Not sure how familiar everybody is with Dane's work for The Athletic, but he puts together by far the most thorough and complete NFL Draft guide, at least that I've seen. This year's version is over 300 pages long, includes 401 unique scouting reports, and ranks 1,893 players in total.
Obviously this is all still highly subjective, but figured I'd share where he has the Pitt guys ranked as we approach the draft in a few weeks. If a player doesn't have a grade listed after their positional ranking, then my interpretation is they're basically thought of as a candidate to be a rookie minicamp invite or something like that.
Israel Abanikanda - #9 RB, 3rd-4th Round grade
Jared Wayne - #83 WR
Carter Warren - #9 OT, 4th Round grade
Gabe Houy - #48 OT
Marcus Minor - #62 OG
Habakkuk Baldonado - #33 DE, 6th-7th Round grade
Deslin Alexandre - #44 DE, Priority Free Agent
Calijah Kancey - #3 DT, 1st-2nd Round grade
SirVocea Dennis - #13 LB, 5th Round grade
Tylar Wiltz - #80 LB
Brandon Hill - #15 S, 5th Round grade
Erick Hallett - #41 S
Only Kancey is rated in his top 100 overall prospects, coming in at #26.
He did unique scouting write-ups for Abanikanda, Warren, Baldonado, Alexandre, Kancey, Dennis, and Hill. Since it's behind a paywall, I won't totally give away his material, but am happy to generally summarize his thoughts on those guys if anybody is curious about someone in particular.
Obviously this is all still highly subjective, but figured I'd share where he has the Pitt guys ranked as we approach the draft in a few weeks. If a player doesn't have a grade listed after their positional ranking, then my interpretation is they're basically thought of as a candidate to be a rookie minicamp invite or something like that.
Israel Abanikanda - #9 RB, 3rd-4th Round grade
Jared Wayne - #83 WR
Carter Warren - #9 OT, 4th Round grade
Gabe Houy - #48 OT
Marcus Minor - #62 OG
Habakkuk Baldonado - #33 DE, 6th-7th Round grade
Deslin Alexandre - #44 DE, Priority Free Agent
Calijah Kancey - #3 DT, 1st-2nd Round grade
SirVocea Dennis - #13 LB, 5th Round grade
Tylar Wiltz - #80 LB
Brandon Hill - #15 S, 5th Round grade
Erick Hallett - #41 S
Only Kancey is rated in his top 100 overall prospects, coming in at #26.
He did unique scouting write-ups for Abanikanda, Warren, Baldonado, Alexandre, Kancey, Dennis, and Hill. Since it's behind a paywall, I won't totally give away his material, but am happy to generally summarize his thoughts on those guys if anybody is curious about someone in particular.
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