Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield and on today's show,
Speaker 1: one more time before the Kyle Krabs Draft Extravaganza, We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk today about the thirty visits that have been
Speaker 1: attached to the Miami Dolphins and what those prospects could
Speaker 1: bring should they take the devon a chan route and
Speaker 1: be a guy that was here on a visit the
Speaker 1: guy Draft by the Miami Dolphins. We'll also talk about
Speaker 1: potential immediate impact players because Chris we were mentioned, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins needed to find a few of those guys in
Speaker 1: this year's class. So who could be those options from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast, Maybe daf two episodes
Speaker 1: next week before the draft begins Monday and Tuesday with
Speaker 1: Kyle Krabs are now five year running annual Dolphins Draft
Speaker 1: Extravaganza ahead of the Big Wee weekend and we've done
Speaker 1: the mock draft roundups, the player profiles, the my Guys list.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're pretty much at the end of
Speaker 1: the draft of rope here in fact, yep, the content
Speaker 1: fatigue has set in for your boy. It does every
Speaker 1: single every single part of the year, the content fatigue arrives,
Speaker 1: whether it's training camp is the worst, the last couple
Speaker 1: of days of training camp like that. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: slog of all. Draft is probably the second behind that.
Speaker 1: What's number one is a season that goes off the
Speaker 1: rails early. That's when you're out of it early on,
Speaker 1: like back in you know, twenty nineteen, for instance, I
Speaker 1: think it was the last time the Dolphins were out
Speaker 1: of playoff contention before like Thanksgiving. That can be difficult,
Speaker 1: but I will say the last week of draft coverage,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much over it by this point, but I
Speaker 1: will say I did conjure up one more fun show
Speaker 1: before the extravaganza next week that I think can be
Speaker 1: a bit of an enigma across Dolphins draft coverage. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about a few players I think can match something
Speaker 1: that Chris said it his Tuesday press conference and I
Speaker 1: something that the roster pretty much, you know, shows you
Speaker 1: the Dolphins will need to have as an immedia impact
Speaker 1: from guys. So based on my own study and evaluations,
Speaker 1: I thought we could talk about some of the players
Speaker 1: that might fit that mold, that have the skills and
Speaker 1: the polish and the little something extra to be immedia
Speaker 1: impact players, which is a pretty rare thing in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Even the guys that have good rookie seasons don't always
Speaker 1: start that way. Chop Robinson was, you know, from the
Speaker 1: sack production standpoint and his run defense last year had
Speaker 1: a slow start, but then he came on the second
Speaker 1: half of the year and was one of the top
Speaker 1: ten pass rushers in the NFL. For Patrick Paul, I
Speaker 1: mean it was similar, And you know, those guys were
Speaker 1: both not supposed to be immedia impact players, or at
Speaker 1: least Patrick Paul was supposed to be like a red
Speaker 1: shirt year right, And when you know it, Chopp goes
Speaker 1: for a finalist for Defensive Rookie of the Year. And
Speaker 1: Patrick had two damn good game tapes in December, he
Speaker 1: had two more that we were not as good, one
Speaker 1: at right tackle, one off the bench against Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1: Like those are kind of difficult circumstance. So sometimes we
Speaker 1: think about impact guys in terms of their Week one usage,
Speaker 1: But I would challenge you to broaden your perspective here
Speaker 1: because it's really the case in all sports that the
Speaker 1: end season development is oftentimes more important than what you
Speaker 1: get over the course of the spring. In the summer,
Speaker 1: you know, guys in the best shape of his life.
Speaker 1: While this guy's hitting five sixty down spring training, he's
Speaker 1: gotta have a great year, Like, okay, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens when he's getting specialized relievers in the game against him,
Speaker 1: throwing ninety nine, you know, lefty on lefty matchup. And
Speaker 1: forgive me for going back to this analogy speaking of baseball,
Speaker 1: as it is my security blanket of comparisons, but as
Speaker 1: someone who has watched I would say one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty plus Mariner games every year since the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: And actually, you know what, let me take a reprieve
Speaker 1: on that. I have to make a confession about my
Speaker 1: baseball fandom. I did defect from the Mariners to the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds when they traded Griffy. I was a bigger
Speaker 1: Griffy fan than a Manors fan early on, But once
Speaker 1: I grew up a little bit, I came back to
Speaker 1: the marriage. Actually, Griffy came back to the minors and
Speaker 1: I came back In the now, now I'm an adult,
Speaker 1: so I stick with the same team. But you know,
Speaker 1: those since the mid nineties when the Manors were like
Speaker 1: the best offense in baseball every year. The modern Mariners
Speaker 1: open every single season with a lineup that's always a
Speaker 1: far cry from what it is. Once the summer months
Speaker 1: come around, they'll dfa, they're non productive guys, which why
Speaker 1: were they that way in the first place, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's just kind of how it goes. They'll promote
Speaker 1: better players from the minor leagues. I'll make a trade
Speaker 1: or a signing every August and you look back in April,
Speaker 1: from from the August to April stretcher, and you're like,
Speaker 1: what the hell was that lineup back on opening day?
