Asked a veteran personnel man this week how many players his team had with make-it grades on his draft board, and he said 170, which is up about 25 players from a usual draft. Different teams Im sure will have different ways of looking at this board; Im just saying this draft probably has more players who would make an average NFL roster than most recent drafts.
The 170th pick is the 30th pick in the fifth round this year. San Francisco owns it. Here are the teams that, theoretically, could have the biggest injection of new life on their rosters this fall, the teams with the most picks among the top 170:
8: Cleveland*, Jacksonville, San Francisco.
7: New York Jets.
6: Atlanta, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Houston, Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay.
* Clevelands top eight picks all come in the first 145 slots.
On the other end of the spectrum, the teams with the fewest picks in the top 170:
3: Indianapolis (and the third one is 166 overall)
4: Tennessee, Denver, Kansas City, Oakland, Washington, Tampa Bay, Seattle.