WEBVTT - Drive Time: Potential Immediate Impact Starters from the 2025 NFL Draft 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.520 What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.160 I am your host, Travis Wingfield and on today's show, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.480 one more time before the Kyle Krabs Draft Extravaganza, We're 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.320 gonna talk today about the thirty visits that have been 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.040 attached to the Miami Dolphins and what those prospects could 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.840 bring should they take the devon a chan route and 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.000 be a guy that was here on a visit the 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.520 guy Draft by the Miami Dolphins. We'll also talk about 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.600 potential immediate impact players because Chris we were mentioned, the 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:38.839 Dolphins needed to find a few of those guys in 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.040 this year's class. So who could be those options from 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.199 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:50.160 This is the Draft Time Podcast, Maybe daf two episodes 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.000 next week before the draft begins Monday and Tuesday with 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.800 Kyle Krabs are now five year running annual Dolphins Draft 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.640 Extravaganza ahead of the Big Wee weekend and we've done 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.520 the mock draft roundups, the player profiles, the my Guys list. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.080 I feel like we're pretty much at the end of 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.680 the draft of rope here in fact, yep, the content 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.640 fatigue has set in for your boy. It does every 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:19.080 single every single part of the year, the content fatigue arrives, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.680 whether it's training camp is the worst, the last couple 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.800 of days of training camp like that. That's the biggest 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.360 slog of all. Draft is probably the second behind that. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.720 What's number one is a season that goes off the 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.400 rails early. That's when you're out of it early on, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.960 like back in you know, twenty nineteen, for instance, I 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.400 think it was the last time the Dolphins were out 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.960 of playoff contention before like Thanksgiving. That can be difficult, 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.440 but I will say the last week of draft coverage, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.800 I'm pretty much over it by this point, but I 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.320 will say I did conjure up one more fun show 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.080 before the extravaganza next week that I think can be 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.320 a bit of an enigma across Dolphins draft coverage. We'll 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.800 talk about a few players I think can match something 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.360 that Chris said it his Tuesday press conference and I 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.680 something that the roster pretty much, you know, shows you 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.680 the Dolphins will need to have as an immedia impact 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.079 from guys. So based on my own study and evaluations, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.920 I thought we could talk about some of the players 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.680 that might fit that mold, that have the skills and 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.800 the polish and the little something extra to be immedia 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.480 impact players, which is a pretty rare thing in the NFL. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.760 Even the guys that have good rookie seasons don't always 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.280 start that way. Chop Robinson was, you know, from the 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.920 sack production standpoint and his run defense last year had 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.520 a slow start, but then he came on the second 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.919 half of the year and was one of the top 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.000 ten pass rushers in the NFL. For Patrick Paul, I 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.639 mean it was similar, And you know, those guys were 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.640 both not supposed to be immedia impact players, or at 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.200 least Patrick Paul was supposed to be like a red 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.280 shirt year right, And when you know it, Chopp goes 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.720 for a finalist for Defensive Rookie of the Year. And 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.160 Patrick had two damn good game tapes in December, he 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.360 had two more that we were not as good, one 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.600 at right tackle, one off the bench against Miles Garrett. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.640 Like those are kind of difficult circumstance. So sometimes we 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.560 think about impact guys in terms of their Week one usage, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.120 But I would challenge you to broaden your perspective here 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.960 because it's really the case in all sports that the 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.720 end season development is oftentimes more important than what you 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.799 get over the course of the spring. In the summer, 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.679 you know, guys in the best shape of his life. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.920 While this guy's hitting five sixty down spring training, he's 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.360 gotta have a great year, Like, okay, we'll see what 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.480 happens when he's getting specialized relievers in the game against him, 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.519 throwing ninety nine, you know, lefty on lefty matchup. And 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.440 forgive me for going back to this analogy speaking of baseball, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.040 as it is my security blanket of comparisons, but as 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.760 someone who has watched I would say one hundred and 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.880 forty plus Mariner games every year since the mid nineties. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.400 And actually, you know what, let me take a reprieve 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.720 on that. I have to make a confession about my 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.920 baseball fandom. I did defect from the Mariners to the 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.920 Cincinnati Reds when they traded Griffy. I was a bigger 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.960 Griffy fan than a Manors fan early on, But once 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.280 I grew up a little bit, I came back to 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.000 the marriage. Actually, Griffy came back to the minors and 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.440 I came back In the now, now I'm an adult, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.280 so I stick with the same team. But you know, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.400 those since the mid nineties when the Manors were like 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.200 the best offense in baseball every year. The modern Mariners 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.520 open every single season with a lineup that's always a 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.000 far cry from what it is. Once the summer months 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.479 come around, they'll dfa, they're non productive guys, which why 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.359 were they that way in the first place, I don't know, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.560 but it's just kind of how it goes. They'll promote 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.640 better players from the minor leagues. I'll make a trade 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.200 or a signing every August and you look back in April, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.440 from from the August to April stretcher, and you're like, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.480 what the hell was that lineup back on opening day? 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.880 I mean, in golf, hell, inside of one tournament last weekend, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.520 Rory McElroy goes from two double bogies to close his 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.800 back nine at the Masters, and comes back the next 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.200 day and shoots seven under par and then goes nuclear 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.320 on Saturday too to take a three shot lead into Sunday, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.360 And we saw what happened there. I'll make one more 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.560 reference to it. It reminds me of the twenty fifteen 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.680 Arizona Cardinals. A total tangent here, but anybody else agree 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.280 that content has become far too saturated in every walk 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.240 of life. Seth from the Fish Tank podcast sent me 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.440 a list of the top twenty five Dolphins podcast Like, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.680 there's twenty five of them? Why, you know, Like everyone 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.039 is entitled to get on a podcast and have, you know, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.520 on a microphone talking to a podcast, But do you 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.840 have time to listen to twenty five Dolphins podcasts? I 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.240 guess it was something out there for everybody, but it 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.600 used to be for me, anything NFL related was appointment viewing. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.080 I couldn't put it down anything at all. Hey, rookie, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.360 welcome to the NFL. You know those those documentaries that 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.800 are still on ESPN, actually, but now it's like there's 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.400 a documentary on every single little thing. I think there's 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.640 like four documentaries on the freaking four Red Sox in 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.920 that series against the New York Yankees. But that twenty 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.160 fifteen Cardinals team. I bring them up because they were 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.080 the first one to do something that was, to me, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.360 the best NFL content ever done before the saturation began. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.520 It was twenty fifteen and it was the all or 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.480 nothing series on Amazon. It was in season Hard Knocks, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.000 but it came out after the season and you could 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.640 binge it back to back to back to back, and 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.200 it covered the entire season. It wasn't just the you know, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.880 the Thanksgiving on stretch that we've seen on Hard Knocks recently. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.120 And in that season when the Cardinals went to the 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.600 NFC Championship game, there's a great shot of Bruce arians 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.440 talking about star rookie running back David Johnson and how 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.640 by Thanksgiving he's going to be our bell cow. He's 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.400 telling somebody in like a Week three game before the game, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.600 you know, talking to the coaches on the other team, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.920 like they had this plan to build him into their 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.000 feature back, and the plan was never to have it 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.880 happen right away, although his production sort of accelerated that 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.040 think he had like two touchdowns in that game and 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.560 a kickoff return touchdown. So that's a long winded way 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.080 of saying it's not always about Week one, but the 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.240 collection of the entire season, the same way the offseason 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.919 isn't over on April eighteenth, right, And with all that 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.400 in mind, I wanted to look at some players that 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.520 could follow David Johnson or Chop Robinson in terms of 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.440 their rookie season impacts. And to me, it starts with 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.000 a player that is being over thought a little bit 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.599 at least in the media and fan aspect of social 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.600 media discourse. And right now he is my favorite provided 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.200 what I think is going to be on the board, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.120 my favorite option at number thirteen, it's Will Johnson, the 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.080 Michigan cornerback. And there will be a theme here with 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.840 these players. It's gonna be guys that play their positions 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.080 at a high level from a processing and fundamental standpoint. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.200 But wait, that's not all. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.160 And I saw this great tweet the other day about 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.400 pro ready quarterbacks and what that means, and it's usually 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.680 not the pro ready prospect in terms of his aptitude 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.880 for reading defenses, for instance, and playing the position that 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.840 has success right away, because those guys kind of have 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.480 to learn the speed of the game and sharpen that 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.760 superpower to make it NFL ready. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.239 Now. CJ. