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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It
Speaker 1: is our final show before the draft. My co host
Speaker 1: today is Matt Harrison. Hi, Matt, hey, charge, how are
Speaker 1: you awfully excited to be able to talk rookie receivers.
Speaker 1: We started the conversation last week, we talked about seven
Speaker 1: rookie receivers. This week we're gonna continue that conversation forward
Speaker 1: with another set of guys. And you know, Matt, this
Speaker 1: is our last chance to speculate pre draft. You know
Speaker 1: where guys might go. Particularly good fits the guys that
Speaker 1: we love. And this is, by most accounts, the deep,
Speaker 1: best wide receiver draft of our lifetimes. So these guys
Speaker 1: mattered to mean the guys that were talking about. Normally,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about guys are gonna be taken second round,
Speaker 1: third round in a couple of cases, probably beyond that.
Speaker 1: And normally these guys are are really dicey to make
Speaker 1: an impact but not this year. Most of all the
Speaker 1: guys we talked about are gonna have a chance to
Speaker 1: make an immediate fantasy impact. Yeah. I think most of
Speaker 1: these wide receivers are probably, uh, if not wide receiver ones,
Speaker 1: at least wide receiver two or three's on their team.
Speaker 1: So a lot of these guys are gonna get slot
Speaker 1: play and the rest of them are just gonna be
Speaker 1: on the field for the snaps and in their rookie years.
Speaker 1: So I like a lot of these guys from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective. Yeah, fantastic. Let's begin with the notable omission
Speaker 1: from our list last year, and that was Denzel Mims
Speaker 1: from when I said last year last week with Brian,
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims from Baylor, who Brian just didn't like and
Speaker 1: didn't want to include him in his in his top
Speaker 1: seven guys. But I think he's crazy and I've gotten
Speaker 1: slated going in the first round, number twenty four to
Speaker 1: the Saints. Denzel Mims from Baylor. Breakdown Denzel MIM's game
Speaker 1: and and I'll talk maybe a little bit as well
Speaker 1: about why I like him so much as a potential Saint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have him as the fifth, maybe sixth
Speaker 1: wide receiver off the board. And it's a pretty legendary
Speaker 1: wide receiver class, as you said, but Mims is definitely
Speaker 1: one of the biggest wide receivers in this class. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for fantasy players, he's also one of the fastest
Speaker 1: wide receivers in this class. Uh. He posted a four
Speaker 1: three eight forty at the Combine that was third among
Speaker 1: wide receivers. And he ranked second in college football with
Speaker 1: twenty contested catches last season. And if you watch some
Speaker 1: of his tape, it's it's seriously impressive. And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna call him Randy Moss, but the way he maneuvered
Speaker 1: back to the ball in the air was kind of
Speaker 1: Moss like. Uh, it feels like he's a late first
Speaker 1: round or you said you got him on the late
Speaker 1: first round. Uh. Bet online dot ag has him at
Speaker 1: negative one eighty minus one eighty to be picked in
Speaker 1: the first round according to the betting odds, So he's
Speaker 1: a pretty big favorite to go in the first round. UM.
