Posted on August 22, 2024
By Bryant McFadden, CBS Sports: Back in 2021, my bosses at CBS Sports approached me with the idea to create a set of rankings similar to our own Pete Prisco’s Better-Than Team, focusing on college football players I liked more than the average analyst or fan entering the season.
We put together a list of 20 players — after all, I wore No. 20 with the Pittsburgh Steelers — highlighting guys you needed to watch beyond the more notable names on Preseason All-America teams and early NFL Draft boards.
We took a few years off after that, getting caught up in the whirlwind of training camps and life on the road. But looking back, some of the hits from that list, like Michael Penix becoming an NFL first-round pick and the rise of Trent McDuffie, reminded us of just how much fun this project was. Inspired by those successes, we decided it was time to reconvene and do it again.
This time, we’re bringing in 247Sports’ scoop extraordinaire Matt Zenitz to help mine for players. Zenitz already named some underrated draft prospects on either side of the ball (offense here, defense there).
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