Looking ahead: Vanderbilt’s 3 best players for 2016 season

We’re not officially into summer yet, but for a football fan, these still are the dog days. There are more than 100 days left until the first real weekend of the 2016 college football season, and while it’s fun to look at schedules and projected stats leaders at certain positions and even the 2017 NFL draft, this harsh fact remains: We’re more than 100 days from the real start of the season.

To help pass the time, GN has asked its correspondents to pick the three best players for the 2016 season on the team they cover.

Here is Jimmy Schofield’s list of Vanderbilt’s top three players.

3. S/LB Oren Burks

Particulars: 6 feet 3, 215 pounds, junior

The skinny: Burks – who was a high school linebacker…