Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold
Speaker 1: SR Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lollly,
Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. And as I mentioned, I want to
Speaker 1: do a mock draft today based on knowing what we
Speaker 1: now know regarding what the Steelers have done with some
Speaker 1: of their moves. And this is you know, this thing's
Speaker 1: going to continue to evolve and change here over the
Speaker 1: next few weeks as we get a better handle on this.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to do a mock draft today and
Speaker 1: see exactly what we just talked about in the last segment.
Speaker 1: Let's see where this takes us, Matt. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if we add five prominent prospects to the roster we
Speaker 1: now know exists on March fifteenth, what does this roster
Speaker 1: look like? And that doesn't mean they're done. They'll still
Speaker 1: sign some people and there's I might even including the
Speaker 1: two seventh round picks or trade down. But as it
Speaker 1: stands right now, you're gonna add five pretty premium picks
Speaker 1: to a roster that's looking already quite solid. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: we're doing this today on the Pro Football Focus Mock
Speaker 1: Draft mock draft site. So let's see what happens here
Speaker 1: ahead of us. Okay, I'm gonna run through these picks
Speaker 1: here ahead of it, Bryce Young, c J Straub, Will Anderson,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardsons or three quarterbacks in the top four picks.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to see as a Steeler fan.
Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson, Christian Gonzalez, Jalen Carter at seven, Wow, will
Speaker 1: love us at eight? So four quarterbacks in the top
Speaker 1: eight picks. At nine, Devin Witherspoon goes, that's two cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the top nine. Quentin Johnston at ten, Paris Johnson
Speaker 1: at eleven, Pete Kronsky at twelve, Jackson Smith and Jigba
Speaker 1: at thirteen. So we don't get to make that choice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles Murphy at fourteen, Joey Porter Junior at fifteen, and
Speaker 1: your guy Dalton Kinkaid, well, one of your guys, Dalton
Speaker 1: Kinkaid at sixteen. Okay, So so pop in my head,
Speaker 1: am I correct that? Jones? The tackle from Georgia is there?
Speaker 1: He is? Breese and Branch are both available? Correct? Nolan
Speaker 1: Smith is there? Would you consider Nolan Smith there, I
Speaker 1: don't think. Okay, he's the best corner, uh Deontay Banks
Speaker 1: Banks probably. We also have three trade offers. None of
Speaker 1: those guys I'm sprinting to the podium. We just established
Speaker 1: so that there are four or five guys there that Okay,
Speaker 1: if I had to take that guy, i'd take him.
Speaker 1: So the guy the team's on the phone are the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: the Browns, and the Dolphins. Well, the Brown, Browns and
Speaker 1: Dolphins don't have first round draft picks right, so we're
Speaker 1: not dealing with them. I don't mind moving all the
Speaker 1: way down to jag Land. Yeah, so Jacksonville to get
Speaker 1: to to get up from twenty four to seventeen. You're
Speaker 1: going to pay, I know, and I'm interested in what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. Yeah, so I want I want their
Speaker 1: first obviously, I want their second, went their second, and
Speaker 1: I might even want a little sweetener next year. So
Speaker 1: I get twenty four, twenty four, and fifty six right now,
Speaker 1: six and try to get a pick in the desert,
Speaker 1: you know, the spot where we have nothing. And they
Speaker 1: get one eighty four. Okay, there we go. We're cold.
Speaker 1: You go one twenty seven right now? If we go
Speaker 1: one eighty four. There's a fifty nine percent chance that
Speaker 1: trade is going to be accepted. Okay, we throw in
Speaker 1: a seventh. If we throw in our seventh, it raises
Speaker 1: to a sixty one percent chance that's going to be accepted.
Speaker 1: Why don't we offer that but try to get next
Speaker 1: year fifth out of them while we're at it. That
Speaker 1: drops it down to a fifty three percent chance to
Speaker 1: being accepted. I think that's still better than Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna offer it. That was declined. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: but how about next year six? Yeah, okay, I'd probably
Speaker 1: do it without the next year's cover. That was rejected.
