The water made at least one set of feet cold. (JC/JM wedding website)Oakland Raiders quarterback Jason Campbell was supposed to get married to his girlfriend, Jenny Montes, on Saturday. Despite having friends and family travel to the Dominican Republic for the destination wedding, the planned nuptials never took place. The website vibevixen.com claims it's because Campbell left his fiancee at the altar.

Campbell denied the rumors to CSN Bay Area reporter Kate Longworth. He told her it's not in his character to do something of that nature. The decision not to marry, he says, was mutual.

The 162 attendees were informed of the wedding's cancellation on Saturday afternoon, according to the Washington Post. They weren't given a reason.

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Robert Littal of Black Sports Online doesn't believe Campbell. His reasoning? Montes has a tattoo of Campbell's initials on her back. And since no one in the history of body art has ever made a poor decision about getting the name, initials or photo of a significant other permanently inked on their body, this must mean Campbell played the runaway groom. There's no other explanation, really.

That's not to say I don't believe the original rumor. Lord knows, I get almost all of my news from vibevixen.com. All I'm saying is that I'm willing to hold off on branding Campbell a bride-leaver until Montes appears on VH1's "Football Wives" to clarify the situation.

Rueben Randle goes up for a touchdown against Oregon. (Getty Images)

With the 2011 NFL season in the books, it's time to turn our eyes to the NFL draft, and the pre-draft evaluation process. Before and after the 2012 scouting combine, we'll be taking a closer look at the 50 draft-eligible players who may be the biggest NFL difference-makers when all is said and done.

We continue this year's series with LSU receiver Rueben Randle. The high-school standout quarterback and receiver was approached by many colleges, but chose to stay close to home. He improved in each of his three years with the Tigers, but really broke out in 2011 after a 125-yard performance against Alabama in 2010 set him on the path. In an system that requires scouts and other personnel types to isolate receivers from the team's frequently prehistoric offensive concepts, Randle didn't have to go far to stand out. He went from 173 to 544 to 917 receiving yards in his three seasons -- and before you discount that 2011 total, keep in mind that Randle accounted for 43 percent of his team's receiving numbers.

Unless he somehow goes through a time machine and gets drafted by the 1963 Chicago Bears, Randle's NFL team will have a far more expansive passing offense. How ready is he for that adventure?

Pros: Very physical receiver with a good release off the line. Randle high-points the ball extremely well; he'll use his height (6-foot-3, 208) to get above defenders, even when on the run or turning around to see the ball. Tremendous after-catch receiver who seems stronger on the run than his body type would reveal. Perfectly willing to go over the middle and make the tough catch in traffic, and he's a load to take down on slants and posts. Always looking to turn upfield and make that extra gain.

Perhaps at his best on sideline routes -- he gets the ball quickly, turns aggressively, and starts juking for extra space right away. Also great with fade routes, where he can use the boundary to gain an advantage. Not exceedingly fast, but appears to have an extra gear to break coverage when necessary. Will spin out of arm tackles and bull through defenders to make additional gains. Willing and able blocker who will sell out in run support and blitz pickup. Impressive understanding of route concepts.

Cons: Not always a hands-catcher -- sometimes, he uses that vertical jump to catch a high throw when he could simply grab it with stronger and more consistent hands. Could take even more advantage of his physical nature with a better ability to use his hands to disengage from press coverage. Tends to disappear against stronger defenses, through this is due in part to LSU's generally conservative game plans against such teams (19.9 passes per game for LSU in 2011, versus 42.2 rushing attempts per game). Doesn't have elite speed, but his sense of the field should make up for that. Occasionally gets too acrobatic when an economy of motion would serve him well; NFL technique work should help a lot.

Conclusion: With more and more NFL teams using three- and four-receiver sets as the default, there's never been a better time for slot/Y hybrid pass-catchers to come into the pros and make an immediate impact. Randle has all the skills to do so in that capacity. While he might not immediately flash the skills required of a #1 receiver, that designation is nebulous enough on many teams to have scouts looking at him as a possible late first- or early second-round pick. In particular, receiver-starved teams like the 49ers, Ravens, and Patriots, who need more players to be dangerous in the post/slant/seam area downfield, should be eager to see what Rueben Randle can do for them.

