Wheeler does a top 100 drafted prospects once he finishes ranking the systems. He'll formally tier the prospects against each other at that point.
As he mentions in the article, he's always been higher on Howard than others. But even then, I suspect he'll drop him this year and may not even rank him with all the other prospects entering the system and some guys taking bigger steps forward.
Last year he had Howard ranked in tier 5 at 55 overall (which was in front of Gridin at 73 and Honzek at 74):
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/610...kings-top-100/