Frequent updates from here might not be necessary anymore today, now that the first round is down to the last two picks (the Colts just took RB Joseph Addai from LSU). But there is one curious pick worth mentioning - even more so now that Addai has come off the board. How in the world did DeAngelo Williams, the running back from Memphis that everyone was drooling over back in January, fall to No. 27, to Carolina?

A lot of people around here (in town, not here at the Castle) wanted desperately for the Ravens to take him at 13th. Nobody here agreed, and apparently nobody else was as thrilled with him in that draft range, either. We (meaning the Sun's Bill Ordine) had him going 22nd to the 49ers, with the pick they got from the Broncos. SI.com said 15th, at the time to Denver (they switched with the Rams, and the Rams took Tye Hill, the CB from Clemson, there).

But at least Williams is now gone, and probably in time no one will remember he went at the bottom of the first round. But it's time to wonder again ... what's going on with the big-name USC guys? First Reggie Bush drops out of the top spot. Then Matt Leinart gets passed over by his college coordinator, Norm Chow in Tennessee, and goes 10th. And still on the board at this moment, with two picks to go in the round ... RB LenDale White and T Winston Justice. These were the cornerstones of one of the legendary offenses in the history of college football, and the NFL's giving them the cold shoulder in some degree one by one.

Meanwhile, three defensive linemen from that juggernaut at N.C. State have gone in the first round, including the latest, tackle John McCargo to the Bills at 26 (via trade with the Bears). A team featuring a line with three first-round picks in one draft should have done better than 7-5 and shouldn't have had to beat suspension-addled Maryland in the last game of the year to get bowl-eligible.