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Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it's the last episode
Speaker 1: of Combine Reviews. We're gonna do the entire defense top
Speaker 1: one hundred on this episode. Buckle in. We have a
Speaker 1: lot to get to. Let's go ahead and start right
Speaker 1: now from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the Drivetime podcast we did the
Speaker 1: entire offense last week, and by the time you hear
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Speaker 1: of combine coverage boots on the ground in Indianapolis. But
Speaker 1: before the workouts begin, before we hear from coach, before
Speaker 1: we talk with the players and many members of the media,
Speaker 1: MANI members, let's take a look at the main thing,
Speaker 1: the players. We pivot now to the defense, which I've
Speaker 1: been pouring over tape over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and trying to catch up, as I seem to be
Speaker 1: doing every time this year or every year. At this time,
Speaker 1: I should say, it's been flipped the schedule this year.
Speaker 1: Defense front of the line for on field workouts, which
Speaker 1: means defense first. For media availabilities, which means I will
Speaker 1: only have a chance to talk to defensive players because
Speaker 1: our trip is Tuesday through Thursday in Indianapolis. But go
Speaker 1: back to the Wednesday episode for running backs and tight ends.
Speaker 1: The Friday episode we covered offensive line and wide receivers
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks, and we'll go ahead and do defense rate now.
Speaker 1: And if you're a fan of the podcast every day listener,
Speaker 1: you know the drill. We go through the top one
Speaker 1: hundred prospects on Pro Football Focus and preview, how I
Speaker 1: think they'll perform in Indianapolis, and how that could help
Speaker 1: their draft stock. Let's go ahead and start. We always
Speaker 1: go front to back, and maybe that's a little more
Speaker 1: indicative of how this defense will be built heading forward
Speaker 1: because in the past it was always built back to front.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Miami's pretty well stocked up front,
Speaker 1: so we're going to go through these positions a little
Speaker 1: bit quicker than we do the defensive Once we start
Speaker 1: on the interior defensive line, and there are several guys
Speaker 1: here that, let's be honest, we don't have to go
Speaker 1: too deep into their game because there's no possibility they'll
Speaker 1: be there when Miami picks at fifty two and they're
Speaker 1: not trading up for a defensive tackle. So Jalen Carter,
Speaker 1: if there is no trade for a quarterback, will be
Speaker 1: the first player drafted. Just an absolute monster, going to
Speaker 1: have a huge combine. Probably it's hop overall player consensus.
Speaker 1: That's not a quarterback. He's not mine, but he's still
Speaker 1: the top three for me. Brian Breese from Clemson, same deal.
Speaker 1: He kind of reminds me of Seeler. Absolutely absurd length,
Speaker 1: power and get off, and he could solidify a top
Speaker 1: ten selection with a big week, which he is fully,
Speaker 1: fully capable of. Siaki Eka from Baylor. This is a
Speaker 1: player in the group that has the best chance to
Speaker 1: shoot up the boards in my opinion. The way he
Speaker 1: moves pops off the tape. They had a guy there
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Bravey on Roy, who went
Speaker 1: in the fifth round. Similar style, but this guy Eka
Speaker 1: is three hundred and fifty pounds. He's encroaching on that
Speaker 1: unicorn territory. Kalijah Canty from Pittsburgh didn't watch a lot
Speaker 1: of pit this year. That's something about pitt games in
Speaker 1: the AC just not my favorite conference. I know he's
Speaker 1: a Miami product. He comes off the ball hot and
Speaker 1: stays that way through the end of the snap. I
Speaker 1: always like a baseline with a great motor because if
Speaker 1: he compare that with good testing, he could be a
Speaker 1: fringe first round draft pick. Mazie Smith from Michigan I
Speaker 1: really like his game. I'm partial to the seeler types
Speaker 1: talks about that earlier, big rare length and enough quickness
Speaker 1: to also one gap can hold a point in two
Speaker 1: gap defenses as well. To me, that's Smith. He's two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety pound player who can kick out to
Speaker 1: the five technique so very strong, which at two ninety
Speaker 1: you probably know that he's not got the same get
Speaker 1: off as some of the guys ahead of him on
Speaker 1: this board, but he can hone that and show a
Speaker 1: good ten split time. I think that would really move
Speaker 1: him up from this forty fifth ranking number sixty five
Speaker 1: Carl Brooks at Bowling Green. It's might sound repetitive, but
Speaker 1: he's got a chance to shoot up the boards as
Speaker 1: well because he has such a polished arsenal of moves.
