Annually NFL.com ranks the Top 100 players heading into the season, and 3 former NC State players made the list this season. Former Wolfpack Quarterback Philip Rivers is #17 heading into the 2019 football season.
Last year Wilson was ranked 56th heading into the 2018 season.
Rivers has placed in eight of the nine top 100 lists, missing the rankings only in 2013. The former Athens High School standout ranked No. 26 in 2011, No. 61 in 2012, No. 34 in 2014, No. 43 in 2015, No.