Danny Parkins

over Rome going forward.

But I still think Rome's going to be a very good, productive player in the league for a long time.

Yeah, I remember coming on the score after the draft and saying that I had talked to someone around the Missouri football program, because I used to cover them when I lived and worked in Kansas City, who said that he was the most talented football player that Mizzou had ever gotten.

And I was like, wait, what?

You guys had Jeremy Macklin...

Doriel Green Beckham is one of the biggest recruits in the last 15 years in college football.

Alden Smith, Chase Daniel.

They're like, no, no, no.

Luther Burden, most talented football player to ever wear a Tiger uniform.

But they had multiple quarterbacks his last year.

They had early season losses.

Their big aspirations kind of got dampened.

And there was definitely some question of like, was he a 100% player?

was his effort going to be consistent?

It wasn't ever a question about his talent.

It was more of an effort thing and an inconsistency thing that dropped him into the second round.

But if Antoine Randall-El and Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson have gotten Luther Burden to play with locked-in focus and what you're talking about there, Layla, like trust, he would have been a first-round pick if all of that stuff would have been buttoned up in college.

So...

When Ben Johnson talks today about his A-plus coaching staff and how people are going to try to poach guys, I think that's a success story.

I saw Ryan Poles talked about player development.