... a simple college football fan, it can be somewhat of a challenge trying to decipher just who the top NFL prospects are at the college level because as fans, we don’t have access to nearly the amount of inside information on players that professional scouts do.

We don’t have access to workout numbers, game film, conversations with coaches, vital background secrets and just all the general inside information that paid scouts are privy to.

So how do you go about judging if a college player can be a performer at the next level?

For me, I always like to look at a player’s background—what kind of a recruit he was coming out of high school, how early in his career did he make ...

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