I'm personally a very big fan of Mayock, both as a draft analyst and for gameday colour (not to mention he preferred McCoy over Suh. With his latest top 5 coming out, I thought it would be useful to look at previous top 5's. Too often I feel we don't examine draft analyst's past examinations (and they'll obviously be wrong lots - just like NFL teams).2008: http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/09000d5d80406b71/article/mike-mayocks-draft-prospect-rankings-updated-april-15 2009: http://www.clanram.com/forums/f109/mike-mayocks-2009-top-prospects-each-position-updated-4-15-09-a-34788/ 2010: http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09000d5d817178e3&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true 2011: http://nflfootballnow.com/2011/04/12/mike-mayocks-top-5-by-position-nfl-draft/ 2012: http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/09000d5d827a70e8/article/draft-positional-rankings-pro-days-influence-player-stocks The two things that strike me are (1) how some positions have absolutely NO good players in some years. Look at the 2008 DTs - no player in the top 5 was anything but a bust and the best player in the draft was Red Bryant. (2) Overall I'm impressed with Mayock and he does seem to hit on more than say a Mcshay (and I wonder how he'd compare to the average team?). You also have some strong against-the-grain picks (McCoy over Suh, Earl Thomas over Eric Berry) and some amusing flubs (Sanchez over Stafford, Gabbert over Newton).