Speaker 1: So that sounds like it was over sixty Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was rejected. What are you telling Maybe they don't want
Speaker 1: to come up and get it. There's nobody there that
Speaker 1: they want to get. Um. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: flip two forty two for two thirty five. That was rejected.
Speaker 1: Maybe they don't want to give up their second. Well,
Speaker 1: too bad, you're coming up to seventeen. You gotta get
Speaker 1: You called us like they offered. They they called us
Speaker 1: offered the trade there, Okay, they accepted that, so we
Speaker 1: got we gave up seventeen and two forty two. We
Speaker 1: got twenty four fifty six and two oh one. Right,
Speaker 1: we picked up we picked up a round, we picked
Speaker 1: up an extra six rounder. There we got a first,
Speaker 1: a second in the sixth for a first and a seventh.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. It makes oh absolutely yeah. So
Speaker 1: the picks that went, they came up and got Brian
Speaker 1: branch Oh, that's stinks. The next pick was to Detroit.
Speaker 1: Was Brian Bersee that stinks. I thought Lucas fang Ness
Speaker 1: went nineteen. I've seen some people mocking him to the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I don't really see it. He doesn't fit. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think you want to Aaron smitham and I don't
Speaker 1: think he's really an edge that they're looking for. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Michael Mayer went at twenty, Zay Flowers at twenty one,
Speaker 1: Deonte Banks at twenty two to the Ravens. I could
Speaker 1: see that now, yeah. Yeah, Maryland guy Jordan Addison at
Speaker 1: twenty three to the Vikings. So the guys available, Elijah Cancie,
Speaker 1: Nolan Smith, Anton Harrison, Brodrick Jones. They have Anton Harrison
Speaker 1: ranked the head of prodect. Jones by the way, Jean
Speaker 1: Robinson is still there. We have seven trade offers, by
Speaker 1: the way, seven seven trade offers Jon Robinson, Will McDonald,
Speaker 1: Josh Downs, day One, Jones, Tanner McKee, Felix, and duque
Speaker 1: Zoma Dayon, Henley really cam Smith. Based on what just
Speaker 1: happened there, I mean, Brodrick Jones would be the guy
Speaker 1: that you look at and say, Okay, that would be
Speaker 1: the most attractive. Yeah, but who's on the phone. I'm
Speaker 1: always up for trading down. The Bills are on the phone.
Speaker 1: I would probably run to the podium and just take
Speaker 1: Brodrick Jones and be done with the line and draft
Speaker 1: defense like crazy. In a tight end with all these
Speaker 1: Day two pick. Yeah, the Bills are the only ones
Speaker 1: who still have a first round pick who are on
Speaker 1: the phone, I should say, so, yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: just take Brodrick Jones and you're happy that you got
Speaker 1: him at twenty five. Very very We could take Jean Robinson, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I would have taken him at seventeen, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Yeah, if we were forced to pick,
Speaker 1: he would have been my vote over Bresse and Branch.
Speaker 1: And again, you're you're not considering Nolan Smith here at all.
Speaker 1: With the second pick and over Jones. Not over Jones. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's just a little bit of a projection, I get it.
Speaker 1: But he's a high he's a high level athlete, right,
Speaker 1: it's a high level character athlete, like and you think
Speaker 1: he could rush off the edge on third down for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think I think in in coverage, I think
Speaker 1: I think he could do those things. And again, you
Speaker 1: don't need him to play right away. You could just
Speaker 1: use him as you're you're fast ball off the edge
Speaker 1: at times on third downs, or you can use him
Speaker 1: as a blitzer up the middle and do some things
Speaker 1: with him. I mean, he would have been my second
Speaker 1: vote of all the names listed. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: think Jones has more value because he's a left tackle.
