Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft Triple Take, presented by u p MC. Mike pursued
Speaker 1: it from the d V Morning Show and Steelers dot Com,
Speaker 1: joined by Dal Ally of s n R and Matt
Speaker 1: Williamson of s n R. Dale and Matt are s
Speaker 1: and our the Drive tag team. We've been teaming up
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now on the draft profiles
Speaker 1: position by position. Will throw a mock at you every
Speaker 1: now and then just to make sure you're paying attention
Speaker 1: and keeping up at home, but none of that Today.
Speaker 1: Today is uh safety day as we work our way
Speaker 1: through the positions for the first time. And Dale's safety, Um,
Speaker 1: maybe not as uh eye catching as cornerback in this
Speaker 1: particular draft, but some good players available and maybe the
Speaker 1: best player in the whole thing at the safety position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting group. I mean, it depends on what
Speaker 1: you're looking for, uh, you know, from the position. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the college programs have taken
Speaker 1: some of those big enforcer type safeties and moved him
Speaker 1: to linebacker, uh you know, and so you're seeing some
Speaker 1: of those guys get bulked up here and then you're
Speaker 1: taking some guys who would have been maybe a free
Speaker 1: safety type and you're telling him to put on ten
Speaker 1: pounds and making them a strong and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So the whole game is kind of shifting and morphing
Speaker 1: itself a little bit at the college level, and the
Speaker 1: safety position is is no different. And to expand on that,
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting. It used to be when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. Is he a free or is
Speaker 1: he a strong? Okay? I mean those things still exist,
Speaker 1: but the Dale's point, the strongs are now on the
Speaker 1: second level playing linebacker, and the freeze are harder to find.
Speaker 1: You don't see the ed read earl Thomas Mica Fitzpatricks
Speaker 1: as often as you used to. That just used to
Speaker 1: handle the deep middle as by themselves. But now there's
Speaker 1: also like a third category. Is the honey badger, slot
Speaker 1: slash you know, do it all safety type? You know? Yeah? Yeah, right, shorter,
Speaker 1: So there's all shapes and sizes. Yeah, Matt, you and
Speaker 1: I went with one of those guys at our number
Speaker 1: five prospect at the safety position, Jalen Petrie of Bailor,
Speaker 1: and he checked a lot of the boxes you just referenced.
Speaker 1: I had a pretty simple evaluation on this guy. I
Speaker 1: loved watching Baylor play this year, particularly watching Baylor played defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: that program has really made some strides. And those guys
Speaker 1: just get after it. Man, give me, give me some Baylor.
Speaker 1: They just go get athletes, they get track guys and
Speaker 1: tournament to football players, and they're well coached. And I
Speaker 1: think from what I gathered, Petrie was really the leader
Speaker 1: of that group. Again, a ton of great athletes around him.
Speaker 1: And I right up about him, I said something along
Speaker 1: the lines of, you know, Petrie's more of a quote
Speaker 1: defensive back rather than just a safety. I mean, he
Speaker 1: does everything. He's near the line of scrimmage a lot,
Speaker 1: makes a ton of plays. I mean, but to your
Speaker 1: point a minute ago, that's kind of where the position
Speaker 1: is going. Oh yeah, right right now, plots him off
Speaker 1: the slot, you know what kinds of stuff. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I almost looked at him more as a corner act
Speaker 1: and I did a safety when I when I looked
Speaker 1: at this whole picture, and I couldn't put him in
Speaker 1: my top five corners. I could and he just missed
Speaker 1: being in my top five safeties. But I could see
Speaker 1: him being again a honey Badger type player, a guy
Speaker 1: who plays the slot and and then also plays some safety. Well,
Speaker 1: the guy you did go with the number five deal
Speaker 1: Brian Cook from Cincinnati, another school that showed up on
Speaker 1: the field last season and in the playoff and uh,
Speaker 1: certainly at the combine. Yeah, Cook's a bigger type guy
Speaker 1: six one two oh six. Uh, you know, just makes
Speaker 1: all the plays you know in the box. Um, but
Speaker 1: he's still pretty good in coverage as well, So he's
Speaker 1: got the size and in the athleticism the matchup against
Speaker 1: tight ends. Uh, he's also very good and run support.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot there to like. But you know,
Speaker 1: it just depends on what you're looking for at that
Speaker 1: safety position. If you're if you're judging him against Jalen Petre,
Speaker 1: while we're apparently looking for the same thing at number four.
Speaker 1: Because we all came up with Lewis scene from Georgia
Speaker 1: mett one, it tell us why we all love this
Speaker 1: guy so much. Yeah, I mean, Georgie is pretty good
Speaker 1: on defense, and he was. They've had some guys crop
Speaker 1: up the last few triple takes ridiculous, you know. Quick story.
