The linebacker position is next up on our positional rankings series ahead of the 2023 NFL draft.
When it comes to the Titans, the linebacker position is seemingly the weakest defensive group on paper. Therefore, it wouldn’t be the craziest thing in the world for Tennessee to invest a Day 2 or 3 pick on someone who could potentially add value to its room.
Unfortunately, in my personal opinion, this is one of the weaker position groups in the entire draft.
Before we get started I want to go over my grading process once again for first-time readers who don’t have any idea of how my system works. These explanations can get repetitive once you’ve read them a few times, therefore, 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 certain 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.
Also, 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 and, cornerback, all of which I’ve linked to at the bottom of this article. Now, let’s continue by going over our third-to-last position group of the series.