It's draft time, when every team gets to juice its portfolio with some new high flyers. This year's broad market trend leads to wideouts. But it's a volatile ride to the first public offering on draft day. We tracked five players and diagrammed their highs and lows on the road to roster listing.

MEL'S MARKET
Pick and team	Player	The skinny
1. Cleveland	LaVar Arrington, LB, Penn State	The first pick gets the best player. Arrington, Brown both fit that profile.
2. Washington (from N.O)	Courtney Brown, DE, Penn State	Stellar senior season + great workouts = a really nice DE rotation in D.C.
3. Washington (from S.F.)	Chris Samuels, LT, Alabama	Brad Johnson needs someone to watch his back. Not the next Boselli, but he'll do.
4. Cincinnati	Peter Warrick, WR, Florida State	1) Gives Akili a go-to guy; 2) gives Bengals an excuse to dump Carl Pickens.
5. Baltimore	Jamal Lewis, RB, Tennessee	From No. 26 to No. 5 on draft boards in two weeks! If he's healthy, has superstar's size and speed.
6. Philadelphia	Corey Simon, DT, Florida State	Sapp wannabe. At least the Eagles want him to be.
7. Arizona	Thomas Jones, RB, Virginia	Remember when the Cards had a topflight back? Neither do they.
8. Pittsburgh	Plaxico Burress, WR, Michigan St.	Steelers need a big wideout with a motor. How's 6'5" 1/4, 229 for you?
9. Chicago	Brian Urlacher, LB, New Mexico	Bears need every kind of LB. Urlacher is, well, every kind of LB.
10. Denver	Travis Taylor, WR, Florida	Terrell goes left, Terrell goes right, Terrell goes up the middle. Unless this burner goes 10th.
11. NY Giants	Shaun Alexander, RB, Alabama	and Kerry Collins falls to his knees and thanks his lucky stars.
12. San Francisco (from. Wash)	Chad Pennington, QB, Marshall	Young's old (and married). Garcia's young (and lousy). Chad's young (and the best QB in the draft).
13. Tampa Bay	Stockar McDougle, OT, Oklahoma	Name kinda says "top run blocker." Game definitely does.
14. Green Bay	Keith Bulluck, LB, Syracuse	The Pack has a lot of holes at LB. This bull is big enough to fill any of these.
15. Baltimore	Sylvester Morris, WR, Jackson St.	They call him Sylvester "Cat" Morris. Billick likes his paws.
16. N.Y. Jets	Bubba Franks, TE, Miami	Can catch and block. Parcells is high on Bubba.
17. Oakland	Julian Peterson, OLB, Michigan St.	Lucky Al. The best player on the board just happens to fill their biggest need.
18. N.Y. Jets	John Engelberger, DE, Virginia Tech	Parcells-type player, may be the last one he ever drafts.
19. Seattle	Deltha ONeal, CB, California	In college, he turned INTS onto TDs (4). Next season, he'll do the same with KRs.
20. Detroit	Cosey Coleman, OL, Tennessee	Can play G or T. If he could only play them both at the same time.
21. Kansas City	Ron Dayne, RB, Wisconsin	Draft rule no.1: When you have RB issues, take a Heisman winner- unless he's Rashaan Salaam.
22. Seattle	Dez White, WR, Georgia Tech	Four words: Take the best player. Seven more: Try to make him a big wideout.
23. Carolina (from Miami)	John Abraham, DE/LB, South Carolina	Panthers need a spark, any spark. How's 23.5 career sacks?
24. San Francisco (from Washington)	Chris McIntosh, OT, Wisconsin	So many holes to fill, so few cap dollars. But this guy has skills.
25. Minnesota	Ahmed Plummer, CB, Ohio State	Good news: Plummer (5'11", 191) can handle big WRs. Bad news: Randy won't enjoy practice.
26. Buffalo	Shaun Ellis, DE, Tennessee	Moran and Smith are gone and Bills need a strong pass rusher badly. Very badly.
27. Tampa Bay	Jerry Porter, WR, West Virginia	Yes, another wideout. His 44" vertical almost matches is upside.
28. Indianapolis	Rob Morris, LB, BYU	"Wouldn't it be cool if there were a hard-nosed defensive leader left this late? Oh!"
29. Jacksonville	Ron Dugans, WR, Florida State	With so many WRs going early, pickings have to get slim. But not quite yet.
30. Tennessee	Todd Pinkston, WR, Southern Miss	Titans have quantity at WR. Now they've got a bit more quality.
31. St. Louis	Sebastian Janikowski, Florida State	Perfect inside the 45; 57 touchbacks on 83 kickoffs. Don't think they need much else. (Do they?)