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:45.960 Stroud was that way and he made it work as 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.880 rookie season, but he was like otherworldly in that department, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.480 and you kind of get that sometimes with these guys 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.360 that come out that have all these reps, as we've 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.760 talked about in the past, but oftentimes the standout rookie 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.360 quarterback is an athlete who has no idea what the 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.280 hell he's doing in terms of playing the position, but 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.440 he just figured it out. Lamar Jackson was that way 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.160 right that rookie yearth the Ravens. He was not a 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.840 polished passer by any means, and he just survived on 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.320 peer athletic talent and then the rest came along in 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.280 his career and now he's like a Hall of Fame quarterback. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.320 Cam Newton was that way. Hell. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.080 What better example than Josh Allen who was playing yolo 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.360 ball as a rookie his first season and the night 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.840 out Now I would consider him a top ten decision 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.080 maker at the position, which pairs well with top three 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.120 physical gifts too. So it's fun to enjoy twenty five 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.440 consecutive years of either the second best or first best 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.320 quarterback in the NFL in your division. So there's some 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.720 of that there too. I'll explain it as I go 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.360 along with back to Will Johnson. I think he's getting 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.880 nitpicked right now, but turn the tape on and watch 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.760 a super smart player that just understands angles, what route 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.360 concepts look like. I mean, you don't get the highest 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.720 zone coverage grade in college football without having a pretty 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.520 good mind for the offense's tendencies and the ability to 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.120 anticipate the play study or to play based on your study. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.600 That to me is Will Johnson's game on top of 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.160 really really good physical skills. And this is where you know, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.400 I think you can. You just cannot shortchange the tape 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.600 watching process. And I shoot, as someone that was a 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.160 purveyor of stats and analytics on this podcast the first 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.680 couple of years, like I've kind of taken a full swing. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.559 I went all the way into the stats and stuff 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.760 and said, like, this is very valuable. And now I 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.080 kind of like, I kind of almost feel like it's like, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.960 shut up nerd territories, like just watch the tape. Because 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.000 I said, there was a debate on Twitter the other 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.000 day or X with a guy that was saying like 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.360 he didn't watch the tape when he had all these 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.679 evaluations based upon his model, and I'm like, brother, that's great. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.720 It's a great supplementary skill. And we I mean, NFL 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.880 teams pay out the nose for those types of studies 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.000 and models. But you cannot do that absence of the tape. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.160 You have to match it with the tape. So when 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.559 it comes to Will Johnson, I don't care about him 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.840 not running his forty coming off of a hamstring injury, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.760 you know, in April of his rookie season. I don't 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.120 care about him not bench pressing, which no one does 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.240 that anymore anyway, So I don't know what we're talking about. That. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.720 Just watch the damn tape. You do not hawk down 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.520 ja Aden Blue, the four to three to eight Texas 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.040 back that's what he ran an indie. By the way, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.280 if you don't run a four to four yourself, the 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.560 math doesn't math there, does it. He's a great athlete, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.320 and the tape tells you that. I think he's one 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.000 of the most immediate impact players in this entire class. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.520 In fact, I think that we are maybe spinning our 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:17.800 wheels here a little bit cause I think that he 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.360 should go in the top like six or seven other 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.400 draft will he I don't know, but if he doesn't, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.120 I'll be happy to scoop him up. I think the 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.560 same is true for my cornerback three. And honestly, he's 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.480 neck and neck with Johnson two. It's Texas is jadea Baron. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.839 We've covered his intelligence, his mature approach. He's twenty four 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.920 years old today, so it makes sense he's been around 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.320 the players that came into the college during the COVID year. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.320 They've had to display some patience, and they're going to 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.160 be older rookies than most rookies are because they missed 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.640 a year of college football. But I think Baron's ability 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.560 to grasp the concept of multiple positions right away, the 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.480 anticipation he plays with from those spots, his ability to 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.520 slide back to rush to cover. I think he's a 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.480 day one chess piece that has proof of concept that 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.720 he can do that in an NFL. Sometimes you get 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.320 these super versatile pieces and you project all the things 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.400 they can do at the NFL level, but they wind 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.360 up never really finding their Niche like Isaiah Simmons for 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.080 the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, drafted by the Cardinals, rights with 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.800 the Giants now or went to the Giants. But he 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.760 