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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a rookie running back
Speaker 1: edition with thorn Istrom.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Baby, Oh, the Trey Benson love is gonna be.
Speaker 3: Deep, deep, oh. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of it's because I haven't broken down that many
Speaker 1: running backs, and I like Trey Benson more than anybody
Speaker 1: else I've seen. But it's also it's a week class
Speaker 1: of it's not a this doesn't feel like a strong
Speaker 1: class of running backs. There's not like a figurehead runner
Speaker 1: like we have in a lot of leagues or a
Speaker 1: lot of seasons.
Speaker 3: Right for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we're gonna we're gonna make do with
Speaker 1: the guys we got.
Speaker 4: We're going mining for golden, mining for gold.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1: I want to We'll hit on maybe eight ish running backs.
Speaker 1: Where's the first running back gonna get taken?
Speaker 3: What round? Give me a middle of the second, end
Speaker 3: of the second. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say mid
Speaker 3: to late second.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds based on talent.
Speaker 3: That sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Plus running back, don't get taken it in the first
Speaker 1: round much anymore to have last year to the surprise
Speaker 1: of many, but most years, we're definitely we're not gonna
Speaker 1: happen this this year for sure, all right. So let's
Speaker 1: start with your and my favorite guy, Trey Benson. Of
Speaker 1: so many things that I loved about his game when
Speaker 1: i've when I watched him play. I love the vision,
Speaker 1: the change of direction, the tackle, breaking the home the
Speaker 1: home run threat that he brings. Sneaky speed as well.
Speaker 1: There's got so much I like about Trey Benson. But
Speaker 1: that's that's just me breaking down one game. You've got
Speaker 1: a much bigger sample size. Let's talk about Trey Benson
Speaker 1: out of State.
Speaker 3: Had an absolutely huge combine foot two sixteen had a
Speaker 3: nine to seven seven raz four three ninety thirty three
Speaker 3: five or over ten broads, just a great combine that
Speaker 3: the speed size combination is premiere in this class. And
Speaker 3: you look at you got when you go back to
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two tape in conjunction with that size
Speaker 3: speed combination, that's when you get super excited about Trey Benson.
Speaker 3: His first couple of years, he was at Oregon and
Speaker 3: he had a catastrophic knee injury and uh aclmclateral meniscus,
Speaker 3: medio meniscus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, him his catastrophic as a true frash.
Speaker 3: Didn't play much as a sophomore, but that bet he
Speaker 3: goes to FSU and that junior season he was awesome.
Speaker 3: He had over he was the first ever guy to
Speaker 3: have a forced misstackle rate over fifty percent, as charted
Speaker 3: by PFF in twenty twenty two, the first player ever.
Speaker 3: So he has the really good power and he's at
Speaker 3: that locomotive that the size, speed, combination, decent vision. Some
Speaker 3: you could some people nitpick him a little bit for that,
Speaker 3: but in the twenty twenty two tape, I thought he
Speaker 3: was a lot better with that. There was some tentative
Speaker 3: stuff in this past year with that. I would nitpick
Speaker 3: more the usage that Norvell used him with Jordan Travis
Speaker 3: was also taking some of chomping out some of the
Speaker 3: the rushes with him last year. But Norvel likes to
Speaker 3: use the two running backs at YadA YadA. But the
Speaker 3: thing I'd say about Benson In addition to the utility,
Speaker 3: the tackle breaking, the size, speed stuff as a runner,
Speaker 3: he also has very good hands and he's a handful
Speaker 3: when when he gets trucking up field in space, when
Speaker 3: he converts from the receiver into a runner, you see
Speaker 3: examples of him adjusting to the ball in the air
Speaker 3: and making the play. So if you know, I didn't
Speaker 3: see the reports of the of the medical teams, you know,
Speaker 3: as far as signing off on him, but as far
Speaker 3: as long as your team's medical team did sign off
Speaker 3: on his knee and everything like that.
Speaker 1: We ran up four, three, nine, and just watch the tape, Denise.
Speaker 1: Now three years later, Yeah, hasn't it been three years?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, three years and later?
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, So you know he's fine as.
