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2016 NFL Draft’s biggest winners

Let’s take a look at the big winners that emerged from the 2016 NFL Draft. Did your favorite team make the cut?Watch on YouTube | Subscribe to SB Nation on YouTube

With the 2016 NFL Draft in the books, who comes out feeling good about themselves? Well, the Jaguars, in their quest for their first winning record since 2007, definitely have to like their chances of finally breaking through after adding arguably the two most talented players in the draft, DB Jalen Ramsey and linebacker Myles Jack.

Elsewhere, Rex Ryan, whose seat is already getting toasty just 15 months after arriving in Western New York, went all defense over the first two days of the draft (including Shaq Lawson, his son’s former teammate at Clemson) in an effort to get the Bills D back to their 2014 form.

In Indianapolis, Andrew Luck will be lining up behind new center Ryan Kelly -- and it only took GM Ryan Grigson until his 5th year on the job to decide that protecting the crown jewel of the organization just might be a crazy enough idea to work.

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