Novel Battle
Last month I did a roundup of books I read, and it looks like I managed to do it again this month, woot. It's not quite the end of the month yet, but there's only day left in December 2023 and I don't think I'll be getting anything else finished this month (and I finished my 100 books on Goodreads), so I might as well do it now. (I have been trying to not leave it all to the last minute, writing bits of it during the month, which may be an effective strategy.)
Actual books under the cut--possible spoilers for Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, Michelle West's House War series, and maybe C.J. Cherryh's Atevi series, though I'm trying not to.
Michelle West: Battle, completed December 6
This is a slot for a female (or non-male) "diversity" slot author. It almost feels a bit cheating for me to use the slot for Michelle West (a.k.a. Michelle Sagara), who I've been reading for a long time now, and is somebody I'd read anyway, but her books are pretty thick and I have a tendency to fall behind on them, so I'll take whatever will get me to actually read them.
Back when I first read Michelle Sagara, I was heavily into Canadian SF and wanted to read everything that was eligible for the Aurora Awards every year, if possible. (It soon became clear that it was not, for all practical purposes, possible.) So I saw her on the list with her first series, The Sundered, and read them all. It's a series where the good guys lose at the end of the first book, and our protagonist ends up imprisoned by a demon lord type who is also her main romantic interest. This kind of dynamic has turned up a few times in her other books, to some degree or another. Later she came out with the Sun Sword series under the name Michelle West, a series of six quite thick books. (And, it turns out, there had been a previous duology, Hunter's Oath and Hunter's Death, set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters.) And after that, she started coming out with her Elantra series (a.k.a. the "Cast" series, since the titles are all like Cast In Shadow or Cast In Courtlight etc.), again under the Sagara name; slightly lighter, and thinner, fantasy novels featuring a guardswoman named Kaylin Neya living in a multiracial fantasy city (and by multiracial, we have like hawk people, lion people, dragons, elf-types, and telepaths, and probably others I'm forgetting). And after that, she started coming out with the House War series, which was designed to tie up some loose ends from the Sun Sword series. (She's also got another series, a YA-ish urban fantasy series called "Queen of The Dead", but I haven't tried those yet.)
So at the moment I'm reading both the Elantra series and the House War series; I try to get through one of each a year so that maybe I won't fall further behind. Battle is, as one might guess, in the House War series, which, as a series, is a bit odd. The first three books in the series are really their own trilogy, since they take place before The Sun Sword entirely (and one of them overlaps with Hunter's Death). And then comes Skirmish, which takes place after The Sun Sword, and continues on with Battle, Firstborn, Oracle, and War. (Firstborn and Oracle were not part of the original series listing, so I assume that the series stretched as she was writing it.)
The central character of the House War is Jewel Markess ATerafin, who I believe was introduced all the way back in Hunter's Oath and may have been in all of the Michelle West books to date. She started out as a street kid, leader of a "den" of orphans and homeless kids, until she gained the attention of the powerful House Terafin, and managed to win entry for herself and her den; later it turned out that she was a rare "seer-born", and she grew in power and influence. She is a fundamentally nice person, though, who would be happy if everybody just got along and nobody got hurt, so she's not comfortable wielding her power--something she may have to overcome by the end of the series, I suspect. (And, unlike some of Sagara/West's characters, she seems deeply aromantic-coded. Not even a hint of romantic feelings in any of the books to date.) Also, in these books it seems like any random character can turn out to be a retired assassin with a dark past, or a troubled immortal, or a secret mage, or some other such archetype. It works better than it has a right to.
So what is the House War? That's a good question. It's not, fundamentally, a struggle within House Terafin, or between any of the Ten Houses, at least as of yet. It seems more like a struggle of House Terafin, or all of human civilization, against outside forces, quite frankly. Battle has relatively little battle in it, in fact; it still feels like we're readying for the battles to come.
I've started supporting the author on Patreon, mostly because she was working on a new book in this world, Hunter's Redoubt, which the publishers passed on (possibly because she couldn't guarantee it being a reasonable length, or maybe the series just wasn't selling well enough for them), and I've only got three more House War books after this one, so probably by 2027 I'll get to reading it.
Ian Fleming: For Your Eyes Only, completed December 8
Feeling a little behind on my Goodreads challenge after the length of Battle, I decided to scan my shelves for something somewhat shorter, and less fantasy. And Ian Fleming is what I came up with.
