Ranking top 50 NFL draft prospects: A QB is not No. 1! Also, league's best by uniform number.
The 88th NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting in Kansas City is just a week and a half away and teams are finalizing their respective big boards.
Paste BN Sports' Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz also has been busy evaluating this year's talent crop and put together a list of the top 50 prospects for the 2023 NFL draft.
While a quarterback is not at the top of his big board, there are two passers among the top five prospects.
While uncertainty reigns – beginning with the mystery surrounding the No. 1 pick – Georgia DT Jalen Carter has fallen and Texas RB Bijan Robinson is on the rise in our latest mock draft.
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- Boom or bust: NFL draft's 13 biggest high-risk, high-reward prospects
- 17 prospects invited to attend draft in Kansas City
- Budda Baker requests trade from Cardinals; where could Pro Bowl safety land?
- All-Pro WR DeAndre Hopkins tweets he 'doesn't want a raise' amid trade speculation
NFL players most synonymous with each uniform number
For the first time in five decades, NFL players will be allowed to wear the number 0 on their jerseys. So as we wait to see who takes ownership of the NFL's version of "Agent Zero," Paste BN Sports' Nate Davis presents the players who have – mostly – become synonymous with the other 101 jersey numbers.
So long, Daniel Snyder
Daniel Snyder's sale of the Washington Commanders is approaching the finish line. A group led by billionaires Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales had reached "an agreement in principle" to purchase the team for about $6 billion. This would finally put an end to Snyder's tumultuous 24-year tenure as owner of Washington's NFL team.
- Ron Rivera on 'relief' of Washington Commanders' expected sale: 'Like a load was lifted'
- OPINION: Dan Snyder is gone. It's time to rejoice. The moment is finally here.
- Who is Josh Harris? Billionaire owns other pro sports teams.
Ask Coach Steve! New advice column for sports parents
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