God bless Charlie at 247. He’s done the dirty work that I really did not want to do: he’s created a complete mock draft roundup of select pundits across the NFL.
All I have to say is that Byron Young is presently projected to go somewhere around 110ish, and whoever does that is going to get an absolute steal — he’ll be on rosters for a decade as a productive NFL defensive lineman. A reader yesterday compared him to a Dalvin Tomlinson / Damion Square-type player, and that’s a great comp. He’s a workhorse.
And Young’s value will only increase as the years wear on, since — as Dennis Dobbs noted in his piece today — everything old is new again: NFL teams are once again valuing the big uglies on the interior of the defensive line.