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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. Time

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Speaker 1: now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly source

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Speaker 1: for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and whatever

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Speaker 1: stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul Argie. Welcome to the first rookie

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Speaker 1: oriented fantasy football weekly of the year. I am Paul

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Speaker 1: Jarchie and co host today Brian Johnson. Hello, what's up charge?

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Speaker 1: First of many, right, yeah, it's gonna be rookie intensive

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Speaker 1: for the next two months, because that's you know, that's

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Speaker 1: the hot news. And then of course we've got we're

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Speaker 1: only a couple of weeks away from free agency in

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Speaker 1: full bloom, so the tampering period starts, I believe on

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth, so we've got that coming as well. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of potential big moves. Tee Higgins

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Speaker 1: might be on a different team in two weeks, which

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Speaker 1: would be pretty wild. He could be in Chicago, Bear,

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Speaker 1: I doubt that's happening. I don't know. I still can't

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Speaker 1: believe the is traded the thirty second overall pick for Chaselaypool.

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Speaker 1: Oh last year, Oh yes, that hurt there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of intriguing wide receivers. Yeah, you would rather have

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Speaker 1: yeah than Chase Claypool. That hurt, but you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be crying much for Chicago when they turn that first

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Speaker 1: overall pick into like three firsts and two seconds. There's

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Speaker 1: the perfect, the magic scenario for the Bears, Brian. They

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Speaker 1: go from one to two, pick up like a first

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Speaker 1: round pick next year and a second round pick this year.

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Speaker 1: Then they go from two to four and pick up

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Speaker 1: second round picks. They could just stockpat. They could move

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Speaker 1: down two three times in this draft and still get

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Speaker 1: impact players and tons of picks. The Bears aren't such

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Speaker 1: a great spot. Now. I have an off the cuff

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Speaker 1: pivot idea. If you want, we can talk about these

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Speaker 1: um the grades for like facilities and nutrition. Yeah about that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and doing right. I don't know if it's I'd never

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Speaker 1: before that I've seen until now. Well, first off Vikings

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Speaker 1: finally champions champions at something raise the banner. They had

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Speaker 1: six different categories, I believe, and the Vikings graded in

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Speaker 1: A or A plus in all six. It is important.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to it is important. Free agents look

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Speaker 1: at that kind of stuff. But it's the Commanders and

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals though, getting Cardinals and make their players pay

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Speaker 1: for food. I can'tnot my head around that. No, you're

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Speaker 1: paying these guys millions and millions of dollars and even

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're even like your your bottom of the

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Speaker 1: roster guys are like, you know, three hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: and you're danging them eight bucks for a chicken sandwich. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: and not NFL pro to even college teams. They feed

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Speaker 1: the media for free. Unbelievable. Yeah, you're like, wow, come

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Speaker 1: in after a practice, like it hasn't be eighty nine

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Speaker 1: cents for that granola bar? Kyler. Yeah, sorry, that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: we were ragging on like Moneyball in you know, the

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Speaker 1: early two thousands, the scene where David Justice finds out

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Speaker 1: he's got to pay a dollar for his own soda,

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Speaker 1: and that's their got right, And that's in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and I don't know's it is. That was. That was

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Speaker 1: what was the Washington grade for their traveling party was

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Speaker 1: F minus. Disaster franchise, and and then that article that

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Speaker 1: came out about recently about Dan Snyder. They're very serious

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Speaker 1: allegations in there, but one of them is he charged

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Speaker 1: his own tea Charged Washington, I'm gonna guess was before

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Speaker 1: they were football team. You know, their original name. He

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Speaker 1: put the logo on his private plane and charged the

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Speaker 1: team four and a half million dollars per year as

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Speaker 1: an advertising his own team. So dumb. I'm sure there's

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Speaker 1: think about it. He's got so much dirt on these

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Speaker 1: other owners. The fact that they haven't kicked him out yet,

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Speaker 1: where all the bodies are buried in the NFL. This

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Speaker 1: the we're calling this episode speed dating the first round

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Speaker 1: of a rookie draft. We've already established via early drafting

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Speaker 1: the rookies that are going in the first round of

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Speaker 1: twelve players, the twelve rookies. These are the These are

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Speaker 1: ten other guys that kind of are all but we'll

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Speaker 1: stands alone. Bijean Robinson. You want to talk about Bijean

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Speaker 1: Robinson As we get started, we don't have to get

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Speaker 1: into them too much if you haven't watched the Bijean tape.