I remember James Bond from an early age, between the HBO we (probably illicitly) had when I was a kid, and the promotion for the movie "For Your Eyes Only" (including the Sheena Easton song and the Marvel comics adaptation). These days "FYEO" is considered a lesser entry in the Bond canon, but I have a soft spot for it. I watched and rewatched a lot of the movies over the years, and at some point I started reading the original novels. They're not bad, though of course a product of a different time with all sorts of deeply-ingrained sexism (and probably racism too).
For Your Eyes Only the book is actually a collection of short stories. The first one, "From A View To A Kill", is perhaps the best, a straightforward but engaging story of Bond outwitting an embedded spy nest in France. (Little or nothing in common with the "A View To A Kill" movie.) The title story and "Risico" are the two that the "For Your Eyes Only" movie was built around--the former a story of an off-the-books mission where Bond avenges a pair of M's old friends (with the aid of their bereaved archer daughter, who became Melina in the movie), and the latter being the story of double agent Kristatos trying to set Bond against rival Colombo; the stories themselves are pretty good. Then there's "Quantum of Solace", which also has nothing to do with the later movie, and hardly anything to do with James Bond, being mostly a story told to Bond about a relationship that went sour, and "The Hildebrand Rarity", which oddly didn't get any movies named after it, about a horrible person who comes to a bad end on a boat on the Indian Ocean, and good riddance. While uneven, it was actually a bit refreshing to see Bond in different contexts and shorter pieces.
Jim Butcher: Warriorborn, completed December 9
Next, I wanted another male author, and still probably a shorter book. The Olympian Affair, the latest Jim Butcher novel, had just come out, and was devoured by several members of the household; this e-novella was kind of a precursor to it, and my wife had recommended I read it, and I decided it might be just the thing.
I have a read a lot of Jim Butcher--almost all of the Dresden Files (saving only a few of the more recent stories), the Codex Alera, and The Aeronaut's Windlass, the first Cinder Spires book (to which The Olympian Affair is the sequel). It's been some time since his last novel, Battle Ground, and quite frankly, that one left a really bad taste in my mouth. A lot of that was due to a particular character death which I really did not appreciate, but I can't tell if it's just that or if I've gone off him completely. So I have deliberately been avoiding the last few Dresden Files stories, and I wasn't sure if I was going to read any more at all, so I guess this was also a way of giving him another chance.
I apparently didn't remember The Aeronaut's Windlass that well, because I did not remember the main character of the story, or the whole Warriorborn class at all (they seem to be humanoid but part cat or something?). I remembered actual intelligent cat characters, but not these guys. Anyway, there was a story, it was mildly exciting, and it only took me a day to read it. I'm still not sure if Butcher has redeemed himself, but I did put The Olympian Affair on my to-read list, even if I probably won't actually read it any time soon. He may not be "don't read ever again", but he hasn't earned his way back up to "read as soon as the hardcover comes out" yet by a long shot.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Ethan of Athos, completed December 12
Three books since my last reread, so it was time for another one, the next (chronological) Vorkosigan book, Ethan of Athos. It's an odd duck in the series--no Vorkosigans appear in it at all, but we do get Elli Quinn, last seen getting sent off for extensive facial reconstruction surgery in The Warrior's Apprentice, in which she had barely any screen time. The book's POV character, though, is the titular Ethan, from the planet Athos, a planet of a reclusive misogynistic society that bans women entirely and reproduces entirely through uterine replicators and ovarian cultures. But when the ovarian cultures start senescing, and their replacement shipment is hijacked, Ethan is forced to head into the big bad woman-infested galaxy and try to remedy the problem. Which brings him into contact and/or conflict with Elli Quinn, Cetagandans, and other forces. And ends up broadening his worldview ever so slightly, though he does return home at the end…with perhaps the biggest dangling plot thread that never got revisited in the entire series. I was lukewarm about it my first time through, but by now I consider it pretty fun, but inessential. It does give you a chance to see Elli as a full-fledged character before you see her back with Miles again.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton: The Ill-Made Mute, completed December 18
After three short reads in a row, I was now ahead again. It was time for another female author, and for "trying out" one I hadn't read before. When I'd first started doing this, I limited it strictly to authors where I'd picked up one book at random and that was it, but I later broadened it to include other authors, particularly ones where I'd picked up two books by them and not yet read either. And the one I happened to have sitting on my shelf was Cecilia Dart-Thornton's The Ill-Made Mute, which was both an interesting author name and an interesting book title.
