Just because the NFL season ended in February doesn’t mean the league is going to just sit back and rest. The offseason dropped some landscape-altering moves that shifted the power balance into a stacked AFC. The 2022 NFL Draft will give teams an opportunity to correct the seismic changes that followed Super Bowl 56.
The league’s have-nots will have a chance to swipe several franchise-altering talents near the top of this year’s draft. That includes Oregon edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux, a marvel with the speed to make opposing tackles miserable around the corner and the power to punch them backward and sneak through interior holes to ruin a quarterback’s day. Thibodeaux was considered an early favorite to be 2022’s top pick, but a good-not-great 2021 season has his draft position prop set at 4.5 over at Tipico.
Thibodeaux Drafted Over 4.5 (+170)If you think Travon Walker’s rise up draft boards will push Thibodeaux to the sixth pick or later, you can get +130 value on him. He’s a -170 favorite to go in the top five, however.
The pick: Kayvon Thibodeaux draft position UNDER 4.5 (-230). Thibodeaux slid down boards early in the pre-draft process but has risen back up as evaluators realize dinging the guy with 35.5 tackles for loss in 30 college football games was a bad idea. Get on the Thibs train before that modest value drops even further.
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