Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is Wes Hodkawitz. We're
Speaker 1: coming to you here from our studios at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: and West. Day one of the NFL Draft is in
Speaker 1: the books, and as they say, you just never know
Speaker 1: how these things are gonna go. What a Thursday night
Speaker 1: for the first round of the NFL Draft. What were
Speaker 1: your impressions? First and foremost, everyone loves to do their
Speaker 1: mock drafts when they get really fancy and they start trading.
Speaker 1: Show me one mock draft that had the Packers trading
Speaker 1: back from fourteen and then up to eighteen. You never
Speaker 1: see those mocks. But that's the you know, the reality
Speaker 1: of drafts, and the Packers to be able to do
Speaker 1: that much flux suation. They end up and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about this in a second, they end up gaining a
Speaker 1: first round pick next year, an extra one from the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, and still end up with the field
Speaker 1: that they feel a player that they feel has comparable value.
Speaker 1: And jaire Alexander the Louisville cornerback. I think Brian Goodkins
Speaker 1: for his first night on the job, as GM in
Speaker 1: terms of the draft, I was pretty happy with what
Speaker 1: the Packers walked away with. Yeah, he seemed pretty excited,
Speaker 1: not only to be able to add Alexander and a cornerback.
Speaker 1: The Packers obviously thought very highly of the second pure
Speaker 1: cornerback to go off the board, the fourth defensive back
Speaker 1: to be taken there at the eighteenth pick, but then
Speaker 1: to be adding a first round pick in en. Now,
Speaker 1: the way he described it to us afterwards when he
Speaker 1: met with the media was he was, you know, exploring
Speaker 1: some trade possibilities of moving up from fourteen. You know,
Speaker 1: in the early stages of the draft, nothing really came
Speaker 1: together there. Then it was Okay, am I gonna sit
Speaker 1: and pick at fourteen? Or am I gonna move back?
Speaker 1: I think they were probably ready to sit and pick.
Speaker 1: But then when that offer came of a first round
Speaker 1: draft pick for next year, that's going to give any
Speaker 1: general manager pause. You've got to stop and really think
Speaker 1: about that. And uh and he basically said it was
Speaker 1: just it's too good an opportunity to pass up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the numbers of this thing, Mike,
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact of the matter is the Packers
Speaker 1: got the first round pick seven overall from the Saints. Traditionally,
Speaker 1: I think you end up acquiring a second rounder, but
Speaker 1: since the Saints were so far back, they had to
Speaker 1: bring more in order to make this deal happen. So
Speaker 1: they offer up their first round pick for twenty nine.
Speaker 1: And it is interesting. I ran the math. If you
Speaker 1: go off the draft value chart the Packers for this
Speaker 1: year alone, the Saints come up. I think it was
Speaker 1: seven points ahead. But next year, the worst that that
Speaker 1: picks value could be. Let's say the Saints would win,
Speaker 1: win it all right, and their thirty second, thirty second
Speaker 1: that value pick is five and ninety. The difference between five,
Speaker 1: three eight seven basically a high third round pick. So
Speaker 1: at the very least, that's the advance image for which
Speaker 1: the Packers are getting, and then any spot up from
Speaker 1: that only adds more to it. Um it is. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was very tempting. You know, Derwin James was
Speaker 1: still on the board, Tremaine Edmonds still on the board,
Speaker 1: Marcus Davenport, who the Saints ended up drafting, was still
Speaker 1: on the board. But in those days leading up to
Speaker 1: the draft, Mike, you heard some rumblings that the Packers
Speaker 1: might potentially be interested in Alexander. He was a guy
Speaker 1: that I think, coming off of the year that he
Speaker 1: had being banged up at Louisville, some people really weren't
Speaker 1: sure if he was gonna be a first round pick.
