The NFL Combine doesn’t just give NFL scouts, coaches and general managers the opportunity to evaluate the incoming group of rookie players. It’s also a great place for the players to evaluate one another.
If you ask this year's running back prospects about their peers, you quickly learn that, as Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor put it, “running backs are fans of one another.”
Taylor heaped praise on his fellow rookie running backs, including Ohio State’s J.K. Dobbins and Georgia’s D’Andre Swift. Taylor, Dobbins, and Swift are ranked as the top three rushers in this year’s class, according to Sports Illustrated’s Kevin Hanson.