Daniel Jeremiah
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I think it's fair. It doesn't mean it's not a quality draft. I've just been saying it's starters, not stars. Last year we had six quarterbacks. That's so rare when you have that many quarterbacks, and quarterbacks provide the juice and the intrigue. And this year when you've got Cam Ward seems locked in at one, Travis Hunter seems locked in at two.
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So there's not really that juice there at the top because we kind of feel like we know what's going on there, and then it begins at three.
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To me, and I think everybody's somewhat in this range, some have a few more, but I think Cam Ward in his own category is a quarterback, and I think there's six premier players. Some drafts you might have 13, 14. This year, there's six. Now, the difference is, it doesn't mean the 7th, 8th, 9th guy aren't really good, but to me, that group is huge. Yeah.
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Quinshawn Judkins is in the early 30s for me, and grade-wise is not going to be much different than who I would have going with the 9th or 10th pick.
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I gave him the same grade as I gave Bo Nix, so they would literally be right there with him. Look, he was the last of that first group to go, but outside of Jayden Daniels, you'd say he probably played the second best of all those guys. I think Cam's not quite as polished as Bo was coming out, but I think their skill set-wise is very similar.
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I start with the little tier there at the very top. It's Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter. Whatever order you want to put them in, give them the same grade. It's just whatever you need. Those two guys, I got the two tight ends in that mix. So Tyler Warren, Colson Loveland. I've got Ashton Gentry up there. I think he's my third player. And then I've got Mason Graham in there.
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So does that get me to the six?
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I think I think defensive line overall, like just numbers, you're going to see a ton of D linemen. Edge rushers, DTs, that's probably the largest collection, the largest number of players if you're going to look at guys that can have starter potential. I think that group's probably the deepest.
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But from comparing a group to what they are historically, the tight ends and the running backs are really, really good. It's a really, really strong group of those guys compared to what we'd normally get. Not premier positions, but that's why I've argued –
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You know, there's some years where it's like, hey, bang the table, you know, tackles, edge rushers, corners, receivers, like the premium positions, they get elevated. But this year, to me, like some of these running backs and tight ends are so good. And there's such a gap as players with them and these other premier positions. Like, I think you almost got to throw that out the window.
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I think it's very, very possible. Like to me, I think there's a little bit of a game of chicken with three teams. So Pittsburgh, you know, they're in that market. They're picking 21. To me, there's like a there's like a bullseye on them of like, yeah, OK, if you want to if you're the comeback up team.
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then, you know, Sean Payton, Denver at 20, is probably going to be a hot spot where you're trying to get. And the Browns and the Giants, say if they both were in on, whether it's Shadur, whether it's Dart, they're competing against each other to see who wants to be most aggressive to go up and get the quarterback after already having secured, you know, we assume will be Hunter and Carter.
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And the cost isn't that much. So you're looking at, it would be the second round pick, let's say for the Giants, 34, It would be their one of their thirds. They have two thirds would be 65 and then a fifth round pick, which is 164.
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So I would think if you're the Giants or you're a fan of the Giants and you come out of it and you've got Abdul Carter and then you come out and you end up with Shador or Dart, whoever your choice is there, you still got a third round pick. So that's a that's a pretty nice haul there. You've got a quarterback of the future, but you also have a big time premier player.
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I have on my list, I have Shadur. You know, he's like right around 18, 20, like in that range from my list and darts in the mid thirties. But, you know, I get to me, dart, my comp on him was kind of off the walls a little different, but he reminded me of Hertz just from the standpoint of kind of built similarly. They're like strong, sturdy, tough guys.
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They got better each and every year in college, not arriving as like a finished product, but guys that, you know, I think you're kind of buying into the kid and the competitiveness of the kid and the toughness of the kid that he's going to eventually get there. And I mean, I look, I was, it hurts like one of his first training camp practices and it was not good.
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You know, like there was, there was like, Oh gosh, what did we do type vibe there? But he just proved he's just going to outwork everybody and he's going to figure it out. And, and, and he did. So I think that's the comparison there with those, like the trajectory of those two guys.
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I was at his bowl game. Can I tell you the story about his bowl game? Yes, please. I was at his bowl game and I wanted to see him. So I went, I don't think I've ever told this, but I went, I went down on the field. I was working with NFL network, but I didn't want to, I didn't want anybody to kind of recognize me. I don't think they would have.
