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February 11, 2009 12:00 PM

The comprehensive Tim Ruskell draft history

Tim Ruskell's teams tend to go for defensive linemen in the first round and those defensive linemen tend to be from the South. Go back to 1992 when Ruskell was promoted to director of college scouting in Tampa Bay. Ruskell's employers have used 15 different first-round choices since then, and here's how those numbers break down:

9 of those first-round choices were used on defensive players.

6 of those first-round choices were used on defensive linemen

6 of those first-round choices came out of Florida colleges

3 of those first-round choices came from west of the Mississippi River. That would be DE Lawrence Jackson (USC), DE Regan Upshaw (Cal) and QB Trent Dilfer (Fresno State).

Here's the history of choices in rounds one through three of Ruskell's teams going back to 1992.

Year	Team	Position	1st round	2nd round	3rd round
2008		President	Lawrence Jackson (No. 28) DE, USC	John Carlson TE, Notre Dame

2007	Seahawks	President		Josh Wilson CB, Maryland	Brandon Mebane DT, California

2006	Seahawks	President	Kelly Jennings (No. 31) CB, Miami	Darryl Tapp DE, Virginia Tech

2005	Seahawks	President	C Chris Spencer (No. 26) C, Mississippi	Lofa Tatupu LB, USC	QB David Greene QB, Georgia
					LB Leroy Hill LB, Clemson

2004		Assistant GM	DeAngleo Hall (No. 8) CB, Virginia Tech		QB Matt Schaub QB, Virginia
			Michael Jenkins (No. 29) WR, Ohio State

2003		Director of player personnel		Dewayne White DE, Louisville	QB Chris Simms QB, Texas

2002	Bucs	Director of player personnel			WR Marquise Walker WR, Michigan

2001	Bucs	Director of player personnel	Kenyatta Walker (No. 14) T, Florida		Dwight Smith CB, Akron

2000	Bucs	Director of college scouting		Cosey Coleman G, Tennessee	Nate Webster LB, Miami

1999	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Anthony McFarland (No. 15) DT, LSU	Shaun King QB, Tulane	Martin Grammatica K, Kansas State

1998	Bucs	Director of college scouting		Jacquez Green WR, Florida	Jamie Duncan LB, Vanderbilt
				Brian Kelly DB, USC

1997	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Warrick Dunn (No. 12) RB, Florida State	Jerry Wunsch T, Wisconsin	Frank Middleton G, Arizona
			Reidel Anthony (No. 16) WR, Florida		Ronde Barber CB, Virginia

1996	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Regan Upshaw (No. 12) DE, California	Mike Alstott FB, Purdue	Donnie Abraham CB, E.Tenn.State
			Marcus Jones (No. 22) DT, North Carolina

1995	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Warren Sapp (No. 12) DT, Miami	Melvin Johnson S, Kentucky
			Derrick Brooks (No. 28) LB, Florida State

1994	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Trent Dilfer (No. 6) QB, Fresno State	Errict Rhett RB, Florida	Harold Bishop TE, LSU

1993	Bucs	Director of college scouting	Eric Curry (No. 6) DE, Alabama	Demetrius Dubose LB, Notre Dame	Lamar Thomas WR, Miami
					John Lynch S, Stanford

1992	Bucs	Director of college scouting		Courtney Hawkins WR, Michigan State	Mark Wheeler DT, Texas A&M
					Tyji Armstrong TE, Mississippi