Bruce Feldman
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The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
I think he is a, he's a, one of the safest picks in the draft. And I, I don't know if he's the best player in the draft, but I think he really is in the discussion. You could make a case that he was the most impressive player, maybe not named Travis Hunter in college football last year. And I would include, you know, Jenty had an amazing year, but one guy was doing it in the sec every week.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
And the other guy was doing it, you know, in the mountain West. I just think it's like, it's almost a different kind of football. And in the biggest games, Jalen Walker went off. I mean, you look what he did against Texas and, And they just could not handle him at all. And I think, I do think he's going to be a problem for people.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
And again, the intangibles stuff only makes me like him that much more.
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A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
People really love, you know, I feel like he improved a lot last year from where he was. Just really instinctive, makes a lot of plays. Both guys, I think, see the game at a higher level than a lot of defensive backs. You know, talking to people who've coached Will Johnson, they think he prepares like a quarterback, which is about as high a compliment as you can get for a cornerback.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
There are some concerns about his speed. He's a bigger cornerback. He's legit 6'2". I know he was 194 or 195 at the Combine. The coaches who had him say he plays a 205. He got down. I think the questions about his speed, they say he'll probably run somewhere between 445 and 448. He was inconsistent. Now he played last year. He had turf toe caused him to miss a lot of the season.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
He's the guy who will probably get a bunch of pick sixes because he sees the game quick. He triggers fast and he's looking for it. I mean, I feel like he's more of the zone corner who can do a lot of damage and make, make a lot of big plays. Baron. I think there's more versatility to him. you know, he could, he could be your nickelback.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
He could, he could do a lot of things that he's not super big. Um, he's smaller, but in terms of, I think one guy probably going into the start of the 2024 season was, was higher regarded. And that was Will Johnson. I think coming out of last year in part, because of how much better Baron looked over the year, I think his stock
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
boost it up but i think it's honestly it's going to be a what do you what do you what flavor of ice cream do you like i think both guys are going to be really good nfl nfl players i think will johnson in the right system could be a pro bowl guy but i do think that barrett is a little more versatile you have dallas taking hampton the running back out of north carolina 12th um how many people do you think you've talked to in college that actually think hampton will be the better pro than genti
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There's a little of that. I mean, I would say this. There's a guy you and I both know who I think probably might lean that way, too. I don't want to say any more than that. But Hampton, one of the coaches I talked to who had been in the ACC for a decade said, he's one of the three best running backs I saw in the last decade. And he put...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
Dalvin cook and, um, ATN from Clemson, who's now with the Jaguars in there. I mean, he is a punishing big back who is faster than you think. I mean, he's linebacker size. And I think because of, it was such a weird year for North Carolina, you know, they give up 70 in a game to like, you know, somebody they shouldn't have. And Mack Brown, is he in the, is he in or out?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
It's the year of post Drake may, um, And I think he got kind of slept on a little bit. Well, the people in the ACC know he is really, really talented. I mean, it's hard to, with running backs, it's hard to project who's going to be the guy who breaks out and who's going to be the guy who kind of a little disappointing in the NFL.
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A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
I mean, if you told me Caleb Johnson ended up being a beast in the NFL, it wouldn't surprise me. You know, if you told me Tootin ended up being from Virginia Tech, who's the fastest of all of them, ended up being an impact guy, it wouldn't shock me. Now he's got to take care of the football better. But Hampton, I think is one of those guys where, um,
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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you know, usually there's one, he's a one of two. Now you see it certainly with the lions, you, you know, you have Gibbs is the, is the home run hitter a little more, but you know, the other guy is usually that punishing running back who will go between the tackles and do a lot of the heavy lifting. But Hampton's a guy I think can break runs too.
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I, you know, I would not be surprised if he ended up being the better running back between he and Jenty. I'm not saying Jenty's not, not pretty special. Cause I think he is his contact balance is, And what he did last year was remarkable.
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Yeah, he is, from the people I've talked to, a notch ahead of Shador or anybody else in this draft. The coaches I've talked to don't think it's actually close. And some of the guys have played both. And also, you've got to remember, both guys were in the Pac-12 a year ago when you had a cluster of first-round quarterbacks, Caleb Williams.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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But I don't think there's a huge drop-off between he and Hampton because both are really, really good all-around backs who are really, really good catching the football, too.
