Do Jabaal Sheard or Jon Baldwin make it into the end of the first round tonight? I have no idea. Odds are that if they don’t get picked, then the Big East gets shut out of the first round of the NFL draft.

Plenty of Pitt players could go in the later rounds over the next couple days, so there is incentive to keep watching.

Here’s your handy Pitt player checklist.

Draft starts about 8pm on ESPN or NFL Network.

After yesterday’s list post, Rivals.com released their top-150 final rankings for 2011 class. Khem Birch cracked their top-10 by being ranked number 9 overall. Durand Johnson was ranked at #120 and Malcolm Gilbert was #133. Scout.com had Birch 14th, Gilbert 83d and Johnson 88th. So the real differences were in how they viewed Gilbert and D. Johnson. Gilbert, especially, was viewed very differently.

Some insight with the disparity on Gilbert can actually be explained from a piece from one of Scout.com’s basketball guys.

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