It's an odd book in a lot of ways. The language is…well, you could say "rich", you could say "not afraid of using obscure vocabulary words". The setting is interesting--there's a metal that floats above the ground (not unlike something that they have in the Cinder Spires, actually), and some people use it to travel by floating ship or floating horse…which makes sense once you find out how dangerous overland travel is, because of all the wights (a.k.a. fairy folk, seelie and unseelie, many of which seem to be drawn from actual Celtic folklore, given the extensive references at the back).
Our protagonist is the mute of the title--stripped of their memory, speech, and name, disfigured by accident, and receiving only grudging kindness by their rescuers. Could be a more proactive character than they are, since they spend a lot of the time at the mercy of more powerful forces (and many capricious wights), but you do root for them to come through.
It turns out, by the way, that the other book in the series which I own, The Battle of Evernight, is the third book, not the second, so I guess I need to track down a copy of The Lady of The Sorrows sometime. Sigh.
C.J. Cherryh & Jane Fancher: Defiance, completed December 22
I only had three books left to read for the year, and 13 days to do it in, so I still seemed more or less on track, but maybe a shorter book would not go amiss--especially since we were planning to go out of town on the 23rd, something that I could finish by the 22nd might be a good idea. Female author still, and not high fantasy.
I often like to let books sit on my to-read shelf for a while; or, to put it another way, to not neglect forever the books that have been sitting there for a long time in favour of newer and shinier ones. But there are exceptions, for authors that I've read a lot of and am actually caught up on, where I try to keep caught up by reading their newest books.
I've been reading C.J. Cherryh for a long time--I started with her Morgaine books, after seeing her mentioned in Dragon magazine, and went through whatever I could find--Cuckoo's Egg, Serpent's Reach, the Faded Sun books, the Chanur books, etc. I fell behind for a long time, but the Atevi books (starting with Foreigner) helped, because I started reading them to my son. They're not kids' books, but he was a teenager when I read them to him so that was okay. (If it bothers you to think of a teenager still being read to by his parents, think of it as a "parental audiobook experience".) I had gotten about twelve books in on my own, but even restarting from the beginning, I was able to plow through the series (up to at least book 20) reading them aloud. (By this point he can read them on his own if he wants to, though.)
This is book 22 in the series, and while it seems to be starting out with recap (which was less useful when reading them back-to-back, but helpful now) it's probably not a recommended starting point. The length of the series is a tribute to the complex political situations that our characters get involved in, and she's probably not in danger of running out. This is her second novel, and first Atevi novel, crediting her longtime companion Jane Fancher as a cowriter, probably for reasons.
The Atevi series in general takes place on (mostly) a planet inhabited by a species called atevi, where a group of humans were forced to settle after a hyperspace accident left them unable to return home. After some initial friction, they are coexisting mostly peacefully, with one human (called a "paidhi") as a cultural interface. The current paidhi, Bren Cameron, ends up getting involved more deeply than usual in atevi politics, which is all I'll say in lieu of spoilers.
Josiah Bancroft: Arm of The Sphinx, completed December 27
I also picked this one largely on page count--I was planning on reading it in 5-6 days, which would cover the days when I was visiting my mother for Christmas. In a slight deviation from my normal tactic, I ended up allocating reading pages so that the two travel days (it usually takes us about six hours to do the drive) required fewer pages, and it worked pretty well.
The first book in the series, Senlin Ascends, involved Thomas Senlin and his young wife travelling to the Tower of Babel, the wife getting abducted, and Senlin going into the tower after her. The details of the world aren't particularly clear--there is a Tower of Babel but there's also steampunk technology and people with European names, and there's no map of anything besides the Tower itself so I don't worry about it too much.
In this book, the second, we have more an ensemble cast rather than just Senlin, and I think the change is quite effective. Senlin is a reserved gentleman thrust into unfamiliar situations, and sometimes he's a little bit repressed, so having more viewpoints was helpful. Plus it allows us, the reader, to learn things without Senlin necessarily learning those things as well.
I'm hoping that we'll shift our plot from "Senlin looking for his wife" to something with slightly larger stakes about the fate of the Tower itself, and the world. Because it's beginning to seem like Senlin and his wife may not have the most successful, loving reunion. We haven't seen much of her at all, really, and I hope that when we do, she'll have a stronger character than just "damsel in distress".
