WEBVTT - TOP 10: Edge Rushers in the 2025 NFL Draft | Ticket to the Draft Podcast | Washington Commanders | NFL 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.240 On today's episode of Ticket to the Draft podcast, we 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.840 have the edge rushers. Man, this is such a fun class. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:06.920 We got speed to power, we got bull rushers, we 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.840 got edge guys, athletes, anybody you want. And we also 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.320 have Bruce Lee in this class. It's a deep class. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.280 We love them all. We got a little bit of 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.920 hate for one guy. That's a criticism, not hate. We're 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.960 not haters. And then we've got five extra guys, guys 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.119 that nobody in the national media is talking about, but 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.040 we're talking about them here. It's for the nerds. And 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.040 then we answer fan questions. It all starts right now. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.600 Welcome into the Tick of the Draft podcast. I'm Logan 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.120 Paulson here with just the guy, Jason and Jason. I'm 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.560 so excited today to be talking edge rushers. But before 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.920 we get an edge rusher, sure you guys like and 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.919 comment wherever you guys can content. We got questions we're 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.040 going to talk about a little bit later. Guys left 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.159 some good ones. We figured we addressed those. But in 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.720 the meantime we're gonna talk some edge rusher pass rusher 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.600 ball here, which is exciting. That's one of the most 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.160 valuable positions in in sports at the moment. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.440 Yeah, edge rusher is the most exciting class for me. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.240 It's one of the craziest athletes that are there, so 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:08.720 it's so much fun to watch. A lot of people 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.080 say corner is a crazy athletic position, and it is, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.280 but for me, the size that these guys are, the 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.160 way that they move, it just shouldn't be real. And 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.720 the variety of it. We have smaller guys that move 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.160 pretty quick, big guys that move pretty quick, small guys 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.040 that are super strong, and it's just the variety of 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.520 athlete and size that you find is pretty incredible to 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.680 me in the edge class. So I'm excited to dive 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.400 into this there. We still just full disclosure for everyone listening. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.080 I at least I don't want to speak for you Logan. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.640 Still have a lot of guys to watch. But I 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.279 went through about what is generally considered the top twenty 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 edge rushers, and we'll be talking about obviously your top ten, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.760 so we'll hitdle on those. But as we go through 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.040 Ticket to the Draft podcast and we get closer to 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.840 the actual draft, we'll touch on even more guys. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.680 Yeah, I know, I think that'll bet to be a 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.360 lot of fun. And again, like with the edge rushers, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.880 I think from an evaluation point, it's always easier to 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.000 watch them because they're in They're in the they're in 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:08.640 the teeth of the play all the time, right, you 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.160 don't have to kind of go hunt and peck and 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:11.920 look for them like with the way you would with 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.040 a dB. Right there in the film, they're they're they're 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.480 doing something impactful every single play. So on like a 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.040 dB where you got to kind of watch three or 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.080 four games to get a feel, you can watch an 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.640 edge sure in about thirty to forty snaps usually, and 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.520 then you kind of couple that with like reel and 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:28.920 kind of get a feel for how they move and 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.079 what they do well. So I always like edge because 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.079 they're fun, like you mentioned the freak athletes, but also 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.280 they tend to be a little bit more straightforward in 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.680 terms of evaluation, which picks makes our lives a lot easier, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.799 especially kind of on you know, kind of getting ready 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.120 to get get in these prospects ready excuse me? 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.760 Yeah, absolutely, And just so everybody knows, we see your comments, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.680 we hear your comments. We have somebody that add a 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.520 question about offensive line play and something we said, you're 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.360 going to answer that at the end of the show. Also, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.359 someone was asking about re viewing Gabe Taylor, who's a safety, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.560 and we'll do DBS coming up soon, but I'm ready 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.600 to get into the edge rushers. And the way that 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.160 I want to start that logan is by asking you 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.359 a couple of questions. It's what do you look for 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.880 in edge? And then I want you to clarify some 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.880 terms that we'll probably be using moving forward. So when 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.080 we use shorthand as a lot of scouts in the 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.440 NFL as a whole uses somebody that's tuning in for 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.840 the first time or just getting their toes wet in 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.240 the draft and prospect evaluation process, they understand what those 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.760 terms means. So let's start here. What do you look 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.080 for logan in your edge rushers? 