Ranking the best NFL Draft picks of all

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We're closing in on the 2022 NFL Draft and with it comes the injection of immense talent and youth to the league. While this upcoming draft may not have the clear-cut quarterback prospects at the top like we've seen in the past with and , the 2022 cla s is widely billed as an extremely deep group. Naturally, that creates quite a bit of value as you go down the board. , we here at CBS Sports have taken on the task of finding the best of the best who were ever selected in what is now known as the first round (first 32 picks). We'll be covering each spot in the first round all the way until we reach No. 1 overall just before the draft, which officially kicks off on Thursday, April 28 Bill Barber Women Jersey . To follow along on who makes each top five, check out our .As for the No. 31 pick, it is a bit more complex than other selections that we'll di sect as we go forward. Because there were not 31 teams in the at certain periods, some of these selections that you'll read about below weren't even first rounders, but would have been had they entered the league today. How we determined who actually made the cut was a combination of their impact to the league, longevity, accolades, and -- more simply -- a gut feel of whether or not they are worthy of entering this exclusive cla s.This year, the Cincinnati Bengals are slated to pick No. 31 overall after their improbable run to LVI. Our the likes of Michigan safety Daxton Hill, Washington cornerback Philadelphia Flyers Kids Jersey  Trent McDuffie, Clemson cornerback Andrew Booth Jr. and Michigan edge rusher David Ojabo as some of the potential candidates who could be taken at that spot in their most recent mock drafts. Could one of those players one day make it onto this list? Of course! In the meantime, let's see who are the top five No. 31 picks of all time.  2007 : Round 1, No. 31 overall (Miami)Team(s): (2007-2010), (2011-2019), (2020)Olsen entered the NFL as the latest link in a chain of extremely productive tight ends out of the University of Miami. ( .) Bubba Franks, Jeremy Shockey and Kellen Winslow II came before him,  Nate Prosser Kids Jersey each of them selected in the first round of the draft. ( followed soon after, but went later in the draft due to his lack of football experience.) Olsen's collegiate career looked a whole lot like that of each of his tight end predece sors at The U, and because it did, the Bears deigned to make him the second-to-last pick of the first round in 2007.The Bears, though, largely failed to tap into Olsen's full potential as an offensive weapon. In four seasons with Chicago, Olsen averaged 50 catches for 511 yards and five touchdowns. His best year there saw him post a 60-612-8 receiving line. At the end of his fourth season, rather than offer him a long-term contract, the Bears shipped him to Carolina in exchange for just a third-round pick.  It was with the Panthers that Olsen's career took off, as he became one of the best and most consistent pa s-catching tight ends in the league. He made three consecutive Pro Bowls from 2014 to 2016 and was Anthony Stolarz Kids Jersey  named a second-team All-Pro in the latter two of those years -- the peak of a five-season span during which he averaged 77 catches for 969 yards and five scores a year. He was top target during Newton's MVP season in 2015, and caught 16 pa ses for 231 yards and a touchdown during the team's ultimately-just-short-of-a-Super-Bowl run.Once Olsen hit his mid-30s, his career began to taper off. Injuries in back-to-back seasons sapped him of the explosivene s that made him a dangerous weapon up the seam, and the declining play of Newton rendered him a more inefficient intermediate target than he had been in the past. He finally put together a productive season (52 catches, 597 yards, two touchdowns) in 2019 at age 34, but by that time, it was Newton whose season was ruined by injury. The Panthers made him a salary-cap casualty in early in 2020, and he signed with the  Johnny Oduya Women Jersey Seattle Seahawks. His one season alongside was not very succe sful as he again struggled with injuries and played more of a complementary role when he was on the field.Olsen retired earlier this offseason to begin a career in broadcasting. He finished his career with 742 catches for 8,683 yards and 60 scores, figures that rank eighth, sixth and and ninth all time among players at his position.  2013 NFL Draft: Round 1, No. 31 overall (Wisconsin)Team(s): (2013-2019)Frederick actually received quite a bit of scorn at the beginning of his career -- albeit through no fault of his own. The Cowboys originally owned the No. 18 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, and both fans and analysts alike were expecting that they'd take one of several quality defenders still on the board: safety , cornerbacks and , or especially, defensive Travis Sanheim Men Jersey  tackle .Instead, Dallas traded down to No. 31 ... but received only the No. 74 pick in return for doing so. It was a lo s on just about every draft value chart -- and le s of a return than division rival Washington received when it traded down from No. 22 to No. 30 a few selections later. When the Cowboys then used the pick on a center who was widely regarded as a probable second- or third-round selection at best, the reaction was nearly apoplectic. Frederick himself was even that he went in the first round.  All Frederick did then was perform like arguably the best center in the NFL in each of his first five seasons, making four consecutive Pro Bowls and three All-Pro teams (one first, two second). He was the lynchpin of what eventually became the best offensive line in football, as the Cowboys flanked him with , and , plus , , and , who rotated through the left guard and right tackle spots. They cleared the way for spectacular seasons from and , Tony Romo and .At the tail end of 2018 training camp, however, Frederick was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome. Guillain-Barre is an autoimmune disorder in  Ivan Provorov Men Jersey which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the nerves, resulting in rapid-onset muscle weakne s. The recovery time period varies wildly, but luckily the Cowboys and Frederick found it early, and he was able to recover throughout the 2018 season. He returned to the field in 2019 and was still a solid center, but no longer one of the top players at his position. Unwilling to continue playing if he couldn't live up to his own lofty standards, Frederick , at just 29 years old.He was, for all intents and purposes, something like halfway through a surefire Hall of Fame career during which he played 100% of his team's offensive snaps before an illne s took his peak years away from him -- and us.  1957 NFL Draft: Round 3, No. 31 (Oklahoma)Team(s): (1957-1963 Philadelphia Flyers Women Jersey ), Dallas Cowboys (1964), (1965-1966), (1967), (1968)Standing just 5-foot-9 and weighing only 178 pounds, McDonald would have been out of place as a wide receiver during quite a few eras of football. Thankfully for the Eagles, the 1960s was not one of those eras. He wor