Speaker 1: I like I said, I think he's the fifth receiver
Speaker 1: off the board after lamb Rugs, Judy and Jefferson and
Speaker 1: the comps that I saw um from some of the
Speaker 1: draft experts out there are DJ Chark, who is really
Speaker 1: great last year, Kenny Golladay who's a stud, and Alshon Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: who up until the last season or two was one
Speaker 1: of the better Fantasy wide receivers. So I think the
Speaker 1: sky's the limit for Denzel Mims. Yeah, what those guys
Speaker 1: have in common is they're all bigger bodied guys, and
Speaker 1: with the exception of Jeffrey, they can get downfield and
Speaker 1: they can get some separation downfield. And that's what's really
Speaker 1: special about Mims is you rarely get a big bodied
Speaker 1: receiver who has the speed to get downfield and can
Speaker 1: separate downfield. And I think that's part of what makes
Speaker 1: him him really special. Those acrobatic catches you mentioned, the
Speaker 1: contested catches that you mentioned, that's um that part all
Speaker 1: boats really well for Denzel Mims. The the reoccurring negative
Speaker 1: that you hear about Denzel Mims is that Baylor just
Speaker 1: didn't ask him to do very much except go run
Speaker 1: fast and go run straight and we'll just heave up
Speaker 1: the ball. So there are a lot of people feel
Speaker 1: like he's got to learn a lot of the route
Speaker 1: tree and it's there. He may have a first year
Speaker 1: or two that's really kind of used as a as
Speaker 1: a downfield specialist until he becomes more of a student
Speaker 1: to the rest of the field and can learn much
Speaker 1: more of the route tree. Well, and if he's a
Speaker 1: late first round wide receiver, that means he's instantly glomming
Speaker 1: onto an offense that's probably pretty good, most likely a
Speaker 1: playoff team right away. So you put a talent like
Speaker 1: that on a roster that's uh already been in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I really like the odds there so in the Saints,
Speaker 1: and you know it's certainly no lock he'll go to
Speaker 1: the Saints, but the fit is so good because Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas is a player who's um really got a complete
Speaker 1: aime and can fill up most of the field. But
Speaker 1: what he doesn't have is that over the top speed.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not the guy who's gonna take the
Speaker 1: top off of the off of the off of the
Speaker 1: field and forced defense is back and back pedaling because
Speaker 1: of his speed. Well, that's where Mims comes in, and
Speaker 1: it's would be perfect but as a compliment to Thomas
Speaker 1: and why I think that would be so lethal if
Speaker 1: those two get together, and where I could see Mims
Speaker 1: really vaulting, it's to me. It's almost an ideal landing
Speaker 1: spot if he could pick a place where Mims reasonably
Speaker 1: could go to a team that could perhaps utilize him
Speaker 1: the best. I think the Saints are one of those teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of teams that could he
Speaker 1: could really be a difference maker for. Think about San
Speaker 1: Francisco with their second pick. Think about Kansas City. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's just Philadelphia is a place that they need a
Speaker 1: wide receiver as well. They pick twenty one, I believe.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of really good spots that Denzel
Speaker 1: Mims could land. All right, Let's let's continue on with
Speaker 1: a couple of other players. One of the other players
Speaker 1: that is being mentioned as a possible first rounder, and
Speaker 1: you see him periodically popping up near the bottom of
Speaker 1: the first round for some different different mocks, is the
Speaker 1: Colorado high upside, high risk, high reward guy, Lavishka Chanult.
Speaker 1: And this is the kid from Colorado who was super productive,
Speaker 1: elite playmaker ability, but also's got a variety of concerns
Speaker 1: with him as well. What do you think of Laviska Chanult? Well,
Speaker 1: I like to give the NFL comps because that's always fun.
Speaker 1: And let's start Channault with his comps, which are Big
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel or Big Percy Harvin. He lines up at
Speaker 1: wide receiver, running back, wildcat quarterback at at Colorado. That
Speaker 1: makes him the dreaded gadget player, and the gadget players
Speaker 1: don't always work out from a fantasy perspective, But because
Speaker 1: he he lined up in so many different spots, he
Speaker 1: broke more tackles than any draft eligible wide receiver. According
Speaker 1: to Post with yeah Um, his forty time was an
Speaker 1: uninspiring four point five eight. He takes a lot of
Speaker 1: punishment in his game because he kind of seeks out
Speaker 1: guys to uh to try to destroy too. It also
Speaker 1: led to a handful of injuries at Colorado, including a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury and a toe injury. And get this, he
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with a pubic bone inflammation in February. I
Speaker 1: wonder how he got that. That doesn't sound good. Um.
Speaker 1: His odds are being picked in the first round not
Speaker 1: that great if you think he will be though you're
Speaker 1: getting plus two fifteen odds for him to go in
Speaker 1: the first round. I don't think he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: first round pick. I think he's likely a mid to
Speaker 1: late second rounder. I could see him dropping into the third.
Speaker 1: We need him to go to an offense with a
Speaker 1: really clever offensive coordinator for him to be fantasy viable.
