WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.439 Hi, Hello, and welcome to March nineteenth, twenty twenty six. 2 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.079 You are watching FFPC Insider Access. My name is Eric Balkman. 3 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.399 You can connect with me on x at Eric Balkman. 4 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:23.039 You know me. 5 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:25.640 You know me from the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour, 6 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.600 Extra Reps, the roada Is, High Stakes Lowdown, and of 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.640 course the Fantasy Football Players Championship. At m y FFPC 8 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.280 dot com. We've got a great show for you tonight, 9 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.359 two full hours of NonStop fantasy football goodness with a 10 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.600 heavy emphasis one the rookie class because we got an 11 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.200 expert on it tonight, so it's gonna be a lot 12 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.520 of fun, especially in the second hour before we get 13 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:47.920 to that. Before I bring him on, I want to 14 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.640 remind everybody too, if you are looking to parlay some 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.200 of the advice and some of the thoughts player of 16 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.560 owls and strategy that you'll hear on the show tonight, 17 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.439 don't be afraid to go to my FFPC dot com. 18 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.920 Especially for you Dynasty players or if you're thinking about 19 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.959 getting into Dynasty Fantasy football, now's a really good time 20 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.760 to do it. We have a lot of orphans listed 21 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.519 anywhere from one dollar up well, I mean the normal 22 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.200 entry fee is seventy seven to five thousand dollars. Some 23 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:17.439 of those are down to one dollar right now, so 24 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.680 you're basically managing the team for free the first year 25 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.519 and trying to get it into greatness. So check that 26 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.400 out my ffpc dot com for all the Dynasty orphans 27 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.879 we have available. We also have a pair of Bestball tournaments, 28 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.840 the Never Too Early Best Ball Tournament and the Never 29 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:35.239 Too Early Superflex Bestball Tournament, both live right now. Forty 30 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.599 thousand dollars and ten thousand dollars grand prizes respectively. 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The Early Rampage Tournament going 40 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.519 on right now, So it's two tournaments for the price 41 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.360 of one entry fee if you enter the Big Gorilla 42 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.919 now you're automatically in the Early Rampage tournament as well, 43 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:15.719 one hundred and twenty five bucks to enter the Baby 44 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.719 Gorilla and one hundred thousand dollars grand prize there as well. 45 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:22.319 Remember you can manage all those teams from the FFPC app. 46 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.039 You can also purchase, load your account, register for leagues, 47 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.199 perform waivers. Whatever you want to do, you can all 48 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.520 do it from the comfort of your phone on the app, 49 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.759 the mobile app, without further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, let's 50 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.240 bring in our guests tonight. You know him, you love him. 51 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.759 NFL Draft expert. He's probably got a seven round mock 52 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.599 point somewhere listed on the internet right now for like 53 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.080 the twenty forty two NFL Draft. That'd be my guess. 54 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.800 Maybe he's just on twenty forty one. He loves the draft, 55 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.280 he knows the prospects, and he's here to share some 56 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.800 knowledge with us tonight. Longtime FFPC player and even longer 57 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:03.759 time NFL draft guru, You know him on X Shane P. Hallum, 58 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.439 the Hammer himself, Please welcome in from Draft Sharks. Shane Hallam, Shane. 59 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.360 Good evening, sir, good evening. It's nice to be back 60 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:13.319 with you. Eric. I feel like once a year we 61 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.120 get to kind of cut it up here before the 62 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.159 NFL Draft, and I'm excited to talk rookies and talk 63 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.759 all the goings on. Always a blast with you, my friend. 64 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.680 I did something a little bit different for your appearance 65 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.680 this year, at least on my end. So normally I 66 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.840 like to immerse myself in everything that you're putting out 67 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.960 there via x or via draft Sharks. I've kind of 68 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.680 stayed away from it so far this year because I 69 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:42.479 feel like if I consume all that you kindt you 70 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.039 have this way of persuading me. Because I'm easily persuaded. 71 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.000 You have this way of persuading me. So I'm gonna 72 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.560 go in. I'm gonna set these questions up cold. I'm 73 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.639 gonna you know, we're gonna do everything cold. We're gonna 74 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.560 focus on the veterans here in the first hour, but 75 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.599 the second hour I'm gonna offer my opinions on these 76 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.520 guys and hopefully we get some good disc going in. 77 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.159 Rather than saying, Shane, you're a genius, I totally agree 78 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:04.879 with you. You're the man. So I wanted to go 79 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.240 in fresh and clean on this. We're gonna try it 80 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:08.360 this year. I don't know if it's going to be 81 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.479 any better, but we'll see. So that's gonna be a 82 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.199 lot of fun before we get going at Shane P. 83 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.199 Hallum on X, what are you focusing on right now 84 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:18.600 over at Draft Sharks. 85 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.839 Well, we just launched our Rookie Guide, so we'll be 86 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.120 doing an update to it at the beginning of April, 87 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.079 expanding from fifty skill position players to seventy five on 88 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.000 our big board, both for superflex and for one quarterback. 89 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.639 We have profiles on every player in there, comps for 90 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.879 every player in there. So yeah, I'm working on today 91 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.920 was Fernanda Mendoza. We're going to do a full article 92 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.639 for him next week on Draft Sharks. But yeah, just 93 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:48.959 get getting the rookie guy gets set, getting everything set 94 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.680 for these rookies. And I started diving into some film 95 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:55.519 on the backup Wyoming running back who ran like a 96 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.199 four to four at his pro day. So trying to 97 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.079 dig deep, and I'll probably have I've watched over five 98 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:05.240 hundred and six hundred skilled players by the draft. 99 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.480 That's insane. And I should ask you this too, because 100 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.439 I was joking about you already having a seven round 101 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.279 twenty forty two MOC and maybe that's not a joke. 102 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.240 Maybe you might already have that. I don't know. At 103 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.839 what point did you start kind of delving into this 104 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.279 year's crop of rookies. Was it already prior to last 105 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:22.279 college football season? 106 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:25.879 Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean I think I've had a 107 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.920 twenty six mock. I usually do two years in advance, 108 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.560 So I have a twenty twenty eight MOC in May 109 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.199 for you know, for that draft. And you know, I'm 110 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:37.319 in debbie leagues, some very deep DeBie leagues. So I've 111 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.120 drafted some of these players in high school. I drafted 112 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.759 Nick Nicholas Singleton, the running back from Penn State, when 113 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.240 he was a sophomore in high school. So you know, 114 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:48.560 I've watched some of these players since they were you know, 115 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.360 before they could drive. Even I've watched some of them. 116 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:56.399 The The other thing I wanted to ask you because 117 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.560 I feel like, and I was taking talking about this 118 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.439 in the High Stakes Fantasy Footballer last night, there's a 119 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.920 narrative out there that people should be selling their twenty 120 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.879 twenty six rookie draft picks and trying to collect twenty 121 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:16.040 twenty seven picks. Most of the people would say that 122 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.480 the twenty twenty seven draft is better, but I don't 123 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.240 think they know it. Most people, I don't think they 124 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.680 know the twenty twenty seven class as good as you do. 125 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.639 You play dynasty, Is that a practice that you would 126 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.560 encourage people to do right now, which try is try 127 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:34.680 to get rid of your first round twenty twenty six 128 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:37.560 picks and try to get twenty twenty seven first rounders. 129 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.600 I think it's a legitimate strategy one DEVI league or 130 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.879 one Dynasty league that I'm in. Unfortunately, on the FFPC, though, 131 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.759 I plan to do some startups this year and try this. 132 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.160 I think I have ten of the twelve twenty twenty 133 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.079 seven first so I'm going to make a run for 134 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:56.319 the other two. And I think I'm going to do 135 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.920 a couple f FPC startups and do the same thing. 136 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.600 In the startup just move down, move down, click twenty 137 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.040 twenty seven firsts, because I do think that class is 138 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.720 going to be excellent, even if you have some guys 139 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.399 go back to school, even if you have some guys 140 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.720 drop off. You know, this twenty twenty six class I've 141 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.720 kind of been preaching for a while it's not as strong, 142 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:16.040 and I think some of the you know, we'll talk 143 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:17.959 about it. Some of the receivers came through, but I'm 144 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.800 still not as impressed as I want to be, Like 145 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:22.160 I want to kind of buy in, and I just 146 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.720 can't at this point. And you know, it's a lot 147 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.560 of it was because hey, the quarterbacks went back to 148 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.120 school and maybe had some extra guys go back to school. 149 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.000 That means twenty twenty seven is going to be better. 150 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:33.759 So I don't think you have to just sell them 151 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.240 off for nothing. But you know, we have it reflected 152 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.160 on Draft Sharks on our trade value chart for Dynasty 153 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.800 that twenty twenty seven first is is more valuable than 154 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.000 you know, the one O eight or one O nine 155 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.360 and one quarterback this year. 156 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.560 Okay, that's interesting. That's good to know. I have one 157 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.240 of my leagues. I was actually super pumped last year. 158 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.240 I know nobody cares about your fantasy league, but I'm 159 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:00.399 gonna share it anyway because it's my show. Next year, 160 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.360 during rookie draft time, I ended up parlaying some extra 161 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.279 tight end depth I had in order to acquire Colston 162 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.040 Loveland and a twenty twenty six first rounder. So I 163 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.600 was and it turned out to be the one of six. 164 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:15.639 So I was like love and life. And then the 165 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.680 more I looked at this class, I'm like, geez, you know, 166 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.519 maybe this is not the gold mine that I thought 167 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:22.800 was going to be when I acquired that pick. But 168 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:24.360 now I got to focus on trying to see what 169 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:26.519 I can do for twenty twenty seven. That'll be the 170 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.720 goal and we'll see what happens with that. We got 171 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.279 a little bit a month or so to go until 172 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.000 the NFL Draft, when we know where these players are 173 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.399 going to be playing football in the NFL this year. 174 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.240 So coming up on tonight show, like I said at 175 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.120 the top, Shane and I are going to go around 176 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.480 the NFL in the first segment. Second segment that will 177 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.799 bring up will be a rookie pass catcher analysis from 178 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:49.039 Shane Hallen. We'll get into the big three at wide receiver. 179 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:52.159 I also want to talk about Casey Concepcion. We'll talk 180 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.919 about the Indiana guys. We'll get into Chris Brazil as well, obviously, 181 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.559 the two big tight ends. I want to get changed 182 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.600 thoughts on those guys. And then the final segment we 183 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.159 will look to the backfield, the running backs. Obviously, Jeremiah Love, 184 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.720 But who's the number two? Is it? Jonah Coleman is 185 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.720 a jendarian, Price, Emma Johnson, Mike Washington. We'll get into 186 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.360 all those players, and then obviously Mendoza and Ty Simpson 187 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.639 will touch on too as well. As long as I 188 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.799 don't ramble too much and we leave enough time to 189 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.679 talk quarterbacks on this program without further ado, Shane, let's 190 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.480 talk about what's going on in the NFL. And my god, 191 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.000 what a massive, massive deal that we saw earlier this 192 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.159 week that kind of, quite frankly, came out of nowhere 193 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.759 when you consider that the Miami Dolphins had said they 194 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.120 were not looking to trade Jalen Waddle, and yet that's 195 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.440 exactly what they did. Diana Rassini reported it that Denver 196 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:45.120 acquired Jalen Waddle in exchange for twenty twenty six first 197 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.399 third and a fourth round draft pick swap. The Dolphins 198 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:53.279 now have a receiver room that's really bereft of any 199 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.440 kind of talent. With apologies to two two at Well 200 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.720 and Malik Washington, but let's talk about the Denver side. 201 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:02.679 First twenty two catches sixteen hundred yards over the past 202 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.240 two years for Wattle, who's obviously spent a lot of 203 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.519 time in the training room. But now he joins a 204 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.559 team that was fourth in the NFL and pass attempts 205 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.279 eleventh in the league in passing yards last year. And 206 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.279 you don't really think of Denver as this team that's 207 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.799 slinging the ball all over the field, but they kind 208 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.440 of were last year despite really only having Courtland Sutton 209 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.919 and then the you know, the rotating number two turnstile 210 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.159 of Marvin Mims, Pat Bryant, and Troy Franklin in no 211 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.039 particular order. This is this is huge for Wattle, This 212 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.399 is huge for the Broncos. This is really big for 213 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:38.440 bo Nicks. What's the impact. What do you think of 214 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.039 Jalen Waddle's prospects now compared to what you were thinking 215 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.159 of them before this trade when he was still in 216 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:44.679 South Beach. 