2025: NFL draft: Mason Graham leans on wrestling background

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AS A FRESHMAN at Servite High School in Anaheim, California, Mason Graham lived too far away to go home between the end of class and the start of evening basketball practice. So Servite head football coach Troy Thomas convinced Graham to utilize that free time by joining the wrestling team, which practiced in the afternoons.

That decision put Graham on a path to make history next month in a different sport, when he's likely to become the first Michigan defensive tackle ever to go in the top 10 of the NFL draft.

Graham might not have the traditional physical profile of an elite defensive tackle. At the NFL combine, his arm length measured just 32 inches -- placing him in the…