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Anyways, I probably could have worn an NFL shield and a Rob Lowe hat. Nobody would have known who I was, but I went down there right by the fence along the sideline. Cause I wanted to see like how he interacted with everybody. Cause I knew he was big and strong and athletic and all that stuff. The play on the field, he didn't play great in that game. But to me, I went down there on the sideline.
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I did not see him interact with anybody. He'd come off the sideline. He wasn't talking to coaches. He wasn't around teammates. So that's when I kind of jumped ship on him at that bowl game.
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Well, I mean, look, there's always going to be outliers and clunkers. Lamar Jackson, I want to say they played LSU in their bowl game, and it was not good for his final send-off there. But this is the same thing, and I don't have the medical information, so I can't stamp this as 100%.
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But in talking to some people around the league, and maybe they're just apologists or have big grades on these guys, but you hear Will Howard might have been concussed in the Michigan game. You hear Jackson Dart might have been concussed in the Florida game. I'm not, I don't have that documented.
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I'm just saying that there's that, that stuff floats around out there when you're talking to people, but it's not the first time somebody has had a stinker. Remember Josh Allen and who was playing with a junior high team when they went and played that Iowa game, but like had the interceptions and people just, just hung onto that one moment on him and punished him for that.
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And it's like, dude, that's, you know, he wasn't even fighting a fair fight with what he had in that game, but you're going to have a game like that every now and then.
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Well, I think big games are important. You know how you play in that. But I, like to me, there was a lesson in scouting and, and obviously I had to learn it the hard way, but with Josh and with my homes where it was like, okay, there's some rawness to them. There's some, some, Some issues that pop up, there's some development that needs to take place.
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But when you have like combination of size, you know, ridiculous arm talent, and then incredible like competitiveness, and then you go through the later on the process, you find out, oh, yeah, by the way, they're unbelievable dudes who are incredibly smart. like these guys are going to figure it out. Like I'll, I'll take my chances on those guys who may be a little rough around the edges.
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So it, you know, to get to your point there, I'm chasing ceiling with quarterbacks, maybe more than I'm looking at the floor that, you know, when you just look around the AFC and you look at the quarterbacks you have to go through, it's like to me, okay, if I, if I take a guy who has like a mid-level ceiling, but I know he's going to hit it, like I'm confident he's going to hit it.
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And I have another guy with a wide range, but a higher ceiling, um, Well, either way, if I take the high-range guy and he busts, I got to go get another quarterback. If I take the guy with the mid-ceiling, two years, three years from now, I'm like, well, he's not good enough either. I got to go back and get another quarterback. So you might as well just take your swing.
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Yeah. Just list. I mean, when you look at the AFC and off the top of my head, you're talking about Mahomes, Allen, Lamar Jackson, Burrow, CJ Stroud, Herbert, like you got to navigate through that gauntlet and you're going to go out there with kind of a, you know, a middling middling quarterback like you're never going to survive.
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Well, I just go immediately to Gray Zabel from North Dakota State. First of all, they've put offensive linemen in the NFL. They know how to coach them. They know how to identify them. They know how to develop them. And then take guys from these non-traditional power four type programs, and they go to the senior bowl, and they not only hold their own, they're pretty dominant down there.
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That's a high batting average with those guys, man. And he can play all five positions. So, yeah, he's like that immediate name that just pops right into my head.
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Dude, there's a boatload of them. But like Travion Henderson for me from from Ohio State, just because you got home run hitter, which I love. But then you've got somebody who's he's arguably and I have to go back through my notes like from way back in like the early 2000s. I don't recall off top my head a better pass protecting back coming out of college like. he's unbelievable at it.
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So you've got that, which is a hard thing to find. And he possesses it. Then you've got someone who, you know, it's not, he's not a smallish back. Like he's put together. Um, he doesn't have a ton of tread on his tires because they've spread the rock around there at, uh, at Ohio state. So now he's one that I would think. And like, I know, um,
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The Bears and people will look at that and say, gosh, that would be insane if they did that with pick number 10. But then you kind of step back and look at it, and you're like, okay, the biggest issue, as you guys know, they didn't protect last year. So we revamped the offensive line.
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And now we've got a running back who can not only hit a home run, I can get him involved in the pass game, but look, you come against some of those big-time fronts, it's like having an extra lineman back there to help protect Caleb. So that would be maybe a little shock if that happened
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I just think it's the order of operation. I don't think that I have an issue with taking a running back, and I don't think most teams do. I think the mistakes are when you're a terrible team and you take a running back, knowing he's got like a six-year, seven-year shelf life, and you're going to waste two or three years of those carries on a terrible team. What's the point?
