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This is just a quick reference tool meant as a supplemental companion piece to all of my preseason Gems articles and mock draft. At the time I had written all of those pieces, NFLdraftscout.com had yet to publish their first universal prospect list. Theirs is the list I will use all year as baseline calibration for "current draft value" each time I write something new. I always use the same site so that there is consistency when tracking the rise and fall of draft stock of the players I will write about.
Draftscout published their first list last week, so we will now mark the launch points of most of the prospects I’ve written on so far. I will exclude players that are underclassmen and currently projected to not to declare. Here are the IPO’s:
5/12/15 – Running Back Preview
Only two ranked players here (most are juniors):
Corey Clement – RB, Wisconsin – opens at #53
Kareem Hunt – RB, Toledo – opens at #113
(I love Hunt opening with a late 4th round value.)
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Jack Conklin – OT, Michigan State - #21
Adolphus Washington – DT, Ohio State - #26
Germain Ifedi – OT, Texas A&M - #28
Dadi Nicolas – DE, VT - #44
Cameron Sutton – CB, Tennessee - #63
Curt Maggitt – DE/OLB, Tennessee #96
Tajae Sharpe – WR, UMass, #134
Sheldon Rankins – DT, Louisville – #143
Jack Allen – OC, Michigan State - #146
Taveze Calhoun – CB, Miss State - #158
Evan Boehm – OC, Mizzou - #163
(From about Sharpe down to Boehm, we’re basically looking at 5th round projections, making those 5 players INCREDIBLE values.)
Corey Coleman – WR, Baylor - #171
Steven Scheu – TE, Vanderbilt, #182
(Scheu as a 6th rounder is sick! Names below this point are all projecting as UDFA right now.)
Juston Burris – CB, NC State - #257
Corey Marshall – DT, VT - #302
Danzel McDaniel – SS, Kansas State - #766
Jalen Ramsey – CB, FSU - #2
Kendall Fuller – CB, VT - #14
Maurice Canady – CB, UVA - #88
Nick Vannett – TE, Ohio State - #91
Eric Murray – CB, Minnesota - #142
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Cayleb Jones – WR, Arizona - #160
Montese Overton – DE/OLB E. Carolina - #415
(Montese: undrafted?? There is NO WAY.)
Denzel Thompson – CB, Souteastern LA - #581
Joe Dahl – OL, Washington State - #667
(By far the most absurd placement. Dahl has the potential to go in the late 1st round.)
Kenneth Dixon – RB, LaTech - #133
(Could be a RB that will be tempting in the 1st round, but Dixon in the end of the 4th is highway robbery.)
Matt Judon – LEO, Grand Valley State - #756
(Small school player, but could be draftable with solid combine.)