The NFL Draft’s pass rushing core in 2015 was praised for being a special group; Dante Fowler Jr. went third overall, followed by Vic Beasly who went eight, Alvin Dupree was taken with the 22nd pick, and after all of them, at pick 23, followed Shane Ray.
Had you looked at the pre-combine rankings for that class, you’d find that it wasn’t Fowler or Beasly leading the group but rather Ray and Randy Gregory, who both seemed like shoe-ins to go in the top 10. Ray and Gregory saw their draft hype quickly drop due to varying issues with Marijuana that muddied their draft stocks in the following months leading to their falls.