217 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.080 I mean, I'm excited for it. For Jaylen Wattle. I've 218 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.200 been a Jayleen Wattle fan, you know, since he was 219 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.360 in college, and I feel like he's always been underrated, 220 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:57.519 definitely in real NFL terms, even in fantasy terms. Even 221 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.840 when he's disappointed, it hasn't been as bad as it's 222 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.039 else because his talent is so good. Miami, you know, 223 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.480 outside of the one year when that offense was really humming, 224 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.639 just didn't do much. I'm really interested in his fit 225 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.039 in Sean Payton's system because because this is a system 226 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:15.039 that typically you have your ex receiver, who is Courtland 227 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.159 Sutton we saw last year doesn't leave the field as 228 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.159 the number one guy, and then Peyton has always kind 229 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.720 of rotated the other receivers, like you talked about, he 230 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.360 had that rotating, you know, Mims be in for a play, 231 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.559 Franklin to be in for a little bit. Injuries maybe 232 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:29.960 forced you know, guys like Franklin and Pap Briant to 233 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:31.960 play a little bit more. And I don't think he 234 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.279 could take Jamealen Wattle off the field, especially after that 235 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.399 compensation and the contract. So to me, this is good 236 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.200 news even if Watta wasn't the quote unquote number one 237 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.120 guy in Peyton's system and how he likes to work it. 238 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.440 We saw Troy Franklin break out in a couple of games. 239 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:49.720 I think Jaylen Watta could have done that to the extreme. 240 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.320 So I'm excited. I have a plenty of Dynasty teams 241 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.240 of Jamelen Watta. I think this is you know, maybe 242 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.080 not best case scenario where he could have gone. But 243 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.240 it's much better than what was gonna be the tanking 244 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.279 Dolphins with Malik Willist just running around at quarterback back there. 245 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.200 Yeah, Q, all the memes of the dolphins swimming around 246 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:09.519 in the big fish tank, right, because that's what we're 247 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.559 going to see on X for sure going forward. I 248 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.559 have to ask about Courtland Sutton here. What do you 249 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:17.360 think it does now that Wattle is alongside Sutton. I 250 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.360 think that you know, it'd be different chain if these 251 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.320 guys kind of did the same things, that did the 252 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.759 same had the same skill set. But I think they 253 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.039 compliment each other really well. You get the big body, 254 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.559 possession guy that's a threat in the red zone and 255 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.399 the end zone with Sutton, and then you get a 256 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.919 guy who not only could catch the stuff over the middle, 257 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.159 do the intermediate stuff, but he's got the speed to 258 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.600 be a field flipper as well. So I like the 259 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.320 combination here with these two. That said, Sutton did not 260 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.559 play next to a guy that's going to command as 261 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.960 many targets as Wattle will this year, so it has 262 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.600 to hurt him in a certain regard. How have you 263 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.080 changed what you thought about Sutton as far as what 264 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:53.799 his production's going to look like. Now. 265 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.240 I wasn't super high coming into the year, just another 266 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.559 year older, and even not having Jayla Wattle there, I 267 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.440 felt like that rotation of receivers, you know, Pat Brian 268 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.559 takes a step forward or Franklin takes a step forward, 269 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.720 I think was gonna hurt someton anyway. So the plays 270 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.039 aren't gonna be different. I don't think the reads are 271 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.320 going to be different. Like, I don't think Sutton's role 272 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.320 in this offense changes one bit. Like you said, they 273 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.080 compliment each other. Well, what I think it does for 274 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.480 Wattle that really helps him. I mean, if you watch 275 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.240 the film and I two years ago so it would 276 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.360 have been the twenty four season had a big film 277 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.279 article and draft sharks about Jayla Wattle and just his 278 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.799 role in the Micro Daniel offense was like doing the 279 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.039 hard stuff. They were setting him down the field and 280 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.399 making them run all these routes, and Tyreek Hill was 281 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.639 the slot guy doing the easy stuff getting easy catches. 282 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:45.279 To me, it's like Sean Payton's gonna Sutton's gonna do 283 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:47.519 the hard stuff and this offense and Jayla Wattle is 284 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:49.440 gonna finally for the first time in his career. I 285 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:51.000 feel like, get to do some of the slot and 286 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:55.200 easy work to just get them easy targets. So I think, 287 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.840 you know someting maybe it hurts the target share for sure, 288 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.000 but you know, I don't I wasn't super high on 289 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.519 Courtland Sutton coming into the year to begin with Shane. 290 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.720 If you were in a twenty man FFPC style league, 291 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:09.399 where and maybe this is redraft. You know, you could 292 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.799 talk about a redraft or dynasty and maybe it's a 293 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.120 different answer for either of them. But I don't know. 294 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.879 I'll let you expound on it. Is there a third 295 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.279 wide receiver on this team that you would want at 296 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.759 the back end of your roster or are all those 297 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:28.679 guys nobody sets themselves apart and you're spending your final 298 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.840 few roster spots on other receivers other than Pat Bryant, 299 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:33.039 Marvin Ben's and Troy Franklin. 300 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.960 I actually, like you know, from a redraft perspective, I'm 301 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.600 interested to see where the ADPs kind of settle for them. 302 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:44.120 If it's super low, then I start getting interested because, 303 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.440 like you talked about, I mean, Waddells certainly had his 304 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.679 injury issues. I do think we saw enough of Troy 305 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.120 Franklin to say, this is the player that can have 306 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:55.159 a spike game. So we're talking best ball, then, you know, 307 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.240 I would like to take a shot on Franklin to 308 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.799 fill in that role. I think Pat Bryant, you know 309 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.960 they drafted in top one hundred last year, is kind 310 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.200 of the backup to Courtland Sutton, right, and so you know, 311 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.600 I think when you start looking at number three, number 312 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.919 four receivers on teams. You gave the stats of the 313 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.440 passing numbers for Denver last year, I feel like it's 314 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.799 kind of underrated. People don't expect this to be a 315 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.679 passing volume team, but an injury to one of those 316 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:25.320 top two I think Bryant and Franklin I like sticking 317 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.720 on the end of rosters, and I'll certainly hold maybe 318 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.720 even trade for in Dynasty if the price gets super cheap, 319 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.159 I can, you know, move a third round rookie pick 320 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.120 for one of those guys, A guy who was I. 321 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:39.679 Think mostly a first round back then in the first round, 322 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.120 early second round rookie pick last year. Who's been in 323 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.360 the news is Cam Scattabout On the Rich Eisen Show 324 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.159 this past week, Shane, he said he's fully back to 325 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.639 one hundred percent or he will be fully back to 326 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.440 one hundred percent in just over a month, so he 327 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:58.600 should be participating in OTAs he said. This past Wednesday 328 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:03.519 is when he finally started resuming running after that nasty, 329 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.039 nasty ankle injury last year. He said his speed is 330 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.000 at about seventy five percent as of you know, mid 331 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.080 March is what we're looking at right now. He has 332 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.120 not really exploded when he's been running yet, but he's 333 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.600 focusing on jogging. He's focusing on striding right now, which 334 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:21.240 I guess is kind of what you have to do 335 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.960 and you're coming off a serious ankle injury. Here's what 336 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.919 I want to do. I want to pick your brain 337 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.120 on whether I'm reading too much inside the lines. Cam 338 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.080 Scataboo and Tyrone Tracy were a pretty good tandem last year. 339 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.519 In fact, Skataboo looked like he was a pretty good 340 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:39.279 like potential bellcop on this team last year for a 341 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.600 few weeks. Then he gets hurt, and yet we hear 342 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:47.159 that the Giants are poking around the Kenneth Walker market 343 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.080 before he ultimately signed with the Chiefs, which caught me 344 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.480 off guard. And now I'm hearing, not hearing, I'm not 345 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.000 an insider, but I'm reading other people who are insiders 346 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.559 and hearing from them that they might be in the 347 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:02.440 Jeremiah Love business at the number five pick. Now, maybe 348 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:05.640 Love doesn't get picked there by the Giants, and maybe 349 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.119 obviously Walker is going to be in Kansas City. But 350 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.119 the fact that not only is are the Giants looking 351 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:16.519 to free agency as well as the draft to potentially 352 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.119 get a big time running back. Does this give you 353 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:23.960 pause on how the recovery? How you think the Giants 354 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.640 are treating this recovery and maybe it's not going as 355 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.759 well as we perhaps wanted to and that's why there 356 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.079 in the market here. Or is this simply the Giants 357 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.279 doing their due diligence, doing some homework and trying to 358 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.200 add talented players onto their offense. I haven't made up 359 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.640 my mind on this, but I am skeptical about this 360 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:41.519 Scatabow injury. 361 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.519 As a result, I think you got to be concerned 362 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:49.240 and things kind of pile up here. Matt Schalf, you know, 363 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.440 my coworkover at Draft Sharks had a really great article 364 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.039 last year highlighting how these third day running backs, fourth round, 365 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.799 fifth round picks that kind of break out as rookies 366 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.400 like Scataboo did, like we s solid Tyron, Tracy, Bucky 367 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:04.599 Irving two years ago, how they almost always disappoint year two. 368 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.559 We saw with Tracy, we saw with Bucky Irving. Right, 369 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.960 it just happened last year, and I think I think 370 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:11.839 Skataboo was already at that point where it's like we 371 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.039 should be skeptical as fantasy players. I think one thing 372 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.920 we underrate as fantasy players is that coaching change and 373 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.680 the power structure of NFL teams. John Harbaugh's now in charge. 374 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.039 He has personnel decisions. He has no tie to camp Scattaboo. 375 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.920 He's going to walk into a guy that is had 376 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:32.079 a major, you know, leg injury. Maybe camp Scattaboo gets 377 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.880 up to up the stuff. He has no ties to 378 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.640 either of these players. So we may have looked at 379 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:38.519 Scatum and so, wow, this guy's good. You know, the 380 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:41.279 combo was great, and John Harbaugh is going to come 381 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.839 in and say, when we've really had an dynamic offense 382 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.400 in Baltimore, we had Derrick Henry. I want Derrick Henry, 383 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.000 right like, I want that kind of player, And that 384 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:52.559 seems to be the way. And I think looking at 385 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:55.039 how these free agent contracts lined up. You mentioned Walker 386 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.920 to the Chiefs, Travis Etn signs with the Saints. It 387 00:18:58.119 --> 00:18:59.920 looks to me like those are two teams that were 388 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.200 in that Jeremiah Love market that signed big time running 389 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.160 backs because they knew Jeremiah Love wasn't gonna be there. 390 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:07.200 So that to me, that says he's going four to 391 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:09.440 the Titans or five to the Giants. I mean, that's 392 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.640 that's where he's gonna go, maybe worst case to the Commanders. 393 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:16.960 So uh, you know, I think we really is time 394 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.440 and dynasty to try to move scat of it before 395 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.799 something happens. There's so many possibilities of bad things that 396 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.960 can happen. Report that he's set back with the injury, 397 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.319 or they draft Love, or they draft a running back 398 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:31.279 even Day two or even another fourth round run. You know, 399 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.839 any of that, he's gonna lose value. You almost have 400 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.400 to sell out now. And I'd be really skeptical to 401 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.920 take Scatubu and redraft until we know what this situation 402 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:40.440 looks like. 403 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:42.319 If I was to ask you to put it on 404 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.880 wax right now here on March nineteenth, Jeremiah loves destination. 405 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:48.680 If I narrow it down to the three teams you 406 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.440 just brought up Titans, Giants, Commanders. What do you think 407 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.599 the percentage chance is in your mind that he ends 408 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.960 up with, you know, each of those teams. 409 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:03.359 I'm gonna say I'll leave. Let's say I'll say thirty 410 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:11.160 percent Titans, thirty percent Giants, and let's say twenty five, 411 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.519 maybe twenty percent Commanders will leave twenty percent for someone 412 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:16.640 to trade up, something. 413 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.160 Else to happen, right, Yeah, I thought it was interesting. 