Colorado Rockies

Colorado Rockies outfielder Kris Bryant is not considering retirement despite a back ailment that has placed him on the injured list, marking his ninth IL stint since 2022.

“I want to be on the field. I want to play the game,” Bryant told reporters Sunday at his Coors Field locker, per Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. “I want to talk to doctors, see if there’s anything else we can do. But I’m not gonna give up.”

Bryant has played just 11 games this season and none since April 12. He was placed on the injured list on April 13 due to lumbar degenerative disk disease. Beth Harris of the Associated Press provided more information regarding the issue.

"Degenerative disk disease involves the breakdown and deterioration of the spinal disks, which act as cushions between the vertebrae," Harris wrote.

"It’s a natural part of aging, but can also be accelerated by injury, overuse, and lifestyle choices. While DDD itself isn’t a disease, the resulting disk degeneration can lead to pain, nerve compression, and other symptoms."

Bryant has dealt with numerous injuries since signing a seven-year, $182 million contract with the Rockies in 2022. He's played in just 170 total games since then and never more than 80 in a single season (2023).

Bryant was once one of the game's brightest stars. The four-time All-Star shined brightest in 2016, when he helped lead the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years. Bryant won the National League MVP award that season and hit .308 in the playoffs (.923 OPS) with three homers and eight RBI. During the regular season, Bryant scored a National League-leading 121 runs to go along with 39 homers and 102 RBI. He'll forever be a legend in Chicago for his efforts on the North Side.

Bryant's career in town ended as the Cubs broke up the core from that 2016 team earlier this decade. He was eventually traded to the San Francisco Giants in 2021 before signing with the Rockies in 2022.

Bryant has dealt with various ailments since then, but back issues have been at the forefont.

"Back issues have been persistent for Bryant, who served two separate stints on the IL last season with a back strain; Bryant also missed nearly two months with back issues in 2022," Jared Greenspan and Andrés Soto of MLB.com noted.

Unfortunately, the back issues seem fairly serious at this point. Per Saunders, Bryant said he wakes up on some days barely being able to move, calling it "extremely frustrating. When asked about the potential of back surgery, Bryant said "the doctors aren’t there yet" before adding:

“A back surgery is a pretty big surgery,” Bryant noted, per Saunders. “Obviously, I’m not an expert on it. Maybe I should be by now, with all the problems I’ve had. I want to see all my options, too … so that I’m not, like, in constant pain and nauseous, where I can’t eat, which was the situation today. I just woke up not feeling great, so it’s just extremely frustrating.”

Bryant hasn't been able to experience a prolonged stretch away from the IL for years, and the light doesn't seem to be at the end of the tunnel right now. It's ultimately quite cruel for Bryant, a once-great player whose career has been curtailed by injuries but clearly wants to be back out there and performing up to his tremendous capabilities.

Hopefully Bryant finds some answers soon and is able to finally enjoy a string of good health that he sorely deserves.

Kris Bryant's disappointing tenure with the Colorado Rockies saw another unfortunate development Monday when the National League West team announced it placed him on the 10-day injured list due to lumbar degenerative disc disease.

The stint on the IL is retroactive to Sunday.

"It's been bothering him for a few days," manager Bud Black said, per Beth Harris of the Associated Press. "We decided to be a little bit proactive and put him on the injured list. Hopefully in 10 days he'll be back."

Harris noted degenerative disc disease causes a deterioration of spinal discs that provide cushions between the vertebrae. It happens over the course of aging but can be more noticeable and painful with injury and overuse.

Unfortunately for Bryant, spending time on the IL is nothing new since he joined the Rockies on a seven-year deal ahead of the 2022 campaign.

This is his ninth trip to the IL since then due to issues such as plantar fasciitis, a broken finger, a back strain, a rib contusion, and setbacks involving his heel and back. He followed a back-strengthening program this offseason but is still back on the IL.

Bryant has also struggled when he is in the lineup for Colorado and was slashing .154/.195/.205 with zero home runs and one RBI in 11 games this season. He appeared in just 37 games in 2024 and slashed .218/.323/.301 with two home runs and 15 RBI.

His production in Colorado stands in stark contrast to the first seven years of his career with the Chicago Cubs. 

