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Speaker 1: stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,
Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul Argie. Welcome to the first rookie
Speaker 1: oriented fantasy football weekly of the year. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Jarchie and co host today Brian Johnson. Hello, what's up charge?
Speaker 1: First of many, right, yeah, it's gonna be rookie intensive
Speaker 1: for the next two months, because that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: the hot news. And then of course we've got we're
Speaker 1: only a couple of weeks away from free agency in
Speaker 1: full bloom, so the tampering period starts, I believe on
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, so we've got that coming as well. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of potential big moves. Tee Higgins
Speaker 1: might be on a different team in two weeks, which
Speaker 1: would be pretty wild. He could be in Chicago, Bear,
Speaker 1: I doubt that's happening. I don't know. I still can't
Speaker 1: believe the is traded the thirty second overall pick for Chaselaypool.
Speaker 1: Oh last year, Oh yes, that hurt there are a
Speaker 1: lot of intriguing wide receivers. Yeah, you would rather have
Speaker 1: yeah than Chase Claypool. That hurt, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be crying much for Chicago when they turn that first
Speaker 1: overall pick into like three firsts and two seconds. There's
Speaker 1: the perfect, the magic scenario for the Bears, Brian. They
Speaker 1: go from one to two, pick up like a first
Speaker 1: round pick next year and a second round pick this year.
Speaker 1: Then they go from two to four and pick up
Speaker 1: another couple of first round picks and a couple of
Speaker 1: second round picks. They could just stockpat. They could move
Speaker 1: down two three times in this draft and still get
Speaker 1: impact players and tons of picks. The Bears aren't such
Speaker 1: a great spot. Now. I have an off the cuff
Speaker 1: pivot idea. If you want, we can talk about these
Speaker 1: um the grades for like facilities and nutrition. Yeah about that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and doing right. I don't know if it's I'd never
Speaker 1: before that I've seen until now. Well, first off Vikings
Speaker 1: finally champions champions at something raise the banner. They had
Speaker 1: six different categories, I believe, and the Vikings graded in
Speaker 1: A or A plus in all six. It is important.
Speaker 1: You don't want to it is important. Free agents look
Speaker 1: at that kind of stuff. But it's the Commanders and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals though, getting Cardinals and make their players pay
Speaker 1: for food. I can'tnot my head around that. No, you're
Speaker 1: paying these guys millions and millions of dollars and even
Speaker 1: you're you're you're even like your your bottom of the
Speaker 1: roster guys are like, you know, three hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and you're danging them eight bucks for a chicken sandwich. Seriously,
Speaker 1: and not NFL pro to even college teams. They feed
Speaker 1: the media for free. Unbelievable. Yeah, you're like, wow, come
Speaker 1: in after a practice, like it hasn't be eighty nine
Speaker 1: cents for that granola bar? Kyler. Yeah, sorry, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: we were ragging on like Moneyball in you know, the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, the scene where David Justice finds out
Speaker 1: he's got to pay a dollar for his own soda,
Speaker 1: and that's their got right, And that's in two thousand
Speaker 1: and I don't know's it is. That was. That was
Speaker 1: what was the Washington grade for their traveling party was
Speaker 1: F minus or something? Yeah, I didn't know there wasn't
Speaker 1: F minus. Disaster franchise, and and then that article that
Speaker 1: came out about recently about Dan Snyder. They're very serious
Speaker 1: allegations in there, but one of them is he charged
Speaker 1: his own tea Charged Washington, I'm gonna guess was before
Speaker 1: they were football team. You know, their original name. He
Speaker 1: put the logo on his private plane and charged the
Speaker 1: team four and a half million dollars per year as
Speaker 1: an advertising his own team. So dumb. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: some good accounting reason for that, but I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. They're not cooking. No God, no, no, man,
Speaker 1: think about it. He's got so much dirt on these
Speaker 1: other owners. The fact that they haven't kicked him out yet,
Speaker 1: it tells you he's got all the dirt. He knows
Speaker 1: where all the bodies are buried in the NFL. This
Speaker 1: the we're calling this episode speed dating the first round
Speaker 1: of a rookie draft. We've already established via early drafting
Speaker 1: the rookies that are going in the first round of
Speaker 1: rookie drafts and um and this includes like best ball
Speaker 1: re drafts that are already happening. So you know, we've
Speaker 1: melded in and we have found the first round of
Speaker 1: the rookie drafts, and we're going to go through the
Speaker 1: twelve players, the twelve rookies. These are the These are
Speaker 1: the most important players at least right now. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: of course no one's on a team yet and landing
Speaker 1: spot doesn't matter, but really, based on talents alone, these
Speaker 1: are pretty much the top twelve thirteen guys. I will
Speaker 1: say it's an interesting class and that at each position
Speaker 1: there's like two or three, maybe four, you know, standout guys.
