With reports coming down Friday that Alabama safety Mark Barron has undergone double hernia surgery and will miss the NFL Scouting Combine, NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks looks at how Barron’s injury will affect his draft status.

Bucky Brooks joined Matt “Money” Smith at NFL Network Studios to wrap up the 2011 NFL season and rev up preparation for the 2012 NFL Scouting Combine.

Bucky Brooks joins Matt “Money” Smith from Indianapolis to break down what he saw at the Senior Bowl, whose draft stock is rising and if the 2012 NFL Draft features the next Wes Welker.

The “Cover Two Podcast” delivers a lot of football talk by football people with weekly guests from around the NFL. We flipped things this week and were joined by hip-hop legend Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of the iconic group A Tribe Called Quest.

Since it’s Thanksgiving week, we decided to do some home cooking on the “Cover Two Podcast”, and NFL Network’s Charles Davis and NFL.com fantasy guru Michael Fabiano stopped through to eat.

NFL fans embraced the Halloween spirit on Sunday by dressing up in crazy costumes to help cheer for their favorite teams.

We all know that free agent WR Terrell Owens tore the ACL in his left knee and that he’s recovered to the point where he held a public workout this week so teams at least have video of his progress — although none attended in person. How he suffered the injury wasn’t widely known — until now.

The time has come to nominate your Pro Bowl players for 2012. Cast your vote for the AFC and NFC’s best players at each position.

Some players — and even some coaches — bring a blue-collar, working-man approach to their football, and we like to honor that spirit with the Hardest Working Man award.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis joined this week’s Cover Two Podcast and said the team’s 4-1 start stems from a lack of individualism and an understanding that they’re far from a finished product.

Packers wide receiver Donald Driver, 36, said he plans to play until he’s 40 and that unbeaten Green Bay will “let everybody chase us while we chase something greater.”

Panthers first-overall pick Cam Newton made his first start of the preseason Friday and even though he didn’t exactly light it up against the Dolphins, it’s his job to lose. At least according to Bucky Brooks and me on our latest Cover Two Podcast.

Hide the women and children. Based on NFL.com analyst Bucky Brooks’ training camp report on the Raiders in our most recent Cover Two Podcast, the fans of the Silver & Black might get a little worked up.

For all these months during the lockout, rookie quarterbacks Christian Ponder and Jake Locker looked like they had inside tracks to be their respective teams’ starters. Then we got back to football.

Bucky Brooks and Steve Wyche cross their fingers this is the final podcast during the lockout and give it a proper sendoff, N’awlins style. Also, they cover free agency, the Bengals’ offense and more.