Bryant's list of accomplishments in the Windy City included a National League MVP, a NL Rookie of the Year and four All-Star selections. He also helped lead the Cubs to the 2016 World Series title, which was their first championship since 1908.

Despite his success in Chicago, the NL Central team traded him to the San Francisco Giants during a sell off in the 2021 season.

He then joined the Rockies in free agency during the ensuing offseason and surely envisioned plenty of offensive success in the altitude of Coors Field. Instead, he has consistently dealt with injuries and is now once again out of the lineup.

The Colorado Rockies have unveiled their 2025 MLB City Connect uniforms.

JUST IN: The Rockies have revealed their new City Connect uniforms 🟣🔵🟠 pic.twitter.com/MSOsxhvLhV

— MLB (@MLB) April 12, 2025

This is not a sequel. pic.twitter.com/FPMkkdV0Mv

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 12, 2025

According to ESPN's Anthony Gharib, the team will debut the jerseys on Friday at home against the Washington Nationals. The Rockies will then wear them for every Friday home game for the rest of the season.

The Rockies provided more information about the jerseys and the inspirations behind them.

From sunrise to sunset.

🌄 https://t.co/pOr399nqA9 pic.twitter.com/EGvZm4UByb

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 12, 2025

It's a big change-up from their old City Connect jerseys, which featured a green-and-white color scheme.

Which City Connect do you prefer for the Rockies? pic.twitter.com/WsKYQnOVhV

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) April 12, 2025

As Gharib noted, the new jersey colors are "inspired by the colors of Colorado sunsets and sunrises from the plains to the Rocky Mountains."

"It's the contrast between the white snow on the mountains and the light blue sky as night is falling, and when the sun comes up in the morning here, we get some reds and oranges that are just unbelievable," Rockies' vice president of community and retail operations Jim Kellogg told Gharib.

Gharib also noted that the Rockies are the first-ever MLB team to "debut a City Connect pullover jersey."

"This is really about the youth," Kellogg said. "We have a young team. And a throwback to [the] Little League jersey, which was always a pullover jersey, was a t-shirt or a pullover jersey. So it was kind of a youth movement going back to it."

The Rockies have 13 Friday home games this year, so they'll be routinely featured throughout the season, beginning with back-to-back weeks on April 18 and 25 against the Nats and then Cincinnati Reds.

"You're a loser f--king organization. Every single one of you."—Bryce Harper.

The Rockies are in a hard place.

Thirty-two years since joining MLB as an expansion team in 1993, Colorado has remarkably little to show for it. The Rockies have never won a World Series. In their only World Series appearance, they were swept. They are one of two teams (Seattle Mariners) that have never won a game in the World Series. And their total of two playoff series wins is good for dead-last among MLB teams.

The regular season has not been any kinder. The Rockies' best win total in a campaign is 92 games—the lowest in MLB. They are the only team that has never in its history put together a seven-year stretch with a combined winning record.

Thirty-two seasons is starting to get up there as sample sizes go. Why is this one team so consistently bad?

The Rockies are Different

Part of baseball's charm is that each stadium has its quirks. Every team's home ballpark plays a little differently, and at 5,280 feet above sea level, no park plays more differently from the others than Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies.

Without the added weight of 5,000 feet of air that other stadiums deal with, baseballs take flight at the Rockies' home like nowhere else. The result: Coors Field is a massive outlier for offensive production.

Per Baseball Savant, the "Coors Field effect" amounts to a thick thumb on the scale: About 25-30 percent more runs are scored in games there, with home runs around 11 percent above the MLB average.

The team makes efforts to mitigate this. The Rockies place balls in a humidor before their use in-game, helping to soften them and prevent them from flying as far in Colorado's thin, dry air. Coors has the fences farther out than any other MLB stadium, doing its part to limit home runs.

They can't push the fences out further, though, because the largest field in baseball already yields the most extra-base hits of any park in the majors and gives Coors the highest BABIP of any stadium. Per Fangraphs, it is the only park in baseball that inflates all four kinds of hits: singles, doubles, triples and home runs. When you add it up, the anti-offense measures net out nowhere close to offsetting the manic scoring that Coors Field produces.

This might not seem so bad. For fans, Coors Field is a fun novelty. Everyone likes scoring in baseball. The Rockies have never had poor attendance.

