WEBVTT - Thor's Rookie Overviews 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:05.040 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.440 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.480 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.240 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.680 Now here's your host, Paul Charchian. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:28.520 Welcome to our first in a series of draft rookie 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.960 related Fantasy Football Weekly episodes. I'm Paul Charchian. Very pleased 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.320 to be joined by Thorne Eystrom. It's great to have 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:37.760 you back. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.239 It's good to be here. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.400 The combines going on even as we speak, we have 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.159 the whole thing going on. So it's a great time 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:45.720 of the year, one of the best times of the year. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:46.480 Love draft season. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:47.240 Yeah, that's the best. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.000 And you know, we obviously you've been on the show 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.599 for a long time, but we didn't have you at 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.680 this time last year, so we didn't have you breaking 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.520 down players for us, but now we do. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.840 Well. I was happy I could get my pook in 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:58.280 Na Koua. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:00:59.880 Yeah you got it out there. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.080 Yeah, yeah, we end. But yeah, I'm excited to talk 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.520 through it the entire process. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.720 Like you know, especially guys that draft early on, you know, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.160 some of the underdogs and the best of all. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.760 People, you can get ridiculous values. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.399 Yeah, if you draft those those things before the NFL 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.400 draft actually happens and we find the values here. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:19.759 Yeah, no doubt about it. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.640 The guys we're going to talk about now are gonna 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.560 be some of the bigger names in this show. The 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.520 premise of what we're gonna do with you thora is 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:31.240 this today's show, We're just gonna do first blush observations 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.959 about your favorite five guys at quarterback, running back, wide receiver, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.319 tight end. So and this is in part for me 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.560 because like a lot of our listeners, you know, we're 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.320 all focused on the NFL for most of the season 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.880 and super Bowl gets over catch your breath for two 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.080 weeks and now here we are today, and so I need, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.760 I still need like basic overview for a lot of 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.520 these guys. Then in the coming weeks, we're gonna drill 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.480 down with you on each position and do deep dives 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.760 on players and go deeper into every position. Love it, Aye, way, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.000 I'm super excited. Okay, So we're gonna hit twenty guys today. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.200 Twenty Let's begin at the quarterback position, and the player 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.639 presumed to go first overall, but not necessarily. Let's start 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:18.560 with Caleb Williams. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.440 Yeah, Caleb Williams, the upside the ceiling that people talk about, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.280 that's absolutely real. The high end flashes that he's shown 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.359 are about as good as you'll see for a prospect 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.720 coming out. I do think there's a little bit higher 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:35.160 of a risk in that profile that maybe has been discussed. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.800 I'll just start with the gud. I mean, elite athlete 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.480 at that size, elite arm and elite improvisational ability. He'll 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.960 run around, buy his time in the pocket, and then 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.760 he'll see a dude way downfield who's broken off his route. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.400 He can hit him on the hands, he can get 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.120 the ball out immediately from any angle, throw across his body, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.360 get it on the outside of the other hash, different 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.160 stuff like that. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.200 That's all the good stuff. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.480 Five Star guy had plenty of pedigree hand pick by 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.359 Lincoln Riley. Lincoln Riley kicked out of the other five 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.560 star that he had in their Spencer rally. Yeah, so 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:08.720 he could start Caleb. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.600 Williams' career there. And then obviously Caleb went with him 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:11.240 to us. See. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.720 The two things I'm concerned about ones off the field. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.880 One is on the field. The offfield one. It's not 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.720 that he's a bad kid or anything. It's just there's 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.680 weird vibes around there. His dad has asked for like 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.240 weird stuff, like looking into the NFLPA agreement, see if 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.480 they can get out of a rookie deal. Can we 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.560 get some steak in a team. It's weird. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.960 I'm not saying that it's it's bad or it's going 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.399 to pour tend disaster here. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.640 It's just a weird vibe. Like Caleb Williams doesn't have 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.760 an agent. They're like, we don't need one because it's 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.200 fixed salary, different stuff. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.200 Like that, which is not inaccurate when you're gonna go 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.200 in the first I don't. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.000 Fix to the draft. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.480 And he has a different company that does his marketing, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.960 so the advertising stuff like he's already fine with. And 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.240 then the one thing on the field that is just 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.200 a little bit concerning. And I don't think this is 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.040 a nippick. I think it's an actual concern. He takes 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.400 a lot of time to throw the ball. Now this 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.800 is by choice, you know, but it's also endemic to 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.080 his game, like he wants to be back in the 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.200 pocket by time a lot of it and then give 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.520 his receiver time to break off the routes. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.560 But he's in terms of the. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.880 Time to pass the last two seasons was near the 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.640 top of the class, well over three seconds. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.360 He needs to get the ball a quicker in the NFL. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.200 Let's talk about Jade and Daniels. There's some steams starting 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.120 to emerge that Daniels could pass by Caleb Williams potentially 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.000 go to the first in the first and I think 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.400 from a fantasy standpoint, Jayden Daniels is gonna be the 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.120 first player taken because of the running. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.680 Yeah, I mean Jade Daniels. The floor certainly is higher 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.839 than Caleb Williams is because I don't see how he busts. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.279 He does two things that at an elite level that 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.480 will translate to the NFL. The deep ball number one 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.080 has one of the best deep balls that we've seen 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.120 in the last ten years come in the NFL. In 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.000 conjunction with his ability to steal yards. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:51.279 As a runner. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.799 Yeah, those two, it makes them so hard to defend, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.480 like you're gonna keep you know, a linebacker spy up. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.800 If you do that, you can't have the second safety deep. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.239 It becomes a spacing problem for the defense. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:02.599 Whatever. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.000 So those are the things you like about him. The 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.240 ceiling maybe not quite as high as Caleb, but he 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:08.159 does have a higher flare. 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.520 Well, fantasy ceiling could be higher. If he's for sure, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.160 he is definitely gonna run more. Yeah, I mean last 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.159 year ran for over a thousand years. I don't know 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.440 if he passes Caleb. I ambullish on the idea that 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.520 he passed Drake May, though, in what people see as 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.920 the board to go in that number two slot. If 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.279 he doesn't go number one, I think he's a better 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.719 fit for what Cliff Kingsbury looks for in a quarterback, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 going back fifteen to twenty years of his career. I 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.320 looked at the last nine quarterbacks that Cliff has worked with. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.240 Six of the nine were guys that won outside of 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.880 structure as much as they want inside of structure. That 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.240 it's not a Drake May trait. Jade Daniels fits out 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.839 a lot more. Drake May is the next quarterback. I 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.200 do want to talk about much more of your traditional 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.960 pocket passer, a little bit of mobility, but that's not 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.200 his game, right, I don't want to. You know, the 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.800 comparable feels like young Kirk Cousins almost, you know, who 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.800 actually had you know, a little mobility in the first 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.919 first part of his half of his career. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:02.240 Yeah, for sure. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.800 I think there's there's parts of his game that have 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.039 been correctly forwarded and and and things to get excited about. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.839 That's the the stuff at you know, big strapping pocket 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.800 passer with an enormous arm, like he is a sniper 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.760 downfield and he has all the arm he needs for 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.000 every single throw, you know, like I said, including consistently 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.840 threading threatening vertical. The one thing that I think has 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.440 been overblown about him, it's it's the thing about like 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.480 the athleticism and running like he gets camped to like 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.760 Josh Allen for instance, or even Justin Herbert. I don't 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.520 think he is yet. He's not even close to the 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.960 athlete certainly of Josh A. Not as good of a 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.040 runner as either of them. I don't think his arm 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.120 is quite as good as Justin Herbert's either, So I 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.400 think these are sort of like apocryp full comps for him. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.280 I hope people don't get upset with this. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.480 But my comp for him is Carson Pence, which is 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.000 a combination of Carson Palmer and Carson Wentz. I you know, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.240 it's it's not that he Carson Wentz, but I think 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.919 the pocket game is way better. That's why you know, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.240 you put Palmer in there. But I think he's more 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.159 of a stand in the pocket type guy in the 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.440 NFL now gonna win with the running, that part of 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.240 his game is not going to translate. Sam Howell came, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.240 you know, came out of the unc offense. He ran 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.640 a ton, but that didn't translate. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.760 And then the although I still contend it could translate, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:11.800 they just didn't let him. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.280 Could it gone last year? Yeah, But like Drake May, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.400 I definitely don't think it is. And and the one 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.160 other part of the game that I think is overblown 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.920 is outside of the pocket off script stuff, he's not 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.000 as good with that kind of stuff. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.200 That then I think he gets credit for. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.160 Let's go to a player that you've been banging the 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:31.679 drum on relentlessly, Michigan quarterback JJ McCarthy. You know, there's 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.720 there's steam that has him going as as high as 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.040 you know, the lottery of this year's draft into the 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.000 top ten. Then there's you know, there are other play players, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.640 are other people that have him going in the middle 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.640 of the second round. So you know, we've seen a 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.280 huge divergence of thoughts on JJ McCarthy. Tell us a 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.200 little bit about his game. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.240 Yeah, definitely a big fan of JJ McCarthy. I think 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.800 he's a really good athlete. He did not test athletically 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.280 at the Combine. I think he's going to do that 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.920 at his pro day when he does. I think he 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.040 runs in the four or five and that's a really 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.000 important aspect of his game. He steals yards, but the 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.160 more rare trait of his game is getting outside the 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.080 pocket throwing on the run. Absolutely does not need his platform, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.920 and he makes really good decisions when he's on the move. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.920 It's just a super rare trade where you know, there's 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.640 not many guys that came out the last decade that 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.960 you can point to to do that stuff with the 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.800 consistency that he does. People talk about his volume stats, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.600 but when you look at the per pass stuff and 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.600 when we look at the high leverage stuff, that's where 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.600 he flips from being on the bottom end of some 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.600 of those guys that we've tossed out to being one 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.440 of the best. He was seventy fourth percentile in seven 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.760 of the categories that PFF looks at to define quarterback 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:43.679 play standard drop back percentile adder beyond the six percentile, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.000 avoids negative places percent under pressure percentile outside the pocket 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.120 percent ole, third and four down percentile, and positively graded 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.320 throw percentile seventy second percent I'm sorry, seventy second percentile 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.640 or above. No other quarterback in that top five or 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.160 even in the class was above fifty two percent in 0:08:59.200 --> 0:08:59.880 every one of those. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.559 All right, let's go to Michael Pennix, who I think 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.400 you know, everybody assumed would have been just a lock 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.560 first rounder. The disastrous National championship game took a ton 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.360 of the luster off, and now we're looking at somebody 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.160 who may end up falling to the middle of the 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.160 second round potentially definitely. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.120 Yeah, And a lot of that stuff with him is 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.280 going to be informed by how the medical news that 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.880 we get about him coming out of Indianapolis. A guy 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.880 who was first four years when he played in Indiana 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.960 had a season ending injury and every single one of 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.400 them too or to his lower body, to his knee, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.320 and we'll see what they say about that. He was 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.480 able to stay healthy last two years of Washington, So 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.800 that was a good part of that. The on field stuff, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.040 I love him when he's in the pocket and he 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.760 doesn't have to move off his spot. You know, he's 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.880 like a sniper who needs that gun on the you 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.880 know whatever and not moving whatever. When he starts moving, though, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.760 the accuracy falls off a shelf. So when you can 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.040 pressure him quickly different stuff like that, he starts making 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.600 poor decisions. And like I said, the accuracy does not 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.480 carry with him when he's on the move. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.920 All right, let's go to the running back position. Thor 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.360 as we're zipping through your maybe I don't know if 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.000 this is necessarily your top five because I don't think 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.520 you've really ranked everybody yet. As we're recording right now, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.840 the combines in process, so sort of yeah, rafter, I like, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.960 do we put that right? Everybody's got the right to 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.000 change their mind in early May, when we're almost two 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.520 months away from the draft. Right, let's go to the 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.880 running back position. Let's start with one of the fastest 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.880 guys in this draft at any position, Tennessee running back 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:28.560 Jalen Right. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.599 Yeah, Jalen Right, freak of an athlete, was on the 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.800 Bruce Feldman free clist. The reports that we've gotten about, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.240 so we know that he's he's a confirmed twenty three 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.240 point six miles per hour on which is insane. It's 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.480 crazy speed. You're you're talking literally world class speed. And 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.000 this is Bruce Feldman that reported this forty four inch 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.640 vertical confirmed in the past ten eight broad jump. Bruce 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.319 Feldman also reported that in high school Jalen Wright ran 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.560 a handtime four to eight forty. Now that's Olympic speed. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.959 It's stupid and the kids not small either. This is 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.360 not an air scatback. He has sides with him too. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.920 We'll see at the combine what he ends up playing 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.360 in at but probably to twelve ish, I would expect 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.840 somewhere around there. He showed a lot of different stuff 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.160 at Tennessee. He was in this three man rotation, but 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.080 this past season he moved to the top of it. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.080 He started getting the work. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.920 He's showing some receiving shop, but specifically his elite trait 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.840 is hitting that accelerator when he has that line to 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.000 the goal line. Yeah, and he starts a racing that angle. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.840 Nobody's quick. Now he's getting there. All right. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.840 Let's go to Florida State's Trey Benson and I've I 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.160 was watching him today and man, do I I like 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.680 this kid? I think his game's going to translate really, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.480 really well to the NFL. He also has speed, nothing 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.080 like Jayalen, right, not on that level, but the vision, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.120 the change of direction, the tackle, breaking the home run, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.280 the home run plays. Trey Benson from Florida State looks 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.880 to me. He looks NFL caliber to me for sure. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.040 Yeah, getting off the bus, he probably is the top 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.000 one in this class, you know, I mean in terms 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.640 of the side speed combination, he definitely is the top. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.280 Last measurement I had on him was six one two 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:03.559 twenty one. We'll get an updated one. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.559 Sick in Indianapolis running back. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.719 Yes, And by the way, in the prop markets right now, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.000 the books have set his forty at four to three 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.600 nine man at that side so well, and he's got 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.680 a sprinting in his background and everything like that, and 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.800 plenty of explosive plays on tape. So we'll see if 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.000 he ends up being able to break that number. If 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.760 he does, obviously the stock he's going to surge. Interesting 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.320 evaluation didn't play much his first two years at Oregon, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.160 in part because he had this devastating knee. He tore 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.880 his acl MC elateral meniscus, medial meniscus and gracial tending, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.800 which I know what that was, which I guess it's 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.360 a hamstring thing. As a true freshman when he was 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.920 on like the you know, the practice team whatever. Yeah, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.280 didn't play much as a sophomore, but in uh he 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.640 transferred to Florida State. Twenty twenty two was his enormous 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.040 breakout season. Uh, I mean across the board was awesome, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.840 but we're truly historical. That season, he became the first 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.320 guy in PFF charting history to break more tackle attempts 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.720 than were He was the only guy over fifty percent 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.480 in that so he was breaking you know, two tackle 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.200 attendzie breaking more than one every single time. So I 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.000 truly prolific tackle breaking that the play came down a 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.880 little bit last season. I wonder if that was an 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.760 offensive environment thing. He's a guy who should be projected 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.040 as a bellkow who never got that opportunity because he 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.160 was playing in a Mike Norvel offense. A guy who 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.680 has used, ever since going back to Memphis, a platoon 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.680 of running backs. I think Benson would have been better 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.520 served than one where he could you know, sort of 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.240 get going and warm up and everything like that. But yeah, 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.559 very very talented kick moving to the next level. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.600 The you and I may differ on Texas running back 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.480 Jonathan Brooks. I watched one game just him against Houston, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.800 so I'm just I'm very early into this, but I 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.800 liked some things. I didn't love anything. And you know, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.040 I thought his change of direction was okay, the speed 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.840 was just okay. He can catch. You know what I 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.840 really bothered me is open space. The guy does not 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.440 maximize opportunities. I saw him get tackled a bunch in 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.840 just one on one open space situations, and it felt 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.040 like he merely took what the Texas offensive line gave him. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.559 I didn't see special traits, at least in one game 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.319 for Jonathan Brooks from Texas. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:07.880 What do you think? 