2nd Annual Pre-Combine DraftTwitter Top 100 Prospects List

Don't Call it a Comeback

Last year, dozens of intrepid football analysts came together to provide a listing of the top prospects in that year's draft.  Each one painstakingly filled out an online spreadsheet, ranking their top players.  Those ballots were aggregated to compile a top 100 list to represent the attitude of DraftTwitter.  Overall, that group did a better job at picking players than the actual league and this year's group is looking to keep the trend going with the second annual survey. 

The List

This is not a mock draft, but a ranking of the top prospects. Players are ranked 1 to 100 getting 100 points for each first place vote, 99 points for #2 and so on with the 100th ranked player receiving 1 point.  The scores are averaged across all voters and ranked based on that score. 

Fun Facts

Here are some of the interesting items: 

• 187 different players received votes. (Deep Cover is playing in my head now.)
• There are two non-FBS players in the top 100 (compared to 3 last year):  Dallas Goedert of South Dakota State (#48) and Darius Leonard of South Carolina State (#100) .
• Sam Darnold, the projected overall #1 selection in many mock drafts, is graded the 17th best player in this upcoming draft. 
• Quarterbacks have the highest average score of 65.93.
• Safeties are the lowest scoring group with an average of 32.11.
• The most competitive position is Wide Receivers which has an average score differential of 4.68 compared to the other WRs.
• The least competitive position is Guard which has an average score differential of 20.89 points.
• The largest gaps between consecutive position players is at Guard; Braden Smith is 48.33 points behind Will Hernandez.  Here are the other gaps across the rest of the player positions:

Doppelgangers

Here are some players who have identical scores:

• QB Sam Darnold and OT Mike McGlinchey  
• S DeShone Elliott and TE Mike Gesicki
• QB Mason Rudolph and WR Dante Pettis
• C Frank Ragnow and WR D.J. Chark
• S Marcus Allen and WR Dontay Burnett

Post Combine Ballot

Once the Combine wraps up, we will start accepting ballots for the final aggregation through the week before the NFL player draft.  Please reach out to have a ballot (which is on an Excel online based spreadsheet that is quick and easy to use) by leaving a comment or emailing me at boombearfootballmail@gmail to have a ballot link forwarded to you.  

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