The problem is the scoring environment is suffocating this team. It is the reason the Rockies can't and will never be able to compete.

The Rockies are Just Worse

Baseball analysts noticed something odd about the Coors Field effect almost immediately.

You can split the total Coors Field effect up into two halves: half of it comes from Rockies players hitting better there than elsewhere, and the other half comes from players on other teams hitting better there than elsewhere.

The total Coors Field effect is the average of the Rockies part and non-Rockies part, and there is no reason to expect that these two numbers should be very different from one another. But there is a difference.

The Rockies present an analytical conundrum: their half of the Coors Field effect is consistently much worse. Bafflingly bad.

Analysts like to point to a menu of explanations here, each of them plausible but individually hand-wavey.

Maybe Rockies players are pitched to differently, but only at home. Maybe the frequent elevation changes make it hard for Colorado pitchers to calibrate their stuff. Maybe the Rockies are the only team stricken by "Coors Field hangover," the idea being they are particularly hard-hit by the altitude changes as they travel from elevation to sea level and back. Maybe it's the frequency itself of travel back and forth to and from altitude that takes a lot out of the team and explains why it's different.

The simpler explanation that nobody wants to believe at face value is that Rockies players, in aggregate, are just worse than the average MLB player.

It seems so facile that it's easily dismissed. They are a big league team like any other and have had hundreds of big league players over 32 years. How could they all just be worse as a group?

Here, too, it helps to split up the effect. Let's start with their pitching.

The Rockies have never come close to having good pitching. As a team, they are an ugly 5.02, are dead-last in ERA since their founding in 1993. This past season, at a 5.47 ERA, they were again last in MLB by a mile.

In the 2007 season, at the franchise's unquestioned apex of success, their 4.32 ERA was good enough for squarely average, punctuated by a miserable 7.68 ERA in the World Series sweep.

Try naming the three best pitchers in Rockies history. It is a supremely difficult challenge even if you are good at things like this, and it won't take you long before you get to guys with career ERAs around five.

Part of their bad pitching is obviously the physical effect of playing half your games at Coors Field. But this obscures the bigger problem.

Why would you sign with the Rockies if you were any good at pitching?

What type of next contract do you think you'll get once Coors is done with you?

If you do sign with the Rockies, your agent will understandably want to crack them pretty well with your contract.

Colorado, as a result, has had to hand out some of the worst deals in MLB history to attract any name-brand pitching, most famously signing Mike Hampton to a $121 million contract in 2000.

In practice, this is a brutal selection effect. The Rockies are asking pitchers to sign up for pitching hell, and they have no way around their need to waste money by overpaying pitching talent. The net effect is that the average pitcher on the Rockies is worse at pitching than the average pitcher on the average team.

It's not like you can expect to get much better as a pitcher in Colorado. The Rockies have employed nine pitching coaches in their 32 years, and none of them have ever gone on to hold another major league coaching job after getting let go, save for Jim Wright, who was rehired by Colorado for the same role.

Thanks to the altitude, Rockies pitching coach is a career dead-end, the worst assistant coaching job in baseball.

Like with the pitchers, part of this effect on pitching coaches is the unavoidable effect of the thin air. Part of it is the pitchers they have to work with are less talented per dollar than average. But part of it is they are just worse pitching coaches because good pitching coaches do not take that Rockies job.

Zoom out and it's a vicious cycle. They can't develop pitching talent. They can't coach pitching talent. They have to overpay to sign pitching talent. And when they do, at extra cost, acquire major league pitching talent, their guys still get rocked in half their games.

This problem is so ugly that it affects the entire organization. Look up any front-office position where the team's history of hires is public and you will find the same thing: It's impossible for ex-Rockies to get hired again in the majors once the team is done with them. Nobody who has other options is going to pick the Rockies, and for good reason. You are forced to hand out bad contracts, your pitching will still stink no matter what you do, and once it's over you will never have an MLB job again.

The Coors effect even chases away hitting talent. The venue can be a scary prospect for hitters and their agents. Unless you're sure you can beat the Coors Field effect, you're taking a significant risk for your post-Rockies earnings by signing there. Every MLB team is going to wonder why you were worse on the road while on the Rockies, and even if you do put up stats at Coors, they won't take those numbers seriously anyway.