There's two more books in the series, which of course may be out of print by this point, but I think the odds of my finishing the series at all have definitely gone up.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity, completed December 30
And then it was time for another read, another Vorkosigan book, whose placement may be a little bit controversial. It consists of three novellas, the first of which, "The Mountains of Mourning", takes place between The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. The others do take place between Ethan of Athos and Brothers In Arms, but in this book there's also a framing story that takes place after Brothers In Arms. (In the more recent omnibus editions the novellas are rearranged, and the framing story disappears entirely. There's not much to it, so it's not a huge loss.) But there's no spoilers from BIA, it turns out (Miles is in the hospital with broken arms from an unchronicles adventure that happens after BIA, and while its events are alluded to, all that really comes up is that they were on Earth). BIA in fact takes place directly after "Borders of Infinity".
"Mountains of Morning" is probably the most affecting of the three novellas, as Miles has to investigate the murder of a baby in the backwoods of his district, with characters that show up again in Memory. "Labyrinth" is my least favourite of the three, though it's still good. It is the most novel-structured of them, with subplots and multiple settings, and its events serve as setup for the events on Jackson's Whole later in Mirror Dance. "Borders of Infinity" is a tour de force showing how Miles can accomplish his goals after stripped of pretty much everything, and also a good example of how to hide things from the reader that your viewpoint characters knows.
And that's December, and the end of 2023. Next up it will be a book from my dwindling supply of male "diversity" authors, Siege of Mithila by Indian author Ashok Banker. I also got a copy of the nonfiction book Paths of Pollen, written by my very own brother, that came out a month ago.
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Undrafted free agent signings 2017: Every team’s pickups in one place
Is the next Tony Romo waiting in this year’s crop of undrafted players?
The 2017 NFL Draft may be over, but that doesn’t mean teams are done adding important contributors for the upcoming season. Scores of NCAA athletes will start the next chapters of their football careers by signing as undrafted free agents this week.
The class of 2017 could also produce some memorable contributors. College standouts like Jarron Jones and Hardy Nickerson Jr. should all draw plenty of interest this spring. Though they’ll face long odds to make an NFL roster, the path they’ll walk is far from uncharted territory.
There’s a laundry list of players who have emerged from the embers of the draft to make a major impact in the NFL. All-Pros like Wes Welker, Priest Holmes, Kurt Warner, Antonio Gates, John Randle, James Harrison, Jessie Tuggle, and Tony Romo all took the long way to the league. They turned out to be unexpected boons who didn’t cost a cent in draft currency.
We’ll have a complete list of undrafted free agent signings as they come in.
Arizona Cardinals
Carlton Agudosi, WR, Rutgers
Collin Bevins, DT, Northwest Missouri State
Lucas Crowley, C, UNC
Ironhead Gallon, LB, Georgia Southern
Gump Hayes, DB, Arizona State
Krishawn Hogan, WR, Marian
Drico Johnson, S, Central Florida
Tre'Von Johnson, OLB, Weber State
Trevor Knight, QB, Texas A&M
Ryan Lewis, CB, Pittsburgh
Jonathan McLaughlin, OT Virginia Tech
Cyril Noland-Lewis, S, Louisiana Tech
Ricky Seals-Jones, WR, Texas A&M
Sojourn Shelton, CB, Wisconsin
James Summers, RB, East Carolina
Pasoni Tasini, DL, Utah
Steven Wroblewski, TE, Southern Utah
Atlanta Falcons
Travis Averill, OL, Boise State
Marcelis Branch, DB, Robert Morris
Daniel Brunskill, OL, San Diego State
Deante Burton, WR, Kansas State
Reginald Davis III, WR, Texas Tech
Darius English, DL, South Carolina
Wil Freeman, OL, Southern Miss
Jermaine Grace, LB, Miami (Fla.)
Jarnor Jones, CB, Iowa State
JT Jones, DE, Miami (Ohio)
Cam Keizur, C, Portland State
Andreas Knappe, OT, Connecticut
Robert Leff, OT, Auburn
Josh Magee, WR, South Alabama
Quincy Mauger, S, Georgia
Chris Odom, DE, Arkansas State
Tyler Renew, FB, Citadel
Taylor Reynolds, CB, James Madison
Christian Tago, LB, San Jose State
Gary Thompson, DE, Marshall
Alek Torgersen, QB, Pennsylvania
Deron Washington, S, Pittsburg St.
