Speaker 1: Welcome to the Commanders Today podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. We
Speaker 1: are just about a week away from the draft and
Speaker 1: we are breaking down all of Washington's options for their
Speaker 1: six draft picks. Santana Moss and Logan Paulson joined me
Speaker 1: to talk wide receivers and hand out some superlatives. Let's
Speaker 1: do this time for some superlatives, and we want to
Speaker 1: stick to the wide receivers for this since you know,
Speaker 1: you guys have a little bit of special to you, knowing,
Speaker 1: knowing what that might be. Okay, here, you know you're
Speaker 1: you're out office, you're making you were you were catching
Speaker 1: some balls right now. Okay, but they're blocking is a
Speaker 1: big part of it. There we go. We need that
Speaker 1: as well. Let's go to this. It all starts with
Speaker 1: your wide outs with their hands. Who has the best
Speaker 1: hands in this year's draft? Logan John Datson's the kind
Speaker 1: of walkaway guy from me. I think he just catches
Speaker 1: the ball really nicely out of his frame. He shows
Speaker 1: a nice fearlessness and contested catch situations. I think he's
Speaker 1: got a nice grit, nice stuff. Those one handed kitches,
Speaker 1: those highlight kits, just kind of walking away with it.
Speaker 1: He was one of my favorites. But I picked George
Speaker 1: Pickings Um while I was from Georgia. I mean he
Speaker 1: effortlessly caught passes, played with toy with guys with the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean he would have a guy draped over him
Speaker 1: and just plucked it out of the you know, the air,
Speaker 1: with one hand. So he was a guy that stood
Speaker 1: out to me when I watched his take. Now you
Speaker 1: both picked the one handed catches, like you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to get up there and get higher, but to
Speaker 1: be able to Yeah, okay, how about the best route running?
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, Santana. Oh, I have it. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at my sheet. I have Chris Olive. I just
Speaker 1: asked him how to pronounce his last name. He's one
Speaker 1: of the wide receivers from Ohio State that everybody is
Speaker 1: raving about. I just like how smooth he is with
Speaker 1: this route, right. I mean, it's just it's like one
Speaker 1: of the things when you're watching him, it's like he's
Speaker 1: cutting a piece of cake when it when it comes
Speaker 1: in and out of his his brakes. And he reminded
Speaker 1: me of a couple of guys. One guy that stands
Speaker 1: out to most of me. It's Mike kind of you know,
Speaker 1: a fear you guys. But when I watched the guy
Speaker 1: or Harrison from UM the Coats back in the day,
Speaker 1: when he played against you know, played with my guy,
Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne, he was one of those guys that had
Speaker 1: to step the speed. You didn't know how fast he was,
Speaker 1: but when you saw his rock running ability. I look
Speaker 1: at this guy, Chris Olive, and he reminds me a
Speaker 1: little bit of them. Yeah, my guy's Garrett Wilson another
Speaker 1: I say guy. I think I think the thing I
Speaker 1: liked about him is he throws his foot down a
Speaker 1: little bit harder in the ground, a little bit more
Speaker 1: dexterous in terms of the variety of kind of cuts
Speaker 1: that he's got. But yeah, I think both guys are
Speaker 1: excellent robber. Of course, Ohio State has two guys and
Speaker 1: everybody is talking about and excited for. What about Logan?
Speaker 1: This is all ye the best blocker out there, it's important, yeah,
Speaker 1: to be George Pickens is my favorite blocker. If you
Speaker 1: watch his highlight reel blocking. He is a guy that
Speaker 1: takes a lot of pride and passion that he plays
Speaker 1: with great physicality and kind of bullies those TVs and
Speaker 1: you gotta love that. Oh, you know, it's so crazy
Speaker 1: because he was I didn't know we can use this guy.
Speaker 1: I was gonna use for three different slots. Pickers was
Speaker 1: my first choice. But I looked at Drake London. I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: if you're two hundred plus pounds at six to four,
Speaker 1: you have to be a good blocker as well. So
Speaker 1: I got him from my best you know, blocking when
Speaker 1: it comes to just getting down there and getting gritty
Speaker 1: with those guys and then not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: enjoy that aspect of the game. When you've got somebody
Speaker 1: who does, we see how much that impacts. I mean
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, he'll take as much pride in as blocking.
Speaker 1: You see him doing that as he does in running
Speaker 1: routes and catching passes as well. How about just game speed, Santana, Oh,
Speaker 1: I take the Alabama wide receiver. He got hurt, you know,
Speaker 1: right when things matter the most. I think Jameson Winson,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean Williams and to me, just when
Speaker 1: you watched him run routes and just use his speed,
Speaker 1: A lot of guys at that position can't use their
Speaker 1: natural ability to stop and start like this guy. Dude,
Speaker 1: he reminds me I probably wasn't his speed. I was
Speaker 1: running good four two four three when I came out,
Speaker 1: But I remember that folks would tell me that you
Speaker 1: only guy that I don't know what you're running at times.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't tell the difference from a curl
Speaker 1: and a goal route. So when I watch him run,
Speaker 1: he does the same thing for me. I'm watching, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at him and didn't know. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he stops on breaks. So I think he's game speed
Speaker 1: is incredible. And just give me a name right here
Speaker 1: red zone front for you basketball, who you like those
Speaker 1: guys that can play hoops go up and be a favorite, tall,
Speaker 1: big target in the red zone in the end zone
Speaker 1: as well. There you go, the best attributes in superlatives
Speaker 1: for the wide receivers in this year's draft. For the
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