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.200 And I don't think he's a special athlete either. And 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.400 one of the disappointing things about his injury from November 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.160 is that we're not going to see him in the 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.360 pre draft process. He is not going to have to test. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.040 So not only is he coming off the knee injury 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.440 that's going to affect his rookie season, but we don't 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.720 We have no idea what that athletic profile is gonna be. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.880 But I agree with you. You know he is not 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.640 a special athlete by any means. He's not a huge 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.680 back either, just to tick over two hundred pounds. The 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.560 one trait I really like about him is contact balance. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.920 He's one of those guys where he'll bounce off the 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.920 glancing shots and everything like that and keep on moving. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.480 But I totally agree with you, like doesn't have the jews, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.560 doesn't have the long speed, and the make you miss 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.480 is is good but not great. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:55.960 Notre Dame's Audric Stimy s Timmy Sma stim I'll have 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.560 this down by the draft. I'm confident talk to me 0:14:59.560 --> 0:14:59.960 about him. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.800 I hope he does well in the NFL because I 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.120 like saying his name, and Notre Dame loved him last season. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.640 He was the reason that that team was good and 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.040 it wasn't because of Sam Hartman estimate last year ninety 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.840 four point two PFF grade that is speaking of historical 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.480 sixty four broken tackles with that, by the way, an 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.960 elusive rating of one twenty six point five, which is 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.800 very impressive because this is a two hundred and thirty 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:24.680 pound hammerback. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.360 He has good feet. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.560 I really like that, and I like the power as well. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.760 He runs more angular, but he has really good contact 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.880 balance for running with that style certainly brings the power. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.240 One really important thing about his evaluation finding out what 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.440 the speed is, finding out what the splits are in Indianapolis. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 The athleticism is the one thing you question about him. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.640 But last year certainly opened a lot of. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.840 Eyes Michigan's Blake Korum had the luxury of running behind 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.520 this amazing offensive line and it made it. I think 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.880 it makes him a challenge of challenging evaluation because so 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.720 many guys could have succeeded, and he looked good in 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.720 that offense. But he does have some nice traits. He's 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:08.080 clearly very shifty, really good footwork in balance. It looks 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.440 like he's got some sneaky speed as well. What do 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:11.400 you think of Blake Korm? 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.760 He another weird evaluation last year at the beginning of 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.120 the season, he did not look impressive at all. He 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.560 looks sluggish. He was coming off an injury of his 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.080 own from twenty twenty two. In the beginning the season, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.480 he was basically being a scorter for five free yards 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.840 every single run by that sick offensive lines, in particular 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.920 run blocking offensive line. I believe this is off memory, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.760 so forgive me if I'm out by a couple, but 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.320 I believe Michigan was number two in PFF run blocking grade. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.680 Last year pass blocking grade, they were significantly lower. That 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.880 offense was built to have that mauling line for Korum 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.120 get the free yards before contact. The year before we 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.920 had seen shops of Blake Korum a breaking more tackles. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.920 He's certainly an agile kid. He's one of those bowling 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.680 ball type bill guys that the short and pack guys. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.760 I like the agility. He doesn't have long speed though, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.520 And the thing about last year where it really affected 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.640 his numbers as far as the sluggishness early on elusive 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.520 rating for Blakekorm was only twenty seven point four last year. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.440 One hundred is what is considered like solid. This kid 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.119 was at twenty seven point It was one of the 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.000 lowest we had. Yards after contact was one of the 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.679 lowest we had. He was better the year before, so 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.359 you do have to give him that. In his own system, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.480 I think that could work out. But for me, he's 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.520 more of an early down guy, not going to get 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.679 the receiving work in the NFL. Some people disagree with 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.480 me about that, but I didn't see much of him 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:31.640 as a receiver at Michigan. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.600 When we come back, let's talk through wide receivers, beginning 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.560 with Marvin Harrison Junior, who seems to be the consensus 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.360 number one. We'll see if you and again I don't 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.320 expect you have all your rankings done at this point, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.960 but there's a lot of great a lot of great 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.560 receivers to talk about, and at least four guys that 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.920