This year's host city: Pittsburgh

Ten years ago, the TUFF world experienced a trip to the Twilight Zone, as the Detroit Vipers won eight straight games after a 4-5 start to win TUFF Bowl IX.  But last year, Stranger Things happened.  The playing field got turned upside down as Green Bay went from 6-0 to a four-game losing streak and a Week 14 playoff exit; Houston, owners of the league’s best regular season record at 11-3, succumbed to a mix of ill-timed injuries and off-field problems; New Orleans, who had the NFC’s best regular season record at 10-4, suddenly looked like a team playing for the #1 pick in Week 15; and finally, the Vipers—remember them?—won their second TUFF Bowl after back-to-back seasons of eleven losses and stumbling to a 3-5 start.

Less than five months later, here we are.  Pittsburgh has the #1 pick for the second year running—will the BIG PAPAS become the new monsters of the AFC?  New Orleans has no picks after trading away their whole draft—how will they survive the upcoming season?  And how will the defending champion Vipers—that's a phrase football fans never thought they'd hear again—handle the challenge of addressing key needs at the bottom of every round?  These questions will be answered over the course of the next seven months.  In the meantime, break out the walkie-talkies, and let your friends know, the TUFF Draft Wrapup as you know it is back!

Throughout this Wrapup, you will see a few of the icons below. Here's what they mean:

	Significant improvements on a TUFF team's starting lineup, could be cornerstone players for that team, and/or are great values for where they were taken.
	High risk/high reward picks (e.g. players picked relatively high because of his upside, even in spite of character, medical and/or job situation concerns).
	Either a reach and/or there was at least one player the team should have taken.
	"Curveball" picks that may well be good ones, but leave me asking why a team didn't take a player I expected them to take or address another need on the roster (example from 2012: Carolina passing up QB Nick Foles--a handcuff pick--in favor of WR Danny Coale in Round 3).