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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He
Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on Steelers
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. And Matt, there's lots of new walk drafts
Speaker 1: coming out, and you've sent me a couple of these
Speaker 1: things here. Thus far, we got some post free agency
Speaker 1: stuff here. The Draft Scout has put one out here
Speaker 1: that is interesting. Yeah, I think who does who does
Speaker 1: the draft scout stuff? This is Matt Miller's site. Okay,
Speaker 1: started on his own and then he got hired by ESPN,
Speaker 1: and he's got a sidekick that helps them. They do
Speaker 1: really good work though. I think this is good stuff.
Speaker 1: We all need a sidekick. Yep ye. So he's got
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers at one, taking c. J. Stroud out
Speaker 1: of Ohio state. That's seems to be where a lot
Speaker 1: of people were leaning with this right now. But I'll
Speaker 1: say this later this week. Bryce Young is going to
Speaker 1: have his pro day. He's about to heat up. Bryce
Speaker 1: Young hasn't done anything wrong, no, since the end of
Speaker 1: the season. He just didn't throw at the combine, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Stroud did. If Bryce Young goes down there and
Speaker 1: the ball never hits the ground at the Alabama Pro Day,
Speaker 1: and it probably won't and it probably won't, and you
Speaker 1: know he is he gonna run? I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's obviously he's a better mover than CJ. Stroud in
Speaker 1: terms of the speed and all that stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: the assumption that the Carolina Panthers traded up and they're
Speaker 1: just gonna they did that to go get Stroud, I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't know that I'm buying that, because they
Speaker 1: could have traded up with the Cardinals and potentially gotten
Speaker 1: Stroud possibly possibly. I think that they just wanted to
Speaker 1: get their choice, and maybe they don't know who that
Speaker 1: choice is one hundred percent. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this or not. But when Josh McCown was unemployed
Speaker 1: there for a little while, he did a handful of
Speaker 1: YouTube videos with Josh Norris from Underdog Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: were they were like twenty minute YouTube videos from what
Speaker 1: I understand, and you can find him out there and
Speaker 1: he breaks down all the quarterbacks and if you watch them,
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious McCown's favorite is Stroud. Well, he's the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. He's not even the head coach or the GM.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he has you know, now he's working
Speaker 1: for a team. He may change his mind. Maybe this
Speaker 1: isn't the best fit for our team. So the fact
Speaker 1: that Vegas odds has Stroud is a clear favorite, I'm
Speaker 1: not certain about that, and he would almost be willing
Speaker 1: to go right now if you look at it. Young's
Speaker 1: probably got I mean, you can get good odds on him,
Speaker 1: and he still might be the number one guy. I'm
Speaker 1: not certain Richardson's totally out of the mix either. I mean,
Speaker 1: here was that? Yeah, right? Is that you see anyone
Speaker 1: loving him? The team that used to have Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe they like it absolutely so. At two,
Speaker 1: detection steak Bryce Young. At three, Will Anderson goes to Arizona.
Speaker 1: But I don't think Arizona is gonna be picking in
Speaker 1: that spot. No, Will Anderson's tremendous. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's Miles Garrett coming out though. Yeah, you know, really
Speaker 1: good prospect. He has the cult. Steaking Will Levis four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sold on Will Levis at all. I'm not either.
Speaker 1: I mean, chances are you'll get two good starting quarterbacks
Speaker 1: out of this draft, and so much will be where
Speaker 1: they land and their personalities and all those things. Levice
Speaker 1: scares me more than all of them. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the tape just isn't good. This past year is bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not all the big excuses for guys. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a good sporting cast. There were injuries and
Speaker 1: excuses might not be in the right word. You know,
Speaker 1: like if I'm his lawyer, I could defend him really well.
Speaker 1: You know, the look at all he had to overcome.
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn't Ohio State or Alabama. Sure, but
Speaker 1: you didn't play well, right, You still didn't play well.