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I think it's the floor because I think he's a guy who's still pretty raw in terms of what he is as a tight end. You know, one of the coaches I talked to said he was, he's more gronk than he is Brock Bowers, you know, Brock Bowers, not to, this is not a knock, but it's more in the H back size.
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This guy's a big dude who was a quarterback in high school and they found all sorts of ways to get him to football. I think he, He's he, and he was awesome last year. If you talk to a lot of people in the draft space, I don't, I think they thought Colson Loveland was the better prospect going into last year.
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And I think it's flipped now, you know, part of it was Loveland was playing banged up last year. Part of it was Loveland had really bad quarterback play and no receivers around them. Now Penn state didn't have a great group of receivers either, but their offense, their offense wasn't as atrocious as Michigan's was last year. But I do think,
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I like Tyler Warren a lot because I think he's a real big receiver. He's a willing blocker. There's some interesting... This is, I think, a pretty good tight end group. And there's guys even further down. There's a tight end coming out of Iowa who I think could end up another one who is a good player. There's just...
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a bunch of guys in there that i think will be able to really contribute this is one guy who i i would say yeah i could see him as a pro bowler within two years and i think he keeps getting better and better um because we saw his development how much better he got this year in andy codal nicky the new offensive coordinator last year at penn state he found ways to get him the ball and he was a huge problem for defenses every week let's talk bigger picture stuff here uh
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You know, like Jack Sawyer was a, was a great football player at Ohio state. He helped them win a national title. He was a great program guy. I don't, I think he'll probably play in the NFL for a long time. But I think that in terms of maybe the Twitch that teams want to see, I think there are worse football players who are going to get drafted much higher than him.
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Because they will roll the dice on somebody being a lot more explosive than just the guy who plays hard every down, makes a lot of plays. And Jack Sorter is a really good football player. But... I think he's one where you will see a handful of guys who didn't make anywhere near the plays. You know, Shamar Stewart, James Pierce.
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Some of those guys played Jaden Daniels before because he was at Arizona State. Obviously, Penix, Bo Nix, not Drake May, but everybody else. And the guys I talked to thought... Cam Ward probably wouldn't be, would be maybe a slight step below some of those guys from last year, but they think he's clearly the best one out there right now.
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I mean, there are guys like that who I think are tougher evaluations, but I think the traits end up selling them on somebody going. And honestly, even JTT is probably a better all-around athlete, really good basketball player. He's a guy that I think I think they see a little more upside in him. I would be happy if my team got Jack Sawyer in the 50th pick in the draft or something.
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But I think he's one of those guys that fits in there. I think another one who's like that is T-Mac from Arizona. T-Mac has...
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Yeah, he is, to me, he has the best... I'm trying to think who has... I have to go back a bit. And the same thing happened where I talked to, you know, defensive coordinators who were like, he has the best ball skills I can remember of a player, you know, that they've faced. I mean, he was an elite volleyball player who's 6'4", he's about 220. Now, I don't know what he'd run the 40 in.
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Maybe 4'6", too. Maybe 4'4", 5'5". It's not going to be Restrepo, but it's not going to be super fast. But his, and the funny thing is, I mean, Jesus, I would take Restrepo on my team. I would look, Restrepo is the all time leading receiver at Miami and there's been hall of fame receivers. And only one guy had more 60 yard catches than Restrepo. He's not the go ball guy. Right.
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But anyway, I digress. So Jimmy Doherty is the offensive coordinator at Miami. at Washington and he was at Arizona and helped get TMAC to Arizona from out of Southern California. And I remember we talked about him and he was like, yeah, I think he's got like a 40 inch vertical and you'd watch him. You're like, okay, I can see that again. Elite volleyball player growing up.
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You see the videos all over Instagram of the volleyball players, just, you know, doing stuff that basketball players don't look, I think at that height. Well, I asked TMAC, I was like, what do you jump? And he said, probably 34 inches. It was 32. And now he goes, I know people think it's higher, but it's all my timing.
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And some of it is also like one, two step, as opposed to, it's not a pure vertical jump. It's like, you know, you're in the NBA world, you know, it's the max vertical versus, you know, what you see in the combine. But when the ball's up in the air, he's getting it. So, you know, one of the coaches I talked to said, he goes, those 50-50 balls with T-Mac are 90-10.
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And that's where the laziness thing, because I didn't realize the laziness thing was as big a thing until one of the coaches was like, people say that, but he never came off the field. And everybody knew you know, whenever they needed it, the quarterback who was his best friend, Noah Fafita since eighth grade was always going to him. There was nobody else you worried about at Arizona.