Speaker 1: And yeah, now I hear you. I just you're out
Speaker 1: there for argument's sake. If he's I'm not gonna fight
Speaker 1: you at all. Robert Jones was the pick. Well, he's
Speaker 1: not there at thirty two because he went to the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Makes sense for sure. So the rest of
Speaker 1: the first round was Elijah Cancy went to the Giants,
Speaker 1: Nolan Smith to the Cowboys, Cam Smith to the Bills,
Speaker 1: Bijean Robinson goes to the Bengals. O Cyrus Torrens goes
Speaker 1: at twenty nine, Kaylee Ringo to the Eagles. Antonio Johnson
Speaker 1: then goes to the Chiefs. All right, pop, around two,
Speaker 1: we've got two teams on the phone wanting to make
Speaker 1: a deal with us. The first is the Titans at
Speaker 1: forty one and the Buccaneers at fifty. That's maybe I
Speaker 1: would probably we're gonna want to draft somebody here. I
Speaker 1: don't want to slide down to fifty ten to agree.
Speaker 1: So we got Anton Harrison. Were we already taken tackle.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna go another tackle, So Will McDonald, interesting,
Speaker 1: Josh Downs, Anna McKee, No, uh Felix and duque Uzoma,
Speaker 1: Maizie Smith, Yeah, Bijoulari, Emmanuel Forbes, Dayon Henley at a
Speaker 1: bare Steve of Vila, Luke Musgrave. I know that's probably
Speaker 1: tickling your fancy a little bit there. I'm smiling. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to say anything because every time he would
Speaker 1: say his name, oh my god, dick him, Nathaniel del
Speaker 1: Jack Campbell. Okay, I have four names written down McDonald,
Speaker 1: who I think could be a lot of the Nolan
Speaker 1: Smith stuff we mentioned without the off the ball linebacker stuff,
Speaker 1: but the lead athlete pass rusher. I think downs would
Speaker 1: be sort of it. I was just thinking about downs here.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at his his snap counts, in his production.
Speaker 1: I had one hundred and ninety five catches the last
Speaker 1: two years. Really good. Yeah, I mean he as quick
Speaker 1: as can be. Yeah yeah, I mean I'm in trigue.
Speaker 1: Musgrave's my favorite player that's available. He just is. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to get a tight end. He's my number
Speaker 1: one tight end. I know I'm on an island with that.
Speaker 1: And Campbell's a really good prospect too. It's a linebacker.
Speaker 1: But I think you need him a little less than
Speaker 1: you did a day ago. You do now that being said,
Speaker 1: which you know you've got two linebackers, two starting linebackers
Speaker 1: who are coming off of injuries right a year ago.
Speaker 1: One's Lambert or Ham, you know. I mean, they're but
Speaker 1: they're not elite. Um McDonald is I find I'd find
Speaker 1: some use for him. Oh yeah, he would play? Is
Speaker 1: there an There wasn't. There wasn't a corner's name that
Speaker 1: I did. Emmanuel Forbes is probably the top guy, but
Speaker 1: he's tiny. I mean, unless you're gonna bring him in
Speaker 1: and feed him. Sandwich is twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1: I think he's been eating sandwiches for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: That's my problem with that. He's one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: He showed up at the Combine one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: six pounds. He probably played last year at one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty. I mean I would think about him with
Speaker 1: the next pick. I can't take him at thirty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his supreme ball skills, but tape's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'll probably find somebody in the third round or
Speaker 1: second round and I feel much better about I mean,
Speaker 1: do you do still play in the AFC North? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't take him this early. The size thing really
Speaker 1: scares me. Yeah. We put Mazie Smith there. Who Mazie
Speaker 1: Smith A true knows. I know you well enough now
Speaker 1: because when you said his name, you kind of gave
Speaker 1: it a second thought and you paused a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, he's gonna want to go knows, which
Speaker 1: I see because I understand that line of thinking tremendously.
