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Unsurprisingly, former Ohio State edge-rusher Chase Young finished at No. 1 on The Athletic's 2020 NFL draft consensus big board published Monday with Heisman Trophy-winning LSU quarterback Joe Burrow coming in at No. 2.
"For seven years, I've gathered rankings across NFL draft media of the players eligible for the draft," The Athletic's Arif Hasan explained. "This allows me to produce a 'consensus' or aggregate ranking of those players, producing data that we can break down even further to find out more useful nuggets about the draft."
Hasan continued:
"One type of analyst, the 'forecasters,' tend to have much more access to NFL and college personnel, which gives them information about injury concerns, character, off-field issues and behind-the-scenes information that could change our understanding of a player one way or the other.