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I mean, they were, they were atrocious last year. I would, I don't know how, you know, if he's, even if he went nine and I'm not saying he will, or, you know, the bears don't need somebody at 10. I don't think, um, even if he went in the top 10, I'd be like, yeah, talent wise, he's, he's got rare ball skills and, um,
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And what they love about him is his competitiveness, his playmaking ability. His arm talent is better than Shador's. It comes out fast. He can do it from, you know, basically in the RPO game. The challenge with him is he makes a lot of backyard football plays. And a lot of it comes with being really reckless with the football. And he got better at that.
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You know, again, I think if you've watched him, you're like, oh yeah, that guy's a dude. I would not doubt that he will be a, you know, a pro bowler, you know, six, eight times over.
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it's, I mean, it's who you'd expect. It's the Eagles, you know, in terms of like, who's getting great players, it's the Eagles, you know, I mean, the Eagles getting Cooper to Jean last year was like, that's perfect fit. You know, like you're talking about a guy when you'd watch them and you'd be on the field and you watch them on special teams and he's a beast.
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And, you know, he would get, he would get compared to Riley Moss, who was a good player, but you just see why, you know, Iowa white cornerback from, you know, but, Physically, they're very different. And he's just, you get guys like this. They took a cluster of guys from Georgia. Obviously, you know, they were fortunate that Jalen Carter fell to them and he didn't even fall that far.
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But like, I think it's like the biggest thing with what Harry Roseman and the Eagles have done is like, they keep the main thing, the main thing. And I feel like they don't overthink things. And I think sometimes a lot of franchises probably outsmart themselves because by trying to be too counterintuitive.
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I don't even know if that's the right, you know, you know, application of that term here, but I just think that like, it's the teams who do the right thing for a long time. It felt like the commanders were, were, were picking wrong things. because it was just like the franchise was jinxed. And then you get good player, good player, you know, you grab Debo, you're making smart decisions.
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It's to me, it's like kind of what the Ravens have always done. It's like, you kind of get best player available who fits. And then it's like, you work from there as opposed to you shoehorn some guy who you think needs, even though he's probably 12, you know, 12 slots below your best player is at that point. And I think ultimately that's what's a difference.
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I'm not saying fit doesn't matter because it certainly does, especially with quarterbacks and how you surround them. But I just look at the teams that are the best. Again, the Ravens have been really good for a long time because I don't think they overthink it. They take really good players who I feel like You see it in Lamar. Like, I mean, I work with Mark Ingram now.
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And then he was earlier in his career, but there's still a lot of concerns. You know, one of the coaches I talked to in the ACC was like, there was a bunch of interceptions that were dropped last year that, you know, bad decisions that he keeps making the Miami's coaches kind of leaned into, Hey, we're not going to try to change you. We want you to play a little smarter, but they weren't,
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You totally get like the football guy who's like just ultra competitive. And those guys, I feel like, you know, and I've had this when I was at the combine, just remember talking to, you know, one of the, one of the coaches I know really well, we went out for beers and he was talking about the meetings and who you feel in the room.
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those guys are usually not the ones who end up disappointing you in the NFL. It's the ones who are like overcoached and trying, you know, it's just, and I feel like that's, those are the organizations that can't get out of their own way just because they forget what the main thing is and they just don't even know it.
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And that's why, you know, we see these constant teams that are typically really good because they just have a great feel for this is going to work. This, this part will translate. We're not sure if he's going to check every box, but we want this guy in our locker room.
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You know, there's been some times where I've seen Emeka Buka not that high, and I'm like, I don't get it. He's not a small receiver. He's bigger than some of the guys who come out of Ohio State. You know, I remember when he was a freshman, We had, uh, Brock Huard was my analyst and we were, our TV crew was in there and we, he asked Ryan day, who was the guy in the program?
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You'd say, I could totally see him as a football coach. Cause I just think he's super smart. And Ryan thought about for a while. He goes, we have a freshman. He talked about a Mecca and the Mecca was that guy. And as a, as a true freshman, freshman, Yeah. And again, Ohio state has a lot of football savvy guys in there.
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You know, like, like, look, another Ohio state guy, I think will be a really good NFL player. Cody Simon was a linebacker who went from being good to borderline great last year. You can't shut James Laurinaitis up about him when, when like he's the position coach, he obviously had a really good NFL career himself. Like those guys, I think,
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we'll end up being 10 year pros and be really, really good. I don't know where Simon's projected to, you know, how far projected to go. I mean, when you see him in warmups, he looks like he spent a shit ton of time in the weight room. He's like, you know, almost like one of those guys that, Oh, that guy probably be a good bobsledder.