was a guy that I mean, your boy was like 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.200 talking about I would take either two or Isaiah Simmons 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.199 and the pick five and that's how highly I thought 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:26.679 of him. But he didn't really work out because I 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.240 thought no one really had a plan for how to 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.920 use him. I think Tyler Warren is the same. I 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.920 think you've seen an offense run through him there at 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.640 Penn State. I think you've seen a lot of the 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.600 same things I said about Baron in terms of different alignments, responsibilities, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.120 and his understanding of leverage, angles of attack. All of 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.440 that is a calling card of his. And then I 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.280 think about his ability to run with the football, like 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.040 college or pro. That's a man that's going to break tackles. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.280 And if we the Royal we as a football hole 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.120 can conjure up a manufactured touches, they create three yards 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.839 for you, and then he can make that an eight 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.640 yard play. That's one of the most valuable tree eligible 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.400 can have. And that's why I would add Ashton Jean 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:03.920 t to this list, even though he's going to be 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.120 long gone by the time we pick. And his great 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.320 Player's Tribune article that he wrote where he said, hey, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.520 it's tackle football, I would draft the guy that they 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.840 can't tackle. That's a pretty good point, Ashton. I feel 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.199 the same way about Tyler Warren. And then that's probably 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.920 where my cutoff is in terms of guys that I 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.800 think are like, well, that's not true. Let me take 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.520 that back, because this one is probably the most obvious. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.400 Malachi Starks captain, played championship football at Georgia for three 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.240 years signal caller on a complex defense. He might be 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.439 the most day one ready guy in the entire class. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.600 And to me, those are the four guys, and it's 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.440 been that same we've talked about those four guys at length. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:35.679 Of those are the four guys that I think you 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.800 can put in your starting lineup the day you draft them, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.600 and they can be eighty ninety percent snaptakers. I mean, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.280 they have to prove it, but I feel like that's 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.720 where you would project them right away as rookies, like 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.240 this guy is tight end not tight end one because 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.720 Johonna Smith is here, like Starks can be safety one. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.240 Will Johnson could be cornerback one. Like They have that 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.640 kind of potential the minute you draft him. And then 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.600 I would say, for me, those are the guys in 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.840 the round one range that have the most immediate starter 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.520 impact potential. And there are others I think that you 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.920 would have some semblance of the question about their ability 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.920 to make an immediate impact with some of the guys 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.439 that might have to move from tackle a guard for 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.160 its on the offensive line. And that's not to say 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.240 that that's not there with Johnson, Baron and Warren, And 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.280 it starts all rookies are unproven, but to me, those 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.920 ones are the ones I could start a football game 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.199 as pros tomorrow because of their makeup. Let's go ahead 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.960 and take our first break right there. Come back on 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.240 the other side and do some more of these Draft 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:32.080 time podcasts brought to you by Autoation. You guys tired 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.000 of my round one draft talk on the show because 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.040 it's mostly been the same guys, And maybe I am 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.679 like going too far on the pendulum against the grain 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.880 of common draft coverage, where I feel like every year 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.040 you get these baseline ideas, you kind of get fatigued 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.559 by the whole process, you get some crazy takes out there, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.840 and then it reels back into the actual like original 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.880 grounded thoughts. For me, I just skipped the whole process 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.439 in the middle of just like, yeah, these are the 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.760 same good guys we talked about back into So maybe 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.679 that's boring podcasting. Maybe I should Maybe I should get 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.800 out rage. Maybe I should tell you about drafting. You know, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.160 Tyler Shook the thirteenth pick, that the Louisville quarterback, Or 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.120 maybe I should talk about taking Omary and Hampton the 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.800 NC the North Calina running back. Maybe it should should 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.960 get some hot takes in here. Ted McMillan at thirteen 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.800 to the Miami Dolphins. Would that would that make a 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.360 better podcast? I don't think so. That's why I don't 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.320 do it. So, yeah, those are the same guy's been 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.560 talking about all draft season. And you can throw Kenneth 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.840 Grant in there as well, the offensive line guys Walter 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.040 Nolan like it's it's the same guys are talking about 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.640 and picking it back up here with the same theme 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.440 from segment one. Who are some of the players that 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.400 I think are ready to step in and contribute when 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.160 we hit the field on September seventh. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.400 Or eighth, or maybe the fifth. It won't be the fourth. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.840 The Thursday night game is going to be Philly and 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.160 somebody else, and we do not play in Philly this year, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.080 but it could be the Friday game, could be the 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.320 Monday game, right, you never know. We'll see tangents aside. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.280 Let's rolled down this list here. I'm just doing it 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.120 by position now. That was like first round players. This 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.240 is by position at wide receiver. I've really got three, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.880 but I took one offul list because I think he's 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.760 going to be gone outside of our range of possible 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.640 draft selections, and that is a mecca of at Buka 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.760 from Ohio State. I think he's very polished, So he 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.560 is not on this list, But receiver Elick ao Minore 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.480 from Stanford is. I saw someone compare him to Robert 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.600 Woods Bobby Trees, and I just think that's a perfect comparison. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.520 When you were talking about a rookie receiving receiver excelling. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.520 There's one common trait that makes them good as rookies. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.800 It's their route running and in particular, can they get 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.880 off the line of scrimmage. Ao Minor has the very 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.040 best released in the entire draft. He's a dog blocker 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.200 and he gets open. And let's say you had a 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.080 formation with Reek and Waddle and al Minor. Who do 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.040 you think is getting the single coverage there? It's the rookie. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.240 I think he can win against that, especially against cornerbacks 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.200 two and three. Nobody had more success against Travis Hunter 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.640 in college football last year. I would take him at 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.200 forty eight if he's there, because I think he's that 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.600 good of a player. Obviously, it's kind of a Lexurcy 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.080 pick because we have other needs. But you know, if 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.520 you get more picks like that's kind of the range 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.360 you're looking at with elok Aomnoor, same as Kyle Williams 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.600 from Washington State cut and paste the rout running stuff. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.080 He's the best in the class as a route runner 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.320 besides maybe Egbuka, but he's better in that department by 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.800 a little bit, whereas Ale Minor has a better release game. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.560 He's also got run away from You speed on screens, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.800 which is something that is a run game replacement in 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.400 the NFL these days. We saw Miami last year pretty 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.240 much replaced the run game with a screen game. In 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.760 several games they could not run the football. So rather 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.920 than hand the ball off, you know, behind the last scrimmage, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.560 let's throw out to our receivers and let them try 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.520 to get yards on the outside with screens, and Kyle 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.960 Williams can be that guy for you. Tight end Mason 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.160 Taylor out of LSU. This is about as much about 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.320 the kid as it is the player. And a lot 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.720 of people down here know Mason Taylor, and you can't 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.440 find the remark about him that says anything other than 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.760 he's a high achiever who doesn't have like you know, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.680 doesn't make you aware of the geens that he comes 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.880 equipped with like you would never just talking to Mason, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.480 you would never know that JT is his dad outside 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.800 of the fact that he looks like him, Like he doesn't. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.600 He's not braggadocious about it. He's humble, he's a hard worker. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.199 I mean, he's wise beyond his years. He just gets it. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.080 You pair that with really good skills and the NFL 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.560 blood lines, and I mean you want to talk about 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.919 like just the stories you hear about JT and what 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.080 he did to get ready to play and how he 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.720 was as like a competitor, like Mason has that too, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.160 and it's such a unique rare. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:26.480 That's the same word. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.159 It's just such a valuable thing to Holster and for 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.240 Mason Taylor he has that in big way. So I'd 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.359 be very surprised if Mason as a rookie, even if 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.120 it's in the second round, if he's not playing starter 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.280 snaps somewhere very quickly for somebody on the offensive line. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.359 Gray's Abel from North Dakota State. I think he's in 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.240 play at thirteen and that's going to make I think 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:45.960 it'll be interesting because I know there's a lot of 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.480 fans that think like O line or bust every year basically, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.680 and for Zabel, I think that he's like the safest 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.199 player in the entire class. But I think that he 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.040 might be a guy that is considered a reach at 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.920 that point, just from the perception of the fan base. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.800 I don't even think that's the case, because to me, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.440 by far, the best guard is he is what you've 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.520 been told about Tyler Booker in terms of the fit 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.280 here for the last couple of months, we've had it 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.080 on my show, people talking about Tyler Booker, and I 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.240