Baltimore Ravens
Quincy Adeboyejo, WR, Ole Miss
Kenny Allen, P, Michigan
C.J. Board, WR, Tennessee Chattanooga
Bam Bradley, LB, Pitt
Omarius Bryant, DT, Western Kentucky
Carlos Davis, CB, Ole Miss
Daniel Henry, S, New Mexico
Brandon Kublanow, OL, Georgia
Taquan Mizzell, RB, Virginia
Ricky Ortiz, FB, Oklahoma State
Tim Patrick, WR, Utah
Donald Payne, LB, Stetson
Patrick Ricard, DE, Maine
Maurquice Shakir, OL, Middle Tennessee State
Zach Terrell, QB, Western Michigan
Tim White, WR, Arizona State
Buffalo Bills
Jason Croom, TE, Tennessee
Jordan Johnson, RB, Buffalo
Marquavius Lewis, DE, South Carolina
Greg Pyke, OT, Georgia
Austin Rehkow, P, Idaho
Brandon Reilly, WR, Nebraska
B.T. Sanders, DB, Nicholls State
Marcus Sayles, CB, West Georgia
Daikiel Shorts, WR, West Virginia
Keith Towbridge, TE, Louisville
Jeremy Tyler, S, West Virginia
Zach Voytek, OL, New Haven
Nigel Williams, DT, Virginia Tech
Carolina Panthers
Alex Bazzie, LB, Marshall
Ben Boulware, LB, Clemson
Bryan Cox, Jr., DE, Florida
Austin Duke, WR, Charlotte
Kyle Kragen, LB, California
Cole Luke, CB, Notre Dame
Gabriel Mass, DT, Lane College
Fred Ross, WR, Mississippi State
Chicago Bears
Joel Bouganon, RB, Northern Illinois
Rashaad Coward, DT, Old Dominion
Tanner Gentry, WR, Wyoming
Franko House, basketball forward, Ball State
Dieugot Joseph, OT, Florida International
Mitchell Kirsch, OL, James Madison
Andy Phillips, K, Utah
Jhajuan Seales, WR, Oklahoma State
Freddie Stevenson, FB, Florida State
Kermit Whitfield, WR, Florida State
Cincinnati Bengals
Brandon Bell, LB, Penn State
Cethan Carter, TE, Nebraska
Demetrious Cox, S, Michigan State
Karel Hamilton, WR, Samford
Darrin Laufasa, FB, UTEP
Landon Lechler, OT, North Dakota State
Monty Madaris, WR, Michigan State
Hardy Nickerson Jr., LB, Illinois
Kent Perkins, OL, Texas
Dustin Stanton, OL, Oregon State
Josh Tupou, DT, Colorado
Jarveon Williams, RB, UTSA
Stanley “Boom” Williams, RB, Kentucky
Cleveland Browns
B.J. Bello, LB, Illinois State
Josh Boutte, OL, LSU
Ladell Fleming, DE, Northern Illinois
J.D. Harmon, DB, Kentucky
Alvin Hill, CB, Maryland
Jamal Marcus, DE, Akron
Taylor McNamara, TE, USC
Kai Nacua, S, BYU
Kenneth Olugbode, LB, Colorado
Karter Schult, DE, Northern Iowa
Channing Stribling, CB, Michigan
Dallas Cowboys
Austin Appleby, QB, Florida
Woody Baron, DT, Virginia Tech
Brian Brown, WR, Richmond
Michael Coe, C, North Dakota
Kennan Gilchrist, LB, Appalachian State
Blake Jarwin, TE, Oklahoma State
Joseph Jones, LB, Northwestern
Levon Myers, OT, Northern Illinois
Lewis Neal, DL, LSU
Cooper Rush, QB, Central Michigan
Dan Skipper, OT, Arkansas
Nate Theaker, OT, Wayne State
Jahad Thomas, RB, Temple
Lucas Wacha, LB, Wyoming
Denver Broncos
Erik Austell, OL, Charleston Southern
Josh Banderas, LB, Nebraska
Jamal Carter, S, Miami
Ken Ekanem, DE, Virginia Tech
Jerrol Garcia-Williams, LB, Hawaii
Deon Hollins, OLB, UCLA
Cameron Hunt, OT, Oregon
Tyrique Jarrett, DT, Pittsburgh
Anthony Nash, WR, Duke
Marcus Rios, CB, UCLA
Kyle Sloter, QB, Northern Colorado
Shakir Soto, DE, Pittsburgh
Orion Stewart, DB, Baylor
Dymonte Thomas, S, Michigan
Detroit Lions
Brandon Barnes, TE, Alabama State
