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How USA TODAY’s Touchdown Wire graded the NY Giants’ selection of Kayvon Thibodeaux

The NY Giants were able to grab Kayvon at No. 5. What draft grade did they receive for the pick?

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Kayvon Thibodeaux is headed to the Big Apple.

The former Oregon Ducks superstar was selected fifth in the 2022 NFL draft by the New York Giants, setting him up to begin his career in the sports capital of the country.

Thibodeaux was mocked everywhere from No. 2 to No. 10 leading up to the draft, but most believe the Giants have a steal getting Thibodeaux at No. 5.

That includes the fine folks over at USA TODAY Sports’ Touchdown Wire, who gave the Giants an “A” grade for their selection of the Oregon star.

When evaluating players, you have to understand the difference between effort and impact. There are players who make things look easier than they should be, and there are players who aren’t always utilized in all the ways that could make them special. It’s my belief that Thibodeaux suffers from both issues. He’s such an amazing raw athlete, we wind up expecting more of him at times than he may be capable of, given his current techniques and limitations. Is Thibodeaux’s impact muted at times when it shouldn’t be? Yes, but I do not see a consistent effort problem that would drop him down my rankings. I see a player who is not a traditional edge defender, and may be capable of much more in a different structure.

Thibodeaux was the No. 1 recruit in the country when he joined the Ducks in 2019. Over the past three years, he racked up numerous accolades; including Pac-12 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year, the Morris Trophy as the conference’s top defensive lineman in 2020, and he was a unanimous All-American and first-team All-Pac 12 selection in 2021.

Now he gets a chance to prove his worth in the NFL — and the scrutiny of New York’s notoriously difficult media landscape should add more fuel to his fire.

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Atlanta Falcons add major offensive weapon for Marcus Mariota in 2022 NFL Draft

Fans of Marcus Mariota, rejoice. The Falcons drafted USC WR Drake London at No. 8, adding to the Oregon legend’s talented young core of pass-catchers.

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Things are really looking up for Marcus Mariota and the army of fans that currently back him across the nation.

After he was signed by the Atlanta Falcons earlier this year and given a chance to rejuvenate his career as a starting quarterback, he also was just gifted a playmaking wide receiver in the NFL draft that has the chance to be transcendent.

With the No. 8 pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, the Falcons selected wide receiver Drake London, from the USC Trojans. At 6-foot-5, 219 pounds, London has the size to be a dominant NFL receiver, and he also ran a 4.4-second 40-yard dash at the combine earlier this year.

In three years with the Trojans, London had 2,153 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns.

There are a lot of holes on the Falcons’ roster, but with the addition of London, Atlanta has a promising young core of receivers that Mariota can target. Last season, they drafted TE Kyle Pitts in the first round, a generational tight end who finished his rookie season with over 1,000 yards receiving.

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Projected salary and signing bonus for New York Giants draft pick Kayvon Thibodeaux

Kayvon Thibodeaux can expect a nice salary and signing bonus in New York. At the 5th pick, his salary is projected to exceed $36 million, with a massive signing bonus.

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Perhaps Las Vegas is the appropriate place to hold the NFL draft with all the money these draft picks are about to sign for, including Oregon’s own Kayvon Thibodeaux.

The New York Giants just selected the former Ducks defensive end as the No. 5 pick of the 2022 draft. Thibodeaux will sign a guaranteed four-year contract. The exact terms haven’t been disclosed yet, but if it’s comparable to what last year’s selection at the same spot made, Thibodeaux’s bank account just got a lot bigger.

Last season, the No. 5 pick was wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase of the Cincinnati Bengals. He signed for a total of just over $31.1 million with a signing bonus of almost $17.8 million. Chase’s rookie salary was just over $5.6 million.

Per OverTheCap, Thibodeaux can expect to see even more than Chase did a year ago.

The salary is one thing, but none of that takes into account the endorsement deals that Thibodeaux will be able to land in the Big Apple, a market that is among the most lucrative in the entire world.

