WEBVTT - Benson-mania 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:11.040 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.080 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.479 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.280 here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a rookie running back 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.120 edition with thorn Istrom. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:29.240 Yeah. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.120 Baby, Oh, the Trey Benson love is gonna be. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.840 Deep, deep, oh. Now. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.400 Part of it's because I haven't broken down that many 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.400 running backs, and I like Trey Benson more than anybody 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.640 else I've seen. But it's also it's a week class 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.040 of it's not a this doesn't feel like a strong 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.120 class of running backs. There's not like a figurehead runner 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.560 like we have in a lot of leagues or a 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:50.720 lot of seasons. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:51.680 Right for sure, for sure. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.840 Yeah, And so we're gonna we're gonna make do with 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:54.600 the guys we got. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.000 We're going mining for golden, mining for gold. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.320 I like that. I like that. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.920 I want to We'll hit on maybe eight ish running backs. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.360 Where's the first running back gonna get taken? 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.480 What round? Give me a middle of the second, end 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:14.160 of the second. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say mid 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.240 to late second. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.959 Yeah, that sounds based on talent. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:18.880 That sounds about right. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.360 Plus running back, don't get taken it in the first 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.759 round much anymore to have last year to the surprise 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.720 of many, but most years, we're definitely we're not gonna 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.720 happen this this year for sure, all right. So let's 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.800 start with your and my favorite guy, Trey Benson. Of 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.160 so many things that I loved about his game when 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.480 i've when I watched him play. I love the vision, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.880 the change of direction, the tackle, breaking the home the 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.360 home run threat that he brings. Sneaky speed as well. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.640 There's got so much I like about Trey Benson. But 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.200 that's that's just me breaking down one game. You've got 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.120 a much bigger sample size. Let's talk about Trey Benson 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.600 out of State. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.800 Had an absolutely huge combine foot two sixteen had a 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.440 nine to seven seven raz four three ninety thirty three 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.600 five or over ten broads, just a great combine that 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.360 the speed size combination is premiere in this class. And 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.440 you look at you got when you go back to 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.400 the twenty twenty two tape in conjunction with that size 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.640 speed combination, that's when you get super excited about Trey Benson. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.280 His first couple of years, he was at Oregon and 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:34.000 he had a catastrophic knee injury and uh aclmclateral meniscus, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:35.320 medio meniscus. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.600 Yeah, him his catastrophic as a true frash. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.320 Didn't play much as a sophomore, but that bet he 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.040 goes to FSU and that junior season he was awesome. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.760 He had over he was the first ever guy to 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.200 have a forced misstackle rate over fifty percent, as charted 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.359 by PFF in twenty twenty two, the first player ever. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.079 So he has the really good power and he's at 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:03.880 that locomotive that the size, speed, combination, decent vision. Some 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.880 you could some people nitpick him a little bit for that, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.080 but in the twenty twenty two tape, I thought he 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.480 was a lot better with that. There was some tentative 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.280 stuff in this past year with that. I would nitpick 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.800 more the usage that Norvell used him with Jordan Travis 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.400 was also taking some of chomping out some of the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.000 the rushes with him last year. But Norvel likes to 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.960 use the two running backs at YadA YadA. But the 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.320 thing I'd say about Benson In addition to the utility, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.799 the tackle breaking, the size, speed stuff as a runner, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.120 he also has very good hands and he's a handful 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.320 when when he gets trucking up field in space, when 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.800 he converts from the receiver into a runner, you see 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.080 examples of him adjusting to the ball in the air 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.800 and making the play. So if you know, I didn't 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.160 see the reports of the of the medical teams, you know, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.800 as far as signing off on him, but as far 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.200 as long as your team's medical team did sign off 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.920 on his knee and everything like that. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.880 We ran up four, three, nine, and just watch the tape, Denise. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.920 Now three years later, Yeah, hasn't it been three years? 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.320 Yeah? Yeah, three years and later? 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.040 Yeah right, yeah, So you know he's fine as. 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.920 Long as the medicals are good. I mean, yeah, again, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.720 it's the specimen that the physical package, everything like that. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.320 And then the twenty twenty two tape was absolutely ridiculous. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.800 Trey Benson's got the build for goal line US. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.360 Yes, And so you know, from a fantasy standpoint, he's 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.719 my favorite running back that I've looked into so far, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.800 because I feel like he can run inside, outside, he 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:29.640 can break along runs. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.359 He's gonna help you at the goal line he can catch. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.600 Ok I'm in yeah. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.560 Now do you think that means Trey Benson will be 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.480 the first running back taken in the draft because they, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.159 you know, NFL teams don't care about my fantasy team. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.960 I think he should be And and by the way, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.880 it's not just the receiving he's to me, it is 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.080 one of the better pass blocking backs in the class 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.120 as well, so he gives you the all around utility 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:55.159 on the passing downs as well. To me, it's for me. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.560 The debate is over for RB one. He solidified that 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.039 at the combine. Debate over for me. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.920 Okay, let's go to the next running back on your list, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.839 Tennessee's Jalen Wright Man. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:11.760 Can he fly twenty three and a half miles per hour? What? Yes? 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.320 This is a you know he is a track star 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:15.839 who can run inside. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.880 Absolutely stupid athleticism. Yeah, five ten and a half two 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.120 hundred ten pounds and then nine to eight to one ras, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.240 four to three eight speed, thirty eight inch vertical, eleven 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.840 two broad Just absolutely stupid athleticism, which isn't a surprise 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.040 of people that read Bruce Feldman. He was a former 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.279 Feldman free clister We've heard all kinds of tall tales 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:45.640 about his athleticism. Jalen Wright also has receiving skill, receiving utility, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.920 and it must be said, does not have a lot 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.440 of tread on the tires. He was in a three 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:56.760 man rotation at Tennessee this past year. He rose to 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.680 the top of that thing and became sort of the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.440 one a back of that. Some people nitpick him for this, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.640 You know that that he wasn't, you know, ever, sort 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.680 of the bellcow guy or whatever. But you know, you 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.920 can't have it both ways as far as that goes. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.200 You know, he goes into the NFL healthier than a 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.200 lot of these guys and with less of that tread 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.279 and is certainly the fleet uh sort of athlete as well. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.440 He's more of the straight line type guy. When he 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.040 gets that crease and there's that all the way to 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.880 the he is going to start a racing angle by 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.560 angle by angle of guys and you're not catching him 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.719 from behind. That that's Jalen Wright. I've heard comps tossed 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.640 out of Elvin Kamara. I think that goes a little 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.040 bit too far. But the other one I hear of 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.320 Tevin Coleman. I don't think that one goes far enough. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.159 So he's somewhere in between those two guys. But with 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.400 Jalen Wright, you're very early on the developmental curve with 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.560 someone who has all the ability that you want and 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.359 and going forward in the NFL, he's going to be 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.279 a better NFL player than he was in college. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.960 Yeah, that's that's an exciting part. And they started throwing 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.040 to him last year for Jalen right as well. And 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.440 what do you think his receiving upside is if things? 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.040 You know, if that, if you're to continue can he 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.080 be a forty. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.120 Fifty ball catcher out in an NFL season? Absolutely? And 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.320 I would take that that would help. Yeah, And all 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.840 you want to do with that kid is get him 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.720 the ball in space, because every single time you have 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.920 the chance to see a home run. Yeah, that's that's 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.360 that's exciting. Uh. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.880 Let's hope he finds himself into a spot where he 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.160 gets an offensive line and he doesn't need You don't 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.000 have to hold your blocks long for Jalen right, but 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.520 just give him that crease, right, that's right, Yeah, and 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:48.520 then hold your bread. Let's talk about Texas's Jonathan Brooks. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.240 He's your next your number three ranked running back at 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.040 this time. And I, as we've mentioned last week, you 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.280 get the right to change your mind. It's March, so 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.960 you can change your mind later. You got you got 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:00.640 all the way up to the draft. But right now 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.120 you have Jonathan Brooks third. I we touched on this 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.640 a little bit last week. He didn't dazzle me with 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.840 what I saw. And I'm looking for when I'm looking 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.360 at running backstore, I'm looking for guys where I can 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.280 identify some part of their game that's going to be 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.280 special at the NFL level. And just what I've seen 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.440 so far out of Jonathan Brooks, and I've only looked 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.400 at a game and a half, was a guy who 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.200 looks like a sort of a jack of all trades, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.240 so we can do a lot of things, but nothing special. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.560 And then I'm just I'm worried during special NFL trades here. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.080 But you like them a little more than I do, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.240 I think, Yeah, but I think how you're setting that 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.000 up is totally fair. He's six foot two hundred and 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.280 sixteen pounds athleticism. We didn't get to see that like 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.040 the two other guys we just talked about who put 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.320 on the show because obviously Jonathan Brooks, he tore his 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.800 ACL in November, was not able to work out in Indianapolis. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.559 But if we had gotten to see his athleticism, he 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.880 would not have tested like the freak of the two 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.640 guys that we just talked about. Jonathan Brooks was stuck 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.760 behind Beijon and Rochean earlier in his career at Texas 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.200 to get by those it's tough to get by those guys. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.440 But he's not the freak athlete the Bijon is or 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.000 even you know, Rochean obviously in the bigger package. But 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.000 Brooks is an okay athlete, but not a stud athlete 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.560 where he excels. His contact balance is very, very good. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.080 He has good feet. I like his vision, I like 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.360 his patience and his feel for running. Those are the 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.960 things that I like about him. He is decent size, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.560 He's a decent athlete. He's not a dynamic receiver, but 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.319 he does how He's reliable in that phase. He has 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.120 soft hands. But it's sort of like what you're saying. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.640 It's like, you know, no physical attribute you know, stands 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.280 out an elite level anything like that. It's you know, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.600 the contact balance is the one thing where I'm like, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.320 that's really good. But outside of that, it's just a 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.120 lot of things where you know it's he he you know, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.400 he's sort of at Texas at last season. You know, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.360 while he was healthy, he sort of added up to 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.640 more than the some of his parts. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.720 He would say the guy that he reminded me of, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.680 and feel free to disagree. And I could be totally off. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.200 Two years ago, when I was really nervous about Trey Sermon, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.760 I was looking at all this productivity, I'm like, well, okay, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.600 when his offense, amazing offense, just gives him yards, he's great. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.640 When I need to trace Sermon to do special things, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.360 I didn't see it on tape. So Trey Sermon is 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.280 my comp for Jonathan Brooks, and I could be way 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:18.920 off on that. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:25.200 That's deliciously derisive. I had. Mine's kind of derisive too. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:29.680 I had. I'm still workshopping mine, but I had Sony Michelle, Okay, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.840 which I'm still workshopping. Like I said, but he's a 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.920 tough guy to camp because well, first of all, we 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.400 don't get the athletic profile on him, but he's also 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.520 one of those guys where his special sauce it has 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.120 nothing to do with athletic trades, you know what I mean. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.080 So it's yeah, it's he's a tough one. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.719 All right, Let's get in one more before we take 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.480 a break. When we're rookie running back, Marshawn Lloyd. I 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.560 haven't looked at it at all, So I need I 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.640 need a major I need a major download of Intel 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.000 on Marshawn Lloyd. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.600 And by the way, our kids now old. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.560 Enough to been named after Marshawn Lynch. Maybe yeah, I mean, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.440 are we getting like, you know, is that possible? 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.320 Yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.960 But he's a capital s Marshaan Yeah. Yeah, he's a 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.400 mar shun shun. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:16.520 Yeah. Yeah, a guy who's definitely stock up after the combine. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.480 My my only it wasn't a concern, but my only 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.839 the one thing I wanted him to show me during 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.120 the process, well two things when we saw him in mobile. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.880 The one thing I wanted him to show, which it 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.200 was funny he brought this up during our interview with him, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.120 was as a receiver. Because he brought up at both 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.840 at South Carolina and then at USC those offenses did 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.960 not deploy him as much as a receiver as much 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.760 as he would have liked, you know, they used him 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.200 as the running back, he was the RB one whatever, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.640 but not as much as a receiver. He did show 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.160 in mobile that he is a very smooth receiver and 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.120 in the flashes we saw on film, but he showed, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.960 you know, in the receiving drills he's very smooth with that. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.120 And then during the combine, I wanted to see, is 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.520 this like, where is this kid's athleticism. I actually bet 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.800 my colleague Derek Brown at Fantasy Pros who is He's much? 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.720 He was much higher on on Lloyd as an athlete 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.400 than I was. We made a bet on his forty time. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.120 I was in the four five's on Lloyd and and 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.440 Derek was in the four fours. And let's just say 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.240 I was wrong, Okay. Lloyd ended up running in the 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.920 four four. He four four six with an nine to 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.520 nine RAS. So wow, Yes, So I Derek Brown some 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.720 drinks next time we go to the senior ball. Lloyd 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.199 also had a thirty six vertical. He had a very 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.040 very good workout. But on the field, he a couple 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.920 of different things. Very very good agility, so you like that. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.200 He has good vision, so he sets people up and 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.280 then he has that agility. It's really hard to hit 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.240 him square and he runs angry. We asked him about 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.920 this in mobile too. We were like, you know what, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.240 you know, why do he run so angry? Like you 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.559 know who hurts you? You know? And he's like he 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.079 I didn't even know this about him. You know, he goes, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.760 he goes. It's because I'm from Delaware. He's like, okay, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.000 he goes. You come from Delaware, you go out there 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.080 to prove yourself. Wow. I was like, okay, yeah. It 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.080 was like in a wedding crashers. You know, that's what 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.720 Marilyn does. You know. It's like I was like, all right, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.880 you learned something new every day. But I like Lloyd 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.720 for all these reasons. You know, he he proved it 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.160 a South Carolina. Then he went to usc Us. He 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.760 had sorted the trying year last year, but he averaged 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.360 over seven yards of carry. And I do think he 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.319 is a better receiver than we saw at his last 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.280 two stops, just because they didn't use him that way. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.360 Obviously a good athlete, his stock is going up. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:42.560 Okay, Marshawn Lloyd usc when we come back, did Michigan's 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.400 Blake Korum succeed just because of the monster offensive line 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.719 that gave him free yards. Find out from thor when 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.440 we come back Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We're breaking 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.079 out rookie running backs with thorn Eystrom at thor Ku 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:04.080 on Twitter slash x Troy running back Kamani Vidal. He said, Vidal, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.400 am I saying yeah, I think so? Yeah, Okay, yeah, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.600 Kimani Vidal. I don't know anything about this Kidnop. I'm 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.839 not breaking down Troy. I'm not running to Troy and 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.160 my TV. You know, so I got nothing on him. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.880 What can you tell me about Kimani Vidal? 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.640 So this is my guy in this right? I love Vidall. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.320 I don't know if I'm saying it right. I've said 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:24.840 if you love him, you should know how to say 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.640 his name. Yeah, I always called him Vidall. You know, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.440 I interviewed him down there, so I probably should have 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.040 looked up the pronunciation. Guy. But so, a small back 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.560 who is built like a bowling ball. I just have 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.440 a type with running backs. He measured in five eight, 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.280 two hundred and fifteen pounds down at the combine, but 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.800 he has incredible acceleration and agility, a combination of that 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.240 and he gets power from that acceleration and then he 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.440 just has a fearless running style. He's another one of 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.560 those guys that you cannot square up. He sort of 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.280 hides behind the line of scrimmage and you can't square 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.160 him up because of the agility, and then he gets 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.200 through there so fast because of the acceleration. There was 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.320 a lot of people out there that were sort of 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.400 sleeping on his speed. Everyone out there thought he was 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.600 gonna run above a four to six combine. He comes 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.400 in runs a four four six who had an eight 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.840 point eighty four raz very very good numbers for him. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.280 So you know, for me on my board, I have 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.680 him as RB five right now. He was way way 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.360 down there on a lot of other boards. I think 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 he's going to be rising up after his combine performance. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.720 For me, I comped him to Jalen Warren. When I 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.280 was down at the combine, I asked, I'm sorry. When 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.320 I was down at the senior ball I asked him 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.920 who he patterned his game after or who you know 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.760 he his own game reminded him of, and he said 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.160 Maurice Jones Drew. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.080 Oh all right, another bowling ball player. Yes, And he 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.120 catched like Maurice Jones drew well. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.440 Interestingly enough, he said the one thing he wanted to 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.480 do down to Mobile was showed the NFL that he 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.960 could catch more twenty or more balls every single year 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.680 at Troy, but barely more than that. You know, they 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.080 didn't use him, you know, as much as he would 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.160 have liked in the receiving game. But he showed in 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.120 Mobile as another guy that was very smooth in that. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.080 But you know a lot of guys, when you ask 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.800 them who they comped themselves to, it's always very sad. Yeah, exactly, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.200 it's always way above their import. But Vidal, he reminds 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.720 me so much of a current NFL player. So I 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.360 just had to ask him if he'd seen this guy, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.760 if you know, if he saw any of this. He 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.160 reminds me so much of Jalen Warren coming out of 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.280 Oklahoma State. It's the same size. I thought they were 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.440 gonna test similarly, and then Vidall went and blew that out. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.400 But they the last year at Oklahoma State, Jalen Warren 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.160 finished number two in the NPS and forced miss tackles. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.320 Last year, come Oni Vidaal at Troy finished number two 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.600 in the NPS in forced myths tackles at the exact 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.720 same size. So I asked him, I said, have you 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.080 ever seen Jalen Warren? You know, what do you think 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.080 he He just lit up. He's like, oh yeah, I 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.280 could see that, all right. I think he's gonna in 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.520 the same way. He's gonna be very similar to Jayalen Warren, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.640 either a very very good, complimentary back or a sort 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:09.639 of a low level starter. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.560 Your next guy in your list, the next running back 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.480 number seven, Michigan's Blake Koram. Now we touched on this 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:17.520 a little bit last week. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.159 Jj. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.320 Some people ding JJ McCarthy because the offensive line set 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.399 up so many opportunities for him, let him sit in 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.360 the pockets some. But Blake korm had all the same 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.520 advantages and probably times two. Yes, you watch his table 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.160 dudes going like, you know, five yards untouched constantly. Yes, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.439 So talk to me about Blake Koram and where you 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.560 think his fit is if he's got to run behind 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.720 you know, an NFL average offensive line. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.120 Yeah, yeah, Blake Koram is the guy that really needs 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.440 to get nippick for this Michigan's offensive line last year. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.520 This is off memory, but pff, they were I believe 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.400 they were number two graded run blocking offensive line pass blocking. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.640 It was they were it was something more like eighteen 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.800 or twenty something like that. But that offensive line in 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.959 particular was built to maul in the run game. And 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.480 you could see this right Like Blake Korum yards after 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.480 contact on average last year was two point four to two, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.720 which is one of the lowest of the top twenty guys. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.280 It's hard to nippick him too much for that, though, 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.760 because his yards before contact was absolutely ludicrous, which wasn't 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.000 necessarily his fault he had well, no, he had a 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.720 freaking envoy every single time they handed of the ball, right, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.879 he was just a scarted down the field. It's another 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.960 reason you look at his elusive rating. It's comically low. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.920 Twenty seven point four. You know, one hundred is considered 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.320 like a solid one whatever. But it's for the same reason, right, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.720 Like the metrics are sort of skewed because that offensive 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.159 line was so nasty as a run blocking unit. To 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.639 another reason, you know, only thirty broken tackles. Another thing contextually, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.840 Blake Korm had the injury, the knee injury late twenty 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.040 twenty two. He was still recovering from that early on 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.240 last this past season, in twenty twenty three, so he 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.640 was a bit sluggish early in the season as well. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.879 So you had a couple of those things going. The 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.480 thing that I like about Blake Korm I mentioned before, 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.520 I fetishized the bowling ball build. Yeah, I love guys 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.760 like that, the agility and everything like that, the powerful build, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.880 everything like that. Blake Korum five eight two o five 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.600 weight in at the combine, he has that agility, very 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.560 very agile. In fact, his three cone six eight to 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.280 two was tremendous. The forty was more meager at four 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.640 five three, but the ras overall was solid at eight 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.240 four eight. You like the the three cone, You like 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.600 the vision, very very good. He runs with power, he 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.240 breaks the arm tackles. Those are the things I like 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.800 about Blake Korum. But I do have him down there 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.879 at running back six right now, just because he's not 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.879