Unless Marc Bulger turns things around drastically, the Rams are expected to select a quarterback in the 2010 NFL Draft. The franchise hasn't used a first round pick on a quarterback since 1964. "If you want to be successful long-term, you need that long-term quarterback," said Lions coach Jim Schwartz, who grabbed Matt Stafford with the first pick in April's draft. "If you don't have a good quarterback ... you can win as long as you have a really, really good team around him. But if you have a really good quarterback, a lot of times that guy can carry you through a lot of other situations. That was important for us."

Dez Bryant says he hasn't decided yet whether he'll enter the NFL draft after the NCAA ruled that he will remain ineligible for the rest of his junior season at Oklahoma State. "As of right now, I'm just thinking about what's going on right now. This is what I'm focused on," Bryant told ESPN in an interview taped in Dallas on Wednesday. "I'm just going to let all that take care of itself. God's got the best decision for me and I'm going to go from there." Bryant has missed the last four games for the 13th-ranked Cowboys after being declared ineligible by the school for lying to an NCAA investigator looking into Bryant's offseason meeting with former NFL player Deion Sanders.

Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford plans to enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He will have season-ending surgery after injuring his right shoulder twice this season. Bradford will have the procedure on Wednesday, the school announced. "I dreamed about coming to Oklahoma my whole life," Bradford said Sunday in a statement. "That's the reason I came back for this season. And I came back to play, not sit on the bench. That's the reason I tried to play after the injury. I'm very disappointed that it didn't work out differently. "Under these circumstances, and after talking to several people, this is the right thing for me to do at this point." Bradford decided to return to the Sooners this season, turning down a chance to be a sure-fire first round pick in this past April's NFL Draft.