What do people think the tiers look like in terms of prospect grade?
It seems to me there are two or three elite WR. Also 3 QB. 1 TE. I see 2 tackles pretty consistently being in top 10 lists. There seems to be many quality tackles in this draft.
Anyhow that's 9 players. Without defense.
I like lists more then mock drafts but not much available right now from sources I bother with, which is sources with a high amount of NFL contacts. Not to be rude to the Waldman/Matt Miller's of the world, but I'm more into where the NFL is on these players then someone with the same qualifications as me to scout someone.
So I'm stuck with mocks right now and again only pay attention to those with NFL contacts or who rely heavily on them., So just looking at recent mocks by Jeremiah, Brooks and Dane Brugler I'll say this:
* They all got Dallas Turner in the top 10 and first player from the defensive side of the ball drafted. 2 of those 3 have Latu as the next defensive player at what would be picks 9 and 11. Verse as the second defensive player in one of the mocks and has ranged from 9-14 in all 3 mocks. Byron Murphy is the 4th DL chosen in 2 of those 3 mocks, the third in another. Murphy is a DT, the other are edge rushers.
*Jeremiah went away from the other two and has Fuaga as his second OT and Fashanu as his third. All of them have Alt in the top 2.
All of these players appeared in top 5 for all 3:
Caleb, Maye and Marvin
Without repeating the previous groups all of these players appeared in the top 10 for all:
Daniels, Odunze, Alt, Turner
All of these players appeared in the top 15 for all 3:
Nabers, Bowers, Fashanu, Verse, Arnold(all 3 put him exactly 12th),
All of these players appeared in all top 20's:
Latu, Latham, Murphy, Mims.
Brian Thomas missed consensus top 20 by one pick.
That covers 17 players out of the top 20 who by one pick would have been consensus top 20 picks.
Here are more players who made all 3 first round mocks and their range:
Fuaga(10-23), Wiggins(15-24), Fautanu (16-25), DeJean( 20-28), Guyton( 22-24), Kool-Aid (26-32), Morgan (24-32) and Mitchell (17-32)
That brings us to 25 players who made all 3 mock first rounds.
The following other players appeared in at least 2 of the 3 mocks:
JPJ (21 in both), Coleman(26/29), Newton(28th twice) Barton (25,31), Chop Robinson (23/29), Sweat (17/30), Nix (13,19)
That's 32 players.
Dane's mock hit 30 out of those 32 and the two he had the other two did not are McCarty(19) and Suamatia(27).
DJ's mock had 29 of the 32 with Rakestraw(21), Franklin(30) and Walker(31) not in the other two.
Brooks had 30 of the 32 in his mock with Trice(30) and Jenkins(31).
They have commented with one another how much their first round mocks have the same players so I do thin kthis is a good judge of the current consensus and tiers.