2019 NFL Draft Position Rankings Guide

These 2019 NFL Draft position rankings are intended as a guide to the players who will be drafted or signed as undrafted free agents and amounts to a statistical biography and background of each player.

These 2019 NFL Draft position rankings are intended as a guide to the players who will be drafted or signed as undrafted free agents and amounts to a statistical biography and background of each player.

Offense

QB   RB   FB   WR   SLOT   TE   OT   G   C

Defense

DE   DT   ILB   OLB   CB   FS   SS

The codes or abbreviations in the position rankings are as follows:

• AC-C (All Conference-Coaches)
• AC-M (All Conference-Media – usually the AP)
• AC2 or ACHM (All Conference Second Team or All Conference Honorable Mention)
• AC-C&M would be All Conference by both the Coaches and Media, with the media being the AP, except for the ACC, which has its own media group
• C/M such as the Mountain West, MAC and Sun Belt have is the Coaches and Media jointly selecting the teams
• I didn’t deal with the All-American teams as there are too many; with the exception of some DII AA mentions or FCS AA mentions. After each year that the player played such as: 2018 there might be 7/13 which means he started in 7 games and played in 13.  The number of starts and games played gives more relevance to the stats.
• ST after the 7/13 means the player also contributed on Special Teams
• OPOY would be Offensive Player of the Year
• RS is for Redshirt; JRr would be Junior Redshirt
• ACA-AC if for Academic All Conference or ACA-AC2 or ACA-ACHM; in addition to the SEC which I have SEC-HR for SEC Honor Roll
• (P) is an indication that there was some type of behavioral problem, which could have been a violation of team rules, drinking or POT charge or arrest or something even more serious
• The heights and weights were found from the Combine weigh ins, the Senior Bowl and East/West Shrine Game weigh ins. The heights of some others who were not found on those lists were found on Draft Scout with the weights from their college biographies.
• The forty times under the players names such as: 4.52 – 4.72 (4.62) are the best, worst and average times of the player and were found on Draft Scout, which is a huge database for draftable players; while the forty times in brackets [4.82] were found on Scout.com, HUDL ESPN Player Profiles and some on Draft Analyst. The High School ratings were from Rivals where they have a 2*, 3*, 4* or 5* star rating with 5 being the best. Rivals also gives a number rating within each grouping: 5.0 – 5.4 (2*); 5.5-5.7 (3*); and 5.8 -6.0 (4*). All 5 star players have a 6.1 rating. So you might see 3*/5.5 which is pretty good and sometimes 3*/5.5/4.9@280 lbs, with the 4.9 being his forty time in H.S. and the weight at which he ran the forty time. NR would be No Rating by Rivals.
• The Pro Day results were found on many different places. Some of the schools such as Auburn, Colorado and Notre Dame list all of the information from their Pro Days and the rest were found on sites such as: WalterFootball, Pride of Detroit on SB Nation, Hero Sports FCS Combine Report, Draft Analyst and also from different newspaper articles.
• Defensive statistics – all colleges give a Sack figure and then a Tackle for Loss figure which includes the Sacks. I think that it is easier to follow by giving the Sack figure and then just the actual TFL figure, thus 8.0-4.0, as opposed to 8.0-12.0 that the colleges would reflect in their stats.  Dotted lines – – – – – –  means there weren’t sufficient stats worth reporting. It seems that Georgia, Auburn and Virginia Tech have a different method of tabulating Quarterback Hurries than other teams as their players always have a significantly higher amount.
• As for the Quarterbacks, there are a number of statistics but I have one change from the norm in that I believe Yards per Completion (YPC) is a better metric than Yards per Attempt (YPA), which is the statistic that is normally shown, with the reasoning that YPA includes dropped passes and balls thrown away, which is unfair to the QB. ESPN adds in RAW QBR and ADJ RAT in their QB ratings which are also good metrics but for which I didn’t have the space and didn’t want to be too heavy with statistics.
• SB is for Senior Bowl, the most coveted of the all-star invitations
• EW is for the East/West Shrine Game, the next most coveted all-star game
• CB is for the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
• D is for an underclassmen who Declared for the draft and while eligible for the Combine was not eligible for the Senior Bowl, East/West Shrine Game or other All-Star games
• S is for Sleepers, that is those players who are not highly ranked but have exhibited certain traits which could land them spots on NFL rosters or Practice Squads and eventually become starters
• C is for players who received an invitation to the NFL Combine which usually includes 332 players, but remember the draft is for 224 players along with about 32 Compensatory picks so normally there is a total of 256 drafted players, meaning more than 70 players participating at the Combine will not be drafted. Throw in the fact that there will be a number of players who were not invited to the Combine who will be drafted (about 38 last year), so there could be close to 100 players at the Combine who will not be drafted but very likely will be signed as Undrafted Free Agents.
• The code for the numbers after the C (Combine) are for the first unofficial 40 time, then the second unofficial forty time, followed by the darker (say 4.55) being the official forty time. Then the ten yard splits (where I could get them), such as 1.55
• XXX is where a player didn’t perform a certain event or I couldn’t get the figure
• BP is for Bench Press, VJ for Vertical Jump, BJ is for Broad Jump; 3C is for the 3 Cone Drill, SS for the Short Shuttle and 60S is for the 60 yard shuttle
• And at the bottom left corner of the box of draftable players is a green number which indicates the round or round range that I believe that player will be drafted. If there is no number, then that player will fall into the Undrafted Free Agent category which is an important part of the draft.  Remember RB Phillip Lindsay of Colorado who last year wasn’t invited to the Combine and went undrafted, signed by the Broncos and became a star for them before going down with an injury.

• Note that I have some players rated higher but to be drafted lower than another player. That is because I believe one player is better than another but won’t be drafted higher. Here is a sample chart for Deebo Samuel who is a Slot Receiver.