Speaker 1: That's one of the benefits of going to a school
Speaker 1: like you know that's not a power school, power five
Speaker 1: school or whatever. You can get a lot of reps
Speaker 1: in and you can see that in Carl Brooks's tape
Speaker 1: heavy handed his hell and that's a great starting point
Speaker 1: for a player. If he can show some flexibility and
Speaker 1: pop and his movement testing, he'll be drafted very highly.
Speaker 1: Morow Ojomo from Texas starting to get into that range
Speaker 1: where I think interior defensive line comes into play from Miami,
Speaker 1: who has the fifty second pick. This is a very
Speaker 1: deep position for the Dolphins currently though so maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't think Ojomo will blow the doors off the combine.
Speaker 1: He won frequently again with length, effort and quick reads
Speaker 1: against the running game. Number seventy two overall on PFF's
Speaker 1: top one hundred. As a player I like a lot.
Speaker 1: Keanu Benton from Wisconsin dominant week at the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: and that's where you saw his game translate to what
Speaker 1: should be a really good combine for him because he
Speaker 1: plays with exceptional pad level under guys and got significant
Speaker 1: knockback all week long, and that translates to me to
Speaker 1: really good times on the ten split, the maybe even
Speaker 1: the forty, but also the broad and vertical jumps. Number
Speaker 1: seventy three. The very next player on their list is
Speaker 1: Gerson Newton from Illinois. I've only watched Illinois because they
Speaker 1: have an absolute stud at safety we'll talk about here
Speaker 1: in a second, but just perusing the Draft Network, they
Speaker 1: expect him to have a big time workout. He plays
Speaker 1: with speed and quickness at just two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: five pounds on the interior. If you're gonna play that
Speaker 1: light inside, you'd better be able to scoot. Number eighty
Speaker 1: two KeAndre Coburn from Texas. Always nice when you can
Speaker 1: watch two players on one tape next to each other.
Speaker 1: I probably preferred Coburn's tape to Ojomo's for the projection
Speaker 1: of his game to the next level. We'll see how
Speaker 1: he tests an indie. Number eighth. Jacqueline Roy from LSU
Speaker 1: I love this dude's game. I think the combine will
Speaker 1: greatly improve the draft standing from eighty nine upwards. He's
Speaker 1: going to blow the doors off indie, twitchy, explosive, get off,
Speaker 1: lateral agility. I expect his RAS scorecard to be covered
Speaker 1: in green, which is the upper echelon of every percentile.
Speaker 1: Ninety four. Gervon Dexter from Florida played a lot of
Speaker 1: zero technique at Florida, and he has a very unique
Speaker 1: build for it. He's not your events will fork like
Speaker 1: your squatting body. He's kind of high cut, like you
Speaker 1: would see at a defensive end, but he can really
Speaker 1: play low with all that power that he generates from
Speaker 1: that bass, and I think you're gonna see him near
Speaker 1: the top of the board in the vertical jump among
Speaker 1: all interior defensive lineman. We go back to the acc
Speaker 1: and wake force for Kobe Turner, number ninety eight. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch a lot of wake this year. I certainly
Speaker 1: haven't watched any tape, but I did see some clips
Speaker 1: of him working around blocks in the running game. And
Speaker 1: he has a super super quick first step, so the
Speaker 1: shuttle ten split three cone. Keep an eye on that
Speaker 1: for him. And if you're bored right now, because these
Speaker 1: names are not doing it for you, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go by each position here. I promise it gets a
Speaker 1: little bit more intriguing as we go along, because I
Speaker 1: think as you get deeper into the Dolphins defense, that's
Speaker 1: where you start seeing some needs and some potential to
Speaker 1: add some pieces there. But tons of names here, and
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the more interesting position
Speaker 1: groups to look at this offseason for Miami because I
Speaker 1: think you can argue that the defensive line is the
Speaker 1: best position group on the Dolphins roster. Seeler only has
Speaker 1: one more year left on his deal, though, and he's
Speaker 1: going to get a pay raise. He's played really well,
Speaker 1: especially in comparison to that contract. Wilkins currently on that
Speaker 1: fifth year option, though Chris Greer did mention their desire
Speaker 1: to get a long term deal done. Ray Kwon's rookie
Speaker 1: deal coming up, and I think you got to get
Speaker 1: just better overall nose tackle play than you had in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two because John Jenkins is also a free agent.
Speaker 1: So there's a possibility that I think for a big
Speaker 1: nose tackle edition. We've traditionally seen big, dominant nose tackles
Speaker 1: make this defense go. So if you can feel really
Speaker 1: good about those three guys up front and create even
Speaker 1: more one on one situations outside, that would be a
Speaker 1: big boon. So I'm not sure these guys check that box.
