And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
What's up everybody, welcome to move the stick DJ Bucky together.
Buck, I'm rocking the Hawaiian shirt and honor of our buddy, Rhett Lewis, who for years,
I don't know if he's wimped out, but he used to always wear the flower shirt on the last
day of path.
It's kind of a sign that vacation on the way.
Yeah, vacation is definitely on the horizon.
It's been a long little grind going from the regular season to draft season.
And so now you can kind of see, you can see lighted in the gittano in terms of having a
little time to get on the beach, kind of hang out chill out.
So yeah, your Hawaiian shirt is very appropriate.
Yeah, the other thing, by the way, before we jump in, we're going to do kind of go through
our favorite picks by team and we'll go through the entire league here in just a moment.
But have you done what I've done the last couple of days, which is you come up for
air and you're like, son of a gun, how bad is this gopher problem we've got in the backyard
right now?
Like I had no idea.
This is like, it's like a playground out there for a gopher.
I've got weeds that haven't been pulled.
Like I've got all kinds of stuff going on over here.
Yeah, trying to catch up on the projects, trying to catch up on everything.
Like, like everything kind of goes on pause for a minute when you're getting ready for
the draft and trying to put everything together because, you know, when you're working on
shows and you're doing all the other stuff, getting ready for the big event to three day
weekend.
It takes a lot of time.
And so yeah, I'm back.
I'm trying to settle in trying to figure out like, oh, I need to make a vet appointment
for my dog.
You need to do this.
It's that type of a week, man.
I just went to the I got my car watch like, golly, my car is filthy.
Oh, my car is my car is dirty.
Like so dirty.
Yeah.
Because you're like, man, I just like on the hierarchy of needs having the clean car with
all the other crap we got going on.
It's not real high up there.
Yeah.
So I got, I went, made a trip to the grocery store and then got the car wash.
So we're, we're back into normal life.
Yeah.
You back, you back in, back in the mix.
Yeah, it's kind of funny.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's go.
I printed these out alpha.
So we'll just go alpha.
I'm going to read off all the names quickly.
And then you grab a name, I'll grab a name.
So we kind of get two guys to highlight for the draft for each day and ready to roll.
Yep.
All right.
Arizona Cardinals, Paris Johnson from Ohio State, the big tackle.
DJ Ojilari, Ed Druscher from LSU, Garrett Williams from Syracuse, the corner, Michael
Wilson, big white out from Stanford, John Gaines, guard UCLA, Clayton tuned the quarterback
from Houston, Owen Papo, the fast linebacker from Auburn, a key trail Clark had a good
week at the East West at Louisville and then Dante Stills from West Virginia.
Who do you, who do you think there?
Oh, I think these are Ojilari is the guy that stands out to me.
It stands out because we talked about this team needing the pass rusher and we thought
that pass rusher may come early in the draft.
And so in BJ Ojilari, what they're doing, the Cardinals are gambling on a guy with outstanding
athleticism, first step quickness in burst.
And you're hoping that that will translate into sack production.
And so if they can get that, it'll solve a huge need.
Maybe one of their biggest needs in terms of being able to get after the quarterback.
So Ojilari comes in as a second round pick.
Man, they have to have a big role for him because they need him to play at a high level
immediately.
They've got not like a thumper, but a real athletic, you know, bender and can run them
on stunts and loops and all that stuff.
But they need some pass rush.
So I like that when I went Michael Wilson, the big white out from Stanford, who they got
in the third round pick 94, he led Stanford in touchdown slashing.
He only played six games.
He's been hurt throughout his career.
He's had some drops, but we saw him at the senior bowl.
He had a great week down there.
He's big.
He's physical.
He can run.
So upside pick there.
I like the idea of taking a flyer, taking a shot on him in the third round.
All right.
So that's the Cardinals.
Let's get to the Atlanta Falcons.
Be John Robinson, eighth pick Matthew Bergeron, the guard from Syracuse at 38.
The comeback in the third round gets Zach Harrison, the edge rusher from Ohio State.
Clark Phillips from Utah in the fourth round.
The corner, DeMarco Hellem, safety from Alabama in the seventh and then Joe Von Gwen, the
little guard center from South Carolina in the seventh round.
So that's the Falcons.
Here we go.
I'm going to go with Matthew Bergeron.
This ability to play multiple spots up front really helps this offensive line.
There's a big conversation about why would the Atlanta Falcons expand a luxury pick on
a running bag?
Well, we can do go and do that based on what be John Robinson is as a playmaker.
If you go back and handle the offensive line, this is a guy Bergeron who started on both
sides.
He can play multiple positions along that front line.
And so for Arthur Smith, as you're trying to put your best five on the field, Bergeron
plays a key role in that.
Yeah, and there's been a quarterback carousel in this division in the off season.
Getting Clark Phillips to come in as a corner and can play inside and play outside.
I think he's going to end up being a nickel.
Had six picks last year taking the ball away.
I think as like these offenses are getting adjusted in this division to all their new
quarterbacks, like he could be a sneaky rookie that all of a sudden you look up and you're
like, hold up, this dude's got like five picks this year.
He knows how to find and play the ball.
He absolutely knows how to play.
One of my favorite players, one of my favorite corners in the draft.
I wrote down on my notes.
I thought he might be pound for pound because he'd be in the draft.
Yeah, that's not a bad way to look at it.
It's a good take.
Baltimore Ravens wide receivers, they flowers pick 22.
They get Trenton Simpson, the linebacker from Clemson pick 86 and the third and the fourth
round, Tavis Robinson, linebacker from Ole Miss, Kaiu Blue Kelly, the corner from Stanford
and the fifth.
Salle, Alamove, Laolou, probably missed that one up the big tackle from Oregon in the sixth
and then Andrew Voorhe's coming off an ACL from USC, a guard that got in the seventh
round.
Let's go Trenton Simpson from Clemson.
This is a team that has quietly been trying to fill this linebacker void for a while.
Got Patrick Queen, but he hasn't lived up or played up to expectation, made a trade with
the Bears.
They get real confident.
They're real confident.
Yeah.
And here you are still using a pick to try and address a situation that you thought you
probably should efficiently feel.
Even though it's a third round pick, we expect third rounders to still eventually be starters.
And so Trenton Simpson, someone who's super athletic, not as instinctive as you would
like, but maybe they find a way to unlock his talents.
If they do, maybe they finally solve that void that's really been open since they lost
CJ most.
Yeah.
No, he can run, man.
He can really, really run.
And they have done a good job of finding some linebackers historically, even outside the
first round, they've done a nice job, scouting that position.
I'll go with Zay Flowers.
I mean, to me, he's a first round pick.
A couple of thoughts are number one, you give Lamar five for 260.
Hey, let's give him some more dudes so that he can make us look smart here.
And this offense is going to morph under Todd Mank and they're going to be throwing
it more.
So let's give him some more firepower.
They did it with Odell.
Now you bring in Zay Flowers and quick thoughts on this one, Buck.
If you're, you know, everybody has their blind spots and the Ravens, I think this is something
crazy.
