Wild Bill's 2010 NFL Mock Draft: Picks 17 & 18

Welcome back all. Huge trade today between Denver and Miami. Denver jettisoned troublesome Brandon Marshall (WR) to the Fish for their 2010 & 2011 2nd Round Draft Picks.

Due to the trade it did have an impact on two of my picks. Go back and take a look...#11 & #15

With that being said, let's get down to it with picks 17 & 18

17.) San Francisco 49ers - Mike Iupati OL, Idaho

San Francisco acquired this pick from the Carolina Panthers last year in the 2nd Round of the draft. Carolina sent their 2010 1st Round Pick to the 49ers for San Fran's 2nd Round Pick in 2009 so they could draft Everette Brown.

Brown gave them some decent production last year but I'd be willing to bet that Carolina would love a Mulligan on that trade with how loaded this draft class is.

The 49ers need some help along the Oline and I believe since they missed out on what is considered the ELITE tackles in this draft, they'll be able to take the consensus #1 Interior Offensive Lineman in this draft with Iupati. Iupati's moniker is The Samoan Juggernaught! (Sorry about that Rey Maualaga!!)

This guy is just under 6' 6'' and he tips the scales at about 331 pounds. Frank Gore and Alex Smith would just LOVE to see Iupati join the 49ers. He can play almost anywhere along the offensive line; he even got some reps at LT during the Senior Bowl week. He is a Road-Grater and a Beast. He would join San Fran and start Day 1!

To the Steel City we go...

Wild Bill's 2010 NFL Mock Draft: Picks 15 & 16

Happy Tuesday all. Welcome back for the next two picks of my 2010 NFL Mock Draft.

Let's dive right in!

15.) New York Giants - Rolando McClain, ILB Alabama*

***(I decided to switch this pick because of the Denver/Miami trade today. I believe that Denver will now go with Dez Bryant (WR) Oklahoma State over Rolando McClain. I believe now that McClain is available New York will select him to take over the place of the departed Antonio Pierce, former (LB) for the Giants.)

There are some questions about his coverage abilities but this kid absolutely hammers ball carriers and he's very quick to diagnose plays. It's not fair for opposing ball carriers that somebody his size (6'4''/258 lbs) can move so damn fast....

On to the Music City...

Wild Bill's 2010 NFL Mock Draft: Picks 13 & 14

Hopefully everybody had a good weekend with the gorgeous weather we had in and around central Ohio.

Big Trade over the weekend that saw Santonio Holmes (WR) Pittsburgh get traded to the New York Jets for ONLY a 5th Round Draft Pick.

I would like to go into the detail of this trade, but I'm going to concentrate on the draft. (I think it had a WHOLE LOT to do with $ because this is the last year of Santonio's contract, along with the fact that he SUPPOSEDLY got into an altercation with a female.)

I think the trade definitely effects the draft but not until we get into later rounds for both of the respective teams. On 4/14 I will have the Steelers selecting an O-Lineman and I don't believe my thinking will change over the next two days.

13.) San Francisco 49ers - C.J. Spiller RB, Clemson

I've had quite a hard time deciding on this pick, particularly since I've discussed it several times a week the past few months with my youngest brother who is a GINORMOUS San Francisco 49ers fan...no seriously, my brother BEN is HUGE!!!