414 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.480 You mentioned it too, when when Walker went to the Chiefs, 415 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.559 when eight Chan went to the Saints, when you had 416 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:31.920 you know, the commanders kind of didn't do anything, but 417 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.799 then all of a sudden, they just started collecting all 418 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.920 these running backs with you know, Jerome Ford, Rashad White, 419 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.920 and I feel like there's another one I'm missing. I 420 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.480 feel like they got like three or four guys in 421 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.279 there right now, which to me, and they let Chris 422 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.160 Rodriguez go too, So to me, that was kind of 423 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:48.440 like the commanders. I think can see the writing on 424 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.359 the wall a little bit as well, that Listen Love 425 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:53.960 is probably going for. I thought I was saying Titans 426 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.920 this whole time, but now with this Giant stuff, I 427 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:59.480 don't know, maybe there's a decent chance that the Giants 428 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:02.759 take him there, And you know what better way to 429 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:06.720 have your offense going in the right direction with Likely 430 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.880 and Theo Johnson at tight end, with Malik Neighbors on 431 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:15.079 the perimeter, with Jackson Dart under center, and with Jeremiah 432 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.519 Love and your backfield, if you can make it happen. Now, 433 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:20.440 the next thing I want to lead into on this 434 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.359 is Malik Neighbors. Here's how I want to frame it. 435 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.759 Darnell Mooney signs a one year, ten million dollar deal 436 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.160 with the Giants. They also signed Calvin Austin. They also 437 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.400 they let Wandelle Robinson go to the Titans, but they 438 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.799 also extended Darius Slayton to keep him under contract for 439 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.559 another two years. Now, I know they need pass catchers, right, 440 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.880 which makes perfect sense that you would add these guys. 441 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.680 But the skeptic in me also wonders, we're not hearing 442 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:55.160 super positive praise and reporting coming out about Malik neighbors 443 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:58.359 knee injury recovery. I'm a little bit nervous about that. 444 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:00.559 And then when I see the Giants in all these 445 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.079 pass catchers, including Isaiah Likely, my spider sense kind of 446 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.400 goes up a little bit and Shane. I don't know 447 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:08.720 if this is something where you take ninety cents on 448 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:11.960 the dollar for neighbors, but definitely in redraft leagues. I'm 449 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.200 kind of thinking, you know, with all the talent where 450 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:16.680 neighbors is going in drafts right now, maybe I'm better 451 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:19.240 off picking somebody else. I think Matt Schoff was actually 452 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.720 talking about this on the last Draft Sharks podcast, where like, 453 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.799 it kind of makes sense to it, kind of makes 454 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.440 sense to fade neighbors a little bit, and Jared Smaller 455 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.279 might have been saying the same thing, makes sense to 456 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:36.240 fade neighbors a little bit considering where he's going and 457 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:39.000 who else is going around him in redraft leagues because 458 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:41.359 we just don't know about this, and it's been very 459 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.839 nebulous stuff, you know, reporting from the Giants beat writers 460 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:47.759 coming out or lack of reporting coming out from Giants 461 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.359 beat writers about how this recovery is going for neighbors. 462 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:52.319 I don't know, man, I'm getting a little bit nervous 463 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.799 about neighbors for twenty twenty six. 464 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:00.440 I'm nervous too. I'm with Matt, and there's no reason 465 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.559 to take that risk with where the ADP's at right 466 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.160 now and draft Sharks. We have the league Neighbors wide 467 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.039 receiver thirteen in PPR and he's going top ten. Still, 468 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:14.200 just the players around him that Drake London's, the Nico 469 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.160 Collins just feel like they have similar upsides with not 470 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.319 the long term injury downside that could be happening to Neighbors. 471 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:25.839 It just doesn't make sense until, you know, until we 472 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:29.599 have maybe another report and that ADP drops more. You know, 473 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:32.599 But like this, this offense for the Giants to me, 474 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:37.519 looks like Harbaugh's offense in Baltimore. Right, you got the 475 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:40.359 one receiver. If they draft an elite running back, they 476 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:43.119 have the rushing quarterback, and then a bunch of you know, 477 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.799 pieces like Mooney and Austin Slayton, deep guys and kind 478 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:50.400 of you know, these these guys on the on the periphery. 479 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:54.480 But it wouldn't surprise me. There's just no reason to 480 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.880 rush Neighbors back if there's any issue. I'm not touching 481 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.359 him in redraft at this moment. 482 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:04.839 Yeah, and I'm not saying I'm totally often because there's 483 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:07.319 a chance that he could come down to a price 484 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.200 where I'm comfortable taking a chance because of the upside. 485 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:13.079 But right now, as I look at Fantasymojo dot com. 486 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:16.480 Darren URMANI who puts together the processus Joe's competition every year. 487 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.039 This is his website at Fantasy Mojo on x. If 488 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:21.200 you're playing in the FFPC, not only should you have 489 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.799 a Draft Shark subscription, should have a subscription of Fantasy 490 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:25.680 Mojo as well. As I look at the Never Too 491 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:30.279 Early Best Ball Tournament ADP, Neighbors has fallen Shane. He's 492 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.960 going at the two ten right now. This is over 493 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:36.839 the course of the last week for the ADP that 494 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.599 I'm looking at, so more than a half dozen drafts 495 00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:42.880 here in the books. Neighbors Wide Receiver eight, he's fallen 496 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.960 behind Ceedee Lamb, Justin Jefferson, and Drake London. He is 497 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:50.640 still going ahead of Nico Collins, George Pickens, Rashie Rice, 498 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.440 and Chris o'lobby, and quite frankly, there's some warts on 499 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:55.359 all four of those guys as well. But I do 500 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.279 think that that's we're getting sorted to an area right 501 00:24:58.359 --> 00:25:01.200 now where I still think I'm I'm picking those other guys, 502 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:03.200 but I think you can make a much stronger case 503 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:06.799 for taking Neighbors over those four rather than Neighbors over 504 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.839 you know, London Lamb and whoever. 505 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.240 The other one is justin Jefferson. Yeah, yeah, he's. 506 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:14.000 Calling a little bit not quite there yet. 507 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:17.240 For me though, No, not quite there yet. I'm with you. 508 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.480 I would take Pickens, Rice Lave, maybe even bet On 509 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.319 an AJ Brown and just the upside of a new 510 00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:28.720 situation for him over neighbors, you know, factoring in that risk. 511 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:31.000 I think the ceiling for neighbors is a top five 512 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:33.960 receiver in the league. But there's no reason to take 513 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:37.000 that chance, especially on an offense that I don't think 514 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:39.240 the Giants are gonna suddenly turn into a top five 515 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:42.319 NFL passing you know, fantasy passing game. I don't think 516 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.799 that's gonna happen. So there's still enough downside for me 517 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:46.880 to take those other players. 518 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.519 If I were to ask you, well, let's let's do this. 519 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:51.599 Let's see how far you'd fade them. You tell me, 520 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.000 I'm not. I'm just gonna go right down the ADP 521 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:57.240 list here. Tell me if you take neighbors over these guys, 522 00:25:57.359 --> 00:25:59.559 Teoroa McMillan, neighbors are McMullen. 523 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:01.160 I'd take neighbors. 524 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:04.839 Neighbors. We already talked about a J. Brown neighbors or 525 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:05.519 T Higgins. 526 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:12.759 That's close. I lean T Higgins, but it's it's neck and. 527 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:16.720 Neck for me, and then neighbors. Garrett Wilson, I'll. 528 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.160 Take neighbors over whatever the Jets are thrown on the field. 529 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.200 Yeah, we get into the McCarthy's, the Flowers and the Davanta's. 530 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.359 DeVonta Smith is is actually interesting. I don't think I'd 531 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:29.440 do it, because you could. You could get Neighbors and 532 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:32.559 Smith if you wanted. But the great thing about drafting 533 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.440 Smith right now, and I've been saying this the last 534 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.400 few weeks, the great thing about drafting him is if 535 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.960 you draft him in the fifth round, which is where 536 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:41.920 he's going in the Never Too Early Best Ball Tournament 537 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.519 at wide receiver nineteen, great, he's gonna pay that off. 538 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:48.240 But if Brown gets moved and the Eagles sign, you know, 539 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:50.400 a lesser player to take his place, and are trotting 540 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:53.200 out a three wide receiver set of DeVonta Smith, whatever 541 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:56.880 receiver they're gonna get, you know, like Diggs or Juwan 542 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.720 Jennings or somebody like that, and then Hollywood, all of 543 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.960 a sudden, Smith looks a lot better than a fifth 544 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:06.039 round pick. So that's a great thing about drafting Devon 545 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.920 to Smith right now, all right, I want to move 546 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.240 on here, unless you had another point. 547 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:12.000 No, no, no, I know we're good. 548 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:16.799 Let's go down to Tampa, Shane, because Tampa has had 549 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:20.400 a bunch of busy little bees going on in their backfield. 550 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.680 They let Rashon White go, who ultimately signed with Washington. 551 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.480 Kenneth Gainwell is now a part of the team, and 552 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:31.519 they also chose to bring back Sean Tucker after it 553 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:33.720 was reported earlier that they weren't going to tender him. 554 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:35.799 They ended up tendering him, so he's part of that 555 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:39.960 backfield as well. Gainwell gets a two year, fourteen million 556 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:42.519 dollar contract. This is coming off a year where he 557 00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.680 caught seventy plus passes for just under five hundred yards 558 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.160 and got in the end zone three times via the 559 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.480 air as well. I look at Gainwell and what he 560 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:55.200 does in the passing game, and I can't help but 561 00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:57.720 think that that is a hit to Bucky Irving. I 562 00:27:57.880 --> 00:27:59.960 look at and you could probably tell me a little 563 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.519 bit better the prospect that Sean Tucker would have been 564 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.440 had they not found this heart condition or whatever at 565 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.319 the combine when he went undrafted. This is a player 566 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.920 that had the chops coming out of Syracuse if I 567 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:16.559 remember correctly, and now he's in the backfield. All this considered, 568 00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:19.640 you know, this is not really Bucky Irving's doing, but 569 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:23.519 because of what they have in the backfield and the 570 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.039 fact that they're paying game well seven million a year now, 571 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:29.680 I don't know, man like for what you have to 572 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:31.759 pay to get Bucky Irving. I'm looking up his ADP 573 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.400 right now. He is going as running back. He's falling 574 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.599 the running back eighteen. So he's in the fourth round. 575 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.599 So maybe that's a little bit more patable palatable. He's 576 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.440 actually going right ahead of Skataboo right now. But I'm 577 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:46.359 a little bit down on Irving, maybe not as much 578 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:47.960 as I thought I was now that he's a fourth 579 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.319 round pick. But I don't know what your take is 580 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.599 on this backfield, specifically the impact of Gainwell and Tucker 581 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:54.839 on Bucky Irving this year. 582 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.880 It's interesting because Bucky Irving, if you look at some 583 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.319 of the advanced receivers metrics, was actually pretty efficient as 584 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:05.119 a receiver, did well as a receiver, and so to 585 00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:08.599 add a guy like Kenneth Gainwell, who you know, when 586 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.400 he was in Philly, Kenneth Ganell was a prospect. I 587 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:14.200 was like, this is a really good pass catching running back, 588 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.599 and then Philly drafts him. They don't use him in 589 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.480 the passing game whatsoever, and I'm like, oh, that's a problem. 590 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.200 Right Then last year we see maybe what the upside is. 591 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:24.039 I don't think he's as bad of a pass catcher 592 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:25.559 as he was in Philly. I don't think he's as 593 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.440 good as we saw in Pittsburgh. But I do like 594 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.759 Gainwell in that Rashad White role. And I think Gainwell 595 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.759 is a better rusher than Rashad White was, So you 596 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.319 have more leeway to have Gainwell on the field, you know, 597 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.559 be a pass blocker, be able to take some carries, 598 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:45.839 be able to take some of these catches. So I agree. 599 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:50.599 I think for me, Bucky Irving RB eighteen is fine. 600 00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.559 Probably maybe I still probably wouldn't take him. There is 601 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:55.880 still probably some running backs that I you know, I'll 602 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.400 take the DeAndre Swifts and Karen Williams and Javonte's those 603 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.240 kind of guys over Bucky. But it's probably around the wheelhouse. 604 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.279 You just can't expect a Bell Cow role. I'm not 605 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.359 a Sean Tucker guy. I got cut a lot of 606 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:12.799 flak last year after his big game. I put out 607 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.720 an article on Draft Sharks going over his film, and 608 00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:19.359 you know just that he really wasn't as great as 609 00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:22.720 the numbers indicated. But you know he's still gonna get 610 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:25.799 on the field. He's talented enough, like you said, having 611 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:28.319 that the hard issue coming out of college made him 612 00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:30.039 fall in the draft. He probably would have been around 613 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.480 for pick had he not had that issue, maybe snuck 614 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.000 in around three. I certainly had some of the explosive tendencies, 615 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:39.960 has some of the acceleration that works for him when 616 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:42.720 the blocking's there. He's gonna get on the field too. 617 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:45.160 And I think we're seeing a lot of run games 618 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.839 that are gonna be kind of three different players, and 619 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:49.960 that you know that hurts everyone. It hurts us for fantasy. 620 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:53.000 So yeah, Bucky a little down on him. I think 621 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.200 Gainwell I'm interested to see where he kind of settles. 622 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.720 He might be the one that's worth targeting in this 623 00:30:58.839 --> 00:30:59.920 backfield for the value. 624 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:01.720 So I'll just tell you right now, as far as 625 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.559 Gainwell's value goes in the Never Too Early Best Ball Tournament, 626 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.759 I'm looking at Kenneth Gainwell as a Oh why can 627 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:10.839 I find him. Here we go running back thirty six 628 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.160 at the nine to ten turn. This is Blake Krum JK. Dobbins, 629 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:19.400 joan of Coleman Territory. That's where Gainwell's going, curiously. One 630 00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:23.640 final point on Irving going not right underneath him, but 631 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:26.559 fairly close to him. Both of the Ohio State rookies 632 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.440 from last year, Quinn, Shawn Judkins, Trevian Henderson. Would you 633 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:31.880 take either of those guys over Irving right now, Shane. 634 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.519 I wouldn't. I think I think it's close. I think 635 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:39.960 the upside of Henderson is probably higher than Bucky Irving, 636 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.920 but just the reminder Stevenson effect we saw late in 637 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.160 the year, I think the downside is too much for me. 638 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:50.039 I think Judkins on with a revamped worst offensive line 639 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.839 that just doesn't interest me as he's not catching passes. 