I know how you're feeling. You need a pick-me-up. We all do. The calamity of a year that has been 2020 has shaken us to our collective core, and I'm here to help. You've clicked on the first Practice Squad Power Rankings of the season, and I hope returning patrons couldn't click the link fast enough. For those who never ventured to this piece during its inaugural season last year, I hope you've arrived because you simply couldn't believe this article existed on the internet and leave having been delightfully entertained and informed in a way you never thought po sible.It's a godsend that football is back. And I'm immensely grateful I get to mine deep into scouting notebooks past to engineer JaMychal Green Jersey these rankings every week.Now let's get to the specifics.Of course COVID-19 has thrown a wrench into everybody's plans, including the Practice Squad Power Rankings (PSPR). If you haven't heard, practice squads expanded to 16 players this year, and every team can have as many as six "veterans" on it, players with no limitations as to their number of accrued seasons in the .After hours spent deciding how I should cater the PSPR to the rule changes, I decided I'm not going to feature those veterans. Telling you that is a good player by practice-squad standards was, of course, not the foundational premise of the PSPR. And, yes, he's on the ' practice squad right now. Therefore, to maintain the integrity of PSPR, I'll just be including practice squaders who are rookies, second-year players, or third-year players. That's it. And it aligns perfectly with my niche area of expertise, because the 2018 draft cla s is the first I fully evaluated as CBS Sports' analyst.I'll again keep an official tally of those who get elevated to 53-man rosters -- also known as getting The Call -- after 14 players were called up a grand total of 17 times in 2019. They're immediately referred to as alumni, by the way. And as you'll see below, I couldn't resist ranking more players, given the increase in practice squad sizes this season. To run parallel with the league's figure, I hope to write about 16 individuals Los Angeles Clippers Hats every Friday, 10 officially in the rankings and six honorable mentions.Here's to better days ahead in 2020, a fascinating football season, and a joyous return of the Practice Squad Power Rankings.Jennings almost cracked my Top 100 in the 2020 cla s (No. 105). While not especially fast or twitchy, during his career at Tenne see, Jennings had defenders bounce off him like Bo Jackson on Tecmo . According to , he led the cla s with 30 forced mi sed tackles on 59 receptions in 2019, an absurd, running-back type rate. At 6-3 and 215 pounds, Jennings is a moose. And he's in Kyle Shanahan's scheme, the most YAC-predicated in all of football. Given San Francisco's injuries at receiver, I'm surprised Jennings isn't on the 53-man roster already. Williams was signed by the Bills in early January of 2019 to one of those futures contracts that are almost always overlooked and lead nowhere. But the physical rebounder made the team, scored a game-winning touchdown in a vital win over the in Tenne see and had four catches for 49 yards in Buffalo's playoff defeat at the hands of the . He can play.To date, Ateman has been on the field for 511 snaps acro s two seasons in his NFL career and has 20 grabs for 270 yards and a touchdown. While he's unlikely to play much if Las Vegas' receivers stay healthy, Ateman's produced when given the opportunity and brings a big-play element to the field not because of his speed but because of his gigantic catch radius at nearly 6-foot-5.Brooks looks the part of a trendy safety-linebacker hybrid at 5-11 and 220 pounds. He's not fast -- he ran 4.64 at the combine -- but his short-area quickne s and instincts were both outstanding on film at Maryland. Brooks overflowed the stat sheet in 2018 and 2019 with a combined 155 tackles, 18 tackles for lo s, 2.5 sacks, two picks, and eight pa s breakups. He's often the Jay Scrubb Jersey first to (correctly) react to where the offense plans to go with the football, will make plays in coverage at the short-to-intermediate level and is a sure tackler. He has the athleticism to sift through the traffic to get the ball carrier too. Early in the 2020 pre-draft proce s, there was early-round buzz for Wanogho. Injuries led to a precipitous fall to the sixth round, but the tools are there for the Nigeria-born former Auburn star to ultimately be the bookend tackle to in Philadelphia, a club that's been outstanding at the tackle positions for a while now. Wanogho plays with requisite knee bend, so he's not easily fork-lifted by smaller rushers, and he's explosive off the snap and in the screen game. With better punch timing and added weight, he can be a consistent pa s-protecting tackle in the NFL. This season, he'd mostly be useful getting to the second level in the run game.Foster's an enigma. Terance Mann Jersey Barely produces at Alabama, but runs 4.41 at nearly 6-2 and 198 pounds. Makes the Bills' roster as an undrafted free agent but hardly plays in his first two months of his rookie season in 2018. Then? He registers 25 catches for 511 yards (20.4 yards per) with three scores and looks like the future No. 1 in Buffalo. In his sophomore campaign, injuries keep him off the field, as they do and . Foster had three catches for 64 yards last season. Three catches. That's it! With and rookie , who pieced together an awesome summer, the Bills released Foster, and the Packers grabbed him off waivers. If healthy, Foster has the size and pure speed to be a deep-play specialist with .Fields is a bit of a mystery too, because he was barely a Kawhi Leonard Jersey part-time player during his career at Clemson yet flashed when he got onto the field for the Tigers. He looked the part at the Senior Bowl in 2019, ran 4.37 at a close to 5-10 and 192 pounds. His twitch is undeniable to click-and-close on short routes or follow when receivers completely change directions. As a rookie, Fields played just six snaps, but he has natural talent to be a versatile inside-outside cornerback. There's plenty of youth in Minnesota's secondary now after the team heavily invested there in the draft. Hill's pre s-man experience should get him on the field in his rookie season at some point, although he lacks imposing size and length at 5-10 and 190 pounds with short arms. He gets grabby when trying to run with speedsters down the field, and refs will have a field day with his over-aggre sivene s. However, Hill's feet hit the ground like lightning bolts, and his hips look like they disconnect from his lower half when he changes direction. Hill's twitched up, so he can mirror those intricate routes.Reed has NFL bloodlines -- his dad was Cris Carter's sidekick for a period in Minnesota -- and the former Georgia safety has similar speed when ranging from the deep middle in coverage. He intercepted five pa ses and broke up 14 more in three years with the Bulldogs and is a big safety at 6-1, 202. There's not one