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Like you're better off building up your team. And then the second I start the clock on the running back, like it matters. All of his carries like Detroit had the offensive line. They'd already taken care of the marquee positions on defense. They had Aiden Hutchinson. So you drop Jameer Gibbs in and he hits the ground running and off you go.
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But to me, if you're a bad team, bad offensive line, you can disguise a good running back with a bad supporting cast. So that's where the mistake is for me.
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A hundred percent. Yeah, it's to me, it's just that it's one of the final pieces there. Everybody talked about, you know, I think Seattle was the reason for this was kind of like you build up your roster, then you drop in the quarterback. I almost more believe so. It's the running back in terms of once you have everything built up, OK, drop him in there and off you go.
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And there's teams in this draft where you look at it. And that's why.
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like normally the teams picking the top 10 aren't don't have those key bases covered and so that's why you see some of these running backs that go up there maybe don't pop as much but the bears are a different they're different like if somehow genti were to get there they've they've invested in that offensive line they have the quarterback in place they have all the key positions in defense they're in pretty good spot there um so that's why it's kind of a unique opportunity for them and
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Even if Jenty was gone, I'd be doing my homework on Hampton, who's a stud out of North Carolina. I would love to see the Bears come away with a dynamic back. I think they're ready for him.
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Well, the arm length controversy goes well beyond Campbell because there were guys at the Senior Bowl who got their arms measured. And Bo, the tackle from Purdue, is one off the top of my head, whose arms magically shrunk an inch from the Senior Bowl to the Combine. So all the Combine numbers this year were low. So I don't know if they have different people doing it.
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It used to be you had the same guy would do it at the Senior Bowl, the same guy would do it at the Combine. So I'm going to go on a limb and say they have different people doing this who are doing it differently. So all the numbers are kind of jacked this year and you see the pro day numbers match more what the all-star game numbers were. So it kind of looks like the senior bowl is an outlier.
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But to me, the, you know, I've never been in a, in a draft room where it was like, he's 30, 32 and seven eights, not touching him. Oh, he's 33. We're in on him. I think a little bit more of that gets made to me. It's just more about how do you play with your length?
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On the need-length side of the argument, go watch the Super Bowl and go watch Joe Tooney, who's not long, and who the Philadelphia Eagles got into his chest and just beat the crud out of him in that game. And that was their plan coming into that game. He's a short-arm tackle. We're going to rush long, meaning we're just going to get to his chest. We're going to get extended and get to his chest.
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And he struggled. There is a reason why people care about arm length. There is something to that. But I watch Rashawn Slater every week with the chargers who's got 33 inch arms, but who's built like a wrestler. He's got unbelievable core strength. And even if you get to his chest before he can get on you, he can drop his weight with incredible strength and base.
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And the arm length doesn't even, it's not even an issue. So I think that's, it's kind of, that's a long way to get to it, but I do think arm length matters, but I think you have to put it in a context. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's across the board. I think it's not just in football. I think in basketball, if you had a good basketball player at 6'5 with a normal wingspan and a player that was 6'4 with freakishly long arms, yeah, I like the guy with a lot of length because that clogs up lanes and that helps you close out and defend.
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You're always going to prefer it, but you get in trouble when you discard good play and punish them for a trait, and you get in trouble when you elevate somebody because they have traits and they can't play.
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No, look, he doesn't have the same core strength that Rashawn Slater has. I didn't give him as high of a grade as I gave Rashawn Slater. But with him, I think he can hold up. I think he's really good at recovering. He's got great feet. But to me, there are times where he's more so than his arm length. Rashawn's broad. He's narrow. Will Moore, the wingspan probably bothers me than the arm length.
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He's just kind of narrow-shouldered, and guys can kind of get on his edges a little bit. But he's such a great kid. He's so smart. He's so tough. I think the absolute worst-case scenario is he fails outside, and he's a Pro Bowl-caliber guard. So I think from that standpoint, he has a higher floor.
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Sure. Big picture, I don't think we have, again, the stars, like the big-time top-10 caliber receiver that we've had in some of these previous years. But I think it's a really good group. I think there's a lot of twos and a good number of threes. I don't know that we have a number-one wideout in this class. To McMillan specifically, this is an example of maybe the polarizing nature with him.
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I'd call one team and say, hey, what did you guys think of him? Well, he's super smooth. He's ultra athletic. He's got agility. He makes it look easy with his range, and he'd go get it. He has a volleyball background. I love him. Really love the kid. Talk to somebody else. There's no urgency to what he does. I don't see him really compete.
