Day 1 Senior Bowl standouts, and their NFL potential

Ladd McConkey, Jackson Powers-Johnson, Taliese Fuaga, DeWayne Carter, Gabe Hall, and Quinyon Mitchell were Day 1 Senior Bowl standouts.

The Senior Bowl is but one step in the evaluation process that eventually takes the best available college players to the NFL, but it is an important step in that there’s several days of practices in which personnel people can see like as like beyond the game tape. In the evaluative sense, the practices are almost more important than the games themselves.

Tuesday marked the first practices for the 2024 Senior Bowl, and here are six players who stood out immediately, matched with their NCAA tape, and some thoughts on their ultimate NFL potential.