Speaker 1: I went to the UH the the opening game down
Speaker 1: in Charlotte. It was George against Clemson, and I walked
Speaker 1: out of that game thinking, boy, both of those teams
Speaker 1: plays a pretty good defense. I had no idea that
Speaker 1: I at the time that I saw about twelve NFL
Speaker 1: just for Georgia. Yeah, I mean it's just ridicted played
Speaker 1: defense at a ridiculously high level. Uh. Can you go
Speaker 1: wrong with a Georgia Bulldog mat I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy six to I would classify him
Speaker 1: as a strong if you have to put him in
Speaker 1: one of those three categories we talked about. He can
Speaker 1: really run, he lays the wood. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: all that attitude that all those Bulldogs do. But this
Speaker 1: is something I brought up with their linebackers a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is if you're gonna play on the set can level
Speaker 1: and you're as protected as well as these Georgia guys are,
Speaker 1: your job was a little easier in college and it
Speaker 1: will be the next level, no question, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah talked about seen having just one interception this
Speaker 1: year during the combine and he said, well, the other
Speaker 1: team would have had any time to throw right they
Speaker 1: were because getting sacked right. No, not only that they
Speaker 1: never had the ball because they kept going three and
Speaker 1: out other than that, Uh, Dale, you're four on seen
Speaker 1: and your third number three guy to Kwan Brisker from
Speaker 1: Penn State. Yeah, and he's a Gateway high school guy
Speaker 1: out in Monroeville, so you know he's a a Pittsburgh guy.
Speaker 1: Went to Lackawanna College before transferring to Penn State. But
Speaker 1: three seasons there he had five interceptions. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's good and run support. Uh. He had
Speaker 1: some shoulder issues, so you know that don't have to
Speaker 1: be checked out. But he checks off a lot of
Speaker 1: the boxes show you see his name sneaking into the
Speaker 1: end of that first round, you know, on a lot
Speaker 1: of the mock drafts that you see out there, I
Speaker 1: can see why, you know, against six one pounds, good
Speaker 1: size safety with ball skills. Yeah, I just have him
Speaker 1: at number two. I went with Daxton Hill from Michigan
Speaker 1: at number three. But I like the chess peace aspect
Speaker 1: of Brisker's game, and you know how physical he is. Matt,
Speaker 1: why don't you finish up on Brisker and then tell
Speaker 1: us about Hill. Yeah, Hill's my two. I'm glad they'll
Speaker 1: mention Brisker's shoulder injury because from what I understand he
Speaker 1: really could have sat time out, and it was a
Speaker 1: pretty significant injury and he missed some tackles while his
Speaker 1: shoulder didn't work, you know. I mean, it just shows
Speaker 1: how tough he is. He's more strong than free a
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh kid. I mean to guy, you know, so he's
Speaker 1: a downhill dude, Das Hill is a lot different. I mean,
Speaker 1: both these guys have good size and length, and all
Speaker 1: these dudes are six you know, six ft plus. Hill,
Speaker 1: it's just an athlete. I mean, he ran a four
Speaker 1: three eight. I mean, he really has a first round
Speaker 1: corner profile. I was gonna say, I was. I was
Speaker 1: wondering about him at corner when we were playing this
Speaker 1: list together. Yeah, I've heard some people saying maybe that's
Speaker 1: you know, his future. So and he's not just the
Speaker 1: uh A Tyron Matthew type corner. That's a tough, little
Speaker 1: slot honey Badger type. If he's a corner, he might
Speaker 1: be lining up outside the numbers and press coverage, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's there's a lot to work with with
Speaker 1: Hill and are unanimous number one, And I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go out on a limit and say everybody's unanimous number one.
Speaker 1: It's safety. Kyle Hamilton's from Notre Dame. I guess what,
Speaker 1: six four to twenty um and then God created football player.
Speaker 1: I mean, right, right, right guy. The guy just looks
Speaker 1: amazing just running and being an athlete. He looks amazing.
Speaker 1: And then you watch him not only out there dominating
Speaker 1: on defense but covering Puntsdale. Yeah, I mean it gets
Speaker 1: after it. What's not to like about this guy? You know,
Speaker 1: eight career interceptions, so he's got ball skills. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: his dad was a professional basketball player in Greece, which
Speaker 1: is where he was born. Is actually born in Crete,
Speaker 1: on the Isle of Crete. So I've i said maybe
Speaker 1: he should have the nickname the Minotaur because he's kind
Speaker 1: of that big, scary guy on the backside of your
Speaker 1: defense there, you know, throw your eyes. It's just I'm
Speaker 1: spitballing here, milling. But the guys that the guy is
Speaker 1: a good football player. We've seen a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys come into the league in recent years that you
Speaker 1: know that that are six four two twenty just athletic
Speaker 1: freaks that you can put You can play him at strong,
Speaker 1: you can play him at free, can put him at linebacker.
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about a chess piece. That's this
Speaker 1: guys Kelsey comes to town. You're like, hey, Kyle, you
Speaker 1: gotlt so your best player in the drafts. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go number one, but you're supposed to
Speaker 1: draft the player, not the position, right right. I mean
Speaker 1: he would have my highest grade if I've actually put
Speaker 1: raids on players. That doesn't mean I take him first. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think the best. He's the best at what he
Speaker 1: does in a Sean Taylor like manner, that's just flat
Speaker 1: out rare. Some people might look at his forty and
Speaker 1: be like, it wasn't great. Okay, it wasn't great, but
Speaker 1: go watch the tape. He's anything but slow. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's really something to see. And uh, NFL is gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of Kyle Hamilton's starting on the day
Speaker 1: one in the NFL draft. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: our look at safeties. But just be advised, we have
Speaker 1: a lot more ground to cover between now and the
Speaker 1: time when the Jacksonville Jaguars are officially on the clock,
Speaker 1: So keep checking in, keep finding us. However, and wherever
Speaker 1: you did, thanks for doing that this time. Until next time.
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