Another key factor: Making sure the player is alive. ESPN's Draft Tracker might not be of much service here; currently, ESPN has a player ranking for Albany State running back Antonio Atkins, who, uh, was killed in April 2006 when he was breaking into a house. This will no doubt hurt his draft status, severely limiting his upside.

To their credit, ESPN has Atkins listed as 145th out of 145 ranked running backs, which is encouraging to those other 144 guys, to be certain.

Meanwhile, Lucious Pusey will be waiting eagerly by his phone on draft day.

A True Draft Risk [Sports. Music. Blog.]
Lucious Pusey Flying Up Draft board [The Realests]

Unfortunately for Lucious, and for us, we suppose, when you Google "Lucious Pusey," the second item that comes up is that post. Which is probably why we received this email last evening.

ooo so yall mother fuckers dont have shit else to say bout me huh... damn you know the funny thing is that mother fuckers like yall wont have the balls and say it to my face.. when i make it to the league i willshoot a middle finger at yall and say fuck all my haters.. i am the realest, and my name is Lucius Seymour get it right!!

We're going to assume The Realests got one of these as well. We could like to formally point out, to whoever will listen, that his name is not Lucious Pusey anymore, it is Lucious Seymour, so please, if you could, stop that giggling. Stop it! Stop!

Ladies And Gentlemen, Meet Lucious Pusey

(UPDATE: The Smoking Gun has a copy of the official name-change request. Those guys are awesome.)