Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to still another edition of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft Triple Take, presented by U P m C.
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Pursuita along with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson.
Speaker 1: We are going through the players available for the upcoming
Speaker 1: draft at the end of April, position by position. We've
Speaker 1: got quarterback analysis for you today, and before we get
Speaker 1: into and out, I want to remind everyone that you
Speaker 1: can catch these and any like programs on all of
Speaker 1: the Steelers social media platforms. But guys a lot of
Speaker 1: receivers and therefore a lot of quarterbacks, Matt is it's
Speaker 1: really that simple. The college game is taken care of
Speaker 1: what the NFL game needs. Yeah, am, And and and these
Speaker 1: guys are testing extremely well, just like the receivers. They're
Speaker 1: always seems like there's a wealth of corners coming in
Speaker 1: the league, but boy, they go quick and teams covet
Speaker 1: this position and it's pretty obvious why. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you don't have three, you trust, you're doomed and you
Speaker 1: really should have four. Yeah, I agree. And this year's
Speaker 1: group is is interesting. Um, A lot of big guys,
Speaker 1: bigger like cornerbacks in this year's draft. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of times. You see, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: the five ten, one ninety type size size guys this year,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who were six one, six, two,
Speaker 1: six three even deeper into the draft. And as we
Speaker 1: saw at the combine, guys, these guys can all run um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the track. You know,
Speaker 1: they did replace the the the the surface at the
Speaker 1: at Lucas Oil Stadium, but everybody was running the sub
Speaker 1: four or five this year. Did they replace it with ice?
Speaker 1: They on skates every position? It seemed like that was
Speaker 1: that was something else of Quarter in particular. Dale's point
Speaker 1: really well well stated, not just fast, big and fast,
Speaker 1: and you know what's better than fast? Big and fast?
Speaker 1: So let's get into what's available. We'll go through our
Speaker 1: top five as we have been doing, position by position. Dale,
Speaker 1: let's lead it off with you and uh care Elam
Speaker 1: of Florida. Yeah, he's got some NFL bloodlines. Good size
Speaker 1: didn't play quite as well last year as he had
Speaker 1: previously in his career, but again six and then ran
Speaker 1: a four three forty at the combine. I mean, big
Speaker 1: and fast, what what what's not to like? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, so there's a lot here to like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a nephew of Matt Elam, who was
Speaker 1: a safety with the UH with the Ravens, was a
Speaker 1: former first round draft pick. Um, you know, Elam's gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy who's who's very intriguing, you know, depending
Speaker 1: on where he goes. Is it related to the former
Speaker 1: great actor Jack Elam. I don't believe he is. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember him. He was underrated. I thought, anyway,
Speaker 1: Matt your number five. Yeah. I was torn between m
Speaker 1: and Gordon for number five. Um. Gordon was rumored to
Speaker 1: be just a total freak show in terms of test thing,
Speaker 1: and he was fine. He wasn't amazing. But I heard
Speaker 1: some track nerds talking about it doesn't look like Gordon
Speaker 1: worked on his start at all. You know, so he
Speaker 1: plays fast tracks, would know? Yeah, right, you know, the
Speaker 1: boy his start needs a lot of work. Like, okay,
Speaker 1: I believe you whatever. Um, he's kind of the other
Speaker 1: corner at Washington. I'm sure we'll get to his teammate
Speaker 1: here at some point. He could play inside outside, solid build,
Speaker 1: good size, you know. You know, so there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like here. I do think he's a very much
Speaker 1: a plus athlete and we'll make an impact early. Now.
Speaker 1: I I went for the freak Show at number five,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're talking about big and fast. I give
Speaker 1: you Tarik Woolen, University of Texas at San Antonio, six
Speaker 1: ft four, two hundred and five pounds four point to
Speaker 1: six in the forty. I am here to tell you
Speaker 1: I have not seen this kid play a snap of football.
Speaker 1: But did I mentioned six ft four, two hundred five
Speaker 1: pounds four point to six. He's a former wide receiver.