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.880 Yeah, you know, like we did the offensive line for 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.520 you know, athletic traits and they're kind of to the 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.440 offensive line, like her how they anchor. There's a little 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.880 bit more technical hume in there that's important to understand 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.400 and kind of make sure you make note of as 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.040 you're going through the process. But for me edge rusher, sure, man, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.320 it's athlete all the time. Mass, it's athlete one hundred percent. Like, 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.880 if you see a big, strong, athletic dude who's physical 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.640 and like's contact, that's the guy that you're looking for. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.320 That's the player that you got to hone in on 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.680 and again. And like we've talked unch kind of in 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.800 previous show, obviously you're looking for athletic traits, but in 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.559 addition to athletic trades, you're also so kind of looking 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.039 for and you can't have one in isolation without the other. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.160 The redemptions we got on this list today, which I 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:26.600 think are going to be really fun to talk about 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.359 as to why maybe we're willing to look past some 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.039 of the lack of either top flight athleticism or top 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.080 flight production. But to me, it's it's like, you want 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.719 that guy that could have played power forward in the 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.919 NBA pensive end, and you want to see a certain 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.760 amount of violence, a certain amount of like I'm going 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.279 to use the analogy of like a dog with a ball, right, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.480 you want the guy who when you throw the ball, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.599 like he is just one thousand miles an hour, hell 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.640 or high water going to go. And there's some guys 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.159 in our obviously we've got the top ten, but some 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.640 guys in the kind of the auxiliary five or six 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.359 that we wanted to just bring up mentioned aren't in 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.440 the list because they don't have that kind of urgency 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.960 to their play. So urgent, athletic, physical are all things 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.760 that you're looking for here. It's really this is like 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.080 bare bones, like strip it down. I think it's one 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.200 of the easier positions to evaluate, just because it's like 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.240 you want tall, oletic dudes who are violent and care 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.480 about care about ball, and then really that's what it 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:21.040 comes down to. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.080 So let me ask you a couple of terms that 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.039 we're going to use going through these guys when we 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.560 describe them, and some of them may seem basic to 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.760 a lot of people, but to others that are just 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.200 getting into this, please bear with us. We want them 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.120 to know what we're talking about. So, like the very 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.920 first one is like, what is a bull rush? 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.960 Yeah, bullrush is like kind of what you think about 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.640 a bowl, like when it's gonna smash into another bowl, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.280 like they're going to hit each other full speed. You're 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.039 kind of running if you're the defensive player, like right 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.960 down the middle of the offensive lineman, and you can 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.440 set that up in different ways. You can take different angles. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.599 Kind of attack the outside shoulder of the offensive lineman, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.200 put your foot in the ground and kind of of 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.560 get the tackle moving before you get engaged in the 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.080 bull rush. And what you want to see there is 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.000 just nice tight elbows, you know, three points of contact 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.839 to hand to extension, get that offensive lineman to really 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.080 have to work his anchor stop his feet. And then 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.720 you want to see either a bull rush that finishes 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.760 at the quarterback or a bull rush to a nice 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.800 transition with strong hands kind of pulling yourself through. So 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.640 you want to see great hand engagement, you want to 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.640 see great contact. You want to see great kind of 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.960 a recklessness almost to the bull rush to get that 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.880 guy off balance. And again to me, when you're talking 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.680 pass rush, the best pass rushers in the NFL year 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.880 on year are great, and they have the highlight reel 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.920 kind of where they do the Euro step when they 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.920 chop hands and they get by and you see all 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.360 those BT Jordan pass rush clinics. But the best guys 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.120 have elite power and because the power kind of forces 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.920 the offensive lineman to stop their feet. And I think 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.200 when you're looking at bull rushes like that's why it's 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.000 so important to talk about these guys from a Power 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.000 File standpoint is can you get the tackle to respect 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.479 you running down the middle of their screws? Can you 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.440 get them to stop their feet, because then I can 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.240 work edges a little bit easier. I can do some 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.400 of that hand fighting stuff that you know gets people 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:13.360 Instagram famous. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.840 So let's talk about that hand fighting stuff. The thing 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.920 that last year lay out to you LOTU was so 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.000 good at, and it's the finesse moves. Like when we 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.640 talk about finess moves, what are some of them? What 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.880 does that mean? Because when we broke down on the 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.080 last episode offensive line, you were saying, an offensive lineman 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.480 has to be prepared for basically three things, an outside move, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.520 an inside move, and running right at your face. And 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.000 a lot of these set up for the next one. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.640 Because these guys are playing chess. So if I think 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.240 a bull rush is coming, what's a finesse move that? Then? Oh, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.240 he buld rushed me. Next time I'm setting my anchor, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.720 Oh here it comes a finesse move to my inside 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.720 or my outside. Give me an example of some of those. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.080 Yeah, sure, So a lot of people think of finess 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.400 moves as just being hand moves, but they're also kind 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.160 of correlated with your feed. So for example, like I 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.720 want to run kind of right down the middle, I 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.040 want to show you like a jab step or kind 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.960 of like a one to two imagine like I'm crossing 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.160 you over, I get to tackle to settle his feet 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.080 because I'm thicking power. He throws his hands, the tackle 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.200 throws his hands, or the guard throws their hands. I 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.600 can work a double wiper, so basically, like imagine you're 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.760 a wax on wax off from karate kid, I'm moving 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.520 both my hands simultaneously to kind of knock his hands down, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.000 kind of losing or being soft with my inside shoulder, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.760 getting skinny with my torso, and then working a perimeter 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.320 move right and so you can do that. Wipers is 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.640 easy because you can do it outside and you get inside. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.240 You're just changing the direction you're moving your hands. And 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.400 then obviously there's like a dip and rip move, which 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.520 is which is really effective. There's a couple guys on 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.560 here that have excellent dip and rip moves, and these 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.000 are kind of like some people would categorize them as 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.480 a ghost rush, but basically it all comes back to 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.040 protecting my inside shoulder. As a rusher, I'm gonna dip 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.680 down towards the ground. The tackle's gonna punch. He's not 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.840 gonna get a lot of juice on there because I'm 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.640 low to the ground, he's high. And then as I 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.880 rip through, I'm ripping through that contact and shaving that 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.319 angle so I can get to the quarterback. There's that, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.160 There's like the fake long arm to chop. There's a 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:06.880 whole bunch of different stuff they can do, but all 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.320 of them are designed initially to stop the tackle's feet 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.080 and then you work to the edge. Because basically, if 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:14.600 you think about it, if I'm a tackle and I 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.080 never if I never set to power, if I never 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.400 stop my feet, I would just keep kicking with you. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.240 So you want to see guys that take good effective 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.800 angles to the quarterback and then have that suddenness to 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.760 attack inside outside with you know, wipers, chops, rips, those 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:28.800 types of moves. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.679 And building off of that, Like you said, what is 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.960 speed to power? Because that sounds like a combination of 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.440 two of the things that you just said, So give 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.040 me a quick explanation of speed to power. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.679 So like for me, it's kind of it kind of 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.160 melds or blends in with like a bull rush. It's 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.520 like a bull rush is like a power move basically, right, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.680 But there are different ways to set up your power, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.920 and so for me, speed to power is basically what 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.160 you're trying to do. So like if I take too 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.240 tight of an angle, like if I run too closely 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.839 to the tackle, I'm not stressed him. He's just kind 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.600 of waiting for me there. So then I run into 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.599 a guy who's ready to brace, ready to grab onto me, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.760 ready to sink his hips, and ready to redirect me 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.320 from the quarterback. There are certain guys we're going to 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:12.840 talk about here that do a really good job of 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.280 taking what I would call a high angle, kind of 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.959 not running away from the tackle, but forcing the tackle 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.200 to be really aggressive with their kickstep, so that when 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.719 you turn and transition into a bowl or a power rush, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.160 they're kind of unsettled with their feet. They're really stressing 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.800 to move quickly to that spot to meet up with you. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.000 You kind of change the angle last minute, and then 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.000 when you collision them, their base is why they're not 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.440 ready for the contact. And it can be helpful, especially 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.559 when you're rushing it's a bigger tackle to help kind 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.199 of get them off balance and then make your power 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.160 move more effective. So that's why they call it speed 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.840 vertical speed up the field to power to that contact 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.400 point to get them to make your power move a 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:52.320 little bit more effective. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.880 Yeah, and then just a guy terminology. The way I 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.920 kind of look at it is that there are guys 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.160 they're two weight. There's really five ways to attack, right. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.840 There's the inside move, the outside move, straight bullrush, and 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.400 then there's a bull rush into a finesse move like 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.520 a spin for instance, and then there's speed to power. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.000 I'm going to look like I'm dipping and coming around 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.839 the outside, but then I'm going to go right at 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.320 you when you look a little off balance. And some 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.680 of these guys are really good at all most of these, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.120 or rather they specialize in one or two of these, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.960 most of these guys, and when you find a guy 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.320 that can do all of these, that's where you get 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.960 your very high top end prospects, which we'll talk about. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.200 So let's let's go ahead and get into it. Logan, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.280 Let's do your top ten edge rushers in this year's draft. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.040 We'll start with number ten. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.440 HEO, do you got my god? Princey Princely excuse me, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.600 Unmanniela from Old Miss and he's weavers number four on film. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.000 He was at the Senior Ball. He's uh. I think 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.720 he's like six four two fifty five is. She's got 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.319 thirty four and a quarter inch arms, so pretty long 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.760 arms for his height. And he's kind of built like 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.880 a pass rusher right like you look at him and 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.240 he's built to rush the pastor. He's got really good 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.440 movement skills. He's got pretty intuitive hand usages. It's not 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.760 the most polished thing I've ever seen of all time, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.880 but it's pretty good and it's funny. He was one 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.120 of the first guys I watched and I was like, oh, first, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.000 he's going to be a top five player just because 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.800 he's got this great these great movement skills. But I 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.560 think the fact that he's ten speaks to, you know 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.760 how deep this edge rusher classes, and you know, the 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.760 peak might not be outside of Abdu Coller Carter, might 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.720 not be the highest, but I do think there's a 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.520 lot of really really talented guys that are going to 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.160 be starters, and I think Princeley is a good example 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.280 that the reason he's lower on my list is because 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:45.040 I think he at times he lacks urgency in the 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.280 run game, right, A lot of these guys were talking 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.640 about like they just play with their absolute hair on 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.040 fire all the time. He's not hot and cold. He's 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.600 really he's really reticent to run to the football pursuit 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.600 of the football. But if he's engaged in a block, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.679 he's not super dynamic or in terms of shedding as 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.679 a run player, he brings a great juice. As a 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.440 pass rusher, He's a little bit of a one trick 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.360 pony in terms he's always trying to attack the perimeter. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.640 But the long arms his frame allow him to, you know, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.520 kind of work a long arm which is a version 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.960 of the bowl work kind of two hands into a 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.520 transitional rush. So he does have power, he does have speed. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.920 I think he's got the ability to be a nice 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.160 situational pass rusher at the next level, which is pretty exciting. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.040 So again, good football player. I thought he'd be a 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:26.920 little bit higher, but again it just speaks to the 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.320 depth of the class. And the reason he's lower than 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.520 some of these other guys is because I think, again, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.960 there's some stuff, some questions I have in the run game. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.800 But for a lot of teams that's okay. Like I 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.640 think when you look at like Nick Benito for the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.040 for the Denver Broncos, for example, like he was a 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.640 situational pass rusher, pass rushing specialist kind of in college. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.600 This feels a little bit like that he's kind of 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.120 grown over the course of his first two or three 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.000 years of the NFL and become a every down type player. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.720 I think Princely could follow that same trajectory and become 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.600 very impactful at the next level. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.280 I saw something that I thought was interesting where it 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.079 looks like he hand fights sometimes at the point of attack, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.200 and that's kind of where like the quickly shedding the 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.480 attacking the run game I think kind of gets lost. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.080 He just gets so locked into I need to win 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.280 and just kind of stays there for too long before 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.360 making some sort of move or shedding or taking his 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.800 eyes to look at what the play is that's happening 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.360 in front of him. He's just so excited about beating 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.600 the guy who's in front of him, and that's just 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.000 a guy eyes. I don't know if that's what's going 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.360 on in his head, but it just looks like for 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.520 all the other guys that I watched, he just sits 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.040 at the point of attack just a hair longer than others. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.840 But he has incredible burst bend twitch speed like he's 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.680 explosive man, and he's got a frame that I think 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:53.040 he can keep growing into. So when I saw him 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.720 just a guy, what you're saying to me makes complete sense. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.960 It's funny how this happens because I love hearing Utah 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.720 talk about guys with your expert opinion and my just 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.320 a guy eyes because I don't know what I'm talking 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.240 about or what I'm looking at. I'm just a guy 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.280 who watches football. But then hearing you talk about these 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.200 guys and it's like, well, that matches up with the 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.600 eye test, because that's basically what I am. I'm the 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.280 eye test. And it's like you're saying all these things 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.040 and you're explaining it in a way that I could 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.960 never fully understand all the technicalities of it. But Okay, 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.920 all that makes sense because it matches up with my 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.960 eyes or scene. And what I mean by that is 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.480 I wrote down it looks like you could be an 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.320 immediate pass rush specialist. Yeah, and that's a good role 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:37.120 for a team. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.920 Right, Yeah, And I think like you're always and I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 think there's tremendous value there. And there's a couple other 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.440 guys like in the subsequent lists we're going to talk about, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.640 but he's he's got some juice to him, and I 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.840 think that's ultimately what you're chasing with this position. We 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.000 talked about athletes. He's an athlete. He runs, he can hit, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.440 He's again, he's got this tremendous ability to have have 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.120 like this in eight feel as a pass rusher. I 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.920 thought it looked great at the Senior Bowl and kind 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.480 of the bag work and movement skills. Didn't win all 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.240 of his one on ones, but I thought was pretty dynamic. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.480 But a player that like he's going to contribute to 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.680 an NFL roster and he's the tenth guy on the list, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:09.880 you know what I mean. So it just kind of 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.600 speaks again to the class. And again, like one of 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.480 the things about him is I do think because of 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.160 his arm length, because of his frame, he can be 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.360 more impactful on first and second down given the right environment, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.960 given the right coaching situation. So you know, for a 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.360 team like the Commanders, he's to me would be a 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.120 great fit. You know, in terms of a guy that 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.760 has pass rushed, you this good frame, good length, and 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.400 just getting him in the right culture and with the 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.040 right mentality because he does finish to the ball. It's 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.200 just not this viole like. We're gonna talk about a 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.160 guy here at number nine who is like, there's no 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.080 question about his urgency and passion for the game. With Princely, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.840 it's a it's your like. I know you like rushing 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.480 the passer. I know you're really good at it. I 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.880 need to see a little bit more on first and 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.200 second down for me to be really confident about you 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:52.760 moving forward. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.360 You're becoming a pro. That's a nice segue into only 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:02.080 feme olidagio from UCLA. You're so you have your eyes 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.240 on this guy, I'm sure. But is he representing your 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.440 alma mater? Well, Logan, tell me about it. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.200 Oh my gosh, man, he is. He was maybe him 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.240 and another guy, or maybe the two guys I enjoyed 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.280 watching most. Like talk about a guy who loves ball, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.680 who is violent at the point of attack like his 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.639 he's he's he's urgent to get to the football. I'm 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.240 going to get to extension, both hands on the tackles, checks, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.600 I'm trying to pull to get free. Like there was 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.200 a play versus USC where he like there was a 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.240 zone read. He attacks the mesh point and he doesn't 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.120 make the tackle, but he looks like a like a missile, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.560 Like he dives at the quarterback, He like leg whips 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.919 the running back. He's flailing around and you're just like 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.040 that is. It reminds me a lot of who's a 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:48.320 linebacker here? Number four? Jeez, forget his name already, luvuk Luvu, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.679 Frankie Louvia. He reminds me of that kind of energy 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.240 in a bigger body. You know, he's six two and 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.320 a half, but he's two sixty five. He's big, he's heavy. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.360 He rushes at all three spots, rushes at the three technique, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.520 rushes at the end, and rushes at the nose guard 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.600 as their spinner. And just Is is a maniac to 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.760 get to the football and violent when he gets there. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.480 And so he's only played like you talked about after 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.200