Speaker 1: And if he goes to a spot where they're just
Speaker 1: not using the analytics and they're just not using their
Speaker 1: their brains to run smart ways, I think chant is
Speaker 1: going to be languished as kind of a special teams guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's explosive in away A few players are. He's awesome
Speaker 1: after the catch, and that's part of what you talked
Speaker 1: about being used as a running back, not just a
Speaker 1: little bit. He scored seven rushing touchdowns last year. She did,
Speaker 1: and so he is. He is as lethal as anybody
Speaker 1: outside is Ceedee Lamb in this draft class after the
Speaker 1: catch and and I think you raise a good point
Speaker 1: that creative, open minded offensive coordinators will find ways to
Speaker 1: utilize him that can be very fantasy friendly. And you're
Speaker 1: right there, he falls into the wrong spot. I think
Speaker 1: he could be. You know, many of those dude seasons
Speaker 1: that Percy Harvin had for fantasy owners could end up
Speaker 1: you know, emerging here as well. Well, you know that'll
Speaker 1: be It'll be fascinating to see where he goes but
Speaker 1: in the right place, He's a guy that could make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense um and could ultimately be just
Speaker 1: because of his freakish athletic ability lavishka Chanal could end
Speaker 1: up being a good player. Let's go to our number three,
Speaker 1: our third wide receiver that I want to talk about again,
Speaker 1: the guy that's being frequently mocked into the second round,
Speaker 1: and that is kJ Hammler from Penn State. The comp
Speaker 1: I'm seeing on him a lot is Tavon Austin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have. Tavon Austin is one of his comps. Also
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown and uh, if we want to throw it
Speaker 1: way back, how about Peter Warwick from way back in
Speaker 1: the day. Um Hammler did not run at the combine,
Speaker 1: but by all accounts he's one of the fastest wide
Speaker 1: receivers in this draft. But at only five nine, he's
Speaker 1: also one of the smallest, only a hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: eight pounds. But he's definitely one of those legitter bug
Speaker 1: guys that you just can't catch and he should really
Speaker 1: factor in heavily as a kick and punt returner in
Speaker 1: the league, and that actually might be his best role
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Um there's some worry about him dropping
Speaker 1: the ball. That was a bit of an issue at
Speaker 1: Penn State. It was hands. It was a massive, massive issue.
Speaker 1: I believe the stat I saw was um, and I
Speaker 1: apologize if for got this wrong. Is seventy catchable passes
Speaker 1: last year. Twelve drops on seventy passes. That is a
Speaker 1: horrifying percentage. And if there's one trait that scares me
Speaker 1: about a receiver and the long term developmental prospects, it's drops.
Speaker 1: Because you've seen so many times where guys who have
Speaker 1: bad hands just can't get it all together. And not always,
Speaker 1: but more often than not. You know, it's handful of
Speaker 1: drops doesn't bother me at all, but when you're seeing
Speaker 1: that level of drops, I I really worry about that part.
Speaker 1: For kJ Hamler, now, get the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: all bets off. Because he's super fast, he's super elusive
Speaker 1: to catch even in tight spaces. I mean, that's his game.
Speaker 1: His game is get the ball in his hands somehow.
Speaker 1: And if he can get you know, eight nine touches
Speaker 1: a game, he he might break one. He's that good. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, this isn't a comp that I saw, but
Speaker 1: a little bit reminds me of maybe Tarik Cohen of
Speaker 1: the Bears. Uh, smaller guy who get get the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands a few times and see what happens.
