This year's host city: Indianapolis

With the TUFF Draft starting later than in previous years, the owners of the Indianapolis Hoosier Daddy's successfully convinced Commissioner Todd Hansen that Indianapolis would be a great place to hold the 2014 Draft because all of TUFF's owners could enjoy the thrills and spills of the Indy 500 road race either during or after the draft. Football seasons and auto races have a few things in common, like rallies (Detroit rallied back from a 1-4 start to get a wild card playoff spot), nasty crashes (New Orleans and San Diego had their worst seasons ever), and sometimes, surprising finishes (Houston winning the TUFF Bowl after 13 seasons without playoffs).

In May, the 16 TUFF teams' owners scrambled to their proverbial cars, jockeying for position to get the best players this year's Draft had to offer. What did Green Bay and San Diego do with their picks at the front of the pack? What did teams like Dallas and Tennessee do after they ended 2013 back in the garage? Which picks will soup up their new owners' rides as they start the road to TUFF Bowl XV? Gentlemen, start your reading--the green flag is waving to herald the start of the 2014 TUFF Draft Wrapup!

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 long-term 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 their upside, even in spite of character, medical and/or job situation concerns).
Either a reach and/or there was at least one specific 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 in Round 3).

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