Speaker 1: Then every everyone else in the position, it's all the
Speaker 1: same range of outcomes we're in past years at least,
Speaker 1: feel like there was three or four tiers at like
Speaker 1: running back and wide receiver. Fuels like it's the big
Speaker 1: dogs in some cases bigger dogs, and then it's just
Speaker 1: ten other guys that kind of are all but we'll
Speaker 1: get into them all. Like I think the running I
Speaker 1: think running back is from what I've seen so far,
Speaker 1: running back is super deep. I think this thing is
Speaker 1: like ten guys deep. But the guy at the top
Speaker 1: stands alone. Bijean Robinson. You want to talk about Bijean
Speaker 1: Robinson As we get started, we don't have to get
Speaker 1: into them too much if you haven't watched the Bijean tape.
Speaker 1: And when I say tape. I'm talking about YouTube highlights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And don't you know the best way, the best way
Speaker 1: for people at home that don't have access to all
Speaker 1: twenty twos and stuff like that, watch full games. The
Speaker 1: full games are out there, so you can watch every
Speaker 1: snap of a player. If you watch just the highlights,
Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna miss all the low lights and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get deceived on a lot of stuff. Watch full
Speaker 1: games for people that you're players you're targeting. That's the
Speaker 1: best way to real get a read on the player
Speaker 1: you're interested in. Agreed, but uh yeah. Bijeon running back
Speaker 1: out of Texas, perfect size, basically six feet two twenty.
Speaker 1: No running back has been drafted inside the top twenty
Speaker 1: in the NFL draft since Sequon Barkley went second overall
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Bijean could go top twenty. He will
Speaker 1: go first round. He'll go I think he'll go first
Speaker 1: round us as I've now mentioned like five times as
Speaker 1: in the off season. No way. I don't think Beijean
Speaker 1: Robinson would get passed at the bottom of the first round.
Speaker 1: The Bengals and the Chiefs, and if he falls to
Speaker 1: one of those, it's brain exploding. Levels or Eagles. Eagles
Speaker 1: are ye Eagles too, Yeah, right, Miles Sanders free agent, Yes,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles with their the Eagles would be out
Speaker 1: of the three, would be the least desirable because of
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurt stealing the rushing touchdowns and the committee of
Speaker 1: backs that they almost always use. But we talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about him last week. Right now again team TBD,
Speaker 1: but he's going bijan at the end of the first round.
Speaker 1: He's LAB four in redraft right now and in rookie drafts.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in a super flex league with
Speaker 1: no quarterbacks, this is the league you're still taking Bijean Robinson,
Speaker 1: no matter how needy you are at I mean trade yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not drafting anyone but Bijean Robinson with the first
Speaker 1: pick in any form, no matter what your format is.
Speaker 1: You know, Jean Robinson's the first pick, including super draft
Speaker 1: in two quarterback leagues because none of the quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow coming out where You're like, dude, isn't It's like,
Speaker 1: can't fail? You know, Andrew Luck can't fail. You know,
Speaker 1: there were there were guys that just everything looked so
Speaker 1: perfect for this player to make the make the transition
Speaker 1: to the NFL. There's not there isn't a quarterback I
Speaker 1: like that industry. And you can trade the rights to
Speaker 1: Bijan or your draft Bijean whatever for justin fields plus maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean you can for sure. Yes, he is hands
Speaker 1: down the number one picking all rookie drafts, regardless of
Speaker 1: former that we said. But that's about it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: be Jean Robinson. If you haven't watched him play or
Speaker 1: watching the highlights, well, the things that make him special
Speaker 1: are the footwork, the vision, the balance. You know, this
Speaker 1: is it he is. He can catch, he can run
Speaker 1: you over, run around you, run by up. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the He's a total package guy. He's the sae Quon Barkley,
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott, Leonard Fournette. Probably shouldn't have gone as high
Speaker 1: as he did, but he's gonna be a first round
Speaker 1: running back in the draft. You don't see it often, No,
Speaker 1: you're not, well, not anymore. Robinson will be. He'll be
Speaker 1: um uh potentially if it falls into the right landing spot.
Speaker 1: Be Jean Robinson can be the highest scoring running back
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, he could have a rookie year like
Speaker 1: Barkley did, like Adrian Peterson did. He falls absolutely the
Speaker 1: second player being taken in fantasy drafts right now. Rookie
Speaker 1: is Alabama running back Jimir Gibbs. He played one year
Speaker 1: at Alabama after transferring from Georgia Tech. He is an
Speaker 1: elite receiver, maybe the best receiver in this entire class.