Speaker 1: I think it might be more of a free agent.
Speaker 1: I think a Keem Hicks makes a ton of sense
Speaker 1: if he wants to keep playing. He loves Vic Fangio two,
Speaker 1: so I'm curious see what happens there. But it's always
Speaker 1: nice to be in a position where you can draft
Speaker 1: players to develop them for the future so that when
Speaker 1: contracts expire, you have that word. We talk about a
Speaker 1: lot on this podcast, and Chris were talks about a
Speaker 1: lot with the work Brandon Shore does flexibility right about
Speaker 1: how you can change gears or go in the same direction. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have this Plan A to bring back player A,
Speaker 1: B and C, but maybe player B got a better
Speaker 1: contract somewhere else or wants to go get more playing
Speaker 1: time somewhere else. All right, we can pivot and move
Speaker 1: to be and now we have a new Plan C
Speaker 1: in place of that. If that wasn't too confusing here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. But with that said, it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me to see Miami pass entirely on this position or
Speaker 1: draft a player relatively high. But that's the type of
Speaker 1: flexibility you want to have throughout your entire roster. Speaking
Speaker 1: of positions that are set up well for the immediate
Speaker 1: and long term future, the edges, defensive ends, and outside linebackers.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go through this group quickly after
Speaker 1: these words. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by AutoNation. Picking things back up here
Speaker 1: in segment number two. Staying up front at the edge
Speaker 1: position number four on the PFF big board is Will
Speaker 1: Anderson from Alabama. He's gonna ace the test. He's probably
Speaker 1: the best player in the draft. He's my personal number one,
Speaker 1: which means he's way out of our range. Number six overalls.
Speaker 1: Miles Murphy from Clemson another top five pick, and frankly,
Speaker 1: you don't have this high rank at the position if
Speaker 1: you're not built in a lab. He will test extremely well,
Speaker 1: then you get some drop off, and this is kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting place every year to me, in the
Speaker 1: draft of those teens and those twenties into the end
Speaker 1: of the first round. Lucas van Ness from Iowa. Watching
Speaker 1: a player like him, you can usually assume he was
Speaker 1: a two sport athlete growing up because there's typically this
Speaker 1: effortless ability to move and bend among these guys, so
Speaker 1: it's no surprise that he was a hockey player. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where his great ankle flection comes from.
Speaker 1: He's really flexible and can really kind of use power
Speaker 1: and bend together because of that lower half, and it's
Speaker 1: where his strength and ability to plant the tree trunk
Speaker 1: against the run really show up. If he tests well
Speaker 1: with his power the flashes on tape that he has
Speaker 1: at six foot five, two seventy, he probably sneaks into
Speaker 1: the top ten. Number twenty two overall. Nolan Smith from
Speaker 1: Georgia to me, this is too low for him. He's
Speaker 1: going to have a monster combine if he competes. He
Speaker 1: was injured late last year, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: he will or not, but he's a freaky, freaky athlete.
Speaker 1: Number thirty two overall LA two Lato from UCLA. His
Speaker 1: ability to condense inside and beat guards with quick on
Speaker 1: rushdowns is very, very intriguing to me. He gave both
Speaker 1: Washington schools all they could handle. That translates to a
Speaker 1: good three cone, which plays well in a system that
Speaker 1: has lots of rush games. That's what we used to do.
Speaker 1: It's not I don't know if we'll do as much
Speaker 1: of it this year, but intriguing player and an all
Speaker 1: day first rounder to me. Number thirty four b j
Speaker 1: Ogilargijilari from LSU. I think he too was a first rounder.
Speaker 1: This group has tons of juice. Man Ojilari has tremendous
Speaker 1: bend and balance around the edge. I think you'll see
Speaker 1: that edge leaderboard just littered with his name near the
Speaker 1: top of every testing category. Those LSU guys. I talk
Speaker 1: about this all the time. LSU Clemson, Alabama, Georgia. Those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna test well because they recruit five stars
Speaker 1: after five stars after five stars. Number thirty five Andrew
Speaker 1: Carter the second. Speaking of five stars, he wasn't that
Speaker 1: and he went to Army, but my goodness, he is
Speaker 1: a flash. Someone's gonna draft this guy on day two
Speaker 1: and wash him develop into a refined rusher and from
Speaker 1: there the sky is the limit. The Conbine was built
Speaker 1: for a guy like him to absolutely shop, speed, jumps, short,
Speaker 1: area burst. He's gonna do very well in all of those.
