NFL Draft - "We've got some dawgs at NC State. That's just our mentality: aggressive dawgs."
—North Carolina State tackle Ikem Ekwonu
"You gotta be a dawg. It ain't sweet in the trenches. You gotta be a dawg."
—Oklahoma State running back Kennedy Brooks.
The 2022 NFL scouting combine was about top-10 prospects like Ekwonu and late-round hopefuls like Brooks. It was about big winners like Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis (he'll be a high first-round pick after Saturday's metahuman workouts unless Dave Gettleman kidnaps him and chains him to a bed in a mountain cabin, Misery-style) and players likely to leap up draft boards like Notre Dame wide receiver Kevin Austin.