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Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly, Wide Receiver Edition. They're gonna break
Speaker 1: down the rookies with thor Nystroum. Hey buddy, Hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing. Oh god, I'm so excited to be here
Speaker 1: talking now. I don't know if you know this from
Speaker 1: our previous shows when we did quarterbacks, we broke down
Speaker 1: running backs. Over the last couple of weeks, three weeks,
Speaker 1: I'm taking copious notes while you're talking. You're feeding directly
Speaker 1: into all my talking points as I'm starting to learn
Speaker 1: all this stuff. My man, if your takes are bad,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look like a jackass.
Speaker 3: I hope they're not. I hope they're not.
Speaker 1: I have no never you haven't had one wrong yet, right,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Look, we're gonna let's go with
Speaker 1: that as our working theory. Never been wrong. Thorn Eistrom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. We've got We've we've got a lot
Speaker 1: smarter on the quarterbacks, the running backs. It feels like
Speaker 1: we say this nearly every year, awesome wide receiver class coming.
Speaker 1: You know, like the last five years, we've had like
Speaker 1: three or four of these classes that are just bonkers.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, well with one exception, but yeah, basically yeah,
Speaker 3: and this one we got it's roaring back. Yeah. This
Speaker 3: receiving class is awesome at the top. Usually we talk
Speaker 3: about the top with the top three, but people need
Speaker 3: to realize this thing is also crazy deep. It's not
Speaker 3: just the top three guys. This thing goes all the
Speaker 3: way down. Awesome receiver class.
Speaker 1: We could have five receivers going the first round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe even six, Yeah, depending, Yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 3: you know, everybody's right now has got speaking of that
Speaker 3: first end of the first round, Yeah, Kansas City, last
Speaker 3: pick of the first round, they're getting a star receiver. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to pick any one team
Speaker 1: with and I had to marry any one team with
Speaker 1: any one position in the first round, second half of
Speaker 1: the first round, I think I go wide receiver for
Speaker 1: Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Can we just put Savior Worthy right now?
Speaker 1: Yeaheah, And we're gonna break him down in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes, Savior Worthy.
Speaker 4: You want some You.
Speaker 1: Want to add a speed dimension, a downfield speed dimension
Speaker 1: to a team that has gotten the average depth of
Speaker 1: pass for Patrick Mahomes has gone down every year of
Speaker 1: his career. They got to open that back up.
Speaker 3: Ye, let's get some speed. I can't wait.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's start at the top of the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior has been slotted as the top receiver
Speaker 1: for this class for like two years now. It's all
Speaker 1: gonna come to fruition here. Currently most people believe he's
Speaker 1: going to go to pick number four Arizona.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the prototype ex boundary prospect. He's going to be,
Speaker 3: you know, presumably Arizona's wide receiver one from day one.
Speaker 3: Elite route runner for his size, he has the high
Speaker 3: octane release package, except exceptional footwork, throttle speed at will.
Speaker 3: He's violent into and out of his route breaks, very
Speaker 3: very good hands, difficult to handle downtown because of his
Speaker 3: body control and leaping abilities. I have very very few
Speaker 3: nitpicks on him. Speed is only very very good elite,
Speaker 3: and when he has the ball in his hands, he
Speaker 3: doesn't He's not like a tackle breaking colossus. But that's
Speaker 3: really all I got. He is a study stud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, outside of quarterbacks, he'll be the first player to
Speaker 1: go in the draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy because you know, his dad comes in
Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison senior obviously, and he was the undersized, you know,
Speaker 3: skinny guy comes out of Syracuse whatever, and he had
Speaker 3: to win by being the awesome route runner, you know,
Speaker 3: throttling up and down the speeds, keeping the cornerbacks off,
Speaker 3: the beat of his scent, everything like that. He taught
Speaker 3: everything to his son, who got all the physical gifts
Speaker 3: that he did not. How about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'd like.
Speaker 1: To I'd like to know what mom is like, you know,
Speaker 1: did Marvin Harrison wide receiver senior, like, you know, did
Speaker 1: he marry I don't know, like a star volleyball player
Speaker 1: or something, you know, and and get all you know,
Speaker 1: how do you go? How did Marvin Harrison junior get
Speaker 1: the physical gifts that his dad didn't have?
Speaker 3: That's crazy, But yeah, he's a giant. He's you know,
Speaker 3: stretched out and to catch radius is ridiculous, and a
Speaker 3: guy that can win all three levels of the field.