640 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:55.480 I think at least Irving will have a little bit 641 00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.039 of an effect there. But I'll take Irving over those two. 642 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.400 I want to move on and talk about Romeo Dobbs, 643 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.759 who inked a four year, seventy million dollars deal with 644 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:10.279 the defending AFC champion New England Patriots. Chad Graff, who 645 00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:13.759 covers the Patriots for the Athletics stated that he's largely 646 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.880 going to take over the role that Stefan Diggs played 647 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:21.079 last year for this Patriots team. Diggs didley in New 648 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.319 England in target share last year with twenty percent, did 649 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:26.640 get over a thousand yards receiving, and he got into 650 00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:30.279 the end zone four times. Graft said, quote, Dobbs can 651 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.079 play on the outside. He can make up for a 652 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:34.480 lot of the production over the middle that Stefan Diggs 653 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:37.559 brought last season. He should help the offense's red zone woes. 654 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.839 He can pull down deep balls, which may thrives at now. 655 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.400 If you go back to last season when Dobbs was 656 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:46.880 with the Packers, five N zone targets, seventeen inside the 657 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:49.920 twenty targets, I do remember, as a Packers fan, a 658 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.119 Packers honk, that he was a guy that Jordan Love 659 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:56.599 looked to quite a bit inside the ten, inside the five, 660 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:00.440 and I would imagine that that would be the case 661 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.039 with Dobbs again. If New England stands pat which is 662 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.440 the million dollar question, Shane, certainly, I think New England 663 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:10.599 is more than willing to go to battle with what 664 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.920 they have in that wide receiver room right now. But 665 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.359 I got to believe the wheels are turning h that 666 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:18.359 they're they're that they're still working on this Aj Brown trade. 667 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:21.960 You still have Deebo Samuel Juwan Jennings out there in 668 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.440 free agency if they want to add another piece there, 669 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:28.200 or they could simply draft a receiver in the second 670 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.400 round too, or maybe even the late first round. I 671 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.240 don't know what they're what what they're thinking is, but 672 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:36.039 this all reflects on you know, all these kind of 673 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:40.039 like question marks with a lot of people, a lot 674 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:42.279 of pundits believing the wide receiver room in New England 675 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.400 is still a work in process. So how do we 676 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:47.680 handle Romeo Dobbs right now? Would you consider if you 677 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:49.880 want to invest in him in the Never too Early 678 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:53.480 best FFPC Bestball Tournament? It is an eleventh round pick, 679 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:56.559 He's going as wide receiver forty seven. Does that seem 680 00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:59.519 palatable to you? Does that seem like a target for you? Shane? 681 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.279 How do we handle Romeo Dobbs knowing that his role 682 00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:06.279 as it stands in mid March could be very different 683 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.559 than what it is in early September. 684 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:12.480 I think the ADP is palatable to me, Like you said, 685 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.519 I think the eleventh round is not enough risk that 686 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.679 if they do the Pagriots do trade for AJ Brown 687 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:24.360 or draft another receiver that you're you're losing out. You know, 688 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:28.360 you could probably tell me Bulky if you agree. But 689 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.519 you know, watching Romeo Dobbs, I think, I think he's 690 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.199 a really good NFL player, But I don't see a 691 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.440 target hog that's going to be, you know, the number 692 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.719 one for a team and turn into this, you know, 693 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:41.719 top guy that's going to get a ton of targets. 694 00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:43.920 You know, yeah, you can target him in the red 695 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.880 zone or to help you get down the field. I 696 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:47.719 think I think he's good at those jump balls, could 697 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:50.400 test the catches. But when I watch Dobbs, I don't 698 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.239 see a player that's gaining separation every play and and 699 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.239 running all these different you know, route combinations. It feels 700 00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.920 a lot like Green Bay, where there's gonna be a 701 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.760 lot of options for the Patriots even if they don't, 702 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:05.400 you know, just add a free agent instead of trading 703 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.639 for ay J. Brown that Drake May's gonna spread the 704 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.880 ball around. Kishon Boudi is still gonna get his. They're 705 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:13.119 still gonna want to filter in Kyle Williams onto the 706 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.559 field and have some deep shots. You know, Dobbas I 707 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.360 think will be a fine best ball selection in the 708 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.480 eleventh round, but if he starts creeping up higher than 709 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.519 I'm probably out. And can we please not let the 710 00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:27.320 Patriots draft the receiver anymore? Can we just like ban 711 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:31.159 them from drafting just to just check bus next to 712 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:33.280 the name if if they do it, like trade for 713 00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.320 a J. Brown please so you know that you have 714 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:36.159 a guy that can play. 715 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.119 I think Bill Belichick even said as much. I don't 716 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:41.440 know if he's said it like actually out loud, but 717 00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:43.639 he said something to the fact of, like, we really 718 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.880 struggle to evaluate rookie wider series, so it's just easier 719 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.280 for us to you know, sign Stefan Diggs or trade 720 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.039 for Randy Moss or whatever it was. And quite frankly, 721 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:57.599 that worked out pretty nicely for him. Over the years, 722 00:35:58.400 --> 00:35:59.960 they have not had a whole lot of hits there, 723 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:04.559 with Jalen Polk and Nikhil Harry coming to mind, and 724 00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:06.239 got it feel like I got to scrape off my 725 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:11.480 tongue after saying those just awful stuff. Yeah, so, Dobbs, 726 00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:14.840 I think for me, he's almost a target in the 727 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.400 eleventh round because the value is so good and the upside. 728 00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:21.599 It's not like traditional fantasy upside. I look at the 729 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:23.800 upside that you have with Dobbs is if they don't 730 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:26.719 sign anybody else. This is a guy that's gonna threaten 731 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:29.199 to get a thousand yards like Diggs did last year. 732 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.239 He's a guy that I think does a lot of 733 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:33.159 things very well. 734 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.159 I'm with you. 735 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:35.960 I don't think he's ever the type of guy that's 736 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.440 gonna get like one hundred and thirty targets and just 737 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:41.440 be the alpha for a team. I know Washington was 738 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:46.360 looking at him being the one b to Terry McLaurin, 739 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.280 and ultimately New England paid more money for Dobbs, so 740 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:51.480 and I think we follow the money there a little bit. 741 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.159 I do think we see a spike in production from 742 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:58.079 Dobbs based on what he was doing with Green Bays, 743 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.639 fighting for targets from Watson and Tucker Craft. You know, 744 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.400 two dynamic players there, and I don't I know, he's 745 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.079 still fighting for competent tiger competition in New England, but 746 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.119 I don't think it's as fears. So I do think 747 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:11.800 we see a step up for him and the eleventh round, man, 748 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:13.840 I'm with you, like this, this is this is the 749 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.719 spot where you probably gotta grab him. Speaking of the Commanders, 750 00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:23.239 Bucky Eccually not Bucky Irving. Rashad White has left Bucky 751 00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.679 Irving in Tampa to sign with the Washington Commanders. It 752 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:29.880 is a one year deal. I think it was only 753 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.000 for like two million bucks or something like that. It 754 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:38.199 was not a significant investment. We all talk, not we all, 755 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:41.480 but plenty of people have been talking about potentially Brandon 756 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:45.079 Iuk and Jaden Daniels reuniting in our nation's capital because 757 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:48.719 they were teammates with Arizona for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Well, 758 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.800 Rashad White was a teammate of Jaden Daniels in Arizona 759 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.280 State as well, and now they are back together again. 760 00:37:54.679 --> 00:38:00.280 Forty two carries eight catches in twenty twenty for Arizona State, 761 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.800 and then certainly in twenty twenty one took a massive 762 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.760 step forward both rushing and catching the ball. One hundred 763 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:11.280 and eighty two carries forty three catches. The Commanders are 764 00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:14.360 collecting running backs. I mentioned your own fordger Cory Krofsky 765 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.039 merrit Obviously they're still as well. I don't know if 766 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:21.480 if this is a situation, Shane, where we should target 767 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.679 White because he's probably the biggest fish in a small 768 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.840 pond there, right, Or do we just kind of fade 769 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.280 the Commanders in general, because this is gonna be crazy, 770 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.599 mash them ups, mix them ups with the depth chart 771 00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:36.519 on a week to week basis, and we're never going 772 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.199 to know the right guy to go with. Certainly, you 773 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:40.920 don't have to pay up for any of these guys, 774 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.880 but if you could let me know who the Commander's 775 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.400 running back is to have on your fantasy team this year, 776 00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:48.199 I certainly welcome that knowledge. 777 00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.239 Like I think it's easy, right, Jane Daniels's that's the 778 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:54.639 running back for the Commanders I want on my team, right? 779 00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:57.840 I mean I don't know, that's what it says to me, 780 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.599 Like he's Jane Daniels is going to be the RB 781 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:03.440 one and everyone else gets to pick up the scraps. 782 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:03.760 Now. 783 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:06.760 I traded for a lot of Rashad White in Dynasty 784 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:10.480 because I thought the NFL would really like his pass blocking. 785 00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:12.199 I think he's one of the best pass blocking backs 786 00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:14.960 in the league and one of the best pass catching backs. 787 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:18.000 He can't run worth a lick, but you know, those 788 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.000 those two things are enough to get you on the 789 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.800 field on those third downs and those key situations. So 790 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:26.559 I think White is probably the biggest target for me, 791 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:28.679 you know, if I have to pick one of these 792 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.800 guys out of a hat. Yeah, the Commanders still could 793 00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:33.599 add a running back. We talked about love, but even 794 00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:37.119 day two, I think they have a shot to draft one. 795 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:40.400 You know, the Jerome Ford contract, the Rashad White contract 796 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.119 are not guys they have to lock in. Jakoy Krofsky. 797 00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:47.719 Merritt probably is the big winner from this free agency 798 00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:50.960 that they we didn't get Travis a Chan which I 799 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.880 said incorrectly last time. It was my first time trying 800 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.239 that since since the announcement, But you know, because he 801 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.199 didn't get that eb Jacory Krasky, Merrick gets another shot 802 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:05.400 to be kind of the lead, you know, first two 803 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.559 down running back if they don't draft another one. But 804 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.760 I like Rashad White in PPR leagues just from a 805 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:15.480 past catching perspective. I think for Jane Daniels, you have 806 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.239 the experience with him, you know he's gonna block well 807 00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:21.599 for you. I think that veteran kind of leadership to 808 00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.800 have on the field, even if White's a little bit 809 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.079 inefficient as a runner, might win out and despite the contract. 810 00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.199 You know, the other guy said at the top that 811 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.880 there was one other running back I'm forgetting that they signed. 812 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.119 They resigned Jeremy McNichols, who I believe is the rare 813 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.840 running back in Washington that just has a permanent locker 814 00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:41.079 in that locker room. I don't think they like even 815 00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.039 when they release him or he's a free agent, he's 816 00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:44.599 free to sign with anybody else, they just keep his 817 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.559 locker there. So McNichols is there as well, or perhaps 818 00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:51.360 sham they gave McNichols the locker that used to belong 819 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.320 to Chris Rodriguez Junior, who is taking his talents from 820 00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.400 DC to duvall As. Liam Cohen would say, point two 821 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.159 million dollars in fully guaranteed money on this contract. Now, 822 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.599 let's unpack this a little bit. Four million dollars signing ponents. 823 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.719 So obviously you know that that he's not just going 824 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.599 to be a guy on this team. They want to 825 00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.800 be able to utilize him. When I found out that 826 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.239 a Chan had moved from Jacksonville over to New Orleans, 827 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.880 immediately wheels up bashall toot. They believe in Tuton they 828 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.679 want to let him go this year. He was hyped up, 829 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:28.480 talked about by a lot of pundits last year as 830 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.559 a guy that maybe could even have taken the backfield 831 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:33.280 away from a Chan and twenty twenty five that now 832 00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:36.360 that didn't happen, but there's a lot of people at 833 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.159 least allowing for the possibility for that. So now obviously 834 00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:41.920 that a Chan moves on and you have Tuton here, 835 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.639 we should be doing everything in our power. And I'm 836 00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:48.760 saying we as in me, this is my reaction, we 837 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:51.039 should be doing everything in our power. I'm going through 838 00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:53.199 my dynasty league, Shane. I'm saying, Okay, which leagues do 839 00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:54.480 I have Tuton on? This is great. It's like a 840 00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:56.320 free running back. It's like a free starting running back. 841 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:59.440 And then I started thinking about it more rationally. Chris 842 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.800 rod rea Is played college football at Kentucky when Liam 843 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:07.920 Cohen was there. Rodriguez left a situation in Washington where 844 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.119 they were bereft and he could have been the lead 845 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.280 guy there potentially, and maybe they didn't want him back. 846 00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:16.400 I don't know, but he leaves to go sign with Jacksonville. 