Well CBS chimes in with their top 10 draft prospects
1. EDGE James Pearce Jr., Tennessee
CBSSports.com prospect ranking: No. 1 EDGE, No. 5 overall
Pearce was one of the first players off the board in essentially every mock draft leading up to the season. He is a fast, flexible edge rusher that registered 9.5 sacks as a sophomore in 2023. A lack of ideal play strength had always been one of the concerns with him. The narrative around him this season has actually been that he has underperformed and yet he leads all college football edge rushers with at least 200 pass rush snaps in pressure rate (24.4%), according to
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