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Biggest Winners of the 1st Round | 2026 NFL Draft · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Right, Jeffrey cap Here's what we got. First pick Mendoza.
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  Speaker 1: We knew Bailey made sense. They actually went Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 2: Pause. They actually went Jeremiah Love at three. We were
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  Speaker 2: not expecting. Carnal Tait was when we all got shocked.
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  Speaker 1: We were expecting an r Bell resource sun these styles,
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  Speaker 1: they go wide receiver for Cam, then we go Rvel.
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs traded up to get Monsor Delayne then styles Tyson
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  Speaker 1: second wide receiver off the board to the Saints. Fano
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  Speaker 1: after the Browns traded down, and then Mauioah when the
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  Speaker 1: Giants got their trade with Dexter Lawrence and the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys moved up to take Caleb downs. Malik Neighbors was
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  Speaker 1: an absolute just frustration.
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  Speaker 2: Caden Proctor goes at twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Ty Simpson was the biggest shock, going thirteen to the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Yojana at fourteen. Ruben Bain falls all the way to
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  Speaker 1: fifteen for Tampa Bay Trays Bucks Sadiq goes sixteen to
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. We knew the lines would go tackle Vikings
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  Speaker 1: supprise with Caleb Banks going a little bit earlier than expected.
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  Speaker 1: Monroe Freeling giving some protection there for Bryce Young and
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  Speaker 1: then we just spoke.
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  Speaker 2: To a Mackay Lemon, now the wide.
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  Speaker 1: Receiver that will likely be the aj Brown replacement in
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  Speaker 1: that new wide receiver room. Arizona State tackle goes to
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at twenty one, a perfect fit.
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  Speaker 2: Mesador the pick at twenty two for the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: Malachi Lawrence rounds it out with downs for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Concepcione gives some weaponry there for the Browns, and then
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Thieneman Our Trevor is saying that that is the
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  Speaker 1: steal of the draft there at twenty five, Rutledgit twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Johnson at twenty seven, lowbo look at all the trades
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, seven, twenty nine, thirty all trades.
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs go Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Woods there to strengthen up to d line, and then
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  Speaker 1: Omar Cooper Junior wraps up a pretty darn stellar draft for.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last two picks there Keldrick Falk for
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  Speaker 1: the Titans and they traded up and Jadarian Price be
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  Speaker 1: running back for Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Is now our time to pick the winners of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: This could be a player, this could be a team,
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  Speaker 1: It could really be anything. Sigmund, why don't we start
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  Speaker 1: with you. Who would you like to spotlight as your
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  Speaker 1: winner of the draft.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to say the Jets were great, but
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  Speaker 3: I have to say Dylan Thingum in the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that he went to a perfect spot.
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  Speaker 3: This is a defense that loves the force turnovers, a
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  Speaker 3: defense that likes to keep things multiple. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: Dylan thenuman is going to have the ability to just
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  Speaker 3: be a major difference maker for the Chicago Bears. So
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  Speaker 3: for me, this is my big winner. You got a
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  Speaker 3: top eight player in the class at number twenty five overall.
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  Speaker 3: It was a position of need and it's the type
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  Speaker 3: of player that allows you to continue to have one
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  Speaker 3: of the one of the defense in the NFL that
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  Speaker 3: creates the most turnovers. And when you are trying to
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  Speaker 3: win a Super Bowl, which the Chicago Bears are, they
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  Speaker 3: feel like they're close. You needed a player like this
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  Speaker 3: and they got a player like this at twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, the Chicago Bears and Dylan Thinumano both
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  Speaker 3: of them big winners with this number twenty five over old.
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  Speaker 1: Pick Malik Neighbors, who would you say is your big
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  Speaker 1: winner of Draft Night?
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  Speaker 2: One?
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  Speaker 4: Personally, I gotta say us, Do you mean the four.
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  Speaker 2: Of us in this room or do you mean the
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  Speaker 2: New York Giants.
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  Speaker 4: Giants for sure, I mean we got we got all
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  Speaker 4: Bell Reese. I mean we just we traded away Bobby
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  Speaker 4: Yep and Michael mcfaden went our last year with a list, Frank,
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  Speaker 4: so we asked somebody else in that linebacker room. Without
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  Speaker 4: the linebacker that we added, like you said, with the
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  Speaker 4: defense that you know hardball runs, it'll be a great fit.
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  Speaker 2: And then take Francis Malnoa.
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  Speaker 4: And we just got rid of Vyn Roland last year.
