Center C
Same inputs as tackle, with slightly more emphasis on Senior Bowl + Pro Day testing.
Likeliest career, by the outcome model.
How many centers land in each career bucket as the model's single most likely finish. This is a different question from the board grades below — a prospect can be a Day 3 grade and still have “starter” as his likeliest outcome. The tails (elite, bust) are where the model separates; the middle two buckets sit close to a coin flip.
The board.
All 9 centers with a draftable grade on Draftanomics's 2018 board, tier by tier.
No blue-chip center this cycle — Frank Ragnow is the class's best, and he carries the next grade down.
The first-round tier is a pair: Frank Ragnow out of Arkansas at No. 17, with James Daniels at No. 31 behind him. No cliff at the bottom, either: Billy Price is 3 projected picks behind Daniels. And the floor is solid: the bust model, reliable for centers, clears everyone here.
Billy Price and Scott Quessenberry make up the Day 2 tier, projected No. 34 and No. 57 overall. Then the board falls off a cliff — 54 projected picks between Quessenberry and Austin Corbett, the next name down. Notably clean, too — nobody in the group trips the bust model, which has real signal at center.
Austin Corbett leads a 5-deep Day 3 group — the meat of the C board — starting at a projected No. 111 overall. One split worth knowing: consensus puts Will Clapp at No. 52, 122 spots above our call.