2013 NFL Draft: Ranking the Top 100 Players on the Board

The 2013 NFL draft will be interesting.

Maybe not so for teams like the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets, who are a year late on the "Class of 2012 Quarterback Sweepstakes" and don't have much elite quarterback talent to look at this year.

The top 18 players in my rankings consist of offensive linemen, defensive linemen, linebackers and just one cornerback. You have to dig down all the way to the 19th ranked player on my list to find the top-ranked quarterback.

This is obviously much different from last year's situation, as three quarterbacks were off the board after the Top 10 picks.

It would be difficult for a team like the Kansas City Chiefs, who are expected to be drafting first, to take a guy ranked outside of the Top 10 players available.

If you are up first on the podium, you take the best player available, and that's defensive tackle Star Lotulelei out of Utah. Star is a 6'4", 320-pound defensive tackle who is a nightmare for running backs. He can clog the hole and make it nearly impossible for running backs to have success between the tackles. 

The only issue is his speed and ability to rush the passer. He is definitely worthy of the first overall pick in this draft. The issue here is that Kansas City needs to improve its offense much more than its defense.

Although I have Geno Smith ranked as my 19th best player, it is very likely the Chiefs could take him with the first pick (assuming they lose their last two games). It wouldn't be too bad watching Geno develop alongside Jamaal Charles. That running game would be ridiculous to watch.

As far as other quarterbacks go, we got word today that Tyler Bray out of Tennessee would be entering the draft. I don't know what to make of that right now.

Matt Barkley was projected in the 2012 preseason to be the first guy taken in this year's draft, but a poor season for the USC Trojans has his stock declining downhill at a 90-degree angle.

However, I still think Barkley, with the right coaching, could develop into a star quarterback in the NFL. I have seen him make some tremendous throws rolling to his left that are extremely difficult to make. He may have had a poor season this year, but I still am not sold on the fact that he will turn out to be a bust.

At other key offensive positions, the best guys available are Tennessee's wide receiver Justin Hunter, West Virginia's wide receiver Tavon Austin, North Carolina's running back Giovani Bernard and Michigan State's Le'Veon Bell.

You will be able to see that it is a defense-heavy Top 10, in my opinion. Unfortunately, most of the teams that will likely be positioned to draft in the Top 10 are struggling more on offense.

We could see teams such as the Buffalo Bills take advantage of guys like Manti Te'o being available somewhere around the eighth pick, while teams such as the Philadelphia Eagles, who are in desperate need of help on their offensive line, could go after Luke Joeckel or Chance Warmack.

I am not saying by any means that this is not a solid draft class.

Every draft class brings plenty of surprises. What I am saying is that there isn't nearly as much offensive talent in this draft that there was last year. 

Below you will find the top 100 players, in my opinion, who are likely to be available come April.

Enjoy.

Rank	Name	Position	School
1	Star Lotulelei	DT	Utah
2	Chance Warmack	OG	Alabama
3	Damontre Moore	DE	Texas A&M
4	Jarvis Jones	OLB	Georgia
5	Luke Joeckel	OT	Texas A&M
6	Bjoern Werner	DE	Florida State
7	Manti Te'o	ILB	Notre Dame
8	Barkevious Mingo	DE	LSU
9	Dee Milliner	CB	Alabama
10	Sylvester Williams	DT	North Carolina
11	Johnathan Hankins	DT	Ohio State
12	Taylor Lewan	OT	Michigan
13	Dion Jordan	DE	Oregon
14	Jonathan Jenkins	DT	Georgia
15	Jonathan Cooper	OG	North Carolina
16	Alec Ogletree	ILB	Georgia
17	Sam Montgomery	DE	LSU
18	Kenny Vaccaro	S	Texas
19	Geno Smith	QB	West Virginia
20	Sheldon Richardson	DT	Missouri
21	Eric Fisher	OT	Central Michigan
22	Ezekiel Ansah	DE	Brigham Young
23	C.J. Mosley	OLB	Alabama
24	Zach Ertz	TE	Stanford
25	Matt Barkley	QB	USC
26	Anthony Barr	OLB	UCLA
27	Corey Lemonier	DE	Auburn
28	Louis Nix III	DT	Notre Dame
29	Kawann Short	DT	Purdue
30	Johnthan Banks	CB	Mississippi State
31	Justin Hunter	WR	Tennessee
32	Sharrif Floyd	DT	Florida
33	Keenan Allen	WR	Cal
34	Tyler Eifert	TE	Notre Dame
35	Mike Glennon	QB	North Carolina State
36	Cordarrelle Patterson	WR	Tennessee
37	Cornellius Carradine	DE	Florida State
38	Jake Matthews	OT	Texas A&M
39	Tavon Austin	WR	West Virginia
40	Kevin Minter	ILB	LSU
41	Robert Woods	WR	USC
42	Matt Elam	S	Florida
43	Logan Ryan	CB	Rutgers
44	Dallas Thomas	OT	Tennessee
45	Jesse Williams	DT	Alabama
46	Eric Reid	S	LSU
47	David Amerson	CB	North Carolina State
48	Akeem Spence	DT	Illinois
49	Oday Aboushi	OT	Virginia
50	Blidi Wreh-Wilson	CB	Connecticut
51	Bennie Logan	DT	LSU
52	Terrance Williams	WR	Baylor
53	Shawn Williams	S	Georgia
54	Everett Dawkins	DT	Florida State
55	D.J. Fluker	OT	Alabama
56	Tony Jefferson	S	Oklahoma
57	Justin Pugh	OT	Syracuse
58	Giovani Bernard	RB	North Carolina
59	Le'Veon Bell	RB	Michigan State
60	Tyler Wilson	QB	Arkansas
61	Brennan Williams	OT	North Carolina
62	Aaron Dobson	WR	Marshall
63	Desmond Trufant	CB	Washington
64	Landry Jones	QB	Oklahoma
65	Brian Winters	OG	Kent State
66	Chase Thomas	OLB	Stanford
67	Kevin Reddick	ILB	North Carolina
68	Markus Wheaton	WR	Oregon State
69	Alex Okafor	DE	Texas
70	Jelani Jenkins	OLB	Florida
71	Brandon Jenkins	OLB	Florida State
72	Barrett Jones	OG	Alabama
73	Arthur Brown	ILB	Kansas State
74	Cobi Hamilton	WR	Arkansas
75	Xavier Rhodes	CB	Florida State
76	Gavin Escobar	TE	San Diego State
77	Shamarko Thomas	S	Syracuse
78	William Gholston	DE	Michigan State
79	Kaleb Ramsey	DT	Boston College
80	DeVonte Holloman	S	South Carolina
81	Marquess Wilson	WR	Washington State
82	Malliciah Goodman	DE	Clemson
83	Ricky Wagner	OT	Wisconsin
84	Montee Ball	RB	Wisconsin
85	Larry Warford	OG	Kentucky
86	Khaled Holmes	OG	USC
87	Denard Robinson	WR	Michigan
88	Jordan Poyer	CB	Oregon State
89	Da'Rick Rogers	WR	Tennessee Tech
90	Levine Toilolo	TE	Stanford
91	Dion Sims	TE	Michigan State
92	Khaseem Greene	OLB	Rutgers
93	Andre Ellington	RB	Clemson
94	Sheldon Price	CB	UCLA
95	Tavarres King	WR	Georgia
96	Hugh Thornton	OG	Illinois
97	Kapron Lewis-Moore	DE	Notre Dame
98	Kenjon Barner	RB	Oregon
99	Tyrann Mathieu	CB	LSU
100	EJ Manuel	QB	Florida State