The official Landry watch thread

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Could be a long night for the Skins and LaRon Landry. In fact, probably will be. The chips have started to fall at the top of the NFL draft and the heavy lifting will begin with Landry, Washington's top pick, now.

Teams and agents can spend the afternoon studying the contracts signed by Gaines Adams - at 4th overall - and Jamaal Anderson, at 8th overall. Both are defensive players. Both contracts will contain lots of clauses, figures and language that would apply to Landry, who was taken smack dab in the middle of those two players at 6th overall.

Gotta think it'll end up being a 5 year deal with about $17 million guaranteed, perhaps with some of the Sean Taylor escalators - that take the base salary to the $10-million range for each first-team Pro Bowl selection - and relatively low base salaries otherwise. (This ain't rocket science we're talking here).

Going to stick my prediction of a deal by Friday afternoon, and will make more calls on this one later in the day after the sides can fully digest the details of the other top-10 contracts.