WEBVTT - Kent Platte and the Relative Athletic Score 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:07.720 Practice traffic drowing huxtowner. What a win for this Miami 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:13.400 Dolphins team. Wow, What is up Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.599 the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.320 network covering your Miami Dolphins. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.720 and I am here to bring you your daily dose 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.640 of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the combine 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.720 has come and gone, but with four team picks. Before 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.080 the compensatory picks are handed out later this month, it's 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.800 going to be draft season each of these next seven 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.159 weeks for your Miami Dolphins. Were welcoming in the creator 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.760 of the Relative Athletics Scorecard to talk about the freak 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.960 athletic profiles of these NFL hopefuls. Plus we'll talk about 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.080 some current Dolphins players and there are a s scorecards 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.720 from their respective draft years and some sound from Cal 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.520 defensive back Ashton Davis on new Dolphins defensive backs coach 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.000 Jerald Alexander. All of that and more on this Tuesday 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.119 marks the third edition of the Drivetime Podcast and I'm 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.040 thrilled to be joined here today on the Drivetime Podcast, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.440 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network by the creator 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.400 of the Relative Athletics Scorecard. You can find him on 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.760 Twitter at math bomb. He is Kent Platt Kent. Thanks 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.920 for doing this, Man, appreciate it. Man, thanks for having me. Yeah, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.920 I really love your work. It's it's a pretty cool 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.600 way to track the overall cumulative score of what happens 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.800 on the field at the combine. And so first I 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.720 want to ask you one how long you've been doing 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.520 this for and also walk us through what the Relative 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.679 Athletics Scorecard the r A S what is that and 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.480 how did you ultimately develop the final product. Yeah, this 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:43.959 is the eighth year that I've been doing this. I 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.960 started doing REZ in earnest in two thousand and thirteen. Um, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.880 a lot of players were coming out that year that 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.960 that had quote end quote question marks where they had 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.400 talked about one specific drill and it's the forty it's 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.080 always the forty. UM where they didn't do that well 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.400 in the forty. And I started notice thing that a 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.520 lot of these guys were measuring really well in other 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.960 drills and they were being called a poor athlete. And 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.240 I didn't feel like that was fair. Um, So I 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.280 started developing a system that would be a little bit 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.120 more fan friendly. A little bit more understandable, easy to understand. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.679 So I centered on a zero to ten scale because 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.160 everybody can understand that zero is bad, ten is good. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.680 UM and and you know, it just built a scale 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.840 from there that that would measure player athleticism. I've refined 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.160 it every year. The My current system has been in 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.519 place since two thousand seventeen, and I don't see any 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.520 reason to be changing it anytime soon. I'll change the databases, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.880 but not the actual data. UM. It looks at each 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.000 individual metric. It looks at height and weight for size, obviously, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.520 it looks at the forty yard dash, twenty and ten 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.880 yard splits for speed. It looks for at the bench 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.799 press for strength, vertical and broad jump for explosion, show 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.440 and cone for agility UM. And then it just compares 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.959 the percentage the percenta out for those players all the 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.880 way back to seven, so it includes combine and pro 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.560 day UM, and it just gives you a number based 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.200 on that, and then it takes all of those numbers, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.480 gets an a bridge, and then it compares the average 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.720 for every player and gets a final score that's also 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.960 a zero to tend score, So you can look at 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.480 a player and say, okay, he's about a seven that's 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.720 above average, is a pretty good athlete. Um, it just 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.639 gives you a decent idea without having to dig through 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.519 all the numbers to understand how athletic a person is. Obviously, 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.720 once you start looking at that data, you can dig 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.639 a little bit further and find out, you know, the 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.160 more granular information, but just having that that upfront picture 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.360 is always helpful to have. Yeah, so when you see 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.280 like a you know, a player jumps a hundred and 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.400 on the broad jump and maybe you don't know how 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.800 to correctly apply that, you can just look here at 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.960 Kent's rass score and it gives you a general consensus 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.560 about where that player stacks up against other players in 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.280 the class in the athletic testing. And for me on 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.040 this podcast, in my work in general, can I love 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.440 the film stuff, and so to get the athletic profiles 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.160 paired with that, I think it's a great cumulative measure 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.400 of what a player looks like heading into the draft 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.040 and