Speaker 3: It becomes a spacing thing as well. You know, it's
Speaker 3: it's not just him singularly, it's it's it becomes a
Speaker 3: spatial thing for the rest of the field where he
Speaker 3: helps the receiver on the other side of the field
Speaker 3: because you have to keep a high safety on that
Speaker 3: side of the field. So you know, he's helping all
Speaker 3: of his teammates just because of the spacing, you know,
Speaker 3: different stuff like that on the field.
Speaker 1: Non super flex leagues. Marvin Harrison Junior's first player going
Speaker 1: in Dynasty drafts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because the the running back class, you know,
Speaker 3: like we talked about last week, it's not as good,
Speaker 3: it's not as good. Yeah. So I mean Marvin hare
Speaker 3: and stands above you know, everybody else as far as
Speaker 3: that goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, some people you might be tempted
Speaker 1: to go another direction. I don't think I would. I
Speaker 1: don't think Black Bauers is going to be in play
Speaker 1: it at the first overall unless you're in some kind
Speaker 1: of you know, tight end specialized league. And I don't
Speaker 1: think the other receivers are gonna talk about are gonna
Speaker 1: hit that either. So let's take that opportunity to try
Speaker 1: to move over to Rome. Adunza from Washington highly highly
Speaker 1: productive there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Roma Dunza would be wide receiver one in a
Speaker 3: normal year. Yeah, you look at the past decade, most
Speaker 3: of those classes he would have been wide receiver one.
Speaker 3: It's just you know, he happens to come out in
Speaker 3: this class, has every single tool that you'd want, and
Speaker 3: that is now confirmed with having gone through the NFL
Speaker 3: combat Roma Dunza. So he comes in measures in six
Speaker 3: foot three, two hundred twelve pounds. His raz was nine
Speaker 3: point nine to one. He runs a four four five.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even the thing that impressed me the most.
Speaker 3: The thing that impressed me the most. People watching the telecast,
Speaker 3: Roma Dunsay got a six ' eight eight in the
Speaker 3: three cone the telecast at night, he wouldn't leave the
Speaker 3: field because he kept running the three cone. He wanted
Speaker 3: to run a sub six six three cone because the
Speaker 3: kid who ran the fastest was like six six five. Oh,
Speaker 3: Donsay wanted a sub sixty six. So he was on
Speaker 3: his fourth fifth attemph with the three cone.
Speaker 4: Can you try it as many times as you want?
Speaker 3: Apparently, okay, I don't know how he could do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they would have countered it if
Speaker 3: he did. He kept running it over and over and
Speaker 3: over again. He kept knocking over the cone on the
Speaker 3: far side. That's why he kept, you know, he wasn't
Speaker 3: getting it whatever, and he kept getting kicked off because
Speaker 3: he just kept you know, kicking that one over whatever.
Speaker 3: But the kid's an absolute dog. I mean, he'd already
Speaker 3: gotten a ninety ninth plus percentile RAZ and he wouldn't
Speaker 3: leave the field because he didn't have the best three
Speaker 3: cone of his entire position group. I compare him to
Speaker 3: Julio Jones. You know, you talk about every golf club
Speaker 3: in the bag, size, strength, physicality, speed, agility, hops, ball scales.
Speaker 3: He's a complete receiver. He was pressed more than any
Speaker 3: receiver by the stats in this class last year at Washington.
Speaker 3: And the reason that was done is because we talked
Speaker 3: about this a few weeks ago in the Quarterback episode.
Speaker 3: The way that you take Michael Pennix off his game
Speaker 3: is by pressuring him and trying to get him off
Speaker 3: his spot, disrupting the timing. How do you do that, Well,
Speaker 3: you try to take the best player on the Washington
Speaker 3: offense away and you try to press him off the line.
Speaker 3: He impressed and oh, dude, say off the line, though
Speaker 3: you had to try, but you weren't gonna be able
Speaker 3: to do it. He got pressed more or at least
Speaker 3: attempted to press more more than two hundred snaps last year,
Speaker 3: but nobody could get him off the line. His feet
Speaker 3: are two good, he has his dynamic release package, but
Speaker 3: he's also too strong, too quick, and then you know
Speaker 3: he gets into the route really quick, and then he
Speaker 3: adjusts his tempo along the route, so it's just really
Speaker 3: difficult to get a beat of his scent. You don't
Speaker 3: know when he's going to break that route off or
Speaker 3: when he's gonna go downtown whatever. He would have been
Speaker 3: a high first round pick last year if he had
Speaker 3: entered that class. We know that, and he would have
Speaker 3: been a wider one and a lot of those classes
Speaker 3: over the last decade. But yeah, he's either going to
Speaker 3: be two or three in this one just because of
Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 1: In our show in late February, you comped Malik Neighbors
Speaker 1: the LSU wide receiver to Jamar Chase. That's a very
Speaker 1: favorable and tantalizing comp. Y. What do you like about it?
