Melvin Gordons former coach told four clubs want Badgers star

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has throughout the NFL's draft season to position himself as the first running back to be chosen, ahead of . And as long as Gordon's high school coach is immune to the smokescreens that NFL clubs are reputed to float in the media about their draft plans, four teams are apparently prepared to make that happen.  "I've had about four people tell me that if he's available at their pick, that's who they're going to take," Kenosha (Wisc.) Bradford High School coach Jed Kennedy . "Melvin's not cocky, he doesn't Elie Okobo Jersey  get caught up in the other stuff, he just keeps doing his thing and hopefully lets his actions speak for it. And when it's all said and done, he's going to be a first-round kid."  Now, a couple of qualifiers:  1) Just because an NFL scout or personnel executive made such a comment to a high school coach doesn't nece sarily mean that person holds the ultimate authority to make the pick, or that opinions can't change;  2) On the scouting trail, things sometimes are said on a whim.  Still, it creates all the more intrigue for the Gurley-Gordon first-round subplot.  Gordon is widely projected to be picked in Thursday's first round, but he's projected to be chosen after Gurley in by NFL Media analysts. , who foresees Gordon to the at No. 17 and Gurley to the seven picks later.  But if four NFL clubs have Gordon already written in pencil -- pending his availability -- that suggests Gurley's presumptive standing as the first running back chosen might not be quite so secure.  *Follow Chase Goodbread on Twitter *  Deandre Ayton Jersey