A CFB View of This NFL Draft With Bruce Feldman. Plus, How Dangerous Are the TWolves, With Jon Krawczynski.
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Loaded on a Thursday for you. Bruce Feldman, his mock draft for the NFL. All of his contacts in the college football world. Their thoughts on all of the top prospects. Little tales from the couch. Little OKC historical perspective. We haven't done anything on Denver, Minnesota. the game of the year because we have John Krasinski who covers the Timberwolves who's going to talk not only about this team the fight with Detroit but being in the building that double overtime win against Denver and of course an extended life advice so a lot for you today enjoy the pod with the draft weeks away love to get the perspective of Bruce Feldman who has a mock out now on the athletic so college football writer and also our guy for Fox Sports
college football coverage the bruce what's up man good to see you good to see you thanks for having me OK, I like your perspective because you're just so locked in with all the college coaches and you go through it. So I don't know that there was a ton of stuff in your mock where I was like, wow, you know, that's shocking. Maybe, you know, the ceiling floor and some of the other stuff that we've seen. But let's just start at the top. The perspective that you have on Cam Ward, knowing he's had a few stops in college and the coaches that have gone up against him and a guy that, you know, maybe in other years isn't the number one pick, but he's a quarterback. He's the best of this group. And everybody seems to have them penciled into the Titans.
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. 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. 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.
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, 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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