Speaker 1: Definite three down back. They do not have to take
Speaker 1: him off the fields of the third down, accepting is
Speaker 1: the fact that his past protection is not great. He
Speaker 1: led all of college football in running back receptions of
Speaker 1: fifteen yards or more. Jamir Gibbs is very fast. The
Speaker 1: knock on Gibbs he's he's not small, but he's not
Speaker 1: big enough to be a powerful back either. So he's
Speaker 1: got to survive on a little bit of elusiveness and
Speaker 1: guile and him being slippery, which he is. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot to like about Jamir Gibbs currently going off
Speaker 1: the board number two. College football fans saw him pretty
Speaker 1: much every Saturday because he played for Alabama. YEA, Gibbs
Speaker 1: could potentially outscore Robinson this year if the right in
Speaker 1: a better landing spot. That's right. He's a ticka below
Speaker 1: when it comes to talent, but he's definitely higher than
Speaker 1: the rest of the other running backs in the class.
Speaker 1: It feels that way. It feels that way. The third
Speaker 1: player being taken is Ohio statewide receiver Jackson Smith in Jigba,
Speaker 1: And first I want I think his parents, because in
Speaker 1: jigba could have been pronounced a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: but it's exactly how it looks, which is fantastic. We
Speaker 1: really appreciate that boy. He has got some remarkable all
Speaker 1: ball skills and footwork. Talk to people, get us up
Speaker 1: to speed on Jackson Smith in Jigbo. Yeah, six foot one,
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds, pretty good size coming out of Ohio's state.
Speaker 1: Basically the consensus rookie wide receiver one. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the other guy in the compo very soon here. But
Speaker 1: as you were alluding to, great route runner, great hands,
Speaker 1: might not be the fastest guy. He's not gonna run
Speaker 1: the forty in the combine. I'll run on his protey,
Speaker 1: but he'll be like a four or five forty kind
Speaker 1: of guy. But that's nothing to be too alarmed about.
Speaker 1: Dustin Jefferson's a four or five guy. Cooper Cups a
Speaker 1: four six guys. I was about to run off their names.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup four to six two, Davante Adams four five six,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman four or five two, Seedee Lamb four or five.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no concerns there. His his pie in the
Speaker 1: sky comp is a Cooper Cup. He's like that kind
Speaker 1: of guy. They can just get open. He's gonna catch
Speaker 1: the ball. He's not gonna run from the slot like
Speaker 1: Cup though, Willie, I think he can run from all
Speaker 1: over the field. I think a lot of these can.
Speaker 1: A lot of these rookies can, even the shorter ones.
Speaker 1: But at six one, he's got the size to play
Speaker 1: from the outside. Um only played three regular season games
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, so that kind of dings his
Speaker 1: h prospects a little bit. But he had three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty seven yards in the Rose Bowl when not
Speaker 1: bad right right now, Wide receiver twenty nine, so he's
Speaker 1: right outside that wide receiver two range. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: in redrafts and Rady drafts. He's expected to be a
Speaker 1: starter getting drafted there as a wide receiver three. Whoever
Speaker 1: takes him, so Jackson Smith and Jigba will be a
Speaker 1: immediate starter or whatever team drafts him. Because some teams
Speaker 1: in the top ten is going to end up selecting him.
Speaker 1: Um have we haven't put landing places to these players,
Speaker 1: any of these players yet, and so you know, and
Speaker 1: it's tempting to speculate a little bit about where some
Speaker 1: of these players could go. UM, but if I were
Speaker 1: to put Smith in Jigba on an NFL team, if
Speaker 1: I think he's going to go in the top ten, UM,
Speaker 1: it could make sense for him to hit Atlanta UM,
Speaker 1: which you know is still looking for some help at
Speaker 1: wide receiver, even though they went that direction last year.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas at seven need some depth after Davante Adams
Speaker 1: and he would be cheap depth. Tennessee went wide receiver
Speaker 1: last year. They go wide receiver again at eleven. So
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of There's no Patriots at fourteen.
Speaker 1: They're about to lose Jakoby Meyers. They're they're constantly needed.
Speaker 1: If you want to tank somebody's career, put a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: If you're pulling for if you got some rookies on
Speaker 1: roster already, you've been a prey. If their wide receivers,
Speaker 1: they don't go to the Patriots because that has not
Speaker 1: worked out ever. The fourth rookie being taken is USC
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jordan Addison. Now, there is a kid who
Speaker 1: won the bullet Nikoff Award last year twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: while he was at Pittsburgh. Then he transferred to USC.
