The Top 32 & Overall Big Board for the 2018 NFL Draft

On the Lightning Round Podcast we’ve spent months digging through tape on the 2018 draft prospects and this year we created our own grading system. We both used a uniform 100-point grading scale of what we felt were the 5 most important categories for each position group and graded accordingly. The numerical grade was our most fitting representation for each player’s NFL projection. Once given a total grade, the player was then slotted into what round and specifically how high or low in that round in which the player’s talent lands on the draft scale. Below are our “Top 32” players and as you’ll see not every player on this list has a 1st round grade, 32 players will go in the 1^st but not all will have a 1^st Round grade. Tom Telesco said it yesterday in his press conference, he’s never been part of an organization that’s had 32 1^st Round grades on Draft Day, it is not all that uncommon. So here are our Top 32:

Garrett Sisti

Jamie Hoyle

Since we each graded over 100+ players here is each of our Overall Big Board. You’ll see we each graded the majority of the same players (with different grades) but there will be some that one of us graded while the other didn’t, if names aren’t on this list we either watched and didn’t grade or just didn’t have time to watch. Our grades stop around the middle of the 5^th Round because the line between a 6^th Round pick and an UDFA is slim so neither of us bothered to rank guys we felt fell that low. Here is our individual Overall Big Board:

Garrett Sisti

Jamie Hoyle