Speaker 1: But four point three eight speed in the forty denzil Ward,
Speaker 1: who went fourth overall to the Browns, was four point
Speaker 1: three to um not the tallest cornerback you're ever gonna find,
Speaker 1: but he plays bigger than that. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, the Packers need to playmaker and this
Speaker 1: is a versatile guy that can play inside or outside
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, it's really interesting how this played out
Speaker 1: because earlier in the week we were both talking and
Speaker 1: as we made our predictions, for whatever those were worth,
Speaker 1: but both of us essentially predicted that the Packers in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, would get one of those
Speaker 1: top read dbs in the group being Denzel Ward, think
Speaker 1: of Fitzpatrick or Derwin James. And as it turns out,
Speaker 1: the Packers did get a defensive back, and they did
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to take Derwin James. But really with
Speaker 1: Goodakoots making the moves that he did to trade out
Speaker 1: of the fourteen spot and go down and then come
Speaker 1: back up to eighteen. He basically declared that you know Alexander,
Speaker 1: he had they had Alexander rated essentially an equivalent player
Speaker 1: to Tremaine, Edmunds, Derwin James, maybe Marcus Davenport, that if
Speaker 1: they look at their board and they've got equivalent value there.
Speaker 1: And essentially he gave up a third round pick to
Speaker 1: Seattle to move back up to the eighteenth spot. So
Speaker 1: he moved back four spots in a net of the
Speaker 1: two trades, gives up a third round pick this year,
Speaker 1: but gains a first rounder next year and gets the
Speaker 1: number two cornerback off the board. He really can't ask
Speaker 1: for it to fall any better. There are two different
Speaker 1: varying avenues in which I look in you this this
Speaker 1: trade through. The first one is and I I talked
Speaker 1: about this an insider impact, so I'm sure you read
Speaker 1: it this past week. I was really interested to see
Speaker 1: if a scenario would play out where it wasn't just
Speaker 1: one of one player that the Packers could potentially take
Speaker 1: at fourteen, that two or three of them are available.
Speaker 1: And that's so that's what I continued to say too.
Speaker 1: I thought he would somehow, some way it would happen
Speaker 1: where he'd have some options there at fourteen, and it
Speaker 1: did happen that way because the four quarterbacks went. Mike
Speaker 1: McGlinchey went number nine, the offensive tackle that pushed those
Speaker 1: some of those defensive guys down, and he did have choices.
Speaker 1: And the reason I really wanted to see it is
Speaker 1: because we can talk until we're blew in the face
Speaker 1: about who the Packers should pick, but ultimately that's the
Speaker 1: only opportunity for us to ever look into the mind
Speaker 1: of Brian Goodacuins and see what exactly the Packers were thinking.
Speaker 1: Because if Edmonds isn't on the board, and James isn't
Speaker 1: on the board, uh, if Davenport's not there, certainly the
Speaker 1: names changed and you have to figure some stuff out.
Speaker 1: But it tells you that the Packers viewed Alexander in
Speaker 1: the same area, the same stratosphere as those other players,
Speaker 1: and they were able to move back and acquire another
Speaker 1: first round pick in order to do that. The other
Speaker 1: thing that stands out to me, you and I both
Speaker 1: put a lot of emphasis on these two defensive backs,
Speaker 1: Derwin James and make Offense Patrick from Alabama. The one
Speaker 1: thing I like about Alexander, though he does have experience
Speaker 1: in the slot, and last year he played the boundary.
Speaker 1: Boundary cornerbacks can play the slot, Safeties can play the slot,
Speaker 1: but you don't see a lot of safeties hybrid defensive
Speaker 1: backs that can play boundary cornerbacks outside. And when you
Speaker 1: look at this situation, now we've being able to bring
Speaker 1: Alexander and he gives Joe Wit in that secondary that
Speaker 1: kind of flexibility. Yeah, well, I want to get into
Speaker 1: some more details about Gyrie Um Sorry year Alexander will
Speaker 1: do that after the breakback with more and Packers Unscripted
Speaker 1: right after this, Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford
Speaker 1: in this chair, West, hodkit wits in that one. Okay, West.
