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 6 centers with a draftable grade on Draftanomics's 2017 board, tier by tier.
The top shelf is bare: no center in the 2017 class earns a blue-chip grade.
Nobody here. The class simply skips the first-round tier at center.
Pat Elflein out of Ohio St. fronts a four-man Day 2 tier at No. 51 overall, with Pocic and Fuller filling it out. The drop behind Fuller is the story — Kofi Amichia does not come off the board for another 76 picks. Ethan Pocic is the argument in this tier — No. 54 on our board against a consensus No. 99.
Two names carry a Day 3 grade — Kofi Amichia in front at No. 159, JJ Dielman close behind at No. 169. Notably clean, too — nobody in the group trips the bust model, which has real signal at center.