He’s seen first-hand the way Jeremy Shockey goes about his business.

“He’s the kind of guy who will run you over and then he’ll come back and tell you about it the next play,” Jerome McDougle, one of the top pass rushers available in this weekend’s NFL draft, yesterday told The Post.

And what about McDougle, a former teammate of Shockey’s at the University of Miami?

“I tell ’em about it, too,” he said with a laugh. “Me and Shockey, we kind of have the same style.”

The Giants on the first round on Saturday are in the market for a defensive lineman, and McDougle could be their man.

Shockey has already given his full-blown endorsement, telling The Post that McDougle is “the most athletic big guy you’ll ever meet in your life.”

Now McDougle is itching for a reunion with the brash tight end he knocked heads with down in Miami and considers a true friend.

The two often lined up opposite each other in practice, and McDougle recalled, “Most of the time he was going out for passes, but we had a couple of battles out there on Hurricane field. He knows what I can do and I think he’s expressing that to the coaches.”

At 6-foot-2 and 262 pounds, McDougle is not one of those classic defensive ends. He’s more of an off-the-edge, pass-rush specialist (with 14 sacks the past two years) but that figures to be attractive to the Giants, who are desperately seeking more pressure on the quarterback.

It’s a matter of how desperate the Giants are, as it’s highly unlikely they can sit tight with the 25th overall pick and land McDougle.

“I’m thinking I’m going to go higher, but you never know,” said McDougle.

The Giants brought McDougle in for a look and most likely they spotted what so many other teams have already noticed, that he resembles a younger version of Hugh Douglas.

Shockey has done what he can to convince the Giants about making another investment in the Miami football factory.

“Oh man, he’s up there politicking for me, doing everything he can do to get me up there,” McDougle said. “He’s a guy you can go to war with. He’s seen that in me and I see that in him.”

McDougle is part of a stunning group of Miami defensive linemen who could make history. William Joseph and Andrew Williams will be gone on the first day of the draft and Jamaal Green and Matt Walters will likely be second-day picks. If five Hurricanes are indeed taken, it will be a record for the number of defensive line prospects drafted out of one school.