Speaker 3: What do you like about his game? And you could
Speaker 3: say the same about Neighbors right like where you know,
Speaker 3: you look at.
Speaker 1: Different a different year, he'd have been number one.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Yeah, I mean we have three wide
Speaker 3: receiver ones in this class. And you know it's not hyperbole,
Speaker 3: it just is what it is. Neighbors is very, very
Speaker 3: similar as a prospect to Jamar Chase. You know, and
Speaker 3: again I think I mentioned that in that episode. I
Speaker 3: didn't even want to make that comp because of the
Speaker 3: jersey thing. It felt too easy. But it's the you know,
Speaker 3: it's just the closest one that that I could think
Speaker 3: of with Neighbors that The thing that really jumps out
Speaker 3: about him is the ludicrous stop start ability and the
Speaker 3: fact that he loses zero momentum when he's changing direction.
Speaker 3: It's just he can change. Everyone loses momentum when they
Speaker 3: change direction, but not Moleague Neighbors. It's ridiculous. When he's
Speaker 3: running routes, it's at this breakneck speed where they can't
Speaker 3: keep up with him because he doesn't lose any momentum
Speaker 3: when he's cutting in different and changing directions. Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: You can be as fast as Molique Neighbors. Potentially you
Speaker 3: might even have world class feet like him, so you
Speaker 3: might be feeling good about staying in his hip on
Speaker 3: a given rep, but then he can just slam on
Speaker 3: the brakes and come back and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you're skidding and he's over. But now he's got four
Speaker 3: yards of separation, now he's got the ball in space,
Speaker 3: and now you're in trouble. So like that, it's what
Speaker 3: makes him so difficult. And you know, we talked about this,
Speaker 3: you know, earlier on in the previous episode, where the
Speaker 3: other part about him that's very unique is his upper
Speaker 3: body doesn't move very much when he's moving at full speed,
Speaker 3: and it's just this strange quirk about him. But he
Speaker 3: doesn't chug his arms very much when he's running on
Speaker 3: the routes, so it makes it difficult to denote when
Speaker 3: he's going to break those routes off. And it's also
Speaker 3: difficult to gauge exactly how fast he's moving. So he
Speaker 3: just becomes like a really hard math problem for the
Speaker 3: defensive backs.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be a matchup problem. All these guys, well,
Speaker 1: Harrison Dune's of neighbors, They all guys that can be
Speaker 1: impactful like week one of the NFL, you know, like
Speaker 1: week one of their rookie year, they can make an impact.
Speaker 3: That fact, all three guys of those guys stars in
Speaker 3: the NFL, I will be stunned. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you know landing spot will determine plenty, but
Speaker 1: all guys that have clear paths.
Speaker 3: To immediate returns.
Speaker 1: Yes for your dynasty or empire fantasy absolutely, which we love.
Speaker 1: Now there it feels like there's a bit of a
Speaker 1: break after Neighbors. Yes, and so you know, Harrison to
Speaker 1: Dunes and Neighbors all seem to be guys that are
Speaker 1: that are going in like the top eleven ish twelvesh
Speaker 1: picks of the draft being mocked there and then there
Speaker 1: feels like there's a bit of a drop and then
Speaker 1: we get into some other names. Brian Thomas goes here,
Speaker 1: but you've got Lad McConkie as your next guy, and
Speaker 1: I know you love his separation ability.
Speaker 3: I do. Yeah, So you know most people have Brian
Speaker 3: Thomas at number four, but I had to put Ladd
Speaker 3: up here. And you mentioned the separation last year. Lad
Speaker 3: McConkie receiving grade versus single coverage ninety eight percentile separation percentile,
Speaker 3: ninety third percentile separation percentile versus single coverage ninety first percentile.
Speaker 3: And you know a lot of people talk about him
Speaker 3: as a pure slot receiver. He played most of his
Speaker 3: percentage percentage of his snaps in college actually on the outside.
Speaker 3: Georgia played a predominantly twelve personnel offense, so you know
Speaker 3: a lot of the times he was playing on the outside.
Speaker 3: Last year it was seventy eight point seven percent on
Speaker 3: the outside. He of course can play in the slot,
Speaker 3: but he can do both of those things. He goes
Speaker 3: and I think this he proved the concept at the
Speaker 3: combine eight four five ras and a four to three
Speaker 3: four three nine with a thirty six inch vertical and
Speaker 3: a ten to four broad. And by the way, he
Speaker 3: didn't do the agility drills, which I believe will be
Speaker 3: his best test. Most of the guys didn't do the
Speaker 3: agility drills Roma Dunsday notwithstanding, because the NFL does it
Speaker 3: in a dumb way where they put the agility drills
Speaker 3: at the very end of the day, after everyone has
Speaker 3: already gassed from doing all the other drills. So most
Speaker 3: people defer that until they're pro day. Lad McConkie is
Speaker 3: going to destroy those when he does them. But whole
Speaker 3: point being Ladi McConkie is ridiculously hard to stay with.
