Football Outsiders Top 25 NFL Prospects

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(11-22-2017, 09:36 PM)PikesPeakUC Wrote: Some positive news on the Bengals from this list. It's essentially a ranking of guys who they feel will become big time players in the future with the benefit of full time snaps.

The Bengals landed three on the Top 25:
1. Carl Lawson
6. Jordan Willis
19. Andrew Billings

The qualifiers:

1. Third-round pick or lower, or undrafted, from the classes of 2015-2017
2. 500 or fewer offensive or defensive career snaps through Week 10 of 2017 (except running backs, who have a maximum of 300 snaps)
3. No signed contract extension
4. Age 26 or younger

This doesn't surprise me really. Leading up to the draft, a lot of draft experts and sites had Billings as a first-round prospect and Lawson and Willis as second-rounders or fringe first-rounders. What this really says is that Football Outsiders feel that these players will become better players than the round they were selected (3rd rounder and lower is typically considered serviceable starter at best).