WEBVTT - Won't You Be My Nabers? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.400 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.440 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.840 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.640 here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.760 It's Fantasy Football Weekly, Wide Receiver Edition. They're gonna break 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.560 down the rookies with thor Nystroum. Hey buddy, Hey, how 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.760 you doing. Oh god, I'm so excited to be here 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.040 talking now. I don't know if you know this from 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.479 our previous shows when we did quarterbacks, we broke down 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.080 running backs. Over the last couple of weeks, three weeks, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.880 I'm taking copious notes while you're talking. You're feeding directly 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.559 into all my talking points as I'm starting to learn 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.000 all this stuff. My man, if your takes are bad, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.480 I'm gonna look like a jackass. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.200 I hope they're not. I hope they're not. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.440 I have no never you haven't had one wrong yet, right, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.920 I don't think so. Look, we're gonna let's go with 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.680 that as our working theory. Never been wrong. Thorn Eistrom, Yeah, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.600 I love it. We've got We've we've got a lot 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.200 smarter on the quarterbacks, the running backs. It feels like 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.639 we say this nearly every year, awesome wide receiver class coming. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.640 You know, like the last five years, we've had like 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.520 three or four of these classes that are just bonkers. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.160 Yeah. Yeah, well with one exception, but yeah, basically yeah, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.040 and this one we got it's roaring back. Yeah. This 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.479 receiving class is awesome at the top. Usually we talk 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.200 about the top with the top three, but people need 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.200 to realize this thing is also crazy deep. It's not 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.200 just the top three guys. This thing goes all the 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.200 way down. Awesome receiver class. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:48.680 We could have five receivers going the first round. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.360 Yeah, maybe even six, Yeah, depending, Yeah, it's gonna be 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.640 you know, everybody's right now has got speaking of that 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.960 first end of the first round, Yeah, Kansas City, last 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.600 pick of the first round, they're getting a star receiver. Yeah. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.400 I mean, if I had to pick any one team 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.400 with and I had to marry any one team with 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.920 any one position in the first round, second half of 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.560 the first round, I think I go wide receiver for 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:13.160 Kansas City. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.440 Can we just put Savior Worthy right now? 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.720 Yeaheah, And we're gonna break him down in just a 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:19.960 few minutes, Savior Worthy. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:21.079 You want some You. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.000 Want to add a speed dimension, a downfield speed dimension 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.240 to a team that has gotten the average depth of 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.800 pass for Patrick Mahomes has gone down every year of 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.040 his career. They got to open that back up. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:34.840 Ye, let's get some speed. I can't wait. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:35.880 It's gonna be a lot of fun. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.280 All right. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.920 Let's start at the top of the wide receiver position. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.600 Marvin Harrison Junior has been slotted as the top receiver 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.280 for this class for like two years now. It's all 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.960 gonna come to fruition here. Currently most people believe he's 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.720 going to go to pick number four Arizona. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:56.120 Yeah, he's the prototype ex boundary prospect. He's going to be, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.880 you know, presumably Arizona's wide receiver one from day one. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.760 Elite route runner for his size, he has the high 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.160 octane release package, except exceptional footwork, throttle speed at will. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.399 He's violent into and out of his route breaks, very 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.120 very good hands, difficult to handle downtown because of his 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.240 body control and leaping abilities. I have very very few 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:25.120 nitpicks on him. Speed is only very very good elite, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.440 and when he has the ball in his hands, he 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.960 doesn't He's not like a tackle breaking colossus. But that's 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.760 really all I got. He is a study stud. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.240 Yeah, outside of quarterbacks, he'll be the first player to 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:38.800 go in the draft. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.520 Yeah, it's crazy because you know, his dad comes in 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.320 Marvin Harrison senior obviously, and he was the undersized, you know, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.400 skinny guy comes out of Syracuse whatever, and he had 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.200 to win by being the awesome route runner, you know, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.320 throttling up and down the speeds, keeping the cornerbacks off, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.880 the beat of his scent, everything like that. He taught 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.840 everything to his son, who got all the physical gifts 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.920 that he did not. How about that? 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.000 Yeah, yeah, I'd like. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.040 To I'd like to know what mom is like, you know, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.360 did Marvin Harrison wide receiver senior, like, you know, did 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.680 he marry I don't know, like a star volleyball player 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.000 or something, you know, and and get all you know, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.600 how do you go? How did Marvin Harrison junior get 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.520 the physical gifts that his dad didn't have? 