Speaker 3: At the Senior Bowl when we were down there on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: he dusted everyone. It was very similar to Tank Dell
Speaker 3: on the very first day the year before the second
Speaker 3: day on Wednesday, people were playing way off him, eight
Speaker 3: yards off a Ladd McConkie, just seeding free receptions in
Speaker 3: the one on one drills because they didn't want to
Speaker 3: get embarrassed in front of the entire NFL. Lad McConkie's
Speaker 3: going to come in immediately in the NFL and start.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a number one receiver in
Speaker 3: the NFL, he is going to be a dang good
Speaker 3: number two if not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And do you think does he translate? There is
Speaker 1: a reception out there that he's gonna be primarily a
Speaker 1: slot guy, but you think he can translate to all
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: I remember by the way people.
Speaker 1: Were talking about Justin Jefferson getting stuck in the slot.
Speaker 3: At one point. That sounds doesn't it exactly? Come on,
Speaker 3: it's the same thing, you know, Like it was a
Speaker 3: situational thing at LSU right where they had Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: on the one side and they had Terrace Marshall on
Speaker 3: the other side that Joe Burrow offense. That's why Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson was in the slots. All of a sudden, It's like, Oh,
Speaker 3: he can't play on the outside in the NFL, and
Speaker 3: now he's the NFL's best outside receiver. Yeah about that right? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember asking Rick Spielman the day after he drafted
Speaker 1: or the night that he drafted Justin Jefferson about that,
Speaker 1: and he was like, No, he's gonna be fine. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play all over all. Right, So
Speaker 1: let's go to Brian Thomas. Yeah, and I think this
Speaker 1: might be more that you like McConkie than you dislike
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. I love the physical play, the contested balls,
Speaker 1: the big body of Brian Thomas from LSU.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, coming into the NFL, we know a
Speaker 3: couple of things about Brian Thomas. Did he is going
Speaker 3: to do very very well six foot three, two hundred
Speaker 3: and ten pounds, and the freak athleticism that you're talking about.
Speaker 3: He ran a four to three three with a nine
Speaker 3: eighty six overall ras composite.
Speaker 4: How does a guy with that big of a body
Speaker 4: run that fast.
Speaker 3: I don't know. He was flying and you see this
Speaker 3: on the field too. I mean, and it's this is
Speaker 3: one of my nippicks about him, I will say, but
Speaker 3: you know, it can go either way. He ran predominantly
Speaker 3: two routes at LSU, you know, the fades and the goes.
Speaker 3: But it is so hard to stop him on those,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you know him and Jayden Daniels
Speaker 3: on those, you had neighbors doing you know, all the
Speaker 3: different the stops, the starts to run and zipping around whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you'd have Thomas taking the top off the
Speaker 3: defense and you can see why LSU was the greatest
Speaker 3: show on turf last year. They also had the most
Speaker 3: ransom defense you'll ever say. They were like the last Yeah,
Speaker 3: every game was like fifty five to fifty two. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas at the bear bear minimum, he's going to
Speaker 3: be the the you know, sort of prototypical wide receiver
Speaker 3: two pop the top whatever. My my nitpick about Brian
Speaker 3: Thomas is, I don't know the other stuff right, like
Speaker 3: the you know, the inbreaking stuff, the nuanced stuff, like
Speaker 3: is he ever gonna elevate to become like a wide
Speaker 3: receiver one in the NFL? That I don't know, but
Speaker 3: I do know he's going to threaten deep and he's
Speaker 3: going to be the friend of the other receivers on
Speaker 3: your team because you have to keep He's one of
Speaker 3: those guys. You have to keep the deep safety on
Speaker 3: the other side or he's gonna take your lunch money deep.
Speaker 3: You can't keep a guy on an island or he's
Speaker 3: gonna embarrass him.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break when we come back, Xave, you're worthy.
Speaker 1: The guy's getting he's getting attached to the Chiefs a lot. Yes,
Speaker 1: this could be a lot of fun. Let's let's break
Speaker 1: him down when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. As
Speaker 1: mentioned Thorne Eistrom, Xavier Worthy is could bring speed to
Speaker 1: a Chiefs team that hasn't had it since Tyreek Hill left. Yes, well, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a Mark haz Valdez Scantley's guy like straight line speed.
