Five Notre Dame players - Brady Quinn, Rhema McKnight, Ryan Harris, Victor Abiamiri, and Tom Zbikowski - are on Mel Kiper’s Big Board while Troy Smith’s name remains conspicuously absent.

However, experts and NFL scouts agree that the Heisman frontrunner won’t hop into the first round unless he guides the Buckeyes to an undefeated season.

To do that, he’ll need to get by Michigan. And as Penn State’s Anthony Morelli recently learned, guns don’t kill people, Wolverines do.