David Coleman

There hasn't been a quarterback that has risen up the charts as quickly as Ryan Tannehill since...Christian Ponder? Okay, so maybe teams outside the top two routinely reach on guys they think have potential to be star QBs in the league. For every Jay Cutler, there's a Matt Leinart.

Well, they're not hideous. I was expecting much worse...

According to Steve Campbell, that rain we talked about did indeed end play on Thursday:

Houston has been getting soaked in the past three weeks by rain, but this week, the rain hit in the afternoon and seems to have washed out the first day of the Shell Houston Open at Redstone Golf Club.

Jones is a former All-Pro who seems to have fallen on hard times. But, he's better than Matt Turk? I don't know. I can't spin this very well. Jones will do alright until Hartmann is back.

That's the word as of this morning, courtesy of Jonathan Feigen. In today's notebook, Feigen talks about Lowry's medical status:

Great, great story by the new high school writer over at the Houston Chronicle, Angel Verdejo. He looks at the effect of the summer 7-on-7 competition on helping quarterback play over the last decade or so.

Like you didn't know that already, but John Sickels seems to confirm it over at Minor League Ball. Here's what he has to say about the powerful catcher from Florida:

That's right, the dread-headed point guard was rewarded for his recent play bygetting a contract for the rest of the regular season and a non-guaranteed second season added to it.