Speaker 1: He still did well at USC, but USC had a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons and they didn't rely on him nearly
Speaker 1: as much, so he didn't put up the same kind
Speaker 1: of eye popping stats Jordan Addison did last year as
Speaker 1: he did the year before. But an elite route runner,
Speaker 1: lots of separation through manipulation of defenders, an extra top
Speaker 1: end gear that helps him separate after the catch as well.
Speaker 1: The downside and Jordan Addison, dude is skinny, really skinny,
Speaker 1: and not at all physical. Basically, you touch him and
Speaker 1: he's down. But you know that that reminds me of
Speaker 1: those concerns from a couple of years ago, the Vante
Speaker 1: Smith liquid he just did. It took him, It took
Speaker 1: him a while to fill out that frame a little bit,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was the BMI concerns. Yeah, they are
Speaker 1: there though for sure. Other concern about Jordan Addison is
Speaker 1: like half of his catches or within five yards of
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and so you didn't get a
Speaker 1: real look at what he can do as as much
Speaker 1: as of downfield receiver, at least not with USC. So
Speaker 1: that's Jordan Adison. He's going off the board at number four.
Speaker 1: Bring people up to speed on the fifth rookie being taken,
Speaker 1: wide receiver Quinton Johnson. Yeah, six four two fifteen out
Speaker 1: of TCU. He's kind of the probably the most prototypical
Speaker 1: X receiver in the draft, you know, just your outside
Speaker 1: boundary guy has got that kind of size. Kind of
Speaker 1: looks like AJ Green a little bit. To me, I
Speaker 1: would take AJ Green's career. I don't think he's got
Speaker 1: quite the AJ Green ceiling. I don't claim to be,
Speaker 1: you know, a pro scout or an expert film analysis guy,
Speaker 1: but I see a lot of body catches when I
Speaker 1: was watching John Johnson highlights. Now everyone want the body
Speaker 1: catches in the NFL. Those defenders get there and they
Speaker 1: hit a little harder than they do in college. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's still likely he's gonna be
Speaker 1: most cases, JSN, Jordan asenor they're gonna go before Quinton
Speaker 1: Johnson and Quintin Johnson probably the third wide receiver to
Speaker 1: go in rookie drafts. In most cases, wide receiver forty
Speaker 1: one right now in re drafts. So he's in that
Speaker 1: wide receiver three range where you know you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: expect some production out of him pretty much right out
Speaker 1: of the gate. But again we'll see where he lands.
Speaker 1: Six player taken rookie taken. Is we finally get to
Speaker 1: a quarterback now? Obviously in super flex this, you know
Speaker 1: these players, all these quarterbacks move up potentially to pick
Speaker 1: number two. So but in non super flex, non two
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young. First here, everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about his size. It's probably the single biggest talker at
Speaker 1: the combine. He's six foot tall and he's thin. He
Speaker 1: had a rough, rough day on Friday. First he said, basically,
Speaker 1: he quote, I've been this height my whole way. It's
Speaker 1: just really it's a tough birth. That would be a
Speaker 1: tough kid to get birth to. And then while he's
Speaker 1: making that preposterous statement, someone not at the exact same moment,
Speaker 1: but someone takes a picture of him from behind the
Speaker 1: podium and he's wearing these sneakers that are like platforms
Speaker 1: thick souls. It's like, no, no, you cannot do you know,
Speaker 1: you know what he should have done. That would have
Speaker 1: been really really funny, is walk up to the podium
Speaker 1: with a big like step ladder and then get on
Speaker 1: the step ladder to just make fun of the whole thing,
Speaker 1: like a crate or something, and then you know, get
Speaker 1: on the crate. You can get on some stilts, but uh,
Speaker 1: I think that would have been really funny. He's drawing
Speaker 1: a lot more attention right now. It's almost worse than
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett in his hands last year, and it's just
Speaker 1: like came out of nowhere basically. But everything else about
Speaker 1: Bryce Young looks very promising, excellent overall passer. He's got
Speaker 1: an NFL caliber arm that can make all the passes
Speaker 1: that he needs to make. He's got tremendous pocket poise,
Speaker 1: very calm under duress. He has subtle moves in the
Speaker 1: pocket to buy some time, and just the pocket intangibles.
Speaker 1: For Bryce Young, it's the stuff you can't coach. Do
Speaker 1: you panic when the when the when the pocket is
Speaker 1: breaking down is kind of built into you. It's like
Speaker 1: a fight versus flight response. And some guys got it
Speaker 1: and Bryce Young's got it. Um doesn't make many mistakes.