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Speaker 1: And when I say tape. I'm talking about YouTube highlights. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And don't you know the best way, the best way

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Speaker 1: gonna get deceived on a lot of stuff. Watch full

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Speaker 1: games for people that you're players you're targeting. That's the

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Speaker 1: No running back has been drafted inside the top twenty

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Speaker 1: You know, Jean Robinson's the first pick, including super draft

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow coming out where You're like, dude, isn't It's like,

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Speaker 1: Bijan or your draft Bijean whatever for justin fields plus maybe,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can for sure. Yes, he is hands

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Speaker 1: be Jean Robinson. If you haven't watched him play or

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Speaker 1: watching the highlights, well, the things that make him special

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Speaker 1: Barkley did, like Adrian Peterson did. He falls absolutely the

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Speaker 1: second player being taken in fantasy drafts right now. Rookie

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Speaker 1: is Alabama running back Jimir Gibbs. He played one year

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Speaker 1: It feels that way. It feels that way. The third

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Speaker 1: player being taken is Ohio statewide receiver Jackson Smith in Jigba,

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Speaker 1: And first I want I think his parents, because in

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Speaker 1: to speed on Jackson Smith in Jigbo. Yeah, six foot one,

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Speaker 1: Basically the consensus rookie wide receiver one. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the forty in the combine. I'll run on his protey,

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Speaker 1: Dustin Jefferson's a four or five guy. Cooper Cups a

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Speaker 1: Cup though, Willie, I think he can run from all

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Speaker 1: But at six one, he's got the size to play

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Speaker 1: he's short. Flowers Flower, I said, Zones Jones, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a problem. This is not gonna be the first

424
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Speaker 1: time I'm gonna do that. Boston College wide receiver Zay

425
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: Flowers short, pretty thin, decently built though for a thin guy. Um,

426
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: he's the rare senior wide receiver with first with like

427
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: a first round upside. You rarely get the senior wide

428
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,479
Speaker 1: receivers that do that. Maybe because he played at Boston College.

429
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 1: I'm guessing if he'd have played and not that Boston

430
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: College is invisible. I mean, you know, I remember Matt

431
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: Ryan went to Boston College, where he's like the last guy.

432
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: Remember right now, Vikings had a defensive tackle with red

433
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 1: hair who went to Boston College. Took him early in

434
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: some draft. I mean there I Boston Colleges yielded some

435
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: good players. Uh, Zay Flowers fast, lots of big plays.

436
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: He averaged fourteen yards per catch last year, which is good,

437
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: but the two years before that he seventeen and sixteen

438
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: yards per catch, which is fantastic. Flowers is elusive, avoids contact,

439
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: and he's a finisher, which I love. Scored twenty six

440
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: touchdowns the past three years. I love wide receivers that

441
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: get the ball and then are working to get in

442
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: the end zone. Nobody better at that than Justin Jefferson.

443
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: I love that. And that's and Zay Flowers gives you

444
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. Mediocre ball skills, small catch radius,

445
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: he's not a big guy. He doesn't get a lot

446
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: of separation. We're out running. There are some negatives and

447
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers, but currently projecting with a lot of mock

448
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 1: drafts to go at the bottom of the first round

449
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 1: of the NFL draft. Some names you will recognize, of course,

450
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,360
Speaker 1: and also into Boston College. Doug Flutie of Horror, Oh, yeah, absolutely,

451
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: I didn't know this one. Matt Hasselbeck, Oh, I didn't

452
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: remember that, Okay, and Bill Romanowski. M if this is

453
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: an NFL dot com article. If Matt Ryan is the

454
00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: eighth best NFL player from Boston, true Donovan number two,

455
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: Art Donovan's at the Hall of Fame having you have

456
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: to watch Ernie stoutner number one. Who Ernie Stout Maybe

457
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: he's maybe he's awesome pictures. I don't know. It looks

458
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: like the fifties. Uh yet Tom Nalen center number three,

459
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: And I think I'm saying Romanouski. Yeah, Matt Ryan pastleback

460
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: o from Matt Ryan. Come on, that's Matt Ryan. It's

461
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: all the fallout from the super Bowl. In that Vikings

462
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: game they blew the was the thirty three nothing thirty

463
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: one nothing? Yeah, that's that's too bad, poor Matt Ryan.

464
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Matt Ryan can daub his tears with

465
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: one hundred dollar bills. So yeah, there's that. The eleventh

466
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Speaker 1: rookie that we'll discuss. Wide receiver case Sean Boote Boute

467
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe and Bote Yes, this is just a gift

468
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: from the name gods here. Sylvia has a nice long career.

