10 best defensive players in college football this season

No defensive player will make a bigger impact this season than Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver.

We’ve talked coaches. We’ve talked headlines. We’ve talked games. But we haven’t yet talked about the most essential ingredient for the college football season: the players. There aren’t enough weeks to break down the game position-by-position, so this week, we’re going big and counting down the 10 defensive players we think will have the biggest impacts in 2017.