Speaker 1: I mean, in golf, hell, inside of one tournament last weekend,
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy goes from two double bogies to close his
Speaker 1: back nine at the Masters, and comes back the next
Speaker 1: day and shoots seven under par and then goes nuclear
Speaker 1: on Saturday too to take a three shot lead into Sunday,
Speaker 1: And we saw what happened there. I'll make one more
Speaker 1: reference to it. It reminds me of the twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. A total tangent here, but anybody else agree
Speaker 1: that content has become far too saturated in every walk
Speaker 1: of life. Seth from the Fish Tank podcast sent me
Speaker 1: a list of the top twenty five Dolphins podcast Like,
Speaker 1: there's twenty five of them? Why, you know, Like everyone
Speaker 1: is entitled to get on a podcast and have, you know,
Speaker 1: on a microphone talking to a podcast, But do you
Speaker 1: have time to listen to twenty five Dolphins podcasts? I
Speaker 1: guess it was something out there for everybody, but it
Speaker 1: used to be for me, anything NFL related was appointment viewing.
Speaker 1: I couldn't put it down anything at all. Hey, rookie,
Speaker 1: welcome to the NFL. You know those those documentaries that
Speaker 1: are still on ESPN, actually, but now it's like there's
Speaker 1: a documentary on every single little thing. I think there's
Speaker 1: like four documentaries on the freaking four Red Sox in
Speaker 1: that series against the New York Yankees. But that twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen Cardinals team. I bring them up because they were
Speaker 1: the first one to do something that was, to me,
Speaker 1: the best NFL content ever done before the saturation began.
Speaker 1: It was twenty fifteen and it was the all or
Speaker 1: nothing series on Amazon. It was in season Hard Knocks,
Speaker 1: but it came out after the season and you could
Speaker 1: binge it back to back to back to back, and
Speaker 1: it covered the entire season. It wasn't just the you know,
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving on stretch that we've seen on Hard Knocks recently.
Speaker 1: And in that season when the Cardinals went to the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, there's a great shot of Bruce arians
Speaker 1: talking about star rookie running back David Johnson and how
Speaker 1: by Thanksgiving he's going to be our bell cow. He's
Speaker 1: telling somebody in like a Week three game before the game,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to the coaches on the other team,
Speaker 1: like they had this plan to build him into their
Speaker 1: feature back, and the plan was never to have it
Speaker 1: happen right away, although his production sort of accelerated that
Speaker 1: think he had like two touchdowns in that game and
Speaker 1: a kickoff return touchdown. So that's a long winded way
Speaker 1: of saying it's not always about Week one, but the
Speaker 1: collection of the entire season, the same way the offseason
Speaker 1: isn't over on April eighteenth, right, And with all that
Speaker 1: in mind, I wanted to look at some players that
Speaker 1: could follow David Johnson or Chop Robinson in terms of
Speaker 1: their rookie season impacts. And to me, it starts with
Speaker 1: a player that is being over thought a little bit
Speaker 1: at least in the media and fan aspect of social
Speaker 1: media discourse. And right now he is my favorite provided
Speaker 1: what I think is going to be on the board,
Speaker 1: my favorite option at number thirteen, it's Will Johnson, the
Speaker 1: Michigan cornerback. And there will be a theme here with
Speaker 1: these players. It's gonna be guys that play their positions
Speaker 1: at a high level from a processing and fundamental standpoint.
Speaker 2: But wait, that's not all.
Speaker 1: And I saw this great tweet the other day about
Speaker 1: pro ready quarterbacks and what that means, and it's usually
Speaker 1: not the pro ready prospect in terms of his aptitude
Speaker 1: for reading defenses, for instance, and playing the position that
Speaker 1: has success right away, because those guys kind of have
Speaker 1: to learn the speed of the game and sharpen that
Speaker 1: superpower to make it NFL ready.
Speaker 2: Now. CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud was that way and he made it work as
Speaker 1: rookie season, but he was like otherworldly in that department,
Speaker 1: and you kind of get that sometimes with these guys
Speaker 1: that come out that have all these reps, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about in the past, but oftentimes the standout rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback is an athlete who has no idea what the
Speaker 1: hell he's doing in terms of playing the position, but
Speaker 1: he just figured it out. Lamar Jackson was that way
Speaker 1: right that rookie yearth the Ravens. He was not a
Speaker 1: polished passer by any means, and he just survived on
Speaker 1: peer athletic talent and then the rest came along in
Speaker 1: his career and now he's like a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 2: Cam Newton was that way. Hell.
Speaker 1: What better example than Josh Allen who was playing yolo
Speaker 1: ball as a rookie his first season and the night
Speaker 1: out Now I would consider him a top ten decision
Speaker 1: maker at the position, which pairs well with top three
Speaker 1: physical gifts too. So it's fun to enjoy twenty five
Speaker 1: consecutive years of either the second best or first best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL in your division. So there's some
Speaker 1: of that there too. I'll explain it as I go
Speaker 1: along with back to Will Johnson. I think he's getting
Speaker 1: nitpicked right now, but turn the tape on and watch
Speaker 1: a super smart player that just understands angles, what route
Speaker 1: concepts look like. I mean, you don't get the highest
Speaker 1: zone coverage grade in college football without having a pretty
Speaker 1: good mind for the offense's tendencies and the ability to
Speaker 1: anticipate the play study or to play based on your study.