Speaker 1: And that's a bet on Carl Dunbar. You know, coach,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, completes your d line certainly
Speaker 1: could would probably be in an upgrade over Adams and
Speaker 1: what you got from a Lulu from the start, and
Speaker 1: could be a massive, massive upgrade over those guys. I
Speaker 1: get it. I just wish he made plays. I do too,
Speaker 1: But you know how they're gonna know more, Like how
Speaker 1: much of that was him doing what he was told
Speaker 1: at Michigan and getting consistently double teamed. I know at that,
Speaker 1: but I still like to see more plays made. Sure,
Speaker 1: but he is, you know, his upside's amends. The upside
Speaker 1: is massive massive. I would take much. He's twenty one
Speaker 1: years old. I know, I know, I would take Musgrave,
Speaker 1: but I don't love going offense offense with the first
Speaker 1: two picks. Yeah, that's that's my That's my problem here
Speaker 1: is like you kind of want to balance this out
Speaker 1: a little bit, and to me, of the of the
Speaker 1: guys available right now with that pick, you want to
Speaker 1: explore like a six spot trade down and then we'll
Speaker 1: be done trading down. Let me look at one thing here, Okay,
Speaker 1: because I didn't see him off the board, they must
Speaker 1: be so Trent and Simpson is there. I would take
Speaker 1: Simpson over Campbell. He's a superior or Drew Sanders for
Speaker 1: that matter, I would take both those over Campbell where yesterday,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have. You know that
Speaker 1: that's a perfect example that we talked about last segment,
Speaker 1: Like if Sanders could be Sanders could be your backup
Speaker 1: outside linebacker, like you could teach you and and and
Speaker 1: still play, Like he could be inside, he could be outside. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's be done both. Let's do Simpson or Sanders. Now,
Speaker 1: now that that's a tougher decision, like Sanders has a
Speaker 1: lot of the Nolan Smith's stuff we talked about, yes,
Speaker 1: with a whole lot of production last year five or
Speaker 1: sixty four or whatever. Yeah, I think it takes Sanders
Speaker 1: Simpsons a Simpsons a superior athlete, right, that's take Sanders.
Speaker 1: Sanders is a better football player. Yeah yeah, Okay, yep,
Speaker 1: we talked ourselves right into that. Yep. Now we got
Speaker 1: two picks coming up to finish out the second round, Yes,
Speaker 1: we do. We got forty nine and fifty six, which
Speaker 1: I almost feel like one of those has to be
Speaker 1: a corner. See, now you could take a Jack Campbell,
Speaker 1: you could take Simpson for that matter. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: I'm convinced me of that though I know I just said, well,
Speaker 1: Simpson's gone, so it'd have to be Campbell. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying this would be a you know, a Lawrence
Speaker 1: tim as Lamar Woodley situation. Well, we took this guy
Speaker 1: and we said he was outside, but now we're gonna
Speaker 1: bump him back inside. Well, this would be vice versa.
Speaker 1: We said, we said Sanders was an inside linebacker when
Speaker 1: we took him, but now that we got Jack Campbell,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna bump outside. We're gonna let him
Speaker 1: from TJ. But I would still take a McDonald over
Speaker 1: a Campbell. Yeah, Yeah, So the guy's available here, Tanner McKee,
Speaker 1: Daon Henley Atabaware, Steve a Vila, Nathaniel del Jack Campbell,
Speaker 1: Luke Wilpler, Whippler. I should say Polly to a Polatu,
Speaker 1: Garrett Williams. This is a guy we haven't talked a
Speaker 1: lot about back from Syracuse. Yeah, or is ACL in November.
Speaker 1: If he were healthy, he'd be in the conversation to
Speaker 1: be in that top five. And I don't even care
Speaker 1: if he's healthy for mini camp or rookie camp. He
Speaker 1: said it. He said it to combine. His goal was
Speaker 1: to be ready for a training camp. Okay, and if
Speaker 1: he's not or he's not even active week one, I
Speaker 1: can live with it with the way the teams set
Speaker 1: up right now. Yeah, I mean, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who's a twenty one year old six foot one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety pound cornerback who was a big reason why
Speaker 1: they were winning last year, and when he got hurt,
Speaker 1: they kind of fell off. That's when they started to
Speaker 1: really stink because they didn't have that guy at cornerback
Speaker 1: who could just take the other team's best receiver away.
Speaker 1: He's that kind of player. So this is the forty
Speaker 1: ninth pick, This is forty nine, and we still have
Speaker 1: a pick of fifty six. Let's say, so this is
Speaker 1: a this is kind of like a bonus pick here.
