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Height: 5-8
Weight: 205
40: 4.55
Year: 5Sr

Jay Valai

School: Wisconsin
Position: S
Bio: Three-year starter awarded all-Conference honors after his sophomore season. Totals last year included 42/1/4 after 51/1/5 as a junior. Posted a career-best 56 tackles as a sophomore.
Positive: Fierce, attacking safety who plays bigger and faster than his size/speed numbers. Recognizes assignments, plays a physical brand of football, and flies around the action. Displays a sense of timing, gives it up in run defense, and has adequate coverage skills. Keeps the action in front of him and quickly locates the ball in the air. Relatively instinctive and plays smart football.
Negative: Average man-to-man cover skills. Undersized and loses out in battles.
Analysis: Valai is a short defensive back with average athleticism and will be dismissed by many because of his measurables. Yet he's a terrific football player who does the little things well and has enough ability to be an eighth defensive back/special teams player for a franchise.
Updated 4/26
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11stAndrew Luck
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21stRobert Griffin III
Baylor		QB
31stMatt Kalil
USC		T
41stTrent Richardson
Alabama		RB
51stMorris Claiborne
LSU		CB
61stJustin Blackmon
Oklahoma State		WR
71stFletcher Cox
Mississippi State		DT
81stMelvin Ingram
South Carolina		OLB
91stQuinton Coples
North Carolina		DE
101stDontari Poe
Memphis		DT
111stDavid DeCastro
Stanford		G
121stMichael Floyd
Notre Dame		WR
131stRiley Reiff
Iowa		T
141stMichael Brockers
LSU		DT
151stKendall Wright
Baylor		WR
161stCordy Glenn
Georgia		G
171stMark Barron
Alabama		S
181stNick Perry
USC		OLB
191stLuke Kuechly
Boston College		ILB
201stStephon Gilmore
South Carolina		CB
211stRyan Tannehill
Texas A&M		QB
221stDre Kirkpatrick
Alabama		CB
231stStephen Hill
Georgia Tech		WR
241stCourtney Upshaw
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251-2Peter Konz
Wisconsin		C

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