2022 NFL draft - Jeff Legwold ranks the top 100 prospects

Any NFL draft without a quarterback at the top of the board is different from most editions of the annual affair, and that's the case this year.

Without a consensus quarterback you'll hear more divergent opinions about how the top 20 picks will go when talking to scouts, coaches and general managers around the league. It's an invitation for differences of opinions among decision-makers, normally pretty hearty in any draft, to get a little bigger.

After all, only four times in the past 15 drafts has a quarterback not been the No. 1 pick — Myles Garrett to the Cleveland Browns in 2017, Jadeveon Clowney to the Houston Texans in 2014, Eric Fisher to the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013 and Jake Long to the Miami Dolphins in 2008.

If recent history is a guide, there will be a team that is unable and unwilling to be patient when it comes to drafting a quarterback. The first quarterback of this class could come off the board within the top 10 picks, much earlier than even the team that made the pick had him slotted.

With that in mind, we present the Jeff Legwold 100. It isn't a mock draft, but instead a ranking of the top 100 players, regardless of position. As always, the top quarterbacks will be selected well before where they have been slotted, because there are always and forever two draft boards in the NFL — the quarterback board and the board for everybody else.

And as always, if you disagree with the rankings, you're not alone. But thanks to all who took the time to chat, answer my pile of questions and put up with this annual project, including some who have put up with it for well over three decades.

Note: Best verified or electronically timed 40-yard-dash time in parentheses.

1. Evan Neal, T, Alabama, 6-foot-7 ½, 337 (DNR)