Speaker 1: UM teach them how to play corner. He's six foot four,
Speaker 1: two five piles. I don't know if you guys heard
Speaker 1: this or not. He runs a four point six. I
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna be fast, Mike, because they had
Speaker 1: those mile per hour trackers on on those guys at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, and he ran like twenty three four
Speaker 1: or five. Yeah, when it was counting, and so I
Speaker 1: mean that kind of you know, then you start watching
Speaker 1: him a little bit and you're like, okay, there's some
Speaker 1: there's some traits there. You do worry about the you know,
Speaker 1: when you get that big, I mean that's just extreme size.
Speaker 1: You worry about some of the change of directions and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if anybody's going to outrun him
Speaker 1: down the sideline and then be able to catch the
Speaker 1: ball over top of him because of that length. For
Speaker 1: number four, we all took Andrew Booth of Clemson. Matt,
Speaker 1: we'll let you speak for the group here since we're unanimous,
Speaker 1: but uh, I really like this gets physicality among other things. Yea,
Speaker 1: and because the school he's at, you know, he wasn't
Speaker 1: a three year starter or whatever. He kind of took
Speaker 1: over this year, um and in somewhat of a work
Speaker 1: in progress. But he is a piece of clay that
Speaker 1: is very mouldible. I mean he's six foot, he's almost
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds, very long. He's fine in zone. But
Speaker 1: he's the type of guy you want impressman corps, you
Speaker 1: know as impressman coverage, which is what every team's after
Speaker 1: right now. I think a defensive backcode would just love
Speaker 1: to get ahold of Booth and uh follow this under
Speaker 1: great minds think alike. We're also uh unanimous in our
Speaker 1: number three cornerback prospect that that would be the fforementioned
Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie from Washington Dale. How did the Washington lose
Speaker 1: a game this year? Pretty good? Apparently, people could run
Speaker 1: all over him, Mike, because the cornerbacks were both are
Speaker 1: both like they'll be gone by the middle of the
Speaker 1: second round, both of them, you know, so I would
Speaker 1: assume it was difficult to throw the football on them.
Speaker 1: McDuffie's a three year starter at Washington, ran a four
Speaker 1: or four four forty at the combine, so he got
Speaker 1: the you know, you've got the everything that you want there.
Speaker 1: He allowed sixteen receptions in eleven games this past season,
Speaker 1: six and eleven games. I mean it's just, uh, nobody
Speaker 1: threw at him, and when they did, they had a trough,
Speaker 1: tough time completing it. Uh. And that was with you know,
Speaker 1: two NFL cornerbacks on the field, so lots of light there.
Speaker 1: He's not quite as big as the other guys. He's
Speaker 1: five eleve them, but that's more than big enough. Real
Speaker 1: quick on McDuffie. He's a nasty old guy man. I mean,
Speaker 1: he kind of has some of that Mike Hilton edge
Speaker 1: to him, but bigger and more athletic. They blitz him
Speaker 1: out of the salot a lot. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: very aggressive tackler. I mean he brings a little you know,
Speaker 1: nastiness to him and he's like Mike Hilton, smart enough
Speaker 1: that you can move him around and he'll Yeah, they
Speaker 1: could definitely play the slot. Yeah right away. Little uh
Speaker 1: side notes, since so we just mentioned to uh Washington guys.
Speaker 1: At least Matt did Husky Stadium outstanding place to catch
Speaker 1: a college football game. I actually saw the Steelers play
Speaker 1: out there. They were when they were repairing the Kingdom
Speaker 1: in the nineties. But what what an environment for college football.
Speaker 1: Not only to get to see great corners, but it's
Speaker 1: right all the water and uh Mountaineer in the distance,
Speaker 1: you know, to the kind of person likes to travel
Speaker 1: around and see different things. Check that out anyway, I
Speaker 1: digress number two. Uh, we've we're all in agreement on
Speaker 1: two and one, but uh, I've got it in a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different order than you guys do.
Speaker 1: I took him on. Gardner from Cincinnati is my number two.
