By Mel Kiper Jr.
Special to ESPN.com
As of Feb. 6, 2000 
               
NO. PLAYER POS. SCHOOL
1. LaVar Arrington* LB Penn State
2. Peter Warrick WR Florida State
3. Courtney Brown DE Penn State
4. Thomas Jones RB Virginia
5. Plaxico Burress* WR Michigan State
6. Bubba Franks* TE Miami-Fla.
7. Corey Simon DT Florida State
8. Chris Samuels OT Alabama
9. Chad Pennington QB Marshall
10. Shaun Alexander RB Alabama
11. Stockar McDougle OT Oklahoma
12. Darren Howard DE Kansas State
13. Brian Urlacher LB New Mexico
14. Chris McIntosh OT Wisconsin
15. Dennis Northcutt WR Arizona
16. John Engelberger DE Virginia Tech
17. Chris Redman QB Louisville
18. Shyrone Stith * RB Virginia Tech
19. Jerry Porter WR West Virginia
20. Shaun Ellis * DE Tennessee
21. Julian Peterson OLB Michigan State
22. Cosey Coleman * G Tennessee
23. Ron Dayne RB Wisconsin
24. R. Jay Soward WR Southern California
25. Keith Bulluck LB Syracuse
26. Deon Grant * S Tennessee
27. Dez White * WR Georgia Tech
28. Michael Thompson OT Tennessee State
29. Todd Pinkston WR Southern Miss
30. Deon Dyer FB North Carolina
31. Sylvester Morris WR Jackson State
32. Travis Taylor * WR Florida
33. Rashard Anderson CB Jackson State
34. Ron Dugans WR Florida State
35. J.R. Redmond RB Arizona State
36. Hank Poteat CB Pittsburgh
37. Matt Beck LB California
38. Danny Farmer WR UCLA
39. Travis Claridge OL USC
40. Laveranues Coles WR Florida State
41. Anthony Becht TE West Virginia
42. John Abraham  DE South Carolina
43. Marvel Smith * OT Arizona State
44 Jamal Lewis RB Tennessee
45 Barrett Green OLB West Virginia
46. Leander Jordan OG Indiana-Pa.
47. Dustin Lyman LB Wake Forest
48. Darrell Jackson* WR Florida
49 Na'il Diggs LB Ohio State
50 Kareem Larrimore CB West Texas A&M
51. Rob Morris LB BYU
52. Ike Charlton * DB Virginia Tech
53. Sebastian Janikowski * K Florida State
54. Adrian Klemm OT Hawaii
55. Lewis Sanders * CB Maryland
56. Fred Robbins DT Wake Forest
57. Todd Wade OT Mississippi
58. Kanoy Kennedy S Arkansas
59. Chris Hovan DT Boston College
60. Sammy Morris RB Texas Tech
           
Note: (*) denotes underclassmen.
      

Players on the rise
Here is a list of players whose stock has climbed through postseason practices, workouts or games:
Pennington, Northcutt, Soward, Joe Hamilton (QB-Georgia Tech), Becht, McDougle, Klemm, Thompson, Peterson, R. Anderson, Poteat, Larrimore and Adriano Belli (DT-Houston).
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