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Right now, there’s very little going on in the way of sports. But one thing we do have to cling to is the NFL offseason.
We’ve seen several former Wolverines make moves in free agency, but with the NFL Draft coming up in April, there will at least be some modicum of excitement in the sports world.
There’s been little consensus as to where the Michigan entries land, with some projecting Cesar Ruiz to be a first-round NFL Draft pick, though not all see things that way. That includes NFL.com draft prognosticator Chad Reuter, who has Ruiz one of three former Wolverines going in his four-round mock draft. He has Ruiz going early in the second-round.
Reuter’s picks:
- 2nd round (39 overall) – Cesar Ruiz, NY Giants (via trade with Miami Dolphins)
- 2nd round (55 overall) – Josh Uche, Baltimore Ravens
- 3rd round (92 overall) – Ben Bredeson, Baltimore Ravens
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Should the Ravens land both Uche and Bredeson, it would assuredly make up for the fact that Baltimore traded its lone Wolverine, Chris Wormley, to the Pittsburgh Steelers, which currently has four on the roster (Wormley, Devin Bush Jr., Zach Gentry and Tyree Kinnel).
It would also be a blow to early entrant Donovan Peoples-Jones, who has forgone his final year of eligibility in favor of the NFL Draft. With this latest mock, the earliest he would be selected is in the fifth-round — not great for someone who could have bolstered his stock with another year in college.