Speaker 3: Long as the medicals are good. I mean, yeah, again,
Speaker 3: it's the specimen that the physical package, everything like that.
Speaker 3: And then the twenty twenty two tape was absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Trey Benson's got the build for goal line US.
Speaker 1: Yes, And so you know, from a fantasy standpoint, he's
Speaker 1: my favorite running back that I've looked into so far,
Speaker 1: because I feel like he can run inside, outside, he
Speaker 1: can break along runs.
Speaker 4: He's gonna help you at the goal line he can catch.
Speaker 4: Ok I'm in yeah.
Speaker 1: Now do you think that means Trey Benson will be
Speaker 1: the first running back taken in the draft because they,
Speaker 1: you know, NFL teams don't care about my fantasy team.
Speaker 3: I think he should be And and by the way,
Speaker 3: it's not just the receiving he's to me, it is
Speaker 3: one of the better pass blocking backs in the class
Speaker 3: as well, so he gives you the all around utility
Speaker 3: on the passing downs as well. To me, it's for me.
Speaker 3: The debate is over for RB one. He solidified that
Speaker 3: at the combine. Debate over for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the next running back on your list,
Speaker 1: Tennessee's Jalen Wright Man.
Speaker 3: Can he fly twenty three and a half miles per hour? What? Yes?
Speaker 4: This is a you know he is a track star
Speaker 4: who can run inside.
Speaker 3: Absolutely stupid athleticism. Yeah, five ten and a half two
Speaker 3: hundred ten pounds and then nine to eight to one ras,
Speaker 3: four to three eight speed, thirty eight inch vertical, eleven
Speaker 3: two broad Just absolutely stupid athleticism, which isn't a surprise
Speaker 3: of people that read Bruce Feldman. He was a former
Speaker 3: Feldman free clister We've heard all kinds of tall tales
Speaker 3: about his athleticism. Jalen Wright also has receiving skill, receiving utility,
Speaker 3: and it must be said, does not have a lot
Speaker 3: of tread on the tires. He was in a three
Speaker 3: man rotation at Tennessee this past year. He rose to
Speaker 3: the top of that thing and became sort of the
Speaker 3: one a back of that. Some people nitpick him for this,
Speaker 3: You know that that he wasn't, you know, ever, sort
Speaker 3: of the bellcow guy or whatever. But you know, you
Speaker 3: can't have it both ways as far as that goes.
Speaker 3: You know, he goes into the NFL healthier than a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys and with less of that tread
Speaker 3: and is certainly the fleet uh sort of athlete as well.
Speaker 3: He's more of the straight line type guy. When he
Speaker 3: gets that crease and there's that all the way to
Speaker 3: the he is going to start a racing angle by
Speaker 3: angle by angle of guys and you're not catching him
Speaker 3: from behind. That that's Jalen Wright. I've heard comps tossed
Speaker 3: out of Elvin Kamara. I think that goes a little
Speaker 3: bit too far. But the other one I hear of
Speaker 3: Tevin Coleman. I don't think that one goes far enough.
Speaker 3: So he's somewhere in between those two guys. But with
Speaker 3: Jalen Wright, you're very early on the developmental curve with
Speaker 3: someone who has all the ability that you want and
Speaker 3: and going forward in the NFL, he's going to be
Speaker 3: a better NFL player than he was in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's an exciting part. And they started throwing
Speaker 1: to him last year for Jalen right as well. And
Speaker 1: what do you think his receiving upside is if things?
Speaker 1: You know, if that, if you're to continue can he
Speaker 1: be a forty.
Speaker 3: Fifty ball catcher out in an NFL season? Absolutely? And
Speaker 3: I would take that that would help. Yeah, And all
Speaker 3: you want to do with that kid is get him
Speaker 3: the ball in space, because every single time you have
Speaker 3: the chance to see a home run. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 3: that's exciting. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's hope he finds himself into a spot where he
Speaker 1: gets an offensive line and he doesn't need You don't
Speaker 1: have to hold your blocks long for Jalen right, but
Speaker 1: just give him that crease, right, that's right, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then hold your bread. Let's talk about Texas's Jonathan Brooks.