It's like they're the only team that's never drafted a, a pro bowl wide receiver, the
only organization, never.
So they've, but they've had success with vets, the Anquam, Bolden's, the Derek Masons,
the Steve Smiths, they've been able to get some success with those guys coming in.
So my thought on that real quick was Zay Flowers, the comp who we kind of played like, same
frame with Steve Smith.
Maybe that's the thing is you go, wait, hold up, let's just see who the veteran guys
we've had that have been successful.
And let's try and find that and it feels like that's what they were hunting for here with
Zay Flowers.
Absolutely.
And you know, the thing about it, did you all say this?
It's kind of a two for right.
Bring an Odell Beckham Jr. in.
And there are a lot of people that say that Odell Beckham Jr. can't play anymore.
He's not what he wants was.
He, he's, he's a shell of the guy that we saw dominate for the New York jazz.
But here's what I can tell you based on just looking at the FaceTime interaction between
Zay Flowers and Odell Beckham Jr.
Odell Beckham Jr. has a lot of power and a lot of influence.
And if used responsibly, he can really help their young guys play at a high level.
I think you were at that opening when Odell Beckham Jr. came tonight.
He has a rock star man.
And you saw the reaction that these young kids have with him.
You saw the reaction that Zay Flowers had with Odell Beckham Jr. when he talked to him
on FaceTime.
So if Odell Beckham Jr. is just a good leader and teammate, he's going to not only help
Zay Flowers, his game develop, he's going to help Rashad Bateman's game develop.
So this is an opportunity for Odell Beckham Jr. to be the leader of a unit that needs leadership.
Because if they, if they improve with the one on ones that they're going to see, Lamar
Jackson's going to have a big year of thorny ball all over the yard for time.
Yeah, I like what they did.
And they're going to change this.
This is going to look different.
This is not going to look like the Ravens of old and it might take a few weeks for they kind
of find their footing.
But they know, I think to run the gauntlet and the playoffs and the AFC, they needed more
juice, they need more weapons and they did that.
So speaking of the AFC, let's get to Buffalo.
Buffalo picked 25.
They trade up to get Dalton Kincaid, the tight end from Utah.
They got Osiris Torrance at pick 59, the guard from Florida.
I got a linebacker can really run out of two Lane and Dory and Williams in the third round.
Justin Shorter, big white out from Florida in the fifth.
Nick Broker, guard, Ole Miss in the seventh and Alex Austin, a corner from Oregon State
in the seventh.
Look, I'm going to go Osiris Torrance.
This is a big gift for them.
Don't really understand.
I don't know why he failed.
I'm assuming like medical or something like that.
But I'm sitting here looking at Osiris Torrance and I'm thinking, man, they needed somebody
on the interior who had a little bit of that bad man attitude.
He has that.
He brings the thumb.
He's a physical player at the point of attack.
We saw him in that matchup against Jalen Carter.
Hold his arm.
I think this is a huge gift for the Buffalo Bills.
And when we look back in a few years, we may say, man, what a value for the Buffalo Bills
to get a player like this everywhere they were able to go.
Yeah, he is.
He means a good player.
He's not like the most athletic guy.
Maybe that's what dinged him.
But he doesn't get beat.
And to me, when you're a passing team like they are and you've got somebody that can
help set a firm pocket inside, that's a valuable, valuable piece.
So I'm with you.
I thought Osiris Torrance picked 59.
I thought that was great value.
I'll go, I'll go low hanging fruit and go to the first rounder again with Dalton Kincaid.
I loved him.
I thought it was smart to get ahead of the Cowboys to pick him.
One of the nuggets in our research packet buck was that digs made up 28.5% of the Bills
reception since 2020.
That's the highest such percentage in the NFL over that span.
They have been and he's a great player.
But that has been a narrow focus with Josh Allen.
I think this, you know, Gabe Davis has been good, but hasn't been maybe what hoped he
would be.
They needed another guy.
And I think this is, you know, whether or not you just view him as a big slot, all I know
is he can uncover, he can catch and he can make things happen after the catch.
So, and he's really good in the red zone.
And we know Josh Allen had some turnovers down there this year.
So I thought this was just a, I won't say a gift, but I don't think they went into this
thinking they were going to draft Dalton Kincaid.
And then all of a sudden it was like, Oh, he's here.
We, oh, this will work.
Let's go get him.
Yeah, no, no, I think it was, I mean, kind of a gift, like you kind of looking around
and you're like, you know what, this guy's might be in range.
You might be able to get a huge playmaker because when you look at it, it wasn't a huge
need.
But what you do is you now have an opportunity to change your identity offensively, not all
the time, but you can morph into some 12 personnel stuff.
You can force the defense to put different personnel on the field.
And we can talk about Dawson Knox, but man, this dog in K got his outstanding at creating
separation and catching the ball.
I would expect him to put a big numbers, monster numbers playing alongside Stefan Diggs.
Yeah, I agree.
Carolina Panthers, first overall pick, Bryce Young.
They got Jonathan Mingo, the wide out from Ole Miss, big wide out at pick 39.
DJ Johnson, Edge Resher from Oregon in the third round.
Chandler Zavala, who you got a chance to see at the East West, who was, you know, somebody
that was well thought of around the league.
They got him in the fourth round, I thought that was good value.
Jamie Robbins in the safety from Florida State in round number five.
Man, I'm really excited about a couple of picks.
Jonathan Mingo, we can talk about the big physical pass catcher.
I made the point on the post shell that when I was there with Steve Smith, we had Musi
Muhammad and Musi Muhammad's ability to kind of expand the strikes on as that big body
chain mover really helped Jake D'Alom take his game up a notch.
I think Mingo would do the same for Bryce Young, even though Bryce Young is a much more accurate
passer.
I just have to have one of those big bodies that you can lean on in critical situations.
I think he'll be a huge addition for the Carolina Panthers.
Yeah, I feel like nobody catches more strays on this podcast than Jake D'Alom.
Bucky has definitely come after Jake D'Alom with velvet gloves, but he's still taking
some body blows on this podcast over the years.
I mean, look, we're just saying.
I mean, I think if you ask Steve Smith, whatever, like he did a really good job in the road
that he was asked to and played at a high level for went to a Super Bowl with him, but
in watching him play, I also understand like in terms of building the team, you had to
kind of make up for some of the wayward tosses.
And so sometimes that knuckleball can get away from you.
And so if Tim Wakefield is on the mile, you might have to have a bigger catcher's
mitt to be able to go get it.
You can only play the hand your dealt.
The good Lord, the good Lord gave him 10-9 off to you.
That's what he had.
Those are the cards he had to play.
I give Jake a lot of credit.
He got the most out of that 10-9 off suit, man.
I'm telling you.
He did.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go Chandler Zavala, who I mentioned briefly.
He's a good player, a guard at NC State, fourth round.
I mean, I think you got a starter.
I think he's going to be a starter in this league for a good number of years.
So I like that value put him in front of Bryce Young.
It's already a good offensive line.
I thought that was a nice add to their group.
Let's get to Chicago Bears here.