Speaker 1: So the Packers trade back thirteen spots, trade up nine
Speaker 1: for a net move before and they take Jayar Alexander
Speaker 1: the cornerback out of Louisville. And when you look at
Speaker 1: the measurables, four point three eight is the number that
Speaker 1: jumps out at me. That's some speed, and that's the
Speaker 1: kind of speed that can't be coached. It's it's one
Speaker 1: of those god given type of things. And this is
Speaker 1: a guy who is going to add some speed to
Speaker 1: Green Bay's defense need for speed. Uh, and he certainly
Speaker 1: fits the bill in that regard and he uses it
Speaker 1: to to his advantage. I thought. Director of college Scouting,
Speaker 1: John Eric Sullivan, came down after the pick was made
Speaker 1: and mentioned he didn't want to draw comparisons between Alexander
Speaker 1: and Sam Shields. But the one thing he did mention
Speaker 1: that and you go back and it was the number
Speaker 1: one thing that Sam Shields did, especially early in his
Speaker 1: career when he was still working on his technique, was
Speaker 1: the recovery speed, the ability to close on a receiver.
Speaker 1: Alexander possesses that, and he plays with a certain swagger
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, he is a nasty streak um
Speaker 1: and he plays within the rules. I'm not trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, say anything other than that, but he definitely
Speaker 1: rises up to the occasion. You can just tell how
Speaker 1: much that motivates him. Even last year, you know, battling
Speaker 1: through the knee injury to get back and to play
Speaker 1: in six games and make five starts for Louisville. He's
Speaker 1: a gamer, and he's a guy that went there as
Speaker 1: a walk on, not a walk on, but you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of looking like he was gonna play receiver.
Speaker 1: He said, he ended up moving to cornerback because they
Speaker 1: just had three guys that had left. There was opportunity there.
Speaker 1: Played right away from the get go, played the slot,
Speaker 1: played the boundary, and with having speed like that, I
Speaker 1: think that is ultimately what enables you as a defensive back. That,
Speaker 1: especially in those early years when maybe you're still trying
Speaker 1: to find yourself and find what you do well, it
Speaker 1: gives you a larger room for error. Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is a player that that the Packers, you know, I
Speaker 1: should say he would have liked his seventeen season to
Speaker 1: go better. You mentioned the knee injury they had cost
Speaker 1: him about half the season. You look back to he
Speaker 1: played every game in or scepted five passes. Um he uh,
Speaker 1: the Packers did not have any injury concerns, having watched
Speaker 1: the film from the end of when he came back
Speaker 1: and going through all of the workouts and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and and and really the Packers kept there, kept their
Speaker 1: interest in him somewhat quiet. I know, he he said, well,
Speaker 1: I never talked to anybody from the Packers. That wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly true. But the Packers were not uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not overly uh you know, open about about their
Speaker 1: interest or you know, their intentions here, so they were
Speaker 1: able to keep it fairly quiet. And uh and Brian
Speaker 1: Goodakun's got a guy that he really likes. Thing I
Speaker 1: love the most about it is Good said afterwards too,
Speaker 1: He's like, we were watching this guy from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and they followed up with him at the combine just
Speaker 1: seeing how he was gonna look coming off that kne
Speaker 1: injury and the fact he ran a fourth three a
Speaker 1: forty tells you I think he's gonna be okay in
Speaker 1: the long run. He mentioned it was a bone bruise
Speaker 1: that he was diagnosed with. It happened on I blocked
Speaker 1: field goal recovery, I believe, he said. He said he
Speaker 1: hyper extended. Yeah, so, and you know that ended up
Speaker 1: costing him four games. He ended up sitting out of
Speaker 1: their bowl game just to be cautious at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. But what a player in terms of
Speaker 1: just being able to be able to do what he
Speaker 1: did in that time at Louisville. Only played in thirty
Speaker 1: one collegiate games. He declared as a true junior um.