Getty ImagesYou may have been wondering how Wes Welker was going to get along with Gisele Bundchen after she pinned the Super Bowl loss on receivers who couldn't catch ‒ you probably weren't, but maybe. In case you were, put your mind at ease, because they're going to be fine.

Thanks to the Boston Herald and people at x17online.com who hide in bushes and take pictures of people, we know that Tom and Gisele are vacationing in Costa Rica with Welker and his lady, Anna Burns.

I say good for Wes Welker for not taking Gisele's slight personally. She was angry and trying to defend her man from some insensitive Giants fans. I'm sure it was nothing personal towards Welker, and it's not like Wes Welker isn't aware that he made a mistake, either.

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It's probably hard to be angry at anyone while on a beach in Costa Rica, though.

Nothing would've surprised me from a YouTube video entitled "Rob Gronkowski Dizzy Bat Race." If it ended with Gronk in a hot tub full of Playmates, if he used the bat to beat the life out of someone who was trying to rob an old lady, or if he used it to break open a magic piñata full of Jägermeister minis … I wouldn't have blinked an eye.

Nothing gets that crazy, though ‒ there's just some minor dizzy bat race cheating. That said, if there's a video out there of Rob Gronkowski in a dizzy bat race, I think you should see it.

It's from a couple of summers ago, according to the uploaders, the Worcester Tornadoes themselves. Gordie Gronkowski, brother of Rob, played for them at the time. He's racing against brother Chris, currently a fullback with the Colts. Let the record show that Chris started the cheating.

Gracias, Barstool.

(Getty Images)Adding to what could be one of the better secondaries in the NFL in 2012, the Kansas City Chiefs signed former Oakland Raiders cornerback Stanford Routt to a three-year, $19.6 million deal on Monday. Sources close to Shutdown Corner confirmed the deal, and also that Routt will receive $5 million from his Raiders contract as a guaranteed roster bonus despite the fact that Oakland released the six-year veteran on Feb. 9. Routt had free-agent visits with several teams, and was close to a deal with the Buffalo Bills, but Kansas City won out in the end. When you look at Routt's 2011 season, that's not much of a surprise.

Not only do the Chiefs present attractive battery mates for any cornerback in fellow cornerback Brandon Flowers, and safeties Eric Berry and Kendrick Lewis, but their approach to secondary play is consistent in production and coaching.

"Stanford has a proven record of success in the NFL," Chiefs head coach and former defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel said on the team's

Getty ImagesIt takes a few leaps to get there, but I guess a person could, if they really wanted to, envision a scenario where Peyton Manning sits in the ESPN booth to call "Monday Night Football" games in 2012.

There are less likely things. Like ESPN offering that spot to Christian Slater, for example, or opting to have Fran Drescher sing the play-by-play for four quarters.

Bob Raismann of the New York Daily News believes there's a real chance that Manning is working Monday nights with Jon Gruden and Mike Tirico. He believes it enough, in fact, that he devoted half of a column to the idea over the weekend. He even suggests at one point that ESPN removed Ron Jaworski from the booth to open up a spot for Peyton.

Keeping that third seat open, especially when the guys filling the other two seats ain't exactly mega stars, was a shrewd move by ESPN suits — a move with foresight.

A move that could bring Manning into living rooms across the country when NFL football is played on Monday night.

Again, I guess it could happen. If about 4,392 things happen first.

Jonathan Massaquoi sacks Ohio quarterback Boo Jackson. (AP)

With the 2011 NFL season in the books, it's time to turn our eyes to the NFL draft, and the pre-draft evaluation process. Before and after the 2012 scouting combine, we'll be taking a closer look at the 50 draft-eligible players who may be the biggest NFL difference-makers when all is said and done.

We begin this year's series with a player who stands a bit under the radar -- Troy defensive end Jonathan Massaquoi. The native of Monrovia Liberia, West Africa, started for two seasons at Troy after playing one season at Butler Community College in Kansas. After redshirting in 2009, Massaquoi broke out with an impressive first season in the Sun Belt with 13.5 sacks (11 solo) and 17 solo tackles for loss. In 2011, he built on that early success by increasing his quarterback hurry total (from four to eight) as his sack total went down to six (five solo). The cousin of Cleveland Browns receiver Mohamed Massaquoi and Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe, Massaquoi now looks to expand the Troy tradition of NFL pass-rushers, with DeMarcus Ware as the obvious gold standard.