The Rockies' only choice is to offer extra to reassure you about the Coors effect on your future earning potential. And if they don't sweeten the deal, you're better off on a real team.

Why not just pick one of the other 29 teams?

The Rockies' only answer to this question is to pay extra for everything. It is an unavoidably losing game long-term for them.

They are the only MLB team that has this problem, and it compounds everywhere they turn. Together, it snowballs into a massive set of selection effects that scare away talent from all directions and results in Rockies players and staff simply being worse.

In the majors and the minors, in the front office and the dugout, both pitching and hitting, the Rockies' organization repels talent, and the only way they can attract talent is by overpaying, often catastrophically such as Kris Bryant's seven-year, $182 million contract.

It doesn't help that any star you do manage to draft and develop to the majors gets there, looks around and loses patience fast. The systemic failure in Colorado disillusioned the team's last star player, Nolan Arenado, so badly that he forced his way out in a trade that netted the team a pitiful return.

You can spin this all charitably if you want. Obviously, the odds are not mathematically zero that the Rockies ever win a World Series while they play at Coors. Baseball has a lot of randomness built in, and many overlooked players would love a chance to play on an MLB team, even if it means the Rockies.

Coors' higher scoring also means higher variance and a higher chance a mediocre team can string together wins at the right time. Combine this with MLB's club-friendly contract system allowing 5-8 years of cheap control over young players, and even against a daunting array of pressures, once every generation or two a Rockies team flush with homegrown offensive talent can get hot enough at the right time and make a run.

This happened in 2007's 90-win season, the only episode in Rockies history anyone could interpret as a level of success when young stars Troy Tulowitzki and Matt Holliday emerged from their system, formed a squad around long-term star Todd Helton and put together a memorable red-hot October, winning both of the playoff series the Colorado Rockies have ever won before getting swept in the World Series by the Boston Red Sox.

But it gets less likely every year. In their 32 years, there is no indication that the Rockies will ever be able to develop a pitching pipeline that allows them to keep opposing teams from scoring, and there is less and less reason to believe they ever might. Right now, they are at square zero, coming off two straight franchise-worst 59-103 and 61-101 seasons with no path to contention in sight in the ultra-loaded NL West.

As pitchers get better around baseball, velocities get faster and sliders get crazier, placing even more importance on pitching depth and coaching talent, the Rockies just fall further behind.

For now, attendance is healthy enough that the bottom line can paper over the losing. Yet at some point, fans will lose patience for losing this comprehensively. This process appears to be already happening.

The Rockies' attendance advantage has steadily eroded as memories of 2007 fade and the team languishes somewhere short of watchable. Last year, it sunk to the MLB average, 15th, for the first time. It won't take much more decline in attendance for the business side to start failing.

Together it is an unenviable problem. It is unclear what will turn Colorado into a place people want to pitch, short of an entirely new stadium with a pressurized dome.

The Rockies have to try something big to tamp down this margin or it will continue to kill them. Time to start getting creative with scouting, pitcher evaluations and the approach taken with hitters.

Until then, it will be a steady slide to rock bottom.

While the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees prepare for the World Series, front offices of every other organization have turned their attention to the offseason and the myriad of deals and moves that will help define the 2025 season.

One such team is the Colorado Rockies, a team seemingly perpetually out of the championship hunt.

Instead of beefing up the roster and increasing payroll in hopes of fielding a playoff contender, the organization is preparing to cut payroll, per Patrick Saunders of The Denver Post.

It is one element of what the team calls its "construction project," an effort to rebuild (again) and head in a youth-oriented direction. Another element is the trading of veteran players, with Brendan Rodgers and starting pitchers Austin Gomber and Cal Quantrill among those mentioned by Saunders, with the latter of the pitchers most likely to be moved.

In 29 games, Quantrill went 8-11 with an ERA of 4.98, 110 strikeouts, and a 1.52 WHIP in an unfriendly ballpark for pitchers.

He is due $8 million in arbitration while Rodgers and Gomber are each due $5 million.

Quantrill previously spent time in San Diego and Cleveland. In his final season with the Guardians, Quantrill saw his ERA balloon to 5.24, something he improved upon in his first (and potentially only) season in Colorado.

