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Former now former.
Speaker 3: BYU defensive ex six with one two hundred and five
pounds out of Arlington, Virginia and Yorktown High School, balled
out at Brigham, becoming an All Big twelve defensive back
for the Cougar Secondary, walked on, became a starter, then
became a Big twelve All conference playlists. Welcome in, Tanner
Wall number twenty eight on the football field, t Wall.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 2: What's up? Krid? How are we doing doing?
Speaker 4: Good man?
Speaker 3: Just living the dream, talking some some Brigham football today
and everything that's occurring. You know, as you take a
step back, I know you're probably still down there in Provo.
I don't know where you're at, what you're doing as
you prep for for everything, But it's gonna be a
difficult transition, isn't it to step away from the BYU
football family and take your talents to the NFL?
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm actually already down in Florida, down in Fort Lauderdale,
training at a facility down here, getting ready for Pro
Day in the draft. But I'm staying closely plugged in
and connected and love all the good that I'm seeing
coming out of our program in the recent days and
have had some great combos with coach Papinga and coach
Kilane over the last week too. Just excited about the
future of BYU football.
Speaker 4: Indeed, give us an updates.
Speaker 3: So from the end of the bowl game, what has
the process been like for you, what you been doing,
what you've been seeing, And obviously you're already in Fort
Lauderdale training.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So after the bowl game, we came, we came back.
My wife and I actually were able to go out
to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans for New Year's
we I was uh. I was a finalist and was
selected on the All State Good Works Team. So we
were honored at halftime of the Sugar Bowl down in
New Orleans, which was really cool experience. Got to meet
the other twenty one players on the Good Works team
and hear about all the good that they've been doing
in and in their communities throughout the country. But then
after that got back to Provo and just kind of
tried to get everything in order and get organized, just
working with you know, my agent and figuring out the
best timing for me to to get down here to
Florida and start training. So got down here on Sunday
and started yesterday training down here. Got a couple other
b y you guys down here with me too. We
got Waylin La Poijo and also Isaiah Jada. So it's
been it's been good to have some some some boys
down here with me as well.
Speaker 4: Love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So which which agency did you end up signing with
your agent and and why did you sign with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ended up signing with with David Canter and Ness
mcgraby from Aura Sports Management Group. There they're do a
great job. David's had a lot of success throughout his
career representing some other great safeties. Eric Weddle was kind
of the first one who who he had a lot
of success with, and then he has also represented Daniel
Sorenson currently represents Zane Anderson and Cole Bishop, so a
lot of great safeties coming out of the city of
Utah where they played their college ball. So he's had
great success doing that and just ultimately loved the interactions
that I've had with him, him and all that he
you know, promised as far as what he understands about
me as a player and what value I can add
to an NFL organization and in helping paint that picture
for you know, the scouts in any GM that would
want to take a chance on me and bring me
on to their NFL squad.
Speaker 3: You know your game better than anybody. You know your trajectory,
you know your talent, your potential. As you've conversed with consultants, agents,
et cetera. What's the feedback that you've been given on
what you need to do next in order to earn
yourself an opportunity as a as a draft pick and
and or a high priority under atchet free agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean for me, obviously, it's a big part
of it is just showing that I can run and
play with you know, the speed of the NFL. I
have a lot of great tape and obviously they know
that I'm a football player. They know I'm a high
IQ football player as well, so they've seen that in
my tape, my ability to make plays, and now it
just comes down to, you know, what they really evaluate
in a combine setting is just Kenny run? Can he jump?
Is the explosive? Do we think that you know, he
has the speed to play at this level, which I'm
confident that I'll be able to do and to show well.
Speaker 3: I remember, I mean this was probably four five years ago.
I got I got some film with you training at
Stroshine looking pretty good with the vertical, with forty time
with everything. What were you testing out at then and
what do you think you can test out at now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I've I've always kind of excelled in in
this combine setting. I remember at the time when we
were kind of training the five ten five in the shuttle,
I was consistently like in the low four point ones,
and then my vertical was right around thirty six inches.
My broad was about you know, ten five ten six,
So looking to you know, exceed those numbers just given
you know, I've had five years of good work on
top of that, and then really just you know, kind
of honing in on the thing that they care about
the most, which is which is the forty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I remember, like if you were to take
one clip from you know, your to showcase your speed
from BYU on tape, what clip would it be and why?
