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Jay Tufele featured on Mel Kiper’s 2021 NFL Draft Big Board

USC football's Jay Tufele strikes a Fight On pose. (Alicia de Artola/Reign of Troy)

USC football defensive tackle Jay Tufele is featured as one of the Top 25 prospects for the 2021 NFL Draft.

Even if there were live sports to consume this summer, the talk of NFL circles would still drift towards next year’s draft. Fortunately for USC football, there are Trojans drawing attention.

Defensive tackle Jay Tufele is chief among those.

Already featured in multiple mock draft first rounds, Tufele got another nod of approval this week from ESPN’s Mel Kiper.

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The draft guru rates Tufele No.