Speaker 1: You didn't play well. Right. At five years, the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks taking Tyree Wilson Jalen Carter falls to six. Boy,
Speaker 1: the Lions beat good Lord loving that. At seven, Anthony
Speaker 1: Richardson goes to Florida, goes to the Raiders, Jaylen Carter
Speaker 1: more and more. Reminds me of like Warren Sapp or
Speaker 1: Randy Moss on their draft day. I mean, those guys
Speaker 1: were Angels, but they went to the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: because they were the best player in that draft. And
Speaker 1: if you're getting at or seven. You know, man, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't get it. Yeah, Atlanta at eight takes
Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba. That would be three straight ten
Speaker 1: pass catchers for the Falcons or who don't throw? Who
Speaker 1: don't throw the football? I think everyone knows by now.
Speaker 1: The Cats out of the bag. I mean we, I
Speaker 1: mean I bring them up a lot a door of
Speaker 1: this guy, and I got no problem using the eighth
Speaker 1: pick on him. If you're a passing team for the ball,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Yeah. At nine, the Bears take
Speaker 1: Lucas van Ness, the defensive end out of Iowa. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I get the buzz. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of traits there, and I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: addressed this, but there's a lot of talk, well he
Speaker 1: wasn't even a starter at Iowa. Well that's there's a
Speaker 1: story behind that. Iowa has a tradition that the senior
Speaker 1: is going to take the first snap. You know, they
Speaker 1: just it's just a Kirk Farren's thing. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he was worse than the guy in front of him. Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: At ten, the Eagles end take Devin Weatherspoon, the cornerback,
Speaker 1: out of Illinois. This is an updated one, and he
Speaker 1: even addresses it in the right up. But they did
Speaker 1: just bring back Sleigh and Bradberry. I didn't think they'd
Speaker 1: bring both back. But they don't have a slot and
Speaker 1: wither Witherspoon can't play the slot he can he can.
Speaker 1: At eleven, the Titans take Broderick Jones, the first tackle
Speaker 1: off the board. He has it. Bredwick Jones surprised it's
Speaker 1: that he's the first one, but I understand it him
Speaker 1: and he looked good at the combine as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At twelve, the Texans take Nolan Smith earliest I've seen him. Go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get I get it. At four three nine four
Speaker 1: three nine, guys in defensive captain and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: everything that you want to see. I just don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, he is he a linebacker? Is he an edge?
Speaker 1: Does it matter? I don't know. I mean, they hired
Speaker 1: San Franz, defensive coordinator that had like the best front
Speaker 1: seven in the league. He's probably looking at Houston's go
Speaker 1: and we're going to draft him front. At thirteen, the
Speaker 1: Jets take Paris Johnson. I think it tackles vary in
Speaker 1: play here. If the Jets actually make the pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At fourteen, the Patriots take Christian Gonzales. Wouldn't mind him
Speaker 1: fall in a couple more spots. Yeah. Fifteen, the Packers
Speaker 1: take Peaks Peter Scronsky at a Northwestern. He just looked
Speaker 1: like a Packers lineman the more I think about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At sixteen, the Commanders take Brian branch God, which leaves
Speaker 1: the Steelers taking Joey Porter Junior at seventeen. Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean i'd still consider pre say, I don't think i'd
Speaker 1: consider any other Corners over Porter at this point. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a fine pick. It's just we've seen it so often.
Speaker 1: It doesn't move any It's uninspiring at this point. I'll
Speaker 1: be in my top seventeen, and I like the player.
Speaker 1: It's just when you see seventy five percent of the
Speaker 1: mocks mentioned it, it's like, okay, and then you know
Speaker 1: if it actually happens a little so I told you
Speaker 1: that was gonna happen. Everybody said that, all right, It's
Speaker 1: not hard to connect those dolls, yea. At eighteen, the
Speaker 1: Lions take Will McDonald out of Iowa State. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've really addressed their secondary Cam Sutton and then they
Speaker 1: signed Gardner Johnson. Imagine they got Carter and Will McDonald
Speaker 1: yeah wow, and Hunchins Yeah, to go along with Hutchinson.
