For many players, the NFL Draft signifies years of hard work and a chance to finally reach many of their dream to play at the highest level. This years, draft will be much different, a virtual combine but the date stays the same, April 29th begins three days of selections for NFL teams.
There is plenty of jostling of players ranking from now until the end of April, but right now Pro Football Focus has two Notre Dame players ranked inside their top 100 draft-eligible prospects.
It should come to no one’s surprise who the top former Irish star is, linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah.
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The Butkus Award winner is ranked as the 19th best player and said he “has elite short-area quicks for a linebacker, and while 215 pounds may seem tiny, it’s the same weight that Darius Leonard played at this season for the Colts.”
Liam Eichenberg checked in at 49th but PFF didn’t see as much upside as they did with JOK. Michael Renner was impressed with Eichenberg being “technically sound at the position,” but “not wow with his perceived ‘upside.”
Either way, both of these former Irish stars should be hearing their names being called early in the NFL Draft.