Two of the top six picks and three of the first 11 in last month's draft were left tackles.Every April, you can count on about a half-dozen left tackles going in the first round of the draft.But, like quarterbacks, only a few of them reach an elite level. The NFL lost an all-time great two years ago when Jonathan Ogden on nfl jerseys, a Pro Bowler for 11 of his 12 seasons with Baltimore, hung up his cleats.

It lost another one last week, when Walter Jones announced his retirement from the Seattle Seahawks after 13 seasons, nine Pro Bowl berths and four All-Pro nominations.

"I had to come to the fact that I couldn't go out there and play at a standard I had set for myself," Jones, who battled injuries late in his career for sports jerseys, said during a press conference.

"I had to be honest with myself with the many injuries I had. It's been tough, but I dealt with them the only way that I could."

Jones need not apologize for his decline in the twilight of his career. In his heyday, he and Ogden represented the pinnacle of their position, the combination of size and freakish athleticism that every scout, general manager and coach looks for each offseason.

There are plenty of left tackles who get the job done, but those who dominate the way Jones and Ogden did are rare.

"I don't even know a word to describe him," said Eagles fullback Leonard Weaver, who played his first four seasons with Jones in Seattle.

"He dominated everybody. I don't think guys wanted to play against him when they came; I don't care who they were. He dominated everybody."The Seahawks, not surprisingly, used the sixth overall pick last month to draft wholesale nfl jerseys, a 6-foot-5, 310-pound left tackle from Oklahoma State. Okung could develop into a Pro Bowl blocker, but the Seahawks will be lucky if Okung becomes half the talent Jones was.