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Cause he's like super explosive and you wonder, you know, it'd be good on special teams. And then last year he really blew up and made plays all over the field. I could see him being like, I know that's not always a position where people are drafting it. I like Edgerton Cooper was a, it was an elite athlete at Texas A&M.
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And I think he's going to be a, you know, he's already been really good, but you know, 10 years ago, I think Edgerton Cooper probably is a top 10 pick because of his traits and everything else. And that position sometimes slides down. But I think those two Ohio state guys, again, I would be surprised if,
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If Abuka doesn't go in the first round, but if he doesn't, um, we see all the track record of the Ohio state receivers thriving in the NFL. He's super smart. He's very physical. Um, and also, you know, another one I would throw in Jalen Noel, um, from Iowa state is a beast. You know, people like I, one of the coaches compared him to Heinz ward. And super tough.
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you know, really trying to coach everything out of them. The other thing you would hear a little bit is there's kind of a nonchalant style about him. You know, there are some times you watch him in the Florida game at the start of the year where they blew the Gators off the field in the swamp. And there's a play where he's kind of running out of bounds.
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There's two really good receivers from Iowa state, six, four, one, a five 11, one, the slot people like a little more who played him just because they think he's just incredibly tough. And I think that guy will end up making a team really happy too. I mean, those are the ones that come to mind.
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Certainly, you know, like I said, the two Ohio state guys, I haven't seen Simon, you know, anyone talking about him, you know, in the top 40. So I, you know, I feel good saying he's going to be,
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No, I think there's, because Higgins is, you know, he ran really well at the, you know, in Indy and Higgins is bigger. You know, he's obviously a big receiver. He's got really good size and he is a really good football player. The slot is the guy, the coaches I talked to were like, they thought he was the one who impressed them even more. Again, not to knock Higgins.
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Higgins probably will turn out to be I don't think it's exactly the Alan Lazard because you have another similar size receiver for the same program, but he's good. He's fast, but Noel is like one where, um, he was one people really, really talked up.
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I mean, there was a handful of guys that like, they weren't going to be first round guys for, for, for my, for what I was working on, but the coaches would talk about them way, way more than, um, than, um, I think I was hearing in draft chatter, like Iowa has a defensive lineman, Yaya Black, who's a giant of a man. He's 6'5", 335. And they really talked him up.
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Like he will be a starter in the NFL, at least on first and second downs. I don't know if he goes in the third round where he goes, but there are a bunch of guys like that who coaches just think, all right, I know he's not a first round guy because people are looking for something a little different there, but they're going to be really good football players.
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Not yet. I mean, I would... Uh, I, yeah, look, I think if Sark doesn't win a national title in the next two years, I'd be surprised. Um, I like what they have coming back. I think arch is going to live up to it. They have really good players on defense. If you ask me, right, Texas, I would say, yes, I don't know where I would go on the other side of it. You know, like I, I think that, um,
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You know, Penn State's hard for me to go all the way in after, you know, I think Aller's got talent. But you keep waiting for, like, the moment where you're like, okay, that was a clutch play or whatever. And I just, I don't know. Right now, I would say Texas if I had to pull another one out of there.
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And if you're watching it, you're thinking, Oh, Was a whistle blown dead? Why is he just like casually jogging towards the sideline? And you talk to some of the Miami coaches are like, I think he was trying to draw like a late hit penalty. If he could get it on the Gators, he's just, I think his wiring is a little different. Everybody at Miami raves about his, uh,
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I mean, yeah, I don't know. Like, I mean, I'm not sold on what Georgia's quarterback is. I like LSU's quarterback. I think Nussmeyer is really good and they've upgraded the, upgraded the roster around him. But I just, right now I don't have like a great feel for who the other team is. I worry that Ohio state lost a little too much. I think there'll still be a playoff team.
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But the one team I feel really confident in is Texas. You know, based on what I've heard, you know, I talked to a bunch of Texas guys over the last couple of weeks and it seems like things are going in a really good direction. But I don't know. I don't know where we turn from this. Maybe Clemson.
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I might go down to Clemson for the opener. Hey, Klubnick looked good against Texas in that game. He stepped up in the playoff game. I don't know. People are obviously really down on Dabo, but I think they've got enough talent. I wouldn't be surprised if they were a team that made it into the Final Four at least.
