COLUMBUS, Ohio — The NFL draft is supposed to be simple: the best players go first. But as the Buckeye Talk crew explained in their latest episode, that’s rarely how things actually work — especially for safeties.

And that could have major implications for Ohio State star Caleb Downs .

“Caleb Downs is a top 10 player in this draft,” co-host Andrew Gillis said. “Caleb Downs is very clearly a dude, but I think teams... will look at this and say, ‘We could take a tackle over Caleb.’

“...Especially at the top of the draft, there are teams that are going to look at Caleb and say, ‘We’re not a safety away from being really good.’”

This phenomenon — where elite safeties slip in the draft due to positional value — is nothing new.

Only two safeties have been selected in the first round a

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