Speaker 2: I think I think there'd be a couple of plays
that you could probably put on there. I think some
of my chase down you know, tackles against Avery Johnson
last year. I think also the chase down from behind
on Garrett Rangell, Loklahoma State quarterback last year. I think
the pick six this year, like just kind of really see.
Speaker 5: Me get out and run.
Speaker 2: But those those those chase down plays too, is you
really can find another gear.
Speaker 5: And you know we.
Speaker 2: Have we got good GPS data too on all that
stuff from from coach scyl ermine that they'll be able
to to share with scouts and and and people like that.
Speaker 3: The other tape that's really good is your special Teams tape. Man,
I want to say, you know you forced ah a
turnover being heads of you utilizing that football like you
but also utilizing your strength right to push a player
defender into the ball and then b WA ends up
recovering it. You know, I know you you ended up
focusing more on the defensive side of the ball. Is
you you became tenured and proven and a starter. But
I remember early on on special teams you making a
huge impact.
Speaker 5: Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that's where I really earned my stripes, and
that was kind of my road to turning a lot
of the coaches trust. And I think what also led to,
you know, switching positions is just being able to show
I could run and tackle well and base on special teams.
And I mean special teams is a huge part of
the league too. Guys make you know, great careers out
of that. And I understand in my career path in
the NFL too, it'll likely start as more of a
special teams role player. And shoot, I'm excited to be
able to run down on kickoff again and and do
that stuff that you know I did starting my career
at BUYU and and just remember how fun that is
to to go make plays on those special teams opportunities.
Speaker 4: Do you ever miss playing wide receiver Tanner?
Speaker 2: I do, and I don't. I just miss having the
ball in my hands multiple times a game. And you
get the ball in your hands in the game, it's
a it's a great feeling.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: You only got a few of those this year, but yeah, hey,
but those were those were fun and you cemented yourself
in Holy war lore and it will always be remember
high pointing that that I n t uh mossing the
young man, if you will, and uh was that like,
give me favorite of her team and then individual while
at b YU, give me a favorite memory, you know
from a team standpoint, and then maybe as a as
an individual play or player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, favorite memory as a team has got to
be last year. So twenty twenty four, I guess, I
guess that's two years ago now if we're talking real years.
But season wise, last season up and right cycles just
standing on the sideline, you know, with next to John
Nelson and you know, Blake Mangleson, these guys that came
in with me from day one and just us watching
welfare and you know, trot out there to go kick
the game winning field goal and see that thing go
through the uprights and just celebrating like that was a
huge moment and such a cool way to end that
game and break the break the streak up there in
their states of you know, us not winning for a
long time. So that moment meant a lot to me
and to our team. And then yeah, I'd say for
me the interception this year that you just talked about
in the Holy War at Home. You know, that's a
kind of player I've dreamed of making in that game
my whole life. So it was really really amazing to
see that come to life and to be a reality.
Speaker 3: Seeing what you accomplished, seeing what by U's accomplished over
the last couple of season eleven to two and twelve
and two respectively in top top fifteen finishes. It's truely
remarkable time to be a part of kugarnation and be
a part of the Cougar football family. You see the
trajectory and you see what Kiloni's building, and obviously Jay
and Genero they head off to Michigan, but Kate Popper's
there and much of the staff has retained, not only
defensively but even offensively. What do you think about what
do you ponder about about the future of UAU fotball
going forward with Colonie at the Helm and these coaches
being retained.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just I'm just really excited. I mean, it's
it's it's interesting when you you know, when you play
five years of college football, you start to notice certain
patterns and certain trends across you know, programs, and how
that shapes their success as seasons go on. When you
kind of zoom out and look at that, and I mean,
if you when you look at the amount of success
that we've been able to have over the last two
seasons and what that's done for our recruiting, you know,
landing big time recruits both out of high school, having
an incredible recruiting class this year, and putting together really
great portal classes because we've been able to retain so
much of our talent and you know, from a player standpoint,
and so at that point, you know, our portal needs
are smaller, you know, more more selective. It's a more
selective approach and the portal and you know, guys want
to come play for a team where they have an
amazing culture, they have an amazing coach, and where they
know they're going to win, and they're gonna you know,
we're gonna have a lot of eyes on us, and
they're going to be in an environment where, you know,
if their goal is to play in the NFL, there's
gonna be a lot of eyes at practice at games.
So it's it's become even more of a special destination
for any recruit, whether it's out of high school or
out of the portal. And the culture that Kilani has
built is deep rooted and it's you know, the foundation
is very strong, and so they're going to keep building
on that and I expect to see the fruits of
that keep keep coming up in the coming seasons and
look forward to a lot more wins and more success
for for Kloni and for the boys.