Speaker 1: He's your next your number three ranked running back at
Speaker 1: this time. And I, as we've mentioned last week, you
Speaker 1: get the right to change your mind. It's March, so
Speaker 1: you can change your mind later. You got you got
Speaker 1: all the way up to the draft. But right now
Speaker 1: you have Jonathan Brooks third. I we touched on this
Speaker 1: a little bit last week. He didn't dazzle me with
Speaker 1: what I saw. And I'm looking for when I'm looking
Speaker 1: at running backstore, I'm looking for guys where I can
Speaker 1: identify some part of their game that's going to be
Speaker 1: special at the NFL level. And just what I've seen
Speaker 1: so far out of Jonathan Brooks, and I've only looked
Speaker 1: at a game and a half, was a guy who
Speaker 1: looks like a sort of a jack of all trades,
Speaker 1: so we can do a lot of things, but nothing special.
Speaker 1: And then I'm just I'm worried during special NFL trades here.
Speaker 3: But you like them a little more than I do,
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, but I think how you're setting that
Speaker 3: up is totally fair. He's six foot two hundred and
Speaker 3: sixteen pounds athleticism. We didn't get to see that like
Speaker 3: the two other guys we just talked about who put
Speaker 3: on the show because obviously Jonathan Brooks, he tore his
Speaker 3: ACL in November, was not able to work out in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: But if we had gotten to see his athleticism, he
Speaker 3: would not have tested like the freak of the two
Speaker 3: guys that we just talked about. Jonathan Brooks was stuck
Speaker 3: behind Beijon and Rochean earlier in his career at Texas
Speaker 3: to get by those it's tough to get by those guys.
Speaker 3: But he's not the freak athlete the Bijon is or
Speaker 3: even you know, Rochean obviously in the bigger package. But
Speaker 3: Brooks is an okay athlete, but not a stud athlete
Speaker 3: where he excels. His contact balance is very, very good.
Speaker 3: He has good feet. I like his vision, I like
Speaker 3: his patience and his feel for running. Those are the
Speaker 3: things that I like about him. He is decent size,
Speaker 3: He's a decent athlete. He's not a dynamic receiver, but
Speaker 3: he does how He's reliable in that phase. He has
Speaker 3: soft hands. But it's sort of like what you're saying.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, no physical attribute you know, stands
Speaker 3: out an elite level anything like that. It's you know,
Speaker 3: the contact balance is the one thing where I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's really good. But outside of that, it's just a
Speaker 3: lot of things where you know it's he he you know,
Speaker 3: he's sort of at Texas at last season. You know,
Speaker 3: while he was healthy, he sort of added up to
Speaker 3: more than the some of his parts.
Speaker 1: He would say the guy that he reminded me of,
Speaker 1: and feel free to disagree. And I could be totally off.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, when I was really nervous about Trey Sermon,
Speaker 1: I was looking at all this productivity, I'm like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: when his offense, amazing offense, just gives him yards, he's great.
Speaker 1: When I need to trace Sermon to do special things,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it on tape. So Trey Sermon is
Speaker 1: my comp for Jonathan Brooks, and I could be way
Speaker 1: off on that.
Speaker 3: That's deliciously derisive. I had. Mine's kind of derisive too.
Speaker 3: I had. I'm still workshopping mine, but I had Sony Michelle, Okay,
Speaker 3: which I'm still workshopping. Like I said, but he's a
Speaker 3: tough guy to camp because well, first of all, we
Speaker 3: don't get the athletic profile on him, but he's also
Speaker 3: one of those guys where his special sauce it has
Speaker 3: nothing to do with athletic trades, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's yeah, it's he's a tough one.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get in one more before we take
Speaker 1: a break. When we're rookie running back, Marshawn Lloyd. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at it at all, So I need I
Speaker 1: need a major I need a major download of Intel
Speaker 1: on Marshawn Lloyd.
Speaker 3: And by the way, our kids now old.
Speaker 1: Enough to been named after Marshawn Lynch. Maybe yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: are we getting like, you know, is that possible?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: But he's a capital s Marshaan Yeah. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: mar shun shun.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, a guy who's definitely stock up after the combine.