Speaker 1: Number thirty seven Will McDonald from from Iowa State arguably
Speaker 1: my biggest mover from Senior Bowl week. Had great tape
Speaker 1: all week long. Again repetitive, but I think that his
Speaker 1: times could, you know, beat even the previous two guys
Speaker 1: because he plays at a smaller size. He's long, lean,
Speaker 1: and explosive as hell. Kind of has a Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: build to him. Not quite as heavy, but that long,
Speaker 1: lead and explosive build like Phillips has. Number fifty is
Speaker 1: Mike Morris from Michigan. Another one of these power edges
Speaker 1: at Michigan. More of a play through guys who can
Speaker 1: condense inside type of player. I don't think he'll blow
Speaker 1: you away in shorts, but his power pops off the
Speaker 1: screen on game tape. Again. We'll talk about this here
Speaker 1: in a second, but I just don't know if this
Speaker 1: is a position where the Dolphins have to attack very heavily.
Speaker 1: Keyon White Number fifty six Georgia Tech. Unfamiliar with his game,
Speaker 1: but the Draft Network describes him as a first off
Speaker 1: the bus type of athlete, freakish athletic ability. Again, this
Speaker 1: edge group is going to test very very well. Number
Speaker 1: fifty eight Felix and d and a Duke Usama from
Speaker 1: Kansas State. The names get tough for every single year.
Speaker 1: Another player I have not watched yet, but I did
Speaker 1: read it his first step as his best traits, so
Speaker 1: keep an eye on his ten split. Number sixty one
Speaker 1: Isaiah McGuire from Missouri combines physical traits with a really
Speaker 1: fun demeanor. He's just kind of a badass. He's flexible
Speaker 1: around the outside and has a quick move to cross
Speaker 1: face inside. I think he'll time well on the speed
Speaker 1: metrics from USC. Number sixty three Tuley Tupelotto, again the
Speaker 1: Polynesian names man. They are tough at six foot four
Speaker 1: to eighty His game is more power in playing the
Speaker 1: run on the way to the quarterback so don't expect
Speaker 1: crazy times here, but his tape is really good. Number
Speaker 1: sixty four is Zach Harrison from Ohio State talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier. Earlier, you can presume with these schools you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a great athlete, and that's the case here.
Speaker 1: Five star recruit, lots of traits, size, Lenk, explosiveness. He
Speaker 1: stands a chance to shoot way up the boards this
Speaker 1: week in Indianapolis. Another one of those schools, Auburn Derek Hall,
Speaker 1: number sixty nine. His length is the first thing that's
Speaker 1: hands out, so they'll like him on the tape measure.
Speaker 1: He utilizes that length through strong upper body movement and
Speaker 1: heavy hands. Just didn't have a lot of pass rush
Speaker 1: reps to show the repertoire, so he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: work out well to kind of help boost his stock.
Speaker 1: Number seventy five, Okay, I have this one written down.
Speaker 1: Audi Yap Tom Yuwa Otto Barya not even close Northwestern.
Speaker 1: He's kind of an unconventional player. The tape isn't great.
Speaker 1: Unconventional build, but man, he has some really good physical
Speaker 1: traits in terms of how he moves. I'm curious see
Speaker 1: how he tested the three cone because he is a
Speaker 1: jitterbug up on that defensive line. Number eighty five Isaiah
Speaker 1: Fosky from Notre Dame kind of the opposite of that
Speaker 1: really great tape has tons of testimonials from his coaches
Speaker 1: and teammates about his character and leadership that he possesses.
Speaker 1: So if he times well, because the athletic traits aren't
Speaker 1: really what it is for some other guys, if he
Speaker 1: has a really good combine after a good Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: he can keep going up that draft board. And then
Speaker 1: number ninety three Byron Young from Tennessee. I think there's
Speaker 1: tons of upside there and we could see the first
Speaker 1: steps of unlocking that with a good workout in Indy.
Speaker 1: He's a former JUCO transfer who just got better every
Speaker 1: single year. You can see the physical skills and with
Speaker 1: more seasoning can play even faster. Another deep group here,
Speaker 1: but again with Phillips chub Is Ogba back this year,
Speaker 1: not to mention a wait and see what happens with
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram and Andrew van Ginkel. It's probably Miami's deepest
Speaker 1: position at the time being. You can never have too
Speaker 1: many rushers, though, and if you don't resign either Melvin
Speaker 1: or Gink maybe you do look at this group on
Speaker 1: day two, and that's why mock drafts prior to free
Speaker 1: agency and probably after two are mostly useless. But I
Speaker 1: tend to kind of pass on both of those groups.
