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You know, everybody's got the list every year.

Guys that I'm a big fan of, I'll stand for. I think this guy's going to be really successful. I think they can outperform their draft projection. I'm higher than the consensus on so and so. Right. And I got a list of 15. Summer first round guys, not all of them. It's very low hanging fruit, right? Like I can't come up here and say, here's my top 15 players in the draft these are my guys one of these days for maybe like april full's day i'll get joe with that i'll try to do that next year and we'll see if joe is privy and listens he's on vacation this week with the family so uh don't wrap me out would be my ask But we're going to start with the early guys.

And then we're going to go to day two names and then some late sleepers that I think

can be really good role players in the NFL as day three draft targets that

maybe I have like top 100 grades on individually that I see the potential with.

But we're going to start at the top of the list.

I think if you've listened to any of the programming that we've done on Locked on NFL scouting or any of the content that I've done for Locked on Dolphins or any of the mock drafts that I've written for A to Z sports, you're not going to be surprised to find that that Oliva Vega, Yawane, the offensive guard from Penn State, is one of my guys in this list. He's my top rated offensive lineman. He currently ranks, and I'm much more pro

horizontal draft board than I am vertical list of one through 300. But Yawane is my sixth rated

player in this class. So I do hold him in the utmost of esteems.

The players that I have higher grades on than Olive I Vega, Yawane are Sunny-Styles,

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