YOUR top 5-10 NFL PROSPECTS over past 10 years (1 Viewer)

[offdee]

Spinoff from other thread, but asked correctly and taking it one step further by ranking all of the major offensive skill positions (QB, RB, WR, TE)

In the last 10 years (1999 Draft to present college players) how would you rank (by position) the top prospects of a player's NFL potential coming out of college. Basically, if you lumped all of the QB's (or RB's, or WR's, or TE's) coming out of college from the last 10 years and put them into the same NFL draft how would their order shake out? (Try to not take into account what any of these guys actually have done in the NFL to sway your opinion....just your opinion of them at the time of their NFL Draft. And present college players can be included)

Past Draft results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_NFL_Draft

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My opinion:

QB:

1) Michael Vick

2) Vince Young

3) Carson Palmer

4) Eli Manning

5) Matt Ryan

6) Donovan McNabb

7) Matt Leinart

RB:

1) Adrian Peterson

2) Reggie Bush

3) Willis McGahee

4) LaDainian Tomlinson

5) Darren McFadden

6) Edgerrin James

7) Ricky Williams

8) Ronnie Brown

9) Kevin Jones

10) Steven Jackson

WR:

1) Calvin Johnson

2) Larry Fitzgerald

3) Michael Crabtree

4) Andre Johnson

5) Charles Rogers

6) Braylon Edwards

7) Torry Holt

8) Roy Williams

TE:

1) Kellen Winslow Jr.

2) Jeremy Shockey

3) Vernon Davis

4) Bubba Franks

5) Marcedes Lewis

6) Greg Olsen

 

[EBF]

Charles Rogers was the second pick in the draft. The only receivers on your list who had more hype were Fitzgerald and Calvin.

The RB lists shows too much hindsight. Reggie Bush had more hype than anyone. It was news when he didn't go first overall.

Ricky Williams is way too low. Yea, Edge was picked ahead of him, but Ricky had as much hype as any RB not named Reggie Bush. He was a Heisman winner and the NCAA career rushing yards record holder. Ditka gave up a small fortune to get him.

 

[offdee]

Charles Rogers was the second pick in the draft. The only receivers on your list who had more hype were Fitzgerald and Calvin. The RB lists shows too much hindsight. Reggie Bush had more hype than anyone. It was news when he didn't go first overall.Ricky Williams is way too low. Yea, Edge was picked ahead of him, but Ricky had as much hype as any RB not named Reggie Bush. He was a Heisman winner and the NCAA career rushing yards record holder. Ditka gave up a small fortune to get him.

These were/are MY personal past rankings, not the experts or NFL teams. (Which is what I'm hoping others will do here as well)Anybody who knows me knows my man-love for some of these guys when they were coming out of college....ranking Adrian Peterson ahead of Reggie Bush for example despite all the Reggie hype.--------------------------------------Edit to add that I'm a big Miami Hurricane fan, so that tends to sway my personal rankings a bit as well...3) Willis McGahee6) Edgerrin James--------4) Andre Johnson---------1) Kellen Winslow Jr.2) Jeremy Shockey4) Bubba Franks6) Greg Olsen

 

[offdee]

Very surprised this hasn't received more feedback...would like to hear others thoughts. Don't need to do all positions, figured the RB or WR lists would create some good talk.

 

[FUBAR]

It's hard to go back 10 years and remember exactly what I thought, so these rankings are far from perfect.

QB:

2001 1 1 ATL Michael Vick QB 2006 0 3 4 74 930 1730 11505 71 52 529 3859 21 2 3 0 Virginia Tech

2004 1 1 SDG Eli Manning QB 2008 0 0 3 73 1276 2284 14623 98 74 109 215 3 Mississippi

2003 1 1 CIN Carson Palmer QB 2008 0 2 4 65 1380 2165 15630 107 67 108 173 2 USC

2006 1 10 ARI Matt Leinart QB 2008 0 0 1 21 289 518 3458 14 17 37 96 2 USC

2006 1 3 TEN Vince Young QB 2008 0 1 2 33 444 775 4964 22 32 184 974 10 Texas

2002 1 1 HOU David Carr QB 2008 0 0 5 85 1325 2218 14141 64 70 293 1304 8 Fresno State

2002 1 3 DET Joey Harrington QB 2007 0 0 6 81 1424 2538 14693 79 85 142 402 0 3 8 0 Oregon

1999 1 2 PHI Donovan McNabb QB 2008 0 5 8 134 2534 4303 29320 194 90 536 3109 26 4 -8 0 Syracuse

2006 1 11 DEN Jay Cutler QB 2008 0 0 1 37 762 1220 9024 54 37 113 423 3 Vanderbilt

2004 1 4 NYG Philip Rivers QB 2008 0 1 2 52 890 1428 10697 78 36 113 160 1 North Carolina State