Alex Barrett, DE, San Diego State
Dontez Ford, WR, Pitt
Tion Green, RB, Cincinnati
De’Quan Hampton, WR, USC
Nick James, DT, Mississippi State
Leo Koloamatangi, OL, Hawaii
Des Lawrence, CB, UNC
Michael Rector, WR, Stanford
Maurice Swain, DT, Auburn
Noel Thomas, WR, Connecticut
Josh Thornton, CB, Southern Utah
Robert Tonyan, TE, Indiana State
Jeremiah Valoaga, DE, UNLV
Green Bay Packers
Donatello Brown, CB, Valdosta State
Johnathan Calvin, LB, Mississippi State
Michael Clark, WR, Marshall
Montay Crockett, WR, Georgia State
Thomas Evans, OL, Richmond
Geoff Gray, OL, Manitoba
Cody Heiman, LB, Washburn
Taysom Hill, QB, BYU
Izaah Lunsford, DT, Bowling Green
Adam Pankey, OL, West Virginia
Aaron Peck, WR, Fresno State
Kalif Phillips, RB, Charlotte
Lenzy Pipkins, CB, Oklahoma State
David Rivers III, CB, Youngstown State
Justin Vogel, P, Miami
Houston Texans
Eli Ankou, DT, UCLA
Evan Baylis, TE, Oregon
Dimitric Camiel, OT, Indiana
Dylan Cole, LB, Missouri State
Zach Conque, TE, Stephen F. Austin
T.J. Daniel, DE, Oregon
Matt Godin, LB, Michigan
Deante’ Gray, WR, TCU
Malik Foreman, CB, Tennessee
Justin Hardee, WR, Illinois
Rickey Hatley, DT, Missouri
Shaq Hill, WR, Eastern Washington
Riley McCarron, WR, Iowa
Tevon Mutcherson, CB, Central Florida
Dare Ogunbowale, RB, Wisconsin
Dayon Pratt, LB, East Carolina
Gimel President, DL, Illinois
Daniel Ross, DL, Northeast Mississippi
Joe Scelfo, OL, NC State
Jake Simonich, OL, Utah State
Malik Smith, CB, San Diego State
Dee Virgin, CB, West Alabama
Avery Williams, LB, Temple
Indianapolis Colts
Deyshawn Bond, OL, Cincinnati
Dalton Crossan, RB, New Hampshire
Darrell Daniels, TE, Washington
Trey Griffey, WR, Arizona
Thomas Hennessy, LS, Duke
Bug Howard, WR, North Carolina
Colin Jeter, TE, LSU
Jerome Lane, WR, Akron
Chris Lyles, DB, Mississippi College
Chris Muller, OL, Rutgers
JoJo Natson, WR, Akron
Reggie Porter, CB, Utah
Brandon Radcliff, RB, Louisville
Rigoberto Sanchez, K/P, Hawaii
Garrett Sickels, DE, Penn State
Jhaustin Thomas, DE, Iowa State
Jerry Ugokwe, OL, William & Mary
Phillip Walker, QB, Temple
Jacksonville Jaguars
Caleb Bluiett, TE, Texas
Keelan Cole, WR, Kentucky Wesleyan
Parker Collins, OL, Appalachian State
Tim Cook, RB, Oregon State
Jeremy Cutrer, CB, Middle Tennessee State
P.J. Davis, LB, Georgia Tech
Hunter Dimick, DE, Utah
Amba Etta-Tawo, WR, Syracuse
Avery Gennesy, OT, Texas A&M
Justin Horton, OLB, Jacksonville
Tueni Lupeamanu, DL, Idaho
I’Tavius Mathers, RB, Middle Tennessee State
Charlie Miller, S, Dartmouth
Carroll Phillips, DE/LB, Illinois
Ezra Robinson, CB, Tennessee State
Kenny Walker, WR, UCLA
Kansas City Chiefs
Corin Brooks, OL, UTPB
Devin Chappell, S, Oregon State
Gehrig Dieter, WR, Alabama
Anas Hasic, WR, West Florida
Wyatt Houston, TE, Utah State
Marcus Kemp, WR, Hawaii
Ashton Lampkin, DB, Oklahoma State
Damien Mama, OG, USC
Alonzo Moore, WR, Nebraska
J.R. Nelson, CB, Montana
Jordan Sterns, S, Oklahoma State
Tony Stevens, WR, Auburn
Los Angeles Chargers
Sean Culkin, TE, Missouri
Michael Davis, CB, BYU
Dillon DeBoer, C, Florida Atlantic
Austin Ekeler, RB, Western State
Nigel Harris, LB, South Florida
Eli Jenkins, QB, Jacksonville State
