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Making the Case that Gareon Conley, Not Marshon Lattimore, is the Top Cornerback in the 2017 NFL Draft

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Less than a week before the 2017 NFL Draft and former Buckeye Marshon Lattimore is near-unanimously considered the top cornerback in the class. With his rare mix of speed, athleticism and ball skills, he's almost guaranteed to go in the top-10 in this weeks draft and will possibly climb all the way to the top-five.

Meanwhile, his counterpart, Gareon Conley, is getting mid first-round projections and is consistently considered the second or third-best cornerback in the draft class.

It's tough to split hairs between the two when both are sure first-round picks, but it seems odd for so many to arrive at such a consensus that one is a definitively better prospect than they other based on the tape they've seen.