2017 NFL Draft: Top Prospect Matchups to Watch During Bowl Season

December 19, 2016   ·   Justis Mosqueda   ·   Jump to comments

Some of the lower-tier bowl games already kicked off this weekend, but we still have premier matchups in college football stretching through Jan. 2, not including the national championship game. Ten NFL teams have already been mathematically ruled out of the playoffs according to NFL.com, and four more have less than a five-percent chance to make the playoffs per FiveThirtyEight's forecast.
With nearly half of the league out of the playoff race, there's never been a better time for fan bases to jump into the draft cycle as high-quality teams go head-to-head in nationally televised games, about as close to NFL competition as you're going to come by at the college level.
We'll break down the five biggest matchups, in terms of importance and what we're going to learn from these prospects on an individual basis, over the next three weeks. Nine days after the national championship, the NFL's underclassman deadline for early declarations is set.
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