Speaker 1: But that's it and then all and all, you know,
Speaker 1: all the negative plays and everything comes with him.
Speaker 3: But you could argue, well not even argue. We just
Speaker 3: quantifiably no one in NFL history has the speed of
Speaker 3: Xavier Worthy. Just ran him four to two to one.
Speaker 3: Forty broke the record at the NFL Combine broke the
Speaker 3: record of John Ross. There it was. It was hilarious,
Speaker 3: you know. He he ran the first one and was
Speaker 3: just over it it. Zavery Worthy was and then asked
Speaker 3: to run the sec. Everyone assumed that he wasn't gonna
Speaker 3: run it, but zavery Worthy's like, no, no, no, I want
Speaker 3: to run the second one because he knew he was
Speaker 3: going to break that record, and then he went out
Speaker 3: and did it. It was a very very cool moment. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, one four nine ten yards split very good
Speaker 3: as well. And then a forty one in vertical which
Speaker 3: is obviously fabulous as well. Nine to three four ras
Speaker 3: which at the adjusted size thing is incredible at one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five pounds. That's the nitpick about him.
Speaker 3: But he is a little bit on the you know, taller,
Speaker 3: certainly taller than Tank Dell. He's he's just under six
Speaker 3: feet tall. Xavier the he's an interesting player. Texas pounded
Speaker 3: Zavier Worthy with targets two years ago twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: He had some drop issues mitigated a little bit in
Speaker 3: terms of the percentage. Last year twenty twenty two, he
Speaker 3: had a hand injury, So you can forgive him for
Speaker 3: a little bit and last year he had a ton
Speaker 3: of targets, so if you look at the drop percentage
Speaker 3: was actually within a reasonable sort of area there. But
Speaker 3: that's the one sort of nitpick about him is the drops.
Speaker 3: He He has a couple on tape that like, for instance,
Speaker 3: he had won against Alabama early in that game last
Speaker 3: season where he absolutely licks this guy near the goal
Speaker 3: line on this whip rout. He goes inside. He gets
Speaker 3: this guy in a blender and he's wide open going
Speaker 3: towards the boundary. Youwers puts it right, you know, right
Speaker 3: where he should, you know, towards the boundary. The pylon
Speaker 3: puts it right on his hands, and it clanks off
Speaker 3: of Worthy's hands. He's right by himself. But Worthy gets
Speaker 3: separation as easy as any receiver. You'll see. It's the
Speaker 3: thing that reminds you.
Speaker 1: Of Okay, wait, hold on on separation for for Xavier Worthy,
Speaker 1: is it just running by guys or does he have
Speaker 1: some nuance to his game and his route running to
Speaker 1: create separation That isn't just I'm just gonna run past you.
Speaker 3: This is a very good contextual point. It's it's the ladder.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's both, but it's you know, including the ladder.
Speaker 3: He is a very good route runner. He has both
Speaker 3: the agility and the speed, but he also has a
Speaker 3: very good understanding of the route running and he can
Speaker 3: get that separation at all levels of the field. Like
Speaker 3: it's not like a two to two at well thing
Speaker 3: where it's just like you know, using the speed and
Speaker 3: then everything has to come off of it, right. He
Speaker 3: knows how to run the route and he knows how
Speaker 3: to set up defenders using that athleticism. He knows he
Speaker 3: has one hundred mile prower fastball, and he knows defenders
Speaker 3: are sitting back, you know, they have to sit back
Speaker 3: on their heels. You're gonna blow it by him. So
Speaker 3: he'll play off of that, and he'll also alter his
Speaker 3: tempo as well. So he has a really good feel
Speaker 3: for that and he naturally gets the separation because of that.
Speaker 3: That's why he got pounded with his many targets by
Speaker 3: quinn Ewers as he did. You look at it, Donnay Mitchell,
Speaker 3: another receiver in this class. You know, he's another physical freak,
Speaker 3: six foot four, two hundred pounds whatever. He ran a
Speaker 3: four to three. People wonder why did Donna Mitchell, being
Speaker 3: a physical freak, why did he get his few targets
Speaker 3: as he did. What's because Xavier Worthy's open on everything.
Speaker 4: That's why.
Speaker 3: So I think Xavier Worthy, with that performance, you know,
Speaker 3: and with what he put out on tape everything like that,
Speaker 3: he has absolutely put himself in contention to go late
Speaker 3: in the first round. And I think the chiefs are
Speaker 3: you know, that's it's like the siren there. It's like
Speaker 3: you have the free space at the front of the
Speaker 3: first round with the bears of Caleb Williams that I
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna be putting Xavier Worthy there at the
Speaker 3: number thirty two spot.
Speaker 1: So here's my worry. All of these Olympic level speed
Speaker 1: guys who come to the NFL.
