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Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: if it sounds like I'm a little bit gassed up
Speaker 1: right now, that's because I am. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite episodes of the year. To my guys episode, Normally
Speaker 1: it's twenty names, but this year cutting down to the
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen because there is no first round draft pick
Speaker 1: and with us being one week away from our first
Speaker 1: draft pick, most likely could be a trade up. But
Speaker 1: if not, it'll be one week from today breaking down
Speaker 1: all things Miami Dolphins draft. I'm gonna give you sixteen
Speaker 1: names I'd like at pick fifty one and eighty four.
Speaker 1: All of that and a heck of a lot more
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Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time podcast. May Gaffish Caroline kicks
Speaker 1: us off as we jump right in to the sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen my guys, and expanding this out to the third
Speaker 1: round this year because of our first two picks occurring
Speaker 1: on Day two with pick fifty one and pick eighty four.
Speaker 1: I've always done twenty names for the first couple of rounds,
Speaker 1: but will go sixteen for rounds two and three. I
Speaker 1: know it sounds confusing, but we also use the Dane
Speaker 1: Brugler big Board from the Athletic the Beast, which in
Speaker 1: my opinion is the best draft guide out there, so
Speaker 1: go check that out if you have not done so.
Speaker 1: But using his big board and kind of ranking the
Speaker 1: players based upon where he has them for the idea
Speaker 1: of who could be there. But I first want to
Speaker 1: mention I have two distinct omissions who fit the criteria
Speaker 1: of being within fifteen picks in terms of Dane's big
Speaker 1: Board of our pick, and that's two guys that are
Speaker 1: within those criteria that I think personally, and this is
Speaker 1: me putting my own flavor on it because it's my show.
Speaker 1: I have the microphone, and that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: Two guys I think are long gone by pick fifty one,
Speaker 1: who are both within fifteen spots of the fifty first
Speaker 1: pick are Mazzi Smith from Michigan, the defensive lineman, and
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman we'll call him a guard from TCU,
Speaker 1: Steve Avila. I think both those players are first round
Speaker 1: pick locks, absolute locks to go in the first day
Speaker 1: and have no chance to make it to fifty one
Speaker 1: or even to a potential trade up range for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. So with that, let's go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: into my list this year, and it starts on the
Speaker 1: offensive line with Matthew Bergeron from Syracuse. The more I
Speaker 1: watch these guys coming down the home stretch of draft prep,
Speaker 1: the more Bergeron stands out to me. It starts with
Speaker 1: his feet, the same thing that made me think that
Speaker 1: Larry M. Tunsel had a future as a perennial All
Speaker 1: Pro left tackle when the Miami Dolphins landed him thirteen
Speaker 1: overall back in twenty sixteen, and a guy that could
Speaker 1: garner the return value of a quarterback in a trade
Speaker 1: that basically set Miami up for the roster we have today.
Speaker 1: In his past sets, you often see him squeeze left
Speaker 1: guard and shorten that runway because he knows he has
Speaker 1: the foot quickness to get back outside I should say
Speaker 1: the right guard. He plays the right tackle position mostly.
Speaker 1: Then his opposition sees that edge flash open, tries to
Speaker 1: beat him around that arc, and he has the ability
Speaker 1: to get back out wide and run him right past
Speaker 1: the quarterback to the least effective position on a football
Speaker 1: field behind the quarterback. And he pairs that quickness with
Speaker 1: the best complimentary trait to foot quickness, grip strength. You
Speaker 1: see a lot of college offensive linemen operate solely with
Speaker 1: two handed punches, and that really restricts your limit or
Speaker 1: restricts your and limiture mobility. But not him. He's very
Speaker 1: comfortable with that outside hand bracing the initial impact, latching on,
Speaker 1: and then working to get his feet back square and
Speaker 1: bring that inside hand back in for initial placement there
Speaker 1: because it keeps you more on balance, it keeps you
Speaker 1: your width and your base, It just keeps everything more
Speaker 1: in sync. And I think that that trait really pairs
Speaker 1: well with how Tua plays, especially off that blind side
Speaker 1: for him in terms of getting the football out quick,
Speaker 1: playing in rhythm, Matthew Bergeron's traits alone allow him to
Speaker 1: buy the quarterback extra time in the pocket. It makes
Speaker 1: sense to me that he is so good that with
Speaker 1: his feet because he was a hockey player. Being from Canada,
Speaker 1: his first language was French as well. But how about this,
Speaker 1: He was the first Syracuse true freshman to start at
Speaker 1: offensive tackle since two thousand and two. He did play
Speaker 1: both sides, thirty one starts at left tackle, eight at
Speaker 1: right tackle. I liked his right tackle tape a lot.
Speaker 1: I think where you see the fit is the way
Speaker 1: that he comes off the football. We've talked about it
Speaker 1: in covering McDaniel pressers about how the offensive line play
Speaker 1: is different than it is most other places around the league.