Speaker 1: I mean, now you're now you're getting nasty up fronts
Speaker 1: a different too, you know. Yeah. At nineteen, if Buccaneers
Speaker 1: take Darnell Wright, the offensive tackle at a Tennessee, I
Speaker 1: guess that would be you'd be by moving Tristan Worth's
Speaker 1: to the left side. There's already been some rumblings of
Speaker 1: that whenever they cut Walker. So sure, I'm not to
Speaker 1: heck of a pairing. I think Rights can be in
Speaker 1: the first round. I do too. Yeah. At twenty the
Speaker 1: Seahawks take Jalen Hyatt, second receiver off the board. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's different than some of the others. He's got he's
Speaker 1: got a trade. Yeah. At twenty one, the Chargers take
Speaker 1: Bijean Robinson. There's been all this Ekler trade talk. I mean,
Speaker 1: he wants more money. Make a ton of sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure somebody would take Eckler off your hands,
Speaker 1: I mean and give you something decent return. At twenty two,
Speaker 1: the Ravens take Deonte Banks, kind of a local guy
Speaker 1: for them. They need a corner that adds up. Twenty three,
Speaker 1: the Vikings state Quentin Johnston. It would be a nice
Speaker 1: matchup with Jefferson and Hawkinson, you know, the Panthers. At
Speaker 1: twenty four, the Jaguars take Elijah Cancy. They really stress
Speaker 1: huge people in their front seven though, I mean that's
Speaker 1: a Niners trade. Who now was their GM? They took Walker.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess he's different than what they have,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure I see that fit. At twenty five,
Speaker 1: the Giants take John Michael Schmidt's the center at of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I understand it. Middle of their line is bad. They
Speaker 1: have two first round tackles. The middle linees bad. Plug
Speaker 1: in place center. Yeah. At twenty six, the Cowboys take
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers and he even recognizes that they traded for Cooks.
Speaker 1: You know, right, the Flowers is a slot. Now you
Speaker 1: have Cede Lamb, but I guess you move Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: outside and they're gonna have to pay a CD Lamson too,
Speaker 1: So having hours or five years cheap, but go a
Speaker 1: long way. At twenty seven, the Bills take Trenton Simpson,
Speaker 1: the linebacker at Clemson. There's some Edmunds comparisons there, I guess.
Speaker 1: At twenty eight, the Bengals take Dalton king Kade first ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: many people mock a tight end to sinc I have
Speaker 1: numerous times they just seem to like they're tight end
Speaker 1: needs of block though. Yeah, and that's not really bad.
Speaker 1: That's not his strength strength. At twenty nine, Miles Murphy
Speaker 1: goes to New Orleans. He seems to be dropping a
Speaker 1: little from these mocks and things. Whether that holds up
Speaker 1: or not, maybe it's because he didn't work out the
Speaker 1: combine either, kind of like a Brice Young situation. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At thirty Keyam Wake goes to the Eagles at a
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. Okay, I mean that's an Eagles type of pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At thirty one, Felix and duque Zoma, the edge rusher
Speaker 1: out of Kansas or Kansas State, goes to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I could see somebody at thirty one that rushes the passer.