Speaker 1: Matt and Dale have decided that Derek Stingley Jr. From
Speaker 1: l s U is uh the number two prospect available. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't dislike h. Gardner. I just like Stingley better. Uh, Matt,
Speaker 1: why did Stingley come up to on your list? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think Stingley has a chance to be the best
Speaker 1: corner in the league. I mean, or and clearly the
Speaker 1: best corner in this class. And I probably dinged him
Speaker 1: a little because he's been out of sight, out of
Speaker 1: mind a little, you know. I mean, he may use
Speaker 1: Pro Day and just be unbelievable, and they had issues
Speaker 1: at l s U this past year, but he really
Speaker 1: hasn't been a phenomenal player with phenomenal tapes since him
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow were winning national championships, which was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, when he was just an utterly
Speaker 1: dominant nineteen year old player. Um, I think you're kind
Speaker 1: of splitting hairs. But it's just Gardener has done more
Speaker 1: good stuff recently, you know. Um you mentioned the l
Speaker 1: s U days, and during the combine they threw up
Speaker 1: some tape from l s U practices back in the
Speaker 1: day and it was uh Stingley against Jamaar Chase, and
Speaker 1: Stingley was more than holding his own. And I saw
Speaker 1: that and I said, you know what, I don't care
Speaker 1: what the last two years. If he if he gets
Speaker 1: over to Liz Frank Surgery and everything checks out on
Speaker 1: Pro Day, that's my guy. Because Jamar Chase has gone
Speaker 1: on to be a pretty good receiver in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Stingley was for him three years ago. Yet I apologize,
Speaker 1: but he has some of that dion reevous arrogance, slash
Speaker 1: baiting quarterbacks. You know, maybe I don't love tackling so much,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know those rare corners that just
Speaker 1: know they're great. Yeah, and you look at him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he doesn't turn twenty one until June um so you're
Speaker 1: still getting a twenty year old player who's not a
Speaker 1: ton of experience there. But the experience that he had
Speaker 1: again in in in two thousand nineteen, he was their
Speaker 1: best guy maybe in their whole defense that season. It
Speaker 1: just hasn't He just hasn't shown to be that guy
Speaker 1: the last two seasons, largely because of the Liz Frank
Speaker 1: injury last year. Yeah, it's you know, it's not an
Speaker 1: insignificant track that he's been on. But you get that guy, right,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna find a better one day. Let's
Speaker 1: uh stick with you. Uh to wrap it up and
Speaker 1: talk about the Sauce Gardner from by the way, and
Speaker 1: I'll write up I refused to call him sauce. You
Speaker 1: can't have a nickname till you getting the league. Oh
Speaker 1: you can if if if your pee wee coach gave
Speaker 1: it to you, which is what happened with Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 1: I mean, so it's not like it's this isn't this
Speaker 1: isn't a situation where he gave himself the nickname. This
Speaker 1: is not Jack Rabbit Jenkins. You know, you've been in
Speaker 1: the league for twenty five years and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you you change your name to Jack Rabbit. Um,
Speaker 1: this is a you know, he's it's a he's a
Speaker 1: good football player. Six three one nine. Uh, just everything
Speaker 1: that you want in terms of size. Nine career interceptions
Speaker 1: in thirty three games, uh, six point six yards of
Speaker 1: catch last season, never allowed of in in a thousand
Speaker 1: and fifty nine snaps in college coverage, did not allow
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Let that sink. In his entire college career,
Speaker 1: he did not allow a touchdown. I don't care if
Speaker 1: he's playing our sisters of the poorer. Um, this guy
Speaker 1: is really good. He is and to your point there Day,
Speaker 1: I mean, didn't have the greatest level of competition, but
Speaker 1: it became pretty clear that every opponent that Cincinnati, he said,
Speaker 1: why on earth would I throw at him, and they
Speaker 1: threw it another guy. It's gonna drafted Kobe Bryant, who
Speaker 1: spelled a little different but named after the basketball star.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't necessarily a smart move either, But that's
Speaker 1: how much they fear Gardner. Yeah, Bryant won the Jim
Speaker 1: Thorpe A Word Award as the top defensive back. But
Speaker 1: I think Gardner is the guy who's gonna go first
Speaker 1: among those two and maybe amongst all the cornerbacks we
Speaker 1: shall see. That's gonna do it for our analysis the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I wanna remind everybody that you can catch
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Speaker 1: and wherever you found us, we're gonna do it again
Speaker 1: real soon. Until then, for Matt Williamson and Dale Loali,
Speaker 1: I'm Mike. Pursuit of this has been the NFL Draft
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