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NFL draft: Oregon's Kayvon Thibodeaux isn't the top-five lock some might assume

INDIANAPOLIS — Kayvon Thibodeaux isn’t tiptoeing his way into the 2022 NFL scouting combine, and no one is shocked by that.

The highly self-confident edge rusher from Oregon can handle the attention, he said, crediting his experience as fifth grade class president and having been “in the media since I was a sophomore in high school” as the reasons why.

“I've been trained for this my whole life,” Thibodeaux said Friday during his media session.

Behind the scene, NFL teams have already conducted several meetings — formal and informal — with Thibodeaux, and he’s not hiding his big personality from them.