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Welcome to NFL Daily where linebackers are absolutely back.

I'm Greg Rosenthal with me from across the sea.

My friend Ali Connolly, who is a linebacker savant, would you say, just an appreciator. Yes, we're going over linebackers, we're going over safeties, and we're going over defensive tackles, all the positions that most people ignore. We're going to go deep on today, Ali. I love it. I love when you get a linebacker draft and everyone says it's boring and I'm just sat there in my room till like seven in the morning, grinding the film, saying there's just more linebackers oozing out of everywhere. I really do believe, yes, linebackers, like we got a couple of great rookies. We got better play, I think, out of the veterans last year. And I do think people are coming around to the fact that, man, having a knockout linebacker who makes a difference on all three downs is like one of the most valuable things that you could have.

And having these two guys at the top of the draft, I know is big for you, some background.

What is your background with the linebacker position in scouting specifically?

Well, early in my scouting career, I did seven years exclusively scouting linebackers, digging everywhere.

Does Penn have one?

Does Harvard had one?

Is there anyone available to be drafted by the league?

That was the bulk of my scouting career was focusing on linebacker play.

That's awesome.

And that's why, yeah, this is really the Ali Connolly draft.

I hadn't really thought about that.

And so let's just get going with the top of the board.

In general, we can talk about it's a deep class.

I think we'll get to that.

And it's what you want out of like a fully loaded class at a position,

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