2004 1 11 PIT Ben Roethlisberger QB 2008 0 1 4 73 1189 1905 14974 101 69 188 616 10 1 -7 0 Miami (OH)

RB:

2007 1 7 MIN Adrian Peterson RB 2008 0 1 1 30 601 3101 22 40 393 1 Oklahoma

2006 1 2 NOR Reggie Bush RB 2008 0 0 1 38 0 1 0 0 1 418 1550 12 213 1599 8 USC

1999 1 5 NOR Ricky Williams RB 2008 1 1 5 99 1 2 34 0 0 1923 7771 51 275 2118 5 Texas

1999 1 4 IND Edgerrin James RB 2008 1 4 8 141 2982 12121 80 430 3345 11 Miami (FL)

2001 1 5 SDG LaDainian Tomlinson RB 2008 3 5 7 127 8 11 143 7 0 2657 11760 126 510 3801 15 TCU

2003 1 23 BUF Willis McGahee RB 2008 0 1 4 74 1332 5243 38 135 907 1 Miami (FL)

2008 1 4 OAK Darren McFadden RB 2008 0 0 0 13 113 499 4 29 285 0 Arkansas

2004 1 24 STL Steven Jackson RB 2008 0 1 3 69 1 1 2 1 0 1224 5291 37 230 1965 7 Oregon State

2005 1 2 MIA Ronnie Brown RB 2008 0 0 3 51 2 4 41 1 0 781 3433 23 137 1151 2 Auburn

2005 1 5 TAM Cadillac Williams RB 2008 0 0 2 38 632 2417 14 60 337 0 Auburn

2000 1 5 BAL Jamal Lewis RB 2008 1 1 7 122 2399 10107 58 213 1791 4 Tennessee

WR:

2007 1 2 Calvin Johnson WR DET 2007 2008 0 0 1 31 7 51 1 126 2087 16 Georgia Tech

2004 1 3 Larry Fitzgerald WR ARI 2004 2008 0 2 4 76 16 55 0 426 5975 46 Pittsburgh

2003 1 2 Charles Rogers WR DET 2003 2005 0 0 0 15 2 17 0 36 440 4 Michigan State

2003 1 3 Andre Johnson WR HOU 2003 2008 0 2 5 86 18 26 0 486 6379 33 Miami (FL)

2005 1 3 Braylon Edwards WR CLE 2005 2008 0 1 2 58 3 7 0 228 3558 28 Michigan

2004 1 13 Lee Evans WR BUF 2004 2008 0 0 4 80 10 145 0 296 4744 32 Wisconsin

2000 1 8 Plaxico Burress WR PIT 2000 2008 0 0 8 127 1 -7 0 505 7845 55 Michigan State

2004 1 7 Roy E. Williams WR DET 2004 2008 0 1 4 81 6 17 0 281 4082 30 Texas

1999 1 6 Torry Holt WR STL 1999 2008 1 7 9 158 11 57 0 869 12660 74 North Carolina State

1999 1 8 David Boston WR ARI 1999 2005 1 1 3 75 18 91 0 315 4699 25 Ohio State

2005 1 10 Mike Williams WR DET 2005 2007 0 0 0 30 44 539 2 USC

2005 1 27 Roddy White WR ATL 2005 2008 0 0 2 64 7 14 0 230 3536 16 Alabama-Birmingham

TE:

2004 1 6 Kellen Winslow Jr. TE CLE 2004 2008 0 1 2 44 219 2459 11 Miami (FL)

2006 1 6 Vernon Davis TE SFO 2006 2008 0 0 2 37 3 16 0 103 1132 9 Maryland

2002 1 14 Jeremy Shockey TE NYG 2002 2008 1 4 6 95 1 6 0 421 4711 27 Miami (FL)

2007 1 31 Greg Olsen TE CHI 2007 2008 0 0 0 29 93 965 7 Miami (FL)

2003 1 24 Dallas Clark TE IND 2003 2008 0 0 5 82 2 29 0 256 3082 31 Iowa

2003 3 69 Jason Witten TE DAL 2003 2008 1 4 4 95 429 4935 25 Tennessee

2008 1 30 Dustin Keller TE NYJ 0 0 0 Purdue

2000 1 14 Bubba Franks TE GNB 2000 2008 0 3 6 119 262 2347 32 Miami (FL)

2005 1 30 Heath Miller TE PIT 2005 2008 0 0 3 61 168 1932 21 Virginia

2004 2 40 Ben Troupe TE TEN 2004 2007 0 0 2 55 1 -1 0 106 1056 7 Florida

2001 1 31 Todd Heap TE BAL 2001 2008 0 2 5 102 7 59 0 374 4300 30 Arizona State

I know the Witten pick will be seen as "hindsight", but I really liked the kid coming out of UT.