Speaker 1: But again, I think it's landing spot dependent how viable
Speaker 1: he is in a in a fantasy sense, because if
Speaker 1: we don't have an offensive coordinator who knows how to
Speaker 1: use a five nine one eight jitterbug player, I think
Speaker 1: he might be lost on the bench. See, I think
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. These guys never are fantasy factors, reliable
Speaker 1: fantasy factors. Name me another guy like a Tavon Austin
Speaker 1: who was a reliable fantasy producer. I can't right off
Speaker 1: hand if if you would have prepped me for this
Speaker 1: and I would have known that question is coming, I
Speaker 1: would have dug deep into the archives. But it's probably
Speaker 1: not that, Matt. I just don't think these guys are
Speaker 1: fantasy producers that you can count on. Is is is
Speaker 1: kJ Ham are going to break some slots, some slants,
Speaker 1: some some slant catches into long gains. Absolutely, he's gonna
Speaker 1: score some touchdowns. You're not gonna know where they're coming.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really really hard to know. And um
Speaker 1: and so I think, uh, I think kJ Hamler from
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, does not interest me at least not
Speaker 1: very much. Let's let's work at a quick break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I want to talk about the opposite
Speaker 1: a one of the better big bodied receivers that you're
Speaker 1: going to find in the in this draft class. When
Speaker 1: we come back, Welcome back more Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm
Speaker 1: Paul Charge and my co host is Matt Harrison. We're
Speaker 1: breaking down the day two wide receivers and there could
Speaker 1: be a bunch of them. We've already talked about Denzel
Speaker 1: Mims and Lavishka Chanal and kJ Hammler, who I'm pretty
Speaker 1: down on. Let's talk about a big bodied receiver from
Speaker 1: Notre Dame named Chase Claypool. He's uh, he's one of
Speaker 1: the bigger guys in this draft class. He breaks tackles
Speaker 1: with with strength. He's got, you know, areo typical ability
Speaker 1: of these bigger, stronger receivers that are taking higher draft
Speaker 1: They win these contested catches, Matt. He's got the ball, skills,
Speaker 1: the hands. There's a lot to like here from Chase Claypool.
Speaker 1: And we do see most of the fan the ongoing
Speaker 1: long term fantasy contributors. You're after you're our bigger bodied
Speaker 1: guys like Julio Jones and A. J. Green and and
Speaker 1: so many others. What do you what do you think
Speaker 1: of Chase Claypool? Well, first off, I think that he's
Speaker 1: seven inches taller and fifty pounds heavier than kJ Hamler. Um,
Speaker 1: we're not sure that Chase Claypool will be a wide
Speaker 1: receiver at the pro level. A lot of people are
Speaker 1: talking about him as a tight end. Um and if
Speaker 1: if he does convert to tight end, that's fine because
Speaker 1: one of the comps I found on him was Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: and uh, Darren Waller did uh a pretty good job
Speaker 1: last year. Uh. He did gain nine pounds between the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and the Combine, which probably means somebody he's
Speaker 1: in his ear saying, yeah, dude, you're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: a tight end at the pro level. But much like
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, Claypool was an incredible overall athlete, averaged forty
Speaker 1: five points per game in high school playing basketball. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's one of two wide receivers at the Combine
Speaker 1: to weigh more than two thirty pounds and run a
Speaker 1: sub four four five forty at the Combine. Do you
Speaker 1: know who the other wide receiver to do that was, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's got a robotic nickname, Megatron. Calvin Johnson was the
Speaker 1: only other one to do this. Um, his weaknesses are
Speaker 1: becoming a great receiver. Um, he's really big, he's not
Speaker 1: super awesome at the point of a contested catch, and
Speaker 1: his route running also leaves a little bit to be desired,
Speaker 1: which is why he's probably nudged toward the tight end
Speaker 1: position as well. He's likely a second rounder in my book, UM,
Speaker 1: comps of Waller. And then if you're going to give
Speaker 1: him a comp as a wide receiver, probably DK Metcalf
Speaker 1: who's huge and fast, and maybe Vincent Jackson a little
Speaker 1: bit too, but he's a little bit of a slower side.
Speaker 1: That's you know. I like that. That's a I think
Speaker 1: that is a really good comp to Vincent Jackson. That
Speaker 1: makes a ton of sense. I like that. Now here's
Speaker 1: for a major red flag for fantasy owners to chase
Speaker 1: Claypool if if he goes to a team who's going
Speaker 1: to convert him to tight end. That is a multi
Speaker 1: year conversion that is does not happen quickly and will
Speaker 1: take it will take time, and it and it means
Speaker 1: a very I think it means potentially very little playing
Speaker 1: time in his rookie year. I would be I would
Speaker 1: not chase Claypool down significantly for Dynasty Empire use if
Speaker 1: that happens, any use and re draft for that matter,
Speaker 1: just because I think you're gonna get just just the
Speaker 1: timeline for him to hit the field. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just dramatically reduced. When you need to go learn how
Speaker 1: to block in line tight it's such a different position.