Speaker 1: That to me is Will Johnson's game on top of
Speaker 1: really really good physical skills. And this is where you know,
Speaker 1: I think you can. You just cannot shortchange the tape
Speaker 1: watching process. And I shoot, as someone that was a
Speaker 1: purveyor of stats and analytics on this podcast the first
Speaker 1: couple of years, like I've kind of taken a full swing.
Speaker 1: I went all the way into the stats and stuff
Speaker 1: and said, like, this is very valuable. And now I
Speaker 1: kind of like, I kind of almost feel like it's like,
Speaker 1: shut up nerd territories, like just watch the tape. Because
Speaker 1: I said, there was a debate on Twitter the other
Speaker 1: day or X with a guy that was saying like
Speaker 1: he didn't watch the tape when he had all these
Speaker 1: evaluations based upon his model, and I'm like, brother, that's great.
Speaker 1: It's a great supplementary skill. And we I mean, NFL
Speaker 1: teams pay out the nose for those types of studies
Speaker 1: and models. But you cannot do that absence of the tape.
Speaker 1: You have to match it with the tape. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to Will Johnson, I don't care about him
Speaker 1: not running his forty coming off of a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: you know, in April of his rookie season. I don't
Speaker 1: care about him not bench pressing, which no one does
Speaker 1: that anymore anyway, So I don't know what we're talking about. That.
Speaker 1: Just watch the damn tape. You do not hawk down
Speaker 1: ja Aden Blue, the four to three to eight Texas
Speaker 1: back that's what he ran an indie. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you don't run a four to four yourself, the
Speaker 1: math doesn't math there, does it. He's a great athlete,
Speaker 1: and the tape tells you that. I think he's one
Speaker 1: of the most immediate impact players in this entire class.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think that we are maybe spinning our
Speaker 1: wheels here a little bit cause I think that he
Speaker 1: should go in the top like six or seven other
Speaker 1: draft will he I don't know, but if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: I'll be happy to scoop him up. I think the
Speaker 1: same is true for my cornerback three. And honestly, he's
Speaker 1: neck and neck with Johnson two. It's Texas is jadea Baron.
Speaker 1: We've covered his intelligence, his mature approach. He's twenty four
Speaker 1: years old today, so it makes sense he's been around
Speaker 1: the players that came into the college during the COVID year.
Speaker 1: They've had to display some patience, and they're going to
Speaker 1: be older rookies than most rookies are because they missed
Speaker 1: a year of college football. But I think Baron's ability
Speaker 1: to grasp the concept of multiple positions right away, the
Speaker 1: anticipation he plays with from those spots, his ability to
Speaker 1: slide back to rush to cover. I think he's a
Speaker 1: day one chess piece that has proof of concept that
Speaker 1: he can do that in an NFL. Sometimes you get
Speaker 1: these super versatile pieces and you project all the things
Speaker 1: they can do at the NFL level, but they wind
Speaker 1: up never really finding their Niche like Isaiah Simmons for
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, drafted by the Cardinals, rights with
Speaker 1: the Giants now or went to the Giants. But he
Speaker 1: was a guy that I mean, your boy was like
Speaker 1: talking about I would take either two or Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: and the pick five and that's how highly I thought
Speaker 1: of him. But he didn't really work out because I
Speaker 1: thought no one really had a plan for how to
Speaker 1: use him. I think Tyler Warren is the same. I
Speaker 1: think you've seen an offense run through him there at
Speaker 1: Penn State. I think you've seen a lot of the
Speaker 1: same things I said about Baron in terms of different alignments, responsibilities,
Speaker 1: and his understanding of leverage, angles of attack. All of
Speaker 1: that is a calling card of his. And then I
Speaker 1: think about his ability to run with the football, like
Speaker 1: college or pro. That's a man that's going to break tackles.
Speaker 1: And if we the Royal we as a football hole
Speaker 1: can conjure up a manufactured touches, they create three yards
Speaker 1: for you, and then he can make that an eight
Speaker 1: yard play. That's one of the most valuable tree eligible
Speaker 1: can have. And that's why I would add Ashton Jean
Speaker 1: t to this list, even though he's going to be
Speaker 1: long gone by the time we pick. And his great
Speaker 1: Player's Tribune article that he wrote where he said, hey,
Speaker 1: it's tackle football, I would draft the guy that they
Speaker 1: can't tackle. That's a pretty good point, Ashton. I feel
Speaker 1: the same way about Tyler Warren. And then that's probably
Speaker 1: where my cutoff is in terms of guys that I
Speaker 1: think are like, well, that's not true. Let me take
Speaker 1: that back, because this one is probably the most obvious.
Speaker 1: Malachi Starks captain, played championship football at Georgia for three
Speaker 1: years signal caller on a complex defense. He might be
Speaker 1: the most day one ready guy in the entire class.
