Next up in our positional rankings ahead of the 2023 NFL draft is the very talented offensive tackle group.
As always, prior to getting started, 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, therefore feel free to keep scrolling and jump right into the rankings.
Overall, this has been a tedious yet exciting process. It will be interesting to see how everything plays out over the coming weeks, months, and years.
Truthfully, no one will know how good or bad these projections will age, but that’s part of the fun when it comes to grading prospects.
At the end of the day, grading prospects for the NFL draft really is an inexact science. Nobody bats 1.000, no matter how hard some try to sell their opinions as facts.
The best thing you can do is try to consume as much information as you can on a prospect so you can eventually come up with an educated opinion on each individual.
Over the last couple of months, I have studied and graded over 150 players in total. In order to do a proper evaluation, I watch a minimum of three games for each prospect before coming up with my opinions/grades.
However, more often than not, I watched at least five or six contests for each prospect before doing my evaluations.
Unfortunately, there were some cases where I had trouble getting certain all-22 tapes, so I had to make do with what I had.
I essentially individually evaluated 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.
Today, we are looking at my top 10 offensive tackle prospects, and I’ll work my way around to each position in the days and weeks ahead. I will also be updating these rankings on the morning of the draft (April 27th).
Last season, Tennessee’s offense dealt with a disaster in the trenches, so let’s see which prospects the Titans could possibly look at to ensure they don’t go through that ever again.