Younghoe Koo, K, Georgia Southern
Mike Moore, LB, Kansas State
James Onwualu, LB, Notre Dame
Andre Patton, WR, Rutgers
Artavis Scott, WR, Clemson
Brandon Stewart, CB, Kansas
Brad Watson, CB, Wake Forest
Dontre Wilson, RB, Ohio State
Mason Zandi, OT, South Carolina
Los Angeles Rams
Ishmael Adams, DB, UCLA
Jared Collins, DB, Arkansas
Kevin Davis, LB, Colorado State
Justin Davis, RB, USC
Jake Eldrenkramp, OL, Washington
Anthony McMeans, OL, New Mexico State
Johnny Mundt, TE, Oregon
Folarin Orimolade, OLB, Dartmouth
Aarion Penton, CB, Missouri
Casey Sayles, DE, Ohio
Dravious Wright, DB, NC State
Miami Dolphins
Chase Allen, LB, Southern Illinois
Matt Haack, P, Arizona State
Larry Hope, CB, Akron
Malcolm Lewis, WR, Miami
Cameron Malveaux, DE, Houston
Praise Martin-Oguike, DE, Temple
Torry McTyer, DB, UNLV
Drew Morgan, WR, Arkansas
Francis Owusu, WR, Stanford
Joby Saint Fleur, DE, Northwest Oklahoma State
De'Veon Smith, RB, Michigan
Eric Smith, OT, Virginia
Maurice Smith, DB, Georgia
Damore'ea Stringfellow, WR, Ole Miss
Minnesota Vikings
Tashawn Bower, DE, LSU
Dylan Bradley, DT, Southern Mississippi
Aviante Collins, OL, TCU
Nick Fett, T, Iowa State
Caleb Kidder, DE, Montana
Wes Lunt, QB, Illinois
Sam McCaskill, DE, Boise State
Terrell Newby, RB, Nebraska
Josiah Price, TE, Michigan State
Horace Richardson, CB, SMU
R.J. Shelton, WR, Michigan State
Shaan Washington, LB, Texas A&M
Eric Wilson, LB, Cincinnati
New England Patriots
Josh Augusta, DT, Missouri
Adam Butler, DT, Vanderbilt
Austin Carr, WR, Northwestern
Cole Croston, OL, Iowa
LeShun Daniels Jr., RB, Iowa
Brooks Ellis, LB, Arkansas
Cody Hollister, WR, Arkansas
Jacob Hollister, TE, Wyoming
Andrew Jelks, OT, Vanderbilt
David Jones, DB, Richmond
D.J. Killings, CB, Central Florida
Jason King, OL, Purdue
Harvey Langi, LB, BYU
Kenny Moore, CB, Valdosta State
Max Rich, OL, Harvard
Dwayne Thomas, DB, LSU
Jason Thompson, S, Utah
Damarius Travis, S, Minnesota
Corey Vereen, DE, Tennessee
New Orleans Saints
Collin Buchanan, OL, Miami (Ohio)
Chase Dominguez, LS, Utah
Travin Dural, WR, LSU
Ahmad Fulwood, WR, Florida
Andrew Lauderdale, OT, New Hampshire
Devaroe Lawrence, DT, Auburn
Cameron Lee, G, Illinois State
Arthur Maulet, CB, Memphis
John Robinson-Woodgett, FB, UMass
Sae Tautu, LB, BYU
Cameron Tom, C, Southern Miss
Clint Van Horn, OL, Marshall
New York Giants
Josh Banks, DT, Wake Forest
Armando Bonheur, OL, Samford
Romond Deloatch, TE, Temple
Jessamen Dunker, OL, Tennessee State
Sam Ekwonike, OL, Coastal Carolina
Jadar Johnson, S, Clemson
Keeon Johnson, WR, Virginia
Jarron Jones, DL, Notre Dame
Calvin Munson, LB, San Diego State
Travis Rudolph, WR, Florida State
Evan Schwan, DE, Penn State
Shane Smith, FB, San Jose State
Colin Thompson, TE, Temple
Nigel Tribune, CB, Iowa State
Chad Wheeler, OT, USC
Robert Wheelwright, WR, Wisconsin
Jalen Williams, WR, UMass
New York Jets
Chris Bordelon, OL, Nicholls State
Benjamin Braden, OL, Michigan
Austin Calitro, LB, Villanova
Xavier Coleman, CB, Portland State
Brisly Estime, WR, Syracuse
Anthony Firkser, FB, Harvard
Patrick Gamble, DT, Georgia Tech
Connor Harris, LB, Lindenwood
