The defensive linemen are next up in our position rankings series ahead of the 2023 NFL draft.
Fortunately, this is one of the Tennessee Titans’ strongest areas on the team, therefore, it’s highly unlikely that they’ll invest a premium pick in a defensive lineman.
Regardless, we’re covering every position since there is always a chance the Titans end up taking someone whose value is too good to pass up once they’re on the clock.
This position group in particular has several intriguing prospects who could undoubtedly help to take the Titans’ defense to another level.
Before we get started, as always, I want to go over my grading process once again for first-time readers who don’t have any idea of how my grading system works.
These explanations could get repetitive once you’ve read them a few times, so feel free to keep scrolling and jump right into the rankings.
Over the last couple of months, I have evaluated over 150 players in total. This process includes me grading a minimum of three games for each prospect before coming up with my opinions/grades.
More often than not, I would watch at least five or six contests for each prospect before doing an evaluation. Unfortunately, there were some cases where I had trouble getting all-22 tapes, so I had to work with what I had.
The way this works is I would evaluate each game that I watched, and then I averaged those grades into one final film grade worth a total of 20 points.
Example: blue-chip prospects (90 percent or higher) received anywhere from 18-20 points in all likelihood.
Game tape is the only criterion that is worth 20 points on my grading scale, while other areas, such as analytics, athletic score, ceiling/floor, etc., are worth a maximum of 10 points.
Keep in mind that I will be doing one final update to these rankings on the morning of the draft (April 27th).
So far, we’ve already covered every offensive position, as well as EDGE, cornerback and linebacker, all of which are linked at the bottom of this article. Now, the defensive lineman rankings.