A lot of picks to go through.
Pick number 10.
Darnell Wright, tackle Tennessee.
Come back, pick 53.
Dexter Sr., the DT from Florida.
They get Tyreke Stevenson, their other second round pick out of Miami.
Zach Pickens from South Carolina, the DT in the third.
In the fourth round, they had a couple picks.
Roshan Johnson, the running back Texas.
Tyler Scott, the speedy receiver from Cincinnati.
In the fifth round, they had two.
They go Noah Sewell, linebacker Oregon, and Terrell Smith, a corner from Minnesota.
In the seventh round, a couple picks.
Travis Bell, DT tackle from Kennesaw State, and Kendall Williamson, a safety from Stanford.
Man, a lot of picks to go through.
And I won't go chalk and talk about one of the top picks, but I'll talk a little bit
about Noah Sewell from Oregon.
DT, I think in this defense, man, he could be one of those guys that pops in surprises.
Two years ago, a lot of people really loved Noah Sewell on the road, talked about him
how fast, how physically he was, what kind of job he did for the Ducks.
Last year wasn't the same player on tape.
If he can get back to being the guy that we saw a couple of seasons ago in this defense
to weigh this defensive structure, man, he could be one of those fifth round picks that
has a lot of success, a lot of production playing inside.
Yeah, I like your call there.
I'm going to go to the second round and go with Tyreke Stevenson.
They got it in 56.
He was in my top 50 pretty much through the whole process.
Toughness competes.
Those are the two characteristics, I think, when you look at corners that are undervalued,
underrated.
This dude has it and he plays a little edge to him.
So I think he matches.
You always talk about you got to draft a team for your city, draft a team for your division.
To me, I think he fits.
He's a Chicago type fit there.
So I like that one, the value that they got there.
Keep it moving since an Addie Buck, Miles Murphy, first rounder, Ed Druscher Clemson,
the speedy corner DJ Turner from Michigan in round two, Jordan Battle, safety from Bama
in round three, Charlie Jones, the wide out from Purdue in four, Chase Brown, the running
back from Illinois in five, Andre Yosevash, the wide out from Princeton in round six, Brad
Robbins, they got themselves a punter from Michigan in the sixth and then DJ Ivy, a corner
from Miami in the seventh.
Man, a lot of good players to choose from.
Let's go Jordan Battle from Alabama.
The reason why I'm going to go with Jordan Battle is because they lost both of their safeties
last year, Von Bill and Jesse Bates.
And so battle is going to have to come in and have to really fill a role.
He was solid for the Crimson Tide.
High IQ, good instincts, awareness can drop down in the box and thump a little bit.
They need him to play like a A1 player from Jump.
And so they're going to need him to step in and be a key contributor.
So keep your eye on him.
I like that one.
Good football players put a lot of snaps for Nick Saban.
He's going to be ready to go.
He'll learn the playbook really fast.
I'll go Charlie Jones, the wide out in the fourth out of Purdue.
He led the country buck, 110, 110 catches.
The best transfer decision of the year, by the way, going from Iowa to Purdue, went
from a place where they struggle with the forward pass to again, going to Purdue where
they chuck it and leads the country and catches.
He's got big time, big time juice.
He was the guy for me.
Every year there's a guy like this where when you're doing other players and this guy
pops.
And when you're watching all these other corners, I'm like, dang, Charlie Jones is running
by all these big 10 corners.
He was something I thought was pretty interesting.
In the fourth round, pick 131.
I like that value.
Yeah, I mean, tremendous value.
And here's the thing.
I almost picked Charlie Jones.
I think he's the heir apparent to Tyler Boyd.
When they have to pay Joe Burr and they have to make some decisions on T Higgins and Jamartis,
how much they pay him, somebody's going to be the odd man out.
Charlie Jones might be the guy that sneaks into that number three spot, not this year,
but maybe in 2024.
Yeah, I'm good call Cleveland did not pick till the third round.
They got big Cedric Tillman, the Tennessee Whiteout and Siaca Ika, the big DT from Baylor.
In the fourth round, they get the mountain of a man, DeWann Jones, attacker from Ohio
State and then they get the edge rusher, Isaiah McGuire from Missouri.
In the fifth round, UCLA quarterback DTR during Thompson Robinson and Cameron Mitchell corner
from Northwestern and their sixth round pick, Luke Whippler, center from Ohio State.
You know, so when I look at this, I am sitting here.
The Cleveland Browns might have fit on the player who has an opportunity to have the
Brock Purdy effect, not that he ever gets on the field, but DTR, when you look at DTR's
numbers and the way that he played at UCLA, it's very, it's eerily similar to Brock Purdy
coming out of Iowa State.
I mean, you talk about the record breaking, you talk about the records, the experience.
Just keep an eye on DTR.
Look, obviously, the Sean Watson is the guy, will be the guy for the foreseeable future,
but just keep an eye on DTR as the developmental prospect that may be surprises, not only in
free season, but if he ever has an opportunity to play in a regular season yet.
I like that.
I will go Cameron Mitchell, who I liked value pick towards the bottom there in the fifth
round, and then I'll also go Luke Whippler, center from Ohio State.
Even though I wasn't in love with Luke Whippler as a player, the guys who start at center
Ohio State, they all start in the NFL.
Whether you like him or not, they're going to end up being good players.
They just have, they're just ready to go.
They're smart, they're tough.
They might not be in Whippler's case, the most dominant guy, but he's going to find
his way in the field at some point in time during his career.
That's a six round pick where you could get a guy who gets on the field.
There's some value.
Dallas Cowboys pick 26, Mazi Smith, the DT from Michigan.
They go back to Michigan in the second to get Luke Schumacher, the tight end.
Demarvian overshone, a fast linebacker from Texas to former safety.
That's a third round pick.
Fourth, they get Velami Fajoko from San Jose State.
Fifth round, they go with Seam Richards, tackle North Carolina.
A couple of six rounders.
Eric Scott, the corner from Southern Miss.
Deuce Vaughn, who we got a chance to talk a lot about from K-State, the running back,
goes to be with his dad who's on the scouting staff there in Dallas in the sixth.
And then the seventh round, Jalen Brooks, wide out South Carolina.
Let's start at the top of Mazi Smith.
He's a little surprised about Mazi Smith being the pick for the Cowboys, not because they
didn't have a need, but first round, I knew he was a French first round talent, but there's
a something about him when I watched him on tape that the freak numbers that you see,
I didn't consistently see on tape.
And maybe it's because he had that, I call it a bad stance.
He looked like a frog in his stance.
So he just wanted, can he fix the stance and allow him to get some of that initial torque
and push?
Interesting prospect, great physical dimensions and all that.
I want to see if he can turn that loose and get the production out of it.
Now I'll say this, I've been wrong before because Rashion Gere was able to do it.
We see some others come out of the Michigan program that didn't have huge numbers, but
they've had success.
We just have to see it.
I just haven't seen Mazi dominate to the level that we thought he would with all the freakish
stuff that he brings.
Quick question.
