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It's pretty obvious to me that this is a Gailey & coaching staff pick. We'll see how it works out.
The one things that sticks out to me is that Gailey talked about Sheppard being a sideline to sideline guy whereas almost all evaluators put him as a tackle to tackle guy. Now Sheppard himself admitted that he worked on sideline to sideline speed prior to the senior bowl. Neverthless, it's the coaching staff who put and watched him through drills and a game in person for a weekend vs what the scouts watched him for a season. If he can indeed play sideline to sideline as Gailey said, I'd imagine that he'd certainly deserve a much higher grade than what he's perceived now.
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