469
00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: Keshawn Boute wide receiver wide receiver out of LSU six

470
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: ft two five still only twenty years old turns twenty

471
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: one in May. Really stood out as a freshman sophomore,

472
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: but last year he slowed by injuries. He's had some

473
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: off field issues won't dive into so his stocks a

474
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: little down. But this is the guy's a true freshman.

475
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: A few years ago people are like, oh my god,

476
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: he's going to be the top wide receiver in his

477
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: class potentially. So the potential is there just a little.

478
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: He has some injury concerns and again off the field stuff,

479
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: but no long term concerns. Really. He can lie anywhere

480
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: as well at six feet, should thrive from the slot.

481
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: Main strength is his ability to produce yards after the

482
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: catch wide receiver sixty one right now. He said he's

483
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: going to run a four or three forty this weekend

484
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: and compares himself to Stephan Digs. So we shall see.

485
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: He's certainly confident. Yeah, but yeah, you better be. But

486
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: there's been some pretty good wide receivers coming out of

487
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: LSU lately, so ken Boutet could be the next one

488
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Speaker 1: doing the gritty. If you're in a twelve team league,

489
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: dynasty league, whatever you're thinking about rookies, here's your twelfth

490
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: here's your twelfth rook game. And then I want to

491
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: just touch on two other guys, Ole Miss running back

492
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: Zach Evans, and I'm seeing vastly divergent mock draft landing

493
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: spots for Evans from anywhere from round two to day three,

494
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: deep into day three. So I think there's still a

495
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: lot of work to be done on Zack Evans right now.

496
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: But let's talk about him a little bit. He's tall,

497
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: but unlike many of the taller backs, he is also

498
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: a strong, punishing back. He's he's strained as hamstring before

499
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: the combines. We're not going to get any combined detail

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00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: on Zack Evans, which is too bad. But he does

501
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: say he's going to be ready for the Old Miss

502
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: Pro Day and he'll participate in that. He is a

503
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: tackle breaker. We don't have a lot of those in

504
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 1: this draft. This is the guy who's just stiff arming, slapp.

505
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: He's all over the place and just running down guys.

506
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: It's oh, it's so much fun to watch. Zack Evans

507
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: is a pulling up. Zack Evans is highlights is super

508
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: fun stiff arming spies. Yes, yeah, it's great. Technically, very

509
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: sound runner. I love I love his motion, I love

510
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: his footwork, I love There's a lot I like about

511
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: Zach Evans. The bad thing about him, you know, is

512
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: a big power back. He's you know, typically not elusive

513
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna get that um and his

514
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: past protection is awful and he's not a receiver. He

515
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: is a power back. But you know what, these the

516
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: guys who score touchdowns, and at the end of the day,

517
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: we want touchdowns. Zach Evans from Ole Miss very fun

518
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: to watch him. Now there's two other guys I want

519
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: to throw at you. Tank Biggsby has one of the

520
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: great names in college football. He is the Auburn running

521
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: back and let me tell you, I love this kid.

522
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: I pulled him up because of his name, Tank Biggsby,

523
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: and then I'm watching him like, oh man, this guy's

524
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: really good. Sadly he's not the power back like Zach Evans, though, No,

525
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: I wish he was a power back with the name

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Speaker 1: Tank Biggsby, like six to two hunty pounds I want

527
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: like a Mike Alstot. Yes, but he is. He is

528
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: the shiftiest back other than maybe Beijean Robinson, and it's

529
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: a different kind of shifty he is. Bijean Robinson is

530
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: more just like slippery. You think you got him, but

531
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: you don't. Tank Biggsby. It's the it's the shiftiness. He

532
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: has special moves. Watching him play, he'll be you know,

533
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: they'll be, they'll be. It'll he'll be running a sweep

534
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: and you're like, dude's dead. There are two defenders on him,

535
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, he is. He has

536
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: dashed between both guys, broken tackles, and now he's gone,

537
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: and now the speed's kicked in and he is gone.

538
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: Tank Biggsby is I'm I'm I am fascinated by this guy.

539
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: I think he is. I think he has the chance

540
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: to be very special. You'll like this. Well, the negatives. First,

541
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: he he's a little he's tall, kind of like charbonnet,

542
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: but he's not as thick because he's like six ten.