Speaker 3: For some the fact that jay and and Gennaro left,
that was that was that was devastating, right, But it
seems like, I mean, by you guys a lost city.
No one's I mean, look, we obviously there's some good
players that have entered the portal from b y u
H Max, Alfred Tavian, b's lead, Marcus Macanzie. There's a
number of defensive players that have entered the portal and
they're going elsewhere and they're gonna get more pet It's awesome.
But you know, give me your perspective on h on
K pop, his uh his ability to be the defensive
coordinator and retain this the majority of the key players
on that defensive roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I I love coach Fapinga. He's done an
outstanding job the last two seasons with you know, with
Special Teams, and he brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
You know, he'll quickly be the first coach to point
out at practice if the energy is bad and if
we got to pick it up and if we gotta
you know, wake up and freaking you know, kind of
really focused. So I think he'll bring a lot of
great intensity and and focus in that level, a lot
of good energy to to practice, to recruiting, to all
those things. But also I'm I'm curious as well and
excited to see, you know, with the with the Special
Teams role kind of off of his plate, to see
really how he kind of can emerge as a as
a coordinator and you know, lead in that setting because
you know, coaching special teams and having a position to
coach too. You know for some outside people, the m
I think that's an easy task, but you know that's
a lot and he and he cared a lot about
that role and put a lot of time and effort
into that, so I know he'll have an amazing impact
as a coordinator and the as you already mentioned, being
able to retain so much of our staff and having
Klane at the helm. You know, our guys, our guys
who had opportunities to leave, they want to stay and play,
you know, for Kilani, for k Pop, for the university,
and it's just it's a great place that guys they
don't they don't want to step away from that anymore.
Speaker 3: Excited for you, T Wall can't wait to see how
you you you perform at your combine. I think it's
going to be eye opening for for some that haven't
seen your athleticism firsthand. I was looking, you know, through
kind of the NFL draft scout where they're projecting you.
I mean, I've seen your speed firsthand. I think you
can go uh sub four five laser handtime, definitely. I
think you go sub for four five laser. I wouldn't
be surprised if you run like a four four five,
if you're ten splits on point, which it should be,
I wouldn't be surprised if you hit that mark.
Speaker 4: What are you shooting for?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I'd love to run in the in
the four fourth I think, you know, at my size,
I think that'd be you know, great. I think I
play with with that kind of speed, so it would
be awesome to show that to the scouts on on
Pro Day.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to watch a t wall. Let us know
if you need anything from us. Appreciate you hopping on.
Congratulations on all of your success, and no surprise to
me that you balled out at Brigham.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I didn't expect all big.
Speaker 3: Twelve, you know, and just you know, immortalizing yourself in
the Utah game. But at the same time, I'm not surprised,
you know what I mean. It's hard to predict those things.
But you went out and and showed everybody what you
were capable of. A dream come true, man, and I'm
a big fan of yours. I appreciate you hopping on
to give us an update, keep us up to date
on all things, and let us know if you need
anything from us.
Speaker 2: All right, well do yeah, thank you so much. Ben,
really appreciate you been a great mentor throughout the years,
so it's good to It's kind of weird to hear
you say the former Cougar, but isn't that tough. That's
the realm we're stepping into now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, man, it went by fast, but I know
you savored those moments, man, and now go out and
seize the day. Brother, empty the tank. You still have
a lot left.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I believe it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Much love to you, Tanner Wall.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen appreciate you and your family.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in the one the Only Jared Bledsoe to the
show to talks and BWA football.
Speaker 4: Jared, how the heck are you?
Speaker 2: What's Ben?
Speaker 5: I'm doing really well?
Speaker 4: Thank you, hey man, what a great season it was.
Speaker 3: But now we're getting into transfer portal season and BYU
has lost twelve transfers right now. Polk I Jonga entered
the portal earlier today. Max Alford entered yesterday and ended
up at Michigan. Tavian Beasley entered and he's at USF.
It looks like Lemason Waller the third ended up at SUU.
Of all places, it looks like so he's committed to SUU.
McKay Hillstead Utah State, Marcus McKenzie Utah State, Jake Griffins
heading to U of A, and Dominique Mackenzie to San
Jose State. The wins, the losses? What BYU has ultimately acquired?
You got Zach Yamauchi from Stanford, has some starting experience
as an interier offensive lineman, Cad Uluava and All acc linebacker,
four star transfer from cal Jake Clifton, Kansas State linebacker.