Speaker 1: And to me, those are the four guys, and it's
Speaker 1: been that same we've talked about those four guys at length.
Speaker 1: Of those are the four guys that I think you
Speaker 1: can put in your starting lineup the day you draft them,
Speaker 1: and they can be eighty ninety percent snaptakers. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have to prove it, but I feel like that's
Speaker 1: where you would project them right away as rookies, like
Speaker 1: this guy is tight end not tight end one because
Speaker 1: Johonna Smith is here, like Starks can be safety one.
Speaker 1: Will Johnson could be cornerback one. Like They have that
Speaker 1: kind of potential the minute you draft him. And then
Speaker 1: I would say, for me, those are the guys in
Speaker 1: the round one range that have the most immediate starter
Speaker 1: impact potential. And there are others I think that you
Speaker 1: would have some semblance of the question about their ability
Speaker 1: to make an immediate impact with some of the guys
Speaker 1: that might have to move from tackle a guard for
Speaker 1: its on the offensive line. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: that that's not there with Johnson, Baron and Warren, And
Speaker 1: it starts all rookies are unproven, but to me, those
Speaker 1: ones are the ones I could start a football game
Speaker 1: as pros tomorrow because of their makeup. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break right there. Come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and do some more of these Draft
Speaker 1: time podcasts brought to you by Autoation. You guys tired
Speaker 1: of my round one draft talk on the show because
Speaker 1: it's mostly been the same guys, And maybe I am
Speaker 1: like going too far on the pendulum against the grain
Speaker 1: of common draft coverage, where I feel like every year
Speaker 1: you get these baseline ideas, you kind of get fatigued
Speaker 1: by the whole process, you get some crazy takes out there,
Speaker 1: and then it reels back into the actual like original
Speaker 1: grounded thoughts. For me, I just skipped the whole process
Speaker 1: in the middle of just like, yeah, these are the
Speaker 1: same good guys we talked about back into So maybe
Speaker 1: that's boring podcasting. Maybe I should Maybe I should get
Speaker 1: out rage. Maybe I should tell you about drafting. You know,
Speaker 1: Tyler Shook the thirteenth pick, that the Louisville quarterback, Or
Speaker 1: maybe I should talk about taking Omary and Hampton the
Speaker 1: NC the North Calina running back. Maybe it should should
Speaker 1: get some hot takes in here. Ted McMillan at thirteen
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins. Would that would that make a
Speaker 1: better podcast? I don't think so. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: do it. So, yeah, those are the same guy's been
Speaker 1: talking about all draft season. And you can throw Kenneth
Speaker 1: Grant in there as well, the offensive line guys Walter
Speaker 1: Nolan like it's it's the same guys are talking about
Speaker 1: and picking it back up here with the same theme
Speaker 1: from segment one. Who are some of the players that
Speaker 1: I think are ready to step in and contribute when
Speaker 1: we hit the field on September seventh.
Speaker 2: Or eighth, or maybe the fifth. It won't be the fourth.
Speaker 1: The Thursday night game is going to be Philly and
Speaker 1: somebody else, and we do not play in Philly this year,
Speaker 1: but it could be the Friday game, could be the
Speaker 1: Monday game, right, you never know. We'll see tangents aside.
Speaker 1: Let's rolled down this list here. I'm just doing it
Speaker 1: by position now. That was like first round players. This
Speaker 1: is by position at wide receiver. I've really got three,
Speaker 1: but I took one offul list because I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be gone outside of our range of possible
Speaker 1: draft selections, and that is a mecca of at Buka
Speaker 1: from Ohio State. I think he's very polished, So he
Speaker 1: is not on this list, But receiver Elick ao Minore
Speaker 1: from Stanford is. I saw someone compare him to Robert
Speaker 1: Woods Bobby Trees, and I just think that's a perfect comparison.
Speaker 1: When you were talking about a rookie receiving receiver excelling.
Speaker 1: There's one common trait that makes them good as rookies.
Speaker 1: It's their route running and in particular, can they get
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. Ao Minor has the very
Speaker 1: best released in the entire draft. He's a dog blocker
Speaker 1: and he gets open. And let's say you had a
Speaker 1: formation with Reek and Waddle and al Minor. Who do
Speaker 1: you think is getting the single coverage there? It's the rookie.
Speaker 1: I think he can win against that, especially against cornerbacks
Speaker 1: two and three. Nobody had more success against Travis Hunter
Speaker 1: in college football last year. I would take him at
Speaker 1: forty eight if he's there, because I think he's that
Speaker 1: good of a player. Obviously, it's kind of a Lexurcy
Speaker 1: pick because we have other needs. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you get more picks like that's kind of the range
Speaker 1: you're looking at with elok Aomnoor, same as Kyle Williams
Speaker 1: from Washington State cut and paste the rout running stuff.
Speaker 1: He's the best in the class as a route runner
Speaker 1: besides maybe Egbuka, but he's better in that department by
Speaker 1: a little bit, whereas Ale Minor has a better release game.