847 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:20.800 James Gladstone quote from him, the GM from Jacksonville. What 848 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:22.840 he'll able to, what he'll be able to do is 849 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.519 provide the complimentary skill set, in particular when it comes 850 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.360 to the inside running, the hidden yards that come with 851 00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:30.960 his style of play. You know, the tough demeanor. You know, 852 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:33.400 that's a real thing, and when given a higher workload, 853 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:35.360 it can wear out those that have to stop it 854 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:39.840 from going forward. He also mentioned something about Rodriguez having 855 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:42.639 superpowers or being a superhero. I don't know what they're 856 00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.480 doing in Jacksonville, but some of the press conferences with 857 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:50.480 Gladstone and Cohen have been nothing short of amazing. But Rodriguez, now, dude, 858 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.079 I'm looking at this. I'm almost thinking like I might 859 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:55.679 be going one to eighty. Like I think Rodriguez might 860 00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.199 be the guy I want at least a redraft this year. 861 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:04.079 If I could share with you, Chris Rodriguez running back 862 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:08.039 fifty three at the fifteen to oh four Bacial Tuton 863 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:12.239 right now is going as running back twenty four at 864 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.880 the five h nine. To me, it's not close. If 865 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:16.920 I have to pick the better value of those two, 866 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:20.119 it's unequivocally Rodriguez unless I'm missing something. 867 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:24.199 No, I mean, I think value wise, right now, Rodriguez 868 00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:27.199 is the guy that you want, because that contract locks 869 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.719 him into a roster spot, He's gonna get some work. 870 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:33.239 I you know, I was a big Basil Tuton fan 871 00:43:33.639 --> 00:43:36.599 last year. I think we talked about him thoroughly on 872 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:40.280 the show last year. I think in this this rookie class, 873 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.519 he'd be a top five running back pretty easily, maybe 874 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.079 even top three running back in this rookie class. 875 00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:48.920 Do you think, Shane, do you think he'd be the defect? Like, 876 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:51.599 would he be like the the the number two running 877 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:53.239 back in this class? Like, do you think that's how 878 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.320 people would be treating him? 879 00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:56.320 I think it'd be. 880 00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:56.639 Yeah. 881 00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:58.400 I think he'd be right there with you Darien Price, like, 882 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.559 I think they're probably the top, you know, and Jonah Coleman. 883 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.159 I probably lean Tooton over Coleman and maybe Price over Tuton. 884 00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.679 Like I think as a prospect, the probably close. So 885 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:11.880 and you know, in Gladstone talked him up before you 886 00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:13.880 even got the job, right, That's part of his interview was, Hey, 887 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.679 Basil Tuten's the guy want to draft. So But I 888 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:20.480 think the positive for Tutin out of this is the 889 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:23.719 Jaguars can't draft a running back to make the roster, right. 890 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:26.480 Roriguez isn't getting cut Tuton's not getting cut and I 891 00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:28.639 don't think you can put la Quinn Allen on a 892 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.079 practice squad without him getting picked up. I think they 893 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:33.239 like his past catching skills. Like I think this is 894 00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:35.719 the unit and it's going to be a three headed monster. 895 00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:38.840 I'm with you, I think value wise, like I'll take 896 00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.320 the shot on Rodriguez that late RB fifty three all day. 897 00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.880 It could be a touchdown thing. With his experience with Cohen, 898 00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:50.400 he knows the offense. I think all that works out. 899 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:52.320 It's just hard for me to see a player who 900 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.039 was inactive on the Commanders who they're terrible running back room. 901 00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.920 I mean, couldn't crack it until injuries happened. Now is 902 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:03.239 there's a lead back, and like that jump to me 903 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:07.519 is a lot just the explosion. Isn't there for Rodriguez 904 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.119 to be. I think a consistent three down running back. 905 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:13.519 You know he breaks tackles well, But when you're you know, 906 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.239 smacking into the defenders every time, you're gonna you're gonna 907 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.880 break some tackles. You know you're you're a big guy. 908 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.480 So I think Tutan's gonna be the lead back. I 909 00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.039 think Rodriguez will get a lot of the short yardage work, 910 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:28.079 maybe get Snake those touchdowns and us to managers will 911 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.039 all get mad. I think Luken Allen will do some 912 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.679 of the past catching work and we'll be frustrated by 913 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:33.679 the backfield for sure. 914 00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.880 So the Rodriguez signing, does that have you shying away 915 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:40.239 from Tuton in the late fifth round? 916 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:46.400 Now, I'm still interested. I think if Tutan would get higher, no, 917 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.679 but right now before the draft, I'm interested because I 918 00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.280 do think Tuton's value will increase when they don't draft 919 00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:56.400 another running back. I think people start to creep them 920 00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:58.320 into the fourth and see the upside. You know how 921 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:01.239 that goes. Sometimes I think you're still little trepidation, and 922 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.400 I think the contract in situation means like these are 923 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:06.679 the three And if that's the case, then I still 924 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.920 like Tutin. If he, you know, shows that full hour, 925 00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:11.840 well rounded skill set, I think it'll be tough to 926 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:12.840 take him off the field. 927 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.760 I know I'll be watching with Ernest to see, not 928 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:18.840 necessarily what the Jaguars are going to do in the draft, 929 00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:20.920 because I'm with you, I don't think they draft anybody. 930 00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.400 Free agency has been pick clean. What I'll be watching 931 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.559 for is how this ADP shakes out. In early May. 932 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.920 Once we kind of know, like unequivvocally, this is how 933 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:31.559 it's going to be. And if you want to get 934 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:34.559 ahead of it right now, take advantage of drafting too, 935 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.480 and take advantage of drafting Rodriguez right now in the 936 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.159 FFPC never two early Best Ball Tournament viewers. That's a 937 00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:44.719 shameless plug. The Minnesota Vikings have inked Kyler Murray to 938 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:48.159 a one year deal. Tom Pellisero from the NFL Network 939 00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:53.320 has reported that the Arizona Cardinals are paying thirty I believe, 940 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:56.039 what was it, thirty five million, and then one point 941 00:46:56.039 --> 00:47:00.440 eight million is being paid by the Vikings. So what's 942 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:05.199 wild to me is is the hate for Kyler Murray. 943 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.920 Shane every I mean, everybody and their mother is just 944 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:11.280 like that this guy is. I mean, it's like like 945 00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:14.039 Will Levis stuff, Like we're we're saying stuff about Will 946 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.920 Will Levis, Like these these slurs that we are being 947 00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:19.599 hurled at Kyler Murray right now, we're the same stuff 948 00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:21.159 that people were saying about Levis and some of the 949 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.239 and Josh Rosen and I don't think he's at that level. 950 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:28.320 And now he gets into a situation in Minnesota where 951 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:32.320 he's throwing to Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ. Hockins, and 952 00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:35.400 Aaron Jones and and certainly we'll see what they do 953 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.639 in the draft. They gotta replace Jalen Naylor. I think 954 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:41.400 this is a good situation for Murray. And you do have, 955 00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:46.840 I believe, a pretty talented coach there who has worked 956 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:51.039 wonders with sort of rehabbing these these veteran young veteran 957 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.480 quarterbacks and and and squeezing more goodness out of them. 958 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:58.199 I couldn't do it with McCarthy, but I'm not gonna 959 00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.280 hold that against him, given what he's been able to 960 00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:03.320 do with, you know, Donald and some of these other 961 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.599 guys that had no been Nick Mullins and these other 962 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:08.440 guys that had no business being under center in the NFL. 963 00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:11.039 I'm kind of in on Kyler Murray when you consider 964 00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:14.679 that he still has his legs under him, he's still fresh, 965 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:18.440 he's still young. He's going to use those two his advantage. 966 00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:20.599 I think Minnesota's offensive line has gotten a little bit 967 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:24.599 better here this year, at least healthier for twenty twenty six. 968 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:27.960 I don't know. I think Murray is, as Matthew Berry 969 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:29.800 would say, the hate has gone too far. On him. 970 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:32.559 I think people need to start waking up and understanding 971 00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:36.039 that Murray might be maybe not the greatest NFL quarterback, 972 00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:37.840 but there's some fantasy goodness to mine here. 973 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.320 It's just funny to me because if he was a 974 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:42.880 late first round pick instead of the number one overall pick, 975 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.159 I think people would love Kyler Murray right like they 976 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.320 have people be like, wow, you know so much better 977 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.920 than we thought. I'm on board. Draft Sharks is on board. 978 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.960 We have his QB fifteen. I think he's a potential 979 00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:56.960 league win. I think his potential league winner. This is 980 00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.599 the guy outside of last season, was the top ten 981 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.199 fantasy quarterback points per game every single year of his 982 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:07.280 career except last last year. And like you said, weapons 983 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.079 are better best he's had, you know, just about a 984 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:13.000 system best he's had. If he wins that job, I 985 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:16.280 think that's the only downside is you think, well, maybe 986 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:19.119 they stick with JJ McCarthy. I don't think they would 987 00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:20.719 have made this signing out of the Carson Wentz is 988 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:23.360 winning the job, Like yeah, this is kind of a 989 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:26.679 Russell Wilson Steelers situation where you don't have to pay 990 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:29.320 him anything, but you're getting you know, the quarterback that 991 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:31.679 you plan on starting for for almost nothing, and you 992 00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:35.840 can let McCarthy sit. I'm in the rushing for fantasy 993 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.480 is just is so good. I think he's gonna be 994 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:40.760 able to get the ball Justin Jefferson a lot better 995 00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:43.280 than we saw JJ McCarthy last year. I'm in a 996 00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:43.880 Kyler Murray. 997 00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:48.800 There is a glut of quarterbacks going from quarterbacks seventeen 998 00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:52.159 to quarterback twenty one, including Murray. In this I'm gonna 999 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.119 read off the other quarterbacks in here. You tell me 1000 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:56.840 if you would draft any of these guys over Murray. 1001 00:49:56.920 --> 00:50:01.079 And those four quarterbacks are Jordan Love, Baker Mayfield, Tyler Shuk, 1002 00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:03.400 and Malik Willis, who actually mister bakes a lot just 1003 00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.519 chiming in saying he'd rather have Willis than Kyler Murray. 1004 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:09.280 But would you draft Shane any of those four quarterbacks 1005 00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.760 over Murray, Willis, Shook, Mayfield, Love. 1006 00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:16.679 No, No, not a question to me, like I'm more 1007 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.039 do I want? 1008 00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:18.639 You know? 1009 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.159 And obviously value wise, I'm gonna wait and take Murray? 1010 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:24.400 But do I want Jared Goff? You know? I think 1011 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:27.599 I mean Kyler Murray offers similar upsides. So mister bakes 1012 00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:29.440 lock and hate and I'll draft Kyler Murray and if 1013 00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:31.840 he starts, I'm gonna have a top ten Fantasy quarterback 1014 00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:32.840 and you probably won't. 1015 00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:35.840 Yeah, exactly that there's a chance of that. Yeah, he 1016 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:38.599 wants he wants all those guys over Murray. I wonder 1017 00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:40.480 like if we if we have to get down to 1018 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:44.679 like the Jacoby Brissettes and Goss and Aaron Rodgers of 1019 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:46.599 the world, and then see what Bakes wants to do 1020 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:50.280 with Murray compared to those guys. Last point I want 1021 00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:53.199 to do before we take a break. We touched on 1022 00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:57.880 the Eagle situation before. Philadelphia is trying to solve this 1023 00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:04.440 situation with their third wide receiver and maybe they've finally 1024 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.679 done it here with Hollywood Brown. It's one year, it's 1025 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:11.000 six and a half million. Jordan Schultz, NFL Insider Jordan 1026 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:13.880 Schultz reporting on this Chane, Is there anything here with 1027 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:17.559 Hollywood Brown in bestball leagues? Is this a player that 1028 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:19.719 we want to be in business with or have we 1029 00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.000 just sort of seen like kind of what he is 1030 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:23.679 and what he's going to be for the remainder of 1031 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:26.719 his career. He gets another year older every single year. 1032 00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:29.000 I would imagine that you know, at least a half 1033 00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:32.639 a step. Probably that's what you lose over the course 1034 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:36.119 of a year year a year to year basis. Now 1035 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:39.079 at his age in the league, I'm not terribly excited 1036 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.079 about I think the only thing that would get me 1037 00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:43.599 excited is if Smith or Brown were to go down, 1038 00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:45.960 or if Brown gets traded, then I think we might 1039 00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:48.280 have something there. But as it stands right now, I 1040 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:50.880 don't have a whole lot of excitement over this signing, 1041 00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:53.760 even though it was formerly a big name in fantasy football, 1042 00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:57.119 going to an offense that should rebound this year. 1043 00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:02.199 I'm not super excited. I would having a little best 1044 00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:05.039 ball of Brown. Like I said, if they do trade 1045 00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:07.960 AJ Brown or Devant Smith gets hurt. We saw two 1046 00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.199 years ago Hollywood Brown have a couple of spike games 1047 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:13.519 with the Chiefs. I think that could happen, But the 1048 00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.559 Eagles are never gonna be as pass heavy as the 1049 00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:19.280 Chiefs were, So I think even if Hollywood Brown gets 1050 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.119 you know, eighty percent of snaps because Major Brown gets 1051 00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:25.400 moved or there's an injury, I don't think you're gonna 1052 00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:27.960 see huge production. So I'm pretty much out, but I'll 1053 00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:29.519 probably sprinkle a little bit in a couple of my 1054 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:30.840 basketball teams just in case. 1055 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:35.320 Yeah, the the old FOMO they are a pick, which 1056 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:38.760 I'll probably do in Best Ball as well. Okay, this 1057 00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:41.760 was great stuff here. What I want to do, Shane, 1058 00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:44.079 is we're gonna take a break. We'll be out for 1059 00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.519 a couple of minutes or two or three minutes or so. 1060 00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.599 I'm gonna do some live reads here. So if you 1061 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:53.400 need to get a drink or hit the head whatever, 1062 00:52:53.559 --> 00:52:56.400 feel free. But when we come back, we're gonna go 1063 00:52:56.519 --> 00:52:58.960 hard on these rookies, okay, and we're gonna lead things 1064 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.119 off with the wide receiver. I have a thought on 1065 00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.239 which of the big three receivers is standing out most 1066 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.639 to me, and it might be different for you, So 1067 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.760 I definitely want to get into that. We'll get into 1068 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:12.599 the tight end conversation as well. Shane P. Hallum on 1069 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:15.440 X he writes for Draft Sharks. You can hear him 1070 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:18.000 on several of the Draft Sharks podcasts there as well. 1071 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:21.159 You are watching f FPC Insider Access, Eric Walkman, Shane 1072 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.000 hallm coming back right after this, don't go anywhere. We've 1073 00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:27.039 got a baller second hour of the show coming up 1074 00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:31.679 of FPC Insider Access this evening. 