So if you look at that selection with Mazi Smith, Scoonmaker, who was a physical
tight end, can play in line.
And then overshone, who's the linebacker from Texas who can really, really run and actually
did a really nice job as a spy.
Am I reading into this?
But when I look at this draft, I thought this was a draft to combat the Philadelphia
Eagles.
Oh, wait, I have a question.
You've got to be the team in your division.
So you've got to nose tackle right away to be able to put somebody right on Kelsey.
See if we can slow him down and prevent him from climbing and getting to the next level.
You've got to speed on the second levels to be able to stop some of this stuff.
And then the tight end is to protect the passing game.
Absolutely.
This is a counter to what the Philadelphia Eagles were able to.
You're trying to checkmate him.
Yeah, that's a match.
Well, I thought I really like to overshone pick a pick number 90.
Good football player can really, really run.
So that'll be a good matchup player for them when they get some of those games.
Athletic quarterbacks including Jalen Hurts.
All right, Denver Broncos, not many picks here.
I didn't even put this together.
The time the draft gets going so fast that sometimes there's stuff you just gosh, there
was a point that was just sitting out there and you miss it.
But Marvin Mims was their first pick in the second round 63.
My comp for Marvin Mims was our own.
So when you look at Emmanuel Sanders and Marvin Mims and like hello, Emmanuel Sanders,
the run that he had with the Denver Broncos didn't even put that together, Buck.
Obviously, new coaching staff, new regime there.
But again, he wore that uniform.
Sanders, the linebacker from Arkansas in the third.
Riley Moss, the corner from Iowa in the third and then they got safety jail, Skinner, the
big safety from Boise and the sixth and Alex Forsyth, the center from Oregon in the seventh.
I'm going to go Riley Moss, the Iowa.
I love that pick.
I love that was a value pick, man.
Yeah, I think I think it's a great pick.
I think the fact that he can really man the Allen great instincts and awareness.
And I go back to watching him a couple years ago in the big 10 championship game and DJ,
I am big on paying attention to what guys do and warm it for terms of particularly,
you remember we used to go to games and you sit there, you got a chance to buzz by the
DB is you see the footwork and change the direction.
This guy got the tools.
Now, it's just a matter of Kenny hold up because you got a heavy barrage of throws his way.
But from a toolbox standpoint, I love his toolbox and everyone is going to talk about
him moving inside the safety and those things.
I just remember seeing Eric Wedel at Utah and our Eric Wedel was able to go nose to nose
with Calvin Johnson.
He obviously was a safety, but Riley Moss has some special skills that I think is a good
player for a long time in this league.
Yeah, I like to my I would have chosen that when I'll go with Marvin Mims for mine.
Just I thought he was a complete receiver, not the biggest guy in the world, but excellent
route running is good after the catch.
He can get over the top as well.
That's a pretty intriguing group that they have there in Denver.
We'll see where those targets end up going, but a lot of options there for Russell Wilson
and Sean Payton to get the football to Detroit Lions.
One of the more intriguing drafts, Jamir Gibbs and Jack Campbell running back in the linebacker
in round one, Sam LaPorta, the tight end from Iowa and Brian Branch, the nickel from Bama,
those are their second round picks.
They get Hendon Hooker, a quarterback in Tennessee in the third, Broderick Martin,
a DT from Western Kentucky in the third, Kobe Sores doll tackle from William and Mary was
kind of a late riser.
They get him in the fifth and then they get one of your tar heels and to on green, they'll
wide out in the seventh.
There are so many things to like about this draft.
We can talk about it whether it was out of order in turn or the sequence where they got
the running back, the linebacker, the tight end in the DB.
Well, we can't argue is those four players are bowlers.
Every one of them are ball.
I think all four or what their first five were in your top 50.
All these guys showed up in my top five.
So I'm going to go with Sam LaPorta because I think he's kind of the surprise.
We talked about him on path, but man, if you knew he was going to go this early, we probably
would have talked about him a little more.
Like just a really good player, seam runner, athletic pass catcher who's really going to
help Jerry Goff have a lot of success.
If you think about how the Detroit lines are setting Jerry Goff up, it seems like they're
pulling pages from that old LA round playbook.
Think about the seam runners that he had when he had Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett and
those guys when he played at his best, they have recreated all of that and anything about
your Mark Gibbs coming over.
It's not a coincidence that Jerry Goff is playing really well based on what they're putting
around him.
Yeah.
And LaPorta had an awesome combine.
He was productive there at Iowa and it was tough offense to watch.
He was really kind of the only thing that had going.
But somebody that's really athletic can really run routes.
And I'm with you.
To me, I think when you look at Gibbs, Campbell, LaPorta, Brian Branches, all four of those
guys are starters.
You get four starters in a draft.
That's a heck of a draft, man.
Coming off of a nice draft they had the year before.
And that's not even taking into account who knows what you get with him and Hooker down
the line.
Maybe you found your quarterback of the future in this draft as well.
So I thought they did a great job.
Brian Branches would be the one I would just highlight.
He's plugging play.
He's a nickel.
He's ready to rock and roll.
You can move him around.
He's just ultra, ultra instinctive and where they got him.
I know he didn't run as fast as he would have hoped.
But 45th pick.
They were not 45 players or 44 players better than him in this draft, in my opinion, when
it all shook out.
So good value there.
Good value there for Detroit.
Let's stay in the division.
We've talked about this the other day, but I thought Nabil's Packers had an awesome draft.
So Lucas Van Ness from Iowa, Ed Druscher and the first.
They come back with two twos.
Luke Musgrave, the Titan from Oregon State and Jaden Reed, the Whiteout from Michigan
State.
They get another Titan to the third and Tucker Kraft.
They get an inside outside defensive lineman, Colby Woodin from Auburn in the fourth and
the fifth.
They had a couple picks.
Sean Clifford, maybe the most surprising quarterback from Penn State, followed by Ontavian Wicks
from Virginia, who was coming off a better 21 than 22.
Carl Brooks, big DT from Bowling Green in the sixth.
Anders Carlson, they get a kicker from Auburn in the sixth and then they had a four seventh
round picks, which were Carrington Valentine, a corner from Kentucky.
Luke Nichols, a running back from Central Michigan.
Anthony Johnson, a safety from Iowa State and Grand Du Boz, a Whiteout from Charlotte.
So an enormous, enormous draft class, but I thought this was one of the ones, Buck, where
you could say there's quality and quantity here with what the Packers did.
Yeah, quality and quantity.
So I'm going to talk about both Titans.
I'm going to take a two for one.
Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft coming in together.
DJ, we're now talking about the Jordan Love era kicking off in earnest.
And the easiest thing that you can do to help your quarterback is put someone in the middle
that can control, like they can work in the middle of the field.
And so now with two Titans, they can go 12 personnel.
They can use the running game with AJ Dillon and Aaron Jones.
You have one on one on the outside.
This to me is the Green Bay Packers trying to set Jordan Love up for success by recreating
a ball control offense, not the offense that we saw for years on the Aaron Rodgers.
