The Draft Network

● By Drae Harris
It seems to me that the world is a much happier place when it's football season. Make no mistake about it, the college football season has started with a bang, between conferences aligning and relatively unknown prospects having big opening weekends. Next year's draft is seemingly top-heavy with defensive prospects. While this is certainly a fluid process, we can expect dark horse candidates to emerge and throw their proverbial names into the ring all season long. However, this is my initial Top 50 Big Board:

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 50 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up on this big board.