This is the fifth post in our ongoing series on superior athletes in the 2017 draft (on DEs, DTs, LBs, and CBs). And by now you should know the drill:
First we look at the college production of a specific position group. For the safeties, we'll be using a metric based on Production Points (the metric is explained in detail in the post on linebackers), which looks at the key stats for safeties and weights them with a point system that gives you a single number that shows how many Production Points a player averaged per game.