Pros: Ridiculous burst and very fast first step off the ball; Massaquoi will be a nightmare at any level for offensive tackles who don't get into their stances quickly. Displays impressive short-area agility and upper body strength to get past first blocks at the line of scrimmage; will flash past tackles unless they re-set quickly. Can slant inside out of a "wide-nine" formation and pursue. Lateral agility applies to his ability to peel off blocks in the pocket and pursue running backs. Agile enough to roll into intermediate coverage; he'd be a long-term asset to any heavy zone-blitz team. Has a decent bull-rush for his size, especially considering his tendency to come off the snap high. Will go sideline-to-sideline with great effort to stop the play and has tremendous open-field speed. Teams that leave Massaquoi unblocked at the line do so at their own peril.

Cons: Doesn't always win the leverage battle, and he'll need some adjustment in that regard when going up against NFL blockers. Needs to get lower at first contact in a general sense. Can be negated by blocking backs as the outside guy in a five-man line. Gets blocked out fairly easily by tackles with good low base and quick setup. Still getting the hang of twists and stunts; seems especially prone to missing the gap when stunting inside on running plays. Occasionally gets stopped up when trying to read the action at the line; play diagnosis seems to be a work in progress. While his drops into coverage are athletically impressive, he runs all over the place at times and will need work locking on to zones and assignments. A bit of a one-trick pony from a gap perspective -- he needs to be outside the tackle to make a real impact at a time when many teams want their defensive ends to rotate inside in different schemes. Got most of his sacks against less than ideal competition for NFL analysis.

Conclusion: Massaquoi is an interesting "tweener" for his size and position. He'll most likely be asked to switch to outside linebacker at the NFL level, but he plays well with his hand down and seems to have a good grasp of the fundamentals. He doesn't play with the core strength of a James Harrison or LaMarr Woodley, but I wouldn't be quick to make the obvious DeMarcus Ware comparison either, because Massaquoi is the better player (at least in a raw sense) dropping into coverage and Ware again plays with more core strength. He's quick, but not quite as explosive as Von Miller.

The Raymond James scoreboard, in safer and more settled times. (Getty Images)

-- After an extremely disappointing season in which they went 4-12 and ranked 27th in points scored, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally lit up their own scoreboard. Sadly, they did so in the offseason, and it was literally instead of figuratively. According to local reports, several motorists alerted 911 about 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning when they saw that the scoreboard at Raymond James Stadium had caught fire. Apparently, the speaker system above the north scoreboard was getting a bit hot. We now know which joke announcers will overuse through the 2012 season whenever the Bucs actually go into double digits. [CBS Tampa]

-- According to some small sportswear retailers, Nike is already shutting them out of the jersey sales process. The company will take over the official manufacture of official and replica jerseys this year, and from the sound of it, smaller stores would have a better chance of making an NFL team and getting their jerseys that way. Some New York and New Jersey stores, which would really like to sell Giants replicas right about now, are getting this message, instead of the one saying their account will automatically switch over from Reebok: "Thank you for your recent interest in opening a Nike account. ... We determined your business does not fit in Nike's overall development plans." [NJ.com]

-- The question is being asked more and more often -- could increases in concussions, and the lack of anything to truly combat the rise in such injuries from high school through the NFL, eventually take football down as America's No. 1 sport? Add one more name to the list of guys who played football at the highest level, but wouldn't encourage their kids to do so at this point -- Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman.

While Aikman says that the NFL is "very concerned about concussions," he also believes that "the long-term viability, to me anyway, is somewhat in question as far as what this game is going to look like 20 years from now." [L.A. Times]

-- Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt believes that Kevin Kolb and John Skelton, both of his potential starting quarterbacks, can be "knuckleheads at times." In truth, the "knucklehead" was the guy who thought Kolb was worth a $60 million deal in the first place. [CSN Philly]

-- Would Seattle be the most attractive destination for a healthy Peyton Manning? In 2011, the Seahawks may have been the most obvious example that the NFL is now a quarterback-driven league. Pete Carroll and John Schneider have done an amazing job in rebuilding a team that was decimated by former team president Tim Ruskell, but the lack of an elite quarterback was pretty glaring on the field. The Seahawks would have to trade half their draft to get up high enough to pluck one of the two elite quarterbacks in this year's selection process, and the free-agent market doesn't provide any obvious answers. [National Football Post]