Speaker 1: He's also got run away from You speed on screens,
Speaker 1: which is something that is a run game replacement in
Speaker 1: the NFL these days. We saw Miami last year pretty
Speaker 1: much replaced the run game with a screen game. In
Speaker 1: several games they could not run the football. So rather
Speaker 1: than hand the ball off, you know, behind the last scrimmage,
Speaker 1: let's throw out to our receivers and let them try
Speaker 1: to get yards on the outside with screens, and Kyle
Speaker 1: Williams can be that guy for you. Tight end Mason
Speaker 1: Taylor out of LSU. This is about as much about
Speaker 1: the kid as it is the player. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people down here know Mason Taylor, and you can't
Speaker 1: find the remark about him that says anything other than
Speaker 1: he's a high achiever who doesn't have like you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't make you aware of the geens that he comes
Speaker 1: equipped with like you would never just talking to Mason,
Speaker 1: you would never know that JT is his dad outside
Speaker 1: of the fact that he looks like him, Like he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He's not braggadocious about it. He's humble, he's a hard worker.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's wise beyond his years. He just gets it.
Speaker 1: You pair that with really good skills and the NFL
Speaker 1: blood lines, and I mean you want to talk about
Speaker 1: like just the stories you hear about JT and what
Speaker 1: he did to get ready to play and how he
Speaker 1: was as like a competitor, like Mason has that too,
Speaker 1: and it's such a unique rare.
Speaker 2: That's the same word.
Speaker 1: It's just such a valuable thing to Holster and for
Speaker 1: Mason Taylor he has that in big way. So I'd
Speaker 1: be very surprised if Mason as a rookie, even if
Speaker 1: it's in the second round, if he's not playing starter
Speaker 1: snaps somewhere very quickly for somebody on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Gray's Abel from North Dakota State. I think he's in
Speaker 1: play at thirteen and that's going to make I think
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting because I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: fans that think like O line or bust every year basically,
Speaker 1: and for Zabel, I think that he's like the safest
Speaker 1: player in the entire class. But I think that he
Speaker 1: might be a guy that is considered a reach at
Speaker 1: that point, just from the perception of the fan base.
Speaker 1: I don't even think that's the case, because to me,
Speaker 1: by far, the best guard is he is what you've
Speaker 1: been told about Tyler Booker in terms of the fit
Speaker 1: here for the last couple of months, we've had it
Speaker 1: on my show, people talking about Tyler Booker, and I
Speaker 1: just I don't see that fit there for him, Whereas
Speaker 1: with Gray's Abel, he is exceptional getting out into space.
Speaker 1: I think he's got the highest floor. To me, he's
Speaker 1: last year's Graham Barton, the smartest player on the field.
Speaker 1: He can literally play all five positions, and I would
Speaker 1: trust him to start at tackle in the NFL. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: be his best spot, and he could be your center.
Speaker 1: That's just a rare trait to have for somebody. And
Speaker 1: his off Heason was as good as anybody the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: the combine everything, he was dominant from day one on.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to start on someone's offensive line
Speaker 1: from week one all the way through, and he's healthy
Speaker 1: he never gets hurt either, so a really good option
Speaker 1: there if you want to go safe. And then also
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, Jonas Savina from Arizona. This is
Speaker 1: a bit of a detour from what I said about
Speaker 1: Zabel and going back to the rookie quarterback discussion. I
Speaker 1: think Savina, and I'm saying that name wrong, I think
Speaker 1: is so physically imposing that he can get by on
Speaker 1: that at the NFL level right away, which you know,
Speaker 1: is a kind of what we saw from Jalen Carter
Speaker 1: as a rookie on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: or maybe even Jordan Davison Philadelphia there or even you know,
Speaker 1: and he's a here's a mini throwback for you guys
Speaker 1: what we saw from Solomon Kinley in his rookie season
Speaker 1: when he was three hundred and thirty five pounds and
Speaker 1: didn't really know what he was doing, but he was
Speaker 1: bowling guys over in a power scheme. I think I
Speaker 1: think more tape kind of exposes the shortcomings there. But
Speaker 1: with Savina, I mean, you're talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: is going to be a top fifty pick compared to Kimley,
Speaker 1: who was in the fourth round that year. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be someone that goes off the board
Speaker 1: sometime early in round two, probably have to be picked
Speaker 1: forty eight for you, and I would feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about the claim that he starts in week one wherever
Speaker 1: he winds up. Let's go over to the other side
Speaker 1: of the football here and on the defensive line. Ty
Speaker 1: Leek Williams out of Ohio State is a guy that
Speaker 1: I have really warmed on recently, and I think our
Speaker 1: buddy Eric Smith, who does really good work for the
Speaker 1: three yards per carry crew over there, and he has
Speaker 1: the podcast with Hasan Btel I did a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He had a mock draft where he got Jaday and
Speaker 1: Tyleek Williams back to back, and that would be like
Speaker 1: a home run one two selection for me. Have you
Speaker 1: guys watched his tape at all? I mean that's a
Speaker 1: good question, right but before twenty twenty four. The reason
Speaker 1: he's on this list and our next player for that matter,
Speaker 1: is because I think you can drop him into a
Speaker 1: defense today as your three technique and he can eat
Speaker 1: up blocks and free up Jordan Brooks to do what
Speaker 1: he does best. But man, I think there's something more.
