2024 NFL Draft: Tyler Forness' top 14 cornerbacks

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The 2024 NFL Draft is just five days away. Yes, you read that right. Single digits until the biggest weekend in the football calendar. 

Hundreds of thousands of fans, analysts and personnel will descend upon Detroit to attend the NFL Draft where both players' and team's fortunes will change forever. The first overall pick is a foregone conclusion but the real intrigue of the draft starts at second overall as there isn't any consensus on what the Washington Commanders will do.

The way I crafted my positional is really simple. I only rank players that I have graded and then I ranked them based on my grading scale, which you can find here along with links to every one of my scouting reports.

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Tyler Forness' top 14 cornerbacks

This cornerback class is fascinating. There are some incredible athletes, players with great size and excellent ball skills. Nobody in this class has all three but there is a lot of intrigue here. 

After the top of the class, of which analysts are mostly split, there is a glut of cornerbacks who will be taken on day two and into day three which could see a wide variety of opinions. My top cornerbacks will relate somewhat closely to consensus but the second-tier will be quite different. Here are my top 14 cornerbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft class.

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1 Alabama's Terrion Arnold
2 Toledo's Quinyon Mitchell
3 Clemson's Nate Wiggins
4 Alabama's Kool-Aid McKinstry
5 Iowa's Cooper DeJean
6 Georgia's Kamari Lassiter
7 Missouri's Ennis Rakestraw Jr.
8 Louisville's Jarvis Brownlee Jr.
9 Notre Dame's Cam Hart
10 Oregon's Khyree Jackson
11 Rutgers' Max Melton
12 Michigan's Mike Sainristil
13 Iowa State's T.J. Tampa
14 Missouri's Kris Abrams-Draine

Tyler Forness

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Tyler Forness was previously the managing editor of USA Today's Vikings Wire. His work has been featured on Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Voices of Wrestling, SB Nation, and NBC Sports Edge among others. He is an avid wrestling fan, craft beer connoisseur, and loves the run-n-shoot offense. You can find him on Twitter/X @TheRealForno.