Speaker 1: Super smooth mover with the ability to effectively transition his
Speaker 1: weight and stay on balance. Three hundred and eighteen pounds
Speaker 1: is right in the threshold for most tackles. Some folks
Speaker 1: think he could kick and tide to guard, which I
Speaker 1: think maybe depresses his value a little bit and makes
Speaker 1: some potential option at fifty one as a team that
Speaker 1: wants him as a tackle. Players like this tend to
Speaker 1: give a little in the running game, and that's why
Speaker 1: I like him so much for Miami, because that's not
Speaker 1: birds run at all. He has the temperament of a
Speaker 1: road grading guard out in space, and he finishes his
Speaker 1: block blocks like nobody I've seen in this class. He's
Speaker 1: six foot five, three hundred and eighteen pounds, thirty three
Speaker 1: and three quarter inch arms plenty good there, thirty and
Speaker 1: a half inch vert eighty two inch wingspan, an eight
Speaker 1: to two rass relative athletic scorecard at his top fifty
Speaker 1: all time among tackles more than twenty five hundred career snaps,
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and seventy five of those in pass pro
Speaker 1: with just fifty five pressures allowed. I'd say career pass
Speaker 1: block efficiency of ninety seven point four. Remove that true
Speaker 1: freshman campaign and it's thirty eight pressures on twelve hundred
Speaker 1: pass blocking snaps. A pbe better than ninety eight. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a top my list. I love this guy's game,
Speaker 1: and I actually recently bumped him over the guy I've
Speaker 1: been talking about all draft process by number two here,
Speaker 1: tight end Darnell Washington. For my short list, these are
Speaker 1: my top two guys out of Georgia seven hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four career receiving yards, three touchdowns, but seventeen point
Speaker 1: two per catch in his career. I think that number
Speaker 1: reflects the upside as the Georgia offense was an embarrassment
Speaker 1: of riches both at tight end and running back, and
Speaker 1: Darnell did so much of his work in the uncharted area.
Speaker 1: As far as stats go, you guessed it in the
Speaker 1: blocking game. This guy is an extra offensive lineman when
Speaker 1: you put him in the game. Luckily, the Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focused draft guide gives us those details. He had half
Speaker 1: as many targets as likely first round pick in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Brock Bowers had it Georgia last year, but
Speaker 1: he embraced that role selflessly. Sixty percent in line workload.
Speaker 1: He broke fourteen tackles on forty five receptions, averaging seven
Speaker 1: point five yards after the catch per reception. That was
Speaker 1: twelfth among all tight ends in college football last year.
Speaker 1: He was sixteenth in deep receptions twenty or more air
Speaker 1: yards and think about that, sixteenth in total catches on
Speaker 1: deep shots, but he only had a fraction of attempts
Speaker 1: of the rest of the class like a Sam laporta
Speaker 1: fourteenth and depth of target that just pairs insanely well
Speaker 1: with this a top ten run block gry at tight end,
Speaker 1: no pressures allowed on seventy two pass blocking snaps in
Speaker 1: his career. Paired that with a fifty percent contested catch rate.
Speaker 1: That's about where the best contested catch guys in the
Speaker 1: NFL come down each year, fifty to fifty. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: why they call it fifty fifty balls, right, But the
Speaker 1: best ones only get that. And they even Taka Channing
Speaker 1: tendall about this guy, and he said in the red
Speaker 1: zone he's impossible to cover because he's a rebounds the
Speaker 1: football off your helmet. He would know athletic marvel eighty
Speaker 1: three and three quarter inch wing span, eleven inch, hands
Speaker 1: six seven, two hundred and seventy two pounds. He's a
Speaker 1: sixth offensive lineman who can beat you to the corner,
Speaker 1: beat a linebacker or a safety to the flag in
Speaker 1: a foot race, you know, to catch a He's a
Speaker 1: long strider, I mean, how could he not be at
Speaker 1: that size? But don't mistake that for a lack of
Speaker 1: foot quickness. Don't listen to a beat report talking about
Speaker 1: how he reminds him of Mike KASICKI. That is outlandish, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He builds up to speed, but he has plenty of
Speaker 1: quickness to win with separation and a much larger frame.
Speaker 1: His basketball background shows up. Four point h eight short
Speaker 1: shuttle was third best among all participants in Indie, not
Speaker 1: tight ends, all participants. Flat out dominant blocker, dominant erases
Speaker 1: the edge, Widen the sea gap, that gap between your
Speaker 1: tackle and tight end where we run. Lots of our
Speaker 1: target points to the running backs at that sea gap.