Speaker 1: There is a pass rusher in terms of his profile
Speaker 1: than what's being led on from the draft community. So
Speaker 1: his pass rush totals have dipped each year at Ohio State,
Speaker 1: but not in volume, but because he had twenty pressures
Speaker 1: this year, twenty two last year ten as a sophom
Speaker 1: when he got hurt, but twenty one as a freshman.
Speaker 1: And during that freshman year he had one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen pass rush snaps compared to three twenty one this
Speaker 1: year and three thirty three last year, So a three
Speaker 1: hundred percent productivity jump in pass rushing as a freshman.
Speaker 1: And watching his tape without getting into it, I think
Speaker 1: it's using it. It's more usage than it is his skills.
Speaker 1: So very very bullish on Tyleek Williams, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I think he's one of five or six defensive tackles
Speaker 1: that could start next to Seler next year if they
Speaker 1: have a good summer. And then I think there's ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen more guys that could be defensive tackle. Three
Speaker 1: four rotational guys. And that's why I think you double
Speaker 1: dip at this spot and get like a either Kenneth
Speaker 1: Grant or a Tileergue Williams or our next guy, Alfred
Speaker 1: Collins and you pair them with like a CJ.
Speaker 2: West or a who's the kid from Rucker if he's talked.
Speaker 1: About Kiante Hamilton or you know, you come back and
Speaker 1: you double dip with somebody else later on the draft
Speaker 1: and there's a defensive tackle from I could see that
Speaker 1: happening pretty easily. Speaking of Alfred Collins from Texas, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a dangerous game to play with rookies,
Speaker 1: but I think alf would be one of the top
Speaker 1: twenty or so two gapping defensive tackles in football the
Speaker 1: moment he's drafted. The power, the heavy hands, the ability
Speaker 1: to playoff blocks is very very NFL ready might not
Speaker 1: be on the field on third, medium, and long, but
Speaker 1: he's going to be a first and second down player
Speaker 1: who I think can play. He can play, you know,
Speaker 1: Kalais Campbell STAPs six hundred STAPs as a rookie. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, cornerbacks Savon Revel from East Carolina, this one
Speaker 1: might bite me, but I don't think it will. I
Speaker 1: think you say that because Ravel is the best man
Speaker 1: cover corner in the class for my money. But this
Speaker 1: is a zone heavy league, the most frequent man team
Speaker 1: in football. Last year was the Lions and they ran
Speaker 1: it a fifty one percent and number two was it
Speaker 1: like forty four percent. So basically nobody plays more man
Speaker 1: than zone these days. I think he'd be a great
Speaker 1: pick for the Lions. It picked twenty eight. So while
Speaker 1: there may be a learning curve on the zone aspect,
Speaker 1: if I need a third down cover rep Win, I
Speaker 1: like Savon Revel better than anybody else in the entire class,
Speaker 1: and he is coming off in ACL, so maybe he
Speaker 1: doesn't play right away, but I think that once he
Speaker 1: gets like fully up to speed, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be a starting cornerback for somebody this year. I
Speaker 1: think the same thing is true of cornerback Jacob Parish
Speaker 1: from Kansas State, and for the opposite reasons of Revel,
Speaker 1: he's a feisty, ready to go at all times, like
Speaker 1: a scrapper. He's the kind of guy that if he
Speaker 1: sees somebody else from the other crew get in the
Speaker 1: face of one of his boys, he's up in their
Speaker 1: face immediately saying like let's go, I'm here to back
Speaker 1: up my guys, like a ride or die type of player,
Speaker 1: and I just mean the zero hesitation to his game.
Speaker 1: I think you can blitz him. I think you can
Speaker 1: make him the rat in the hole and fit him
Speaker 1: into the run fit of your defense, and you can
Speaker 1: trust he's going to do the job from day one.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite slots in the entire class. And shoot,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get him at pick ninety eight.
Speaker 1: And if you went shoot, if you went Will Johnson
Speaker 1: and then Tyler Williams and Jacob Parrish corner, do you
Speaker 1: tackle corner? I would not be upset about that at all.
Speaker 1: Cornerback Darien Porter from Iowa State. This is more of
Speaker 1: a traits projection with his age four to three flat,
Speaker 1: ten to eleven broad, ninety fifth percent tile shuttle and
Speaker 1: three cone and doing that at a ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: tile height. He's just under six foot three and a
Speaker 1: seventy seventh percent tile weight. He's one ninety five. He
Speaker 1: has the fifth best RASS score relative athletics scorecard of
Speaker 1: any cornerback at the combine over the last thirty seven years.
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen of ESPN raves about his eyes, his ability
Speaker 1: to play zone and come up and press and because
Speaker 1: of that COVID year. He's twenty four years old and
Speaker 1: has the maturity to match. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a stud. Xavier watch the safety out of Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: It's weird to call a ballhawk like this a minimal
Speaker 1: flash player, but I say that with the most complimentary tone,
Speaker 1: because he's reliable, instinctive, he finds the football, He's a
Speaker 1: student of the game. He's not one of these marvel
Speaker 1: character athletes, but he just makes plays. Over two thousand
Speaker 1: snaps major stage games, a National championship game for one
Speaker 1: thirteen picks in a career at that position. Pretty crazy
Speaker 1: production there for Xavier Watts. And then we're getting deeper
Speaker 1: into the drafter of these two guys. Safety from Marshall.