Speaker 1: I would be worried. Yeah, he he probably falls out
Speaker 1: of you know, the the rookie draft first round if
Speaker 1: he becomes a tight end. But uh, I mean, really,
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for a guy of that size
Speaker 1: and and and the ability in the open field. So
Speaker 1: I still like him quite a bit. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: go to Brandon Ayak from Arizona State. This is a
Speaker 1: player I like a lot, and I think could be
Speaker 1: a sneaky entrant to the bottom of the first round,
Speaker 1: potentially to San Francisco, which is where I currently have
Speaker 1: him mocked. Brandon Ayak, what is I want to see?
Speaker 1: If you are as it? If you like him as
Speaker 1: much as I do. I do like him quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and I think You're right right on the money there
Speaker 1: that I think he might be a tail end of
Speaker 1: the first round guy. Everything I've read about a Yook
Speaker 1: is that he's the hardest worker in this wide receiver class. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys who wasn't really recruited, went
Speaker 1: to JUCO for two years, started every game in his
Speaker 1: two years at Arizona State after after moving up to
Speaker 1: D one. UH really didn't break out until his senior season,
Speaker 1: but Nikil Harry was right in front of him. In
Speaker 1: his junior year. UM had some pretty decent success in
Speaker 1: the return game. Had both a punt and kick return
Speaker 1: touchdown last season, and that's something that NFL teams do
Speaker 1: look for in wide receivers and UM. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I forget who said this, but I was
Speaker 1: listening to another podcast and UM, guys who hit the
Speaker 1: pro level, if they have a special teams touchdown on
Speaker 1: their resume from college, they're much likelier to break out
Speaker 1: and be something of the success in the NFL. UM
Speaker 1: great deep speed, very big hands, and very long arms
Speaker 1: for his six ft zero frame, but wasn't a world
Speaker 1: beater and contestant catch situations. UH, and he's a bit
Speaker 1: of a late breakout in college, and late breakouts are
Speaker 1: always a slight concern that it might just be a
Speaker 1: flash in the pan year. Um they gave him comps
Speaker 1: of d J. Moore as a wide receiver, which is great,
Speaker 1: time Montgomery in the return game, which is also great.
Speaker 1: So I think Brandon Auk has a a very good
Speaker 1: chance of being a noisemaker in this draft either too.
Speaker 1: I'll be fascinating to see his landing spot, and I
Speaker 1: think he can help. I think he can help almost
Speaker 1: every team. I don't think he's He's not somebody that
Speaker 1: you need to find just the right spot for. There's
Speaker 1: so this deep. This distract is super deep, and slot
Speaker 1: receivers in particular, that's not him either. So I I
Speaker 1: love the flexibility and I think his landing spot it
Speaker 1: could be it could be helpful almost for every single
Speaker 1: team he might go to. Let's go to k J.
Speaker 1: Hill of Ohio State, speaking of slot receivers, ran almost
Speaker 1: entirely from the slot and ran almost entirely underneath routes.
Speaker 1: And I think there's another guy that's gonna have to
Speaker 1: learn a broader route tree than what he showed at
Speaker 1: Ohio State. And kJ Hill to me is is a specialist.
Speaker 1: That is a guy I need to find this landing
Speaker 1: spot that's gonna use his unique slot receiver middle of
Speaker 1: the field talents best. Yeah. So I was reviewing all
Speaker 1: the kJ Hill tape that I could find, and I
Speaker 1: just didn't see anything that looked particularly elite he was.
Speaker 1: He was at Ohio State, and Ohio State dominated this season,
Speaker 1: and he was wide open on nearly every single one
Speaker 1: of the highlights that I saw. I didn't see any
Speaker 1: moves or super elite speed or size. But he caught
Speaker 1: the ball a lot and he ran into the end
Speaker 1: zone a lot. Is that a product of elite separation
Speaker 1: or route running or is it because Ohio State was
Speaker 1: so good and they were up by twenty points and
Speaker 1: nobody can cover anybody with J K. Dobbins in the backfield.