Speaker 3: My my only it wasn't a concern, but my only
Speaker 3: the one thing I wanted him to show me during
Speaker 3: the process, well two things when we saw him in mobile.
Speaker 3: The one thing I wanted him to show, which it
Speaker 3: was funny he brought this up during our interview with him,
Speaker 3: was as a receiver. Because he brought up at both
Speaker 3: at South Carolina and then at USC those offenses did
Speaker 3: not deploy him as much as a receiver as much
Speaker 3: as he would have liked, you know, they used him
Speaker 3: as the running back, he was the RB one whatever,
Speaker 3: but not as much as a receiver. He did show
Speaker 3: in mobile that he is a very smooth receiver and
Speaker 3: in the flashes we saw on film, but he showed,
Speaker 3: you know, in the receiving drills he's very smooth with that.
Speaker 3: And then during the combine, I wanted to see, is
Speaker 3: this like, where is this kid's athleticism. I actually bet
Speaker 3: my colleague Derek Brown at Fantasy Pros who is He's much?
Speaker 3: He was much higher on on Lloyd as an athlete
Speaker 3: than I was. We made a bet on his forty time.
Speaker 3: I was in the four five's on Lloyd and and
Speaker 3: Derek was in the four fours. And let's just say
Speaker 3: I was wrong, Okay. Lloyd ended up running in the
Speaker 3: four four. He four four six with an nine to
Speaker 3: nine RAS. So wow, Yes, So I Derek Brown some
Speaker 3: drinks next time we go to the senior ball. Lloyd
Speaker 3: also had a thirty six vertical. He had a very
Speaker 3: very good workout. But on the field, he a couple
Speaker 3: of different things. Very very good agility, so you like that.
Speaker 3: He has good vision, so he sets people up and
Speaker 3: then he has that agility. It's really hard to hit
Speaker 3: him square and he runs angry. We asked him about
Speaker 3: this in mobile too. We were like, you know what,
Speaker 3: you know, why do he run so angry? Like you
Speaker 3: know who hurts you? You know? And he's like he
Speaker 3: I didn't even know this about him. You know, he goes,
Speaker 3: he goes. It's because I'm from Delaware. He's like, okay,
Speaker 3: he goes. You come from Delaware, you go out there
Speaker 3: to prove yourself. Wow. I was like, okay, yeah. It
Speaker 3: was like in a wedding crashers. You know, that's what
Speaker 3: Marilyn does. You know. It's like I was like, all right,
Speaker 3: you learned something new every day. But I like Lloyd
Speaker 3: for all these reasons. You know, he he proved it
Speaker 3: a South Carolina. Then he went to usc Us. He
Speaker 3: had sorted the trying year last year, but he averaged
Speaker 3: over seven yards of carry. And I do think he
Speaker 3: is a better receiver than we saw at his last
Speaker 3: two stops, just because they didn't use him that way.
Speaker 3: Obviously a good athlete, his stock is going up.
Speaker 1: Okay, Marshawn Lloyd usc when we come back, did Michigan's
Speaker 1: Blake Korum succeed just because of the monster offensive line
Speaker 1: that gave him free yards. Find out from thor when
Speaker 1: we come back Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We're breaking
Speaker 1: out rookie running backs with thorn Eystrom at thor Ku
Speaker 1: on Twitter slash x Troy running back Kamani Vidal. He said, Vidal,
Speaker 1: am I saying yeah, I think so? Yeah, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kimani Vidal. I don't know anything about this Kidnop. I'm
Speaker 1: not breaking down Troy. I'm not running to Troy and
Speaker 1: my TV. You know, so I got nothing on him.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about Kimani Vidal?