Speaker 1: He's got decent mobility, can extend some plays those legs. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's you know, Bryce Young feels like the
Speaker 1: probable first quarterback taken in the draft. Yeah, we shall
Speaker 1: see you though. Yeah, that's it's still up, still up
Speaker 1: in the air. Yeah, well we'll talk about a couple
Speaker 1: of the other ones. Yeah. The number seven R rookie
Speaker 1: off the board in the early drafting, early fantasy drafting
Speaker 1: is running back Zach Carbonet, uh ucl Carbonet or Charbonnay Charbonnet.
Speaker 1: I think it is Charbonne. Some great names and this
Speaker 1: we got some great ones coming up. But yeah, he's uh,
Speaker 1: he looks like not a lot of fun to tackle,
Speaker 1: Zach Charbonnet out of UCLA six foot one, two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty pounds. But he's not just a downhill run
Speaker 1: order at all. He jump cuts, jukes, he can catch,
Speaker 1: He's got Bill Cow potential, and uh, I think we're
Speaker 1: going off football guys rankings here. I'm right with him.
Speaker 1: Where they have charbonnais RB three. You'll see some other
Speaker 1: varying opinions out there, but I'm I'm all in on
Speaker 1: Charbonne at RB three. I'm very excited to see where
Speaker 1: he ends up. Just he he's a monster, but he's agile.
Speaker 1: He reminds me of a like a mark Ingram in
Speaker 1: his prime, kind of looks like a James Connor two
Speaker 1: three down. He thought's interesting my because he's so tall
Speaker 1: and upright. I thought he reminded me of former Viking
Speaker 1: Robert Smith, without the Robert Smith track speed and acceleration.
Speaker 1: And I'm not worried at comp I'm worried a little
Speaker 1: bit because he is. He is very tall, I mean
Speaker 1: six foot one running back is you know you are
Speaker 1: at the high high slow though I don't know he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't run that tall. There's another running Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he does. But yeah, well, you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: look more at him. I've only watched one of his
Speaker 1: games so far, so I really can't say for sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent in on. I haven't watched enough.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot more wiggle than you would expect.
Speaker 1: The vision and footwork are good, but his acceleration. I
Speaker 1: want you next time you're looking at Zach Charbonnet, I
Speaker 1: want you to look at the acceleration. This dude is
Speaker 1: slow to get up to speed, and that could be
Speaker 1: a real problem at the NFL level. We'll see among
Speaker 1: running backs in this class though fifth in yards are
Speaker 1: runs of ten plus yards last year, so do like
Speaker 1: that he can produce. The eighth rookie Ohio State quarterbacks. CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud also a very interesting guy. Incredible accuracy he has.
Speaker 1: He throws the most catchable pass in college football Super
Speaker 1: High Football IQ makes all his reads. Some people are
Speaker 1: knocking CJ. Stroud a little bit, well, not knocking him,
Speaker 1: just throw cautioning. He's thrown balls to Garrett Wilson, Chris O. Lava.
Speaker 1: Now we just mentioned Jackson Smith in JIGBA. Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior is awesome. He's going to be a first rounder.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the guy has been surrounded by
Speaker 1: amazing wide receiver talent and he's throwing to open receivers
Speaker 1: a lot. He is not the same. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: the same kind of pocket poise that Bryce Young has.
Speaker 1: He can break down in the pocket a lot more often.
Speaker 1: And he was playing behind an amazing OSU offensive line
Speaker 1: as well. That may have hidden some, you know, some
Speaker 1: issues that c J. Stroud might have to deal with
Speaker 1: if he gets drafted by the Colts. And that crappy
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is a possibility. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: just an average arm talent. I mean, I think he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be his sweet spot's gonna be fifteen year,
Speaker 1: fifteen yards downfield. He's gonna be an intermediate level passer.
Speaker 1: I have some I have a little bit of concern.
Speaker 1: I'm not about six foot three, six foot three about that.
Speaker 1: That's right. The ninth rookie off the board wide receiver
Speaker 1: Josh Downs, brings us up to speed on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Josh Downs at a University of North Carolina, five foot ten,
Speaker 1: one eighty not huge, but uh he plays big um,
Speaker 1: serious threat from slot. But he can line up anywhere,
Speaker 1: supposedly as a forty two inch vertical. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: that's the that's high if you not know so, he
Speaker 1: can go up and get it even at five to ten. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's led all wide receivers in this uh rookie class
Speaker 1: in contested catch win percentage seventy five percent, where when
Speaker 1: you can jump forty Yeah, and uh yeah, he's got speed. Um.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were comparing him to be like
Speaker 1: a Tyler Lockett type player, which is certainly a compliment.
