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A CLOSER LOOK: Defensive lineman Pat O'Connor

DE Pat O’Connor, Eastern Michigan.

Pick: 7th round, 32nd, 250 overall.

Ht./Wt.: 6-4.5/277.

Pro Day workout: O’Connor ran the 40 twice with times of 4.81 and 4.87 seconds; 31-inch vertical jump; 9-6 standing broad jump; 17 reps of 225 pounds in the bench press.

Bio: From Chicago and St. Rita High School, the same school that Lions’ third-round pick Kenny Golladay attended. Both wound up at MAC schools. Golladay played at Northern Illinois his last two years.

A five-year player who missed all of the 2015 season with an injury, O’Connor was an immediate contributor to the Eagles’ defense as a freshman in 2012.