James Weaver
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I, uh, wish I got the memo that, uh, we might have a battle on this podcast, but, uh, no, Chad, Simon, thank you for having me on.
It's a pleasure.
Uh, hopefully, uh, after this airs, the penguins will have come back and won the series, but we'll see long up road climb to go.
Yeah.
I mean, for starters, drafting Vega Ione in the first round,
he is a prospect that's as surefire as you can find the highest floor possible on an offensive lineman.
He's got the size, he's got good athleticism.
As a Penn Stater myself, I've got a little extra eyes on him and having him see, see him line up in the slot, come crashing across the side on motions and things like that to take out backside blockers.
He's got that toughness, that tenacity where he'll finish blocks.
And he's a mauler.
He was a,
Great selection there for the Ravens, exactly what they needed to sure up their offensive line as well.
They also drafted Jacoby Lane, the receiver out of USC, got him at a good value on our SIS site.
We had him ranked as our 57th highest prospect and they got him at pick 80.
I guess to give a little bit of background of our NFL draft site, we have our full-time scouting departments that watches this year over 400 players, 400 potential prospects to be drafted.
And we have our grading system for all across all positions where we have all of our scouts watching film, breaking down these players and putting a number of grades to them, not necessarily round grades.
And then we have all of those players ranked down from an overall prospect.
Yeah, Jacoby Lane, good pick there and good value.
One player specifically that I wanted to highlight is Chandler Rivers, cornerback out of Duke.
We had him ranked as our 71st overall prospect, and he was the 162nd pick overall in the draft.