This is more of a deliberate, let's take that time, let's methodically work the ball
down the field with high percentage passes that should be right in the wheelhouse of
Jordan Love.
And I agree with you.
I think you give you some easy completions.
I think the guy I'll highlight does the same thing with Jaden Reed, who can be that quick
little slot.
He's going to be your quick hitter guy.
Think about that offense, how they have so many of those built ins, right?
So if you get a cushion, you got a run call, you can just smoke it out to the wide out
and let them go.
I think Jaden Reed's going to give you some yards after the catch with that stuff.
I also think last year you got two real vertical receivers in that draft.
And this year you get somebody who gives you some horizontal stuff, cross shallow crossers,
just bubbles, quick hitters.
I think he's going to be able to do a lot of the work underneath why the fliers you got
last year can get over the top and down the field.
So they're building a good roster there in Green Bay.
The Houston Texans, the two ones, Stroud, they trade up for Anderson, the Ed Druscher
from Alabama.
They come back with you scrubs, the center from Penn State.
And second, Tank Dell, the wide out from Houston.
And the third, Dylan Horton and the fourth, Ed Druscher from TCU, Henry Toe, the linebacker
from Bama and the fifth, Jarrett Patterson, the center from Notre Dame and the sixth,
followed by Xavier Hutchinson, another six round pick.
He's a wide out from Iowa State and then Brandon Hill, fast safety from Pittsburgh in
the seventh.
So many good things that we can go and talk about.
DJ, I think you're talking about it, but how about the Will Anderson trade?
I mean, just straighten up and get them.
I mean, just making a move.
You had talked about it in your mock draft leading up to it, but let's not mess around.
The people matter more than what they do.
And I think getting the right people to kick off to the Mika Ryan's tenure is important.
Will Anderson, you get a high character player, a very productive player, a player that understands
how to do it the right way.
And so as you're trying to establish like the standards and expectations in Houston,
man, what a better player to bring in than Will Anderson.
He knows how to do a play down the excitement, but was a model citizen.
Did all the right stuff?
Man, I think what Will Anderson can do for the Texans, what Bryce Young is going to do
for the Carolina Panthers in terms of just setting the tone and setting the table for
a, this is how we're going to go about doing our business.
We're going to win games, but we're going to do it in this process oriented fashion that's
going to lead to significant success done a lot.
Yeah, I know.
I thought it was a fun draft for them.
And I'll highlight Tank Dell in the third who can just roll ultra ultra fast.
They couldn't cover him at the senior ball.
That's a ridiculous, obviously, that Houston offense led the country with 1398 yards and
17 touchdowns, but little undersized guy who's going to compliment some of the other pieces
that they have.
I just think he could be like a, he could have a sneaky good year with some big plays for
CJ Stroud.
CJ Stroud loves to throw the deep ball over the top.
This guy can go get it.
So I like to pick there with Tank Dell and again, just a fun draft for them.
Indy, a lot of picks to go through here, Buck.
And this one will theme this draft a little bit and I sent Ballard a text afterwards and
just said this was, gosh, has anybody ever added this much athleticism in one draft?
That's all.
I'll pose you that question as I read off these names.
Anthony Richardson quarterback from Florida at four, Julius Brents Kansas State corner
in the second, Josh Downs, your North Carolina wide out in the third.
They had a couple of fours, Blake Freeland from BYU to tackle and Adi Adabare, the DT slash
Ed Drusher from Northwestern, Darius Rush the corner from South Carolina, Daniel Scott
the safety from Cal, Will Mallory, tight end from Miami, Evan Hull, the running back from
Northwestern, Titus Leo, fun Ed Drusher from Wagner in the sixth, Jalen Jones corner from
Texas A&M and then Jake Witt, the workout warrior from Northern Michigan.
I mean, Buck, if you go through and, you know, I'm not going to read off all the numbers,
but just off the top of my head, Anthony Richardson ran the mid four fours as a quarterback.
Julius Brents broad jumped over 11 feet.
Blake Freeland had unbelievable workout, the tight end or the tackle from BYU.
Adi Bare had one of the best workouts we've ever seen from a defensive lineman.
He ran in the four fours.
Darius Rush ran in the four threes.
Daniel Scott, the safety from Cal had a phenomenal workout.
You go all the way down to the bottom.
Jake Witt was literally drafted.
He ran a four, eight, nine, 40, 302 pounds was just kind of a workout guy, raw, but I
don't recall ever seeing a draft where you had so many people with crazy athleticism
added to a team.
Dia, you want a fast team because a fast team allows you to produce explosive plays on
offense and create turnovers on defense.
After watching them slog through the AFC South a year ago, Chris Ballad is intent on rebuilding
the team and rebuilding them with more athletic playmakers, why they went and got Anthony
Richardson.
To me, he got a highlight to his Blake Freeland.
We talked about this offense and why it has to be better.
Even though he's a fourth round pick, they have to look turnover every, they can leave
no stone unturned when it comes to making sure that they are protecting Anthony Richardson
and allowing Jonathan Taylor to run the football.
We'll see if he can jump into a big row.
If he can carve out a row from Seth as a fourth round pick in the league.
I'll go quickly with Josh Downs.
The whiteout from UNC, who's going to compliment the two big guys.
You've got Pearson Pittman.
Now all of a sudden you throw Josh Downs in the slot, let him go to work.
I like that fit there.
Man, that is a very athletic draft class.
Jacksonville, jeez, they got a ton of guys too, Buck.
A lot of late picks.
Anton Harrison, first rounder at pick 27.
Come back with Brenton Strange, the tight end from Penn State in the second and the third
round tank.
Bigs be fun running back from Auburn.
In the fourth, they had two players, Ventrell Miller, linebacker Florida, Tyler Lacey,
a DN from Oklahoma State.
In the fifth round, Ysera Abdullah, linebacker from Louisville and Antonio Johnson, a safety
from A&M.
In the sixth, they had three, Parker Washington, whiteout Penn State, Christian Braswell, corner
from Rutgers, Eric Hallett, the second safety from Pittsburgh.
In the seventh round, three picks, Cooper Hodges from App State as a guard, Raymond Vohossek,
a DT from North Carolina.
You guys had a sneaky number of guys get picked.
And then the seventh round, the last one with Derrick Parrish, kind of a special team demon,
Ed Druscher, full back from Houston.
Let's go take Bigsby in the third round running back.
The reason why is because Doug Peterson and trying to recreate what he had in Philadelphia
needed to add a big back to the backfield to take some of the pressure off Travis Etienne
and Jamichael Hasty.
Snoop Conner was there last year to do it.
Maybe they want a little more physical presence.
So that's where taking Bigsby will come into play.
Physicality tough and his grinded out hard nose mentality works well, gives them something
different than they've had in the back.
I like it.
He was literally in my notes.
I wrote fun player.
He's a fun player to watch.
I like that fit there.
I'll go with the guy picked right ahead of him, Brenton Strange, a tight end who's got
some physicality to him.
So a nice compliment to Evan Ingram there.
He can do a little bit more dirty work and Evan Ingram's going to be probably a little
bit more involved in the past game.
