WEBVTT - Drive Time: Round 1 Options, Will Johnson Profile and Deciphering Safety Snap Counts 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.720 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.200 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.680 we wrap up Prospect Profile series with Michigan cornerback Will Johnson. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.720 Will break down the usage of the safety in this 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.360 defensive system across the NFL. We explore some draft trends, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.680 some trade back cost option, some positional gluts, and a 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.480 heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.599 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.920 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.080 We don't talk about ten, right Ten is Bruno's That's 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:44.280 the rule here on the podcast. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.479 I'm over it. That's all I'm gonna say about it. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.159 Before we dive into our final I swear our final 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.480 prospect profile deep dive. I wanted to do a quick 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 exploration akin to the one we did on the defensive 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.560 tackle Snaps a week or two ago. You guys responded 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.640 pretty positively to that podcast, so I thought this to 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.839 go ahead and do it again with another position group 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.560 that has a lack of clarity at it right now 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.440 in terms of who might be on the field for 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.880 those snaps, and we discussed on the Monday podcast. I 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.679 think it was Monday. The safety position is interesting in 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.960 that you don't really have anybody has started for an 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.360 entire season really in the room. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.320 I mean you have. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.640 I wrote down four, but I would call it three 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.039 potential guys that could assume a role as such, and 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.760 that does create a fun camp competition. But when you 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.559 think about it from a deployment standpoint and the ever 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.880 shifting landscape of defensive football in twenty twenty five, maybe 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.880 we aren't looking at it. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:42.600 The way we should be. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.880 That was the hypothesis on the defensive tackle position, and 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.280 we confirmed it by demonstrating how those other teams, the Ravens, 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.240 the Titans, and the Seahawks deployed their interior defensive line 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.680 snap counts and how many you had to find to 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.480 round out your roster to get yourself ready to play 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.640 a seasons on. The safety position is not nearly as strong. However, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.680 I think the makeup of the cornerback group currently and 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.359 what could be added to it here in the next 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.080 couple of weeks, and you know, again could be confirmed 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.520 really if you get Texas's Jadea Baron because of his 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.840 ability to play in the intermediate as well as our 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.040 penchant to invert coverage with versatile receivers. I don't think 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.639 it's nearly as stark as the ability to round out 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.960 the defensive line reps with more edges and backers. But 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.760 we can take a look at the trends of those 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.320 same teams we explored in the defensive tackle thing and 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.680 tell you what you can expect in terms of who 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.880 will play how many snaps this year at the safety position. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.840 So the Dolphins last year, for instance, I went into 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.000 this not having had a hypothesis, but I didn't have 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.280 I didn't know what the snap counts were for these 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.640 four teams. So Jordan Poyer last year played nine hundred 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.400 and sixty four snaps, Javon Holland played eight fifty four, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.600 Marcus May played two ninety three, Elijah Campbell's seventy six. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.480 Patrick McMorris played eight snaps. So you had three safeties 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.720 on the field two point seven percent of the time. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.440 And remember May was released in season. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.640 Holland and Ployer both missed some games or I think 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.520 Poyer missed one game, right, and we were a two 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.799 safety defense. We had one thousand, sixty four snaps last 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.679 year as a defense. Multiplied that by two and you 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.600 get twenty one to twenty eight, twenty one hundred and 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.120 twenty eight reps and we had twenty one eighty seven 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.040 snaps played by safeties. I think that that right there 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.160 can be instructive because of what we talked about with 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.440 the cornerback usage. You used to have to think of 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.080 it as you need three safeties to play regular time 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.320 without injuries. And that was the case when we had 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.000 like Eric Rode down here, right, he was a big 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.080 nickel a lot of those packages. I Meanka Fitzpatrick was 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.840 a big nickel here his rookie season. But we only 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.520 called upon that big nickel package last year, which is 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.680 three safeties two cornerbacks opposed to three corners two safeties. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.000 Just a handful of times you go up north to Baltimore, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.480 Kyle Hamilton played one thousand and forty four snaps, Darius 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.480 Washington played seven hundred and twenty seven snaps, Marcus Williams, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.680 who's still out there by the way, played six hundred 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.520 and one snaps, and Eddie Jackson played three thirty nine. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.280 They also got thirty three snaps out of two youngsters 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.600 who you probably haven't heard of, So for total, that 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.360 was twenty seven hundred forty four snaps for the safeties 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.000 on one thousand, one hundred and thirty two snaps for 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.120 the defense. Multiply that by two and you get twenty 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.359 two hundred sixty four a much much larger use of 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.840 safeties than what we did. Three safeties twenty one point 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.600 two percent of the time. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:31.919 That's it. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.240 That's a big increase. My daughter yesterday told me she 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.760 loves math, which she's four, so you know, go figure 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.320 that one. Like she can she can do some traction, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:42.880 which was pretty cool. But like, I don't know where 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.719 she gets it from, because I look at these numbers 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.320 and my brain just kind of like shuts down. But 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.480 twenty one percent compared to three percent, right, So that's 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.359 eighteen percent difference, give or takes some fractions. There, pretty 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.000 big difference between Miami and Baltimore. How about in Tennessee, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.799 where Amani Hooker played eight hundred and fifty snaps, Daryl 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.159 Worley played four hundred and fifty nine, Quandre Diggs played 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.440 four to nineteen safety. The last name Brown. I didn't 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:05.960 write his first name down, and I forgot who is 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.400 played three hundred and eighty six snaps and they had 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.040 twenty six snaps to other safeties. So twenty one hundred 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 and forty snaps by safeties compared to one thousand and 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.760 fifty eight total snaps. Times that by two, we get 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.560 twenty one sixteen. That's a three safety rate of one 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.200 point one percent of the time, less than half of 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.640 your low figure. For the Miami Dolphins, the Seahawks, Mike McDonald, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.159 Julian Love played one thousand, seventy nine snaps, ray Sean 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.960 Jenkins played five point fifty. Cavon Wallace played one hundred 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.400 and twenty seven, and they gave forty four snaps to 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.960 other safeties. That's eighteen hundred snaps to safeties compared to 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.480 eleven hundred and thirty snaps total. Times that by two, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.960 twenty two to sixty, and now we're at a negative number. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.800 So three safeties at negative twenty one percent at the time. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.719 That means they're playing a lot of one safety looks 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.760 and they have multiple cornerbacks. Maybe I could have had 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.520 this wrong because they had like Josh job As like 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.000 their fourth or fifth cornerback, and maybe I don't know 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.000 how he was deployed. I know he was a corner 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.919 back with the Packers and in college before that, but 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.839 maybe he played some like safety role, So I could 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.279 be wrong about this, but that's the point, right. The 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.479 whole point is that this is not at all what 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.560 I thought I was going to get before I did 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.360 the Seahawks. I was thinking the answer here is going 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.560 to be, you know, it's a two safety defense unless 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.599 you have Kyle Hamilton because of what he can do 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.520 as a slot, as a processor, a middle of the 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.120 field like linebacker, a guy that can fit the run, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.960 play the rat in the hole, but also get depth 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.120 in that hook zone and play you know, zone drops 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.680 on defense. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.039 He can play corner two. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:31.960 But then you look at the Seahawks and they have 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.800 three corners play over seven hundred and eighty five snaps 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.560 and their fourth guy played four hundred and forty three snaps. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.919 So they kind of have the same mold that we 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.720 talked about with the defensive tackle defensive end position where 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.520 they basically eschewed a third safety and sometimes a second safety. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:50.640 For more cornerbacks. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.560 And you look at this Dolphins roster and I can 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.600 tell you right now whether you want to believe it 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.520 or not, like Cam Smith is going to get his 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.760 opportunity to play like they have to make good or 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.800 find out what they have in a former second round 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.400 draft pick who's not been healthy, he's not been on 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.760 the field and like you know, Arty Burns hasn't played 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.640 more than a handful of snap the last six years 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.360 like together. But if he's healthy and he can play 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.760 like I think there's some intrigue about how he can 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.720 play press man and give them of, you know, very 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.280 look from their zone coverages. So I could see a 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.920 situation where you do draft a cornerback in the first 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.160 round and then you've got Cam Smith and you've got 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.320 Arty Burns and you've got Storm Duck and you're rolling out, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.040 you know, five defensive backs with maybe maybe four more 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.240 cornerbacks and maybe Efatu Melafon lose the one safety on 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:36.640 the field. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:37.000 We'll see. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.320 I don't know, but the takeaway here is that there's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.800 no one way to do it. If you have that 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.960 matchup chess piece and if he can be that, but 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.440 so too could Nicky Man worry for in the draft 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.080 for that for instance, then you call upon more of 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.720 those three safety looks. Or if you get a Malachi Starks, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.480 you could probably roll with more cornerbacks because of his 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.360 range of responsibilities and how much he can do in 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.960 terms of just being in multiple spots because he's such 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.680 a heady football player. To me, it's really fascinating. Maybe 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.720 it's not to you guys, but I have the microphone, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.080 so you will listen to every damn word. I have 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.160 to say. I suspect that we'd see at least one 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.320 safety added between now in July. But either way, again, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:23.000 like this is a tangent aside. I keep seeing, you know, oh, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.000 the Dolphins have x amountal holes and they only have 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.360 ten draft picks. Like, dude, they added to Marcus May 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.720 last summer. Kalaias Campbell was a massive boon last summer. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.040 Like teams add players later in the year all the time. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.800 It's not like it used to be. You can find 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.720 guys in July and in August like it happens, and 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.560 you can trade your guys too. But we'll see what 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.200 happens down the road and all that. And we have 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.600 a nice pool of draft picks next year to you know, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.079 select from if you want to add a veteran presence 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.000 to what is now the seventh youngest roster in the 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.840 NFL before the draft, and ten picks, So I think 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.480 that you might be able to be in a position 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.000 where you can say, hey, we've done a good job 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.400 of cultivating young developmental talent. Let's go find a starter 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.800 on the market who's out there for a Day three 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.360 draft pick. Like it happens sometimes, So I don't know, 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.240 we'll see between now and when that happens. I think 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.280 you can let the performance shape the way you call 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.480 it in terms of who gets playing time with what 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.680 you currently have. But I do expect that to be 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.360 disrupted by additions in the defensive backfield. There's just there's 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.280 no way. There's no way they're done in the defensive backfield. Okay, quick, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.840 first segment. Let's go ahead and take a pause right 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.200 there and come back for our last prospect profile we're 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.440 doing here. It's Michigan's Will Johnson. That's Next Draft Time podcast, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:33.640 brought to you by AutoNation. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.160 I would let to buy a bag. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.080 It is Masters week. It is actually Thursday. As I 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.000 record this podcast. Scottie Scheffler and Colin Morrikwa just teed 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.760 off And the reason I run that sound drop from 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.040 the Pink Panther in the Great Steve Martin is that 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.679 my pick for the Masters is Ludwig albelg And every 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.319 time I think of Ludwig Albalg, all I can think 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.160 about is Dann Balgo. So that's my pick. Who do 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.839 you guys got for the Masters this week? Is there 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.240 anything better than being out on that golf course? I 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.960 never have, but it looks just fantastic. I would love 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.920 to go out there. Maybe you get a couple of 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.320 a couple of pops, maybe a couple of gummies, and 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.560 have yourself a good time out there. Let's go ahead 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.320 and get into a prospect profile here. The final one 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.160 cornerback Will Johnson. You're probably saying to yourself, pay Travis, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.080 how come you haven't done any offensive lineman. Well, I'll 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.320 tell you why, because all these mock drafts that you're 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.120 seeing and talking about Kelvin Banks and the Dolphins have 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.880 to get a left tackle. If you think the Dolphins 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.840 are going to take a left tackle and put Patrick 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.320 Paul on the bench, you don't know what's going on. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.320 I saw, you know, I've had guests in the show. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.000 I'm not gonna call him out by name because that's not. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.120 What we do here, but we uh. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.880 I saw some people say like the Dolphins are a 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.760 sure bet to take a left tackle. Now, it's like, brother, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.200 you know, I appreciate how tough the national job is, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.640 but like you ain't paying attention dog because they're not 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.080 gonna They're not gonna do that. They're not gonna move 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.640 Patrick Paul left tackle spot is his. So that's why 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.839 I'm not covering it right here. Maybe later on in 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.800 the draft you talk about a potential tackle who converts 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.199 inside the guard, but it's not gonna happen in the 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.640 first round. So that's why I wanted to keep my 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.920 focus here on the premium positions and why this guy, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.600 to me, makes a ton of sense if he is there. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.320 Will Johnson number two from Michigan, who played in just 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.280 six games this past season, and there are a couple 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:23.160 of tapes Washington and Illinois where you can tell he 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.840 was fighting through what was described as an incredibly painful 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.600 turf toe injury and he actually had a shoulder injury too, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.040 And I saw a clip of someone putting together all 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.240 of his mistackles, like and you know, you can say, like, hey, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:35.680 get off the field if this is the case, but 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.920 you could tell like he wasn't about to put that 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.480 shoulder onto ball carriers in space, and it made for 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.920 some bad tape. Now, he didn't work out in Indie 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.040 and he was he missed the Michigan Pro Day, but 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.480 he will hold a private workout next week in an 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.840 arbor for scouts. He is a fascinating study to me 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.720 because you know, I thought it was worth mentioning that 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.560 because in twenty twenty three, the tape was you can 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.920 see a guy that was being talked about as possibly 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.640 the best player in the class, Like he was up 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.920 there around like Travis Hunter and Abdul carter back when 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.080 the season was going on. And I feel like the 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.000 biggest flag is the fact that it's not the toe 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.440 injury that held him out from workouts, but because he 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.160 wasn't running for months after the injury, he pushed it 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.240 coming back and wound up suffering a hamstring injury. He 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.800 missed the game with a shoulder injury. So he kind 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.040 of had this like Tron Armstead run of injuries last year, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.400 which I know is going to scare any Dolphins fan 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:29.920 and it probably should a little bit. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.880 But that's kind of where the knock is with him. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.320 But I think that when you watch his play style, man, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.800 I've been using these like descriptors or monikers here for 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:43.480 these you know traits I want to discuss on the players. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.679 And when I titled this one for Will Johnson as 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.760 successful gambler with sown feel and eyes, I think the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.680 strength of his game is evident through the interception and 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.560 pass breakup numbers. I cannot remember seeing a player with 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.360 this statistical anomaly, not one that has played more than 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.319 a thousand snaps one hundred and thirteen targets nine interceptions 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.760 compared to just eight pass breakups. Like that's who has 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.800 more picks than pass breakups. But I would avoid him 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.120 too when he's picking off eight percent of your targets 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.840 toward him, I mean you'd have to hit like thirty 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.200 or forty yard plays on the ones you complete to 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.320 justify the risk and reward. Like if we're gonna target 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.800 Will Johnson ten times in the game, he's gonna pick 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.160 off one. We better get one hundred plus yards out 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.679 of the others, otherwise it's a net loss for us. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.920 His numbers are crazy. He's six foot two, one hundred 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.440 and ninety five pounds. He has not allowed a touchdown 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.720 and coverage since twenty twenty two. He had thirty six 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.520 point seven passer rating allowed over the last two seasons, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.400 and I have to apologize because I slept too much 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.800 throughout the process. This guy should not be on the 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.800 board when the Miami Dolphins make their pick, and if 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.720 he is, it's because of injuries last season. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.080 But I think that it was just one of those. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.480 Murphy's Law type of years for he in Michigan where 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.400 it just didn't really go the way you would want to, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.719 and that can happen in football whole years can get 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.200 away for looking the Dolphins last year. The way he 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.280 can sink his hips and drive out of a back 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.560 pedal is the best in the class. It's better than 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.400 Travis Hunter. He's strong, he has exceptional ball skills, which 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.160 we covered already. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:13.440 He can high point in man. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.560 He can peel off and go impact the catch point 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.319 on somebody else's man. There's a RepA against Washington last 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.320 year where he gets beaten low red zone, but he 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.760 recovers and runs back into phase and lays out just 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.600 trying to put himself in the catch point or in 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.600 the passing lane, and it saves a touchdown. Like he 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:35.440 has just this innate awareness of spatial surroundings and how 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.480 to impact the receiver near him. He's so aggressive and 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.880 he might get beat because of it a few times 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.120 in the NFL. I mean, every cornerback in the NFL 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.880 gets beat. Just don't have a twenty twenty week two 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.920 Noah Igbinogny day where it seems like that kind of 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.440 killed your confidence for five years. But I think that 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.600 he has the makeup to be able to bounce back 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.200 from that, and the way I watch him recover, or 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.800 just maybe the spirit that he plays with. I don't 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.160 think he's the kind of guy you're gonna have to 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.840 worry about him losing his confidence. I think off coverage, read, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.400 sink and drive is like his best trade. You know, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.240 play eight yards off the football and just kind of 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.520 process from there. But I think he absolutely can play man. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.240 On my first tape watch, I didn't get deep enough 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.880 into that, but studying it deeper, I think it's a 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.280 case of just because he wasn't asked to do it 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.840 doesn't mean that he can't do it. He challenges guys 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.040 with length, I mean terrific, terrific feat and the processing 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.880 is also exceptional. His pick six against the Gophers this year, Minnesota, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.200 he's playing a three x two where you have two receivers, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.440 three defensive backs. It's two off corners and safety help 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.120 over the top. Against those two receivers. They run this 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.320 vertical from the one the furthest out receiver, and the 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.600 slot inside the two runs a hitch and he is 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.560 playing on the perimeter. He knows he has that safety help, 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.760 so he can turn that vertical route to the safety 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.680 if he wants to. But you can tell that he 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.480 just knows what the throw is going based upon the 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.040 way he reacts, where he feels the combination coming before 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.680 it happens, and even before the quarterbacks hand separate, he's 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.520 already driving downhill on the hitch. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.000 He picks it off, he runs it back. He changes 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:06.360 the game. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.280 I never feel like he feels he has to cheat 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.960 to make a play, like the anticipation stuff is because 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.320 he trusts what he sees in terms of an opportunity 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.880 to make a play. Like USC game runs this, They 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.760 run this little bluff screen where he's in off coverage 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.800 and he doesn't go flying downhill and like, I have 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.920 to get there now because if I don't move now, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.800 they're gonna beat me in this you know, short space, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.320 and I can't make a tackle. But he patiently hangs 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.120 back and takes away the vertical they're trying to hit 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.840 off of the fake screen, and then they do throw 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.920 the check down like the secondary screen almost and he 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.840 comes up in realies and makes that tackle. When you 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.120 have a confident player who trusts his elite skills and 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.320 his elite preparation, man, that's a winning combination, and that 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.600 patience pays off all throughout his tape, whether it's late 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.720 hands to poke the ball free at the catch point 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.240 or when it's time time to you know, elevate and 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.800 time his jump. He is just the best way I 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.040 can put it is he's just smooth man. He's a 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:09.960 smooth operator. Hands down, best cover of all time by 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.399 the way. Coheden Cambria did a cover of The Trooper 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.840 by Iron Maiden, which is right there, but alien Ant 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.200 Farm takes it. But he's a smooth operator, a smooth criminal. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.680 His understanding of the relationship of time and space, which 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.720 sounds like so galaxy brained, but like it's just it's 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.920 there for him. It's inherent, like when he can pin 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.720 a perimeter receiver to the sideline and then position himself 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.960 in the only place where the ball can go it's 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.720 just this natural feel for the game that essentially eliminates 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.560 all passing lanes. And I think it's why he gets 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.960 so many picks because he puts the receiver in a 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.560 spot where it's like, if the quarterback is gonna throw 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.600 this ball to him, it has to be in the spot, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.960 and I'm there to catch it. If it's in that spot. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.840 He's back downhill on the stem quicker than a hiccup. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.040 The way he drives out of a back pedal or 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.119 even a still position is the best in the class. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.960 It's it's like it's like he has springs in his shoes. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.680 So student of the game, elite physical traits, and an 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.440 undying want to to be great. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.280 Sign me up for all of the above. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.480 Speaking of the effort, and again there's you're gonna find 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.359 clips on social media of him like not tackling well 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.320 or maybe not having the best effort. But I went 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.480 back and watched to play and this next category is 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.200 titled effort, physicality, and want to This is the type 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.040 of stuff that gets me jacked up about a prospect. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.360 And this is a guy that tried to play through 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.840 injuries last year, by the way, but Michigan is losing 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.239 the Texas by eighteen points three touchdowns. Texas runs this 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.040 misdirection with a fake to his side and the receiver 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.520 coming across on an end around. Not only does Johnson 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.880 point out like, hey, it's coming that way. They're gonna 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.320