Speaker 1: So you're getting a guy that's a little bit on
Speaker 1: the younger side of things, but you know, he mentioned it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know a whole lot about Green Bay. He
Speaker 1: knows it gets a little bit chilly in the wintertime,
Speaker 1: but he did say, I mean, the track record speaks
Speaker 1: for itself. You look at Charles Woodson and Nick Collins
Speaker 1: and the guys that have come through that room. He's
Speaker 1: really relishing that opportunity now to come in there and
Speaker 1: show that he belongs. Yeah. And I had done a
Speaker 1: prospect primer on Alexander for our website, you know, when
Speaker 1: we came back from the combine and had all of
Speaker 1: those prospects to sift through, and and the one thing
Speaker 1: that stood out to me that was really funny from
Speaker 1: his combine interview, his his press conference there when when
Speaker 1: we went back through everything was um that his teamates
Speaker 1: started calling him Alexander Island because because of you know,
Speaker 1: they could just leave him one on one shut down,
Speaker 1: you know, the top receiver, you know, the guy on
Speaker 1: one side of the field. And uh, he was somewhat
Speaker 1: you know, flattered, a little bit humbled by by getting
Speaker 1: that name, that that nickname from his teammates. But he's
Speaker 1: the guy who who seems to you know, to take
Speaker 1: that kind of a moniker and feed off it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not he's not afraid to try to get into
Speaker 1: a receiver's head, you know, to play the jawing game
Speaker 1: out on the field, you know that that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see what what this guy can
Speaker 1: do now. I mean, the NFL can be the most
Speaker 1: humbling league in the world for any young player, but
Speaker 1: this is a this is a player not lacking for
Speaker 1: confidence by any stress. Yeah, and he doesn't shy away
Speaker 1: from the moment either, he said, you know, he's seen
Speaker 1: plenty of six, four, six, five receivers in the a
Speaker 1: SEC and he wants to step up to that challenge
Speaker 1: and believes he's ready for it. The other thing, it's
Speaker 1: interesting too, Mike. You mentioned the five interceptions he had
Speaker 1: his sophomore year. Uh, this wasn't against you know, cupcake
Speaker 1: type quarterbacks either. Two of those were against Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: So I mean, this is a guy that has done
Speaker 1: it against the very best, not only in college football
Speaker 1: but now the NFL. So I think, and you go
Speaker 1: back and I saw some of the videos already of
Speaker 1: him in some of the plays he made, and in
Speaker 1: this kind of banter after the play as well, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of confidence in young man, and that
Speaker 1: is I think, other than probably quarterback, that's the one
Speaker 1: position where you need to be confident. Yeah. Well, we've
Speaker 1: got more to talk about from this first round of
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. Back with more on Packers Unscripted right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodko, it's all the way over there, So okay,
Speaker 1: West the Packers. They got a little bit more than
Speaker 1: just a cornerback here in this draft, and Alexander is
Speaker 1: a good one, but they also got a guy who's
Speaker 1: done some things in the punt return and a guy
Speaker 1: who not right away maybe, but later on down the road,
Speaker 1: can be one of these locker room leader types. He's
Speaker 1: a team captain and whatnot at Louisville. A lot of
Speaker 1: good things that we heard about his character and what
Speaker 1: his teammates and coaches and whatnot have said about him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, really kind of this guy looks like he
Speaker 1: kind of brings the brings the whole package. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: first off, starting just quickly touched on the team captain
Speaker 1: side of things. I thought that was one of the
Speaker 1: things that you know, John Eric Sullivan when he was
Speaker 1: talking with the media mentioned is the fact that he's
Speaker 1: kind of an outgoing, fun loving guy. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at the photos of him and in Dallas with his
Speaker 1: family everybody. I mean, he was he was enjoying the moment,
Speaker 1: reveling in the moment. And then you know, had a teammate,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who ends up getting taken at the end
Speaker 1: of the first round too, so big night for them,
Speaker 1: and you could just see he really appreciated. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he had the confidence, Mike to go down to Dallas
Speaker 1: and you know it's gonna say, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 1: first round pick. I'm gonna walk across that stage. And
Speaker 1: that was no guarantee. Based on the analysts and the projections,
Speaker 1: there was no guarantee he was going to be a
Speaker 1: first round but but it paid off. But he's certain
Speaker 1: he did. And when you look at the skill set though,
Speaker 1: it makes a complete sense. You know, Brian Goodacuns drafted
Speaker 1: this kid because they think he can be a lockdown
Speaker 1: type player, whether they're using him in the slot or
Speaker 1: the boundary where he's playing, He's going to be one
Speaker 1: of those top eleven defensive players that we always talk
Speaker 1: about when the packers are charting out their their depth
Speaker 1: chart in their packages. But he does give you something
Speaker 1: as a punt returner, and that was a small part
Speaker 1: of the whole little package that that I think Brian
Speaker 1: Goodakunst and everyone liked. I think it was forty four
Speaker 1: punt returns in college, average just under ten yards a
Speaker 1: punt return, and had one brought back for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: It appeared as if he was going to do that
Speaker 1: again during his junior year, but because he ends up
Speaker 1: sustaining the knee injury when he came back, they did
Speaker 1: not put him back on that that group. But you
Speaker 1: know early on Mike, you gotta find ways to get involved.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb did it in two thousand eleven. I thought
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery did it in two thousand and fifteen as
Speaker 1: both a returner and also you know, blocking some punts
Speaker 1: as well. Uh. He gives you that kind of versatility.