Speaker 1: He can clear that out and attach the second level
Speaker 1: move linebackers anchors against the nation's top pass rushers. I
Speaker 1: love his game. Brugler calls Washington the leanest two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy pound athlete he's ever seen on a football field,
Speaker 1: a one of one talent with fascinating pro potential. Excited Yet,
Speaker 1: let's keep it rolling here with number three on my list,
Speaker 1: running back Jamior Gibbs from Alabama. His ability to get
Speaker 1: to any blade of grass from any position with peer
Speaker 1: speed and urgency is so intriguing for what this offense
Speaker 1: could look like with a player like Gibbs in it.
Speaker 1: I think he's a certified immediate playmaker wherever he winds up,
Speaker 1: especially in the right system that allows him to take
Speaker 1: a longer track to the line outside zone right, anticipate
Speaker 1: the lanes developing, and then hit it with acceleration with
Speaker 1: excellent backside vision. The way he gets to that bend
Speaker 1: back lane is rare. He has elite vision to find
Speaker 1: those backside lanes when it's been over pursued with his
Speaker 1: physical skills, the speed and the agility to find those
Speaker 1: to really punish them for false stepping or overreacting to
Speaker 1: front side action. And that's where most the Dolphins big
Speaker 1: runs come from. Man, he's a home run hitter. He's
Speaker 1: tremendous as a receiver. And if it weren't for the
Speaker 1: running back position, seeing decline in draft position the last
Speaker 1: several years, I'd put him in the long gone category.
Speaker 1: But because running backs fall every year, he might be there.
Speaker 1: Five foot nine, two hundred pounds, that's great. Four three
Speaker 1: six forty just twenty one years old. The number of
Speaker 1: times I've seen him to Alvin Kamara, it tracks too.
Speaker 1: Pro football focus has his compet raheem Moster love that
Speaker 1: his resume is insane. Freshman All American at Georgia Tech
Speaker 1: housed a ninety eight yard kick return two years ago,
Speaker 1: transferred to Alabama and led the team in both rushing
Speaker 1: and receptions. Alabama sudden stepper varies his tempos and reads
Speaker 1: blocks so so well. The way he processes and presses
Speaker 1: lanes and condenses the defense to really kind of suck
Speaker 1: them in and then hit him on the backside with
Speaker 1: speed puts him at such a disadvantage and then you
Speaker 1: can't catch up with the foot speed there from him either.
Speaker 1: He forced one hundred and seven miss tackles on three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three attempts as a collegiate. That's crazy
Speaker 1: good for a three to five to three average after
Speaker 1: initial contact. He also led all backs in this class
Speaker 1: with two point four to seven yards per route ran
Speaker 1: as a receiver. Those are my top three guys that
Speaker 1: I'm racing to the podium if any of them are available.
Speaker 1: I love those guys' games. I think they're all great
Speaker 1: fits here. I like this guy's game two, and he
Speaker 1: probably goes before those three guys because of the position
Speaker 1: he plays well. I guess Burgeran's the same spot, but
Speaker 1: offensive tackle Dewan Jones from Ohio State. You start with
Speaker 1: his build. It's six foot eight, three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four pounds. There's a video of him dunking a basketball
Speaker 1: and the caption of the tweet I saw says it's
Speaker 1: or the heaviest NBA player to dunk a ball in
Speaker 1: a game was the three hundred and seventy five pound
Speaker 1: Oliver Miller. The length matches thirty six and five eight
Speaker 1: inch arms that he uses to snatch and trap rushers
Speaker 1: puts him on the ground. Smart player who knows where
Speaker 1: he has to get. He knows his limitations in terms
Speaker 1: of the movement skills which come with being three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five pounds. He knows how his body maneuvers.
Speaker 1: There's just not a lot to nitpick with him as
Speaker 1: a prospect. He shows up on game day and it's
Speaker 1: a problem for the defense because he's just so impossibly
Speaker 1: hard to get around, both as a pass blocker and
Speaker 1: in the run game. His margin for air on the
Speaker 1: strike points is so big because of his mass. He
Speaker 1: and Darnell Wright, who is long gone as well for me,
Speaker 1: by the way, might just be the best right tackles
Speaker 1: in this draft. They could also be the best offensive tackles.
Speaker 1: In the draft period, he moved surprisingly well for that size.
Speaker 1: He's gonna He's not gonna play as a five to
Speaker 1: four forty, or I should say a sub five forty,
Speaker 1: but he can get to the second level from Dane Brugler.
Speaker 1: Ohio State coaches lauded how much he improved each year there,
Speaker 1: which is a great sign for any prospect. Improvement every
Speaker 1: single season. Then the production. How about five quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: last year, not sacks, not hits, five pressures. He did
Speaker 1: not allow c. J. Stroud to get hit once, not once.
Speaker 1: Nine hundred and fifty one career pass blocking snaps with
Speaker 1: just eighteen pressures. That's a ninety eight point eight pass
Speaker 1: block efficiency, the best in college football over that time.
Speaker 1: I am very very close to putting him in the
Speaker 1: out of range category. Up next a player that I
Speaker 1: believe will be there. Tight end Sam Laporta from Iowa
Speaker 1: All State basketball player LETTERD to baseball as a shortstop.