Casey, all right.
Some of these teams had a million picks.
Now we get to a team that didn't have a boatload.
They went FAU Felix and Adique Usama, the Ed Druscher from K-State in the first.
Rashie Rice, the whiteout from SMU in the second.
Wanyay Morris, tackle Oklahoma in the third.
Shamari Conner, the corner slash Nickel from VTech in the fourth.
BJ Thompson, Ed Druscher, Steven F. Austin in the fifth.
Keandre Coborne, the DT from Texas in the sixth.
Nick Jones, corner from Ball State in the seventh.
Let's go to Rashie Rice from SMU.
Six more, two hundred and four pounds.
Someone that can step right into their rotation.
And really, man, when you're the chief, you're kind of drafting out of a luxury because they
won last year with so many young guys playing major roles.
And so now you throw rice into a wide receiver room that already has.
Kadei is Tony, who kind of counts as his own hit and pick.
You need MVS to continue to be a lawyer.
But there's a way for him to get on the field with Scott Moore and those guys playing.
So right now you talked about maybe the number four, but a very important fourth wide receiver
because remember the role that Juju Smith used to play.
He was kind of like the underrated chain mover that made it happen when they needed it.
At some point, they're going to have to find someone who can do that.
Rice might be the best candidate in the line.
But you ever been in New York where they have like Canal Street where you can go get
all the knock off like Rolex and purses and all that stuff.
Yeah.
This is what I was thinking of when I was looking at their draft.
I was like, okay, Frank Clark was kind of expensive.
So you know what?
We'll go draft Felix and a DK Zama, who's a lot like him is going to cost us a lot less
in the draft.
Juju Smith's juicer goes on, gets the money free.
And see, oh, you just mentioned it.
Rice is a nice replacement for him.
Similar type players, strong physical tough guys.
Orlando Brown, we're going to let him walk Orlando Brown, the tackle from Oklahoma.
Let's just go down to Canal Street.
Get us another Oklahoma tackle.
We'll go get Wanyai Morris and throw him into the mix.
It's like, I think that there's something to that.
We referenced it earlier.
But if you study the guys that have been successful in your building, it makes it easier to say,
okay, this is what they had.
This is like the menu.
Now, scouts, we got to go find, let's go find Juju in the draft.
Let's go find Frank Clark in the draft.
And you go get the cheaper knock off.
Yeah, you get a knock off because that's what's saying to that, particularly as you're paying
the quarterback significant money.
Yeah, you got to cut some corners a little bit.
Yeah, no doubt.
Vegas, Tyree Wilson in the first, Ed Drusher, Texas, Tech Michael Mayer to tie it in from
Notre Dame.
In the second, the third round, they had a couple of guys, Byron Young, DT from Bama,
Trey Tucker, Whiteout from Cincinnati in the fourth round, two picks, Jacobian Bennett,
the corner from Maryland, Aidan O'Connell, the quarterback from Purdue, and the fifth
round, Christopher Smith, the safety from Georgia in the sixth, Amari Bernie, linebacker
Florida, and in the seventh, the DT from Arizona State, Nesta Jade Silvera.
Let's go to the top.
Let's go with Tyree Wilson.
And the reason why I like to tell you Wilson pick is because there are some comparisons
between him and Chandler Jones.
When now you put him in the same room with Chandler Jones and Max Crosby, what we're
going to find out really quickly is how much does he love ball?
Because if you don't play hard, you don't exhibit the kind of energy and effort that
those guys do, they can call you out.
And so we could see Tyree Wilson take his game up a notch quickly due to the peer pressure
that's involved in that building.
Love the pit.
I like the fit because it's easier.
Perched quarterback from front to back as opposed to having all your resources in the
back.
Now that you have some pass rusher, it should be easy for anybody to cover in the backhand.
Yeah, I like that one.
I'll just throw a quick shot here with nested Jade Silvera, their last pick, Arizona State
DT, seventh round.
You're looking for some traits.
That dude's got some quickness.
He can get up the field.
So I thought they found a DT with some traits that intriguing player there in the seventh.
All right.
The Chargers, they took Quentin Johnson, the wide out from TCU and one.
Tule Tule 2, the linebacker, Ed Druscher from USC took him in the second day on Henley,
the linebacker from Wazoo in the third.
Darius Davis to be a big time returner from TCU in the fourth.
Jordan McFadden, the tackle slash guard from Clemson in the fifth.
Scott Matlock, the DT from Boise in the sixth and Max Duggan, they go back to TCU for their
third player, the quarterback in the seventh round.
Quentin Johnson is one for me.
Just another tall, big wide receiver.
You thought that maybe there would be a little contrast between Kenan Allen and Mike Williams
and whoever else they bring in, but they kind of bring in someone that is more like them.
He has more speed and more juice than them, but still he's in their family.
So just trying to see how all that works out for just Harper is going to be interesting
for me.
Yep.
So I've got that one as a good one as an intriguing one.
We'll see how that pans out.
And then I would just add Matlock from Boise.
I thought that was a great value.
I would have considered him in the third round.
I thought he's a good player.
I was a little underrated there in the sixth.
The Rams, lots of picks here, Buck, Steve Avila in the second guard from TCU Byron Young,
Red Resher from Tennessee in the third, Kobe Turner, undersized DT from Wake in the third,
Stetson Bennett, Georgia QB in the fourth, Nick Hampton, the App State linebacker in
the fifth, Warren MacLennan, tackle from Georgia in the fifth, Davis Allen, the Titan
from Clemson in the fifth, a lot of fifth round picks.
Pooka Nakua, wide out BYU fifth and the sixth round, they had three players.
Travis Hodges, Tomlinson, corner from TCU, Osha on Mathis, linebacker, Nebraska Zak Evans
running back Ole Miss in the seventh, Ethan Evans, Punner, Windgate, Jason Taylor the
second, safety from Oklahoma State and Desuante Johnson, DT from Toledo.
A lot of guys.
Yeah, a lot of guys.
So I mean this quick.
I'm intrigued by Stetson Bennett.
I'm intrigued by Stetson Bennett being winner guy and seeing if that translates into him
being able to carve out a career.
We should have known that the Rams will be a Bible candidate, a Bible spot for him based
on their interactions with Baker Mayfield.
Stetson Bennett comes over as a two-time national champion, got some swag, had some
athleticism.
Let's see if you can make his name known in the lead.
Pooka Nakua from me, a value pick, wide out.
If he can stay healthy from BYU in the fifth, they might have something.
The Dolphins second rounder, Cam Smith, they go Devin H. Chain, the fast running back from
A&M in the third, Elijah Higgins, the tight end from Stanford who is a tweener, and then
Ryan Hayes to tackle from Michigan in the seventh.
Oh man, this is tough.
I will go with, let's go with Cam Smith.
That's what Cam's up with.
Just in terms of being able to step into this defense and man a key role.
You just think about how everyone is going to attack.
You can't go to X-man, you can't go to JL and ran.
So Cam Smith, guess what?
You're up.
