John Middlecoff

As players freely transfer to bigger conferences and forego the draft for another year of NIL money, I think it'll be harder for teams to convince themselves of potential upside.

Do you agree?

I think a lot of guys over the last couple years that were drafted in the second and third round, or maybe even the first, would have been guys that were drafted later if the transfer portal didn't exist.

Because if you are a guy at a smaller school, once you become good, you immediately transfer to a big boy for a lot of money.

And once I'm playing in Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, Texas, Bama, Georgia, wherever, LSU, every fucking person's watching me.

Every single person.

And where I might have played at

It's a bad example because Ashton Genting went sixth and the San Diego State corner this year went in the first round.

I think the Toledo safety went in the second round and Quinion Mitchell.

So obviously small school.

I was at Fresno State.

Ryan Matthews went 12th.

It's not like you couldn't get drafted high being a lead prospect.

But then that second tier guy that now goes pick 40 because I'm playing at Missouri would have been at McNeese State.

And that guy might have gone in the fourth round or the fifth round.

And we look back and we go, God, this is the best fourth round pick of this GM's career.

Where now that guy's playing at LSU or he's playing at Miami and he just goes in the second round.

So I think these guys, which I heard, I watched...

Ed Dodds, he's the assistant GM for the Indianapolis Colts.

And he used an example of the safety, the A.J.