Speaker 1: He ran track. I love multi sport players and it
Speaker 1: shows in the way he moves. He's smooth. One of
Speaker 1: the few guys with the higher YPPR yards per route
Speaker 1: ran than Washington one point eight to nine career to
Speaker 1: one seven seven. He averages five point six yards after
Speaker 1: the catchup on average, forced thirty six miss tackles on
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three catches. He is exceptional with
Speaker 1: the football in his hands. I think you can really
Speaker 1: see that translate in his game where Iowa would use
Speaker 1: him both not just the f y combo the move
Speaker 1: and inline combination, but a quasi a wide receiver like
Speaker 1: slot and throw him screens on the outside in flats
Speaker 1: from flex alignments. He's the kind of player that you
Speaker 1: can line up in one snap and eleven personnel and
Speaker 1: he's your inline tight end, and the next he's a
Speaker 1: flexed out wide receiver and all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: in ten personnel and you did not have to substitute,
Speaker 1: and the defense is now mismatched. He doesn't have the
Speaker 1: blocking reps that Washington does, but when Iowa asked him to,
Speaker 1: he was pretty adequate in that department. You don't play
Speaker 1: tight end in Iowa and not have some capability of
Speaker 1: blocking sub four six forty thirty five inch vert ten
Speaker 1: to three broad. He is so explosive, probably the best
Speaker 1: in the class in that regard. Dalton king Kate has
Speaker 1: an argument as the best separator at the top of
Speaker 1: the route at the position, he said at the combine.
Speaker 1: The reason he did not declare last year was it
Speaker 1: was important for him to be a captain at Iowa,
Speaker 1: and per Brugler, his coaches to say his production was
Speaker 1: a direct reflection of the work he puts in. So
Speaker 1: good company there. My last guy on my short list
Speaker 1: here is Keanu Benton. This is a player from Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. Where the Dolphins are sort of in that
Speaker 1: luxury spot that a few teams are. We feel pretty
Speaker 1: damn good about our roster if we had to play
Speaker 1: a game tomorrow and teams like that are afforded the
Speaker 1: luxury of drafting to soft potential future needs. And Benton
Speaker 1: wouldn't just satisfy what does the d line look like
Speaker 1: in twenty four criteria. He'd give you an immedia impact
Speaker 1: rotational piece this year to work in with Christian and Zach.
Speaker 1: He's flexible in the way of those two guys. I
Speaker 1: know that he can play as a nose tackle. He
Speaker 1: can play the two, the two, I, the three, all
Speaker 1: the way up to the five technique, and that's what
Speaker 1: he did with the Badgers at Wisconsin. He's fantastic at
Speaker 1: deconstructing blocks. The quickness pops off the tape, the powerful
Speaker 1: hands pop off the tape at three hundred and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of Christian Wilkins a little bit, and
Speaker 1: the way he moves that big frame around slippery ability
Speaker 1: to shake blocks. So good at creating advantageous angles and
Speaker 1: then winning with whatever is required power, speed, restrike, the hands.
Speaker 1: Wrestling background very evident from him. Four year starter at Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: over nine hundred snaps played the last two years. That
Speaker 1: includes four hundred and eighty three pass rush reps with
Speaker 1: forty nine pressures. It includes four hundred and seventeen rundown
Speaker 1: snaps with forty three stops. Excellent player who I think
Speaker 1: can provide an immediate impact to whichever team selects him.
Speaker 1: This is my long list for pick fifty one. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the offensive line, John Michael Schmidz from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Not sure how many guys improve their stock the way
Speaker 1: that Michael Schmidz did, and that began with a dominant
Speaker 1: senior Bowl week. I mentioned Benton's wrestling background, but you
Speaker 1: heard from Kyle Krabs on the podcast a while back.
Speaker 1: You hear it again next week. I'm sure his ability
Speaker 1: to transition to guard should be a seamless one. But
Speaker 1: the thing that stands out above all is the intelligence.
Speaker 1: You never see him fall, stepping or taking poor angles
Speaker 1: busting a protection assignment. Just a super sound player also
Speaker 1: knows how to work. PJ. Fleck, the Minnesota head coach,
Speaker 1: was quoted it always helps when your best players your
Speaker 1: hardest worker, which we use that phrase around here too
Speaker 1: with Tyreek. The Dolphins benefit of having an offensive line
Speaker 1: full of guys that play multiple spots is that they
Speaker 1: can expand their desired positions up front. So like Schmid
Speaker 1: is a center, but if you took him, you've got
Speaker 1: Connor Williams who can play anywhere inside. We've seen Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt play both right guard and right tackle, Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: both tackle spots and left guard. Same story with Leam Miikenberg.
