Quote:Let's not be disingenuous here, Fowler was not top 5 on every ranking by a long shot. There were a ton of boards where the top 5 were Winston, Mariota, Amari, Leonard Williams, and Beasley or Scherff (or even a handful of  White/Gurley/Shelton) as the 5th...especially from the younger/more analytically driven draftniks. Fowler was significantly down a good number of those lists. 

 

 

Quote:I'm fairly sure that every major media draft board had Fowler in the top five.

 

For what it's worth, ESPN's top 20 player rankings the day before the draft were:

 

 


<b>1</b>

<b>Jameis Winston</b><b>  </b>

<b>2</b>

<b>Leonard Williams</b><b> </b>

<b>3</b>

<b>Amari Cooper</b><b>       </b>

<b>4</b>

<b>Dante Fowler</b><b> </b>

<b>5</b>

<b>Marcus Mariota</b><b> </b>

<b>6</b>

<b>Brandon Schreff</b><b>    </b>

<b>7</b>

<b>Kevin White</b>

<b>8</b>

<b>Todd Gurley</b><b>               </b>

<b>9</b>

<b>Devante Parker</b><b>        </b>

<b>10</b>

<b>Trae Waynes</b><b>               </b>

<b>11</b>

<b>Andrus Peat</b><b>                </b>

<b>12</b>

<b>Arik Armstead</b><b>    </b>

<b>13</b>

<b>Ereck Flowers</b><b>             </b>

<b>14</b>

<b>Danny Shelton</b><b>      </b>

<b>15</b>

<b>Kevin Johnson</b><b>               </b>

<b>16</b>

<b>Cameron Erving</b><b>            </b>

<b>17</b>

<b>Melvin Gordon</b><b>           </b>

<b>18</b>

<b>Randy Gregory</b><b>     </b>

<b>19</b>

<b>Malcom Brown</b><b>     </b>

<b>20</b>

<b>Breshad Perriman</b><b>  </b>

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