Nathan Forster

Our projections for wide receivers in this year's draft must deal with a difficult question: how to account for a team's passing statistics when they have multiple draftable wideouts, such as Alabama's Jaylen Waddle and DeVonta Smith?

Here's the ESPN+ version of this year's SackSEER projections, our system for projecting the top college edge rushers into the NFL, led by Jaelan Phillips of Miami and Jayson Oweh of Penn State. An expanded version of this will run later this week on Football Outsiders.

Here's the ESPN version of our Playmaker Score system for projecting wide receivers into the NFL. The short version: DeVonta Smith is a historically great prospect, but Ja'Marr Chase is pretty good too. An expanded version of this will run later this week here on Football Outsiders.

No surprise here: Ohio State's Chase Young is the top edge rusher prospect in this year's draft class. Are there any pass-rushers teams can target if they're not lucky enough to be drafting at the top of the first round? And who is the prospect teams should avoid?

Is the 2020 class of wide receivers stacked with talented prospects? Yes it is. Is it the best of all time? Not necessarily. In his latest version of Playmaker Score, guest columnist Nathan Forster breaks down the college stats and combine performances of wideouts such as Oklahoma's CeeDee Lamb and attempts to forecast their NFL success.

The top running back prospect in this year's draft class is clear. Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor has obliterated the scale of our collegiate projection system.

Here are our SackSEER projections for the top edge rushers in the class of 2020. Numbers suggest that after Ohio State's Chase Young, this is not a great class.

There are a lot of first-round prospects in the wide receiver class of 2020, but they're generally equal to the average first-rounder of past drafts, with two exceptions. This is the ESPN+ version of Playmaker Score; it will also run on FO with a full table next week.

Here are our BackCAST running back projections for the class of 2020. Jonathan Taylor of Wisconsin gets our highest projection ever, but one of the popular SEC backs has a poor projection.

Our statistical projections for edge rushers in this year's draft agree with the consensus that the talent pool at the position is deep, but are surprisingly pessimistic about Ohio State's Nick Bosa, expected to be the first pass-rusher off the board Thursday night. Who has the best statistical profile? That's a surprise too.