Speaker 1: If you draft John Michael Schmidtz, maybe he's the best
Speaker 1: left guard on the team and you can move it
Speaker 1: that way. Maybe he's the best center and you move
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. It gives you options when you have guys
Speaker 1: that are that flexible. Twenty one pressures allowed just two
Speaker 1: sacks in nine hundred and ninety one career pass blocking
Speaker 1: snaps on my long list. Defensive back Keelee Ringo from Georgia.
Speaker 1: I find myself sometimes with beliefs, but I also think
Speaker 1: that just means from a scouting perspective, you're open to
Speaker 1: not just the traits you prefer, but all play styles
Speaker 1: and all body types, etc. Etc. I say this because
Speaker 1: Keilee Ringo might be the best athlete this class has
Speaker 1: to offer, but there are flashes on the tape that
Speaker 1: make you think that he could wind up with the
Speaker 1: most all pros of anybody in this entire class. But
Speaker 1: you also see a little bit of risk reward there,
Speaker 1: which is why the draft experts are pretty split on
Speaker 1: where he might go and why he's even part of
Speaker 1: this exercise and not a surefire top ten pick. He
Speaker 1: can fly, he hits, He plays the football. He was
Speaker 1: a perimeter cornerback in college, but I think that he
Speaker 1: could play anywhere on the secondary, including off the balls
Speaker 1: of safety. He ran a twenty one one eight two
Speaker 1: hundred meter yard dash in high school that is below
Speaker 1: the threshold of Olympic qualifying, which we'll talk about here
Speaker 1: with Devon ah Chan here in a second. He was
Speaker 1: the number one cornerback recruit out of high school, number
Speaker 1: one overall recruit out of Arizona. That ascent was the
Speaker 1: story in college man red shirted in twenty twenty with
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury, played two years and onto the next.
Speaker 1: Over those two years, nineteen pass defense, four picks at
Speaker 1: a forced fummable, three tackles for loss. The guy fills
Speaker 1: up the stat sheet. The more I think about Ringo,
Speaker 1: the closer I get to adding him to my list
Speaker 1: of for sure going before pick fifty one, ten to
Speaker 1: two broad thirty three and a half introvert at that size,
Speaker 1: have mercy. He's rocked up, fires out of a cannon
Speaker 1: from a standing still position, exceptional trigger out of the
Speaker 1: back pedal, hands like a wide receiver. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be an ace special teamer from day one. Another
Speaker 1: year of good college tape, I think you might be
Speaker 1: talking about a potential top ten pick here. Perhaps best
Speaker 1: of all, he made his growth while playing in one
Speaker 1: of the more complex man zone match schemes in all
Speaker 1: of college football. Sixty six point one career passer rating allowed,
Speaker 1: sixty three last year, sixty eight two years ago nineteen
Speaker 1: run stops just eight hundred and seventy one receiving yards
Speaker 1: on one thousand, sixty one coverage NEPs. He's awesome. That's
Speaker 1: my short and long list there at pick fifty one.
Speaker 1: I gave you seven names I believe, right, So there
Speaker 1: you go. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there and come back on the other side and
Speaker 1: get to the rest of the list. Travis Wingfield, your
Speaker 1: host Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: We've read a lot off seven names so far. Do
Speaker 1: I even have sixteen here? I don't know if for sure,
Speaker 1: if it's that many, if it's more, if it's less,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll figure it out. However, many names
Speaker 1: I'm giving you today, that's how many we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about on the podcast. We've done one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 1: I was right. Eight I did eight. That's right, okay,
Speaker 1: eight and eight makes sense. Travis nowsmath For pick eighty four.
Speaker 1: My first player is running back Ti J. Spears from Tulane.
Speaker 1: One of my absolute favorites in this class. He might
Speaker 1: be gone before this pick. Not only does he hit
Speaker 1: home runs as a runner, not only does he run
Speaker 1: routes like a wide receiver. He will execute a lead
Speaker 1: block in the goal line. He'll go put a linebacker
Speaker 1: on their butt and then walk back to the huddle like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a Saturday in New Orleans. Ben's what I do.
Speaker 1: Competitive fire runs. Angry plays exceptionally fast. If you watch
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl, you know about tij Spears. He ran
Speaker 1: rough shot over the USC Trojans to cap off a
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and eighty one yard nineteen touchdown rushing season.
Speaker 1: Add in twenty two grabs for two fifty six and
Speaker 1: three scores. Receiver. He's five foot nine, two hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: a lot like Jamiir Gibbs. He jumped thirty nine inches
Speaker 1: in the vertical ten foot five on the broad. Unreal athlete.
Speaker 1: I think his four to five to two forty time
Speaker 1: is very misleading. He plays a lot faster than that.