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.599 That's crazy, But yeah, he's a giant. He's you know, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.400 stretched out and to catch radius is ridiculous, and a 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.640 guy that can win all three levels of the field. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.000 It becomes a spacing thing as well. You know, it's 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.200 it's not just him singularly, it's it's it becomes a 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.400 spatial thing for the rest of the field where he 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.479 helps the receiver on the other side of the field 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.360 because you have to keep a high safety on that 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.120 side of the field. So you know, he's helping all 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.200 of his teammates just because of the spacing, you know, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.279 different stuff like that on the field. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.000 Non super flex leagues. Marvin Harrison Junior's first player going 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:52.839 in Dynasty drafts. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.760 Yeah, yeah, because the the running back class, you know, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.719 like we talked about last week, it's not as good, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.920 it's not as good. Yeah. So I mean Marvin hare 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.400 and stands above you know, everybody else as far as 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:02.839 that goes. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.080 Yeah, I you know, some people you might be tempted 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.560 to go another direction. I don't think I would. I 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.360 don't think Black Bauers is going to be in play 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.560 it at the first overall unless you're in some kind 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.600 of you know, tight end specialized league. And I don't 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.279 think the other receivers are gonna talk about are gonna 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.560 hit that either. So let's take that opportunity to try 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:23.839 to move over to Rome. Adunza from Washington highly highly 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:24.960 productive there. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.920 Yeah, Roma Dunza would be wide receiver one in a 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.080 normal year. Yeah, you look at the past decade, most 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:33.960 of those classes he would have been wide receiver one. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.479 It's just you know, he happens to come out in 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.359 this class, has every single tool that you'd want, and 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.119 that is now confirmed with having gone through the NFL 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.240 combat Roma Dunza. So he comes in measures in six 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.640 foot three, two hundred twelve pounds. His raz was nine 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.880 point nine to one. He runs a four four five. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.599 It wasn't even the thing that impressed me the most. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.120 The thing that impressed me the most. People watching the telecast, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.800 Roma Dunsay got a six ' eight eight in the 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.320 three cone the telecast at night, he wouldn't leave the 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.280 field because he kept running the three cone. He wanted 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.680 to run a sub six six three cone because the 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.040 kid who ran the fastest was like six six five. Oh, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.800 Donsay wanted a sub sixty six. So he was on 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.880 his fourth fifth attemph with the three cone. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.440 Can you try it as many times as you want? 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.200 Apparently, okay, I don't know how he could do that. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.720 I don't know if they would have countered it if 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.800 he did. He kept running it over and over and 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.880 over again. He kept knocking over the cone on the 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.479 far side. That's why he kept, you know, he wasn't 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.040 getting it whatever, and he kept getting kicked off because 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.159 he just kept you know, kicking that one over whatever. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.119 But the kid's an absolute dog. I mean, he'd already 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.560 gotten a ninety ninth plus percentile RAZ and he wouldn't 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.080 leave the field because he didn't have the best three 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.200 cone of his entire position group. I compare him to 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.640 Julio Jones. You know, you talk about every golf club 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:57.039 in the bag, size, strength, physicality, speed, agility, hops, ball scales. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.440 He's a complete receiver. He was pressed more than any 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.000 receiver by the stats in this class last year at Washington. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.480 And the reason that was done is because we talked 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.920 about this a few weeks ago in the Quarterback episode. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.320 The way that you take Michael Pennix off his game 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.520 is by pressuring him and trying to get him off 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.240 his spot, disrupting the timing. How do you do that, Well, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.400 you try to take the best player on the Washington 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.320 offense away and you try to press him off the line. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.440 He impressed and oh, dude, say off the line, though 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.120 you had to try, but you weren't gonna be able 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.160 to do it. He got pressed more or at least 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.320 attempted to press more more than two hundred snaps last year, 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.760 but nobody could get him off the line. His feet 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.320 are two good, he has his dynamic release package, but 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.960 he's also too strong, too quick, and then you know 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.240 he gets into the route really quick, and then he 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.239 adjusts his tempo along the route, so it's just really 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.000 difficult to get a beat of his scent. You don't 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.680 know when he's going to break that route off or 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.200 when he's gonna go downtown whatever. He would have been 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.160 a high first round pick last year if he had 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.160 entered that class. We know that, and he would have 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.600 been a wider one and a lot of those classes 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.680 over the last decade. But yeah, he's either going to 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.800 be two or three in this one just because of 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:06.800 Marvin Harrison Junior. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:12.480 In our show in late February, you comped Malik Neighbors 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.920 the LSU wide receiver to Jamar Chase. That's a very 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.080 favorable and tantalizing comp. Y. What do you like about it? 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.160 What do you like about his game? And you could 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.200 say the same about Neighbors right like where you know, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:26.760 you look at. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.600 Different a different year, he'd have been number one. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.920 That's exactly right. Yeah, I mean we have three wide 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.400 receiver ones in this class. And you know it's not hyperbole, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.240 it just is what it is. Neighbors is very, very 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.480 similar as a prospect to Jamar Chase. You know, and 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.120 again I think I mentioned that in that episode. I 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.920 didn't even want to make that comp because of the 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.080 jersey thing. It felt too easy. But it's the you know, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.240 it's just the closest one that that I could think 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.640 of with Neighbors that The thing that really jumps out 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.960 about him is the ludicrous stop start ability and the 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.880 fact that he loses zero momentum when he's changing direction. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.120 It's just he can change. Everyone loses momentum when they 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.040 change direction, but not Moleague Neighbors. It's ridiculous. When he's 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.880 running routes, it's at this breakneck speed where they can't 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.360 keep up with him because he doesn't lose any momentum 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.240 when he's cutting in different and changing directions. Stuff like that. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.920 You can be as fast as Molique Neighbors. Potentially you 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.160 might even have world class feet like him, so you 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.600 might be feeling good about staying in his hip on 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.920 a given rep, but then he can just slam on 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.200 the brakes and come back and then all of a sudden, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.199 you're skidding and he's over. But now he's got four 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.480 yards of separation, now he's got the ball in space, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.719 and now you're in trouble. So like that, it's what 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.560 makes him so difficult. And you know, we talked about this, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.400 you know, earlier on in the previous episode, where the 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.120 other part about him that's very unique is his upper 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.720 body doesn't move very much when he's moving at full speed, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.480 and it's just this strange quirk about him. But he 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.360 doesn't chug his arms very much when he's running on 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.520 the routes, so it makes it difficult to denote when 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.000 he's going to break those routes off. And it's also 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.319 difficult to gauge exactly how fast he's moving. So he 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.720 just becomes like a really hard math problem for the 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:11.560 defensive backs. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.600 That's that's gonna be a matchup problem. All these guys, well, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.240 Harrison Dune's of neighbors, They all guys that can be 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.240 impactful like week one of the NFL, you know, like 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.040 week one of their rookie year, they can make an impact. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.920 That fact, all three guys of those guys stars in 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.199 the NFL, I will be stunned. Wow. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.719 Okay, so you know landing spot will determine plenty, but 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.240 all guys that have clear paths. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.520 To immediate returns. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.240 Yes for your dynasty or empire fantasy absolutely, which we love. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.240 Now there it feels like there's a bit of a 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.520 break after Neighbors. Yes, and so you know, Harrison to 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.160 Dunes and Neighbors all seem to be guys that are 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.400 that are going in like the top eleven ish twelvesh 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.920 picks of the draft being mocked there and then there 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:57.840 feels like there's a bit of a drop and then 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.400 we get into some other names. Brian Thomas goes here, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.160 but you've got Lad McConkie as your next guy, and 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.160 I know you love his separation ability. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.640 I do. Yeah, So you know most people have Brian 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.320 Thomas at number four, but I had to put Ladd 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.320 up here. And you mentioned the separation last year. Lad 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.360 McConkie receiving grade versus single coverage ninety eight percentile separation percentile, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:26.280 ninety third percentile separation percentile versus single coverage ninety first percentile. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.679 And you know a lot of people talk about him 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.400 as a pure slot receiver. He played most of his 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.239 percentage percentage of his snaps in college actually on the outside. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.240 Georgia played a predominantly twelve personnel offense, so you know 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.160 a lot of the times he was playing on the outside. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.640 Last year it was seventy eight point seven percent on 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.280 the outside. He of course can play in the slot, 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.679 but he can do both of those things. He goes 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.120 and I think this he proved the concept at the 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:57.640 combine eight four five ras and a four to three 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.800 four three nine with a thirty six inch vertical and 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.360 a ten to four broad. And by the way, he 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.000 didn't do the agility drills, which I believe will be 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.520 his best test. Most of the guys didn't do the 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:13.040 agility drills Roma Dunsday notwithstanding, because the NFL does it 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.959 in a dumb way where they put the agility drills 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.080 at the very end of the day, after everyone has 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.480 already gassed from doing all the other drills. So most 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.319 people defer that until they're pro day. Lad McConkie is 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.320 going to destroy those when he does them. But whole 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.520 point being Ladi McConkie is ridiculously hard to stay with. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.000 At the Senior Bowl when we were down there on Tuesday, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.960 he dusted everyone. It was very similar to Tank Dell 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.920 on the very first day the year before the second 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.520 day on Wednesday, people were playing way off him, eight 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.880 yards off a Ladd McConkie, just seeding free receptions in 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.800 the one on one drills because they didn't want to 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.120 get embarrassed in front of the entire NFL. Lad McConkie's 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.200 going to come in immediately in the NFL and start. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.080 I don't know if he's a number one receiver in 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.840 the NFL, he is going to be a dang good 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:54.680 number two if not. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.720 Yeah, And do you think does he translate? There is 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.199 a reception out there that he's gonna be primarily a 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.319 slot guy, but you think he can translate to all 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:04.640 of it. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.360 I remember by the way people. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.880 Were talking about Justin Jefferson getting stuck in the slot. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.800 At one point. That sounds doesn't it exactly? Come on, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.440 it's the same thing, you know, Like it was a 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.720 situational thing at LSU right where they had Jamar Chase 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.840 on the one side and they had Terrace Marshall on 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.760 the other side that Joe Burrow offense. That's why Justin 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.679 Jefferson was in the slots. All of a sudden, It's like, Oh, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.560 he can't play on the outside in the NFL, and 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.560 now he's the NFL's best outside receiver. Yeah about that right? Yeah. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.360 I remember asking Rick Spielman the day after he drafted 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.240 or the night that he drafted Justin Jefferson about that, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.040 and he was like, No, he's gonna be fine. He's 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.839 gonna be able to play all over all. Right, So 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.000 let's go to Brian Thomas. Yeah, and I think this 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.280 might be more that you like McConkie than you dislike 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:51.200 Brian Thomas. I love the physical play, the contested balls, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.880 the big body of Brian Thomas from LSU. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.840 Yeah. You know, coming into the NFL, we know a 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.680 couple of things about Brian Thomas. Did he is going 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.559 to do very very well six foot three, two hundred 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.440 and ten pounds, and the freak athleticism that you're talking about. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.600 He ran a four to three three with a nine 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.920 eighty six overall ras composite. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.520 How does a guy with that big of a body 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:11.400 run that fast. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.160 I don't know. He was flying and you see this 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.640 on the field too. I mean, and it's this is 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.360 one of my nippicks about him, I will say, but 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.280 you know, it can go either way. He ran predominantly 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.560 two routes at LSU, you know, the fades and the goes. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.600 But it is so hard to stop him on those, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.440 you know, I mean, you know him and Jayden Daniels 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.800 on those, you had neighbors doing you know, all the 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.160 different the stops, the starts to run and zipping around whatever. Yeah, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.280 and then you'd have Thomas taking the top off the 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.480 defense and you can see why LSU was the greatest 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.800 show on turf last year. They also had the most 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.360 ransom defense you'll ever say. They were like the last Yeah, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.240 every game was like fifty five to fifty two. But yeah, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.120 Brian Thomas at the bear bear minimum, he's going to 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.440 be the the you know, sort of prototypical wide receiver 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.880 two pop the top whatever. My my nitpick about Brian 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.320 Thomas is, I don't know the other stuff right, like 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.640 the you know, the inbreaking stuff, the nuanced stuff, like 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.680 is he ever gonna elevate to become like a wide 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.560 receiver one in the NFL? That I don't know, but 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.840 I do know he's going to threaten deep and he's 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.720 going to be the friend of the other receivers on 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.280 your team because you have to keep He's one of 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.040 those guys. You have to keep the deep safety on 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.840 the other side or he's gonna take your lunch money deep. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.480 You can't keep a guy on an island or he's 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:30.440 gonna embarrass him. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.000 Let's take a break when we come back, Xave, you're worthy. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.480 The guy's getting he's getting attached to the Chiefs a lot. Yes, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.320 this could be a lot of fun. Let's let's break 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.080 him down when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. As 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:50.640 mentioned Thorne Eistrom, Xavier Worthy is could bring speed to 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:57.920 a Chiefs team that hasn't had it since Tyreek Hill left. Yes, well, okay, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.120 that's a Mark haz Valdez Scantley's guy like straight line speed. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.360 But that's it and then all and all, you know, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.280 all the negative plays and everything comes with him. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.040 But you could argue, well not even argue. We just 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.120 quantifiably no one in NFL history has the speed of 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.320 Xavier Worthy. Just ran him four to two to one. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.920 Forty broke the record at the NFL Combine broke the 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.840 record of John Ross. There it was. It was hilarious, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.120 you know. He he ran the first one and was 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.600 just over it it. Zavery Worthy was and then asked 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.640 to run the sec. Everyone assumed that he wasn't gonna 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.600 run it, but zavery Worthy's like, no, no, no, I want 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.160 to run the second one because he knew he was 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.040 going to break that record, and then he went out 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.280 and did it. It was a very very cool moment. Uh, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.360 you know, one four nine ten yards split very good 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.400 as well. And then a forty one in vertical which 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.800 is obviously fabulous as well. Nine to three four ras 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.760 which at the adjusted size thing is incredible at one 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.520 hundred and sixty five pounds. That's the nitpick about him. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.840 But he is a little bit on the you know, taller, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.960 certainly taller than Tank Dell. He's he's just under six 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.240 feet tall. Xavier the he's an interesting player. Texas pounded 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.000 Zavier Worthy with targets two years ago twenty twenty two. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.359 He had some drop issues mitigated a little bit in 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.000 terms of the percentage. Last year twenty twenty two, he 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.280 had a hand injury, So you can forgive him for 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.840 a little bit and last year he had a ton 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.480 of targets, so if you look at the drop percentage 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.879 was actually within a reasonable sort of area there. But 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.840 that's the one sort of nitpick about him is the drops. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.120 He He has a couple on tape that like, for instance, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.800 he had won against Alabama early in that game last 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.000 season where he absolutely licks this guy near the goal 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.359 line on this whip rout. He goes inside. He gets 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.640 this guy in a blender and he's wide open going 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.960 towards the boundary. Youwers puts it right, you know, right 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.360 where he should, you know, towards the boundary. The pylon 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.600 puts it right on his hands, and it clanks off 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.800 of Worthy's hands. He's right by himself. But Worthy gets 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.240 separation as easy as any receiver. You'll see. It's the 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:02.200 thing that reminds you. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.560 Of Okay, wait, hold on on separation for for Xavier Worthy, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.879 is it just running by guys or does he have 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.520 some nuance to his game and his route running to 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.560 create separation That isn't just I'm just gonna run past you. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.200 This is a very good contextual point. It's it's the ladder. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.040 I mean, it's both, but it's you know, including the ladder. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.560 He is a very good route runner. He has both 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.720 the agility and the speed, but he also has a 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.520 very good understanding of the route running and he can 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.199 get that separation at all levels of the field. Like 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.840 it's not like a two to two at well thing 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.679 where it's just like you know, using the speed and 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.600 then everything has to come off of it, right. He 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.680 knows how to run the route and he knows how 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.320 to set up defenders using that athleticism. He knows he 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.400 has one hundred mile prower fastball, and he knows defenders 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.200 are sitting back, you know, they have to sit back 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.199 on their heels. You're gonna blow it by him. So 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.800 he'll play off of that, and he'll also alter his 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.960 tempo as well. So he has a really good feel 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.640 for that and he naturally gets the separation because of that. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.560 That's why he got pounded with his many targets by 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.040 quinn Ewers as he did. You look at it, Donnay Mitchell, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.040 another receiver in this class. You know, he's another physical freak, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.480 six foot four, two hundred pounds whatever. He ran a 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.640