The sense among NFL front office personnel is that Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey will be selected within the top 10 picks, according to Peter Schrager of FOX Sports (Twitter link).
McCaffrey is generally considered one of the draft’s three best running backs along with Leonard Fournette (LSU) and Dalvin Cook (Florida State). In PFR’s first 2017 mock draft, we projected McCaffrey to go just outside the top-10, sending him to Philadelphia with the 14th overall pick. Teams that could theoretically use a pick on a running back inside the top-10 include the Jaguars, Panthers, and Bengals.
McCaffrey, who won’t turn 21 years old until June, broke out as a sophomore in 2015, averaging six yards per rush while totaling nearly 2,700 yards from scrimmage. For that performance, McCaffrey earned consensus All-American honors, was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, and finished second to Alabama’s Derrick Henry in Heisman voting. Last year, McCaffrey ranked first in the nation in all-purpose yards per game, and ninth in rushing yards.
McCaffrey is not worth a top 10 pick, he is the third best back and warrants a late first or early second pick.
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Who’s Peter Schrager? Never heard of him.
If McCaffery weren’t white he would have been looked at as a top 10 pick all along.
Dont make this a race thing just dont be that guy. Hes talented but not better than Cook or Fournette
He’s better than Cook but probably not better than Fournette. That being said Fournette always seems to have injury issues
Race has nothing to do with anything he is who he is and will be drafted like anyone else regardless of skin color
Hate to say it .. this is true
His combine performance says otherwise.
What is that supposed to mean? He killed it..
Killed it how? 5th best combine nearly a whole draft grade less than Fournette, IMO Cook will be the best back when all is said and done
Fournette a sure bust He runs at people instead of hitting the hole causing himself injuries In the NFL he’ll really get busted up Cook? McCaffery is clearly better Has a NFL pedigree his Dad Ed played for the Giants Blacks are assumed to be intellectually inferior and whites are assumed to be physically inferior To not think McCaffery being white hurts his cause is pure nativity
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Fournette = Ron Dayne/Brandon Jacobs
Cook = Bell
McCaffrey = Faulk
Yes, Kevin Faulk.