NFL Draft - Risers and fallers. Stock up and stock down. It's a tale as old as draft time immemorial. With the 2023 NFL draft season in the home stretch, let's take a look at which players have the most momentum heading into draft week and which players are slipping and sliding down the Grinding the Mocks' draft boards. Looking back at last year's final list of Risers and Fallers is both a fun exercise and a humbling one at the same time. It's a lesson in the cruel randomness and, as Donald Rumsfeld said, the "unknown unknowns" that make up the NFL draft
Only one of last year's top three risers (Kayvon Thibodeaux, Jameson Williams, and Desmond Ridder) wound up getting drafted appreciably higher than their Expected Draft Position, and that was Williams via a trade.