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It's time to get fired up for the 2011 NFL Draft. The first round of the draft starts tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. Rounds two and three will resume on Friday at 6 p.m. ET and rounds four through seven will start on Saturday at noon.

Quarterback has been the most talked about position of the 2011 NFL draft, with Cam Newton and Blaine Gabbert both expected to go in the top 10 and Ryan Mallett, Jake Locker, Christian Ponder and Andy Dalton projected to go late in the first round or early in the second.

Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton will skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft after leading Auburn to a national championship and drawing nearly as much attention for a pay-for-play scandal as for his dynamic performances....

Ed Wang wants to make it big in China. To do so, the Buffalo Bills rookie offensive tackle knows he first has to make his mark in the NFL. At 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds, Wang is already turning heads and upending stereotypes by becoming the first player with direct Chinese ancestry to be selected in the NFL draft last month.

ESPN broadcast of the NFL draft has drawn the most viewers ever.

It is never fair to evaluate drafts before talent is even given a chance to prove itself in the NFL, as the...

Rosenthal: Here’s a quick snapshot of some winners and losers from the first ever three-day NFL Draft extravaganza. Full draft grades come Sunday night

From an early Oklahoma party to the Big 12’s dominance to Tim Tebow stealing the spotlight from overall top pick Sam Bradford, the NFL’s first prime-time draft was worthy of its Radio City Music Hall location.

The exhilarating, maddening, starstruck career of Brandon Marshall as a Denver Bronco is finished. Marshall has been traded to the Miami Dolphins for a second-round pick that the Broncos will use next Friday in the NFL Draft. And the Broncos will also receive another second draft pick in 2011.

The Lions had a good No. 1 pick, but only one team in the NFC received an 'A.'