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We're adding new orphans every single day. 1112 00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:02.480 If you want to play fantasy football year round, f 1113 00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:05.039 f PC is for you, and don't forget all of 1114 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:08.760 those leagues can be registered and managed from the comfort 1115 00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:13.199 and convenience of the f f PC app for Android 1116 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:16.480 and for iOS users as well. Register now at m 1117 00:56:16.639 --> 00:57:03.760 y f f pc dot com getting an early start 1118 00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:07.719 on our number two for FFPC insider access. My name 1119 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.760 is Eric Balkman. He is Shane Hallam from Draft Sharks 1120 00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:13.719 at Shane P. Hallum on the X as well. Let's 1121 00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:16.320 get into the rookies. This is, by the way, Shane, 1122 00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:18.320 what kind of attracted to you, because you've been such 1123 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:21.280 a draft guru for I mean years now, probably decades 1124 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.199 might be more accurate. What originally attracted to you? What 1125 00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:27.159 is it about these rookies every single year that has 1126 00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:29.679 you hooked and wanting to do so much work and 1127 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:32.760 critique on their games as well as how it translates 1128 00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:33.599 to fantasy football. 1129 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:38.000 My first year scouting was two thousand and four, so 1130 00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:40.519 you know, back back then, I mean there was not 1131 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:44.199 much coverage, you know, ESPN and mel Kiper and a 1132 00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:46.440 magazine or two, and I was like, you know, this 1133 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:49.440 would be I was like being a big fish in 1134 00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:51.119 small ponds. So I was on a bunch of fantasy 1135 00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.880 football like forums. No one was talking rookies till after 1136 00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:55.599 the draft is like, I'll be that guy. You know, 1137 00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:57.840 I like to do that type of stuff. And so 1138 00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:01.480 it's always been, you know, been a thing that I've 1139 00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:04.760 enjoyed and I've always said, you know, I can, I 1140 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.280 really do it. But with volume, I'm the first to 1141 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:10.880 have seven round mock drafts every single year for two 1142 00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:13.679 years in advance, three years in advance, and you know, 1143 00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.960 I'll just continue trying to be the first to watch 1144 00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:16.760 these guys and do it. 1145 00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:20.400 Do you spend a lot of time on Saturdays in 1146 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:23.280 the fall watching college football or are you more of 1147 00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:25.079 a tape grinder at your convenience? 1148 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:28.840 Yeah, definitely. Since my daughter's two and a half, So 1149 00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.599 since having her, it's been at my convenience, Saturdays are 1150 00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:34.280 a little more full than they used to be. But 1151 00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.199 you know, YouTube TV is an awesome thing where I 1152 00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:41.000 can record literally every game and be able to watch it. 1153 00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:44.360 And then you know, once the L twenty two gets uploaded, 1154 00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:46.920 usually Tuesday or Wednesday, then I can start digging in, 1155 00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:50.440 which is always fun, and then it's fun to go back. 1156 00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:51.960 And that's what I'm doing now, is going back and 1157 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:54.960 watching things already have notes on to see you know, 1158 00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:58.039 what changes, what I missed and see if I agree 1159 00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:00.119 with consensus, if things are different than what I say. 1160 00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:03.920 Given that this is your twenty third year of doing this, 1161 00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:07.440 is is there a hit that you have had over 1162 00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:09.920 the course of two decades plus that you're most proud of, 1163 00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:12.480 Like a guy that maybe not a lot of people 1164 00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:14.639 were on, but you were pounding the table for him. 1165 00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:18.159 You like this, I remember, and he wasn't alone. And 1166 00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:19.960 quite frankly, you might have been one of these guys too, 1167 00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:21.920 But I know Derek Brown was the guy that kind 1168 00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:25.960 of turned me on to Pukinnakua when he came out. 1169 00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:28.159 I think that that is one of the hat hagars 1170 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:30.079 for him. Do you have a hat hagar for a 1171 00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:33.719 hit for a player that you were really telling everybody, listen, 1172 00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:35.480 this guy is gonna be awesome. I don't care what 1173 00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:37.000 you say, and you were proved right. 1174 00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:39.440 Yeah, I'll give you one that it was a short 1175 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:43.599 term hit, but it was an undrafted player that hit 1176 00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:45.880 that I was talking up for months and drafting in 1177 00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:49.639 FFPC Best Pall Leagues, And that's James Robinson who running 1178 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:53.079 back for the Jaguars. Right. I had an article when 1179 00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:55.960 I worked with Draft Countdown and ran that on hidden 1180 00:59:56.320 --> 00:59:59.119 and just like that, this guy's really good. And then 1181 00:59:59.159 --> 01:00:01.679 he didn't get drafted a like, wow, I look awful, 1182 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:04.519 drafted a ton of bestball leagues and early best ball 1183 01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:06.679 leagues and then uh that that rookie year man he 1184 01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:09.440 hit and and the injuries ended up doing them in. 1185 01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:11.800 But that's always one that I know. It's not like 1186 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:14.719 a Puka Nakua who's gonna be this like ever lasting player. 1187 01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:17.519 But you know, he didn't even get drafted and hit 1188 01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:18.239 as a rookie. 1189 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.960 Robinson. I remember I was doing a I was covering 1190 01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:25.039 the draft the year that Lawrence and a Chan went 1191 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:27.840 in the first round to Jacksonville, and I was I 1192 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:32.760 was doing a live radio show covering the draft, and 1193 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:36.079 it was everything was falling into place with my Dynasty guys, 1194 01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:39.239 and and I just figured there's no way that Jacksonville 1195 01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:41.079 would take a quarterback and a running back in the 1196 01:00:41.119 --> 01:00:46.159 first round. And I when when a Chan got drafted, 1197 01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:48.440 I saw it up on the screen. It's like, no, 1198 01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:52.159 you know, this ruins James Robbins. I was so ticked up. Again, 1199 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:55.159 if if I remember correctly, I think a Chan had 1200 01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:58.199 like a knee problem like a that knocked him out, 1201 01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:00.960 So you got another bonus year or at least bonus 1202 01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:04.000 part of the year with James Robinson until as you said, 1203 01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:08.119 injuries ultimately did him in. But certainly you saw something 1204 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:11.000 in Robinson and and you were proved right. What was 1205 01:01:11.039 --> 01:01:13.960 it about him? Was he Illinois State Robinson? I remember? 1206 01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:16.840 What was it about him that you really liked? Was 1207 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.440 it tackle breaking ability, contact balance? What was it? 1208 01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:23.800 As really really like smoothness like his hips, just the 1209 01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:28.559 transition in cutting and moving to me, was was NFL 1210 01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:32.480 like top tier NFL type of talent And I think 1211 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:35.760 I think that sometimes translates better than the raw athleticism, 1212 01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.800 especially at running back sometimes and we'll get into it 1213 01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:41.440 a little bit uh with some players this year, but 1214 01:01:41.960 --> 01:01:44.000 I mean that just like smoothness, You know when you 1215 01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.039 watch some of those players and they just look like 1216 01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:49.199 like they're not moving or they're you know, they're moving 1217 01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.079 with the wind, like James Robinson was that type of player, 1218 01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:54.880 and I think that's what really made him successful early 1219 01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:55.800 in his NFL career. 1220 01:01:56.559 --> 01:01:58.599 All Right, So we'll get into the running backs at 1221 01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:00.320 the bottom of the hour, but right now, let's off 1222 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:03.679 with the wide receivers. Now I listed these guys you know, 1223 01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:06.400 on on their own particular line. But let's talk about 1224 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:09.400 the three, the three big ones that that most people 1225 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.519 are are people are most excited about. But Kyle Lemon, 1226 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:18.480 Carnel Tate and Jordan Tyson I have now, granted, I 1227 01:02:18.559 --> 01:02:22.400 don't have these guys like I don't have one of 1228 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:24.920 them pulling away significantly than the others. I have my 1229 01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:27.199 favorite out of the three, but I could probably be 1230 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.920 convinced to go a different way. I'm not going to 1231 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:34.599 reveal who it is. But if you are assessing this, 1232 01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:36.119 and I know you put on a bunch of stuff 1233 01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:39.039 on X and with draft Sharks about this. If you're 1234 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:42.239 assessing this, how are you assessing these three in relation 1235 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:44.719 to each other? Obviously landing spot is going to be huge. 1236 01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:47.320 But as it stands right now, Shane, do you have 1237 01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:50.159 one of these guys separating more so than the other two? 1238 01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:51.760 And how would you rank them right now? 1239 01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:55.880 As well? I think it's close. And I'll say about 1240 01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:58.000 these three as a whole. And you look at mock 1241 01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.519 drafts and you're seeing some going, you know, Cornell take 1242 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:03.320 going in the top ten or whatever. I've had this 1243 01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:05.719 feeling and it's been hesitant to kind of say it. 1244 01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:08.719 Dane Bruler or the Athletic articulated it as well, and 1245 01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:10.760 I'm like, you know, I mean, I don't think there's 1246 01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:13.360 a wide receiver one in this class. It's not like 1247 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:15.800 a number one wide receiver for an NFL team. I 1248 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.639 think a Lemon, Tate Tyson all really good number two options. 1249 01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:21.360 So I want to put that out there first because 1250 01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.400 I think sometimes you see the draft capital it's a 1251 01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:25.960 week class as a whole, the entire class, not just 1252 01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:28.920 the fantasy guys, so they're getting propped up a little bit. 1253 01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:31.920 My favorite, I think it's close. I think they all 1254 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:34.760 do different things well, aren't going to fit different systems. Well, 1255 01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:39.119 mkaile Lemon is my favorite receiver of the three. I 1256 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:42.239 think he will be the third one drafted, maybe even 1257 01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:46.039 fourth receiver. I could even see him falling further because 1258 01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:49.039 mackay Lemon is an elite slot wide receiver, and we 1259 01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:52.360 saw last year the trend really kick up was already 1260 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:56.039 trending that way of less teams using the slot wide receiver, 1261 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:58.679 more twelve personnel tight ends. So it's going to be 1262 01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:02.360 a specific system that's going to want McKay Lemon. Whereas Cornel, 1263 01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.679 Tat and Jordan Tyson, I think will fit more teams, 1264 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:07.199 so there'll be more teams that have them on their boards. 1265 01:04:07.519 --> 01:04:10.960 I think McKay lemon, to me, you know, flashed them 1266 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:14.119 outside ability in twenty twenty four. Really the slot stuff 1267 01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:16.480 is what worked for him in twenty twenty five, but 1268 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:19.760 really reminds me of Ceedee Lamb as a prospect. You 1269 01:04:19.800 --> 01:04:22.559 remember Ceedee Lamb fell further than most people thought because 1270 01:04:22.880 --> 01:04:25.840 it was a slot wide receiver. Mike McCarthy ends up 1271 01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:29.760 drafting him, who needs needs a slot receiver as well, 1272 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.800 again for Pittsburgh. But I think Lemon, you know, is 1273 01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:35.280 an elite after the catch, really hard to bring down, 1274 01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:37.719 really savviot, looking not just at the guy in front 1275 01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:39.519 of him, kind of the old Barry Sanders of looking 1276 01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:42.000 at the next level and knowing, how can I beat 1277 01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:44.639 that guy? I'll beat this one. And I think McKay 1278 01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:47.239 lemon does that so well after the catch, you know, 1279 01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:49.480 really quick off the snap and his footwork's so sharp. 1280 01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:51.360 But he's not you know, he's a four or five 1281 01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.679 speed player that's on the smaller side and a slot receiver. 1282 01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:58.599 But I think the shiftiness, you know, I think mclemon's 1283 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.559 going to be more of the target hog of these three, 1284 01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:05.760 whereas I think like Tate, I think talent wise, you 1285 01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:08.119 could argue he's the most talented and probably why he'll 1286 01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:09.719 be the first one off the board. You know, he's big, 1287 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:12.400 he's tough, he's these long, he makes those tough catches. 1288 01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:14.840 You know, he has kind of the power after the 1289 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.239 catch that that makes them hard to bring down. Is 1290 01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:19.679 gonna pick up extra yardage, But I just fear the 1291 01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:21.880 fantasy upside. I don't see him as a player who 1292 01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:24.199 you know, he has like a good slant. He can 1293 01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:27.719 get some separation, but it's not always consistent. I think 1294 01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:30.440 Tate's an elite, you know, downfield kind of contested catcher 1295 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:32.840 George Pickens like which we've seen some of the upside 1296 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.320 for Pickens. I think that that was my compent in 1297 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:38.280 the draft, Sharks rookie guy for Tate, you know. But 1298 01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:41.800 it's gonna be a lot of deeper throws to Tate 1299 01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:43.440 that I think he's gonna win. I think that can 1300 01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:46.920 have some big games and some disappearing games, and and 1301 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:49.920 then Tyson is probably the hardest for me to peg like. 1302 01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:52.840 I think his upside and downside are a lot more 1303 01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:55.719 extreme than the other two. There are some incredible plays. 