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Best pick: Round 3 (76), DI Travis Jones, Connecticut

Biggest reach: Round 4 (130), P Jordan Stout, Penn State (-203 vs. the PFF Big Board)

The Ravens just do this better than most teams. One of the shrewdest and most data-driven franchises in the NFL, Baltimore came out of the first round with two players of positions with limited value — safety Kyle Hamilton and center Tyler Linderbaum — which seems counterintuitive until you factor in the precise spot each was selected at. Hamilton was being talked about as a potential top-five player until average 40 times poisoned his standing, and Linderbaum is the best center prospect to enter the league in a decade — a player who could easily be good enough to change the dynamics of his position’s value.