Many of our more diehard NFL draft-fan readers certainly will know the name of Tommy Blake, a talented but troubled young man who at one point looked like he might have a first-round grade on him. That was before the start of the college season, when Blake left the TCU team, starting a downward trend that left him undrafted last weekend.

I hadn't noticed that Blake hadn't even received a free-agent contract until an agent made me aware of it yesterday, but Blake is in Buccaneers minicamp trying to earn a trip to training camp and perhaps a shot. Here's hoping the kid gets himself in line.

Here's what Bucs head coach Jon Gruden had to say about Blake earlier today:

"We want to just look at him. He's had some well-documented ups and some well-documented downs. But he's a young guy and we want to look at him for ourselves and try to get all the evaluations done in our minds that we can, and give the kid an opportunity to present himself as a pro football player. We'll judge our conclusions when we get them."