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Because they missed on receivers. Before, you started with Hopkins. You go down that list of dudes they had. Renfro, they had a lot of really good receivers. T. Higgins. Then they, they hit, hit on some national guys who didn't turn out to be so good.
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And because he doesn't do, do anything with the portal, he couldn't replenish it the way, you know, it's not like Nick Saban when you're, when your receiver room gets thin, all of a sudden you grab like Jamison Williams from Ohio state and he turns out to be elite, you know, like I, I think that's the issue was Clemson was not where they missed in recruiting.
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They did, you know, Davo was not willing to, to pivot.
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All right, man. I mean, just one thing on that. Look at what Ohio State did. Their receiver room is ridiculous. They have the best player in college football who's going to be there for two more years. But like, you know, Chip Kelly is the offense coordinator there. He had a receiver, um, Michael sort of at transfer from Cal to UCLA, legit track guy, six, two, six, three.
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It looks like an NFL, you know, guy, he probably would have been like the fifth or sixth receiver at Ohio state. That's how deep they were, you know? And I just think now we'll go to Florida and probably be like the number two or three guy or three guy. But, um,
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I just think that if you're not in that game where you're not constantly stalking, you know, and making that room as competitive as can be, especially that room, I think you're doing yourself a disservice. And, you know, hopefully for Clemson's sake, they've remedied that.
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uh competitiveness and his leadership skills and that was a big addition for them last year they were sorely lacking in that spot till he got there from the moment they that he got there people at miami you know were just so impressed by him so i think he's a legit nfl starting quarterback and i think he is the one guy the one quarterback in this draft where i was like okay you could see him being a star in the nfl it's not a guarantee but it never is with quarterbacks
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Yeah. The Von Miller comment was interesting. It came from a guy who used to coach in the NFL and is now a big 10 running backs coach. And he had said to me, um, you know, people are wanting to compare them to Micah Parsons. They're similar size. Micah Parsons is going to run in the four fours and obviously both Penn state guys. But this guy was like, they're really different.
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You know, some of the stuff Micah Parsons does, how he wins in the NFL is not how Abdul Carter to this point is. Now, what's really worth keeping in mind is this was really the first year that Abdul Carter had played in this position. He'd been a linebacker before, and they shifted.
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Our first game of the year for Fox, we were in West Virginia, and they have a really good offensive lineman, Wyatt Milam, who is one of the better offensive linemen. I don't know if he's more considered a guard because he's, again, arm length, but he's a high-level offensive lineman. He did really well against Abdul Carter when he was against him.
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But when you talk to coaches in the big 10, you know, they're not just studying them for when they played them. They're also looking, you know, crossover tape and everything. They felt like he really improved as the year went on. Um, he will be physical. He is not, that's not what he's going to make his bread and butter on though. He is a, a real elite get off speed rusher guy.
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And I think the combination of him and Miles Garrett, Miles Garrett's another one, even though he's super strong and he's a lot bigger, has shockingly good bend around the corner. And I think that that will help him. And I think there are you talk to coaches and I talk to the guys at Ohio State and
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And they faced maybe six or seven guys who are D linemen, who will be probably first round picks are in that category. Obviously Abdul Carter, they faced two guys, an inside and an outside guy at Oregon. They faced Pierce from Tennessee, who is a four, four, seven guy lit it up at the combine. They faced two guys, more inside guys at Michigan, but also first round picks.
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I mean, there was a lot of guys they saw, uh, And in addition to the, the two guys they have every day and JTT and Jack Sawyer, who will probably be top 60 picks. I mean, there was a, you know, they had an interesting range to see Abdul Carter is a Twitch is different.
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Again, even, you know, as fast as Pierce's Pierce is way more of one dimensional and people saw Abdul Carter as he's willing to do a lot more things like that. And I also think it did help. You talk to coaches, that D-line they had on third down at Penn State, and two of those guys are still coming back, Zane Durant and Denny Dennis Sutton.
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That was a scary group he was part of in terms of just elite pass rushers.
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I don't. Now, full disclosure, I had to turn this in over the weekend. The Giants ended up taking Jameis. The one hesitation I had even going in was you talk to coaches and the Giants system is not very easy to pick up for young quarterbacks. And I think that, especially with some pressure on Brian Dayball, it makes sense that you would take Jameis and ride with Jameis.
