San Diego Union Tribune

● By Eddie Brown
Part of my weekly mock draft preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe they should do. Last season, I was the fourth most accurate NFL draft prognosticator in print according to The Huddle Report. I’m tied for seventh overall (out of 133) over the past five years. My big board is an attempt to discern who the best players in this draft class actually are.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 100 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up on this big board.