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It doesn't look like he strains much to try and make things happen, and he's a volleyball player. Come on. So I'm like, literally, they said the exact same things, and one likes him and one doesn't like him. It's just kind of all how you view it. Yeah.
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Yeah, I like the day two group. There's two kids from Iowa State I think are really, really good. You've got Noel, who's kind of a power slot. He's a strong, sturdy slot who can really, really run, who can give you a run after the catch. To me, he's ready-made. Drop him in, and he's going to be super productive right away.
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Then you've got Higgins on the outside, who's more of the power forward type. One of the things that I was talking to Purdy about this. One thing I never understood. I don't know if you guys have ever tackled the subject, but Why don't we include pass interference yards on totals for receivers and quarterbacks?
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But, I mean, like Higgins draws so many penalties. So, like, if you just look at his numbers on paper, like, yeah, he's got good numbers. But if you added in all the yards and the first downs that he accumulated because he's so physical and fights for the ball and draws flags, like – That's a skill, and it's a more valuable skill in the NFL than it is in college.
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So those are a couple of day two guys. Jack Besch probably goes in the third round from TCU, who's another ultra, ultra competitive kid. So those are a few I like.
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I think everybody I've talked to has a plan to major in minor. You know, like you're going to major in one side, minor on the other. And to me, look, we can debate all these other teams what they're going to do. Cleveland's going to take him. He's going to major in offense. He's going to minor on defense. Really? Oh. Yeah. Oh, I think so. Yeah.
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I think he's more impactful as a receiver right now. To me, I think that's where you start him, especially in a team in Cleveland who doesn't have the premier quarterback. I do think they try and come away with one and get back in to take one. But to me, I think he'll be on the opposite side of Jerry Judy, and they'll get the ball in his hands as much as possible.
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Yeah, I mean, first of all, as an aside, he wants to play wide receiver. I think he says he wants to play everything, but if you told him, he would say he's a wide receiver slash corner and not the other way around. Okay. He touches the football more on offense. And this is not the old days. Like, he's not a press man corner guy.
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put him on one side of the field and forget about it, leave him alone. He's at his best where he can use his instincts and eyes, play off coverage, see things, set traps, drive on the ball, make some plays. So, you know, I don't think he's not like a Pat Sertan, like coming out of college as a corner. Whereas I think he is right now ready to go.
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There's a ton of ways we can get the ball in his hands. I just think he impacts the game more on offense at this point in time. And it's never really been done. Everybody that's had this two-way ability, it's always been major on defense, package of plays on offense. So I realize in saying that, look, this is new. This is a new Uncharted Waters, so to speak.
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But to me, that's what makes the most sense for him.
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The teams who don't need a quarterback or aren't picking high enough to take one are going to be very vocal about how upsetting this is. And the teams that are picking up high and need quarterbacks are not going to give two cents about it. Nobody's going to care. It's talent over everything. So it's going to have zero impact on guys and where they go. And we're already used to this.
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Last year, I mean, shoot, the last... I don't know, maybe five years. The rarity is the guy who's been at one stop. All these guys have bounced all over the place. Now, what the motivation is for that... People can get upset about it if they want. But, you know, from a scouting standpoint with with Nico specifically, I haven't seen a ton of him, but I've seen a ton of the Tennessee offense.
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And it's kind of like that old Baylor Art Bryles offense where they're literally could touch the hand of the coach on the sideline. It's hard to translate that to the next level from an evaluation standpoint. You know, I don't know what exactly UCLA's offense is going to look like, but I'm kind of excited to see him from an evaluator standpoint in a different offense.
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Exactly, man. What does it matter? I mean, that's my whole point. I mean, I just think... There's teams every year that need upgrades and are desperate, and they are not going to give a crap about any of this stuff.
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I've been in a draft room where we had a player with some character issues that we viewed as like a third round pick. And we had a black dot on him, which meant he was undraftable. And then all of a sudden in the sixth round, our director said, print up a new card, take the black dot off. He's been punished enough. How'd he work out? It's perfect. He hung around for a few years.
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He wasn't a great player, but for a six round pick, he was, it was functional.
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I mean, that would probably kill the surprise. I can't think of one. There's none that I'm looking at as a sneaky quarterback team. I mean, the Rams have been mentioned, but I don't know. I mean, I don't think they would do it early, but Matthew's older, and maybe they take one on day two or something like that. But Tua's been hurt. Maybe that could be a surprise there, but they've paid him.
