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Sam, this is just fyi since it probably isn't worth much:

This is hardly a list of “who’s who” in prospects for the NFL Draft. The distinction is that none of these players received a single mention in the preseason rankings I gleaned in making a compilation off the Net. Players are ranked by how many points they earned in various recent rankings (after Week 10 … as results trickle in).

To be fair, I was “on” to Sinnott, Brade and Wiley before the end of the ’23 draft cycle, when they all decided to return to school.

Players who have risen above preseason expectations, with results derived from composite ranking lists before opening games and again after games of Nov. 4:

Player, School PAE-x

RB – Jonathon Brooks, Texas 55

TE – Ben Sinnott, Kansas State 52

T – Taliese Fuaga, Oregon State 47

DT – McKinnley Jackson, Texas A&M 44

TE – Dallin Holker, Colorado State 41

WR – Xavier Legette, South Carolina 37

ED – Landon Jackson, Arkansas 36

LB – Edgerrin Cooper, Texas A&M 35

ED – Jonah Elliss, Utah 35

S – Beau Brade, Maryland 34

LB – Deontae Lawson, Alabama 32

TE – Mitchell Evans, Notre Dame 31

TE – Jared Wiley, TCU 27

S – Jaylin Simpson, Auburn 27

LB – Curtis Jacobs, Penn State 24

DT – Byron Murphy, Texas 23

DT – Howard Cross, Notre Dame 22

WR – Ja’Lynn Polk, Washington 22

ED – Steve Linton, Texas Tech 19

ED – Mohamed Kamara, Colorado State 16

G – Sataoa Laumea, Utah 16

ED – Ashton Gillotte, Louisville 15

DT – T.J. Sanders, South Carolina 15

WR – Brian Thomas, LSU 15

S – Xavier Watts, Notre Dame 15

ED – Justin Eboigbe, Alabama 13

WR – J. Michael Sturdivant, UCLA 13

T – Josh Simmons, Ohio State 10

x-PAE denotes points above preseason expectation (which would be zero).

Thanks for looking,

Jim Fryar

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This is a great list and it does capture many of the names that went under the radar entering the year. I also really like Jared Wiley and Beau Brade when looking through tape for the 2023 draft, although I had a friend that was significantly higher than me on Wiley. It's always interesting to see who quickly rises in the early fall and when the media starts to catch onto it.

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