His control was a problem at times, with a K/BB rate of 1.6 in 2024, but he is a veteran arm who can benefit a contender as a fourth or fifth-day starter.

Gomber has consistently had an ERA over 4.0 but has also spent the majority of his career pitching in Coors Field, a ballpark that will make even the most effective pitcher look mediocre or worse on the stat sheet.

He did give up the most hits of his career in 2024 with 178, though, meaning he would be both a veteran and reclamation project of sorts for a team looking to add another arm to its rotation.

Rodgers tied his second-best performance in terms of home runs in 2024, blasting 13 and driving in the second-most RBI of his career with 54. He has a career slash line of .266/.316/.40 in his six seasons in Colorado.

All three players have experience in the Majors and would likely be an asset to any locker room they appeared in should a trade occur. How leaving the Rockies organization, one synonymous with losing in recent years, would affect their play is the real question.

The Colorado Rockies could trade veteran players including Cal Quantrill this offseason as part of a plan to spend less on their payroll in 2025, Patrick Saunders reported for The Denver Post.

The Rockies ranked 17th in the MLB with a payroll of just over $147 million in 2024, per Spotrac.

That number is now expected to dip due to falling television revenue tied to the decline of regional sports networks, Saunders reported.

Second baseman Brendan Rodgers and starter Austin Gomber, along with Quantrill, are "top candidates" for trades this offseason, per Saunders.

Quantrill, Rodgers and Gomber are each set to hit free agency after their final season under arbitration in 2025.

Quantrill recorded a 4.98 ERA and walked an NL-high 69 batters through 29 starts this season after struggling with his sinker. He could be a trade target for a team hoping he can get back to the promise he showed as a go-to starter in Cleveland in 2022.

Gomber meanwhile made a career-high 30 starts last season and recorded 116 strikeouts to 38 walks, while former Gold Glove Award winner Rodgers slashed .267/.314/.407 with 54 RBI in his first full season back from shoulder surgery.

The Rockies are already set to free up $14.5 million in payroll with the retirement of designated hitter Charlie Blackmon, bringing their projected 2025 payroll total to around $130 million, per FanGraphs.

Colorado could lower that total further by trading this trio of 2025 free agents, which would free up a projected total of $18 million from next season's payroll, per Saunders and Cots Baseball Contracts.

The Rockies will need to spend some money in order to guarantee the return of Jacob Stallings, who is expected to return for 2025, per Saunders. Stallings has a $2 million mutual option for next season but is "likely to negotiate for a new contract," according to Saunders.

Colorado has ranked in the bottom half of the league in opening-day payroll for the last four seasons, per Cots. That trend looks set to continue heading into 2025.

Charlie Blackmon is calling it a career.

The Colorado Rockies outfielder announced his retirement Monday near the end of his 14th season in Major League Baseball. He has been a member of the Rockies his entire career.

"Today I'm a ballplayer looking over the fence into uncertainty," he wrote. "For what is behind me, I am grateful. My cup runs over. I have been blessed more than any man should expect."

pic.twitter.com/JAGgw8KO1o

— Charlie Blackmon (@Chuck_Nazty) September 23, 2024

Charlie Blackmon announces his retirement from Major League Baseball. pic.twitter.com/NiBaSMPDeV

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) September 23, 2024

The Rockies revealed they will celebrate his legacy during the upcoming weekend series against the Los Angeles Dodgers:

This weekend is for @chuck_nazty 🫶

Fireworks Friday
Charlie T-Shirt Giveaway Saturday
Pre-Game Ceremony Sunday

See you at Coors Field!

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 23, 2024

Blackmon made his major league debut during the 2011 season but didn't appear in more than 82 games until the 2014 campaign.

That year was his breakout effort, as he made his first of four career All-Star Games and slashed .288/.335/.440 with 19 home runs, 72 RBI and 28 stolen bases. It was the start of an impressive stretch that saw him make three straight All-Star Games from 2017 through 2019 as he established himself as a dominant offensive force.

He won back-to-back Silver Sluggers in 2016 and 2017 and finished fifth in National League MVP in the second of those years when he slashed .331/.399/.601 with 37 home runs, 104 RBI, 14 triples and 14 stolen bases.

