2024 NFL draft top 150 prospects: Pre-Combine edition

2024 NFL draft top 150 prospects: Pre-Combine overall rankings from Draft Wire’s Jeff Risdon

Weeks upon weeks of watching college game film, All-22 tape and more than a few games in person and the individual big board is finally taking some real shape. With the NFL Scouting Combine coming next week, it’s time to reveal the base rankings of the top 150 players I’ve evaluated for the 2024 NFL draft.

There likely won’t be any radical changes even after the combine and pro day workouts. Verifiable character issues and medical problems are about the only things that can swing prospects radically, though unexpected measurements or workout numbers can also create some later movement. Note that this is an overall ranking, not a prediction of draft order.

Without further ado, the top 150 prospects as graded entering the 2024 combine.

Top 75 prospects at the end of the college regular season

Top 75 prospects for the 2024 NFL draft at the end of the college regular season from Draft Wire’s Jeff Risdon

Thanksgiving weekend brought the 2023 college football regular season to a close. Rivalry weekend was a great end to an interesting season. It also marks a good time to update the 2024 NFL draft prospect rankings.

Some of the prospects here have played their final college football games. With so many underclassmen, it’s possible some will opt to stay in college for 2024, too.

There is still considerable film work and study to be done even before we get to the postseason all-star bowls, pro days and the scouting combine in Indianapolis. Right now, I’ve gone through about one-fifth of the college game film and All-22 that I’ve accumulated through the year. I’ve seen exactly one FCS game and one D-II game (in person).

In short, changes will happen. But right now, this is how I see the prospects overall. Remember, big board rankings are not predictions of when a player will be drafted. That’s what mock drafts are for…

2020 NFL Draft Big Board: The Draft Wire 300

Luke Easterling ranks the top 300 prospects in the 2020 NFL Draft class

Another year of breaking down film, player interviews, all-star games and more is in the books, and the process leading up to the 2020 NFL Draft is coming to a close.

It’s time to put the finishing touches on our overall rankings for this year’s draft class, as teams and prospects alike wait to see how things will transpire over draft weekend.

Here’s our final big board for the 2020 draft, ranking this year’s top 300 prospects:

1ST ROUND GRADES

1. Chase Young | EDGE | Ohio State

2. Joe Burrow | QB | LSU

3. Isaiah Simmons | LB | Clemson

4. Tua Tagovailoa | QB | Alabama

5. Jeff Okudah | CB | Ohio State

6. Derrick Brown | DL | Auburn

7. Andrew Thomas | OT | Georgia

8. Jerry Jeudy | WR | Alabama

9. Jedrick Wills | OT | Alabama

10. CeeDee Lamb | WR | Oklahoma

11. Tristan Wirfs | OT | Iowa

12. Javon Kinlaw | DL | South Carolina

13. Mekhi Becton | OT | Louisville

14. Henry Ruggs III | WR | Alabama

15. Justin Herbert | QB | Oregon

16. Cesar Ruiz | OL | Michigan

17. Jonathan Taylor | RB | Wisconsin

18. CJ Henderson | CB | Florida

19. K’Lavon Chaisson | EDGE | LSU

20. Kenneth Murray | LB | Oklahoma

21. D’Andre Swift | RB | Georgia