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If you're watching a YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget you can read my work on ESPN.com. It is a reminder for Thursday night. A lot going on because of course it's the first round. We'll have an update, a video analysis of the commander's pick at number seven.

As soon as I can get up there after the pick, it'd probably be within about 30 to 40 minutes of the pick,

written analysis as well of the pick.

And then at the end of the round, more video kind of summing up the first round,

but also looking ahead a little bit.

And then a podcast, of course, as well.

They'll be sandwiched in there for your enjoyment

to analyze finally what they did do and not the 105 guys that they might take at number seven.

Because it seems like everybody has been projected to the commanders. Everybody's like,

this is who it's going to be, right? And that's what I'm going to talk about today.

Because this is today. I'm talking about why I selected the person I, the player I did for our NFL Nation mock draft, which aired on ESPN 2 on Tuesday afternoon. And the guy I selected was LSU Corner Mansour Delane. And here is what. Number one, here's the order of what we'd pick. So you know what I was working with. So obviously,

Mendoza goes first. David Bailey went second. And then third was Arval Reese to the Cardinals.

I think that's a wildcard spot, no pun intended. And then Tennessee took Sunny Stiles.

The Giants took Jeremiah Love. The Browns took Mayoga from Miami, so the tackle. So that's what I was working with. So the choice is like, I think if Stiles is there or love, I think one of those two guys would be it. I think if it's love, he's not getting past seven. I don't think he's getting past five and maybe not past four, but I don't think he's getting two seven. I think there's a shot that as

Sonny Stiles gets there, I don't know that that'll happen, but I think there's a shot. I think if

if love is gone and Stiles is there, my pick would have been Sonny Stiles. And I can get into some

of that more tomorrow, but a big thing is like what he offers potentially as a pass rusher and there's a blitzer, etc.

Like if they feel he can do that, then it elevates his game to a different level.

And that's why you end up taking a linebacker there.

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