Every college football season, we see players enter the scouting process who weren't on draft lists over the summer. Even the scouting services most NFL teams use to help prepare for the upcoming draft class before the college football season will miss a few.
The players listed below weren't all missed by scouts—some are underclassmen who popped onto the radar after winning starting jobs over the summer—but they've all seen their stock rise considerably through great play and exceptional NFL-caliber traits.
The job of scouting this class is far from done, though, and each player could still sink his stock with an off-field incident, injury or poor testing time.