2022 NFL Draft: Early draft rankings and class overviews

The 2022 NFL Draft still seems impossibly far away at this point — the scenes of this year's draft are still very fresh in the memory, and the excitement of the upcoming college football season is taking all the attention.

But preparation for the draft is a yearlong event nowadays. As soon as Mr. Irrelevant hears his name called, NFL teams move on and start preparing next year's draft board — and things are no different at PFF.

Here are our early draft rankings and class overviews, giving you a brief look at how we see the nation's top draft prospects heading into the 2021 college football season.

• QUARTERBACK

• RUNNING BACK

• WIDE RECEIVER

• OFFENSIVE LINE

• INTERIOR DEFENSIVE LINE

• EDGE DEFENDER

• LINEBACKER

• CORNERBACK

• SAFETY