Speaker 1: Like at one, mock I put cancy in there, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, somebody who gets after opposing path, yeah,
Speaker 1: goes in that spot. All right. Thirty two, there's no
Speaker 1: way this happens anymore, all right. He has the Steelers
Speaker 1: a thirty two taking Osiris Torrence No not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen. It's fine player, He's worth a thirty
Speaker 1: second pick. But no, I mean, yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of directions you could go here. Brian Bruz
Speaker 1: is out there, you could go with it with any
Speaker 1: of the next three guys that are taken here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: looking at it, I mean you have your choice of
Speaker 1: tight ends outside of Kincaide. You know, you could take
Speaker 1: Anton Harrison a tackle and then he has the Colts
Speaker 1: at thirty five, taking Jack Campbell. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: would love the first thirty one picks to go. They
Speaker 1: that they haven't projected here, and I wouldn't take Torrens,
Speaker 1: but I would look at Mayor, Harrison, Campbell, Washington, Brussee.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean there's a lot of guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Brusse is still there. There's I mean, there's
Speaker 1: that's a wide open board. Yeah, I mean it's almost
Speaker 1: like a in that situation, you could trade down four
Speaker 1: or five spots easily, easily and still get one of
Speaker 1: your guys. But uh yeah, Washington goes to the Seattle,
Speaker 1: the Raiders take Brusee Um Josh Downs at thirty nine
Speaker 1: goes to Carolina, you still have Hendon Hooker then goes
Speaker 1: at forty one. Wouldn't that be interesting to take? Tennessee
Speaker 1: takes Hendon Hooker. So I'm not ready to call this yet,
Speaker 1: but I think Hooker is going to go higher than
Speaker 1: people think, Like, I think the fifth year options really
Speaker 1: important for him. I think it is too. And in
Speaker 1: my latest h our latest rankings, which I believe dropped tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I bumped Hendon Hooker up ahead of Will Levis. I
Speaker 1: saw you did that, and I was actually thinking about
Speaker 1: it before doing it, but didn't quite have the stones
Speaker 1: to do it. I think Hooker's a really good prospect, though,
Speaker 1: I like, I mean, his tape is a hundred times
Speaker 1: better than that Levis. Oh yeah, I mean he's old
Speaker 1: and he's injured. But other than that, he's probably the
Speaker 1: tenth pick in the draft. And when we say he's old,
Speaker 1: he's twenty five. Yeah, right, he's at a position, at
Speaker 1: a position where guys played with their forty right at
Speaker 1: the age doesn't bother me at always, probably more and
Speaker 1: he's not a twenty five year old running back. Right.
Speaker 1: Getting down here to the Steelers pick at forty nine,
Speaker 1: Jayre Brown, the safety had a Penn State. I don't
Speaker 1: dislike him. I wouldn't take him with forty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I come up with forty nine players I like that well.
Speaker 1: And the player that goes right after the next couple,
Speaker 1: I would take over him. Yeah, it goes right after
Speaker 1: him to Tampa takes Mazie Smith, Miami takes Tarik call
Speaker 1: the line Becker out of Auburn. Seattle takes Kaylee Ringo
Speaker 1: fifty three, the Bear stake Joe Tipman. I mean, if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the recent signings, I'd rather Phipman than
Speaker 1: Brown too. Yeah, without a doubt, just rolling through Cam
Speaker 1: Smith goes all the way down at fifty eight to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I mean that's what we're talking about with
Speaker 1: this draft. Yeah, that I have Cam Smith's is my
Speaker 1: fifth best corner in this draft. I think I do too.
Speaker 1: I'd have to double check that, but I think I
Speaker 1: do too. But even if he's even if you don't
Speaker 1: have him fifth, he's no worse than seven or eight, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I could see Ringo over Smith. I
Speaker 1: mean I could make that argument. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: I think we both in our latest mock draft had
Speaker 1: Smith in the first round. I did, I've never had
Speaker 1: him fall out. Yeah. Matthew bers Ron goes to the
Speaker 1: Bills at fifty nine. The Bengals take Zac Charbonnet. Okay,
Speaker 1: they might need to have a running back. Pe Rhyan's gone,
Speaker 1: Mixings and trouble and getting old beactors. Three running backs
Speaker 1: in a row there, Charbonnate to the Bengals. It's sixty.
Speaker 1: The Bears take at sixty one Devin Akane, and then
Speaker 1: it's sixty two. Rashawn Johnson, the backup to be Sean Robinson,
Speaker 1: goes sixty two to the Philadelphia Eagles. I just put
Speaker 1: Johnson my top five in my running back round, so
Speaker 1: I did this morning where he wasn't originally. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then Keanu Benton, last pick of the second round, goes
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: strange running back run there at the end of round two.