Speaker 1: With the first three picks the Dolphins have in the
Speaker 1: first three rounds. Now, these next three position groups different story.
Speaker 1: Linebacker Number twenty nine Trenton Simpson from Clemson. Simpson can
Speaker 1: probably step into an NFL defense from day one as
Speaker 1: a sub package type of player and be super impactful.
Speaker 1: He's very versatile. He's an explosive striker who puts himself
Speaker 1: in those positions with both prep but also athletic traits.
Speaker 1: He's gonna jump out of the gym when they work
Speaker 1: out this week. Number forty one Drew Sanders from Arkansas.
Speaker 1: The best part about Sanders game is that he's kind
Speaker 1: of new to the off ball linebacker position, a former
Speaker 1: edge and you see that in his athletic profile bend,
Speaker 1: quick twitch from the new position. But man, he was
Speaker 1: so good in processing in block deconstruction, which for a
Speaker 1: guy that hasn't played that role to excel that quickly.
Speaker 1: It speaks to the way he goes about his business. High,
Speaker 1: high ceiling, player who I think is going to test
Speaker 1: very well, and I'm curious about him. If he can
Speaker 1: get down to fifty two, might be an option there.
Speaker 1: Number fifty one. Jack Campbell also probably an option there
Speaker 1: from Iowa. He kind of reminds me of Jack Sandborn,
Speaker 1: a little bit, a try hard who's just damn good
Speaker 1: at football. I think you saw the athleticism tests a
Speaker 1: little bit when Iowa played some of the powerhouses in
Speaker 1: their conference, you know, the Penn States, the Ohio States.
Speaker 1: So the combine isn't an event that will suit his skills,
Speaker 1: but he can play Number sixty seven die On Henley
Speaker 1: Washington State. Gokug baby. This is my preference at this
Speaker 1: stage of the draft. I fully expect him to destroy
Speaker 1: the workouts. He's twitchy, he plays angry, has exceptional range,
Speaker 1: going in all three directions downhill, backwards or sideline. The sideline.
Speaker 1: I'd put him as one of the favorites to top
Speaker 1: the forty ten split shuttle and three cone times. He's
Speaker 1: an ex safety who's a little on the lighter side,
Speaker 1: so he needs to have good times. But he is
Speaker 1: such a good player. I've watched him as much as
Speaker 1: anybody else in this class. Because I watch all their games.
Speaker 1: Man he is he is a hell of a football player.
Speaker 1: Number seventy nine demarvi an Over shown from Texas, another
Speaker 1: safety convert, fifth year senior. He's gonna have to test
Speaker 1: well because he's a two hundred and twenty five pound linebacker,
Speaker 1: but that shouldn't be the problem. But he also hits
Speaker 1: like a safety two, so he's got a fun tape.
Speaker 1: But he's a bit of a tweener. Number ninety two
Speaker 1: a bit of a drop off here to Noah Sewel
Speaker 1: from Oregon. I love his game, man. He might be
Speaker 1: more of a B gap to B gap plotter than
Speaker 1: you want, but damn he is good at it. Great size,
Speaker 1: the ability to play stacked backer from the jump, Like
Speaker 1: right away, you can draft him and probably have him play,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty five percent of your snaps in those
Speaker 1: based downs. He's played all over that organ defense. Is
Speaker 1: a true captain of it. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: he'll blow teams away on the board in terms of
Speaker 1: the meeting stuff. As far as the on field testing,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's where his best traits are shown.
Speaker 1: And the number ninety seven Nick Herbig from Wisconsin, the
Speaker 1: brother of Nate Herbig, the offensive limon for the Jets.
Speaker 1: I wonder where his best position is going to be
Speaker 1: in the NFL, But man, he was productive, a little
Speaker 1: bit undersized at two thirty, but he's got more pass
Speaker 1: rush pelts at most or than most at this position
Speaker 1: group eighteen sacks in two years. You could see him
Speaker 1: being inserted in some sub package like pressure packages early on.
Speaker 1: How he times and the three cone, the shuttle and
Speaker 1: ten split will all be worth watching. And then really
Speaker 1: quick a quick shout out to Henry to to to
Speaker 1: the Alabama linebacker. He belongs in the top one hundred
Speaker 1: for my money, could be a Day three suboption or
Speaker 1: sub package option straight away with room for growth into
Speaker 1: an every down player. I think he'll test well as well.
