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senior NFL draft analyst- Todd McShay is a senior NFL draft analyst for ESPN, providing in-depth scouting reports on the nation's top pro prospects. He also serves as a college football field analyst on Saturdays in the fall. Todd joined ESPN in 2006 and contributes to SportsCenter, NFL Live, College Football Live and ESPN Radio. He is a Massachusetts native and was a backup quarterback at the University of Richmond. You can follow Todd on Twitter via @McShay13.
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Scouts Inc.- Steve Muench played four years of Division I-AA football before joining Scouts Inc. in 2002. He has evaluated both NFL and college players for Scouts Inc., but his current focus is on the NFL draft.
As we close in on the 2022 NFL draft, prospect rankings rankings are becoming clearer and clearer. Executives, coaches and scouts for all 32 NFL teams are tweaking their boards. And similarly, NFL draft analysts Todd McShay and Steve Muench are finishing up tape evaluations at Scouts Inc. and starting to finalize their own rankings.
To stack the board, it's sometimes easier to compare players graded very close together by tiering them. Using Scouts Inc. draft grades, we separated the top prospects into different groups to help predict where they will come off the board during the first three rounds of the draft. This year, there are 106 players with at least a 70 grade, and we stacked them into six tiers. Then McShay and Muench went back and forth on what stood out, where they disagree and what this all says about the 2022 class.
Twenty-three players earn a first-round grade with a 90-plus, and 83 more are designated as a Day 2-caliber prospect. Even though these tiers include only first-, second- and third-round talents, full rankings currently include more than 350 prospects and will continue to be updated through draft day. But for now, here are our draft tiers for 2022.