably the second-best true left tackle in the draft. He's technically sound and still improving. He's light on his feet and uses his hands well.

Derrick Strait, CB - Oklahoma
Derrick Strait is a physical corner with good size and leaping ability. He has good speed and a nose for the ball, good cover skills, and is especially tough in tight man coverage.

Marcus Tubbs, DT - Texas
Marcus Tubbs is very athletic for a 325 pound lineman. He’s got excellent size, power, and quickness, with a great up-field burst.

Kenechi Udeze, DE - USC
Kenechi Udeze is one of the best players in all of college football. He has the size to hold the point of attack on running plays and the explosiveness to be effective rushing the passer. He should be an every-down player in the NFL.

Dwan Edwards, DT - Oregon State
Dwan Edwards is a run stuffer with good size and the frame for more. He has tremendous lower-body strength, and is solid at the point of attack against the run.

Matt Schaub, QB - Virginia
Matt Schaub has terrific size, strength, and a decent arm, but he's not very athletic.

Will Poole, CB - USC
Will Poole has decent size for a corner, good ball skills, tremendous instincts, and great closing speed.

Randy Starks, DT - Maryland
Randy Starks is a one-gap tackle with good size and quickness. He is incredibly powerful and has a quick first step off the line, which allows him to be a disruptive force inside.

Larry Fitzgerald, WR - Pittsburgh
Larry Fitzgerald is one of those rare players that seem destined for greatness. He has been around the NFL game before, as a ball boy for the Minnesota Vikings, and he learned the game by watching stars such as Cris Carter and Randy Moss practice.

Ben Troupe, TE - Florida
Ben Troupe is a tremendous receiver who can stretch the field vertically. He has soft hands, nice size, and the ability to catch the ball in traffic.

Jonathan Vilma, OLB - Miami (Fla)
Jonathan Vilma is a very intelligent, quick thinking, instinctive linebacker with very good recognition skills.

Rashaun Woods, WR - Oklahoma State
Probably the most polished receiver in the draft. He isn't the most athletic of this year's group, but he does have good technique, body control and ball skills.

Roy Williams, WR - Texas
Roy Williams has the size, speed, and athletic ability to be dominant in the NFL. He also possesses big, soft hands, rarely drops a pass, has great body control, and really good ball skills.

Reggie Williams, WR - Washington
Reggie Williams has good speed for his size, great natural ability, and excellent hands. And in terms of player toughness, he is arguably as good as any other receiver in college football.

Ben Roethlisberger, QB - Miami (Ohio)
Ben Roethlisberger has everything you look for in a franchise quarterback. He's got the big arm, but he also has excellent accuracy (69.1%) and nice touch.

Sean Taylor, FS - Miami (Fla)
Sean Taylor is an impact player who has a nose for the football. He has excellent size, great speed, and looks to be a future star.

Philip Rivers, QB - North Carolina State
Rivers has good size and arm strength, but it's his incredibly quick release and uncanny accuracy that make him an interesting prospect.

Eli Manning, QB - Mississippi
Eli Manning has excellent size to go along with good fundamentals, instincts, and leadership skills. He is intelligent and makes good decisions. Should be one, if not the first, quarterback taken in the 2004 NFL Draft.

J.P. Losman, QB - Tulane
J.P. Losman has the physical attributes you want in an NFL quarterback. He has good size and strength, a very strong arm that can make all the throws including the deep out, and one of the quickest releases in all of college football.

Kevin Jones, RB - Virginia Tech
Kevin Jones possesses great speed and elusiveness, but is also blessed with the size and strength to break tackles.

Robert Gallery, OT - Iowa
By far the best true left tackle in the draft, Robert Gallery has a big frame with long arms and is very athletic for his size.

Dunta Robinson, CB - South Carolina
Dunta Robinson has decent size, very good speed, and the coverage skills to be a shut-down corner in the NFL.

Michael Boulware, OLB - Florida State
Michael Boulware is an every-down linebacker who is strong, fast, and very agile. He projects to the weak side in the NFL.

Karlos Dansby, OLB - Auburn
Karlos Dansby is a physically gifted football player. He has great size and speed, tremendous range, and excellent pass rushing skills.

D.J. Williams, OLB - Miami (Fla)
D.J. Williams is tremendous player and has all the physical skills you look for in a linebacker. He is an excellent athlete.

Will Smith, DE - Ohio State
Will Smith is an excellent pass rusher with good quickness and a tremendous closing burst.

Tommie Harris, DT - Oklahoma
Tommie Harris is quick and powerful, and may be the best defensive lineman in the draft.

Greg Jones, RB - Florida State
Greg Jones is a big, powerful back that can run over defenders, but he also has good quickness, speed, and athleticism for a back his size.

Michael Clayton, WR - LSU
Michael Clayton is an intelligent playmaker who has good height, quickness, agility, and straight-line speed.

Chris Perry, RB Michigan
Chris Perry is a shifty runner, but he can also run with power. He has good size, quickness, and speed, and he picks up yardage after contact.

Chris Gamble, CB - Ohio State
Gamble has excellent size, speed, and overall athleticism. At just under 6-2 and with a 40" vertical leap, he should match up well with the big receivers in the NFL.

Kellen Winslow Jr., TE - Miami (Fla)
Kellen Winslow is a tremendous receiving tight end. He has great hands and is blessed with the speed and agility of a wide receiver.

Vince Wilfork, DT - Miami (Fla)
Wilfork has dropped on many boards, but a solid performance in the Orange Bowl may have re-established him as a top 15 pick.

DeAngelo Hall, CB - Virginia Tech
DeAngelo Hall is still a little raw, but he has tremendous athletic ability and overall he has an unlimited upside.

Steven Jackson, RB - Oregon State
Steven Jackson, the best all-around back in the 2004 NFL Draft (in my opinion), has good size (6-2, 230 pounds) yet is still elusiveness enough to make defenders miss. He can run with speed or power, and he catches the ball well out of the backfield.

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