Speaker 1: Another group of Miami has plenty of their own free agents,
Speaker 1: and it's tough to project needs ahead of seeing what
Speaker 1: happens in free agency with Roberts, samuelgl Vaughan, and Duke
Speaker 1: Riley all free agents. Anytime you change the system, there
Speaker 1: can be changes. There are some really really good players
Speaker 1: in this group and this is a position that tends
Speaker 1: to slide a little bit, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with those guys, the free agents, and then also the
Speaker 1: development of Channing Tindall. That's a big, big part of
Speaker 1: this equation as well. Do you like him for year
Speaker 1: two or do you have to get better? But I
Speaker 1: like this crop and as always I subscribe to the
Speaker 1: draft good players routine and the rest will take care
Speaker 1: of itself. Let's go ahead and take our second break
Speaker 1: right here and come back and do the DBS. That's
Speaker 1: next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation, Final Combine preview segment of the Drift
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. Be talking draft all week though, with you
Speaker 1: guys and past Dolphins drafts, current Dolphins previewing the offseason.
Speaker 1: Trust me, this week of podcast is gonna be one
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to dive into. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: dive into the cornerback position here, an area that could
Speaker 1: be a need for the Miami Dolphins. Again, it depends
Speaker 1: on what happens coming up in the next month or
Speaker 1: so and what happens to Byron Jones's tenure here in Miami.
Speaker 1: I'm curiously what happens with that number twelve. Is Devin
Speaker 1: Witherspoon from Illinois as good as it gets. He's a
Speaker 1: tone setting tackler off the edge with island coverage skills.
Speaker 1: I think he goes top ten, especially after he destroys
Speaker 1: Indie this week. Number fourteen. Christian Gonzalez from Oregon talked
Speaker 1: about him a lot on the Friday College three Packs.
Speaker 1: I would do just You're hard pressed to find a
Speaker 1: smarter cornerback in the draft than him. He's got an
Speaker 1: excellent trigger, working on a zone and coming up and
Speaker 1: playing in the short areas, which you have to do.
Speaker 1: I think in this defense you see him one on one,
Speaker 1: he takes chances because he has the recoverability that stems
Speaker 1: from really impressive athletic ability. He's gonna fly and he
Speaker 1: goes six foot two, two hundred pounds at the top
Speaker 1: fifteen pick all day Long twenty five on the PFF
Speaker 1: Big Boards, Camp Smith from South Carolina. All three of
Speaker 1: these top guys are just football players, but unlike the
Speaker 1: first two, Smith isn't quite the athlete. Although he's a
Speaker 1: lock to go in round one, He's not going to
Speaker 1: have gaudy workout numbers, but man, his tape is really
Speaker 1: good out of the Dolphins range for sure. So is
Speaker 1: Joey Porter. Junior number twenty six overall from Penn State.
Speaker 1: He might be my top corner. He's right there with
Speaker 1: Witherspoon for me. I'm just curious see what his wingspan is,
Speaker 1: because when you watch him in press, like his knuckles
Speaker 1: are dragging on the ground. He has the longest arms
Speaker 1: I've ever seen at the position, and it really allows
Speaker 1: him to disrupt routes. I think most years he's CB one,
Speaker 1: but this class is just so good. Number forty six
Speaker 1: Keiley Ringo from Georgia. This might be the player who
Speaker 1: stands to gain the most ground of any player, not
Speaker 1: just at cornerback, but the entire draft and athletic marvel
Speaker 1: six ft two, two hundred and fifteen pound player who
Speaker 1: can roll baby. He has a penchant for playmaking, but
Speaker 1: there's some boomer bust at his game. Among the top
Speaker 1: ten corners on PFF's top big Board, he allowed the
Speaker 1: most deep receptions by a significant margin. He's very reactive,
Speaker 1: so he'll take chances. But I think more seasoning, more
Speaker 1: coaching and learning some technique could wind up being the
Speaker 1: best corner in the entire class. He has that kind
Speaker 1: of upside. Do not be surprised if you see him
Speaker 1: check in the four three's Number forty eight Emmanuel Forbes
Speaker 1: from Mississippi State. Nobody attacks the football better than Forbes
Speaker 1: in this entire class. He's picked off fourteen balls and
Speaker 1: broke up seventeen more during his three years in college.
Speaker 1: Got better every year. Exceptional eyes and recognition. Take none
Speaker 1: of those traits. Those are very important traits in this defense.
Speaker 1: Twitchy as hell kind of has some Bobby McCain to
Speaker 1: him when Bobby was at Memphis. Just twitchy ballhawk, played
Speaker 1: with a lot of fire. Could be a Day one
Speaker 1: slot guy if he asked me. And three cone is
Speaker 1: usually a big time for that position. So watch that
Speaker 1: for Emmanuel Forbes. Number sixty two. Garrett Williams from Syracuse.