Speaker 3: So this is my guy in this right? I love Vidall.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm saying it right. I've said
Speaker 3: if you love him, you should know how to say
Speaker 3: his name. Yeah, I always called him Vidall. You know,
Speaker 3: I interviewed him down there, so I probably should have
Speaker 3: looked up the pronunciation. Guy. But so, a small back
Speaker 3: who is built like a bowling ball. I just have
Speaker 3: a type with running backs. He measured in five eight,
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifteen pounds down at the combine, but
Speaker 3: he has incredible acceleration and agility, a combination of that
Speaker 3: and he gets power from that acceleration and then he
Speaker 3: just has a fearless running style. He's another one of
Speaker 3: those guys that you cannot square up. He sort of
Speaker 3: hides behind the line of scrimmage and you can't square
Speaker 3: him up because of the agility, and then he gets
Speaker 3: through there so fast because of the acceleration. There was
Speaker 3: a lot of people out there that were sort of
Speaker 3: sleeping on his speed. Everyone out there thought he was
Speaker 3: gonna run above a four to six combine. He comes
Speaker 3: in runs a four four six who had an eight
Speaker 3: point eighty four raz very very good numbers for him.
Speaker 3: So you know, for me on my board, I have
Speaker 3: him as RB five right now. He was way way
Speaker 3: down there on a lot of other boards. I think
Speaker 3: he's going to be rising up after his combine performance.
Speaker 3: For me, I comped him to Jalen Warren. When I
Speaker 3: was down at the combine, I asked, I'm sorry. When
Speaker 3: I was down at the senior ball I asked him
Speaker 3: who he patterned his game after or who you know
Speaker 3: he his own game reminded him of, and he said
Speaker 3: Maurice Jones Drew.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, another bowling ball player. Yes, And he
Speaker 1: catched like Maurice Jones drew well.
Speaker 3: Interestingly enough, he said the one thing he wanted to
Speaker 3: do down to Mobile was showed the NFL that he
Speaker 3: could catch more twenty or more balls every single year
Speaker 3: at Troy, but barely more than that. You know, they
Speaker 3: didn't use him, you know, as much as he would
Speaker 3: have liked in the receiving game. But he showed in
Speaker 3: Mobile as another guy that was very smooth in that.
Speaker 3: But you know a lot of guys, when you ask
Speaker 3: them who they comped themselves to, it's always very sad. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: it's always way above their import. But Vidal, he reminds
Speaker 3: me so much of a current NFL player. So I
Speaker 3: just had to ask him if he'd seen this guy,
Speaker 3: if you know, if he saw any of this. He
Speaker 3: reminds me so much of Jalen Warren coming out of
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State. It's the same size. I thought they were
Speaker 3: gonna test similarly, and then Vidall went and blew that out.
Speaker 3: But they the last year at Oklahoma State, Jalen Warren
Speaker 3: finished number two in the NPS and forced miss tackles.
Speaker 3: Last year, come Oni Vidaal at Troy finished number two
Speaker 3: in the NPS in forced myths tackles at the exact
Speaker 3: same size. So I asked him, I said, have you
Speaker 3: ever seen Jalen Warren? You know, what do you think
Speaker 3: he He just lit up. He's like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: could see that, all right. I think he's gonna in
Speaker 3: the same way. He's gonna be very similar to Jayalen Warren,
Speaker 3: either a very very good, complimentary back or a sort
Speaker 3: of a low level starter.
Speaker 1: Your next guy in your list, the next running back
Speaker 1: number seven, Michigan's Blake Koram. Now we touched on this
Speaker 1: a little bit last week.
Speaker 3: Jj.
Speaker 1: Some people ding JJ McCarthy because the offensive line set
Speaker 1: up so many opportunities for him, let him sit in
Speaker 1: the pockets some. But Blake korm had all the same
Speaker 1: advantages and probably times two. Yes, you watch his table
Speaker 1: dudes going like, you know, five yards untouched constantly. Yes,
Speaker 1: So talk to me about Blake Koram and where you
Speaker 1: think his fit is if he's got to run behind
Speaker 1: you know, an NFL average offensive line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Blake Koram is the guy that really needs
Speaker 3: to get nippick for this Michigan's offensive line last year.
Speaker 3: This is off memory, but pff, they were I believe
Speaker 3: they were number two graded run blocking offensive line pass blocking.
Speaker 3: It was they were it was something more like eighteen
Speaker 3: or twenty something like that. But that offensive line in
Speaker 3: particular was built to maul in the run game. And
Speaker 3: you could see this right Like Blake Korum yards after
Speaker 3: contact on average last year was two point four to two,
Speaker 3: which is one of the lowest of the top twenty guys.