Speaker 4: They never work out.
Speaker 1: I mean like never, you know, when you're this fast,
Speaker 1: it almost seems like it's worked against a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys going all the way back down like Willie
Speaker 1: Galdon stuff. Right, So it fe like a lot of
Speaker 1: most of the players that this kind of speed have
Speaker 1: our one trick ponies. You know, I run straight and
Speaker 1: I run fast, and they haven't developed enough of the
Speaker 1: rest of their game to be anything more than almost
Speaker 1: trick play guys. You know, they're two catches a game
Speaker 1: and you hope to God that you're starting in your
Speaker 1: fantasy league and in one that one game every two
Speaker 1: months that he catches that deep pass on. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're telling me that Xavier Worthy's got a much more rounded,
Speaker 1: complete game than most of the John Rosses in this world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because a lot of those guys were straight line guys, right,
Speaker 3: like the Darius Hayward Bays or the locally speaking Vikings
Speaker 3: fans ear muffs Troy Williamson. Yeah, like you were talking
Speaker 3: about guys like that where it was pure pop the top,
Speaker 3: you know, run deep guys. Worthy, it's the all three
Speaker 3: level thing, right, Like you know that the play, you
Speaker 3: know the Alabama play, you know, I'm talking about play
Speaker 3: where he dropped, but they were using him at the
Speaker 3: goal line, Like he's a small receiver you can use
Speaker 3: at the goal line because if there's only one guy
Speaker 3: on that side of the field, he will shake him like,
Speaker 3: he will fake inside and the guy will bite and
Speaker 3: then he can go towards the boundary. He's going to
Speaker 3: be by himself. The agility is the thing in conjunction
Speaker 3: with the speed with Worthy, and also he's not he
Speaker 3: is pine size in terms of the weight and the
Speaker 3: bill with that, but he's stretched out with it where
Speaker 3: he's six feet tall even though he's one hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty five pounds, So you have a little bit more
Speaker 3: of the catch right five. Yeah, I mean, he very
Speaker 3: very skinny, but you know.
Speaker 1: The build is it's not quite as.
Speaker 3: Like you know, it's more like DeVonta Smith, you know,
Speaker 3: than some of those other guys. And again it's not
Speaker 3: just the pure downfield type thing. He can win at
Speaker 3: all three levels.
Speaker 1: Do you have a comp for Xavier Worthy because he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a guy who's got a lot.
Speaker 3: Of comps in the NFL. The best one I got
Speaker 3: right now is Tank Dell because it's the guy that
Speaker 3: can win at all three levels. But he is faster
Speaker 3: than Tank Dell and he's taller. I don't have a
Speaker 3: perfect one yet, but that's that's a close one I got.
Speaker 1: I struggle to find one based on on the player
Speaker 1: we're describing. Yeah, all right, let's transition over to bo
Speaker 1: Nix's receiver, Troy Franklin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trey Franklin goes to the combine. In the sports books,
Speaker 3: they had him with a low four to three forty
Speaker 3: with the props and he disappointed a little bit in
Speaker 3: running the four to four to one only. I mean
Speaker 3: it's it's a fast time.
Speaker 1: But totally NFL serviceable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Franklin was one seventy six, so he's a
Speaker 3: little bit on the lighter side, although he did he
Speaker 3: did come in at six foot two. Explosion is is
Speaker 3: the part of his game, you know, explosive plays. But
Speaker 3: with the four to four one, he also had a
Speaker 3: ten year it split of one six one, which is
Speaker 3: a little bit elevated as well. He had the six
Speaker 3: nine three cone. The overall raz was eight one eight.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he gives you the explosive plays in that
Speaker 3: Oregon offense can win at all three levels. He did
Speaker 3: there makes people miss. But yeah, the body build is
Speaker 3: the thing that concerns you a little bit in conjunction
Speaker 3: with with the testing profile. I like his game though
Speaker 3: he's a little bit of a contortionist, you know, in
Speaker 3: terms of that like around the sidelines. I really like
Speaker 3: the body control. I like the ball skills in terms
Speaker 3: of like you know, with the with his body type
Speaker 3: that you know, the contortionists, the ball skills, everything like that.