Speaker 1: JJ Roberts might be the deepest pull on the entire list,
Speaker 1: but I recently familiarize myself with his game, and he's
Speaker 1: just springy, and I get the sense from watching his
Speaker 1: tape that he is in the film room always. He's
Speaker 1: a big hitter, big body, big frame, exceptional fundamentals, brings
Speaker 1: his feet through the tackles, does not drop his head,
Speaker 1: he wraps up. It's a rare to find a college
Speaker 1: player that tackles the way this guy does. I think
Speaker 1: he's a potential option in the fourth round. That could
Speaker 1: be a possible starter for you right away. Actually, I've
Speaker 1: got two more safeties. Billy Bowman, junior out of Oklahoma
Speaker 1: has a center fielder's mentality and he knows the batt
Speaker 1: orders spray charts. Is that too deep of a cut
Speaker 1: for a football audience to get. We're baseball heavy today.
Speaker 1: So played college baseball right and by the time I
Speaker 1: got to Legion ball in high school, we charted every
Speaker 1: player we saw. If you weren't in the lineup, you
Speaker 1: were charting at bats and some of my friends hated charting,
Speaker 1: and that would shift. We would shift our defense according
Speaker 1: to those charts that we provided, And if you study
Speaker 1: the scouting report on the bus ride to the game,
Speaker 1: you could place yourself without the coach's aid. To me,
Speaker 1: that's Billy Bowmen. He knows where to align, what keys
Speaker 1: to trigger, and how to get there. I freaking love
Speaker 1: his game. And then safety Lathan Ransom from Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I think when you hit like Ransom does, you're going
Speaker 1: to be a player, especially as a safety. Just watch
Speaker 1: his run fit real at Ohio State and the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl in particular, and you'll come away from that saying like, say,
Speaker 1: let's this dude's a baller. He played alongside Caleb Downs,
Speaker 1: who's going to be safety one next year and a
Speaker 1: top ten pick possibly, and they were just so well
Speaker 1: in tune and communicated, and I think that he can
Speaker 1: bring that to the NFL level as well. I love
Speaker 1: both their games. I love Leaith and Ransom's games. Plenty
Speaker 1: of chance to find impact players in this year's draft.
Speaker 1: We could get four guys off that list. They could
Speaker 1: be starters, and we could be happy again. All right,
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our last break right there. Come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and talk about the thirty
Speaker 1: visits the Dolphins have had so far per reports. That's
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by out donation.
Speaker 1: So every single draft season, players from around the NFL
Speaker 1: draft will descend upon thirty two NFL cities and meet
Speaker 1: with clubs and brass to just get to know them.
Speaker 1: But also there could be a little bit of misdirection
Speaker 1: involved in those I actually saw somebody tweet the other
Speaker 1: day that one team was looking at thirty visits as
Speaker 1: only bring in teammates of the guys they were interested
Speaker 1: in to talk about them from a third party source.
Speaker 1: So kind of interesting way of doing this. We've seen
Speaker 1: the Dolphins draft off this list have guys that were
Speaker 1: there on the board and not draft off this list.
Speaker 1: So there are I guess, multiple ways to read into it,
Speaker 1: but ultimately it's just like there's nothing definitive to take
Speaker 1: from it, ultimately, right. And so these are all per
Speaker 1: reports players that have been linked to the Dolphins through
Speaker 1: thirty visits, and some of these are local visits as well.
Speaker 1: As you it doesn't cost you against the thirty players.
Speaker 1: You can bring in if you have guys that went
Speaker 1: to high school or college in your town. And since
Speaker 1: South Florida is the freaking football mecha of the planet,
Speaker 1: we have an advantage that way with guys like Mason Taylor,
Speaker 1: Elijah Royo, Xavier'strepo. You know, if cam Ward wasn't going
Speaker 1: first in a draft, he would begin that category. Like,
Speaker 1: you can have these guys visit you because they're from
Speaker 1: here or they played college ball here. So per report,
Speaker 1: let's go in order of position once again. Running back
Speaker 1: Alie Gordon from Oklahoma State, who is the tallest running
Speaker 1: back I've ever seen him entire life. He's like six
Speaker 1: foot three, He's strong, he has massive arms, He's built
Speaker 1: in a lab short gardage, pile mover, tone, center and
Speaker 1: pass protection could be an option for the Dolphins sometime,
Speaker 1: maybe on Day three potentially. I don't know what I'll go,
Speaker 1: but that's about where I think that his his draft
Speaker 1: range has been has been kind of uh that that's
Speaker 1: where folks have him. Running Back Jacory Krossky and Mara
Speaker 1: from Arizona didn't know much about him, but how about
Speaker 1: this stat? He had the highest max deceleration at the
Speaker 1: Shrine Bowl since they began tracking that stat. What the
Speaker 1: hell is that stat?