Speaker 1: The prototypical press man corner. I don't think we'll see
Speaker 1: him work out because he had an ACL injury late
Speaker 1: in the year, and also those physical press corners, it's
Speaker 1: not really what we do anymore. I think we'll go
Speaker 1: more for speed, twitchiness, and playmaking a building in the
Speaker 1: back end. Number seventy. Deonte Banks from MARYLM. If you
Speaker 1: need a press zone corner, which Miami could use those
Speaker 1: this is your guy. Mirror match skills for days. Another
Speaker 1: great instinctual player technically sound so again on this theme,
Speaker 1: if he times, he could drastically improve his stock with
Speaker 1: a career full of great tape. Six foot two, two
Speaker 1: hundred and five pounds, he's smooth as hell, so fluid.
Speaker 1: I think you'll see a great three cone time from him.
Speaker 1: Speaking of great three cone times, Trevius Hodges Tomlinson from
Speaker 1: TCU is being stamped with a my guy stamp. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting name, you know. Under Gary Patterson at TCU,
Speaker 1: they had long been known for their defense and that
Speaker 1: defense that's built around their zone match principles. And nobody
Speaker 1: exhibited that better than and the playmaking skills than Trevius
Speaker 1: Hodges Thomlinson. Plus, he's uber fluid, oily hips as they
Speaker 1: would say. I think he needs the skills to clock
Speaker 1: good three cone time, to play in the slot, short
Speaker 1: shuttle and and ten split, to be able to handle
Speaker 1: all these great wide receivers, especially the two we've got here,
Speaker 1: and I think that THHT does all that. I think
Speaker 1: seventy six is way too low for him. One of
Speaker 1: my guys number eighty six, Tyreek Stevenson from Miami. What
Speaker 1: a great week he had at the Senior Bowl. I
Speaker 1: think that's about all about how you compete, and he
Speaker 1: showed that he could run with anybody down there. A
Speaker 1: big week for him testing wise, because you paired that
Speaker 1: tape with that temperament with good athletic testing. He's another
Speaker 1: guy that I think could rise up the board. This
Speaker 1: corner class is awesome if he posts good times. That
Speaker 1: eighty six is gonna rock it way up there, six foot,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pounds when he plays like it.
Speaker 1: But his recovery spitt the Senior Bowl in one on
Speaker 1: ones makes me think you might see him in the
Speaker 1: four fours. So again, this is a position that got
Speaker 1: kind of off the rails for Miami in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Just too many injuries. Never had our counterpart for X
Speaker 1: all year. You lost a need him who would become
Speaker 1: a super dependable slot guy, and the guy who I
Speaker 1: would argue you had the most up I had to
Speaker 1: potentially fill in for Byron out Wide was also lost
Speaker 1: in training camp and Troll Williams. But we also got
Speaker 1: the emergence of Katerkohu in the slot. What a great
Speaker 1: year he had. I project him to be a long
Speaker 1: time starter for us here. The free agent market doesn't
Speaker 1: have as many names as other positions, but I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the deepest corner drafts we've had
Speaker 1: in a while. This list doesn't even include Julius Branch
Speaker 1: from k State, who I think is a hell of
Speaker 1: a player. Could be a good group from Miami to
Speaker 1: choose from in the second and third round. A few
Speaker 1: have really caught my eye in this group. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with the safeties. Number ten is
Speaker 1: Brian Branch from Alabama long gone. You will not find
Speaker 1: a better striker in this class, far and away safety one,
Speaker 1: but you know what else. He played a lot in
Speaker 1: the slot, kind of like Minka Fitzpatrick at BAM with
Speaker 1: that star rule. Branch plays the run from that position.
Speaker 1: Like Tarn Johnson and Buffalo. He comes from distance from
Speaker 1: depth with a lot of explosiveness, and the finishes. The
Speaker 1: way or the way that he finishes his hits is
Speaker 1: what you want a football player. He's my pick to
Speaker 1: lead the way among that group and the Vert and
Speaker 1: Broad Vert and Broad Travis get through it. Number thirty
Speaker 1: Antonio Johnson from Texas A and M. Speaking of coming
Speaker 1: from depth, Johnson plays downhill like that. What is the
Speaker 1: tradition they do over in the UK or they chase
Speaker 1: blocks of cheese down the mountain and all fall and
Speaker 1: hurt themselves. He can scoot man like branch. He comes
Speaker 1: down and covers the slot. He's six foot three. If
Speaker 1: he can time will on the shuttle and three cone,
Speaker 1: he's a first round pick all day. I really like
Speaker 1: Number forty Jammie Robinson from Florida State, another one of
Speaker 1: my guys. Smooth as hell. He's gonna test super well.