So how he holds up will ultimately determine the fate of their defense.
Cam Smith is a good player.
Let me see if he can hold up his end of the deal.
Yeah, I'm going to go A-chain and fast running back from A&M, just more speed to their track
team offense.
Minnesota, Jordan Addison, in the first, a wide out SC, go back to SC from a Kai Blackman,
a corner in the third, and the fourth round J Ward, a DB from LSU, can move him around.
Jekyll and Roy, the DT from LSU in the fifth, Jaren Hall, the quarterback from BYU in the
fifth, and then Dwayne McBride running back from UAB in the seventh.
I feel like I have talked a lot about Jordan Addison.
So I'm talking about Dwayne McBride.
Seven round pick, little man, who knows, is cornfield, but he's going to make the team,
but he will give them a banker.
Someone that can run, some of the heads vision and body control.
We don't know what's going to happen with Calvin Cook, but it stays as is.
This is a guy that can come and maybe be that vulture.
Got to take away those touchdowns if you do all the work and then inside the five.
Yeah, no doubt.
That's a fun one.
Jaren Hall, I thought value, fifth round, quarterback.
I think he has some starter upside, some traits that you can work with there, a little bit
older, but smart, good athlete, strong arm.
To me, the fifth round pick, I thought that was good value.
Patriots, Christian Gonzalez, corner from Oregon.
They trade back at him at 17.
Big Keon White, Ed Druscher from Georgia Tech at 46 in the second.
Marte Mapu, who talked a lot about him over the course of the spring, linebacker, Sac
State in the third, fourth round, they had a bunch here.
Jake Andrews, center from Troy, Chad Rylan, kicker from Maryland, City South, guard from
Eastern Michigan, and the fifth Antonio Moffee guard from UCLA in the sixth, they had a boat
load of picks.
Keishan Butte, wide out LSU, Bryce Beringer, Punner Michigan State, DiMario Douglas, wide
out Liberty, Amir Speed corner, Michigan State, and then the seventh Isaiah Bolden corner
Jackson State.
Man, so I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this.
I like the draft particularly at the top.
unabashed Keon White fan from Georgia Tech.
I think diversity early serves and well, what they want to do, Josh, you, Jay, Matthew,
Drew John, the way they roll guys in, he's going to be a versatile player inside and
outside.
The Patriots have found a way to unlock and tap fully to all those talents.
I mean, he has everything that you look for, just kind of happened to fall out the first
round.
Yeah, I like that one.
I've mentioned Mapu a bunch, how much I loved him.
Literally my favorite players study in the whole draft.
I love that pick and the Patriots will know what to do with him.
City South guard from Eastern Michigan in the fourth, I think he'll be a starter at the NFL.
So that's a value pick.
Saints, they took Brian Percy from Clemson in the first.
They came back with Foske, Ed Drescher from Notre Dame there in the second.
Kendri Miller running back TCU in the third.
Nick South of the very, they listened to his guard.
He played some tackle from Old Dominion, Jake Hainer, quarterback Fresno State in the fourth.
Jordan Houten, safety from Minnesota in the fifth and A.T.
Perry, Whiteout, Wake Forest in the sixth.
Disco Kendri Miller from TCU.
The reason why I want to go there is because there are so many things that Alachamor does
inside and outside the backfield.
But sometimes I feel like they missed that thump that they used to have when they'd been
at their best.
So what Kendri Miller would give them that thump as a hard nose between the tackle's
runner.
You add him, but Alachamor and what they can do in the past game, Derek Carr will have
a lot of fun because if he doesn't like it down the field, he always drop it down and
watch those guys do the work.
Yep.
That's a fun one.
Hey, I'll stay with the quarterback thing again.
Some intriguing guys.
Fourth round, take a shot.
Why not?
He's Fresno State guy.
Derek Carr is a Fresno State guy.
I think they'll have a good relationship.
Good place to him to continue to learn and develop.
The Giants press corner Deontay Banks in the first.
John Michael Schmitz, the center from Minnesota in the second.
Jalen Hyatt, a flyer at Whiteout in the third.
Eric Gray running back from Oklahoma in the fifth.
Trey Hawkins, a corner from ODU in the sixth.
Couple seventh rounders, Jordan Riley, Detackle, Oregon and your various Owen safety Houston.
Let's go with Jalen Hyatt.
Given Danny Dimes some speed, speed, speed on the perimeter, you digging to Jalen Hyatt's
background.
He has always been a prolific point scorer.
Puts the ball into pain from anywhere on the field.
You just think about this speed.
This is for us even though it's 176 in terms of the frame.
You have to account for it.
If not, he has too many videos of him running past DBs on tape.
He's going to be a sneaky, sneaky to playmaker for the Giants.
I like hitting Deontay Banks in the first, I think his ability to play man is going to
give them some options with a very creative defensive play call over there in Wink Mart
and Dale.
I like that fit.
Jets, Will McDonald, pick 15 edge rusher, Iowa State, Joe Tippman, the center from Wisconsin
in the second.
Carter Warren, tackle Pitt in the fourth.
They go back to Pitt for Israel, Abunakonda, the running back.
They got him actually in the fifth round.
Zaire Barnes, linebacker Western Michigan in the sixth.
Jerick Bernard Converse, corner from LSU in the sixth.
And then Zach Coons, a big Titan from Old Dominion in the seventh.
Let's go with Joe Tippman, center from Wisconsin.
We know that he will quickly become Aaron Rodgers best friend.
His ability to control the attack.
There have been a lot of buzz about him hitting into the draft.
And so to see him get with the team that we thought was a bit of a surprise, but let's
go.
I think it works out.
Yeah, I thought there was a chance they might trade back and take him in the first round.
So to get him there at 43, good fit.
I'll go with the running back.
I'm an Akonda who is a fun player to watch 20 rushing touchdowns.
So tons of production.
You look at their running back room with Breece Hall, Zon of a night, Michael Carter,
and this dude, that's one of the best running back rooms in the NFL.
So I like the group to have their Eagles.
Which round two guys, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith from Georgia, Tyler Steen, the guard
from Bama and the third, Sidney Brown, the safety from Illinois and the third, Kili Ringo,
the corner from Georgia and the fourth, Tanner McKee, the quarterback from Stanford and the
sixth, and Moro Ojomo, the DT from Texas and the seventh.
Let's go with Sidney Brown from Illinois turnover maker, physical player, super athletic.
You've heard of people had throw out these wild lofty expectations about him being maybe
the next Brian Dawkins.
I won't put that, but I do think he's going to be a key piece to their defense.
They need it.
When you lose, Chelsea, Garnt, and Jossie, you need someone that can come in there and
do a few different things.
Sidney Brown has that versatility in his game.
Yep.
I'm with you on that one.
I would also throw into the mix.
Nolan Smith, I think it's a great fit there.
I think he's going to be a great player, but I think people need to temper what's going
to happen year one.
He's going to be their fourth end.
When you have sweat and you have a son retic and you've got brain and grand, he's going to
be the fourth guy.
He'll be the fastball they roll through there.