Speaker 1: And when you're when you have so many defensive backs
Speaker 1: in this equation, I mean, there are fourteen guys returning
Speaker 1: right now on this roster with NFL experience, you have
Speaker 1: to find ways to make yourself valuable from day one,
Speaker 1: and I think that's another thing that Alexander does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you look down the road, obviously the Packers
Speaker 1: have used their first pick in the draft now the
Speaker 1: last two years on these young cornerbacks and Kevin King
Speaker 1: and now Alexander. I know, Tremont Williams, Devon House are
Speaker 1: here right now for the Packers and they're going to
Speaker 1: play into girl roles in eighteen. But when you're looking
Speaker 1: down the road, if the future is King and Alexander
Speaker 1: as your top two cornerbacks, you kind of like that
Speaker 1: combination because King is six three, you know, the taller,
Speaker 1: got the length and all of that, and then Alexander
Speaker 1: only five eleven but has that four three eight speed
Speaker 1: that allows him to to potentially match up in in
Speaker 1: some different situations. It looks like it could be a
Speaker 1: really good combination for the future of this defense. I
Speaker 1: remember talking to Jimmy Lake, the defensive backs coach for
Speaker 1: Kevin King at Washington actually now I believe is their
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator last year, and he said, this is a
Speaker 1: guy that could play inside. He could play outside for you,
Speaker 1: but when you're six three and you run in the
Speaker 1: fourth fours, you want that guy up against des Bryant
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and those top receivers that we saw last
Speaker 1: year when he was healthy. He is your prototypical press
Speaker 1: man corner. You look at now, conversely, what Alexander does well.
Speaker 1: He has history operating in a single high scheme and
Speaker 1: cover three looks, and it sounds like he has the
Speaker 1: strength to be able to challenge guys at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. But because of that size and that explosiveness
Speaker 1: and the word we just kept over hearing over and
Speaker 1: over again, and you know, Johnny Rick Sullivan told you
Speaker 1: it as well. And one of the post uh one
Speaker 1: of the post conference uh, you know interviews that you
Speaker 1: guys did is twitch is a twitchy guy. He has
Speaker 1: that kind of quick fibers in his body that that
Speaker 1: allows him to be where he needs to be in
Speaker 1: the very second that he needs to be there. And
Speaker 1: when you look at what King did well last year,
Speaker 1: and you look at what Alexander does and then this
Speaker 1: boatload of cornerbacks the Packers have coming back with House Williams,
Speaker 1: Quentin Rollins will be coming off an Achilles. But I
Speaker 1: mean they have a lot of different options there to
Speaker 1: compliment that core um this is and the work isn't done.
Speaker 1: Goodkin said that, I mean, they still would like to
Speaker 1: get some more done this weekend. But that being said,
Speaker 1: it was a very good start. Yeah, really be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how this comes together now with an addition
Speaker 1: like this guy. But with that, we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: a breakback with more Unpackers Unscripted right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Packers Unscripted Mike Spofford alongside West hod Kuit's
Speaker 1: okay West. Before we wrap up this, uh this first
Speaker 1: round recap here, I want to take a look at
Speaker 1: a little bit of the bigger picture of what happened
Speaker 1: here in the first round because we had talked about
Speaker 1: it all during the week. With the Packers sitting in
Speaker 1: the middle of the first round, you needed those four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to be taken up high some other offensive guys,
Speaker 1: and as it turned out, you know, Sae Kwon, Barkley,
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson not a surprise, Mike McGlinchey, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: ended up sneaking into the top ten. So that pushed
Speaker 1: some of those defensive players down into the Packers range.
