The first round of the NFL Draft came and went so suddenly that it barely sank in with me before the second round had started yesterday afternoon. But the second round passed quickly, and the third round went even faster. There were several trades as teams jockeyed for position and moved up and down the board for various players. We saw some coming a mile away, some left us scratching our heads, and some we saw coming a mile away and they still left us scratching our heads.

However, there were also some crazy value picks as several teams took advantage of the horizontal board to snag top talent in the second and third rounds. Below are three of Friday’s biggest steals.

Johnathan Hankins, DT, New York Giants (49th overall)

I had Hankins in the top 20 on my board. I mocked him to Carolina at 14th overall in the last mock I did before the draft, which was partly a function of my rating the DT class much higher than the NFL. In the actual draft, Sheldon Richardson was the first DT taken, and he lasted all the way to the Jets at 13th overall. That pushed the rest of the DTs down, and the Giants were able to capitalize.

Hankins is a fantastic fit in Perry Fewell’s talented defensive line. He’s a massive man who can wreak havoc on a pocket and completely dominate an opposing team’s running game. He ultimately slipped in the draft because of questions about his motor. While he’s not lazy by any means, he’s not cut out for 60+ snaps a game. That won’t be an issue in New York, where he’ll join the likes of Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, Cullen Jenkins, and Linval Joseph. Fewell had a talented rotation of defensive linemen at his disposal. Hankis just makes it even better.

Cornelius “Tank” Carradine, DE, San Francisco 49ers (40th overall)

Trent Baalke and Jim Harbaugh bet against the odds and made the board their whipping boy. Carradine was my top defensive end in the class. Before his torn ACL, he very well could’ve gone first overall. After he dominated his pro day on April 20th, he still deserved to go in the top ten. Yet San Francisco managed to trade up for a position of need, trade down and accumulate extra picks (including a 2014 third-round pick), and still nab him in the mid-second round.

Because the 49ers already have a great defense with established starters on the defensive line, they can even afford to let Tank recover fully from his ACL surgery. They’ll have no reason to rush him, which just increases the value of the pick even more. They announced that they plan for him to add 15-20 pounds to play defensive end at 290 pounds. He’s likely the guy they’ve tabbed to take over for Justin Smith someday, and dare I say, he could be just as good.

Arthur Brown, LB, Baltimore Ravens (56th overall)

That San Francisco picking up Tank Carradine in the middle of the second round isn’t the biggest steal from the second day of the draft just further underscores how massive of a steal the Ravens got at the end of the round. Arthur Brown is the best inside linebacker prospect since Patrick Willis. He could’ve and should’ve been drafted in the top-15 range, and somehow he fell all the way to the bottom of the second round.

There are some questions about his size and durability, and he had a miserable bowl game against Oregon, so it wasn’t completely out of the question that he might slip a little bit. If the Ravens had picked him up at the end of the first round, it might’ve been considered the steal of that round. He compares very favorably to Ray Lewis, and having him step right in for the Hall-of-Famer is almost too good to be true. So when he slipped all the way to the 56th overall pick, Ozzie Newsome couldn’t contain himself. He gave up a 5th and a 6th round pick to Pete Carroll (who, incidentally, referred to Brown in high-school as the best linebacker prospect he’d seen in a decade), and added a multi-year star.