1304 01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:58.280 I mean, if you watch Jordan tyson highlight film, you 1305 01:05:58.360 --> 01:06:00.480 will think Jordan Tyson is like to be a top 1306 01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:03.119 five pick in this draft. Like the highlights are that good, 1307 01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:05.480 but the separation is so inconsistent. I mean, there are 1308 01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:09.000 halves of games where Jordan Tyson isn't getting open, isn't 1309 01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:13.320 getting you know, a target that he's able to break 1310 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.760 away and make make a good catch on, where the 1311 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:19.920 defenders getting you know, disrupting him. So I worry about 1312 01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:22.360 some early struggles for Tyson. I think he's gonna need 1313 01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:24.800 some manufacturer touches. I think the screen stuff, some of 1314 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:27.639 the the you know, sideline work is really good, but 1315 01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:30.519 it's gonna take the right system. You know, he dropped 1316 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:33.159 a lot of passes, especially two years ago. He's a 1317 01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:35.760 little his footwork's a little bit messy. You can get 1318 01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:39.519 too impatient and waste some movement. Like I just think 1319 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:42.280 there's some refinement that Tyson needs that Tat and Lemon don't. 1320 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:46.000 And that combined with the injury issues. He's never played 1321 01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:50.119 a full college season, you know, hamstring issues last year, 1322 01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:52.360 fracture claviical two years ago, a c O M c 1323 01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:55.440 l PCL three years ago, you know, in twenty twenty two. 1324 01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:59.599 Excuse me, So I think Tyson has that downside that 1325 01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:00.960 scared me off a little more. 1326 01:07:01.639 --> 01:07:06.000 All right, So you ended your assessment with my favorite 1327 01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:10.280 guy and that and that is Tyson. Like you, I 1328 01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:12.800 think these three are very very close for me and 1329 01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:16.360 part of and I think you you kind of made it. 1330 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:18.199 I don't want to put words in your mouth. Maybe 1331 01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:19.960 you did, but I think when you say, like, the 1332 01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:24.199 extremes for Tyson are much higher and much lower than 1333 01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:26.760 the other two guys, that's sort of what attracts him 1334 01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:30.599 to me or what attracts me to him. Because I 1335 01:07:31.079 --> 01:07:33.480 think you're right. I think these guys, by and large 1336 01:07:33.599 --> 01:07:35.480 are all number two guys. I don't think there's an 1337 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:38.159 alpha among them, at least in the NFL level. But 1338 01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:41.599 I'm willing to say that if there is one out 1339 01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:44.119 of these three, I think it's Tyson. I think he 1340 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.000 has the biggest upside. And because I feel like if 1341 01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:49.639 I if I whiff on Tyson, at least I went 1342 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.159 big Tate, I think it was a fine polished receiver. 1343 01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:55.400 Same thing with Lemon. Polish is another good thing to 1344 01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.000 bring up because I think Lemon and Tate are more polished, 1345 01:07:58.039 --> 01:08:01.239 and Tyson well can't get the right coaching and the 1346 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:03.719 right seasoning to get there right. At least that's that's 1347 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:05.800 what I believe, and I'm sure you would agree that 1348 01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:08.840 certainly that's in the realm of possibilities. And then the 1349 01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:12.519 injury thing, I think people are really I think that's 1350 01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.320 usually you brought it up last, but I think a 1351 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.680 lot of people bring up Tyson's injury history first, and 1352 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:20.319 I look at it and I'm like, Okay, well, it 1353 01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:23.399 was the shredded knee which happened four years ago, that 1354 01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:26.439 could happen to anyone. The fractured collar bone, I mean, 1355 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:28.520 I don't. I don't think that's a I think that's 1356 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.720 kind of a freak thing as well. And then the 1357 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.479 hamstring issues I do. I mean, that is bad, and 1358 01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:36.199 he missed basically the second half of his last year, 1359 01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:38.720 But I'm also willing to say that's the only injury 1360 01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:42.239 I'm necessarily concerned about over the course of his career, 1361 01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:45.199 and if it's just a half season, I'm kind of 1362 01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:47.199 willing to look the other way when I see the 1363 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:51.640 upside is as high as it is now. Brett Whitefield 1364 01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:53.840 from Fantasy Points brought this up like a month or 1365 01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.680 so ago about Tyson, and I didn't crunch the film, 1366 01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:00.880 you could probably speak to this as well. He said 1367 01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:04.359 that Tyson was being schemed open so much like they 1368 01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:07.159 would design all these plays for him and he would 1369 01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:09.319 catch the ball and there would just be nobody around 1370 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:12.039 him because everybody or they wanted to make sure that 1371 01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:15.720 Tyson had as much space to operate in as possible, 1372 01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:18.319 which you're probably not going to get at the next level. 1373 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.000 Is that something that you noticed on film too, when 1374 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:21.760 you watch Tyson? 1375 01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:25.640 Yeah, I think the offense for Arizona State does make 1376 01:09:25.720 --> 01:09:29.479 Tyson a lot harder to evaluate, Like you know, the 1377 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:32.319 High State offense we've been able to evaluate receivers fairly 1378 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:36.119 well from there is pretty you know, pro ready style scheme, 1379 01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:37.800 Like you know what Carl State's going to be. Like 1380 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:41.760 you said, Tyson, the offense at Arizona State, I mean 1381 01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:44.880 that's literally what they had. He was the weapon that 1382 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:48.000 they had the past two years, and so it was 1383 01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:50.479 about getting him. You know a lot of screen stuff, 1384 01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:53.119 a lot of mid screens from him, so you know, 1385 01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:55.560 you have to man him up, you have to have 1386 01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:57.640 a corner. There a lot of times you're shading his 1387 01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.159 safety over and if he runs a mid screen, now 1388 01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:02.600 those two dbs are out of the play. You have 1389 01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:03.199 blockers for. 1390 01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:03.479 You know. 1391 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:07.640 It was just really built for him to get those touches. 1392 01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:11.199 And that's why, you know, I think could that happen 1393 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:14.319 at the NFL level? It could, And that's why I 1394 01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:16.760 worry about if you know it is gonna be about team, 1395 01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:19.640 just a team put him in a position to be 1396 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:22.399 that guy, or are you gonna draft him and say, okay, 1397 01:10:22.600 --> 01:10:24.159 now you got you got to learn and catch up 1398 01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:26.920 on everything and be a real NFL receiver and run 1399 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:28.680 a full route tree and do all this. You know, 1400 01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.640 I think that's a really hard thing to get right 1401 01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:35.640 off the bat. So yeah, I think all three are good. 1402 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.319 Like I'm happy getting any of the three in a 1403 01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:40.960 rookie draft. I'd rather have the you know one oh 1404 01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:43.439 five than the the or the one O four and 1405 01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:44.359 said than the one of two. 1406 01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:46.880 Yeah, Tyson could be one of those guys, now that 1407 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:48.800 you explain it that way, You could be one of 1408 01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:50.840 those guys where you don't draft him, but then you 1409 01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:53.680 go to the Tyson owner in twenty twenty seven and say, hey, 1410 01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:57.000 you know, like maybe maybe you want to get rid 1411 01:10:57.039 --> 01:10:59.479 of Tyson here. Certainly it didn't pan out the way 1412 01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:01.920 that Lemon and Tape did, and then you could, you know, 1413 01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:04.520 and he makes that sophomoret leapt there's a possibility of 1414 01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:06.600 that as well. Okay, I want to move on and 1415 01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:09.840 talk about Casey Conceptsione here. I think it was Pat Forman. 1416 01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:12.199 I could be wrong on this, but he posted something 1417 01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:16.079 on X about this knee up scope that Conceptsion had. 1418 01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:19.560 Earlier this week, Mike Garafalo said he's expected to be 1419 01:11:19.560 --> 01:11:24.319 one hundred percent for rookie camp. The report was that 1420 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:27.920 this was a routine and preventative surgery, and I think 1421 01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.600 it was Pat that said, there's nothing anytime you have 1422 01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:33.880 surgery on your knee, it's not routine and it's not preventative. 1423 01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:37.960 So I think that he had his eyebrows raised on that. 1424 01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:40.560 Do you have your eyebrows raised not only in the 1425 01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:44.840 surgery but Conceptsion in general, as it seems like he's 1426 01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:46.920 probably gonna be like a coin flip whether he goes 1427 01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:49.279 in the first round or early second round. Shane, your 1428 01:11:49.359 --> 01:11:52.319 thoughts on Casey Conceptsion as it pertains to the knee 1429 01:11:52.359 --> 01:11:54.479 surgery and sort of what he's going to be at 1430 01:11:54.479 --> 01:11:55.039 the next level. 1431 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:57.479 Yeah, I'm not too worried about the ES scope. I 1432 01:11:57.560 --> 01:11:59.199 think I think the ES scopes happen a lot more 1433 01:11:59.239 --> 01:12:01.479 than we find out about. I think this happens for 1434 01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:03.760 a lot more players than we think. Right, if you have, 1435 01:12:04.319 --> 01:12:06.680 you know, some some tissue built up there, you have 1436 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.680 an injury that's kind of lingered, like it's an easy 1437 01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:11.760 way to just kind of clean out, and you know, 1438 01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:13.920 and usually we don't find out about it, and then 1439 01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:17.039 someone you know, leaked it, so that that I think 1440 01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:19.199 that's a lot of the case, especially for college guys. 1441 01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:21.720 Uh exception, that's tough for me. I think he's going 1442 01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:25.079 to be a better NFL player than fantasy player, which 1443 01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:28.319 feels so pass to say, I guess about a prospect, 1444 01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:32.640 but it's my compent. In our Rookie Guide was Percy 1445 01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:36.119 Harvin as kind of an upside comp where where you're 1446 01:12:36.119 --> 01:12:38.479 gonna use him in a ton of different ways, you know, concepts. 1447 01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:41.920 He owns so athletic, so fast that you're you're gonna 1448 01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:44.199 want to run, get the ball in his hands and 1449 01:12:44.359 --> 01:12:46.760 and do you know, do a bunch of different stuff 1450 01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:50.279 with him, do reversus, do you know, do some of 1451 01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:53.439 that kind of thing. I mean, watching Concepts, he is 1452 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:56.479 always open because he is so fast and quick. If 1453 01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:59.399 you try to man him up, he's he's really good 1454 01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:03.199 at getting open. But he's small. I mean, there's not 1455 01:13:03.319 --> 01:13:06.319 much strength there. Teams kind of figured out that if 1456 01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:10.039 they had a bigger slot, they could knock him off 1457 01:13:10.079 --> 01:13:12.720 a route early and that timing would be off. So 1458 01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:14.840 if you see some of the bad games or poor 1459 01:13:14.880 --> 01:13:17.439 production from concept in some games, that was kind of 1460 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:20.039 what was happening. A lot of drops on his hands 1461 01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:23.119 are among the worst, you know, among the receivers that 1462 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:25.039 were probably the worst of the receivers that will talk 1463 01:13:25.079 --> 01:13:29.600 about on the show. You know, So I to me, 1464 01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:33.000 it's hard to see a position even in today's NFL 1465 01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:36.560 where Conceptsion you know, gets one hundred plus targets in 1466 01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:38.960 a season. Uh, but I think you could have some 1467 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:43.439 big games, big runs, you know, the rushing upside, you know, 1468 01:13:43.479 --> 01:13:46.119 it can be a little bit helpful, but again it's 1469 01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:49.680 you know, it's another number two that that's that's to me, 1470 01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:53.039 just just not going to get the volume that you want. 1471 01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:57.720 You know, you got a wonder too with regards to 1472 01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:00.479 Concepts poor hands I don't know if it would have 1473 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:04.800 happened in high school or maybe in college, where they're like, boy, 1474 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:06.640 he's so good when he's got the ball in his hands, 1475 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:08.520 but he just can't catch it. Maybe that's where this 1476 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.600 whole handoff started. We're like, let's just start handing the 1477 01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:12.359 ball off to him. 1478 01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:14.920 He came and the rounds every game. You know, here 1479 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:15.119 you go. 1480 01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:20.079 The trade that Miami made with Denver I think is 1481 01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:24.319 interesting for a lot of reasons, but interesting in the 1482 01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:26.720 fact that Miami now owns the thirty pick of the draft, 1483 01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:30.159 and right around there they could take a guy like Concepcion, 1484 01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:32.720 They could take a guy like this person I'm gonna 1485 01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:37.279 bring up right now, Denzel Boston, who declared for the 1486 01:14:37.399 --> 01:14:41.000 draft out of Washington. Obviously, Washington has had some pretty 1487 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:43.439 good receivers come out of there over the last couple 1488 01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.600 of years. Fifty six catches, seven hundred and fifty five 1489 01:14:46.680 --> 01:14:49.560 yards and ten touchdowns two point four to four yards 1490 01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:53.520 per route run in the twenty twenty five season. Boston 1491 01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:57.560 has the size I think field Yates was saying that 1492 01:14:57.960 --> 01:15:01.399 he could be a big slot type guy in the NFL, 1493 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:03.560 which I think is exciting when you I think that's 1494 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:05.960 another reason I like Tyson too, where he can play inside, 1495 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:09.279 he can play outside. Maybe Boston is the type of 1496 01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:12.159 player that could do that, could do that as well. 1497 01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:14.479 He might be a late first round pick. I did 1498 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:20.840 draft him late in some best balls already, and obviously, 1499 01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:22.920 if I'm doing that, Shane, I'm of the belief that 1500 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.760 he's going to contribute to whoever drafts him right away 1501 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:28.960 year one. Do you see it the same way for 1502 01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:33.199 Denzel Boston? And what kind of a dynasty asset is 1503 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:35.479 this gonna Is this guy gonna be over the course 1504 01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:36.680 of the first few years in the league. 