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Weighing in on former Bison
Kiper also was asked about former North Dakota State Bison tackle Dillon Radunz from Becker and quarterback Trey Lance from Marshall.
Kiper said the showing Radunz made at the Reese's Senior Bowl "really did help him."
"Just the way he sets up, his balance in pass protection is excellent. He can adjust to secondary moves really well. For a [FCS] player, he really gives you hope that he can adjust quickly to the NFL. It's not going to take him much time," Kiper said. "A great kid as well, so I think Dillon Radunz in the second round. There's going to be a host of teams in the second round that are going to be looking at him."
Kiper currently has Radunz landing with Pittsburgh as the 55th overall pick because of his status as a "natural" left tackle.
In contrast to Radunz's perceived readiness, Kiper believes that Lance could benefit by backing up a veteran early to offset the fact that he only made 17 starts in college.
"For Trey Lance, Atlanta would be perfect. The Arthur Smith offense would be perfect. Louis Riddick has been talking about that a lot in the last couple of weeks, how ideally suited he'd be in that offense, that style," Kiper said. "He would have to sit for a year or two, and perfect, because Matt Ryan has a minimum of two really good years left, so it could be like a Jordan Love going to Green Bay and sitting behind Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers sat behind Brett Favre. Patrick Mahomes sat for a year behind Alex Smith, so for me, it's a perfect scenario for a 20-year-old quarterback who only started 17 games and one game this past year and comes out of the [FCS] level and needs to improve his accuracy a little bit."