Speaker 3: I like his game, but that I would have liked
Speaker 3: to see him test just a little bit better than
Speaker 3: he ended up doing. Uh, that's why I have him
Speaker 3: right now at wide receiver seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, are we talking about a player who can get
Speaker 1: separation from others? So is he got that kind of footwork?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had him come to Jamison Williams before
Speaker 3: the combine. But the speed isn't quite that good, so
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to bring that
Speaker 3: back just a little bit. But yeah, that's that was
Speaker 3: sort of where I was at before. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I mean, he can separate, but this is you have
Speaker 3: to separate him from Oregon's offense right where it was
Speaker 3: like you had a lot of those quick hitting concepts
Speaker 3: and then you know, people the defense would start coming
Speaker 3: up because we're not gonna let you do the screen
Speaker 3: pass right away again, and then he would get the
Speaker 3: free one on one shot, you know, deeper down the field.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you have to there's some projection that is,
Speaker 3: you know, you have to do with this in the
Speaker 3: same way you have to do with Bonex, you know,
Speaker 3: and and and the other way with it. But I
Speaker 3: do I think Troy Franklin's the guy where it projects
Speaker 3: more favorably, for instance, than Bonex going to the next level.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Florida State's Keon Coleman. I
Speaker 1: I've got nothing I can't tell. I couldn't pick him
Speaker 1: out of a out of a I don't know, a
Speaker 1: lineup with minow Ball and Muggsy Bogs.
Speaker 3: Keon Coleman had a very interesting combine where he runs
Speaker 3: a four to six one forty. But he ran the
Speaker 3: fastest gauntlet time last year. The guy who ran you
Speaker 3: know the the you know where they're running through and
Speaker 3: then they're throwing him the passes on both sides and
Speaker 3: they have to the guy who you know who ran
Speaker 3: the fastest gauntlet last year, and the receivers no, a
Speaker 3: guy named Pukina Kua no kiddy. Yeah wow Again. It
Speaker 3: was also near the bottom in the forty time. Further so, right,
Speaker 3: and Keon Coleman. It must be said, the other tests
Speaker 3: that he did was very very good. He had the
Speaker 3: thirty eight vert. He his broad was over ten feet
Speaker 3: nine to one eight raz overall, he obviously brings the
Speaker 3: big size over six three, two hundred and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 3: He started at Michigan State, not only on the football team,
Speaker 3: he played basketball for tom Izzo. Wow, it was a
Speaker 3: very good basketball recruit. That's part where the vertical comes in.
Speaker 3: And you see this in his game downfield, you are
Speaker 3: not getting higher than Keyon Coleman if you know, you
Speaker 3: talk about a rebounder down the field, very good with
Speaker 3: the body positioning. But also you know, again you're not
Speaker 3: getting higher than him. He's a high point pointer all
Speaker 3: day long. I compare him to t Higgins. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of the same kind of thing. Another cool thing
Speaker 3: where you see the manifestation of his hops. You'll see,
Speaker 3: you know, where he gets the ball near the sidelines,
Speaker 3: especially shorter, down in the field, whatever where he'll hop.
Speaker 3: Guys they try to go low, take out his knees,
Speaker 3: he will hurdle them and then they keep trucking down
Speaker 3: the field. So he has stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, the one part of his profile you know
Speaker 1: that you wonder about.
Speaker 3: He's sort of a raw route runner right now, in
Speaker 3: part because the agility is not quite as good. That's
Speaker 3: the one part of his athletic profile that's not as good.
Speaker 3: But I love the ball skills. I love his hands.
Speaker 3: Last year down the stretch, that's where people started to
Speaker 3: nitpick his game a little bit. He got hurt in
Speaker 3: the middle of November. Then Jordan Travis gets hurt in
Speaker 3: the last couple of games of Florida State. They were
Speaker 3: playing guys that should not have been on an FBS field.
Speaker 3: They were forcing balls at key On Coleman. That here's
Speaker 3: a crazy staff where he charged key On Coleman. Last year,
Speaker 3: he was targeted eighty seven times by the PFF charting.
Speaker 3: Only fifty five of those eighty seven targets were considered catchable.
Speaker 4: Geez, how many catches he have?
Speaker 1: You know, fifty I got fifty of the fifty five
Speaker 1: catchable passes.
Speaker 3: So I mean there are people out there that really
Speaker 3: nitpick his game last year and he it was disappointing
Speaker 3: for you know, he came from Michigan State. A lot
Speaker 3: of people over the offseason. This is going to be
Speaker 3: his break all year. He's a first round guy, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera. He had a down year on a playoff
Speaker 3: contending team. But that is the context. He got hurt
Speaker 3: early November. He missed the game. Right when he comes back,
Speaker 3: Jordan Travis gets hurt. The last month of his season
Speaker 3: was basically a wash for this reason the targets he
Speaker 3: was getting after he came back where they were not
Speaker 3: targets at all. He was getting thrown to by a
Speaker 3: kid who was just out of the high school prom
Speaker 3: shouldn't have been on the field. Eleven of his fifty
Speaker 3: catches last year were touchdowns. Most of the other ones
Speaker 3: were first downs. That kid can play absolutely. Like I said,
Speaker 3: t Higgins is who I see in the NFL. Like
Speaker 3: I like that conference Keon Coleman. One player.