Speaker 1: He has exceptional lateral agility. He's an explosive cutter, accelerates
Speaker 1: quickly when changing directions and decelerating. Led the nation last
Speaker 1: year with four point five to five yards after initial
Speaker 1: contact thanks to sixty three miss tackles force you don't
Speaker 1: bring him down first contact. He had twenty one runs
Speaker 1: of fifteen plus yards his career yards after contact is
Speaker 1: this four five, five, four, five zero four eight one
Speaker 1: four two seven. He averages better than a good carry
Speaker 1: after initial contact. In his entire career, he ran for
Speaker 1: seventy first downs. Last year, he had just two drops
Speaker 1: on sixty two targets. I love Ty J. Spears tight
Speaker 1: end Luke Schoenmaker from Michigan number two on my eighty
Speaker 1: four short list. State champ winning high school quarterback late
Speaker 1: bloomer in term production, but he enjoyed a career year
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two with thirty five grabs, four to
Speaker 1: eighteen and three touchdowns. His workout is where he really
Speaker 1: stood out. Seventy eight one eighth inch wingspan almost tterodactal
Speaker 1: territory eighty inches about where we get to that spot.
Speaker 1: One five to nine ten split, super explosive off the football,
Speaker 1: ten foot seven broad and thirty five and a half
Speaker 1: inch vertical jump. Those numbers also tell you how explosive
Speaker 1: he is in the lower half. He can move man
Speaker 1: six foot five, two fifty two. He was a run
Speaker 1: first quarterback in high school as a junior, and then
Speaker 1: he moved to a pass catching role his senior season.
Speaker 1: Also played baseball and cornerback, which again speaks to his
Speaker 1: movement skills and you can see it in watching him
Speaker 1: clean releases, excellent body control. This is what I love
Speaker 1: most about the multi sport athletes. They just move differently.
Speaker 1: He did pile up run after the catch, but his grip,
Speaker 1: strength and effectiveness as a blocker absolutely stands out the offense.
Speaker 1: He comes from his intriguing it's a classic y in
Speaker 1: that power spread offense of the Michigan Wolverines, which gives
Speaker 1: him snaps in line as a in the slot in
Speaker 1: the backfield. Everything versatility plays big time in today's NFL,
Speaker 1: and you see that show up in the way he
Speaker 1: was utilized one hundred and fifty one gap scheme block reps,
Speaker 1: one hundred and one out of zone, and a variety
Speaker 1: of those pre snap alignments. Sixty two career pass blocking snaps,
Speaker 1: just one pressure allowed. He only forced two miss tackles
Speaker 1: on fifty four career grabs, so not going to run
Speaker 1: through tacklers that much, but he can make plays with
Speaker 1: the football in his hands. Next number three on the
Speaker 1: short list here running back de von A Chain from
Speaker 1: Texas A and m Lightning in a Bottle. People thought
Speaker 1: he might break the forty yard dash record in Indy.
Speaker 1: He did clock a four to three to two, which
Speaker 1: was the third fastest time in this year's class. He's
Speaker 1: got springboards in his shoes. He and Gibbs make my
Speaker 1: list for the same reason. Urgency to press the line
Speaker 1: and make the cut with anticipation of how the blocks
Speaker 1: unfold and unleash that track speed into the second level
Speaker 1: of the defense. Like Gibbs, a chain is a home
Speaker 1: run hitting return man thirty point seven average kickoff returns
Speaker 1: and two for touchdowns. The last two seasons, I thought
Speaker 1: he played a lot bigger than his size in pastro,
Speaker 1: which means you have no qualms about keeping him in
Speaker 1: on third down where he can unleash his best trait
Speaker 1: his pass receiving. He ran a ten to oh four
Speaker 1: one hundred meters at A and M. Twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: was the Olympic trial qualifiers for the last time out
Speaker 1: and he ran a twenty point twenty. It's Olympic speed,
Speaker 1: like we talked about there with Kiley Ringo. He's played
Speaker 1: on special teams. He has a not over my dead
Speaker 1: body temperament that I love. Jimbo Fisher said this about him,
Speaker 1: He's a tremendous human being, player, leader, competitor, and have
Speaker 1: nothing but heart and toughness about him and everything he does.
Speaker 1: He averaged one hundred and sixty one all purpose yards
Speaker 1: per game last year. That was fourth in the SEC.
Speaker 1: It just matters more. Seventy four misstackles forced on three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine career attempts. That's good for a
Speaker 1: three nine to three average yards after contact. Number four
Speaker 1: for pick eighty four linebacker Dayon Henley from Washington State.
Speaker 1: If it seems like I like speed, it's because I do.
Speaker 1: Henley changed the way the WSU defense could play. And
Speaker 1: I'm not making this comparison because it sounds like a
Speaker 1: total homer call for the Gokugs, but it was a
Speaker 1: into how the Niners could expand their drops with Fred
Speaker 1: Warner because of his length and athletic ability. Henley has range,
Speaker 1: moving in all three directions and finishes with a punishing
Speaker 1: finish safety convert blistering four or five to four speed.
