Draft Positional Cheat Sheet

It has been awhile since I last posted due to the lockout in the NFL. I promised a positional breakdown of each position. One of the things I like about fantasy drafts is the cheat sheets that each person could use to help them identify the best players at each position. I figured this would have been a great platform to create a kind of reference cheat sheet to help figure out which players are ranked the best at each position. I think the best draft expert is Mike Mayock from NFL Network. Unfortunately, it is difficult to gather his positional breakdowns from him. The next expert to value is Mel Kiper. Kiper's big board is available on ESPN.com, but he doesn't seem to have a position by position breakdown or rankings. I'm not a Todd McShay fan, so I'll dismiss his rankings. That leaves us with Wes Bunting and the group at National Football Post. I really enjoy their rankings and analysis of prospects. Here are their offensive player rankings by position for the 2011 NFL Draft: QUARTERBACKS 1-Christian Ponder QB Florida State 2-Blaine Gabbert QB Missouri 3-Jake Locker QB Washington 4-Cameron Newton QB Auburn 5-Ryan Mallett QB Arkansas 6-Ricky Stanzi QB Iowa 7-Andy Dalton QB TCU 8-Colin Kaepernick QB Nevada 9-Greg McElroy QB Alabama 10-Tyrod Taylor QB Virginia Tech RUNNING BACKS 1-Mark Ingram RB Alabama 2-Mikel Leshoure RB Illinois 3-Ryan Williams RB Virginia Tech 4-Shane Vereen RB California 5-Jamie Harper RB Clemson 6-Kendall Hunter RB Oklahoma State 7-Jordan Todman RB Connecticut 8- Delone Carter RB Syracuse 9-DeMarco Murray RB Oklahoma 10-DaRel Scott RB Maryland 11-Graig Cooper RB Miami-Florida 12-Allen Bradford RB USC 13-Bilal Powell RB Louisville 14-Roy Helu Jr RB Nebraska 15-Mario Fannin RB Auburn WIDE RECEIVERS 1-A.J. Green WR Georgia 2-Julio Jones WR Alabama 3-Jon Baldwin WR Pittsburgh 4-Titus Young WR Boise State 5-Leonard Hankerson WR Miami-Florida 6-Jerrel Jernigan WR Troy State 7- Randall Cobb WR Kentucky 8-Niles Paul WR Nebraska 9-Torrey Smith WR Maryland 10-Tandon Doss WR Indiana 11-DeAndre Brown WR Southern Miss. 12-Terrance Toliver WR LSU 13-Greg Little WR North Carolina 14-Edmund Gates WR Abilene Christian 15-Austin Pettis WR Boise State TIGHT ENDS 1-Kyle Rudolph TE Notre Dame 2-Jordan Cameron TE USC 3-Luke Stocker TE Tennessee 4-Lance Kendricks TE Wisconsin 5-D.J. Williams TE Arkansas 6-Weslye Saunders TE South Carolina 7-Julius Thomas TE Portland State 8-Lee Smith TE Marshall 9-Stephen Skelton TE Fordham 10-Virgil Green TE Nevada CENTERS 1-Stefen Wisniewski C Penn State 2-Mike Pouncey C Florida 3-Tim Barnes C Missouri 4-Brandon Fusco C Slippery Rock (PA) 5-Zane Taylor C Utah 6-Alex Linnenkohl C Oregon St. 7-Ryan Pugh C Auburn 8-Kristofer ODowd C USC 9- Jake Kirkpatrick C TCU 10-Ryan McMahon C Florida State GUARDS 1-Danny Watkins OG Baylor 2-Jason Pinkston OG Pittsburgh 3-Will Rackley OG Lehigh 4-Clint Boling OG Georgia 5-Stephen Schilling OG Michigan 6-Rodney Hudson OG Florida State 7-DeMarcus Love OG Arkansas 8-Andrew Jackson OG Fresno State 9-John Moffitt OG Wisconsin 10-Andrew Phillips OG Stanford TACKLES 1-Tyron Smith OT USC 2-Gabe Carimi OT Wisconsin 3-Derek Sherrod OT Mississippi State 4-Benjamin Ijalana OT Villanova 5-Anthony Castonzo OT Boston College 6-Nate Solder T Colorado 7-Marcus Gilbert T Florida 8-James Carpenter T Alabama 9-Marcus Cannon T T-C-U 10-David Mims T Virginia Union FULLBACKS 1-Henry Hynoski Pittsburgh 2 Owen Marecic FB Stanford 3 Stanley Havili FB USC 4 Anthony Sherman FB Connecticut 5 Shaun Chapas FB Georgia