Speaker 1: I know that's where you take a guy like that. Agreed.
Speaker 1: So the names I had written down were Campbell, and
Speaker 1: then I scratched it. I think going back to back. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear you at a bore. I kind of thought
Speaker 1: of just as a bonus pick. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do with him. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: fits though, you know, I mean, I don't love the
Speaker 1: fit there. And then you said Williams and my ears
Speaker 1: definitely perked up. But if you could do me one favor,
Speaker 1: I know it's available at tight end and corner. Because
Speaker 1: if we're picking here in five spots, and there's two
Speaker 1: or three of one of those positions, but only one
Speaker 1: of the other, I think you take the one. Sam Laporta, Chograft,
Speaker 1: Luke Schoonmaker, Zak Kuntz, Davis Allen. There's plenty of tight ends.
Speaker 1: Is Williams the clear corner? Let me let me read
Speaker 1: the last of the corner back list. I think he's
Speaker 1: he has number one potentials. I do too. So you
Speaker 1: got Garrett Williams, Trevius Hodges, Williamson, or Tomlinson, I should say,
Speaker 1: Eli Ricks, who's kind of grown on me a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. Julius Brents is there. I haven't given Phillips
Speaker 1: Sun any credit, but the way they're constructed, I mean,
Speaker 1: the true slot isn't a terrible idea. This is just
Speaker 1: a little early for me. Yeah, Clark, Phillips and again
Speaker 1: another true slot type, Darius Rush, Jalen Jones, Shakoori and Bennett.
Speaker 1: I mean there's just so many corners. That's the Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Martin, Kyo Blue Kelly's there. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: take Williams another thing I was super psyched about. Let
Speaker 1: me look at the defensive lineman. I would say, that's
Speaker 1: a three hundred pounder would be of interest. So ekas there,
Speaker 1: Keanu Benton is there? Um, Kobe Turner, Jacqueline Roy Gervin, Dexter, Huh, well,
Speaker 1: I love your Williams call. But if he's we might
Speaker 1: be able to get him a fifty six. So I'd
Speaker 1: say there's a pretty decent chance he's there at fifty six.
Speaker 1: And if he isn't you listen some corners that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be the terrible crisprise. There aren't many defensive lineman there.
Speaker 1: I would say the d tackles though, Dexter, Benton and
Speaker 1: Eka I think is the better move right now? I
Speaker 1: think so as well? Which one do you like the best?
Speaker 1: I think Benton? I was gonna say it, Benton is
Speaker 1: probably my favorite of that group too. Let's do it,
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's take Benton. Okay, So then the
Speaker 1: picks in between us where Jack Campbell went at fifty
Speaker 1: good to a below two when at fifty one, Julius
Speaker 1: Brents when at fifty two, Jamir Gibbs went at fifty three.
Speaker 1: At a Boire went at fifty four, Steve a Vila
Speaker 1: went at fifty five. You just want to run it
Speaker 1: up for Williams. I believe I do. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this has to be a corner. Yeah, and that's a
Speaker 1: nice Again, maybe not a pick for this year, maybe,
Speaker 1: or maybe he comes back to the second half of
Speaker 1: the season, but he's got I think he has a
Speaker 1: chance to be a star. I think he was a
Speaker 1: without injury, is probably a surefire first round. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we're back up now again at eighty we got eight
Speaker 1: trade offers at eighty eight. Somebody's gonna be out there
Speaker 1: that we're gonna Nathaniel Dell. That might be the guy
Speaker 1: everybody wants to come get. They can have him. I'm
Speaker 1: not you're not a fan. He's tiny. He is tiny.