Speaker 3: It's hard to nippick him too much for that, though,
Speaker 3: because his yards before contact was absolutely ludicrous, which wasn't
Speaker 3: necessarily his fault he had well, no, he had a
Speaker 3: freaking envoy every single time they handed of the ball, right,
Speaker 3: he was just a scarted down the field. It's another
Speaker 3: reason you look at his elusive rating. It's comically low.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven point four. You know, one hundred is considered
Speaker 3: like a solid one whatever. But it's for the same reason, right,
Speaker 3: Like the metrics are sort of skewed because that offensive
Speaker 3: line was so nasty as a run blocking unit. To
Speaker 3: another reason, you know, only thirty broken tackles. Another thing contextually,
Speaker 3: Blake Korm had the injury, the knee injury late twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. He was still recovering from that early on
Speaker 3: last this past season, in twenty twenty three, so he
Speaker 3: was a bit sluggish early in the season as well.
Speaker 3: So you had a couple of those things going. The
Speaker 3: thing that I like about Blake Korm I mentioned before,
Speaker 3: I fetishized the bowling ball build. Yeah, I love guys
Speaker 3: like that, the agility and everything like that, the powerful build,
Speaker 3: everything like that. Blake Korum five eight two o five
Speaker 3: weight in at the combine, he has that agility, very
Speaker 3: very agile. In fact, his three cone six eight to
Speaker 3: two was tremendous. The forty was more meager at four
Speaker 3: five three, but the ras overall was solid at eight
Speaker 3: four eight. You like the the three cone, You like
Speaker 3: the vision, very very good. He runs with power, he
Speaker 3: breaks the arm tackles. Those are the things I like
Speaker 3: about Blake Korum. But I do have him down there
Speaker 3: at running back six right now, just because he's not
Speaker 3: as good of a receiver he is. He has the
Speaker 3: reliable hands, but he's not a great route runner. He's
Speaker 3: probably gonna be off the field on most passing downs.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get the early down work in the NFL,
Speaker 3: But for fantasy, you do have to mention that that
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna have a better receiving back on your roster.
Speaker 1: He's at five foot eight, he's still powerful enough where
Speaker 1: he can be a goal linebacker for right, I think
Speaker 1: it feels that way.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, let's go to.
Speaker 4: South Dakota States Isaiah Davis.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, okay, I have not broken him down in
Speaker 1: th South Dakota States obviously got a very nice program.
Speaker 4: Yes, what do I need to know about Isaiah Davis?
Speaker 3: He is a very different kind of a back than
Speaker 3: the last one we got from South Dakota State, Pier Strong.
Speaker 3: Pierre Strong was he was the straight line home run
Speaker 3: hit or the speed guy. Right, Isaiah Davis is a
Speaker 3: powerback who is more of like a slalom type guy.
Speaker 3: And then when defenders, so he's got the agility, but
Speaker 3: he's an upright runner, but when defenders hit him from
Speaker 3: the side or off angles, it's like a cartoon where
Speaker 3: they just slide off them, you know, like when they're
Speaker 3: hitting a brick wall. He even though he runs upright,
Speaker 3: it's it was so funny watching his tape because he
Speaker 3: has both the contact balance but also just like it's
Speaker 3: like touching an electric fence, like the kid just has
Speaker 3: the superpower that now you do have to say he
Speaker 3: was in the FCS, but at the highest level of it.
Speaker 3: You know, at South Dakota State, they won, They were
Speaker 3: a juggernaut. I mean, they went undefeated and he was
Speaker 3: the Bellcow. They also played Iowa, you know, they played
Speaker 3: some FPS teams over the last couple of years. You
Speaker 3: happen to know how he.
Speaker 1: Did against Iowa because that'd be awfully telling. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: obviously an elite defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't have the numbers right, and it
Speaker 3: wasn't a fair question. Yeah, but I mean late in
Speaker 3: the season, you know, everything like that. Down the stretch,
Speaker 3: he was just absolutely dominant, you know, and over the
Speaker 3: course of four years, I do have that number, four thousand,
Speaker 3: four hundred sixty one yards, forty nine touchdowns, seven yards
Speaker 3: per carry over forty five games. But yeah, he that's
Speaker 3: what it is. It's the combination of the agility one
Speaker 3: cut agility, you know, it's not joystick agility, but the
Speaker 3: one cut thing, and then the power and the contact
Speaker 3: balance even for an upright runner. And he showed the reason.