Speaker 4: He's coming to BYU.
Speaker 3: Kyler Casper, Oregon to BYU wide receiver, Junior Sia, Utah
State offensive tackle heading to BYU Hockey fee now from
Washington to b YU and then Walker Lions USC to
b YU. How would you assess the transfer portal season
so far for b YU.
Speaker 5: I think it's really positive. I think that the ability
of Colonney to build an atmosphere where players want to
stay is a big deal, you know. I think that's
what is the bigger story and everything that's going on
right now is that BYU isn't just retaining players, they're
retaining starters. And so there's there's some really really good
work going on behind the scenes there and a culture
is being built that these players want to play in
and and I think these guys want to play for them,
for each other, and they want to show that that
even though there's a coaching change, there's still the players
that are playing on the field and they're gonna they're
going to come together and have a great season next year.
So but but I do think that we've done well
in the transfer portal. I think that the guys that
were leaving, you know, Tavon, I think is one that
he did He had some games that he did well.
But we know we will what's his name coming in
that came for a visit last week, Will soon Snowdon.
He's a nickel.
Speaker 4: It would be nice to get smith Snowdon. It looks
I mean I was a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was more optimistic last week than I was than
I am this week. Michigan may give him an offer
he just can't refuse.
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 5: We will, Yeah, but at any rate, I think we've
done well. I do think that we could use one
more key receiver, you know. I was able to go
down and spend some time at the Fiesta Bowl. Fun
a great atmosphere. It's a little different when you're going
to a game that you're not really into either team,
but you want to see football, but then you can't
really see very well because you're in the stands and
you know, you say you're you're at the game. I
was able to hang out and it was fun to
watch kil and Marion's dad kind of live in and
out of every play, and they were sitting right in
front of me, and so that was fun. And and
but yeah, I think byu Is we need a quill
and we need a guy that it's just going to
be a breakout receiver. I feel like the guy that's
coming in from Oregon is going to do well, but
he's he's got a guy that has to come and compete.
I don't feel like he's slotted as a number one,
two three guy. I think he has to come in
and make his mark and every single guy that's in
that room right now has an opportunity to beat that guy.
So I don't think he was coming in as a
starter without earning it.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Yeah, you got to see just odd
dynamic how productive if Keeland was in Miami this LAS year.
A lot of people thought, hey, Keelan's moving on and
and and we were sad to see him go. But
they're like, he would have played more at b YU,
would have been more productive at b YU. And I
don't know if you can make that argument now after
watching him ball at at Miami. I do think that
that is a priority right now. At wide receiver do
you truly have a wide receiver one? Some people would
make an argument for Parker Kingston. Others will say, you
know this Reggie Frishnet or Jojo Phillips or maybe a
transfer from Oregon casp or Kyler Kaspy who comes from
NFL lineage his father playing in the NFL. Uh, he
could be the wide receiver one. What do you see
right now.
Speaker 5: In that room? I think there's five two's right now,
and every one of those five, maybe even six, have
to go in there. And it's a big spring for
a lot of these guys and somebody, somebody will stand
out as the one. I feel like, whether he's brought
in and still the guy's brought in, the guy still
has to go out and play and perform and beat
out the guys that are there, although he'll probably be
given a lot more opportunity, you know, than some of
the other guys. But yeah, I think that there's a
lot of there's a lot to be taken in this spring.
And that's what I love about springball, man. It's probably
some of the most competitive football that you ever play,
because everybody feels like they need to prove themselves, and
everyone feels like they either are making their mark or
or they're maintaining the mark that they've already made. So
springball was probably some of my most fun football that
I ever played.
Speaker 3: You mentioned there's five two's. There's some good wide receivers
in this room. If you were to pick maybe one
guy that you thought maybe could elevate his play to
become that dominant alpha dog playmaker, separator of of space
versus zero coverage, who would it be? Why is it Jojo?
Is it Parker? Is it Cody Hagen? Is it Tanakuwa?
Is it Tiger Bockmeyer, Reggie frishcnnet or Kyler Kasper.
Speaker 4: Who's your favorite to elevate and why?
Speaker 5: And that's a tough question, especially considering I just put
all of them as a two.
Speaker 4: But uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's the thing is you've got from
from what we've seen, you would expect that we would
be able to get maybe that out of out of Parker.