Blackmon led the league in batting average, total bases (387), hits (213), runs (137) and triples that season while leading the Rockies to the playoffs. It was the franchise's first postseason appearance since the 2009 campaign.

The 38-year-old hasn't been able to replicate those numbers of late and hit .249 with 11 home runs through 118 games this season. He was also scheduled to become a free agent after this season, so there was a bit of uncertainty about the next step before Monday's announcement.

That uncertainty is no longer present, and he will surely be remembered fondly among Rockies fans as a cornerstone of the organization for so many years.

His name is all over the all-time Colorado leaderboards, as he is second in franchise history in runs scored (991), hits (1,797), total bases (2,942), doubles (333) and stolen bases (148). He is first in triples (67), sixth in home runs (226), fourth in RBI (797) and third in walks (482).

It will be unusual to see a Rockies lineup without Blackmon's name in it during the 2025 campaign, but he made his mark in franchise history and is hanging up his cleats after a long and successful career.

The Colorado Rockies' green and white city connect uniforms are going to be replaced after the 2024 season.

Prior to Friday's game against the Chicago Cubs, the Rockies announced they would be taking advantage of the agreement between Nike and MLB that allows teams to rotate in a new city connect jersey every three years to debut a new look in 2025.

Coming in 2025 👀 New City Connect

This is the final month of the inaugural green and white uniforms. As part of MLB and Nike's three year City Connect cycle, we will be debuting a new City Connect design next season. pic.twitter.com/dYOwbwKLsC

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 13, 2024

The Rockies have announced that they will be getting a new City Connect uniform in 2025

This will be the final month for their green and white uniforms pic.twitter.com/pgma64ulkK

— B/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) September 13, 2024

The Boston Red Sox were the first team to use a city connect jersey in April 2021. A total of seven teams broke in the look later that same season.

Colorado was the 11th team to showcase its city connect jerseys, wearing them for the first time on June 4, 2022. The green and white color scheme with the Rocky Mountain logo was modeled after the state's car license plates.

The Los Angeles Dodgers became the first team to retire their original city connects and debut a second one. Their original debuted in Aug. 2021 and featured "Los Dodgers" written on the cap and jersey.

Los Angeles retired that jersey in favor of a new look with a cream-base color and blue lettering. The Washington Nationals are also going to retire their current city connect look at the end of this season for a new model in 2025.

Details about the Rockies' next city connect uniform have not been made available at this point. The uniform is designed to have specific cultural aspects of the team's home city or state.

The Rockies' primary jerseys include home whites with pinstripes, road grays and a purple alternate that can be used for home or road games.

Since the city connect jerseys were introduced in 2021, 28 of MLB's 30 teams have used them in games. The only teams that don't have one are the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics.

Former Georgia Bulldogs star Charlie Condon, who the Colorado Rockies selected with the No. 3 overall pick in this year's MLB draft, landed a record-tying $9.25 million bonus in his contractual agreement with the team.

ESPN's Jeff Passan reported the news on Condon, whose bonus matches the deal No. 2 overall pick Chase Burns struck with the Cincinnati Reds. They now co-hold the MLB record for the most up-front money given to a drafted player, per Passan.

Both surpassed Pittsburgh Pirates ace and 2023 No. 1 overall pick Paul Skenes' $9.2 million bonus. This year's No. 1 overall choice, Travis Bazzana, agreed to an $8.95 million bonus with the Cleveland Guardians.

Condon just amassed 37 home runs and 78 RBI alongside a .433 batting average and 1.575 OPS in his redshirt sophomore season.

Thanks to his prodigious power, Condon earned the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's best player. He also earned top-player nods from Baseball America, D1Baseball and Perfect Game en route to consensus All-American honors as well.

Condon played third at Georgia but is expected to pay outfield for the Rockies, according to Passan.

Colorado could certainly use his bat on the pro level soon enough. The 34-63 Rockies are sitting last in the National League West, and their 4.15 runs per game are ninth-lowest in baseball. In the meantime, the 21-year-old now headlines a farm system that rose to 14th in Joel Reuter of Bleacher Report's latest rankings. Condon also sits fifth on B/R's latest MLB top-100 prospect rankings.