Speaker 1: So um, his metrics at the combine four six forty
Speaker 1: at the combine, that's not good. NFL dot Com gave
Speaker 1: him a backup Special Teams grade as an overall grade
Speaker 1: for him. Um. Like I said, speed's not great, scouts
Speaker 1: are saying that a separation and route running his average.
Speaker 1: Once he gets the ball in space. He does have
Speaker 1: a knack for finding the end zone, and he comes
Speaker 1: from the Ohio State wide receiver program, so he's got
Speaker 1: that pedigree. He read shirted his first year because Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel, and Braxton Miller were ahead of him on
Speaker 1: the depth chart. But I think on the upside, he's
Speaker 1: Cold Beasley in the NFL. That's the combine for him.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he's anything more than a slot
Speaker 1: receiver that pops up for a good game now and then.
Speaker 1: But it really isn't a guy that you want on
Speaker 1: your fantasy roster. Yeah, I'm with you. Don K J.
Speaker 1: Hilt does not interest me, and I think, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think he needs to find just the right spot
Speaker 1: for him to be effective um and I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's gonna happen. I see a potential slide for
Speaker 1: him in the draft as well. Let's go to uh
Speaker 1: we got two receivers left that I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, get to Juwan Jennings from
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Brian Edwards is one of my favorite sneaky
Speaker 1: under the our guys. But I don't know what the
Speaker 1: radar is anymore because I'm seeing his name pop up
Speaker 1: a lot as everybody's favorite sleeper. So I'll talk about
Speaker 1: those two guys when we come back for the final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison,
Speaker 1: with you were breaking down the second tier of rookie
Speaker 1: wide receivers have already broken down Denzel Mims, Laviska, Chenalt
Speaker 1: kJ Hamler, Chase Claypool, Brandon Ayuk kJ Hill we both
Speaker 1: don't like much. And now let's turn our attention to
Speaker 1: our final two guys. Juwan Jennings from tennesse See another
Speaker 1: guy that didn't run only from the slot, but most
Speaker 1: of his production came from the slot um but still
Speaker 1: has a lot of parts to his game that could
Speaker 1: be pretty compelling here and I think that again, in
Speaker 1: the in the right spot, I think he could be successful.
Speaker 1: And I definitely like him as a as a as
Speaker 1: a slot receiver more than I like k J. Hill.
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts? I'll let you go first,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Joan Jennings from Tennessee UH
Speaker 1: six three to ten. Another big dude, but he's this
Speaker 1: year's baggage prospect. UH tons of off field issues stemming
Speaker 1: all the way back to high school. Mostly dealing with
Speaker 1: just his attitude around his team. He quit his high
Speaker 1: school team, he was kicked off Tennessee's roster in seen.
Speaker 1: They allowed him to come back, but he had to
Speaker 1: miss half of the Gator Bowl this year due to
Speaker 1: stomping on an opponent. So he's got that baggage with him.
Speaker 1: But with that comes a lot of talent, and the
Speaker 1: right coaching staff might be able to get the most
Speaker 1: out of him. He had only fifty seven receptions for
Speaker 1: the Valls last year, but somehow he broke twenty nine
Speaker 1: tackles seven receptions. That's insane. I mean, if your broken tackles.
Speaker 1: For a wide receiver to break tackles on half their catches,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, that's pretty good. Uh. He's very big,
Speaker 1: he's very strong, he's very slippery in the open field.
Speaker 1: He's really good at the point of catch. So he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of those physical tools that could make
Speaker 1: him a very successful NFL receiver. Um the two knocks,
Speaker 1: he's got the million dollar arm ten cent head thing
Speaker 1: going for him. Plus his combine time on his forty
Speaker 1: was slow four point seven two. That's actually um So
Speaker 1: I've seen him go as high as the first round
Speaker 1: in some mocks, but I don't believe there's a chance
Speaker 1: in that happening. But I've also seen him ranked like
Speaker 1: twenty eight among wide receiver prospects on some people's big boards.
