This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. The start of the college football season also marks a turning of the page on the road to the NFL Draft. Scouts will soon finally have new data to unpack on the top prospects, and before you know it, we will have a good idea as to which players are worth tanking for and which ones are not all they're made out to be.
Every premier draft prospect has to start the season somewhere, and for a look at the top 50, we turn to our Ryan Wilson. His take is that while there are countless potential first-round quarterbacks, only a couple of them have already proven themselves worthy of such prime billing. That's why, of the eight signal-callers on his preseason 2027 NFL Draft big board, only three stand inside the top 29: 1.
Julian Sayin, Ohio State There is a real debate at the top, though. Perhaps one will separate from the rest over the course of the season, but as of now, Moore and Manning are more 1A/1B than No. 1 and No. 2 in the quarterback pecking order. Our Mike Renner made the case for the Texas star as the top dog in his positional rankings: If the 2027 quarterback class is to live up to the hype and mirror the 2024 crop that produced six top-12 picks, then a handful of players need to turn potential into production.
History suggests that betting on traits is only part of the equation, and Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen cloud our judgment. Our Josh Edwards foresees CJ Carr as the biggest breakout candidate at the quarterback position. The leader of Notre Dame's offense is just one of the many who could help this class become truly generational, as many have played it up to be.
Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 player in the final Power 18 of the PGA Tour season, because who else could it possibly be? The best golfer in the world went wire to wire as the face of our rankings after leading the tour in wins, scoring average, strokes gained. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
The more compelling arguments in the last installment of the rankings this season come a few spots further down. Our Patrick McDonald is high on Wyndham Clark following his victory at the BMW Championship. Clark is one of two golfers to climb seven spots since the last edition of the Power 18.
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