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Breaking: Kayvon Thibodeaux selected by New York Giants with No. 5 overall pick

Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux is heading to the Big Apple after being drafted at No. 5 by the New York Giants.

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Former Oregon Ducks superstar Kayvon Thibodeaux is heading to the New York Giants.

On Thursday night in the first round of the NFL draft, Thibodeaux was the No. 5 player taken off of the board, where the Giants took him.

It was thought that Thibodeaux, who was projected last summer to be potentially the first overall pick in the draft, might slide in the draft amidst a number of concerns about his work ethic and love for the game, but that obviously wasn’t the case with New York grabbing him off of the board as early as they could.

In New York, Thibodeaux will be put under an immediate spotlight as one of the premier players on the team. He made a name for himself while with the Ducks in Eugene, racking up 126 tackles, 35 tackles for loss, 19 total sacks, and three forced fumbles in his three years at Oregon.

Though the Giants were bullish enough on Thibodeaux to draft him with their first pick, the narratives about him brought up during the draft process will surely put his play under a microscope in his rookie season.

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Former Oregon OL Jaylan Jeffers transfers to UCLA Bruins

Former Oregon Ducks lineman Jaylan Jeffers announced his transfer to the UCLA Bruins.

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Not long after entering the NCAA transfer portal, former Oregon Ducks offensive lineman Jaylan Jeffers announced that he would be staying in the Pac-12 conference and joining the UCLA Bruins.

Jeffers was a former three-star recruit in the class of 2020 who didn’t play in 2020 and appeared in one game while redshirting in 2021. He still has four years of eligibility remaining with the Bruins.

Jeffers is not the only former Oregon player to transfer to UCLA this season, as defensive back Jaylin Davies did the same earlier in the offseason.

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LOOK: Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux shows off his draft day fit on the red carpet

Kayvon Thibodeaux is dressed his best and ready for the bright lights in Las Vegas ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft.

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With a player as eclectic and personably as Kayvon Thibodeaux, does it come as any surprise that he is front and center on the red carpet ahead of the 2022 NFL draft?

Throughout his college years at the University of Oregon, we watched a young man turn into a dominant force on the football field, all while furthering his education and learning how to market himself as well as any athlete in the nation. He can be seen in numerous commercials — including a new spot released by Beats by Dre on Thursday — and is always seemingly ready for the camera to be pointed in his direction.

So with that said, watching him walk down the red carpet in preparation for the big night, it’s safe to say that Thibodeaux looked to be right at home.

So will an NFL team like the New York Jets decide to take him at No. 4 with his love for the spotlight and fit in the Big Apple? There’s a seemingly good chance he doesn’t even make it that far in the draft. Only time will tell.

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Former Oregon guard De’Vion Harmon headed to Texas Tech

Former Oregon Ducks guard De’Vion Harmon is reportedly headed to Texas Tech after only recently entering his name into the transfer portal.

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The Oregon Ducks lost their second key player in as many days with the news that guard De’Vion Harmon is headed to Lubbock to join the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

The news comes only two days after Harmon reportedly entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, and one day after former big man Franck Kepnang committed to the University of Washington.

Harmon began his collegiate career at Oklahoma but joined Dana Altman’s team last year. He averaged 10.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.3 steals per game for the Ducks, serving as a secondary ball-handler to Will Richardson and a key scoring option.

Now he joins a very good Texas Tech team led by Mark Adams – a team that specializes in suffocating defense and grind-it-out style gameplay.

Oregon already filled one hole in the backcourt by adding transfer guard Keeshawn Barthelemy from Colorado, and they are getting Rivaldo Soares back for another year as well as incoming freshman guard Dior Johnson.

Still, losing Harmon is a tough pill for Oregon fans, and the very sudden departure will certainly raise some eyebrows amongst the Eugene faithful.

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Kayvon Thibodeaux has thoughts on Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase

In an interview with USA TODAY Sports, former Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux discusses Elon Musk’s buying of Twitter.