Speaker 1: Three in a row, but I mean those teams call
Speaker 1: could kind of use one. Yeah, it's looking here through
Speaker 1: through the third round. He did a third round three
Speaker 1: round mock a get another tight end. Luke Schoonmaker goes
Speaker 1: to the Raiders at seventy. Julius Brents a big cornerback
Speaker 1: out of k State, goes to the Houston Texas at
Speaker 1: seventy three. I'd gladly spend seventy third pick in the
Speaker 1: draft on him. Yeah. Isaiah Fosky's who was a guy
Speaker 1: people have going in the first round, goes at seventy
Speaker 1: four to the Jets. The edge groups pretty deep too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it absolutely is. Cayo Blue Kelly goes at seventy
Speaker 1: five to the Falcons. The Patriots take Twan Jones at
Speaker 1: seventy six. They've had some of those gargage ones. I
Speaker 1: don't think, yeah, but maybe uh. And at eighty he
Speaker 1: has the Steelers taking Jalen Duncan. Yep. I would hate
Speaker 1: that pick. Yeah, that would be uninspiring just looking here
Speaker 1: at some of the guys still available. Sydney Brown is
Speaker 1: the next pick, the safety out of Illinois. Prefer him.
Speaker 1: Good Eli Ricks, the cornerback out of Georgia. Prefer him.
Speaker 1: Chris Smith the safety out of Georgia again, prefer him.
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft, the tight end at of South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: Take any of those guys, yeah, I mean break Blake
Speaker 1: Fleeland or break for Blake Freeland. That goes about ten picks. Later.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have Free than Duncan? I think I would.
Speaker 1: I think I would. Yeah, there's more more multiple play there,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't leavehim play right now either. I
Speaker 1: mean Duncan was really bad last year in Maryland. He
Speaker 1: had a tough year. Yeah, um, just looking here. If
Speaker 1: anybody else who stands out Panthers teak Byron Young who
Speaker 1: had a really nice combine, Michael Wilson, who did well
Speaker 1: at the h at the Senior Bowl, this wide receiver
Speaker 1: at A Stanford goes to Kansas City at ninety five.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about Cedric Tillman at ninety six here
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. Yeah. Before the season, he was he
Speaker 1: was the stud. Yeah, yeah, and he had he was
Speaker 1: hurt a lot. But he's thicker, more traditional. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be a better draft pick than maybe
Speaker 1: what he showed on tape this last year or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, Like, I think he'll he'll translate well to
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah. Um. At ninety nine, the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers take Mike Morris, a defensive end at A Michigan.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about him a lot, but he's a six,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a big dude. He's huge. I mean
Speaker 1: he fits, he fits the mold as a Steelers three
Speaker 1: four defensive end. His combine was awful though, I know,
Speaker 1: I mean like I thought he was, and everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about they were talking about Massie Smith is the best
Speaker 1: tester to ever see and Morris is not far behind.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, wow, if he tests like that and
Speaker 1: he has some good tape and those strange, you know,
Speaker 1: crazy dimensions, this guy is gonna be like a borderline
Speaker 1: first round pick. He had like the worst combine of anyone,
Speaker 1: but maybe, you know, maybe he didn't gain sleep. I
Speaker 1: mean like there is a human element to it. Like
Speaker 1: if he goes to Michigan his pro day and his
Speaker 1: jumps are better. It's not like, oh it's a fast track.
Speaker 1: Maybe the guy had a cold or I mean, who knows, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just don't know. Um, so interesting. Jamie Robinson goes there,
Speaker 1: Jamie Robinson goes at one on one to San Francisco
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers and finish that off like the
Speaker 1: comp picks of forty nine. They got three comp picks
Speaker 1: in the third round, so they get they get Mike Morris,
Speaker 1: Jamie Robinson, Henry two too. Yeah, they've traded all their
Speaker 1: picks for Lance and McCaffrey. But it's uncommon, I mean
Speaker 1: really strange pipeline of minority hires out of San Francisco's organization.
Speaker 1: That's where all these compics will come from. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little little crazy and uh good for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely pretty well. But right, that's why they made McCaffrey trade.
Speaker 1: It's a little crazy. Yeah, they knew they were going
Speaker 1: to get those picks. Yeah. Um, you can subscribe now
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