NFL draft 2023 All-Satellite team: McShay's best playmakers in space

NFL teams love bringing in draft prospects with speed, explosion, elusiveness and the ability to create in open space. Those are key traits in today's most effective offenses. And while doing my final evaluations for the 2023 class, I saw a lot of players who fit that mold — guys who are nearly impossible to bring down once they find some daylight. So I ranked the best of the best in my annual All-Satellite team, which is filled with speedy, lightning-fast, tough-to-contain prospects.

This marks the 14th edition of this list, dating back to C.J. Spiller and the 2010 class. Past iterations have included the likes of Odell Beckham Jr., Jaylen Waddle, Brandin Cooks, Christian McCaffrey, Lamar Jackson, Tyler Lockett and Kyler Murray. The 2022 class was headlined by Jameson Williams, who will likely have a bigger role in the Lions' offense in Year 2 now that he's fully recovered from the torn ACL injury. The 2023 edition has a little bit of everything but starts with a shifty Alabama ball-carrier. Here are the six best prospects in space from this year's class, plus a few honorable mentions to watch.

I'm kicking this year's list off with a running back who makes defenders flat-out whiff. Forcing missed tackles in tight areas is essentially the criteria to make the All-Satellite team, and no one in this class does it better than Gibbs. He is sudden with ankle-breaking lateral agility and accelerates in a flash. And once he gets a crease, Gibbs is off to the races — he ran a 4.36 in the 40-yard dash at the combine, second-fastest among running backs. On a 72-yard TD run against Arkansas in October, Gibbs reached 22.8 miles per hour. That devastating speed allows him to kill defender pursuit angles and just run away from