Speaker 1: Right now, wide receiver fifty four in redraft, so he's
Speaker 1: you know, he is certainly draftable and really like this
Speaker 1: is he's gonna be a good player regardless. It sure
Speaker 1: seems like but if he gets lands in the right spot, yeah,
Speaker 1: he could really like come out of nowhere and people
Speaker 1: can be like, who is this kid? He's incredible? So
Speaker 1: he's Josh Josh Downs. Yeah, we've got a handful more
Speaker 1: guys who are gonna get to Let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back in just a moment. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charting, Brian Johnson with you,
Speaker 1: we're going through the most top drafted rookies, the most
Speaker 1: topped drafted, whatever, the top drafted rookies. We know what
Speaker 1: you mean. Yeah that we're we're starting to get up
Speaker 1: to speed on It's we our attentions entirely on NFL
Speaker 1: during the NFL season. Now we go back and we
Speaker 1: start looking back at the at the offseason, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out which rookies matter to you, Which rookies are
Speaker 1: you're gonna be drafting come August for most of us,
Speaker 1: although rookie drafts start in some leagues, yeah may right
Speaker 1: off drafts many times. Yeah, standard, but you know, up
Speaker 1: drafting rookies right now. Absolutely, it's already happening. You get
Speaker 1: him at a much greater discount before you know what
Speaker 1: team they runs. A lot of people are free to
Speaker 1: draft rookies when they don't know where understandable. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a risk, but uh, great risk comes great
Speaker 1: rewards sometimes the tenth rookie too. That will discuss Boston
Speaker 1: College wide receivers Zay Jones, he's uh, first of all,
Speaker 1: he's short. Flowers Flower, I said, Zones Jones, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a problem. This is not gonna be the first
Speaker 1: time I'm gonna do that. Boston College wide receiver Zay
Speaker 1: Flowers short, pretty thin, decently built though for a thin guy. Um,
Speaker 1: he's the rare senior wide receiver with first with like
Speaker 1: a first round upside. You rarely get the senior wide
Speaker 1: receivers that do that. Maybe because he played at Boston College.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing if he'd have played and not that Boston
Speaker 1: College is invisible. I mean, you know, I remember Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan went to Boston College, where he's like the last guy.
Speaker 1: Remember right now, Vikings had a defensive tackle with red
Speaker 1: hair who went to Boston College. Took him early in
Speaker 1: some draft. I mean there I Boston Colleges yielded some
Speaker 1: good players. Uh, Zay Flowers fast, lots of big plays.
Speaker 1: He averaged fourteen yards per catch last year, which is good,
Speaker 1: but the two years before that he seventeen and sixteen
Speaker 1: yards per catch, which is fantastic. Flowers is elusive, avoids contact,
Speaker 1: and he's a finisher, which I love. Scored twenty six
Speaker 1: touchdowns the past three years. I love wide receivers that
Speaker 1: get the ball and then are working to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Nobody better at that than Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: I love that. And that's and Zay Flowers gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. Mediocre ball skills, small catch radius,
Speaker 1: he's not a big guy. He doesn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of separation. We're out running. There are some negatives and
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers, but currently projecting with a lot of mock
Speaker 1: drafts to go at the bottom of the first round
Speaker 1: of the NFL draft. Some names you will recognize, of course,
Speaker 1: and also into Boston College. Doug Flutie of Horror, Oh, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I didn't know this one. Matt Hasselbeck, Oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: remember that, Okay, and Bill Romanowski. M if this is
Speaker 1: an NFL dot com article. If Matt Ryan is the
Speaker 1: eighth best NFL player from Boston, true Donovan number two,
Speaker 1: Art Donovan's at the Hall of Fame having you have
Speaker 1: to watch Ernie stoutner number one. Who Ernie Stout Maybe
Speaker 1: he's maybe he's awesome pictures. I don't know. It looks
Speaker 1: like the fifties. Uh yet Tom Nalen center number three,
Speaker 1: And I think I'm saying Romanouski. Yeah, Matt Ryan pastleback
Speaker 1: o from Matt Ryan. Come on, that's Matt Ryan. It's
Speaker 1: all the fallout from the super Bowl. In that Vikings
Speaker 1: game they blew the was the thirty three nothing thirty
Speaker 1: one nothing? Yeah, that's that's too bad, poor Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Matt Ryan can daub his tears with
Speaker 1: one hundred dollar bills. So yeah, there's that. The eleventh
Speaker 1: rookie that we'll discuss. Wide receiver case Sean Boote Boute
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe and Bote Yes, this is just a gift
Speaker 1: from the name gods here. Sylvia has a nice long career.