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I think if you're Shador or Cam Ward, I think you're like, I don't know if I want to go there. Yeah, you have Malik neighbors, but the system is a challenge. I think the tricky part of this, in full disclosure, when I do this interview,
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this exercise it's really to show uh nfl draft fans hey you're hearing a lot from from the draft analysts and they do a really good job but here's a completely different perspective it's from the guys who probably know them the best because they study them and then they game plan for them and they saw what they were you know knew what they were trying to do to them
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I don't, you know, Shador is really polarized. He takes a lot of bad sacks. I mean, a lot. Now, he played behind a terrible offensive line that got a little better last year, but it was still pretty bad. Now, he did have high-level receivers, not just Travis Hunter. Jimmy Horn Jr. was just a really explosive receiver. And Wester's a really good receiver.
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They had four guys who were, you know, it wasn't Ohio State's receiving core, but it was not far from it. And it was better than almost everybody else had. I think the interesting part about him is he's really smart. He's accurate on the run. He will do some of the same stuff that we would see from Caleb. Now, I don't think he's as athletic as Caleb.
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Caleb's a better athlete, but would extend plays and buy time and do all this stuff. You know, Caleb would get hawked down in the NFL last year. That's definitely happened if Shador is going to try it, you know? So I think one of the more interesting comments I got was from a coach who said, you know, he is super cocky in terms of that. He thinks he's better than everybody else.
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And to some extent that helps him, but it also could burn him where he's going to have to really adjust because he's going to take a lot of bad sacks and it's going to get him in a lot of trouble.
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Well, it's a hard translation. I mean, there's two things where I think stand out. One, he is really tough because you see him keep battling. And I do think he's very smart. And you could kind of see that. But some of the other things that you're talking about, and again, his offensive coordinator this past year came from the NFL. Shermer had, you know, lifetime NFL guy.
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I think they also had no run game. It's really a weird evaluation on both quarterbacks, to be honest, because what you would see a lot, and you talk to coaches who faced a lot of Cam Ward, and they would say it feels like a lot of backyard football. And a lot of the stuff was, When you had a quarterback... Now, Cam Ward had a good offensive line. Shador did not.
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And I think so much of... What I definitely give Shador a lot of credit for is they were horrible before he got there. He got there with Travis and he got there with his dad. And they worked together really well. I would give him a lot of credit for... for, for that piece of it. Cause I don't think that's significant.
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They went from one and 11 getting blown out in almost every game before they got there to being competitive. And then in year two, they finished in the top 25. I just think there's going to be a lot of growing pains of the transition for some of the things you're talking about. I think he can do it.
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You talk to coaches who, you know, it's not like he has, um, Justin Herbert or Josh Allen's arm, but, and I don't think he even has cam words on, but, He has a good enough arm and he can make... He's really accurate on the run. There's a lot of stuff in there that I think will translate well. It's just... I think the growing process of what he came out of to this, I think is more of a projection.
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Whereas some of the stuff you see with cam ward in terms of just the ball comes out fast. And I think some of this stuff he can do where it does fit into that category, like middle infielder things that you hear a lot of with quarterbacks in the last decade, which I feel like really kind of started a lot from Aaron Rogers and some other guys. I think there's cam.
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You can see it at least and say, okay, the college, the NFL game is, And it's been this like this for a little while, but has become more like the college game. And I think that that stuff translates, whereas I'm not it's not to me as as apparent with with Shador. I do think Shador could be an NFL starter. I just think there's a lot of stuff that you kind of like hold your breath on with him.
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Yeah, look, Williams is bigger. He's the more prototype size. He's 6'5", 260 plus, and he'll probably get bigger. Jalen Walker's under 6'2". One of the comparisons I got was Will Anderson. Will Anderson is a great player at Alabama. He's been a big-time addition for the Texans. He's not quite as long as Will Anderson. Will Anderson is bigger than him.
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But when you talk to coaches, especially like the Texas coaches, they saw him twice. and they have good offensive linemen. They have two guys, one guy, probably one guy is, I think will definitely be a first round pick. The other one probably maybe shouldn't have come out this year, but has first round ability. And they abused those guys.
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Like, I mean, and those guys saw other, like, like the Ohio state guys, they saw some first round, uh, players. General Walker, probably the best player they saw all season. I mean, he was a off the ball linebacker who could be really, really good at that. And he can be really, really dangerous as an edge rusher. The Georgia people I know rave about him.