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Morning links: Top WRs in the draft

Good morning.

In this ESPN Insider piece, NFL draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. ranks the top 40 wide receivers in this year’s draft.

Not surprisingly, Alabama’s Amari Cooper, West Virginia’s Kevin White and Louisville’s DeVante Parker top his list. Kiper compares those three receivers in terms of talent to the 1985 draft class that produced Eddie Brown, Al Toon and Jerry Rice, along with the 1988 draft class that produced Tim Brown, Michael Irvin and Sterling Sharpe.

However, Kiper says like last year, the 2015 draft class also has a deep pool of talent available later in the draft at the receiver position. And that’s good for the San Diego Chargers, who need to add more playmakers to that position group.

Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network has the Chargers taking Georgia running back Todd Gurley in his latest mock draft.

Chargers.com talks to NFL media members about what types of players San Diego should draft in this video.

Jenny Vrentas of Sports Illustrated profiles former Chargers offensive lineman Roman Oben, now the NFL’s director of youth football, about his task on helping to create a safer game.

Bryan Curtis of Grantland writes about the second statistical war, something he calls Moneyball II. It’s worth a read this morning.

Former NFL executive Jim Steeg talks about the progress made by the stadium advisory group with Scott Kaplan of The Mighty 1090 in this audio link.

San Diego County supervisor Ron Roberts talks with Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth of Xtra 1360 Fox Sports Radio about possible funding strategies for building a new NFL stadium in this audio link.