San Diego Chargers - 2008 Draft

Round 1 - #27

Antoine Cason, DB, 6'0" - 191 lbs (Arizona - Sr) 4.49sec - 40yd. 15 career INTs - 4yrs. Instinctive player with great awareness and very good ball skills. Good size and decent speed. Showed excellent technique and footwork. Excellent hands for a defensive back. Good tackler, but lacks the strength to shed blockers with consistency. Had five INTs his senior year, two were returned for TDs.

Round 3 - #69 (from NE - for 2008 5th round - #160 & 2009 2nd round)

Jacob Hester, RB, 5'10" - 226 lbs (LSU - Sr) 4.62sec - 40yd. Banged out 1,103 rushing yards in  2007 against the SEC. Instinctive inside runner. Quick, not fast. Scouts labeled him a tweener - too slow for RB, not strong enough for FB. Shows leadership and intangibles.

Round 5 - #166 (Compensatory Pick - Donnie Edwards, KC)

Marcus Thomas, RB, 6'0" - 213 lbs (UTEP - Sr) 4.60sec - 40yd. Good hands. Good size and runs strong. tough to bring down. Lacks burst or breakaway speed. Only ran for a thousand yards once, his senior season - 1,166 yds - 5.1 per carry (1,449 yds in 342 attempts in first three years at UTEP). Former Parade HS All-American from Phoenix, AZ.

Round 6 - #192

DeJuan Tribble, DB, 5'9" - 189 lbs (Boston College - Sr) 4.58 sec - 40 yd. Great athlete with burst, very quick. Very confident and aggressive, plays physical in run support. Decent hands and good ball skills. Over-aggressive nature can put him out of position. May have trouble covering bigger or faster receivers.

Round 7 - #234

Corey Clark, OT, 6'5" - 310 lbs (Texas A&M - Sr) 5.13 sec - 40 yd. Good size and frame, decent athlete. May lack the foot speed & quickness wanted in an NFL tackle. Must also improve his strength. Very durable with a strong work ethic.

the day before the draft...

Claimed from waivers - Casey Bramlet, QB, 6'4" - 230lbs (Wyonming, 2004)

Padres Alone in the Cellar!

Chris Young pitched seven strong innings, allowing only two hits, three walks and one earned run with ten strikeouts. However, the Padres were shutout and Young gets saddled with the loss.

The loss to the Giants drops San Diego to 9-14 and last place in the National League West.

The Padres have lost four in a row and seven of their last eight since their 22 inning loss to Colorado.

Padres Stay Out Late

Wow... 22 innings. That's a lot of baseball.

It was a great game, six hours worth of pitching and defense. Maybe the last sixteen minutes were a little too much - since the Padres committed their only two errors of the game in the top of the 22nd.  With two out, Padres lefty, Glendon Rusch got Colorado's Willy Taveras to hit a slow chopper to short. The speedy Taveras forced Khalil Greene to rush the throw. Greene sailed the throw which  got the 6'7" Tony Clark up into the air and off the bag (E-6). Stealing second, Taveras drew a throw from catcher Josh Bard, who had been behind the plate for all 22 innings. Bard short hopped second baseman Tadahito Iguchi on the cover and sent the ball into centerfield (E-2). Taveras made it to third and then scored on Troy Tulowitzki's two-out RBI double.

The Padres offense couldn't get the big hit, as they only scored one run on 11 hits (in 81 total plate appearances).

Maybe that 21st inning stretch was bad luck for the bullpen, who only gave up two runs (one earned) over 14 innings.

Historic game for both teams. Tough loss for the Padres.