Speaker 1: That all rhymes sound tackler, which is a theme this
Speaker 1: year from this group, and you see his shiftiness both
Speaker 1: on tackling in space but also in coverage. He can
Speaker 1: do it all. Really really a fun player. Plus he's
Speaker 1: played almost three hundred snaps or three hundred three thousand
Speaker 1: snaps in his career, so what you see is kind
Speaker 1: of what you get. That's a very productive player. Number
Speaker 1: forty two is Eli Ricks from Alabama. He plays some
Speaker 1: corner there, but you can see these dbs really transition
Speaker 1: to bull spots, especially with the length that he plays
Speaker 1: with and the physicality. He played a lot of press corner,
Speaker 1: but his long speed was not great. But he's listed
Speaker 1: here because law of folks think he will change positions
Speaker 1: because if he doesn't run you know, four five or better,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna play corner. So big forty for
Speaker 1: Eli Rix, depending on where he plays. Number fifty three
Speaker 1: is J. L. Skinner from Boise State. Finally, a different
Speaker 1: type of player. Think Kaiser White, that dimebacker type two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds rocked up, but he moves really well.
Speaker 1: Looks like a tight end eracer slash run supporter at
Speaker 1: the next stage for me, maybe what Eric Rowe kind
Speaker 1: of became late in his career. He always performed well
Speaker 1: against bigger bodied tight ends and slots, and if he
Speaker 1: runs like I think he can, he's easily a high
Speaker 1: round two pick. I talked earlier about Illinois numbers sixties.
Speaker 1: Sydney Brown, the safety from Illinois. He's awesome. Coverage skills
Speaker 1: at safety are such a boon, and this dude has him.
Speaker 1: The Internet tells me he got out to twenty two
Speaker 1: miles per hour on GPS readings at practice in Illinois,
Speaker 1: and the tape can kind of confirm that because he
Speaker 1: can fly. There were not very many safeties at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl who lined up and press coverage and stayed
Speaker 1: in phase with receivers on takeoff routes. But he did that.
Speaker 1: He'll have a big workout Indianapolis, if you ask me.
Speaker 1: Number eighty one's Jordan Battle from Alabama started as a
Speaker 1: true freshman, which if you can do that Alabama, you're
Speaker 1: a pretty good player and trusted and just never relinquish
Speaker 1: the job. He's not the smooth mover some of these
Speaker 1: other guys are, but he arrives with brute force, and
Speaker 1: I think you can blitz him. You can factor him
Speaker 1: into your runfit, and you can play him the hook
Speaker 1: zones and the curl flat zones and coverage. Plus you
Speaker 1: draft this guy, you've got a Day one special team's
Speaker 1: ace which should not be overlooked. Combine not going to
Speaker 1: be where his skills shine the brightest. That's his tape.
Speaker 1: Number eighty three's Gay Year Brown from Penn State, big
Speaker 1: time playmaker, built like a house, loves to hit. I
Speaker 1: think he's faster than he is quick in short spaces,
Speaker 1: so I would expect a really good forty time. But
Speaker 1: watching those three Conor shuttle times to see how much
Speaker 1: he has in the cod bag, as it were. And
Speaker 1: Number ninety nine's Jalen Jones from Texas A and M
Speaker 1: another potential position convert. He's a long, tall, physical press
Speaker 1: corner there at A and M. He's kind of like
Speaker 1: Jayyear Brown in the sense I think he'll fly in
Speaker 1: the forty, but I'm more curious to see how he
Speaker 1: works in the three cone and shuttle the stuff that
Speaker 1: tests your fluidity, which put him back at the safety position.
Speaker 1: I think you have to feel good about Miami's top
Speaker 1: two players here with Holland and Brandon Jones. Eric Rose
Speaker 1: a free agent. There's some intriguing free agents have to
Speaker 1: hit the market, like a Von Bell, like a Jesse Bates,
Speaker 1: like a Jordan Poyer, plenty of options in that category.
Speaker 1: You have to be smart and instinctive to play this
Speaker 1: position under coach Fangio, he disguises so well and that's
Speaker 1: why I love what Javan and Brandon offer in this defense.
Speaker 1: But it's also traditionally rolled with pretty frequent workloads from
Speaker 1: the third safety, both in big nickel and subpackage on
Speaker 1: passing down. So if Eric Row is not resigned, you
Speaker 1: kind of have a need there. Fene. That's it. That's
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