WEBVTT - A Scouting Report of the 2024 Jets Draft Class (Part 1) 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.760 Hey there, I hope everybody's enjoying their summer. Today, we're 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.319 going to do something a little bit different and take 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.920 you up behind the curtain here at One Jets Drive. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.880 The Jets twenty twenty four draft class was made up 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.640 of seven players, as you all know, from Olu Fashion 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.480 in the first round to the last pick in the draft, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.480 mister irrelevant Jalen Key. In the days and weeks after 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.920 the draft, our entire reporting team talk to the Jets 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.320 college scouts about their findings on each selection. We wanted 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.839 to find out what was unique about each player and 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.760 why do they have a chance. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.519 To succeed with the Jets. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.040 Today, we're going to start a two part series with 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.440 a look at the scouting of Penn State tackle Olufashion, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.320 new running backs Braylan Allen out of Wisconsin and Isaiah 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.120 Davis out of South Dakota State, and then finally Jalen 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.160 Key out of Alabama. Let's get the conversation started with 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.399 Jets Director of college scouting John Carr on Fashnu, the 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:09.559 jets eleventh overall selection of the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.600 Well, yeah, you know, Olu fashionu our primary area of 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.360 scout is Thomas Whitty who handles that area in the 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.320 northeast for US and Ja Mandalizi is the national Scout 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.560 and we had a couple of people take a look 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.880 at him as a third look. But Thomas did such 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.520 a great job of identifying the traits of this young 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.800 man and at the same time getting all the pertinent 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.839 background information that we need on this guy. And Jay 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.080 did a great job as well as far as in 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.080 his evaluation and background information he gathered on this guy. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.680 But we were super excited about Olu. You see the 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.640 success he's had as a left tackle plan in a 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.520 high level conference in the Big Ten. I don't give 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.360 up any sacks, but just from his quick initial quickness 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.320 off the ball, it's contact balance, his anchor ability, plays 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.640 with very good awareness, and we had him pretty high 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.320 on our board, and that when we made the trade 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.400 and we were at the eleventh pick, he was still there. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.720 I think it was a consensus in the room that 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.520 he was our guy. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.280 All though, such a talented dude, I'm sure he could 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.680 fit well in a lot of places, But what makes 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.840 him the best fit for the Jets, And with that 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:29.040 being said, what qualities stand out the most about him. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.000 Well, not only is he a good person, a good character, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.480 and he's smart, right, He's very intelligent. He's not a 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.839 high rep type player. He's a guy that can play 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.760 left tackle or right tackle and he works at it 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.760 as well. So those things checked the box for him. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.600 But when you look at the size and the length 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.320 and the athletic ability, his quickness off the ball, those 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.120 things were very important in our style of offense. You know, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.600 we run a lot of zone scheme type runs and 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.680 even in our pass pro drop back and movement in 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.360 the pocket. This guy has the ability to do all 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.799 of those things. He has a lot of range as 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.000 a player as a pass protector, and so those things 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.720 were pretty high on our list as far as the 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.160 qualities that he checked that he can be successful in 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:18.680 our scheme. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.600 For those avid listeners of the podcast We Salute You, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.320 you might remember that Penn State head coach James Franklin 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.000 recounted the story of how he told Fashion he should 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.200 enter the twenty twenty three draft. Fashio, of course, elected 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.880 to stay, but he had been on the radar of 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.400 National scout jamn Elisi and Aria scout Thomas Whittie for 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:42.320 a long time. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.960 We've known about Oler for a couple of years now. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.680 He was a very highly coveted prospect last year. In 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.560 my opinion, he was one of the best tackles last year. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.040 And you know, I think a lot of people were 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.480 surprised when he decided to go back. But I mean, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.320 you talk about a young man that has his priorities straight, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.240 and you know, I know his mom wanted him to 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.160 go back to school and get his degree, and he 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.720 saw an opportunity to refine some of his game. And 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.200 you know, he's he wasn't looking to just jump to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.960 the league, and he knew what he had to do 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.240 to get a little better. So he decided to go 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.600 back for this past season. And you know, we're glad 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.440 he did because it gave us an opportunity to draft 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.520 him here this year. But I mean, an outstanding young 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:25.239 man as we went through this process, very few holes 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.480 in terms of the person the player. You know, he's 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.680 played at a high level, he's been productive, he's smart, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.240 it's tough, he's everything we look for, you know, to 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:34.360 bring into our organization. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.760 So going through the school and I guess it was 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:43.120 twenty twenty two, it's Oulu's true junior year, and you 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.000 get out to the practice field and see big number 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.920 seventy four, and I mean right away you're like, all right, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.800 who's that guy? And then you know, you see him 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.880 play games. You turn on the tape and you see 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.040 him move, and you get really excited about the player, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.919 and then you hear about the person too, and just 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.400 couldn't say enough good things about him. Definitely try not 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.880 to scout the helmet, that's number one, but but just 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.960 seeing his his sheer size, his athleticism, that just that 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.599 transcends everything you're looking at there. So so I think 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.400 with a with a guy like him, you know, maybe 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.120 not doing what we're asking to do in terms of scheme, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.200 but when you see him move, when you see him 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.800 get out in space, it's something that that he can unlock. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.159 And then you see him run the forty at the 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.360 combine as well and really get out there. It's definitely 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.560 something he might have not shown as much on tape, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.640 but but it is in his body. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:32.680 All right. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.360 So it's agible's off the charts. He's so impressive. Like 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.000 you said, he comes from a tremendous family, but you're 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.200 talking about smarts and toughness and people get on me 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.039 and say, Okay, well it's. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:45.359 More than that. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.240 When you look from a scouting perspective, this guy playing 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:51.880 left tackle, what does he. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.960 Bring to the table consistency? Right, Like, he's athletic, he's big, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.679 he's strong. I mean, like he just checks the box. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.039 From a traits perspective, Yeah, you know he can play left. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:02.320 He could. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.280 I personally think he could play right. You could maybe 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.839 play guard, Like I wouldn't bet against the kid, you know, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.400 playing anywhere on the offensive line. So you know he's 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.599 done it at a high level. He gets it. You 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.560 know they rave about him at the school. He just 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:15.480 kind of checks every box. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.520 From that standpoint, key talk about creates it. You guys 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.679 are looking at whether that be hands, length, feet, all those. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.800 Athletic obviously long, right, he's only he's only twenty one 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.400 years old. He's got the frame that you look for, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.680 he's got the feet, he can pass protect, he's really strong. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.280 I mean you look at some of the stuff online 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.440 with him in the weight room getting after it. Yeah. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.360 So I mean he can do it all. He can. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.320 He can slide, he can mirror, he can he can run, block, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.919 you know, he can position, he knows angles, you know, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.320 all that stuff checks off. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.520 As you go in and through the process, you have 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.560 about a year or two years worth of data there 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.160 that eventually the player is going to tell you who 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.800 he is. So I think with Olui, he's someone that 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.920 everything came up, came up, he checked all the boxes, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.480 and he continued to check those over his two years 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.360 as he started there. I think his size, length, his 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.960 pass protection, his ability to anchor and doing it at 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.520 the Big ten level, all all really stood out this 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:22.160 year especially just really impressed with the player and the 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.800 person and his ability to pass protect would really be 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.520 the calling card. I just think, I mean, everything he's 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.320 shown so far, he's calm, he's cool, he's collected, doesn't 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.840 get too high, doesn't get too low, always onto the 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.120 next rep, and just ready to dominate his one on ones. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:37.840 That's what he does. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.480 So when you guys are in pre draft meetings, do 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.720 you actually discuss, okay, more than just the prospect. I imagine, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.240 what's the fit here and can you explain why you 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.680 think this is a good fit. Because what stood out 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:58.000 to me during all his post raft interviews is that, hey, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.520 I looked up to Tyron Smith. Basically my whole life. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.560 When I was grown up in Maryland, I was watching 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.440 tapes in high school this guy play and what a 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.800 prototypical left tackle he was, and I see similarities in 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.680 terms of my body type. Do you guys talk about Okay, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.600 not only can can he come in and he's a 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.400 good player, but he can learn from these folks we 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.000 already have in the Billy Yeah. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.560 No, just like with Olu, We've we've been working on 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.160 him for a couple of years, right, so having Tyrone 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.840 is awesome, but like we've been we've been evaluating him 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:34.240 before Tyron got here. And ultimately, when you evaluate these guys, yes, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.520 it matters what our depth chart looks like, but we 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.120 want to just get the player right, like what do 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.680 we see the player being? And the cool thing about 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.960 Oloo in my mind is yes, Tyron and Morgan are 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.080 great guys to learn from. But in my mind, I'll 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.440 lose the perfect guy to learn too. Like he's gonna 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.240 he's gonna soak it all in, he's gonna be a professional, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.560 he's gonna wait his turn, and ultimately, like you can 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.360 never have enough offensive lineman, and when you have a 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.080 twenty one year old left tackle, like you jump on it. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.319 Braylan Allen, a fourth round selection in the Jets, taken 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.480 with the one hundred and thirty fourth overall pick, had 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:13.760 twenty one hundred yard rushing games at Wisconsin. Car College 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.120 scout Drew Morris and senior regional scout Jonathan Stiegel broke 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.360 down the youngest player in the NFL draft, the twenty 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.320 year old Allen, who's a monster at six foot one, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.960 two hundred and forty five pounds. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.160 Yeah. So Braylen Allen and the three man look that 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.720 we normally do with some of the top schools. Drew 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:38.520 Morris was the primary for that area, followed by Jonathan 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.000 Stiegel as a second look, and I was actually the 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.400 third look. I visited Wisconsin, So tell us about your visit, John. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.120 It was a great visit, and Wisconsin's always a great visinits. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.560 They're always going to have tough minded young men that 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.800 played there. The type of football they played, obviously being 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.920 able to be tough and playing that kind of weather 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.480 that they play in the season, the style of play 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.480 they you know, downhill, physical, dig ten type back. And 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.480 he checked all the boxes from sitting down with the 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.040 coaches there as far as his character, you know, his 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.280 love for the game, his competitiveness, and you know when 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.120 you see him in person, you know, you when you 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.080 first go there, you're thinking, well, this guy's gonna be 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.000 six two two thirty five. Is he's gonna be a 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.480 little chubby, you know. And when you saw this kid 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.400 in person, he looked like a grown man. You could 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.560 see the work he's put in in the weight room 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.680 and for that size for him to run with such 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.679 good balance and body control, and he has such quick feet, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.360 and you know he's a finisher. He's a positive yard 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.640 type runner, and he's going to get you those tough 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.680 yards from the short yards goal line. And I think 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.439 he has the play speed where I call those explosive 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.840 plus twenty type runs. He's not gonna be that home 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.240 run hitter, but he'll get you those plus twenty runs. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.559 And he showed that. And you look at his twenty 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.040 twenty two tape where he played in a more conventional 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.880 pro style offense, wheever more downhill one cut, you saw 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.800 a lot of the traits that got not only myself excited, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.559 but you know the scouts that visited the school along 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:14.800 with our coaches as well. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.600 Oh gosh, as a seventeen year old freshman, maybe even 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.560 a little before that, because I'm tied in a little 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.000 bit with some of the high school coaches around here, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.200 and you know, kind of the guys from a local. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.400 He's actually just right down the street from me in 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.760 Fondilac where he grew up. And then the first time 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.480 you go out to practice and you see this guy 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.040 and how big he is, and then he's just continued 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.360 to get bigger over the last three years. I mean, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.920 he's built like a like a Mac truck. I might 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.640 be dating myself a little bit, but he looks like 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.280 he should be on the cover of the old video 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.360 game NFL Blitz. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.640 I mean my first interaction was, you know, seeing him live. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.120 I'm like, you could see the video that he had sized, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.280 but when you walk up on him and practice, you're 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.160 kind of amazed of how big and how well built 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.600 he is. You know, through his body. You know he's 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.640 got freakings traits, and I think he's shown that, you know, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.960 this season per se, I think the switch of offense 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.480 from what was viewed in the past, I don't think 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.280 he really showed everything that's in his body. I thought 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.720 he did the year before, it was in a different offense. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.040 You know, they've done a really good job at Wisconsin, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.040 you know, filling that stable of running backs, and they've 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.920 had production at Wisconsin, they've had production. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.200 In the league. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.120 I think if he would have stayed in that same 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.640 inside zone, the downhill scheme or outside zone more, I 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.760 think it would have been you know, he would have 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.120 had more stats. And I think that's why he was 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.040 overlooked a little bit. I think we got a really 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.680 good value and a really good player. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.280 I think first off, like watching him as a seventeen 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.680 year old rushing for almost thirteen hundred yards, I believe 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.360 in the Big ten is is absolutely wild. And in 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.440 terms of his frame, like he came in as a 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.880 big kid and he just continued to get bigger in 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.520 their weight room. You talk to those guys over at 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.080 Wisconsin and they never limited it in terms of that 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.400 because he really has the frame to carry it. Like 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.679 when I was there, he was about two hundred and 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.680 forty five pounds in August. He was about two forty 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.160 three I believe when I came back in October, and 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.000 he carries that weight extremely well. In terms of him 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.920 as a player, Like obviously the size is going to 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.559 stand out, the strength the power, the ability to break contact. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.800 I think that's something that he was able to do 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.480 from freshman on. Outside of that, when you look at it, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.440 he's improved a ton in the passing game, both as 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.360 a pass protector and as a as a receiver catching 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.360 the ball out of the backfield. I think that's one 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.560 of the most evident things that you see from watching 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.640 him as a freshman to watch him now is how 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.719 much better he's got in terms of pass protection. And 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.680 as you mentioned, being the youngest guy in the draft, Like, 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.800 there's still a lot of growth potential in this guy 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.000 in terms of his skill set. I mean, he's twenty 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.199 years old. Most of the guys you're seeing get drafted 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.360 are twenty two, twenty three years old. Like, there's still 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.280 a lot left on the bone for a guy who 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.920 is an extremely productive college player. I mean, he was 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.720 five semesters at Wisconsin. That's it. A lot of these 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.400 guys are ten plus semesters now with everything going on. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.840 So I think there's a ton of upside and still 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.160 room for him to grow and even get better from 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:14.239 what she saw at Wisconsin. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.080 Would you find out about him from the people on campus, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.040 because that's a big part of your job as well 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.280 as not just to valuate the tape, not just to 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.360 watch these guys at practice or games, but actually do 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.160 the research on the ground to find out who they 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.840 are and how they're gonna fit in your program. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:32.120 Yeah. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.320 I mean he's he was raised in a good home. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.680 He's a Wisconsin kid. You know, there was no red 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.600 flags off the field or any issues or concerns that way. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.080 You know, he was a guy like you know I 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.240 just said before, you know, the character stuff all checked out, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.360 that was not going to be an issue. Everybody likes 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.080 the person you know in the building, out of the building, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.960 and then you know through the process of combine and everything, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.480 you know he's a good person, responsible, accountable, all that stuff. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.760 You know, it was just you know, like I said, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.760 the production this year, playing or playing in that passing 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.680 offense and not seeing you know, all of his skill 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:11.560 set being used. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.720 Do you think about December and January when you're looking 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.520 at a guy like this, because you guys have a 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.400 star running back in the backfield in Brice Hall. But 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.640 obviously you can't give him every rep out of the backfield, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.200 So how much does that factor in the equation where 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.920 you guys are the division that kind of stuff. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.440 This is especially playing in his division, playing in Buffalo, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:39.000 you know, New England, especially later in the year when 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.880 it's cold and you need to run the ball. I mean, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.920 obviously we saw that last year with Breese. You know, 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.440 having a big back that can handle the load and 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.960 adding another one to the stable, especially for a long season, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.400 is a really good problem to have. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.920 I like to see the Braylen Allen where it's third 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.320 and three, third and two and you see him get 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.680 that extra yard and be able to run through contact. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.440 I think that's the skill set that really projects well 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.680 in terms of the NFL and what he's going to 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.720 be able to do there. The guys obviously scored a 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.600 lot of touchdowns throughout the years, but I think the 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.000 most fun is watching him run through guys and the 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.040 other stuff too. I think when you go through his 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.320 tape is that he's got really impressive feet, like his 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.280 foot agility working through the bags. I mean, just watching 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.440 him float through the agility bags at Proday is one 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.840 of the more impressive things I've seen. For I believe 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.480 he was two hundred and thirty six pounds at PRODA. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.160 For a guy that size being able to move through 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.480 the bags and change direction that the way he is. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.800 I think that's probably one of the most underrated parts 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.880 of his game, is how good his feet truly are 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.920 at that size. But he's also done a lot of 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.280 things like outside of that. You know, obviously he said 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.000 the weight room to size, the ability, the highlights on 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.880 the field, like those are extremely impressive things. But I 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.760 think the growth of him, you know, talking to those 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.560 coaches that are in there, from seventeen years old to 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.960 nineteen years old last year, has really been in terms 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.280 of like his diligence, his classroom study, his ability to watch. Hey, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.520 those type of things have really come a long way. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.720 Those aren't necessarily things that you learn in high school. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.679 Those are things that you have to learn, have to 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.360 dedicate yourself to at the college level. And he's done 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.679 a really good job of getting himself prepared from a 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.960 mental standpoint and being mentally ready for the NFL as 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.240 much as he has physically. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.960 The Jets added even more depth behind star Breesall with 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.040 the addition of Isaiah Davis in the fifth round, the 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.560 number one hundred and seventy three overall selection in the draft. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.040 A stud at South Dakota State. Here's a kid who 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.720 rushed for four five hundred and forty eight yards and 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.880 fifty touchdowns in forty six games. While Carr and Morris 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.560 will recount their unique scouting experiences in regards to Davis, 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.639 national scout Don Green also touched upon the adversity he 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.720 overcame to get to this point. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.520 Cool story with Isaiah. You know when we got when 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.639 I got there, they practiced like I think the price 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.840 at four point thirty or five o'clock and one of 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.760 the coaches told me, he said, he's one of those 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:05.880 kids that's you know, he's always first one to get 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.680 out and he goes to his little routine before practice, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.040 and you hear that a lot of times, and you 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.880 know sometimes you saw talk right, And so I went 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.160 out to practice. Sure enough, there's Isaiah Davis out there 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.600 doing footwork drills. He's got two other players with him, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.480 and the strength coach told me, this is an everyday thing. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.080 Is genuine. This guy loves football. He's going to be 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.000 the last one to leave. And I was just super 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.359 impressed with that and the success he's had on the 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.400 FCS level again, a winner, they won the national championship, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.720 and you know he has a crazy stat where you know, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.160 the last two years, I mean, this young man had 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.800 over four hundred and eighty carries and just one fumble 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.840 and that's a that's a big stat, especially at the 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:56.000 running back position. So super excited about Isaiah. He was 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.160 a Red Star candidate, which is one of our top 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.080 guys that fits the cad gory from a character and 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.720 football player for us. And he's going to be a 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.679 course special teamer and he's going to be another good 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.080 addition to that running back rome. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.920 Yeah, he actually was put on my radar a little 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.119 bit as a freshman. It's kind of an interesting story. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.080 So in twenty twenty one, they played in the spring 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.760 because of COVID, So South Dakota State played sam Houston 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.920 State in the National Championship Game, and that was when 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.600 we were still mostly at home scouting. I was actually 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.639 at my in law's house watching a game with my 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.879 father in law and that was the only football on 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.400 really at the time in the spring. Right, So I'm 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.600 watching South Dakota State play sam Houston State in the 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.960 National Championship Game and there's this big freshman out there, 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.639 Isaiah Davis. He's returning kickoffs, he's running a ton of 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.520 explosive runs. That was really the time where I was like, Wow, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.840 this guy's got something to him, and then been able 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.560