The NFL Scouting Combine is finished, and that means our initial position rankings are up! The top five players at each position are posted on the right side of your screen. A few surprises, even for us, after finishing our player reviews: West Virginia QB Jarrett Brown is our 3rd rated player at the position, ahead of Colt McCoy. We rank our players based on their chance of long-term NFL success, not how we think they'll do their rookie year. Brown is the complete package at QB and should make a solid - if not special - starter someday. As much as we hated to do it, Oregon's LeGarrette Blount is our 4th rated RB. Backs with size, speed and vision are very rare and Blount has the perfect combination of all three. And the big Alabama DT Terrence Cody showed up at the combines 15 pounds lighter (a nimble 356 lbs) than the Senior Bowl, showing he's serious about staying in shape, and that warranted a top 5 ranking in our book. The ratings are a bit fluid as we continue watching tape of the hundreds of pro prospects, but usually the end result is pretty close to what's there now.