Speaker 1: So there's a giant range of outcomes for where this
Speaker 1: guy might end up, and it all depends on which
Speaker 1: team is in love with him and where they're willing
Speaker 1: to pick him. But the best comp I found for him,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a good comp Uh and
Speaker 1: Kuan Bolden. Uh not a super fast guy, but big,
Speaker 1: and UH had all the other tools to make him
Speaker 1: a really successful player. John Jennings, Tennessee. Let's let's go
Speaker 1: to Brian Edwards. This guy's fascinating, and I think had
Speaker 1: he not just broken his foot in February and suffered
Speaker 1: a d injury a few months before that, we'd be
Speaker 1: talking about Brian Edwards as a as potentially an early
Speaker 1: second round wide receiver. And I still think there's a
Speaker 1: chance he goes there. He's the all time South Carolina
Speaker 1: leader in receiving yards, he was productive throughout his entire career,
Speaker 1: and he feels like a guy that foot aside, assuming
Speaker 1: the foot's ready by the openers the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that you could that could be a starter as a
Speaker 1: rookie on opening day. Yeah, and you talked about how
Speaker 1: he held the record in South Carolina. He was Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel's running mate for the Game Cox until last season. Uh,
Speaker 1: he holds the record over you know, guys like Sydney
Speaker 1: Rice who are who are down there and Uh. Um
Speaker 1: so Edwards played forty eight games for the Game Cox.
Speaker 1: He caught a reception in every one of his forty
Speaker 1: eight games there. That's amazing. Uh. And and he recorded
Speaker 1: at least six receptions in each of his final eight
Speaker 1: games in college. Um. Good size, not elite speed, more
Speaker 1: of a good route runner. He's pretty smart guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Finds himself an open space a ton. Uh was tough
Speaker 1: to bring down with his big size, even in a
Speaker 1: tough SEC conference. Uh. The worry is, like you said,
Speaker 1: the foot injury and the knee injury at the tail
Speaker 1: end of his senior season. Uh. He did have injury
Speaker 1: to the same knee at his senior year in high school. Uh.
Speaker 1: That probably caused him to drop too. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably a third round pick. He could drop as far
Speaker 1: as the fourth. But he's a guy that could absolutely
Speaker 1: be a steal and he will. He will work his
Speaker 1: way as a successful outside wide receiver in the pros um.
Speaker 1: I think he's a second option. He's like a wide
Speaker 1: receiver too on his own team, but he should deliver
Speaker 1: good consistency as an NFL starter. And the comps, I
Speaker 1: saw James Jones, who had a couple of pretty good
Speaker 1: years as a fantasy player top thirty wide receiver seasons
Speaker 1: and uh, Martavis Bryant without the baggage. Uh, both kind
Speaker 1: of similar players. So, uh, Brian Edwards is kind of
Speaker 1: an interesting dude. And I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: team out there that's gonna get him late. They're gonna
Speaker 1: sluff the wide receiver position even though they need one,
Speaker 1: and they'll probably pick him up near the tail end
Speaker 1: of the third round. And uh, I feel like they
Speaker 1: got a really good value. You and I see this
Speaker 1: guy pretty differently. I think there's gonna be a team
Speaker 1: that takes him in the second round because of his
Speaker 1: un Brian Edwards has unbelievable balance and leaping ability. His
Speaker 1: contested catch rate is amazing. He's gets a good Yeah,
Speaker 1: guy's big enough to break tackles. He's a big bodied
Speaker 1: guy who still has balance and leaping ability. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a handful of teams. As as as
Speaker 1: medical science has changed so much Matt over the last
Speaker 1: you know, ten twenty years, I just think the the
Speaker 1: impact of injuries just isn't what he used to be,
Speaker 1: and that nobody is it's almost nobody is truly injury
Speaker 1: prone anymore. I just think there's some guys that have
Speaker 1: worse luck than others, and there are sure there are
Speaker 1: some guys that that do the injuries really do cut
Speaker 1: short there career, but mostly medical science has just changed
Speaker 1: so much that I don't know that it really makes
Speaker 1: that big of a difference anymore. And I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be there's gonna be a team in the second round.