Speaker 1: Keshawn Boute wide receiver wide receiver out of LSU six
Speaker 1: ft two five still only twenty years old turns twenty
Speaker 1: one in May. Really stood out as a freshman sophomore,
Speaker 1: but last year he slowed by injuries. He's had some
Speaker 1: off field issues won't dive into so his stocks a
Speaker 1: little down. But this is the guy's a true freshman.
Speaker 1: A few years ago people are like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's going to be the top wide receiver in his
Speaker 1: class potentially. So the potential is there just a little.
Speaker 1: He has some injury concerns and again off the field stuff,
Speaker 1: but no long term concerns. Really. He can lie anywhere
Speaker 1: as well at six feet, should thrive from the slot.
Speaker 1: Main strength is his ability to produce yards after the
Speaker 1: catch wide receiver sixty one right now. He said he's
Speaker 1: going to run a four or three forty this weekend
Speaker 1: and compares himself to Stephan Digs. So we shall see.
Speaker 1: He's certainly confident. Yeah, but yeah, you better be. But
Speaker 1: there's been some pretty good wide receivers coming out of
Speaker 1: LSU lately, so ken Boutet could be the next one
Speaker 1: doing the gritty. If you're in a twelve team league,
Speaker 1: dynasty league, whatever you're thinking about rookies, here's your twelfth
Speaker 1: here's your twelfth rook game. And then I want to
Speaker 1: just touch on two other guys, Ole Miss running back
Speaker 1: Zach Evans, and I'm seeing vastly divergent mock draft landing
Speaker 1: spots for Evans from anywhere from round two to day three,
Speaker 1: deep into day three. So I think there's still a
Speaker 1: lot of work to be done on Zack Evans right now.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about him a little bit. He's tall,
Speaker 1: but unlike many of the taller backs, he is also
Speaker 1: a strong, punishing back. He's he's strained as hamstring before
Speaker 1: the combines. We're not going to get any combined detail
Speaker 1: on Zack Evans, which is too bad. But he does
Speaker 1: say he's going to be ready for the Old Miss
Speaker 1: Pro Day and he'll participate in that. He is a
Speaker 1: tackle breaker. We don't have a lot of those in
Speaker 1: this draft. This is the guy who's just stiff arming, slapp.
Speaker 1: He's all over the place and just running down guys.
Speaker 1: It's oh, it's so much fun to watch. Zack Evans
Speaker 1: is a pulling up. Zack Evans is highlights is super
Speaker 1: fun stiff arming spies. Yes, yeah, it's great. Technically, very
Speaker 1: sound runner. I love I love his motion, I love
Speaker 1: his footwork, I love There's a lot I like about
Speaker 1: Zach Evans. The bad thing about him, you know, is
Speaker 1: a big power back. He's you know, typically not elusive
Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna get that um and his
Speaker 1: past protection is awful and he's not a receiver. He
Speaker 1: is a power back. But you know what, these the
Speaker 1: guys who score touchdowns, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we want touchdowns. Zach Evans from Ole Miss very fun
Speaker 1: to watch him. Now there's two other guys I want
Speaker 1: to throw at you. Tank Biggsby has one of the
Speaker 1: great names in college football. He is the Auburn running
Speaker 1: back and let me tell you, I love this kid.
Speaker 1: I pulled him up because of his name, Tank Biggsby,
Speaker 1: and then I'm watching him like, oh man, this guy's
Speaker 1: really good. Sadly he's not the power back like Zach Evans, though, No,
Speaker 1: I wish he was a power back with the name
Speaker 1: Tank Biggsby, like six to two hunty pounds I want
Speaker 1: like a Mike Alstot. Yes, but he is. He is
Speaker 1: the shiftiest back other than maybe Beijean Robinson, and it's
Speaker 1: a different kind of shifty he is. Bijean Robinson is
Speaker 1: more just like slippery. You think you got him, but
Speaker 1: you don't. Tank Biggsby. It's the it's the shiftiness. He
Speaker 1: has special moves. Watching him play, he'll be you know,
Speaker 1: they'll be, they'll be. It'll he'll be running a sweep
Speaker 1: and you're like, dude's dead. There are two defenders on him,
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, he is. He has
Speaker 1: dashed between both guys, broken tackles, and now he's gone,
Speaker 1: and now the speed's kicked in and he is gone.
Speaker 1: Tank Biggsby is I'm I'm I am fascinated by this guy.
Speaker 1: I think he is. I think he has the chance
Speaker 1: to be very special. You'll like this. Well, the negatives. First,
Speaker 1: he he's a little he's tall, kind of like charbonnet,
Speaker 1: but he's not as thick because he's like six ten.