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, the four quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: top ten made NFL history, did it not? They did
Speaker 1: first time ever that with Josh Rosen going number ten
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals after they traded up, first time that's
Speaker 1: ever happened in NFL history. I think that shows you
Speaker 1: again the importance this particular year with having this many
Speaker 1: different prospects that are considered, you know, top level potential
Speaker 1: franchise quarterbacks. Uh, the teams had to go for it.
Speaker 1: And you look at Buffalo trading up as well. I
Speaker 1: think the Jets they already did their trade, you know,
Speaker 1: months ago now, it seems like, but this was the
Speaker 1: year to jump on it. And it made a lot
Speaker 1: of sense for me going into this draft, Mike, I
Speaker 1: thought there was really seven things that needed to happen
Speaker 1: in terms of the players in that top third team
Speaker 1: before the Packers for things to really work out and
Speaker 1: going the sweet spot for Green Bay. You needed those four,
Speaker 1: those four quarterbacks to go before fourteen. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: you needed McGlinchey to sneak in there because everyone knew
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson at some point was going to get taken.
Speaker 1: And I thought you needed like Vita Vea or Doron
Speaker 1: Payne to go in those first thirteen picks, and both
Speaker 1: of them ended up. Yeah, they ended up both getting
Speaker 1: those two big guys. So ultimately that's what allowed the
Speaker 1: Packers to sit in their spot at fourteen, with all
Speaker 1: these different options and how they wanted to address their defense.
Speaker 1: I thought the board really lined up well for them,
Speaker 1: other than the fact that I'm sure if you're Green Bay,
Speaker 1: you would have loved to have seen Denzil a Ward
Speaker 1: make it a little bit farther down the board, But
Speaker 1: John Dorsey was having none of that. He grabbed him
Speaker 1: at number four, right after he had taken Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: with the number one pick. Yeah, and I still I've
Speaker 1: said this to you before I said it to you
Speaker 1: right afterwards. I would have been very interested to see
Speaker 1: what Dorsey does if say, Kwon Barkley would have been there,
Speaker 1: But the Giants obviously felt like they wanted to go
Speaker 1: with the best player in the draft over the quarterback
Speaker 1: at least know a lot of people's eyes. But all
Speaker 1: that being said, with Chubb being off the board, I
Speaker 1: just thought, other than somebody making a remarkable fall, whether
Speaker 1: it was a Rokan Smith or somebody like that, this
Speaker 1: was as good of a scenario as Brian good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and quickly I wanted to get your thoughts on what
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFC North. Did you mentioned Rokuan Smith,
Speaker 1: the linebacker from Georgia. The Bears ended up taking him
Speaker 1: at number eight overall. Later on in the first round,
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions take an offensive lineman, Frank rag Now
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, probably a center. It sounds like um and
Speaker 1: then uh and then beyond that, the Minnesota Vikings take
Speaker 1: cornerback from UCF Mike Hughes Um Roquan Smith. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it is he brian or lack or light so
Speaker 1: to speak? I mean, you know, he maybe has the
Speaker 1: potential to be that kind of player. This is what's
Speaker 1: interesting with with Vic Fangio b in in Chicago. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll change a little bit now with Mike Petton
Speaker 1: and Green Bay, but they always him and Caper's look
Speaker 1: for the same type of players. So to me, Smith
Speaker 1: really projects is that every down, you know, three down
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, dime linebacker type that you can always just
Speaker 1: count on, you know, playing and play out. More So,
Speaker 1: I think reag Now is a great story. Obviously lost
Speaker 1: his father a number of years ago, but still really
Speaker 1: persevered and put together a really nice stretch of football
Speaker 1: despite some of the ups and downs that Arkansas had
Speaker 1: so it was it was interesting to see how I'll play,
Speaker 1: don't yeah, And with the Minnesota Vikings taking a corner
Speaker 1: Mike Hughes, I think it'll be, uh, it'll be prudent
Speaker 1: to watch, you know, Hughes's career with Alexander's because really
Speaker 1: the only reason Hughes lasted that long is most likely
Speaker 1: because of the off field concerns. A lot of analysts
Speaker 1: had him rated, you know, just as good as Alexander Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe just below Denzel Ward, who was
Speaker 1: pretty much the consensus top cornerback in the draft. So
Speaker 1: so we'll be watching, uh, watching their careers closely here
Speaker 1: in the NFC North. But with that we need to
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