WEBVTT - A Scouting Report of the 2024 Jets Draft Class (Part 2) 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:06.000 Hey there, Thanks for tuning in. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.640 Please subscribe, rate, and review if you're watching Bang That 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Like on YouTube. We've gotten another special installment today of 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.680 our look back of the Jets twenty twenty four draft 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.320 with the college scouts. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:20.400 The draft is. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.560 Full of stories and we've got three special ones today 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.720 on wide receiver Malkai Corley, quarterback Jordan Travis, and defensive 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.560 back Quantes Stiggers. The feeling going into the draft was 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.360 the Jets would take a wide receiver early after selecting 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:42.440 Penn State tackle Olu Fashionu in round one, GM Joe 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.199 Douglas traded up in the third round to take Western 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.920 Kentucky's Malkai Corley at the top of round three and 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.560 four stellar seasons with the Hilltoppers, the five eleven, two 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.160 hundred and fifteen pounders set the school record with two 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.120 hundred and fifty nine receptions for twenty nine hundred and 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.560 forty three yards and twenty nine touchdowns. He was Aaron Rodgers' 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.319 favorite receiver in the draft. Scouting director John Carr, along 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.200 with senior regional scout Jonathan Stiegel and national scout Don 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.240 Green Here are going to provide us with all the 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:20.800 background on a Yat King who saw things through at WKU. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.080 I'll say that the guys did a great job that 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.119 handled that area. Was Jonathan Stiegel was the primary there, 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.240 with Dom Green being the national scout and then Phil 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.880 Savage being the third look with Malachi, and each and 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.560 every one of those guys were consensus with their grades 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.679 what they had on him, and same thing with the 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.720 character that they got on the young man. Being a 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.600 former coach, this guy right here, I was super excited 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.200 when I turned on the tape with Malachi. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.200 He's tough, he's competitive. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.200 You know, he has the ability, in my opinion, to 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.440 play inside and outside, so he gives us some versatility. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.640 He love his play strength and what's been said by everyone, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.560 his outstanding run after the catchability. This guy has such 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:13.079 great spatial awareness and he's so physical. Sometimes he's looking 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.960 for to run through people as opposed to run away 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.960 from them, and he's successful in doing those things. But 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.240 he brings a competitive edge that I think will fit 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.720 well within our wide receiver room. She's so super excited 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.799 about Malachi. He was a favorite in the room as 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.680 far as him being there or I think we moved 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.560 up and for him to be there. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.760 It was kind of a fired up moment for everyone 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:38.360 in the room. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.280 The key some of us scouts have been saying is conviction, right, Like, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.400 from the scouting staff to the coaching staff, this was 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.080 a player that it's felt like everyone in the building 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.440 had a feel for. We love the way the kid plays, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.360 we love him with the ball in his hands, we 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.480 love his mentality. I know it's been documented. You know that, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.760 you know he'll run over a relative if he has to. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.680 Like it all goes back to what I said earlier 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.120 that we want to get to know these kids, and 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.600 we feel like Malachi is a kid that when the 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.640 game is on the line, when the balls in his hands, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.040 he wants to win and that's what we want. And 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.240 he's got that sense of urgency in his mind that 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.600 he wants to be the best. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.720 Well, what was Friday actually like as the weight increased 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.720 for you guys as staff knowing that, Hey, listen, we 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.200 like a lot of prospects for our next pick. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:28.480 We really want Coreling. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:29.880 Yeah, it's tough. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.640 I mean we had, you know, a certain amount of 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.760 receivers on the board that we really liked, and obviously 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.600 Corley was in that list and some of those guys 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.120 were taken there in the second round, you saw a 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.400 slew of receivers started getting drafted there in the second 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.560 after the first round guys went and so there was 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.400 conversations on the phone with trying to get back there 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.040 in the end of the second that maybe pick up 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.080 a pick and get Malachi. And you know, sometimes it works, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.680 sometimes it doesn't, but it worked out perfectly. Joe was 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.240 very patient and talk to everybody. He made sure he 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.720 exhausted all of his avenues before we decided just to 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.640 wait for him at seventy two, which was our third 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.640 round pick, and we were able to you know, make 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.400 a good deal with Carolina to get the top of 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.159 the third and get our guy. So there was a 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.400 lot of conversations over the phone and everyone talking to 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.320 everyone to see if we can move in and get 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.040 our guy. But it worked out perfectly for us. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.200 You know, going in there. The last couple of years, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.520 this guy's always made plays in that offense. You know, 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.960 it's pretty unique. You know, he's got a lot of 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.200 short targets and screen passes, but the guy's always making 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.880 big plays off of those, either running over or running 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.040 around guys. And when you get to see the guy 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.080 You're like, Okay, this makes sense. I mean he's a 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.320 well built receiver. I mean, the guy's built. He could 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.880 play running back, you know, in the in the body 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.680 sense early on, you know, like I said, you know, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.279 going in there in the past and watching from Bailey 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.119 Zappi throwing balls to him to the quarterback this year, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.159 and I mean the guys at highlight film you know, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.480 watching him, he's just you get the ball in his hands, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.480 he's going to be productive, and he's so tough and competitive. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.240 Well for a wide receiver. You know, I'm an old, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.640 old line guy. So I mean, you got to be 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.000 able to catch. It's called wide receiver for a reason, right, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.560 So you got the ability to catch the football. But 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.520 it's more than that. You gotta be able to run routes. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.640 You gotta be able to move inside outside as far 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.479 as your alignment. So you got to have a great 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.479 mental feel for the game, you know, and you got 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.880 to be able to separate as a route runner. So 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.320 your quarterback's got a good window to throw to. So 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.400 but Malachi watched watch him, you know, about this time 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.720 last year, started really digging into him. Really really fun 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.559 player to watch because he's a. He's really physical, he's tough, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.960 he's strong, and he's really good as a runner after 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.000 the catch. So he's the guy with a background and 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.120 as a running back, and he was really fun to watch. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.279 He's one of the more exciting players to me this 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.040 time last year heading into the ball. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.920 How big of a week was it for him down 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.160 at the Senior Bowl? As far as I know, he 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.320 played Ohio State during the season, but for you guys, 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.800 it's pro scouts to watch him against the bust of 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:27.760 the bust. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:28.279 It was big. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.080 Like I stated before the offense State run, he doesn't 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.880 run a lot of pro style routes, so putting him 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.880 in the position to do that, he did good. I mean, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.840 he still has work to do because he hasn't done 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.080 a lot of it, but you could see the speed, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.000 the strength of quickness in the hands. You know, hard 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.360 league's physical, and he's not going to shy away from 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.680 any of that. I mean, his mindset is to catch 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.280 the ball and find the end zone and he did 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:55.480 a good job of that, and I thought he had 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.440 a good Senior Bowl week. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.479 You know, people leave for whatever reasons, but you know, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.200 you each case is his individual, you know, from from 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.000 the next You know, you can't really compare, but I 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.000 would say that it does. You know, it leaves you 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.880 feeling warm and fuzzy about a player's stability and loyalty 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.800 when they've been you know, asked to leave and all 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.200 that stuff, been hit with a lot of big time 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.240 offers to leave, you know, so it kind of you 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.960 get a better idea of the of the makeup of 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.280 the kid and what's really important to him to stay somewhere, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.600 be really successful, be with his teammates, be loyal to 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.040 those that have gotten to that point in his career. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.240 Do you think this is a good spot for him 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.440 when you look at the situation, like anybody wants to 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:40.400 play with Aaron Rodgers. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:40.840 I get that. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.440 But as far as like the way the receiver room 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.920 is set up with Garrett's versatility, Mike a traditional big 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.800 acts you can go up and get it and stuff 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.960 like that. You guys got some dup, But can you 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.760 talk about like how you think Corey fits. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:55.120 In with the group? 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:55.840 Absolutely? 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.840 I mean, you know, Garrett can do both inside and out, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.440 and I think Malachi will be able to do the same. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:08.000 You know, he'll need some more outside refinement. But having 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.480 the versatility to do both is huge at this level. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.120 I mean, it just gives you more balance and a 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.760 threat instead of just having one, you know, one standout guy, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.640 you know, adding Mike and having the size you know 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.040 to play big and contested situations on the outside, and 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.840 having Garrett and Malachi if they're all in the field, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.880 to work all levels of the defensive backfield. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.960 It wasn't exactly a secret the Jets would add a 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.120 quarterback in the draft. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.920 The questions we all had was when and who. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.280 In the fifth round, with the one hundred and seventy 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.240 first pick, Joe Douglas grabbed Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.080 So Jordan Travis in the southeast, Andy Davis was the 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.920 primary area of scout. Ja Mandalizi was our national scout 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.440 there and Phil Savage was the third look for Jordan. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.800 Okay, so you guys, we're going to be in the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.160 business for a developmental quarterback. Joe Douglas has emphasized that 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.360 he'd love to have a quarterback factory here. You have 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.960 a very good situation there with a future Hall of 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.360 Famer Aaron Rodgers being your starting quarterback. You got Ty 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.080 rod Taylor, an established guy behind him as well. You 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.680 add a third to the mix here, can you speak 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:31.520 to Jordan's evolution as a college player in Tallahassee great. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.480 Value pick for us here in that fifth round. And 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.240 you know, if he didn't get injured, he probably would 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.640 have going to higher than where we selected him. Right, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.480 you're looking at a young man that changed the course 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.720 of Florida State's football. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:45.959 Right. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.920 As far as he's a winner, he's been a winner 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.520 everywhere he's been. He's a good leader, he's a competitor. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.640 You know, his athletic ability as a dual thread ability, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.720 being able to do things when on his arm, but 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.839 his legs he shows good. He has a good arm, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.360 and he's accurate with his throws. And he's a good 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.160 decision maker. You know, he took care of the football. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.160 In forty nine college games, Travis hit on sixty two 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.280 point one percent of us passes for nearly nine thousand 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.680 yards with sixty six touchdowns and twenty interceptions. A dual 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.640 threat at Florida State, Travis was a key to the 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.240 seminals resurgence. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.440 He sustained a serious leg injury against. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.679 Northern Alabama in November, though area scout Andy Davis and 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.440 National Scout Jamandalisi spoke about Travis's college journey and what's ahead. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:39.760 Draft day itself. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.120 Joe's really good about trying to keep us updated and 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.280 what guys are in consideration, just for us to know, okay, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.920 we might be needed. And I would say with Jordan 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.840 in particular, there was a lot of positive, positive comments, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.960 I guess from the coaching staff, from the personnel staff, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:57.760 Like I knew that if we were going to go quarterback, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:58.880 that would be a guy that was going to be 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.720 in the mix. So I was, you know, ready, I's 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.719 prepared and just excited that you know, when a time 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.120 to pick one, it was, it was Jordan. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:05.640 Yeah. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.120 I think it's been said it's the most important position 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.880 in all of professional sports. It's quarterbacks. So identifying guys 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.320 that you know we can develop and sure there's gonna 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.440 be guys going on day one, day you know, day two, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.880 those those guys are really good players, and we identify 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.880 Jordan as a guy on day three that similar to Olu. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.360 You know, he's in a situation where he's able to 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.720 learn under one of the best. But not only that, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.040 we feel like Jordan is built to learn. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.800 You were in teleassy, what's the scouting report from the 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.760 perspective of him on the field, and also then tangibles, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.840 because when you're targeting a guy at that position, you 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:54.040 need a guy who can lead, who is a worker, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.439 who is well liked. I mean a quarterback position. You're 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.000 going to ask for a lot from those dudes if 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:01.960 you're bringing them in the building. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:02.360 Yeah. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.160 So Jordan, it's his stories unique, right. He started at Louisville, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.800 had some bumps in the road, goes to Florida State 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.120 and it wasn't perfect early on, And to me, I 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.000 look at that as it was an opportunity for Jordan 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.400 to really go through some adversity and he came out 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.439 on top. Mike Norvell does a great job down in 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.040 Florida State, and he identified Jordan as a guy that 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.160 could change their program and he did just that. And 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.920 I think that was evident this year. You know, they 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.120 went they went thirteen and OHO and you know when 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.800 when Jordan got injured, it's one of those moments you 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.880 kind of remember where you were when it happened, because 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.640 I remember watching on TV and myself and Andy Davis 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:44.200 were texting each other and just the you felt for 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.640 the kid. You felt for the program because you kind 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.640 of knew, like this was really going to hurt their chances. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.079 I personally felt they had a chance to win it all, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.120 and when Jordan went down, you knew they were going 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.000 to get punished for it a little bit. But that 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.480 just speaks to his value as a player. But also 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.040 just seeing the crowd and seeing his team mates, you 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.760 got a sense for the person, like how deflating it was, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.600 not just for his teammates, but the fans and even 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.559 as a scout, I mean, you feel terrible for the kid, 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.559 knowing all he had accomplished, but you know, he's a 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.320 kid that you know brought them to the top. You know, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.200 Florida State was a team that had some kids come 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.520 in from the portal at skill positions. Johnny Wilson and 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.920 Keon Coleman and Jean Bell and Trey Benson, Like these 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.000 are all skilled players that they came in from other 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.400 schools and Jordan was the one that brought them all 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.400 together and really got that offense rolling. So he's a 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.400 kid like through the process you get to know him, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.040 and we got to meet with him at the East 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.680 West Game. I know he came out of thirty visit. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.840 Coaches spent a lot of time with him, but like 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.360 you feel like this kid's got the intangibles that if 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.559 we're going to take a shot on a guy to 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.520 learn under Aaron and Tyrod, this this is the guy. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.400 Physically, the ceiling is as good as really Jordan wants 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.760 to be. It's hard to really cap him because he 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.640 is such a good athlete. I think the situation that 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.800 he's coming into is excellent for any quarterback, but especially Jordan. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.599 You've got Aaron and then Tyrod, So for Jordan, I 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.520 think it's a good situation. You can recover, sit back, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.440 learn from two excellent NFL vets. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:09.840 I've been with the. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.240 Jets since two thousand and one and covered every draft 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.040 since then. The path of one quantest Stiggers to the 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.440 Jets is on paralleled. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.040 This is a defensive back who. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.680 Never played it down to college football. He played in 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.600 something called the Fan Control League, where seven players lined 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.320 up on each side. He ultimately played in the Canadian 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:36.240 Football League and then became draft eligible. Stiggers became a 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.760 Jet in round five. Here's Director of college Scouting John Carr, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.040 Area scout. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.240 Drew Morris, Senior regional. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.400 Scout Jonathan Stiegel and National Scout Jay Manalisi. I'm the 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.120 kid with the blue helmet. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.880 Great story right here, I mean this one. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.600 I think a lot of guys that were so when 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.680 we made the call to him, the different people that 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.760 talk to him on the phone when we. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:02.640 Made our selection. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.960 There were so many people higling this young man because 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.560 of his story, right you know. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.640 He I think he got overlooked some in high school. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.080 You know, he accepted an offer to Lane College in Tennessee, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.120 planned on attending there, and right when he had signed, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:23.080 his father was in a catastrophic car accident. Father later 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.080 passed away that summer. You know, contest has a big 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.720 family at home with a lot of siblings, and he 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.160 felt he was the man of the house because he 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.840 was the oldest of the siblings. So he needed to 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.520 go home and work through things to help his mom 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.880 out financially. So he did that. You know, he never complained. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.600 He did everything there to help out. And I think 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.600 his mother just saw, you know, him still having the 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.200 passion to play. So that's when she looked into the 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.440 player Control Football, which is run by some former pro athletes, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.920 and he did that and he stood out a Canadian 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.160 scouter coach had a tie down there with that and 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.040 noticed them, so they gave him a tria, you know. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.440 Contest told me that, you know, he was going into camp, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.280 you know, and hadn't played, but he was making plays 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.440 and he thought at one point they were going to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.480 cut him, is what they had told him up there. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.960 But he kept making plays and started starting and ended 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.720 up winning the CFL Rookie of the Year. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.400 And it worked out where, you know, he was able 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.360 to get on the East West Shrine through the rules 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.320 they said, he can you know, participate in the East 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.480 West Shrine and be a draftaball type player. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.480 I started hearing about quantest stiggers, probably from those guys 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.680 and some rumblings around the NFL and probably December at 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.200 the latest, like early January in terms of, hey, this 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.840 guy was the defensive Rookie of the year, not really 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.880 knowing the full story. Obviously, I'm a college guy. I 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.720 got enough college guys to worry about, and our pro 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.280 department is on the CFL guys. So then you come 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.920 and say, okay, well this guy got invited to the 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.720 East West Shrine game. Okay, well, I guess based on 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.359 circumstances he's now in the college world. So we got 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.200 to the East West Shrine game. I have the receivers 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.240 as a cross check position, so I'm obviously watching the 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.920 receivers a lot of one on ones, a lot of 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.879 one on ones, and the guy in the Toronto Argonauts 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.280 helmet is standing out a little bit at corner, you know. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.240 But I got a lot of receivers to watch. So 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.359 probably day two, I go up to John Stiegel and 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.880 he has the corners as his cross check position. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.120 And I'm watching and I'm like, who is this guy 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.159 in this helmet that I've never seen before? And They're like, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.359 that's the Canadian kid, and I'm like, okay. So I 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.520 was kind of like all right, but then he kept 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.080 showing up making plays and I'm like, well, this kid's 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.199 pretty good, you know. And Drew Moore says to me, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.600 he looks pretty good. I'm like, well, he's the best here. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.600 And then a little bit later, probably day three of that, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.920 I get a text, Hey, you're gonna be the primary 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.960 on quantest stickers. Based on the fact that he didn't 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.960 play college football. He doesn't really have a state that 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.520 he falls into for any of us, right, So, because 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.920 I have the CFL background. They assigned him to me. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.520 I've done a couple of the Canadian guys in the 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:09.000 past and just being able to get information. So actually, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:12.159 luckily my buddy Vince, who's the assistant GM at the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.359 Toronto Argonauts, is at East West Shrine. Should I shoot 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.480 him a real a quick text, Hey do you want 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.840 to meet after practice? And luckily again he's staying at 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.840 the same hotel as us, So after practice we meet 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.359 down in the lobby and spend about an hour going 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.919 over all the background on Quantes Stiggers. Obviously, his his 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.399 story has been well documented in terms of how he 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.600 got here and through the Fan Control League, and they're 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.000 just sitting there like, wow, this is wild in terms 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.720 of all the things that he's overcome and and everything. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.840 And it was amazing how strongly those guys in Toronto, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.560 the coaching staff there, the administrators there felt about Quantest Stiggers. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.800 I think you look at like Jeff albricks reaction after 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.679 spending you know, a day with that guy when we 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.760 had him in on a thirty visit, and that's the 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.800 way that the Toronto Argonaut staff felt about that guy. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.280 So this is a guy who's been through so much 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.520 adversity and has so much mental fortitude and come out 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.800 the other side so much better for it that, you know, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.679 we look at a guy like that and hey, this 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.879 guy is not going to fail, Like it's not in 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.520 his DNA to fail. Like every opportunity he's had, he's 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.760 made the most of it. So you got to love 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.760 the story of Quantes Stiggers. And it helps that he's 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.600 a really good football player as well. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.280 When you're looking at that, because CFL play is totally 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.639 different from the NFL play, right, and he had a 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.080 lot of success there, and so obviously you want to 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.280 see how's that translated into the to the league and 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.200 transferring to the league. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:34.240 And. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.080 A lot of that you saw in the one on 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.040 ones during the week, right and where he had to 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.040 play press coverage, sometime you had to play off coverage, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.840 and you saw the feet, the quickness, the close the 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.639 ball skills opportunities he made there. So it showed that 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.760 he can do it on this level. He's covering guys 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.600 that are going to have opportunities to play in the NFL, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.639 and he was a guy that kind of showcased in 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.440 the game him as well, you know, just as far 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.720