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As soon as Kayvon Thibodeaux stepped foot on the Oregon campus, he made sure everyone knew he was much more than just a football player.

While at Oregon, the soon-to-be high first round NFL draft pick was able to create his own cryptocurrency as well as signing an NFT (nonfungible token) deal with Nike.

Thibodeaux will certainly be active in the business world during and after his football career. But even he was confused when asked by USA Today Sports about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter for the whopping price of $44 billion.

The former Duck compared Musk buying Twitter to buying an NFT and asked Musk to let him hold some of that Twitter stock, but “the check won’t clear for another 15 days.”

Thibodeaux was surely referring to that signing bonus he’s about to receive from the NFL team that is about to select him.

We will see where Thibodeaux gets drafted on Thursday night in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Whoever takes him surely knows at this point that they are getting an eclectic star who will be involved with much more than juts sports.

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Oregon Ducks’ golf team uses strong final round for third-place finish at Pac-12 championship

The Oregon Ducks had three players place in the top-10 of the Pac-12 Championships, helping them to a 3rd place finish.

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The Oregon Ducks men’s golf team shot the low round of the day in the third round of the Pac-12 championship on Wednesday at Aldarra Golf Club. They moved up a single spot in the standings and finished in 3rd place at the tournament.

A total of three Ducks finished inside the top-10 on the individual leaderboard, with Yuki Moriyama taking 3rd overall with a 1-under final round of 70, putting him at 6-under for the tournament.

Owen Avrit and Nate Stember finished in a tie for 10th.

As a team, the Ducks shot a low-round 2-under 354 on Wednesday that helped them jump up a spot on the team leaderboard. No. 8 Washington won the title at 2-over 1,422. No. 17 Stanford was second at plus-5, followed by No. 4 Arizona State at plus-10. The Ducks were two strokes back of the Sun Devils, with California (plus-26) and UCLA (plus-34) rounding out the top half of the field.

“Awesome for Yuki,” said head coach Casey Martin. “He had been struggling a bit early in the year but has worked his tail off to get back on track.”

Greyson Leach led Oregon with a 3-under 68 on Wednesday. The freshman had four birdies in the final round and tied for 28th at 8-over 292.

“The guys played great today and shot the low round of the day. I was really pleased with how they competed.”

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2022 NFL Draft Profiles: Best Of The Rest From The Mountain West

These players may be long shots to hear their name called in the draft, but here’s what you need to know about what they bring to the pros.

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2022 NFL Draft Profiles: Best of the Rest From the Mountain West

These players may be long shots to hear their name called in the draft, but here’s what you need to know about what they could bring to the NFL.

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You never know who will get called.

2022 NFL Draft: The Best of the Rest of the Mountain West Prospects By School

Air Force | Boise State | Colorado State | Fresno State | Hawaii | Nevada | New Mexico | San Diego State | San Jose State | UNLV | Utah State | Wyoming

Lots of players across the Mountain West Conference decided to stick around for one last ride in college football, but many others beyond those who got the full draft profile treatment are in the mix to make the jump to the National Football League this week.

These “quick hits” will tell you a little bit about the best of the rest from the Mountain West.

Air Force

Wide receiver Brandon Lewis proved he could be just as potent as many of his predecessors, averaging a whopping 29.5 yards per catch in 2021, and he made a very strong final impression in the Falcons’ First Responder Bowl victory over Louisville. However, a relatively modest-for-his-size (5-8 1/2, 182 pounds) 4.51 40-yard time could mean he’ll have to prove his worth on special teams before

Linebacker Lakota Wills was a defensive anchor for three years, including the team’s 11-win campaign in 2019 (36 tackles, six TFLs, two sacks), but after taking a turnback in 2020 and dealing with injuries in 2021, the odds are he’s more of a fringe prospect when compared to others like Jordan Jackson.

Defensive back James Jones IV started nine games for the Falcons back in 2017 but lost ground on the depth chart when other up-and-comers like Tre Bugg III and Zane Kelly came through the program, which explains why he had just eight tackles for Air Force in 2021.

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