First-round draft pick Keith Rivers, a linebacker from Southern Cal, worked on the weak-side position – which he played in college – and impressed coaches with his fluid play and work ethic. Coaches were impressed, too, with Rivers’ natural leadership and ability to call his position players together. “He showed things that are innate,” Lewis said of Rivers. “Every time he was not in a meeting, he was upstairs watching tape on his own. He already gets it.”