Mel Kiper's Position Rankings Updated

[Blake Munroe]

 

[Stuey22]

Kiper is getting old….lots to question with his assessments.  Do not believe there are 6 QBs in this draft better suited for the NFL than Ewers and 5 TEs better than Helm.   Others are debatable as well.  Collin’s 9 and Sorrell 8? 🤔

[Bobby Burton]

I'm not enough of a draft afficianado but that would likely mean 11 drafted.

Who is left out in that scenario?

- Jaydon Blue

- Vernon Broughton

- David Gbenda

[JMarquette]

8 minutes ago, Stuey22 said:

Kiper is getting old….lots to question with his assessments.  Do not believe there are 6 QBs in this draft better suited for the NFL than Ewers and 5 TEs better than Helm.   Others are debatable as well.  Collin’s 9 and Sorrell 8? 🤔

It’s not that Kiper is getting old, it’s that he’s always sucked 

[4thandFive]

What SIX quarterbacks are better than Quinn? 
 

Just, no.

[John Lauber]

Kiper is clueless. He has not been accurate and I don't why he is on TV or podcasts.

[ArizonaLonghorn]

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

I'm not enough of a draft afficianado but that would likely mean 11 drafted.

Who is left out in that scenario?

- Jaydon Blue

- Vernon Broughton

- David Gbenda

The screen grab below is from the Consensus Mock Draft site, which seems to be pretty accurate for the first round anyway in recent seasons.  It agrees with the 11 on Kiper's list and the three you mention aren't currently making the cut.  Note that it includes guys who are coming back (T. Moore, Burke, Campbell for Texas, probably hundreds total).

Blue - # 476, even with omission of the guys who are returning he seems a likely UDFA

Broughton - # 245.  Has him listed as UDFA but with the supplementary picks there are 256 taken so he could be a 7th rounder

Gbenda - # 274 so could ease into 7th round but seen as a UDFA

Full list of Texas players

 

[bierce]

Gee, I wonder if Kiper probably thinks NFL GMs just saw the recent playoff results.  Teams that made it to the conference championship games had mobile qbs (Mahomes, Allen, Hurts, Daniels).  The one seemingly great team that failed to win a playoff game had Goff.  The next most disappointing team in the playoffs had Darnold.

VY entered the NFL 15 years too early. 

 

[JMarquette]

9 minutes ago, bierce said:

Gee, I wonder if Kiper probably thinks NFL GMs just saw the recent playoff results.  Teams that made it to the conference championship games had mobile qbs (Mahomes, Allen, Hurts, Daniels).  The one seemingly great team that failed to win a playoff game had Goff.  The next most disappointing team in the playoffs had Darnold.

VY entered the NFL 15 years too early. 

 

In Goff's defense, it's pretty hard to win when your defense gives up 45 points.

In defense of pocket passers, Goff threw 2 terrible ints. 

[bierce]

7 minutes ago, JMarquette said:

In Goff's defense, it's pretty hard to win when your defense gives up 45 points.

In defense of pocket passers, Goff threw 2 terrible ints. 

I wasn't trying to knock Goff, and I wasn't trying to knock Ewers, either.

It's just what GMs saw this year.  They can sometimes be a reactive bunch, and draft prognosticators even more so.