543
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: So he Yeah, he's Antonio Gibson almost. He's almost like

544
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: an out of position wider if we were playing running back,

545
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: great receiver, but he runs side. He loses power in

546
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,719
Speaker 1: short yardage situations. That's a knock on him. But this

547
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: is worth noting. Went to Auburn, by the way. Yeah,

548
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: terrible offensive line that ranked third worst in Division one football,

549
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: ninety second overall out of one hundred and thirty one

550
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: offensive lines. Auburn's was ranked tanks rushing grade though was

551
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: twenty second in ninety fourth ranked line, he was ranked

552
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: forty third and rushing he was nineteenth in rushing in

553
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty with the ninetieth so he had no help.

554
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: Essentially get it all on his own. So he gets

555
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: the right landing spot. Yeah, Tank, four point two yards

556
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: after contact for a player who's not heavy. I just

557
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fascinated by this guy, and we're gonna. I'm gonna.

558
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: I can't wait to do a deeper dive on Tank Bigsby.

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00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: Let me give you one more name. No, Anthony Richardson here.

560
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: We didn't discuss him at all. Um by the day,

561
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: by the way, I think it is growing. I think

562
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: it's because he's not expected to start in twenty twenty three.

563
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: Depending on where he goes. Many people believe that Richardson

564
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: is best suited to sit for a year, learn for

565
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: some period of time. Maybe it's half a season, maybe

566
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: it's a whole season. Maybe that's part of why. Yeah,

567
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud, they're expected to probably starts day one. Yep.

568
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: And when we're talking Texans, Colts, Yes, Pam Throws, probably

569
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: maybe Falcons. There are teams that were gonna draft and

570
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: probably start a quarterback anyway. And then Will Lets, who

571
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: we're not talking about today, but we'll talk about him too.

572
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: He almost has a better chance to start this year

573
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: as see in the league. Yeah, I think, no, I

574
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: think I think he does for sure over Richardson. But

575
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: but yeah, but Richardson gives you the rushing upside that

576
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: everybody wants in their quarterbacks. We just did a whole

577
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: episode on do you have to draft a rushing quarterback?

578
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: Richardson gives you the rushing upside. I mean, he's built

579
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: in the mold of the best rushing quarterbacks in the

580
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: league today. Yeah, that's how you break your scoring system

581
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: wide open. Yeah, he's got the he's got that super

582
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: high ceiling that we've seen from the Jalen hurtz Is

583
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: and the Yeah and Justin Fields coming on. Need some

584
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: help or work as a passer, of course, but yeah,

585
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: very excited. But again this year, I don't know, I

586
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: don't know, You're not going to get anything until the

587
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: second half of the year at that earliest. He's definitely

588
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: more of an intriguing you know, dynasty stash. But for sure,

589
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: the passing has got a long way to go. If

590
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: you're it depends on your roster, of course, and if

591
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: you think you're competing or not. But if you're in

592
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: desperate need of a quarterback and you're rebuilding, he might

593
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: be the best quarterback to take out all these quarterbacks,

594
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: right if you're you're not playing to win this year. Yeah,

595
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: it was down the wall, yea, So he could be special.

596
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: Now we thought that about Trey Lance. I mean, Trey

597
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: Lance was a similar situation, true, and he really hasn't

598
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: gotten his chance to be fair enough. It hasn't prove it,

599
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: but it hasn't. But it is what it is. Yeah,

600
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, I took him in one of my dynasty leagues,

601
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: and I've been just languishing waiting for Trey Lance because

602
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want the i want the rushing upside,

603
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: i want that piece of that offense. I'm like, this

604
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: is this would be great and now has not come

605
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: together at all, unfortunately for Trey Lance. Well, there we go,

606
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: speed dating the first round of the rookie draft a

607
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: little bit on everybody. Yeah, there are we'll talk. We'll

608
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: break him down by a position, later. Like you said that,

609
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: there are like another ten guys that could have fallen

610
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: in right after Bijon and Gibbs, and they're all there's

611
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: a lot of intriguing names out there and they're all,

612
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: like I said, they all kind of the same range

613
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: of outcomes. It'll be fascinating to see running back the

614
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: running backs in this draft, and that's what we like

615
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: it's been. It's been pretty quiet on running backs for

616
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: a while now. We haven't had just like a deep

617
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: running back draft for us for several years. There's fourteen,

618
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: fifteen guys that could have an impact year one, yep,

619
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: if they get the chance. Tank Bigsby, baby Ah. We

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00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: love it. Thank you for listening. We'll be back next week.

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00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some we'll know a lot more about

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00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: what happened at the combine. We've got some free agency

623
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: stuff looming next week as well, so there's plenty to

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00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: talk about. Talk to you in a week or less, everybody,

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