Speaker 2: Travis?
Speaker 1: You just talked about stats being for nerds earlier. Essentially
Speaker 1: it measures change of direction. They posted the formula. It's
Speaker 1: negative seven point twenty nine yards per square second squared.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, I'm too dump to know what that means.
Speaker 1: But basically what it means is that his cutbacks are lethal.
Speaker 1: He's got the best like start stop juice you can find.
Speaker 1: It's off the chain.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: If anybody can tell me where that deep cut is from,
Speaker 1: I will. I'm not gonna give anything, but I'll be
Speaker 1: very excited about that. Running Back Damien Martinz from Miami
Speaker 1: Attitude runner, inside Zone slash duo combo would be a
Speaker 1: good change up to what you have here. Short yardage,
Speaker 1: run through your face mask type of player. I am
Speaker 1: a huge fan of him. On Day three, Kyle Williams
Speaker 1: Washington State was here for a visit as well. We
Speaker 1: covered him per reports of course wide receiver Chandler bray
Speaker 1: Boy from Elon. I gotta be honest with you, guys,
Speaker 1: I haven't quite gotten to the Elon tape just yet, but.
Speaker 2: He was here.
Speaker 1: Tyler End Mason Taylor covered him from LSU tight end
Speaker 1: Elijah Arroyo from Miami. He's a seam separator, big play,
Speaker 1: game changer, vertical threat that could possibly give you a
Speaker 1: balance to what you have on the outside down the middle.
Speaker 1: I think there's enough there for him to be a
Speaker 1: pretty good blocker at the next level. But he's a
Speaker 1: smooth route runner, quiet hands, just a big time a
Speaker 1: big body, electric receiving tight end. Defensive tackle Shamar Turner
Speaker 1: from Texas A and M is a bowl and a
Speaker 1: China shop. Heavy handed, he messes up things that he touches,
Speaker 1: does not get engulfed versus double teams in the run.
Speaker 1: Could be an immediate two down player for you here
Speaker 1: in Miami. Talked about defensive tackle Alfred Collins from Texas
Speaker 1: already talked about defensive tackle Keyante Hamilton from Rutgers, who
Speaker 1: is an explosive, explosive athlete with really good lateral agility
Speaker 1: and pass rush chops. I could see him being a
Speaker 1: specialized guy that comes down here with a chance to
Speaker 1: run all these games and potentially impact the interior of
Speaker 1: the pocket as a pass rusher. There were some guys
Speaker 1: in the UDFA class last year that I thought had
Speaker 1: similar chops. I could see Keyante Hamilton being bat guy
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins this year on Day three maybe in
Speaker 1: the UDFA process. Defensive tackles Sebastian Valdez from Washington powerful athlete,
Speaker 1: also ran a sub five forty at three hundred and
Speaker 1: ten pounds with thirty four bench press rep, so he
Speaker 1: is kind of a built in a lab athlete. Cornerback
Speaker 1: bj Adams from UCF has length and press ability and
Speaker 1: really good ball skills. He's super thin, but when he
Speaker 1: gets hands on guys, he can lock him up and coverage.
Speaker 1: Cornerback Corey Black from Oklahoma State elite athlete. He's six
Speaker 1: foot tall, four to three five forty thirty nine inch
Speaker 1: vertical and a four year started there with good ball
Speaker 1: production and then three safeties. Nick emn Worry from Georgia.
Speaker 1: We've covered him in depth. He is a what would
Speaker 1: you call him? I mean he's a fat two Mela
Speaker 1: fund basically in terms of the athletic profile. Kevin Winston
Speaker 1: Junior from Penn State, super charged, first step, flies all
Speaker 1: over the football field. Probably a first round pick. He
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt last year, or maybe not because of safety,
Speaker 1: but he's in that range and then safety. JJ Roberts
Speaker 1: from Marshall. We covered him, so a good list there,
Speaker 1: and again it's they Chris Greer has talked about it.
Speaker 1: The thirty visits line up with it. We'll see if
Speaker 1: they do it. They've been a team that has kind
Speaker 1: of been like premium positions over the last several years,
Speaker 1: and it's a good strategy. And I think that in
Speaker 1: the first round, if it is a cornerback, you can
Speaker 1: satisfy a need and get a good player and get
Speaker 1: the premium spot all locked up, bing bang, boom bomb.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a chance you can see them
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, go more towards the meat and potatoes,
Speaker 1: based upon what they've said, based upon these visits, based
Speaker 1: upon the roster needs. We shall see it could be
Speaker 1: a fun draft in a week and hopefully that can
Speaker 1: kind of get Dolphins fans fired back up again, because
Speaker 1: I know that folks are a little bit down right
Speaker 1: now about where you know this offseason, where the team is,
Speaker 1: but long way to go. We'll see what happens and
Speaker 1: how it shakes out when things get kicked off here
Speaker 1: in training camp come July. All right, next time you
Speaker 1: hear from me, Kyle Krabs and myself are going to
Speaker 1: be on the show getting ready for a two part
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