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It seems like that would catch me off guard. So if there is one, I'll be as caught off guard as anybody.
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yeah um tweeners that have worked out well i mean like brandon graham is like kind of my classic tweener um he was kind of in between body type of a defensive tackle and an edge rusher and and you know it's like how where do we use him best i was there in philadelphia when he was there and i was like well his it's better to have his power advantage over a tackle than his quickness advantage over a guard but he's like you know kind of a classic example of a
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of a tweener. When I'm looking at guys in this draft, you know, this draft, we have a lot of these DTs are all over 300 pounds. Normally we get some of these 275, 280 pound guys. We don't have as many of those this year. Like Elijah Roberts from SMU. Probably like a third round pick, but he's one that you kind of go, okay, does he play inside? Does he play outside?
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Savion Jones from LSU is another one. Kind of a tweener there. So there's a few of them sprinkled in throughout here, but it's not a huge tweener year. Maybe the other one I would say is Nick Skorton from A&M. Nick Skorton is fascinating because he is someone when I watched him, I, gosh, I didn't see like big time juice and take off at A&M last year.
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And then I found out after the fact, well, they bulked him up to 280. They wanted him to be bigger. So he got up to 280 pounds. Well, he shows up at his pro days, 257. And he's moving around good. He looks great. And that was, you know, teams like you got to go back and watch him when he was at Purdue the year before because he was lighter and he looks like a different guy.
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So he's one that's just kind of weird that you're going to see the guy when he gets picked and be like, that doesn't even look like the same human being as the guy that you saw last year.
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Well, you guys, I know, Dan, you talked to Harbaugh, so I don't know if he's into manifestation, but it just feels like I think every night he's going to bed with Colston Loveland's picture like on the wall and he just stares at it like this is going to happen. I believe it. He will be here. So that's one I would say. And then I will say with the Houston Texans. This one, I'll go with Booker.
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I'll go with Tyler Booker from Alabama. When you have the connection with Nico Ryan's to Alabama, and then when I talk to the guys at Alabama about Tyler Booker, they say he was the offensive Will Anderson, who also was with the Houston Texans. So I'm like, there's a lot of stuff working together there.
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Tell them to save their time on that graphic, though. Don't do that unless it actually happens, which the odds are very low.
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Oh, that's a great question. Great question. Thank you. So I'll give you like an example of someone. He might even go beyond that. But there's a safety, Woodson, Craig Woodson from Cal, who's – I'm like one of those guys where I don't kind of – I don't know what I'm missing. Like he's got enough size. He takes the ball away. He ran the mid-4-4s.
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I talked to the guys at Cal, like super smart, great leader. Cal's been like a sneaky good – secondary factory over the years. There's certain schools that you kind of are surprised when you dig into it and you're like, gosh, there's a lot of guys playing in the NFL at this position from this school.
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So he's one, I think to me, I have him like in the like early to mid third round and maybe he goes in like the fifth, fifth round, you know, when it's all said and done, but I think you'll look up and he'll be starting next year.
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Now, this one's interesting because if he were to go in the third or fourth round, I wouldn't be shocked because his play's really good. But because of some other factors, mainly his size, I could see him falling into the sixth or seventh round. So it's not like I'm creating a quarterback out of thin air here. You guys all know him. You've all seen him play a bunch.
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But I would go with Dylan Gabriel.
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Oh, there you go.
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He's got a strong arm, man. He is not, he is, you know, he's 5'11", he's older, but he's got a really strong arm. I've kind of advocated if you're the Dolphins, and I know they brought over Zach Wilson, but that'd be a, I mean, shoot, just bring him in there. If you can get him in the third, fourth round, Noah Tua is more than likely to miss some games.
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Like, I think he could do everything that, you know, Tua can do.
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Yeah, yeah, yep. I'm out there all week.
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I don't know, man. The only thing that I know is they have – we do the puppy thing. Like we bring in the rescue puppies and the one peed on me two years ago. So that's like the only thing I'm prepared for is just bring an extra shirt and try and work on my technique. It's like all the ball security stuff that they teach you in football –
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Oh, man. Are you kidding me? And then you got to do a whole weekend like they do the thing in Newport Beach. I don't know where you guys want to take the guy if there's a cost involved there. I don't know if you want to be cost conscious, but you'd have to put together a whole weekend for the player like they do for Mr. Irrelevant.