With just over two weeks until the Draft I decided to put together a part of my draft board. Like every team’s scouting department I listed my top prospects regardless of position. Usually the next step would be to look at my team’s needs and who could fill them. But when you think of the best teams in the league they are smart enough to only look at the holes on their roster secondly and take the best player available. To me the best general manager to do so is the Baltimore Ravens’ Ozzie Newsome. I didn’t go through all the players available, but with a hundred of them listed I at least have myself covered for the first three rounds.
- Leonard Williams, DE, USC
- Dante Fowler, OLB, Florida
- Amari Cooper, WR, Alabama
- Vic Beasley, OLB, Clemson
- Kevin White, WR, West Virginia
- Brandon Scherff, G, Iowa
- Danny Shelton, NT, Washington
- Trae Waynes, CB, Michigan State
- La’el Collins, G/T, LSU
- Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon
- DeVante Parker, WR, Louisville
- Melvin Gordon, RB, Wisconsin
- Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia
- Landon Collins, SS, Alabama
- Jameis Winston, QB, Florida State
- Randy Gregory, OLB, Nebraska
- Shane Ray, DE, Missouri
- Andrus Peat, OT, Stanford
- Ereck Flowers, OT, Miami
- Malcolm Brown, DT, Texas
- Alvin ‘Bud’ Dupree, OLB, Kentucky
- Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Oklahoma
- Arik Armstead, DE, Oregon
- Marcus Peters, CB, Washington
- Cameron Erving, C, Florida State
- Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest
- Breshad Perriman, WR, UCF
- D.J. Humphries, OT, Florida
- Eddie Goldman, DT, Florida State
- Eli Harold, OLB, Virginia
- Eric Kendricks, LB, UCLA
- Paul Dawson, LB, TCU
- Denzel Perryman, ILB, Miami
- Stephone Anthony, LB, Clemson
- Jalen Collins, CB, LSU
- Byron Jones, CB, Connecticut
- T.J. Clemmings, OT, Pittsburgh
- Jay Ajayi, RB, Boise State
- Owamagbe Odighizuwa, DE, UCLA
- A.J. Cann, G, South Carolina
- Philipp Dorsett, WR, Miami
- Nelson Agholor, WR, USC
- Carl Davis, DT, Iowa
- Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota
- Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State
- P.J. Williams, CB, Florida State
- Shaq Thompson, SS, Washington
- Nate Orchard, DE, Utah
- Quinten Rollins, CB/S, Miami (Ohio)
- Laken Tomlinson, G, Duke
- Bernardrick McKinney, ILB, Mississippi State
- Grady Jarrett, DT, Clemson
- Michael Bennett, DT, Ohio State
- Jordan Phillips, NT, Oklahoma
- Ty Sambrailo, OT, Colorado State
- David Johnson, RB, Northern Iowa
- Hroniss Grasu, C, Oregon
- Ameer Abdullah, RB, Nebraska
- Duke Johnson, RB, Miami
- T.J. Yeldon, RB, Alabama
- Jake Fisher, OT, Oregon
- Devin Smith, WR, Ohio State
- Ha’ouli Kikaha, OLB/DE, Washington
- Tevin Coleman, RB, Indiana
- Tre’ Jackson, G, Florida State
- Preston Smith, DE, Mississippi State
- Tyler Lockett, WR, Kansas State
- Ali Marpet, C/G, Hobart
- Steven Nelson, CB, Oregon State
- Clive Walford, TE, Miami
- Devin Funchess, WR/TE, Michigan
- Jaquiski Tartt, SS, Samford
- Rashad Greene, WR, Florida State
- Jeremy Langford, RB, Michigan State
- Henry Anderson, DE, Stanford
- Lorenzo Mauldin, OLB, Louisville
- Alex Carter, CB/S, Stanford
- Trey Flowers, DE, Arkansas
- Anthony Harris, S, Virginia
- Mike Davis, RB, South Carolina
- Damarious Randall, FS, Arizona State
- DJoun Smith, CB, Florida Atlantic
- Mario Edwards Jr., DE, Florida State
- Nick O’Leary, TE, Florida State
- Sammie Coates, WR, Auburn
- Brett Hundley, QB, UCLA
- Danielle Hunter, DE, LSU
- Bryce Petty, QB, Baylor
- Reese Dismukes, C, Auburn
- Rob Havenstein, OT, Wisconsin
- Kevin White, CB, TCU
- John Miller, G, Louisville
- Jeff Heuerman, TE, Ohio State
- Eric Rowe, CB/S, Utah
- Anthony Chickillo, DE, Miami
- Za’Darius Smith, DE, Kentucky
- Ben Koyack, TE, Rutgers
- Derron Smith, FS, Fresno State
- Davis Tull, OLB, Tennessee-Chattanooga
- Garrett Grayson, QB, Colorado State
If you’d like to read a short analysis on the prospects mentioned above I have almost all of them covered with my top 10 players by position on offense and defense. For a couple of players who may not hear their names called on the first two days of the Draft but could turn out to become huge steals you can take a look at my under-the-radar players.