Speaker 1: He was recruited originally as a quarterback, but signed with
Speaker 1: Nevada as an athlete before playing wide receiver corner and
Speaker 1: moving to safety and eventually landing at linebacker and transferring
Speaker 1: out to Wazu. The combined metrics show you the explosiveness
Speaker 1: one five to eight to ten split thirty seven and
Speaker 1: a half inch vert ten point five broad. He's built.
Speaker 1: He plays tight off blocks. He you can condense intight
Speaker 1: to the formation and scrape off those things. So he's smart.
Speaker 1: He knows how to defeat blocks. Despite his kind of
Speaker 1: slight frame, has a never ending motor. I don't watch
Speaker 1: my kugs with a scouting eye. I'm just watching it
Speaker 1: to watch football. But this dude jumped off the screen
Speaker 1: every single Saturday. He's going to be a core special
Speaker 1: team or day one on top of having the salt
Speaker 1: to play sub and base packages. On defense, he led
Speaker 1: both WSU and special our defense and special team last
Speaker 1: year and tackles forty run stops just five point two
Speaker 1: percent misstackle rate last year and eight team pressures on
Speaker 1: sixty seven career pass rushing snaps or I should say
Speaker 1: last season. Really really good player. Defensive tackle siaka Ika
Speaker 1: from Baylor the truest nose in this entire class. His
Speaker 1: presence clogs two lanes just on his side alone, six
Speaker 1: foot three, three hundred and forty pounds. I think if
Speaker 1: you draft this guy, you can play in thirty percent
Speaker 1: of your snaps right behind Rayqwan Davis and give him
Speaker 1: his a breather. And when you see a man that size,
Speaker 1: you don't think he can move, but he does, man quickness,
Speaker 1: ability to work latterly with heavy, heavy hands. He has
Speaker 1: some juice as a pass rusher too, but stopping the
Speaker 1: run is is true calling. He played the zero, the one, two,
Speaker 1: even some three technique, but I think he's more of
Speaker 1: a PLoP him on the nose playing those odd fronts
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. If you were to get drafted
Speaker 1: here and that might not be a third round pick,
Speaker 1: maybe he's a trade back scenario, but he's it would
Speaker 1: be a great fit for the Miami Dolphins in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defense. Tight End Brenton Strange is next
Speaker 1: from Penn State. How about a one to thirty five
Speaker 1: passer rating when marketed, good for six among Power five
Speaker 1: tight ends. He really turned it on as a pass
Speaker 1: catcher this year was twentieth and miss tackles fourth, seven total,
Speaker 1: misstackles forced seven total, also made five contested catches. How
Speaker 1: About a pretty good split of snap counts from zone
Speaker 1: and gap schemes one fifty to one forty three. He
Speaker 1: played more of a souped up wide receiver role, but man,
Speaker 1: when they jammed him in line, you could see the
Speaker 1: want to As a blocker. It's a great baseline to
Speaker 1: work with a tight end. A vert and broad thirty
Speaker 1: six and ten to four both registered better than eighty
Speaker 1: five percent tile among tight ends. He uses that big
Speaker 1: body in athletics athleticism to be a threat down the field,
Speaker 1: builds up to speed to make big plays. He caught
Speaker 1: six of twelve contested balls in his career, scored eleven
Speaker 1: touchdowns on seventy grabs for seven to seventy five. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Fourteen career miss tackles forced, had a sixty
Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown catch this year that he ran away
Speaker 1: from the entire defense. Explosive, more receiver than blocker, but
Speaker 1: that muscular build. He's a first off the bus type
Speaker 1: of guy. In addition to his temperament and want to
Speaker 1: makes him an entry player at this range of the draft,
Speaker 1: maybe like a ECO as well, a trade back type
Speaker 1: of option. Next wide receiver Tank Dell from Houston. He
Speaker 1: won me over at the Senior Bowl with a deep
Speaker 1: bag in terms of his releases, his stems and moves
Speaker 1: at the top of the route. You're gonna hear the
Speaker 1: concern about his size five foot eight, one sixty five,
Speaker 1: but when he gets drafted, just like Devonte Smith, I
Speaker 1: can promise you that weight has no meaning when guys
Speaker 1: cannot get hands on you. He's speedy, he's crafty, he's
Speaker 1: sure handed. Explosive play weighting to happen. Love his game,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider that he ran every position in
Speaker 1: Dana Holgerson's passing attack, which is multifaceted variation of the
Speaker 1: air raid. Fun fact about him he played at Independence
Speaker 1: Community College, was the first school featured on the Last
Speaker 1: Chance You program. I don't think his four to four
Speaker 1: to nine speed is indicative of his play speed. The
Speaker 1: one to five ten split sure is, though he accelerates
Speaker 1: with the catch on deep tracking. Think about that waddle
Speaker 1: home run ball from Tua against the Lions, like he
Speaker 1: can go get it two point five to four yards
Speaker 1: per route. Ran caught more than half his contested ball
Speaker 1: at that size seven for thirteen five yards average. Yak
Speaker 1: nineteen mistackles forced each of the last two years, thirty
Speaker 1: four touchdown grabs, with seventeen of those coming last year
Speaker 1: twenty nine to the last two years combined. He caught
Speaker 1: five deep touchdowns this year, twelve of twenty eight targets
Speaker 1: on those twenty or more air yard throws for three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six yards and five touchdowns on deep shots.