Javarius Leamon, OT, South Carolina State
Gabe Marks, WR, Washington State
Oakland Raiders
Breon Borders, CB, Duke
Paul Boyette Jr., DT, Texas
Chauncey Briggs, OT, SMU
Fadol Brown, DE, Ole Miss
Pharaoh Brown, TE, Oregon
Chris Casher, DL, Faulkner University
Anthony Cioffi, S, Rutgers
Najee Harris, LB, Wagner College
Keon Hatcher, WR, Arkansas
Chris Humes, CB, Arkansas State
Rickey Jefferson, DB, LSU
Anthony Kukwa, LS, Erie State
LaTroy Lewis, DE, Tennessee
Nicholas Morrow, S, Greenville
Jordan Simmons, OL, USC
Ahmad Thomas, S, Oklahoma
Jordan Wade, DT, Oklahoma
Isaac Whitney, WR, USC
Xavier Woodson-Luster, LB, Arkansas State
Ishmael Zamora, WR, Baylor
Philadelphia Eagles
Billy Brown, TE, Shepherd
Corey Clement, RB, Wisconsin
Winston Craig, DL, Richmond
Jerod Evans, QB, Virginia Tech
Randall Goforth, CB, UCLA
Cameron Johnston, P, Ohio State
Marcus Oliver, LB, Indiana
Tyler Orlosky, C, West Virginia
Tre’ Sullivan, S, Shepherd
Greg Ward, QB/WR, Houston
Jomal Wiltz, CB, Iowa State
Pittsburgh Steelers
Nelson Adams, DT, Mississippi State
Christian Brown, DT, West Virginia
Ethan Cooper, G, Indiana-Pennsylvania
Francis Kallon, DE, Georgia Tech
Keith Kelsey, LB, Louisville
Scott Orndoff, TE, Pittsburgh
Nick Schuessler, QB, Clemson
Rushel Shell, RB, West Virginia
Terrish Webb, DB, Pittsburgh
San Francisco 49ers
Victor Bolden, WR, Oregon State
Kendrick Bourne, WR, Eastern Washington
Matthew Breida, RB, Georgia Southern
JP Flynn, OL, Montana State
Zach Franklin, CB, Washburn
Jimmie Gilbert, LB, Colorado
Malik Golden, S, Penn State
Evan Goodman, OL, Arizona State
Cole Hikutini, TE, Louisville
Lorenzo Jerome, S, Saint Francis
Erik Magnuson, OT, Michigan
Tyler McCloskey, FB, Houston
Nick Mullens, QB, Southern Miss
Donavin Newsom, LB, Missouri
Noble Nwachukwu, DL, West Virginia
Bret Treadway, OL, Lamar
Darrell Williams, OT, Western Kentucky
Seattle Seahawks
Algernon Brown, FB/RB, BYU
Tony Bridges, S, Ole Miss
John Gibson, CB, Missouri
Skyler Howard, QB, West Virginia
Otha Peters, LB, Louisiana Lafayette
Hayden Plinke, TE, UTEP
Darreus Rogers, WR, USC
Jordan Roos, G, Purdue
Calvin Steyn, OL, Weber State
Tyrone Swoopes, TE, Texas
Nick Usher, OLB, UTEP
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Anthony Auclair, TE, Laval
Deondre Barnett, DE, Southern Illinois
Richie Brown, LB, Mississippi State
Riley Bullough, LB, Michigan State
Maurice Fleming, CB, West Virginia
Cole Gardner, OT, Eastern Michigan
Alex Gray, S, Appalachian State
Korren Kirven, OT, Alabama
Sefo Liufau, QB, Colorado
Greg Mabin, CB, Iowa
Paul Magloire, S, Arizona
Jonathan Moxey, CB, Boise State
Thomas Sperbeck, WR, Boise State
Bobo Wilson, WR, Florida State
Tennessee Titans
DeAngelo Brown, DT, Louisville
Bra’lon Cherry, WR, NC State
Tyler Ferguson, QB, Western Kentucky
Kody Kohl, TE, Arizona State
KeVonn Mabon, WR, Ball State
Jonah Pirsig, OT, Minnesota
Washington
Brandon Banks, DL, Charlotte
Tyler Catalina, OT, Georgia
Levern Jacobs, WR, Maryland
Kyle Kalis, OL, Michigan
Zach Pascal, RB, Old Dominion
Ondre Pipkins, DT, Texas Tech
James Quick, WR, Louisville
Fish Smithson, S, Kansas
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