I think he'll be good in that role, but in terms of big statistical year, it's going
to be hard just because the number of guys they got.
Pittsburgh, Broderick Jones, the tackle from Georgia.
The first, they get Joey Porter Jr. from Penn State.
Obviously, a familiar name there.
The second, Keanu Benton, DT from Wisconsin, then the second as well.
Darnell Washington was there in the third, the tight end from Georgia.
Nick Herbig, whose brother Nate Herbig is on the team as well, so family affair.
He's the fourth round pick, linebacker Wisconsin.
Then they get the big corner, Corey Trice Jr. from Purdue in the seventh and Spencer
Anderson, a guard from Maryland in the seventh.
Oh, man.
You just talked about so many good players that they have.
I love them four to find that offensive line with Broderick Jones.
I kind of said, we move even though it didn't turn out to be who they just wanted.
You just want to make sure you get up in range, get the player that you want.
Broder Jones was identified.
He's to their ability to really rely and love on the athleticism.
If they can get this athleticism, Polishedope with some great technique, man, who knows
what you have at that position?
Because he certainly has all pro potential based on just a flash that you've seen at
times.
Yep.
And then I would add Keanu Benton to me, a good football player, great value where they
got him there in the second pick 49.
He's excellent against the run.
I think he's got more upside against the past than people give him credit for.
Niners did not pick to the third, three third round picks.
J.E.R.
Brown's safety Penn State, the best kicker, Jake Moody from Michigan, Cameron Lawto, Titan,
Bama, and the fifth round.
A couple of guys, Darryl Luter Jr.
Athletic Corner from South Alabama, Robert Beale, explosive ed rusher from Georgia and
the sixth D.
Winners, linebacker, TCU, and then three seventh round picks.
Braden Willis, a Titan from Oklahoma.
Ronnie Beldal, the wide out from Michigan and Jalen Graham, linebacker Perdue.
Jake Moody is my favorite pick because Jake Moody's a point scorer.
And I know everyone's up at arms when people take kickers off the board early, but you
never need a kicker until you need a kicker.
And you talk about a guy as being nails.
And not only that, DJ, when you dig into his background throughout his career at Michigan,
222 of his 300 plus kickoffs were touchbacks.
And so we just think about the boom, the leg, being able to put the ball where he wants
it and how he wants it.
That's the reason why he's taking a kicker draft.
Yep.
And I'll go Jair Brown, the safety that they took with their first pick in the third round.
He's the only FBS player with 10 interceptions over the last two seasons.
Ballhawk.
And they've, they found what happens when you take a safety that maybe didn't run quite
as fast, but who's always around?
He reminds me.
Who fun guy?
He reminds me exactly of a fun guy.
I saw him when I looked at him.
I wrote him a nose.
Me, he's like, yeah, so yeah, I don't care if you want.
I want you to play fast.
I don't care if you are fast.
He plays fast.
Seattle.
Witherspoon, the corner from Illinois, JSN, the Whiteout from Ohio State and the first.
Derek Hall, Ed Druscher from Auburn in the second, Zach Sharpen, a running back from UCLA
in the second.
Couple Fords, Anthony Bradford, a guard from LSU, Cameron Young, DT from Mississippi State.
And the fifth, two players, Mike Morris, Dien from Michigan, another Michigan player,
Ula Timmi, the center and the sixth, Jerick Reed, the second safety from New Mexico, and
then Kenny McIntosh, the running back from Georgia.
So many good things.
In fact, they doubled up at running back.
We talked about it.
It would be interesting to see how they used a running back rotation, Zach Sharpen, and
Kenneth Walker.
One is big and physical.
The other one is like physical, but does it in a different fashion to throw out multiple
backs.
To me, just says that a Pete Carroll is very comfortable.
We can either run it down your throat or with Jackson Smith and Jigba and these other
guys we could throw it over your head.
And so the Seahawks offense will be much more difficult to defend this season.
And I'll say, Derek Hall, because we talk about him as a rusher, put that to the side.
He can set the edge, which you have to do when you play against the 49ers twice a year.
So that's interesting one.
Tampa, Kalyja Kancy, DT from Pitt, and the first Cody Malk, the five position flex offense
in line with North Dakota State in the second.
Yaya Diabi, Ed Drescher from Louisville in the third.
Servaci, Dennis, linebacker, Pitt in the fifth, Payne Durham, tight end Purdue in the fifth
and the sixth round that had three picks.
Josh Haines, DB, Kansas State, Trey Palmer, wide receiver of Nebraska and Jose Ramirez,
Eastern Michigan edge rusher.
I mean, how about Jose Ramirez?
This is taken because he's just so fun to watch, you know, let's just talk about what
he was able to do to production.
He was able to put down and just maybe, maybe they can find like that late round pass rush
that helps him as a key contributor.
So Ramirez is a very interesting pick for the most.
Yeah.
12 sacks.
I love him.
They've had success with players a little bit outside the power five that are nasty demeanor
guys and I think he fits there.
Two more teams left here.
Tennessee, Peter Skoronski in the first to come back, trade up for Will Levis, the quarterback
from Kentucky in the second.
Ij spears running back to Laina the third, Josh Wiley, tied him from Cincinnati in the
fifth, Jalen Duncan, another tackle from Maryland in the sixth and Colton McDowell, wide out
Tennessee Martin in the seventh.
I mean, the guy everyone's going to talk about his will.
He's going to tell us, Levis going to Tennessee.
Say what you want about whether we thought he was the first round pick or second round
pick.
Now he goes to a place where he will have a legitimate opportunity to play, but he may
have that opportunity in 2024 for him.
That'd be a perfect scenario to be able to go to Tennessee, kind of learn how it operates,
learn how to function within a system that's built around the running back.
All those things could serve Will Levis will down the line.
Yeah.
I'll say Tai J spears, who I'm rooting for, fell down the board a little bit because of
his knee.
He goes 81st overall of healthy.
He's a fun player, a dynamic running back last team, Washington commanders Forbes corner
from Mississippi State in the first, Jartavius Martin, nickel from Illinois in the second,
Ricky Stromberg, a center from Arkansas in the third and the fourth round, Braden Daniels
guard from Utah.
KJ Henry, Ed Drescher from Clemson in the fifth, Chris Rodriguez running back from Kentucky
in the sixth and Andre Jones, Jr. seventh round, D.N. Louisiana.
Really surprised by the Washington commander.
So I'm going to go with Ricky Stromberg and Braden Daniels, the two picks that you got
to watch.
This is a team that needed to address the offensive line.
They finally get to it in the third round with the center and then followed up with the
guard.
These guys have to play and they're going to play Will because that was the biggest, that
was the biggest liability for this offense.
Their inability to be able to control the line of scrimmage.
So let's see if those young guys can help them get that done.
I'll go KJ Henry, Ed Drescher from Clemson.
They did not pick up the fifth year option on Chase Young.
They got a decision to make here soon on Montez Sweatt in terms of what his future looks
like there.
So having some depth at that position, I think was good.
I like that value.
Buck, you're late for your meeting.
Get out of here.
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