maybe where their draft stock might check in that 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.960 come draft day. So before we get into the athlet 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.160 like Marvel's here, I do want to talk about the 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.760 athletic freaks that are already in Miami. But before we 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.920 do that, even I want to ask you, because the 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.640 Dolphins have fourteen draft picks this year, if you've been 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.920 doing it for eight year, about where does this class 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.960 check in terms of their overall RAS score sheets. This 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.640 class has been fantastic. It's as you mentioned, I've been 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.479 doing this for eight years. It's been so much fun 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.679 this year getting ready for the draft crep and getting 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.240 ready for the combine. Um, I've still got the entire 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.360 pro day circuit to work, but the combine was fantastic. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.320 It was so much fun. You always come in with 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.560 different storylines with players that that need to do well 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.479 in a certain drill. They have to show that they're fast, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.200 they have to show that they're explosive. Most of those 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.920 players did those things in this combine. All of those 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.080 storylines that you get every year, I can't remember a 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.919 time in the eight years I've been doing this where 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.680 so many players have hit those benchmarks and accomplished what 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.880 they needed to do coming into the combine. It's been 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.320 a lot of fun. I'm really excited for this draft class. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.960 And let's go ahead and go back to the most 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.000 recent draft here in reference the Miami Dolphins players and 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.400 their rast scores over the last several years. I want 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.839 to start first with last year's first round draft pick 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.440 and Christian Wilkins. And if you watch him in any setting, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.440 you can tell he's an athlete. The guy that did 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.760 the splits after Clemson won the National Championship game. Clearly 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.799 a man that size bending that way is not natural. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.040 But where does Christian Wilkins come in on the RASH 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.000 score sheet? His combined workout from the twenty nineteen NFL combine, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.840 Christian Wilkins came in with an eight point five five 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.400 out of ten, which is really good. Anything over eight 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.280 is considered elite. It's actually color coded on the cards, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.159 so anything anything over eight is in green, anything below 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.120 five is in red, everything else is yellow. So he 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.839 had an eight point five five, which is a really 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.599 good score. It's funny because it's one of my favorite 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.920 types of cards, where where none of his other metrics 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.520 were in that elite range, but he still had an 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.920 elite score. Um, it just shows you that he doesn't 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.720 have any real athletic flaws. There aren't really really any 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.760 holes to who he is as an athlete, and I 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.359 love seeing guys like though. It's just just great overall 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.360 athletes like that, and going back one year prior to that, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.160 I think this is the guy, in my opinion, that 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.880 probably popped on your score sheet more than anybody else. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.480 Tight end Mike get Sicky coming out in that NFL draft, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.520 the basketball superstar back in high school. We saw his 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.880 video highlights on the Miami Dolphins social account where did 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.960 Mike A. Sicky check in with his workouts at the 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.320 combine and eighteen Mica Sicky checked in with a nine 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.719 point nine six out of ten. He was the I 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.320 think the third most athletic tight end in my entire 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.480 database since seven, which is you know, I guess that's 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.560 pretty good, right, that's the year I was born, so hey, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.000 good company. He jumped out of the gym with at 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.000 vertical he had a six point seven six cone time, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.279 which is just insane for a two forty seven pound guy, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.120 and then of course he ran that four point five 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.520 four which teams love. Uh. It's it's an elite athletic 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.239 pro profile. It's hard to find tight ends or any 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.560 position that that's z athletic um. The idea with picking 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.560 a guy like that is getting that upside as early 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.320 as you can. Tight ends is one of the most 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.200 athletically demanding positions in the NFL. So getting one of 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.080 the best athletes that's ever come out of the draft, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.360 you can't go wrong there. So I skipped over something 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.120 I wanted to say you in response to the Christian 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.320 Wilkins rast score and kind of how we can apply 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.760 these score sheets of their tape and what it produces 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.120 on the field on Sundays. You mentioned that Wilkins. You 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.160 said a great quote there, Kent that he really doesn't 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.120 have any athletic flaws, and I think that shows up 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.840 on Sundays because he plays multiple positions across the defensive line. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.160 He can penetrate as a pass brusher, he can hold 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.520 the point against the running game, So that checks out 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.760 in that way, and then Mike get SICKI attacking the 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.480 football down on the red zone. The leaping ability, the 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.000 speed to get on top of linebackers, the quick movement 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.600 at the top of routes to transition and get off 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.560 the top of that route and get off the coverage 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.520 and create separation that way. So both of those things translate. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.000 Let's go ahead now to a linebacker from Ohio State 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.520 in the twenty seventeen NFL Draft checked that Jerome Baker, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.600 the linebacker. I have a feeling that he too, is 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.640 pretty high on your score sheet. Oh absolutely. Jerome Baker 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.520 came in with a nine point two six out of ten, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.560 which is again and in that elite range. Um. He 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.240 was undersized when he measured in, but his his forty 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.040 yard dash was fantastic at four point five three. He 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.920 had elite UH explosion drills, he had a lead, agility, drills. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.880 Everything you want from an athlete Jerome Baker had. And 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.440 you want to get a guy like that on the 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.720 field because you've got guys like Ghaziki out there, those 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.160 super super athletic tight ends. You gotta have somebody that 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.280 can run with him in coverage. So picking somebody that's 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.040 got that speed, that explosive explosiveness and that agility, that's 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.120 exactly what you want a out of a linebacker. And 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.280 that's exactly what we got with Jerome Baker last season. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.680 Basically never left the field as long as he was 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.160 healthy and ready and active to play. And you see that, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.440 like you mentioned, with the ability to run down the pipe, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.600 to run twenty forty yards downfield with a tight end, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.480 but also to chase sideline to sideline in the running game, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.959 sniff out screens, that type of stuff. So again, this 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.400 all matches up for Jerome Baker as well, the next 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.040 player on my list. Here. We're going back to slot cornerback, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.800 and we heard Dion Sanders and the NFL network crew 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.440 talk a lot about the importance of the slot position, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.440 and McCain transitioned this year back to safety, playing a 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.320 little bit of both, maybe going forward safety and slot cornerback. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.320 We'll see what the Dolphins decided to do there. But 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.280 Bobby McCain, as well as the other guys we talked 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.200 about previously, could he check out pretty well? Bob mc 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.959 cane an elite score. He had an eight point four 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.720 year out of ten. But what was really interesting with 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.719 him is that he ran a three point eight to 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.680 shuttle time, which is just insane from any player that's 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:18.000 ninety nine point seventh percentile for cornerback seven. That's insane 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.719 to have have that level of a Julie that that 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.880 start and stop ability for a cornerback is what you 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.439 want to see when you have somebody that can cover 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.880 the slot those shift year receivers. You want somebody that 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.640 can plant their foot and change direction quickly. So having 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:30.839 a guy that can do that and put up a 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.520 score like that, that's perfect. Yeah, and you definitely, like 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.800 you mentioned covering a guy in the slot. All these quick, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.120 agile guys that can win in a phone booth like 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.440 a Julian Edelman in New England for instance, you have 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.880 to have that quick twitch ability to be able to 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.400 win in the slot from a defensive perspective. Let's stay 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.520 in that draft class. And a guy that really broke 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.280 onto the scene this year with twelve receiving yards nine 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.480 touchdowns out of Louisville, Davante Parker. Where does he come 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.000 in on the rast score sheet? DeVante Barker came out 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:57.839 of the nine point seven five out of ten when 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.880 he came out of Louisville. Uh, he came in with 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.440 of no another guy with no athletic flaws. Um he did. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.240 He came in with good size, He came in with 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.520 great speed, great explosiveness. He didn't test in the agility drills, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.000 but every other measurement that he had was either above 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.800 average were good. I think his lowest percentile was still 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.080 seventy three percentile. It was just one of his splits. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.319 Everything was fantastic for him. He has great get off. Um. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:20.840 I think you can see it right on tape. His 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.360 explosiveness off the line, his his leaping ability, and his 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.439 ability to separate at the top of his routes. That's 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.040 what makes him win in the NFL. He does a 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.240 great job of that. Yeah, I don't think anybody was 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.040 better at contested catches this year across the NFL than 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.760 Davante Parker. Then we get into Week seventeen against Defon Gilmour, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.880 who wins the Defensive Player of the Year award, and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.079 Parker goes off for something like seven catches for a 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.120 hundred and twenty yards on the best cornerback in the NFL. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.439 So very impressive work there. Let's go ahead and get 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.920 back now into this year's combine and start here with 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.720 the quarterbacks and just go position by position and talk 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.320 about some of the things that stood out to you 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.520 in terms of the RAS score sheet. With the quarterbacks. Yeah, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.280 Justin Herbert was one of the one of the top 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.599 three quarterbacks for most people in this draft, and I 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.560 don't think anybody was expecting to have the type of 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.400 athletics showing that he had. We all know that he 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.839 can throw, but Justin Herbert ended up coming out with 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.000 a nine point six nine r s, which is not 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.360 common for a player that's six six. You know, a 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.600 six six guy shouldn't be able to run of four 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.360 six eight, He shouldn't have those. You'd hope he has 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.040 that elite hops. He's a tall guy, played basketball probably, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.240 but you know he had great agility or great explosiveness scores, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.280 he had great speed. He came out with the highest 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.719 score in the class. I don't think anybody really expected that. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.120 Jalen Hurts another guy that a lot of people like. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.080 He's very athletic in Alabama and Oklahoma. He came up 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.760 with a nine point six, just behind Herbert. That's a 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.840 really good score. You really like to see stuff like that. Um. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.040 The other guy was Jordan's Love out of Utah State, 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.640 another guy that he uses that athleticism on the on 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.480 the field. He has a big arm, he can run, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.360 he can move. He came out with that eight point 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.200 five eight. So the guys that did measure at the quarterback, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.880 obviously Joe Burrow and to a tong of Bloa didn't. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.200 But of the guys that did, they exceeded expectations. They 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.560 did really well at the combine. It almost feels like 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.920 a a statement for the modern times of Football's players 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.679 are just getting faster and stronger every single year. It's 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.719 fun to watch. And I thought this year we might 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.600 have a receiver break John Ross's record, and I was 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.760 hoping he would because I think that Henry Ruggs will 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.679 be a really good player at the next level. I 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.439 assume that he kicks off your receiver measurements here. Henry Ruggs, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.520 his overall score was still in the elite range, but 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.760 it's mostly just that speed, right, He's he's all speed um, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.280 which is fine. Uh. He came in with elite explosive 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.760 in scores. He had a forty two in vertical, which 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.040 at five eleven you don't you don't usually see guys 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.280 that can jump that well. Uh, he came one inch 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.640 shy of getting eleven foot broad, had ten eleven on 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.680 his broad and of course you mentioned that four point 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.120 to seven. You know, the only reason he didn't have 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.280 a higher score is because size is factored in and 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.080 he is five eleven and eight pounds, So he ended 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.040 up getting a nine point six six, which that's like, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.760 that's fifth in the class. To tell you how athletic 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.360 this this draft classes that's fifth. Uh. The number one 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.040 guy was Chase Claypool out of Notre Dame. He came 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.920 very close to Ake and Calvin Johnson's RAZ record. Calvin 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.480 Johnson currently holds the ten the ten spot for RAZ 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.280 for REZ. If you're at ten, that's the most athletic, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.400 the highest average athleticism score of any player ever. UM. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.880 Chase Cleypool tied it at ten. Because I have so 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.959 many receivers, there's two guys at the top. Because is 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.280 just behind Calvin Johnson. Just to give you the idea 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.880 of the type of athlete, he is six four two 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.319 thirty eight runt of four four two and jumped out 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.760 of the gym. An extremely talented athlete. UM. And then 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.640 Justin Jefferson was at People were worried about being athletic, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.360 and he came in second in the class at a 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.920 nine point eight four r as great speed, great explosiveness, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.479 good size. You know, as I said, everybody's exceeding expectations 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:39.800 this year. It was a lot of fun to watch 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.720 those guys. Yeah, you pair Jefferson's athletic ability with the 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.400 fact to me that he is just one of those 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.800 dudes like he goes out there, he can run routes, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.040 he competes, plays with hair on fire. A lot of 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.719 fun to watch him play. How about the tailbacks this year, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.800 I think that maybe some of the times weren't what 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.679 people expected. We saw Jonathan Taylor have the great forty time, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.360 But what did you get out of the running backs 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.679 of this year's combine. Yeah, it was a little unfortunate 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.559 that Jonathan Taylor only ran a four point three nine. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.520 I mean, I really expect him to do a lot 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.120 better than that. He's two and twenty six pounds, but 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.800 people didn't realize that. They see that Wisconsin uniform and 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.839 maybe they think that he's just that big, bruising guy 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.560 they've been been churning out year after year. But Jonathan 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.880 Taylor is a burner. He can fly, He's a big 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.960 dude that can move. He came in with a nine 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.840 point five seven r e s. He didn't have any 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.040 scores below average except his his bench was barely below average. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.960 But really great athlete um uh Levante Bellamy was the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.040 guy that everybody expected to to contend with that that 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.840 sub four three um he ended up getting injured on 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.920 his forty so I wasn't able to do so. Um. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.080 We had Cam Acres from Florida State. I'm sure you're 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.240 familiar with him. He came with a nine point three one. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.920 Raz that that's a guy that people were saying was 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.720 going to have some trouble at the combine, and he 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 blew blue expectations out of the water. He ran really well, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.880 he jumped really well. You know he again, guys are 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.480 just beating expectations this year. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.960 I would echo the sentiments on Jefferson with Cam Maker 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.480 in the competitiveness and just the fire that he plays with, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.840 a lot of fun to watch on Saturdays. How about 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.120 tight ends? We talked about Mike Asiki. I have a 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.440 feeling nobody came close to him in that regard. But 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.320 who did check in out of the tight end class? 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.640 At the top of your score sheets? We only had 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.360 three guys come in with a RAS over eight. We 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.040 usually see a little bit more than that. I think 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.120 the lowest was like six a few years ago. But 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.880 the guy at the top of the charts was Dalton 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.960 Keene from Virginia Tech came in with a nine point 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.720 three three. Um, he's not gonna be your your Day 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.160 one guy. I'm not sure that we have a Day 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.520 one tight end. Um. If we did, though, it would 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.480 either be Cold Comet out of Notre Dame or Adam 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.400 Troutman out of Dayton. And those are the next two 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.360 guys with a nine point one seven and eight point 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.000 two four. Uh. They both measured really well. Adam Troutman. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.560 I actually did an entire threat on him on Twitter. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.000 But Adam Troutman came with a six point seven eight 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.400 three cone drill. I mentioned before that those those agility drills, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.400 those are really hard to do well in. He came 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.400 with a six point sevent eight at two d and 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.400 fifty five pounds. That's ridiculous. A guy like that that 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.760 can move that well in space. So I'm sure that 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.360 NFL teams will find a way to use him. He 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.040 is coming out of Dayton. I don't know how the 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.840 small school is tough works, but um, a great athletic profile, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.680 A guy that can move in space, guy that can catch, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.440 guy that can block. That's what you want from your 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.160 tight ends. Yeah, I'm surprised that that he didn't play 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.600 basketball Dayton, concerning the fact that it is a basketball 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.240 school and the athletic profile certainly does check out on 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.680 the hardwood. Let's move now to the offensive line, and 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.000 one of the meat portions of this clash. You and 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.160 I spoke a fair about how good the offensive line 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.720 class is heading into and Tristan Worth's blewed up. I 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.080 imagine that he starts off the top of your scorecards here. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.679 Tristan Worse is one of the top tackles in this class, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.399 and he's considered one of the best athletes in this class, 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.400 so it's no surprise he had a nine point seven 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.520 four out of ten. He actually had two of the 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.240 best explosion drills in the entire combined history at a 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.000 thirty six point five inch vert um. I have pro 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.080 days in my database, so it's not the best in 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.280 my database, but for a tackle at the combine, that's 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.320 his best, the best you can get elite explosion ran 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.280 a four eight five at three twenty pounds. That's insane, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.480 but it speaks to the strength of this class that 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.840 that's only the third highest score in this class. McKay 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.560 Beckton got a big bump because he's so huge um 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.479 and he ran a five one, which is an elite 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.760 score four a tackle, and he did that at three 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.000 hundred and sixty pounds, that's nuts. Um I got that. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.560 You didn't really hear a lot about. He was starting 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.199 to get a little a little buzz Right before the 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.359 combine was Ezra Cleveland at a Boise State. Um I 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.840 I was wise to him because people have been saying, oh, 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.000 you gotta watch him, he's gonna ow it up. Um 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.959 I didn't expect this kind of a performance. He put 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.800 up a nine point nine four out of ten. Every 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.240 single metric that he did, with the exception of size, 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.919 was in elite range, overent out. That's nuts. To have 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.439 a guy that's three eleven pounds that can be elite 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.920 in every way, elite agility, elite explosion, elite strength, all 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.679 of those. That's awesome. And it's great that we finally 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.520