Speaker 5: I think Jojo has some opportunity as well to come out,
but they're not They're not there yet at that spot,
you know. So that's why I think that the Spring
is going to be big. I think the Spring, like
last year was huge for Kiwan because he came out
of Spring as the alpha in that room one hundred percent,
like there's no questions about it at that point, you know.
And and so I feel like we're gonna have some
standouts come out of Spring. So unfortunately do I really
don't have a number one. I think that there's potential
in a couple of guys there, but then other guys,
you know, you never know, you can have a guy
that just comes and just plays and gets his opportunity
and takes advantage of it and becomes, you know, maybe
a Tanakua comes in and does something like that. The
guy's got more energy than anybody I've ever seen, and
his mouth doesn't stop running either. That guy likes to talk,
so he should be a fun one to get in
the mix. But yeah, it's gonna be h It's gonna
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comes to play and who who makes their mark.
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Speaker 3: When you're looking, you know a rod well, you look
at the acquisitions thus far in the portal. On the
offense side of the ball, three offensive linemen pretty interesting, right,
A tackle, two guards, pockey can probably play some tackle.
I think there's a total of eight eight transfer. Sorry
I said there were seven, but there's actually eight with
Poki feno or sorry, no, there were seven.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 3: So you got three offensive linemen, you got a tight end,
and you have a wide receiver on the offensive side.
Speaker 4: Of the ball.
Speaker 3: What does that tell you about maybe the mindset the
vision that a Rod is trying to accomplish this offseason
via the portal.
Speaker 5: Well, he can. He knows he needs depth at the
offensive line, right, I mean that the guys are going
to get hurt. But you've got to have good depth
at the offensive line if you're going to have to
be able to protect the quarterback who likes to run
and we need to throw, you know. So we've got
a great quarterback and we've got great running backs coming back.
So the old line is going to be key because
LJ doesn't have lj's ear. If the old line doesn't
block well, right, you can have the most outstanding running
back in the backfield and he can't do much If
he can't get away from the five guys that are
done to tackle him, you know, so it uh, it's
gonna be a lot of fun to see what they do.
But yeah, I feel like his mentality is to make
sure to solidify that front line. And I think there's
some other ones that they're toying with out there to
see who they bring in there. They're just real methodical
in the transfer portal. It's it's kind of like I
feel like how walk ons used to be, you know
at b y U And when I was coming in
and it was like you had your preferred walk on
and then and then the rest of them. It was
really hard to even get an opportunity if you weren't
in that preferred group, right, And and I think BYU
is being real particular about who they bring in and
and it's going to make sense, I think long term.
And I think Colonia and his staff really want people
that are bought in to what the culture is and
to be able to maintain that. And I think they
want guys, you know, unless they're keeping they know it
only has one year. They're trying to get a couple
of years out of players as well. I feel like.
Speaker 3: Jared, is this BYU football team? I think we may
have discussed this even when you were in here last week.
Do you feel like this roster is going to be
better than it was last year? Do you feel like
b always trending with its retention efforts as well as
its acquisitions to a place where this roster is better
than it was a season ago?
Speaker 5: I mean, how can it not be?
Speaker 2: Almost?
Speaker 5: You know, when you start to look at the guys
coming back and how having another a year under their belt,
having a spring under their belt in spring, not only
is it competitive, but you get the opportunity to implement
a lot more test, a lot more Your timing is
built heavily over that period. So yeah, we definitely should
be better going into this next season. And yeah, I
think we're setting ourselves up for a really exciting year.
I don't think there's going to be too many people
that are are going to be expecting to not have
an excellent year next year.
Speaker 3: You get to know these players, right you look at
the retention list. Is there one player two players that
you're you're pretty pretty stoked to see come back, whether
it's on the offensive or defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5: Well, when when you lose your like a double way,
I mean, when you lose both your coaches right when
that would be you know a Trey Alexander and and
Evan Johnson, those two they lost their decordinator and they
lost their quarterbacks coach, you know, so I could easily
see those guys. So, you know, Trade was real quick
to say he's coming back, and Evan was was the
you know, took his time, you know. So that is
a little bit more whether or not they need to
do that any feel like it's kind of trending that
way where people are gonna expect it now, you know,
you need to tell the s if you're coming back.
So but yeah, I think those those were two that
I was was really happy to see Glasgar of course, LG.
Of course. I didn't think there was a question with Bear.
In my opinion, I don't know that there was any
drama going on there other than I'm sure that they
were negotiating as as every good player would do nowadays.
But yeah, I think that the retention is amazing and
and it has something to definitely do with the culture
that Claudie's building.
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