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  Speaker 4: Puts him right there at the guard position that feels
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  Speaker 4: that role. So we're moving in the right direction. So
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  Speaker 4: I feel like overuy, we won. We got our picks,
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  Speaker 4: we got the right spots that we need to fill up,
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  Speaker 4: and that was it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So he's taking the Giants attacking the trenches. Michael Parsons,
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  Speaker 1: Who would you say was the big winner tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 5: I would say that, judge. I just think for where
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  Speaker 5: they were at, they committed that they were tanking. They
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  Speaker 5: knew where they were as an organization and said, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to let go of our best players and
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  Speaker 5: we're going to get cheap, and we're going to attack
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  Speaker 5: free agency. We're going to attack the draft, be aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm actually like super proud because they're trying to
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  Speaker 5: they're trying to help Aaron Glen. Usually don't see that
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  Speaker 5: in organizations, you know what I mean. Like, they're giving
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  Speaker 5: Aaron Glenn a real chance to coach a legitimate football team,
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  Speaker 5: and I say he's on his way to getting that.
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  Speaker 2: Do I say their.
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  Speaker 5: Playoffs ready automatically?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 5: Because of the division in Drake May Josh Allen, it's
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  Speaker 5: a very competitive division that they still have to go through.
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  Speaker 5: But do you say, are they on their way this
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  Speaker 5: next year? Because they still have a lot of draft
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  Speaker 5: picks for next year and they still have uh, they
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  Speaker 5: still have plenty of picks this year. Are they on
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  Speaker 5: their way to being a competitive division? Competitive inner division?
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  Speaker 5: I would say yes. So I think they took the
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  Speaker 5: biggest step forward as an organization today for where they
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  Speaker 5: started at.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think about the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: They came in with two second round picks because of
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  Speaker 1: the Quinn Williams trade.
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  Speaker 2: They package one of them up to go up there
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  Speaker 2: and get Omar Cooper Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty darn stellar all over the place because I've been
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  Speaker 1: hanging around with Micah so much. Some of the winners Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: Tate and Downs because they're going to tax free states.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. That's so much more money.
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  Speaker 1: That's really great. But my big winner is the guy
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  Speaker 1: we talked to early Ty Simpson talk about going to
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  Speaker 1: the perfect spot if he would have gone to the
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  Speaker 1: Jets or to the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you get to be the.
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  Speaker 1: Guy right away, but you get to be behind Matt
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  Speaker 1: Stafford and learning from Sean mcvayh in a no lose situation,
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  Speaker 1: and you are.
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  Speaker 2: A quarterback that is used to waiting.
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  Speaker 1: So it's completely like the development continues in the perfect situation,
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  Speaker 1: and we can look back at this the way we
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  Speaker 1: do Jordan Love and the way we've looked at the
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  Speaker 1: these other quarterbacks that get to wait. Patrick Mahomes played
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  Speaker 1: one game his rookie year and it was a meaningless
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  Speaker 1: week seventeen game.
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  Speaker 2: Ty Simpson, do I think he's gonna be great? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but I know he's in an awesome situation.
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  Speaker 2: So those are our winners from round one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the best available players for
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  Speaker 1: Night two. Night two tomorrow, we will bit a due
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  Speaker 1: to my leak, neighbors and Michael Parsons Sigma, myself and
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  Speaker 1: Connor Rogers.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have the full stock exchange here.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor, why don't you take me through the big board
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  Speaker 1: best available for day two?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, guys, there's not a lot of like big shots.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, Okay, maybe DeAngelo Ponds gets into the first round,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Jacob Rodriguez gets in the first round, maybe Emmanuel
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  Speaker 3: McNeil Warren, maybe Chase Besonti's but there's not anybody that's
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  Speaker 3: like sitting here that I'm like, oh my gosh. I
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  Speaker 3: never would have thought that this player was getting in
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  Speaker 3: the second round. Obviously, Jamal McCoy being eight overall my
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  Speaker 3: big board stands out. But he has the knee injury.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was something else that kind of came
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  Speaker 3: out in this past week where it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: now teams aren't worried about the knee that he had
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  Speaker 3: surgically repaired. They're worried about the other knee that might
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  Speaker 3: have issues that he might need to have a second surgery. So,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you, it's not too shocking. But
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of these guys that are in
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  Speaker 3: this group are gonna go pretty early. If you need
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  Speaker 3: an interior offensive lineman, Chase Besantas is gonna go next.
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  Speaker 3: The next linebacker is gonna be Jacob Rodriguez, did'angelo Pons.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be where everybody's eyes go for where he goes.
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  Speaker 3: I think Christian Miller, the defensive tackle from Georgia, is
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  Speaker 3: such an underrated player. He's not the pass rusher that
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  Speaker 3: you want to draft in the first round, but as
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  Speaker 3: a defensive tackle who holds the line of scrimmage, defends
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  Speaker 3: the run, I mean, he is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: players in this class. He's actually my top interior defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: Left you get a couple of other pages of guys
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  Speaker 3: who are corners, linebackers, edge rushers. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun names that are still left on the board. So
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of Day two, it's gonna move fast
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  Speaker 3: because it's gonna be a lot of like, oh, they
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  Speaker 3: got this guy in the second round, they got this
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  Speaker 3: guy in the second round. There's gonna be a ton
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  Speaker 3: of those reactions
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  Speaker 1: To Trevor great not great job, tonight Man, really appreciate it.