Speaker 1: He's a good deep ball receiver. Could open up things
Speaker 1: for Tyreek and Jalen in this offense if he was
Speaker 1: drafted last Here on my short my long list, I
Speaker 1: should say offensive lineman Janya Morris from Oklahoma another one
Speaker 1: of these just larger than life. Builds six foot five,
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventeen pounds at his pro day, but
Speaker 1: how about thirty five and five and a half inch arms,
Speaker 1: ten and a quarter inch hands, and an eighty five
Speaker 1: inch wingspan. Superb athlete gets out in space like nobody's business,
Speaker 1: quick out of his stance and into his set. He
Speaker 1: mirrors well, has a real mean streak to his game.
Speaker 1: Plenty of reps where he latches on and then finishes
Speaker 1: the rep by throwing his man to the ground. This
Speaker 1: has an impact over the course of a game. Very
Speaker 1: rangey and asked to pull, Dane Brugler writes that if
Speaker 1: he refinds all of his technique and just get to
Speaker 1: more reps. His upside could be a high quality starter
Speaker 1: who serves as a good swing tackle while he gains experience.
Speaker 1: That to me sounds like a perfect mid draft type
Speaker 1: of athletic or type of offensive lineman. Selection just eleven
Speaker 1: pressures allowed the last two seasons on three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine pass blocking snaps he did miss some time
Speaker 1: two years ago. It's a pass block efficiency of ninety
Speaker 1: seven point nine. So there you go. That's my short
Speaker 1: and long list, my sweet sixteen for picks fifty one
Speaker 1: to eighty four. Let's go ahead and take our last
Speaker 1: break right there and come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and talk about some Day three prospects and kind of
Speaker 1: do a little mock game here. That's next Drive Time podcast,
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Speaker 1: So we have two picks, one in the sixth round,
Speaker 1: one the seventh round. I don't know if any of
Speaker 1: these guys are going to be there, but some additional names.
Speaker 1: Four running backs. Tenk Bigsby from Auburn's a big, physical bruiser.
Speaker 1: Sean Tucker's an explosive play awaiting to happen to Syracuse.
Speaker 1: Mohammed Ibraheim had a ton of production at Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: Duce Vaughan was the top receiving running back in college
Speaker 1: football from Kansas State. I like Miami's tight end Will Mallory.
Speaker 1: I like the BYU wide receiver Puka Nakua, who had
Speaker 1: a great senior Bowl. Three offensive linemen who are intriguing,
Speaker 1: Anton Harrison from Oklahoma, Andrew Vorhees from USC and Tyler
Speaker 1: Stein from Alabama. Really curious about Steen. On the defensive line,
Speaker 1: KeAndre Coburn from Texas as well as his teammate Moro Ojomo,
Speaker 1: and then linebacker Noah Sewell from Oregon, cornerbacks Trey Tomlinson
Speaker 1: from TCU and Darius Rush from South Carolina. Just to
Speaker 1: round out my list and give myself more chances to
Speaker 1: have hits on the Miami Dolphins draft, I think this
Speaker 1: is what I'm kind of landing on right here. At
Speaker 1: fifty one, it's Washington, bergeron Gibbs or maybe even get
Speaker 1: out at that point, and then the third round ty J. Spears,
Speaker 1: devon a chain, Luke Schoenmaker and Janya Morris, and then
Speaker 1: get out if you can't get those guys. Truth is,
Speaker 1: I wish I had one more pick. But I also
Speaker 1: think we'll get we'll only get one of my guys.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the fifty first pick. If they do,
Speaker 1: that's great, if not tough, but gosh, I really want
Speaker 1: three of these players. Maybe you slide back a little
Speaker 1: bit and go Laporta, Spears and Morris. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There are so many options. We'll discuss more of those
Speaker 1: of my guests here coming up. But I think you
Speaker 1: just look at this in general and say, Miami has
Speaker 1: a chance to go after their offensive line needs, or
Speaker 1: their tight end needs, or their running back needs, or
Speaker 1: they can select a player that just benefits a strength
Speaker 1: of the roster, which is always a good way to
Speaker 1: improve your football team as well. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get all four picks right in these lists.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get zero. Who the hell knows. Just wanted
Speaker 1: to share with you all what I've been working on
Speaker 1: for this class and the tape I've been watching because
Speaker 1: I do it too. Even though we have the guests
Speaker 1: on here, which we'll have next week Kyle Crabs and
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid on the Draft Time podcast, and then that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the draft after that. In the meantime, that's going
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