Speaker 3: You know, he was another guy, you know, along with Vida,
Speaker 3: who are sort of my guys, you know, heading into
Speaker 3: the combine. Just like Vidal Isaa Davis proved the concept
Speaker 3: in Indianapolis eight seven to three RAS at the bigger
Speaker 3: size six foot two hundred and twenty pounds eight seven
Speaker 3: three RAS four five seven forty, which is fine for
Speaker 3: a bigger back like that with his style thirty four
Speaker 3: and a half vertical. So yeah, he's going to go
Speaker 3: into the NFL. He's going to be a strong back
Speaker 3: probably complimentary initially, but as far as the short yardage guy,
Speaker 3: the early down type guy, he's going to be productive
Speaker 3: I think in the NFL, just not not a receiving
Speaker 3: guy initially.
Speaker 1: All right, that's but hey, you know what, I like
Speaker 1: touchdowns and Isaiah Davis sounds like he's built goaling specifically.
Speaker 3: Which which I love.
Speaker 1: Let's go to I'm going to talk about two guys,
Speaker 1: our final two runners, two guys that underperformed at the
Speaker 1: combine and have seen their their stocks seemingly go down
Speaker 1: a little bit in the aftermath of that. First we
Speaker 1: start with oudrich S Timmey from Notre Dame and then
Speaker 1: Oregon's Bucky Irving, two guys who who needed good combines
Speaker 1: and didn't get them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so estimate was he had a fabulous year last year.
Speaker 3: He had ninety four point two PFF grade, you know,
Speaker 3: and with the bellcow for that Notre Dame offense, you know,
Speaker 3: they just sort of put it on his back. But
Speaker 3: he ran a four to seven to one forty in
Speaker 3: Indianapolis with with a one five to eight ten yard split.
Speaker 3: Not good. Now some people consider that disqualifying. I was
Speaker 3: four to seven. Yeah, yeah, I will say the rest
Speaker 3: of his tests were pretty good. He had he had
Speaker 3: a thirty eight inch vert at a bigger size. He
Speaker 3: had an over ten foot broad. That's why he came
Speaker 3: in in an eight to five to nine RAS. But
Speaker 3: again you have the slow forty with the sluggish ten
Speaker 3: yard split. The compy like most for him, which I
Speaker 3: think fits very well. As Jamal Williams for estimating in
Speaker 3: the NFL. I think he sorted that your early down
Speaker 3: type grinder guy in the goal line type guy. And
Speaker 3: I don't think that the speed thing necessarily changes my
Speaker 3: view point on that comes in six foot little over
Speaker 3: two hundred twenty pounds. The guy who I'm more concerned
Speaker 3: about the combine was Bucky Irving. He comes in five
Speaker 3: to nine hundred and ninety pounds. His his RAZ three
Speaker 3: seven to two. What runs a four five five, one
Speaker 3: five four ten yard split. His vertical is under thirty inches. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he couldn't jump over a stack of ten dollars bills
Speaker 3: and his broad was was nine feet. Uh. Not good
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving. He made guys missing college. He has some
Speaker 3: receiving skill, but he has to show that he can
Speaker 3: run by people at that very small size. I don't
Speaker 3: know what to say with that lack of athleticism. He
Speaker 3: might have just made himself undraftable. The people who like
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving are now making the argument that he is
Speaker 3: Kyron Williams. Brian Johnson is already drafting his argument that
Speaker 3: he's Kyrien Williams. But yeah, it's not a good day
Speaker 3: for Bucky Irving at the combine. So is he just
Speaker 3: gonna be a pure re even back in the NFL?
Speaker 3: You think, I think that's what it's gotta be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's something of a loss for the
Speaker 1: starting running back on a very good offense.
Speaker 3: Great job on running backs.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, let's uh, let's do wide receivers next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you feel about that? Let's do it
Speaker 3: all right? Thanks for listening.
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