Speaker 1: I hear you. He Actually I kind of already have
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, Luke Whippler, Carl Brooks, Nick Herbig, Trevius
Speaker 1: Hodges with Tomlinson. Just so people know, Nick Herbig is
Speaker 1: Nate's brother. By the way, Yes we didn't mention that before,
Speaker 1: but we did not know. Jamie Robinson, Michael Wilson at Perry,
Speaker 1: Dwayne McBride, Dorry and Williams, Tank Bigsby, Moro, Jomo Tyler, Scott,
Speaker 1: Isaam McGuire, Jalen Jones, Christopher Smith, Luke Schoonmaker. Anybody's jumping
Speaker 1: out at there? No, No, I mean there wasn't bad names,
Speaker 1: but jumping out at me. No, I was hoping somebody was.
Speaker 1: Can't believe he's still available. Well, let's see who's on
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are on the phone. The Bucks got pick
Speaker 1: eighty two, and this is eighty. We're at eighty. They're
Speaker 1: probably not going to give us a whole lot. But
Speaker 1: if we could even turn eighty to eighty two, get
Speaker 1: rid of one of our six or sevens, and make
Speaker 1: that a five, I'm in Let me see what you
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we could do that easily, right, so I offered.
Speaker 1: So I offered eighty two thirty five. Right now that
Speaker 1: we give us eighty two and one seventy four, we
Speaker 1: could get maybe eighty two and fifty four. One fifty
Speaker 1: four should say yeah, I mean moving down two spots
Speaker 1: here to me, I don't need much to do it.
Speaker 1: Throw me in next year six too. Let's see if
Speaker 1: that they could have a bad year Yeah, they accepted that. Cool,
Speaker 1: that works. So they took keyshawn boutet fair enough. The
Speaker 1: Marvian over sean. When at eighty one, we're back up
Speaker 1: on the on the board or so, do we maybe
Speaker 1: look at an edge? I would say edge, tight end,
Speaker 1: receive or edge or pass catcher to me, stands out
Speaker 1: with okay, schoolmakers there, Okay the kid from my old dominion,
Speaker 1: is there a wide receiver? Nathaniel del Michael Wilson, at
Speaker 1: Perry Tyler, Scott Parker, Washington, Jade Reid, Marvin Mims, Jalen Marino, Cropper,
Speaker 1: Trey Palmer, Davis Allen I mentioned my favorite of those guys.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever taken him. We have not,
Speaker 1: we have not. The the Oklahoma receiver scare you at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's a big play dude, and he's productive, and
Speaker 1: he could be a slot, he could be outside. What
Speaker 1: if the ante gets hurt? You know? Yeah, I hear you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: um receivers. He was my favorite. I also kind of
Speaker 1: liked Wilson and Scott decisions decisions. I think Schoonmaker would
Speaker 1: play early. Yeah, any edges of note, Yeah, let me
Speaker 1: see here, take a look at that Edge, Edge Edge,
Speaker 1: Isaiah McGuire, kJ Henry, Mike Morris, Byron Young, Isazi Abdullah.
Speaker 1: Henry and Young are kind of interesting. But I think
Speaker 1: I would take one of the past catchers, Schoonmaker, Mims,
Speaker 1: somebody like that. I think the tight end is probably
Speaker 1: the bigger need at this point. It seems like it's
Speaker 1: drying up too. That he's got a named guy. Do
Speaker 1: you like him better than Zach Quintz Depending what you're asking,
Speaker 1: I mean, much better chance Schoonmaker plays week one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's dressed and as your true number two.
Speaker 1: But you can always call Gentry back for that role too. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: replace one Michigan tight end with another. Now we get
Speaker 1: take Schoomaker either, fine. I mean, Coon says is the
Speaker 1: more upside. He's a tremendous athlete. Yeah. If you look
Speaker 1: at mid round tight ends that have hits, they're almost
Speaker 1: always really good testers Like, yeah, Schoolmaker's bad, but if
Speaker 1: someone turns into Kittle or Kelsey in the middle rounds,
Speaker 1: it would be Coons, right either. Fine, I think I'd
Speaker 1: take Coons. You can take coons, Okay, Coon is to
Speaker 1: pick coach him up, so why you pay your coaches?
Speaker 1: All right? We're down. We get picked one twenty coming
Speaker 1: up here, let's see what's available. Oh, Travias Hodges, Tomlinson
Speaker 1: is still available. Oh I like that. Do we just
Speaker 1: take him? Yeah? I mean it's too good to pass up.