Speaker 1: I believe that's going to look past this injury and
Speaker 1: just say we've got a guy who's got some really
Speaker 1: really special traits in Brian Edwards. Again, the contestant catches,
Speaker 1: the balance, the leaping ability, the one handed catches, He's
Speaker 1: he's really a special player in some tangible ways. And
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be teams out there that
Speaker 1: are going to decide that they they're going to overlook
Speaker 1: that injury and all. It takes one in the second round,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna happen, you know, Charge, I
Speaker 1: think you're right about a lot of things about the
Speaker 1: about the medical side of it. But we're in a
Speaker 1: weird year where a lot of these teams did not
Speaker 1: get to bring these guys into their own facilities and
Speaker 1: have their own medical personnel check them out. So a
Speaker 1: lot of what they're relying on is what happened at
Speaker 1: the Combine and and what happened at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys didn't have pro days with
Speaker 1: staff on hand. So I think that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit of trepidation and people are going to
Speaker 1: back off of some of these guys uh with the
Speaker 1: injury designation just because they haven't had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: see them in person. And so that's why I'm worried
Speaker 1: about guys like Brian Edwards, and I'm worried about tah Uh.
Speaker 1: I think that he could fall outside of the top
Speaker 1: ten in in in the first round of the draft,
Speaker 1: and and I think that uh, his hip is a
Speaker 1: pretty big concern. So I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys with the injury bugs in the back that uh
Speaker 1: might fall. Okay, I think that's a very fair point
Speaker 1: that injury guys to some teams are gonna be more
Speaker 1: skittish and injury guys because they couldn't look at them themselves.
Speaker 1: I think in other cases they're gonna go, well, we've
Speaker 1: we've seen this particular injury a dozen times or a
Speaker 1: thousand times, and we know, you know, we know how
Speaker 1: this injury works, and there just aren't that many variables. Um.
Speaker 1: As for TOA dropping out of the top ten, I
Speaker 1: knew I'd get you going on that. If nothing else,
Speaker 1: there would be teams drafting like you know, Las Vegas
Speaker 1: at twelve, um, Tampa Bay at fourteen. There will be
Speaker 1: other teams that would drop, that would go up from
Speaker 1: a up in the draft to go get him into
Speaker 1: the top ten, even if for some reason, you know,
Speaker 1: the team's in the top ten weren't comfortable with to
Speaker 1: although you know, I just think I think you're crazy
Speaker 1: if you think that's the case. How you know, how
Speaker 1: does TWA get by Miami at five and the Chargers
Speaker 1: at six? That can't happen? Um? I think I think
Speaker 1: I think Miami passes because they think that uh, they
Speaker 1: can either get a quarterback later or they're or they're
Speaker 1: happy waiting on the position one more year and building
Speaker 1: the team first. And I think the Chargers are in
Speaker 1: love with Herbert. I just think that that's how it's
Speaker 1: gonna go. Everything I've heard about the Chargers is there
Speaker 1: in love with Herbert and that's the guy that's no.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Chargers are projecting that potentially because
Speaker 1: they want to They want to not give the impression
Speaker 1: that they're desperate for two US so that if they
Speaker 1: need to move up to number two or they need
Speaker 1: to move up to number three, that they don't have
Speaker 1: to overpay to get there. So I think that's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still going at too. I think two can go
Speaker 1: as early as two for sure. If I'm Washington, I
Speaker 1: would take it to it too, because I'm not a
Speaker 1: believer in Dwayne Haskins based on what we've seen so far.
Speaker 1: So and I think all all that can do is
Speaker 1: extend the suffering of rate of Redskins fans who have
Speaker 1: been waiting for a quarterback for you know, years and
Speaker 1: years and are still gonna be waiting because they still
Speaker 1: don't have their guy in Dwayne Haskins. Alright, churche uh.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna make a one dollar bet, um, I
Speaker 1: will take Justin Herbert going before to a Oh done
Speaker 1: giving away a dollar here, that's right, give it away
Speaker 1: a dollar, and I don't want you paying me in
Speaker 1: pennies or nickels. I want a sack of jewiah. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I can probably find that the tooth fairy
Speaker 1: in my house brings sack of jewias. I want. This
Speaker 1: is a sackato. We a bet between you and I
Speaker 1: about who goes first to or Justin Herbert. Done deal?
Speaker 1: All right, great job today, Thank you, Matt. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week for draft reaction, and at
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Speaker 1: in the books. We'll talk about all the Round one
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