Speaker 1: So he Yeah, he's Antonio Gibson almost. He's almost like
Speaker 1: an out of position wider if we were playing running back,
Speaker 1: great receiver, but he runs side. He loses power in
Speaker 1: short yardage situations. That's a knock on him. But this
Speaker 1: is worth noting. Went to Auburn, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: terrible offensive line that ranked third worst in Division one football,
Speaker 1: ninety second overall out of one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: offensive lines. Auburn's was ranked tanks rushing grade though was
Speaker 1: twenty second in ninety fourth ranked line, he was ranked
Speaker 1: forty third and rushing he was nineteenth in rushing in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty with the ninetieth so he had no help.
Speaker 1: Essentially get it all on his own. So he gets
Speaker 1: the right landing spot. Yeah, Tank, four point two yards
Speaker 1: after contact for a player who's not heavy. I just
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fascinated by this guy, and we're gonna. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to do a deeper dive on Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 1: Let me give you one more name. No, Anthony Richardson here.
Speaker 1: We didn't discuss him at all. Um by the day,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think it is growing. I think
Speaker 1: it's because he's not expected to start in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Depending on where he goes. Many people believe that Richardson
Speaker 1: is best suited to sit for a year, learn for
Speaker 1: some period of time. Maybe it's half a season, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a whole season. Maybe that's part of why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud, they're expected to probably starts day one. Yep.
Speaker 1: And when we're talking Texans, Colts, Yes, Pam Throws, probably
Speaker 1: maybe Falcons. There are teams that were gonna draft and
Speaker 1: probably start a quarterback anyway. And then Will Lets, who
Speaker 1: we're not talking about today, but we'll talk about him too.
Speaker 1: He almost has a better chance to start this year
Speaker 1: as see in the league. Yeah, I think, no, I
Speaker 1: think I think he does for sure over Richardson. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, but Richardson gives you the rushing upside that
Speaker 1: everybody wants in their quarterbacks. We just did a whole
Speaker 1: episode on do you have to draft a rushing quarterback?
Speaker 1: Richardson gives you the rushing upside. I mean, he's built
Speaker 1: in the mold of the best rushing quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: league today. Yeah, that's how you break your scoring system
Speaker 1: wide open. Yeah, he's got the he's got that super
Speaker 1: high ceiling that we've seen from the Jalen hurtz Is
Speaker 1: and the Yeah and Justin Fields coming on. Need some
Speaker 1: help or work as a passer, of course, but yeah,
Speaker 1: very excited. But again this year, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, You're not going to get anything until the
Speaker 1: second half of the year at that earliest. He's definitely
Speaker 1: more of an intriguing you know, dynasty stash. But for sure,
Speaker 1: the passing has got a long way to go. If
Speaker 1: you're it depends on your roster, of course, and if
Speaker 1: you think you're competing or not. But if you're in
Speaker 1: desperate need of a quarterback and you're rebuilding, he might
Speaker 1: be the best quarterback to take out all these quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: right if you're you're not playing to win this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was down the wall, yea, So he could be special.
Speaker 1: Now we thought that about Trey Lance. I mean, Trey
Speaker 1: Lance was a similar situation, true, and he really hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten his chance to be fair enough. It hasn't prove it,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't. But it is what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I took him in one of my dynasty leagues,
Speaker 1: and I've been just languishing waiting for Trey Lance because
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want the i want the rushing upside,
Speaker 1: i want that piece of that offense. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is this would be great and now has not come
Speaker 1: together at all, unfortunately for Trey Lance. Well, there we go,
Speaker 1: speed dating the first round of the rookie draft a
Speaker 1: little bit on everybody. Yeah, there are we'll talk. We'll
Speaker 1: break him down by a position, later. Like you said that,
Speaker 1: there are like another ten guys that could have fallen
Speaker 1: in right after Bijon and Gibbs, and they're all there's
Speaker 1: a lot of intriguing names out there and they're all,
Speaker 1: like I said, they all kind of the same range
Speaker 1: of outcomes. It'll be fascinating to see running back the
Speaker 1: running backs in this draft, and that's what we like
Speaker 1: it's been. It's been pretty quiet on running backs for
Speaker 1: a while now. We haven't had just like a deep
Speaker 1: running back draft for us for several years. There's fourteen,
Speaker 1: fifteen guys that could have an impact year one, yep,
Speaker 1: if they get the chance. Tank Bigsby, baby Ah. We
Speaker 1: love it. Thank you for listening. We'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some we'll know a lot more about
Speaker 1: what happened at the combine. We've got some free agency
Speaker 1: stuff looming next week as well, so there's plenty to
Speaker 1: talk about. Talk to you in a week or less, everybody,
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