Speaker 1: I mean he's in a block kicks. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a gunner, hit or slot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even think you think about it. That's just
Speaker 1: the best player available right there at boom. Alright, we
Speaker 1: got one fifty four in two A one coming up.
Speaker 1: Really now we've we've filled needs. Now if there's a
Speaker 1: receiver out there that a wide receiver. Yeah, the top
Speaker 1: guys available Dwayne McBride, Dorian Williams, more O, Joe Mo,
Speaker 1: Kobe Turner, Jakorean Bennetts. This is my thought, like when
Speaker 1: you're talking about the cornerbacks in this draft. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're pick one fifty four and Jakorean Bennet's available, right,
Speaker 1: Like he's probably a third round pick most others. But
Speaker 1: we've drafted two corners. We've drafted two corners, so we're
Speaker 1: not gonna take him. Um U zero Abdullah's there. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that's a guy who can scream off the edge. Yah. Yah, Dabi.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Aidan o'cononou, Jared Clark, Keaton Mitchell. You
Speaker 1: want to have a flyer at the at the running
Speaker 1: back position. I was gonna mention running backs to you.
Speaker 1: Running back would have some interest. A project on the
Speaker 1: edge wouldn't break my heart. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: Juice Scrugs the center from Penn State. Oh, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a fan the tight end and center from Penn State,
Speaker 1: or guys in this neighborhood that I have some interest in. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: Scrugs and venture on Miller's there. Okay, which one do
Speaker 1: you mean? The two dudes that stood out to me
Speaker 1: be named recently? Or Scrugs the center and yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: from Indiana? You like your yeah yeah. Louisville by the way,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah right, he's sick.
Speaker 1: There'll be six four two seventy though I know he's
Speaker 1: more Bud or the end. Yeah, he tested well though.
Speaker 1: All the Louisville guys this year tested well. The team
Speaker 1: wasn't that good, but they all test it well. Go'll
Speaker 1: figure a terrible move. What's up? Another center is not
Speaker 1: a terrible pick up. It's not it's not. Is there
Speaker 1: a running back you like, let me take a look
Speaker 1: just by the running backs, Dwayne McBride, Keaton Mitchell, Eric Gray,
Speaker 1: Chris Rodriguez, Mohammad Ebrahm, Hunter, Lipkey, he's a fullback, Davian Thomas,
Speaker 1: ty On Evans, Travis Dye, Evan Hall from Northwestern. It's nothing, yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing that really, you know, McBride's probably the best of
Speaker 1: that group. Probably would um you know five eleven, two fifteen,
Speaker 1: I would didn't test super well. Yeah, yeah, let me
Speaker 1: look at wide receiver. Maybe somebody slipped through the cracks.
Speaker 1: H Jalen Marino, Cropper, Bryce Ford, Wheaton, Ronnie Bell, Jake Bobo,
Speaker 1: Keyante Thompson, Matt Landers, Pooka Nical, Elijah Higgins just as
Speaker 1: shorter and not great. Huka is not a bad player.
Speaker 1: Yeah we could make West happy and take the WU
Speaker 1: guy with three names. That is an amazing tester. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a good player. Yeah, it's just yeah, the football's but
Speaker 1: he's huge, huge, big, fast. But could he be here?
Speaker 1: You know, you're blocking wide receiver six three two and
Speaker 1: twenty four pounds that I don't know about his game,
Speaker 1: but you would hope. So, you know, like the younger Boykin.
Speaker 1: Is that where you're going with with that? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll still take Scrugs over all those guys. I
Speaker 1: think he's the potentially starting center. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: How about a quarterback there? Yeah? But Haul or Hainter,
Speaker 1: Clayton Tune is there? Tune? I actually kind of like
Speaker 1: Clayton Tune. Yeah. I think he's got a chance to
Speaker 1: stick in the league. Haul is there, Clayton? All those
Speaker 1: guys are there, Dorian Thompson, Robinson, You got some interesting
Speaker 1: guys there. It's Tune your favorite. I think he is.