Speaker 1: While we're talking Florida football, Let's go to Florida. Ricky
Speaker 1: one player left. Ricky Pearsall. Ricky Pearsall kid. I talked
Speaker 1: to him mobile. I really like that kid.
Speaker 3: Super duper nice kid has some of the best set
Speaker 3: of hands that you will see in, you know, in
Speaker 3: college football. The last couple of years, he was a
Speaker 3: staple of the Sports Center Top ten. He had one
Speaker 3: catch against Charlotte where he went up, caught the ball
Speaker 3: with one hand, then he got crushed. You know, there's
Speaker 3: like two guys descending on him. He catches his ball
Speaker 3: with one hand. But he was like week after week
Speaker 3: he was making these like ludicrous, highlight reel type catches.
Speaker 3: But it's not just the highlight reel catches. He's one
Speaker 3: of the better route runners in this class. Has a
Speaker 3: very good understanding of that, shifting up and down the tempo,
Speaker 3: the footwork in and out of the route breaks, everything
Speaker 3: like that. He puts himself in the head of the
Speaker 3: defender who is across from him, and then he just
Speaker 3: puts the guy in a blender. He like, the guy
Speaker 3: never knows what he's about to do. It's like a
Speaker 3: chess match with him, you know. We had fun talking
Speaker 3: about that, different stuff. He's one of those guys who's
Speaker 3: constantly like doing little deeks with his upper body, you know,
Speaker 3: and then the other guy he has to sort of
Speaker 3: respond to it and then he's going the other way.
Speaker 3: Different stuff like that. Talking about his hands eighty six
Speaker 3: point eight PFF hands grade last season. Regularly spears balls
Speaker 3: outside of his frame one handed catches with regularity. Uh.
Speaker 3: He's extremely reliable with anything that you put within his frame.
Speaker 3: Cleverness on the routes, understands coverage designs, modifies his path
Speaker 3: to get himself open uh against his own coverage. Keeps
Speaker 3: working on extended plays to freelance himself open. Uh. He's
Speaker 3: he doesn't have the most sudden feet. But because of
Speaker 3: all those machinations that he does along the route path,
Speaker 3: he just constantly finds himself open. Very good spatial awareness,
Speaker 3: very good body control, very very smart kid. The thing
Speaker 3: we were wondering about going to the combine, It's like,
Speaker 3: is this kid just a kid with very good hands,
Speaker 3: a hard working kid, you know, very good route runner,
Speaker 3: but a yeah, just like an average athlete. He goes
Speaker 3: through the combine nine seven eight rasts geez four uh
Speaker 3: six six four to three code fabulous three cone. With
Speaker 3: the speed as well, this kid's gonna be shooting up
Speaker 3: the boards six as well. I think you can project him.
Speaker 3: I mean whether you want to play him in the
Speaker 3: slow which is where he told me and mobile teams
Speaker 3: were talking to him about. But he played on the
Speaker 3: outside in college, by the way, played at Arizona State,
Speaker 3: which Jayden Daniels. Then he went to Florida started. He
Speaker 3: was a wide receiver one for Anthony Richardson, then last
Speaker 3: year for Graham Mertz. He has been the wide receiver
Speaker 3: one for three different high level quarterbacks. Yeah, he can
Speaker 3: go to the NFL and I think start either on
Speaker 3: the outside or in the slot. Versatile kid. He is underrated,
Speaker 3: and I think he's moving up draft boards.
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsall, he basically just carved a bust for him
Speaker 1: in Canton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ricky Piersoll, Baby, where's he go? Where's his draft stock? Like?
Speaker 1: I mean, where where do you expect him to go?
Speaker 3: I think probably right now he'd probably be considered maybe
Speaker 3: round three, but wouldn't surprise me if he goes round two.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, somebody's gonna like that all the all
Speaker 1: the things you just described you had. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: you know, I'm jotting notes while you're talking, getting smarter
Speaker 1: on these guys.
Speaker 4: You didn't say anything bad about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I mean? What does Ricky Pierson need to
Speaker 3: do better? Why is he a first round pack? He
Speaker 3: had a forty two inch vert two?
Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, we like Ricky Piersall, like Ricky Pierce
Speaker 1: sneaky spot for your for maybe your third round of
Speaker 1: your dying.
Speaker 3: He doesn't accelerate quickly, that may be. That's that's one
Speaker 3: we're gonna add that in.
Speaker 1: Okay, can't accelerate extremely still, don't tell them I said that, Okay,
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