Speaker 1: He's more athletics than I think people thought he was
Speaker 1: going to be. Taking a quarterback in the mid rounds
Speaker 1: is going to become very fashionable, well especially I mean
Speaker 1: Trubisky's Trubisky's only under contract for next year or this
Speaker 1: coming season. Somebody didn't need to be your backup, right
Speaker 1: if he can show he's a tune, do you know
Speaker 1: how cheap your quarterback room would be? I think you
Speaker 1: take him, Yeah, I mean just the position is important. Okay,
Speaker 1: and maybe Juice Scrugs will be there at two one.
Speaker 1: He's a center. Yeah yeah, Okay, we're back up again. Uh.
Speaker 1: Broderick Martin, Eric Gray, Jalen Redmond, Antonio, Mofi, Jase, Andrews.
Speaker 1: I don't think he is. Uh. We didn't take a
Speaker 1: safety either, Tyler Lacy Shamari Connor safety out of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: Dylan Horton. How about a Seam Richards from North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I don't know him a lot about him, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, but no sensive tackle. Oh okay, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He was yeah, six four three fifteen, so he's a
Speaker 1: little bit undersized, but he's got some talent. He was
Speaker 1: really good to Senior Bowl too. Yeah, we don't need him,
Speaker 1: but he might be a starting NFL tackle. You can
Speaker 1: always take a tackle. Take I mean, I know that
Speaker 1: was our first round pick, but I would say take him. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's a pick. Yeah, piece of cake, developmental tackle, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe a kitchen side to guard. Yeah, he's I'm gonna
Speaker 1: he's a development guy with ability. All Right, We got left.
Speaker 1: That's it. Oh okay, we're grading our draft as we speak. Okay,
Speaker 1: So for the pick, favorite draft we've ever done. For
Speaker 1: the pick of Roderick Jones, we got an A. For
Speaker 1: the trade down, we got a B. Drew Sanders got
Speaker 1: us a C. Plus. Keanu Benton was a D. Really yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: and this is by their grading system, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: taken them there. Garrett Williams was a B. Zach Kuntz
Speaker 1: was an F. The second trade that we made to
Speaker 1: move down to take Zach Kuntz was a B minus.
Speaker 1: We got an A plus for Trevius Hodges, Tomlinson nice,
Speaker 1: we got an F for Clayton Tune. Okay, we got
Speaker 1: a B plus for a seam. Richards wasn't pro football
Speaker 1: focused the website that if you took if you took
Speaker 1: a quarterback, you got an A matter I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did the little practice last year where I just
Speaker 1: took a quarterback in every round and I got an
Speaker 1: A plus for ever. Yeah. Overall, our grade was a
Speaker 1: B plus, fair enough, I would give it a better
Speaker 1: grade than that. That's a solid B plus draft. So
Speaker 1: we added two a lineman, both of potential left tackles.
Speaker 1: One of them's a first round pick. We added a
Speaker 1: project tight end and I think that's it on offense.
Speaker 1: Fine with that. On the quarterback, we hadded four players
Speaker 1: on offense, four players on defense. Okay, two corners that
Speaker 1: are very different, one of whom I think is a
Speaker 1: plug in place slot one needs to get healthy and
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. A off the ball linebacker that
Speaker 1: can also rush off the edge, and a big, tough
Speaker 1: guy in the middle of your defense. That's Benton to
Speaker 1: me is probably a rotational interior lineman for eight to
Speaker 1: ten years. Yes, you know what I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: we did. Yep. I like it. I think i'd really
Speaker 1: I mean the depth fund the team would be really
Speaker 1: really good after free agency there, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: would be. I'd be very happy with that draft. Yeah. Interesting, yeah, interesting,
Speaker 1: and they just hated some of those moves. We get
Speaker 1: f f's for Zach Coinston Clayton tune fs fs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you do just whatever that's there. That's like your opinion, man,
Speaker 1: quote the dude, that's just like your opinion. Did you
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