1505 01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:40.680 I'm definitely intrigued because of some of the versatility that 1506 01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:43.359 he has. I think you watched Denzel Boston, you see 1507 01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:46.079 a player who knows how to use his size to 1508 01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:48.920 his advantage. When he would play, you know, an X 1509 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:52.520 role and he would get pressed. It was something that 1510 01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:55.479 he knew how to keep the defender off of him, 1511 01:15:55.960 --> 01:15:58.439 uses that length to his advantage, and then can get 1512 01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:00.840 open on a number of routes after that press, and 1513 01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.119 so the team started playing back on him. But then 1514 01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:05.680 you know, Boston developed a really nice slant route, a 1515 01:16:05.720 --> 01:16:07.800 really nice en route, really nice out route. You know, 1516 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:10.319 I think he has a lot more route versatility than 1517 01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:12.960 even even some of the top three wide receivers in 1518 01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:16.880 the class. He's just good hands, you know, really good 1519 01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:20.079 catch technique, has a little later breakout than some of 1520 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.760 these others, Like you said, because he was behind guys 1521 01:16:22.760 --> 01:16:26.479 that got drafted in the NFL and Washington, including another 1522 01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:29.239 receiver in this class, Jeremy Bernard from who transferred to Alabama, 1523 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:33.479 you know, Boston was behind him. So you know, that's 1524 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:36.800 always tough to to kind of parse out why. But 1525 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:39.239 I do think that the downside for Boston, he's not 1526 01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:42.000 gonna do much after the catch. Even with his size, 1527 01:16:42.479 --> 01:16:45.199 he gets tackled pretty easily. So I think you're looking 1528 01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:48.359 at a guy that you know, maybe can command a 1529 01:16:48.439 --> 01:16:51.520 little more target targets from that big slot. I think 1530 01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:54.760 I think the right team that has pass a pass 1531 01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:57.319 first offense, I think we could see Boston have a 1532 01:16:57.359 --> 01:17:00.600 pretty good impact. So, you know, dynasty wise, I mean 1533 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:03.800 this wide receiver class these five, to me, is is 1534 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:06.000 the one O two through the one of six. I mean, 1535 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:08.880 I think you're you're drafting these receivers and maybe the 1536 01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:11.319 next guy that we talk about right in that right 1537 01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:14.399 in that range before any running back and you know, 1538 01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:16.399 maybe in the FFPC you're going to take the top 1539 01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:17.960 tight end over some of them. 1540 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.479 And who is that top tight end. We'll get into 1541 01:17:20.479 --> 01:17:23.000 that in a little bit before we keep keep going 1542 01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:26.560 Shane when because I hear people talk about the depth 1543 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:29.119 of wide receiver in this class, the depth is really good, 1544 01:17:29.479 --> 01:17:31.840 and to me, when I hear that over and over again, 1545 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.079 it makes me think that the talent is kind of 1546 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:36.920 flat in in this class. Do you see it as 1547 01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:39.640 sort of like a flat like like this is not 1548 01:17:40.079 --> 01:17:42.279 this does not start way up here with the elites 1549 01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:45.079 and then and then have a sharp decline down to 1550 01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:46.840 the rest of the guys. Do you see more of 1551 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:50.000 as like a smooth kind of flat curve when when 1552 01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:51.960 we talk about the guys that are going to be 1553 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:53.479 going in the mid first round of the guys that 1554 01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:55.000 are going in the mid second round. 1555 01:17:56.279 --> 01:17:59.600 Yeah, you know, I I tweeted a couple of weeks ago, 1556 01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:03.119 like I'm watching this receiver class and it's it's so deep, 1557 01:18:03.159 --> 01:18:06.239 and I like want to like them, and I just don't, 1558 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:08.720 like I think that curve is just this is just 1559 01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:12.479 so smooth down that and it starts lower that it's like, 1560 01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:16.319 you know, none, none of them. You know, there's a 1561 01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:19.319 couple guys that like, you know, I'll swing the bat 1562 01:18:19.399 --> 01:18:21.279 for right like you'll you'll pound a table for and 1563 01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:23.680 think have that upside that couple are gonna work out. 1564 01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:28.399 But there's there's just so many. I don't say negatives 1565 01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:30.600 because I don't think that the negative list is is 1566 01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:33.840 that good? Just like you don't watch most of these 1567 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:36.000 receivers and think, wow, you know this, this guy could 1568 01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:38.960 be a star if this is correct or this is fixed. 1569 01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:41.479 I think a lot of them are capped out, you know. 1570 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:44.479 And it's it's I think part of the NFL draft today, 1571 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:46.359 we're getting guys that have been in college four, five, 1572 01:18:46.479 --> 01:18:49.680 six years coming out. We know, I think we know 1573 01:18:49.800 --> 01:18:52.600 who most of these players are already, you know, I 1574 01:18:52.680 --> 01:18:54.720 mean how many you know. We don't have too many 1575 01:18:54.760 --> 01:18:57.960 early declares here, three year declares here. So that that's 1576 01:18:58.000 --> 01:18:59.640 the tough part I think about watching them, is it 1577 01:18:59.720 --> 01:19:02.439 feel like there's not a lot of room for growth 1578 01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:04.920 for a lot of these players. Outside of I think 1579 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:08.880 like Tyson and Lemon and and and the next guy 1580 01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:10.720 that we'll talk about, I think those are really the 1581 01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:12.279 only ones that I feel like, are gonna grow and 1582 01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:15.079 get better. And to me, you know, a second round, 1583 01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:17.479 third round pick that doesn't get better is gonna be 1584 01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:20.239 really hard to make a fantasy impact right away. 1585 01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:23.199 Do you in your last mock draft that you did, 1586 01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:25.920 do you did you have five receivers or six receivers 1587 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:26.840 going in the first round? 1588 01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:31.680 I had five, and and I I might not know 1589 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:34.399 who those five are, but that feels like a good number. 1590 01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:36.960 And you know, when we again the running backs, I'll 1591 01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:40.119 mention it too, but I'll keep saying it. This whole 1592 01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:43.359 class is not great. Like it's not just the skill guys. 1593 01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:47.439 You know, like like there's there's positions edge, linebacker, you know, safety, 1594 01:19:47.479 --> 01:19:48.880 And I'm like, okay, it's pretty good, but like as 1595 01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:51.880 a whole. And so when you see a guy go sixth, 1596 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:53.880 a wide receiver go sixth in this draft, it is 1597 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:55.840 not sixth then every other draft. And I think you 1598 01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:57.600 got to keep that in mind. Sometimes we just say 1599 01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:00.279 draft capitals, draft capital like this is you know, we 1600 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:02.920 put that bucket out, and I think this bucket this year, 1601 01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:04.680 to me, is a lot different than a lot of years. 1602 01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:08.119 Omar Cooper Junior, We've been teasing. Let's talk about the 1603 01:20:08.159 --> 01:20:13.079 Indiana guys a lot of speed here. Obviously championship pedigree played, 1604 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:15.800 although I will say he was and I can't remember 1605 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:17.800 the other guy. You probably know who's the guy who 1606 01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:20.159 really came on for Indiana, younger guy. He's not in 1607 01:20:20.239 --> 01:20:20.840 the draft this year. 1608 01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:21.720 He Charlie Becker. 1609 01:20:22.119 --> 01:20:25.520 Charlie Becker, Yes, that guy along with Cooper and Sarat 1610 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:28.039 I think it was it was with Mendoza quarterback. It 1611 01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:30.560 was such an awesome attack that they had. But Cooper 1612 01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:33.279 seems to be picking up steam a bunch amongst a 1613 01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:36.720 bunch of a pundits right now in draft circles, and 1614 01:20:37.119 --> 01:20:38.560 I think it is because of his speed. He's a 1615 01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:40.720 guy that could sneak into the first round as well. 1616 01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:44.560 But Cooper, besides speed, Shane, what else does he offer 1617 01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:48.000 us that we should care about for how good it's 1618 01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:49.880 going to make him as a fantasy asset. 1619 01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:53.880 I think he is a really smooth mover, Like that 1620 01:20:54.039 --> 01:20:57.800 first step is so explosive, and he transitions into the 1621 01:20:57.920 --> 01:21:01.199 route and into his cuts so smoothly that it's really 1622 01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:04.039 hard to cover in man coverage. And I think even 1623 01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:06.880 in zone he really knows how to find that hole 1624 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:08.600 in the zone or gets lost kind of behind that 1625 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.199 second level or third level sometimes because you're not expecting 1626 01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:15.000 him to move as quick as he is. You know, 1627 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:17.159 I think Cooper still is a little more athlete than 1628 01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:19.760 football player. Like I think there's some refinement there. And 1629 01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:21.279 so that's why I said, I think he's one of 1630 01:21:21.319 --> 01:21:23.439 those players that I look at him and go, there's 1631 01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:25.680 improvement that could be made here for already a pretty 1632 01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:29.079 good player. So he's still raw. He's not very physical. 1633 01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:31.680 I think that's when he would get into trouble was 1634 01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:34.159 when he had, you know, corners or it was up 1635 01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:37.079 against linebackers that could get physical with him. But I'm 1636 01:21:37.119 --> 01:21:40.359 a fan of Omark Cooper and I didn't expect him 1637 01:21:40.720 --> 01:21:43.520 to be talked about as a first round pick. I thought, 1638 01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:46.359 you know, some of the some of the role combinations were, 1639 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:49.880 it's not a ton there that he's probably going to 1640 01:21:49.920 --> 01:21:52.720 be more slot only. I don't think he'll play outside. 1641 01:21:52.840 --> 01:21:55.079 I thought, Okay, it's probably a round two guy that 1642 01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:57.479 I like. And now it's like he might go top twenty, 1643 01:21:57.520 --> 01:22:01.640 and I'm like, that feels too expensive, you know. It's 1644 01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:03.600 it's almost like I want this guy to go Day 1645 01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:06.199 two because that will be better. But I'm a Nomark 1646 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:09.439 Cooper fan. Uh, certainly, And you know, I could see 1647 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:12.319 him ending up in rookie drafts as you know, the 1648 01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:14.560 one oh five to one oh six when we get there. 1649 01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:17.600 Does he ever top out in the NFL as a 1650 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:21.640 top twenty wide receiver fantasy wise in his career? 1651 01:22:22.399 --> 01:22:26.079 I think he has that upside if if we see 1652 01:22:26.119 --> 01:22:29.279 a refinement of his route running so to where he 1653 01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.000 you know, isn't just running kind of in and out routes, 1654 01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:35.159 if you know, if the coaching gets there, Like I 1655 01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:38.479 think Cooper has the athleticism and the you know, the 1656 01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:41.039 loose hips and the you know, the loose joints to 1657 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:44.439 really be dangerous to cover. Uh. And like I said, 1658 01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:46.640 I think being as good as he is against zone coverage, 1659 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:50.920 which I think it was almost seventy percent of NFL 1660 01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:54.439 plays last year defensive plays for zone against pass plays, 1661 01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:57.000 I mean it was a ridiculous number. I think that 1662 01:22:57.079 --> 01:22:58.600 really bodes well for someone like Cooper. 1663 01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:01.680 Yeah, we'll see what happened. And obviously, I mean you 1664 01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:04.520 could say about any of these prospects, landing spot will 1665 01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:08.039 be key. Elijah Surat is a guy who had this 1666 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:11.800 incredible touchdown streak his final year at Indiana. Didn't score 1667 01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:13.920 in the national title game, but he did end the 1668 01:23:13.960 --> 01:23:16.399 season with sixty five catches, eight hundred and thirty yards 1669 01:23:16.439 --> 01:23:20.199 and fifteen count of fifteen touchdowns, which where career highs. 1670 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:23.560 This guy's story was pretty incredible, as you know, the 1671 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:25.880 way he made his way from high school to now 1672 01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:28.960 being a national champion, to now being a potential Day 1673 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:32.800 two pick in the NFL draft. I worry about the 1674 01:23:33.159 --> 01:23:38.640 athleticism not being enough at this next level, but perhaps 1675 01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:42.439 shade with how crafty he is, with how powerful he is, 1676 01:23:42.520 --> 01:23:45.359 with how big he is, maybe athletics, maybe he ages 1677 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:48.640 pretty well in the NFL and becomes a nice little 1678 01:23:48.680 --> 01:23:52.239 possession receiver for whoever drafts him. Your thoughts on sarat. 1679 01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:56.279 He's you know, he's interesting because I think that's how 1680 01:23:56.359 --> 01:23:58.560 he's gonna win. If he's gonna work out, it's going 1681 01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:01.560 to be with the the kind of the power, the physicality. 1682 01:24:01.600 --> 01:24:04.319 I think he's one of the better contested catchers in 1683 01:24:04.479 --> 01:24:07.199 the draft, which is not an archetype I love to 1684 01:24:07.239 --> 01:24:10.159 bet on in fantasy. You know, we certainly have guys 1685 01:24:10.319 --> 01:24:13.520 that can hit like that, and when they do that, 1686 01:24:13.640 --> 01:24:17.920 you know they have top receiver potential. But that's where 1687 01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:20.199 we also get a lot of busts, you know that 1688 01:24:20.399 --> 01:24:23.199 that come out. I always think of it the Keem 1689 01:24:23.239 --> 01:24:25.680 Butler love that that happened when he got drafted, right, 1690 01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:27.680 it's like, oh, he's such a good contested catcher. Well 1691 01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:29.800 he can't get open, you know, That's why he had 1692 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:32.399 to catch everything contested. I think Elijah Serat's kind of 1693 01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:34.760 the same way, Like he doesn't get open, but he 1694 01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:37.079 sure he knows how to he knows positioning, he knows 1695 01:24:37.119 --> 01:24:39.399 how to box you out. He knows how to do that. 1696 01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:41.239 Just doesn't really pass the eye test. His hips are 1697 01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:44.960 pretty tight, but like good hands, good power, enough explosion 1698 01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:47.479 off the line that you can't really press him. I 1699 01:24:47.560 --> 01:24:50.319 think there's upside there. I get why people like him. 1700 01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:51.920 He's probably not gonna be someone in a lot of 1701 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:52.319 my teams. 1702 01:24:53.479 --> 01:24:57.239 Chris Brazzl is a player who had kind of similar 1703 01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:01.479 numbers to Surat last year sixty two. He did get 1704 01:25:01.520 --> 01:25:03.800 over a thousand yards and he only got nine touchdowns 1705 01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:07.520 sixteen point four yards per catch. Last year was a 1706 01:25:07.560 --> 01:25:10.920 big time breakout season for Brasel. One of the things 1707 01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:13.000 I hear and I don't think we've ever talked about 1708 01:25:13.039 --> 01:25:14.720 this Shane. One of the things I hear from a 1709 01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:18.039 lot of draftnicks is that they struggle to evaluate Tennessee 1710 01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:22.680 volunteer wide receivers that play in Josh Heipel's offense there 1711 01:25:23.039 --> 01:25:25.119 do you also struggle with that? Why do you think 1712 01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:28.199 people struggle with trying to figure out how these Tennessee 1713 01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:31.840 receivers are going to turn out once they get to 1714 01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.920 the next level? And specifically Brasel, how is he figuring 1715 01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:38.239 in to your rookie rankings for receivers. 1716 01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:43.319 Yeah, so the reason why Tennessee is so hard to evaluate, 1717 01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:47.479 the hash marks for college are different than the NFL. 1718 01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:51.119 So in college there's kind of less there's more space 1719 01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:54.600 on the wings potentially, and so Tennessee uses that they 1720 01:25:54.680 --> 01:25:57.880 use a wide formation, so the receivers are almost stacked 1721 01:25:58.039 --> 01:26:01.600 on the sideline all the time, and that's just not 1722 01:26:01.720 --> 01:26:04.800 something you can do in the NFL. With where the 1723 01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:07.279 ball's placed, you know it's gonna be much harder to 1724 01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:10.199 hit those passes than well a ten kind of builds 1725 01:26:10.239 --> 01:26:13.800 are often so you know it's someone's gonna get open, Like, 1726 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:16.640 it's really hard to cover three guys in a stack 1727 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:18.800 all the way against the sideline. I got my three corners, 1728 01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:21.600 I'll button up against each other. You know, how do 1729 01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:22.920 you really cover that? And so when you have a 1730 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:25.560 really good athlete we saw Doante Thornton last year, I 1731 01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:28.880 think Chris brasles a similar class of this kind of big, long, 1732 01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:33.239 fast athlete who is really hard to cover when you're 1733 01:26:33.279 --> 01:26:37.000 working through traffic as a dB. That makes it really tough. 1734 01:26:38.079 --> 01:26:40.800 That's why that production came. I think brass a little 1735 01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:44.199 more refined than Thornton. It wasn't just like run straight 1736 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:45.520 and well, you know, we'll get the ball to you. 1737 01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:47.560 Brazil could do a lot of different things. They did 1738 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:49.159 a lot of screens with him. They had some middle 1739 01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:52.520 of the field stuff for him. But it's definitely tough 1740 01:26:52.640 --> 01:26:55.319 to know if a player has a good feel for 1741 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:58.479 the receiver position, and if they've played in that system 1742 01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:01.760 for a number of years, it's hard to trust that 1743 01:27:01.880 --> 01:27:03.520 they have a good feel for the position. You know, 1744 01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:08.279 you're not learning NFL style offenses and talent any know 1745 01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:11.199 who knows. Maybe roles change in ten twenty years and 1746 01:27:11.279 --> 01:27:13.199 we get something similar in the NFL. But for now, 1747 01:27:13.880 --> 01:27:16.560 I like Brazil, but I think he's he's not someone 1748 01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:19.359 I would draft in a redraft, right you know, I 1749 01:27:19.399 --> 01:27:21.960 don't think it's going to be a year one hit, 1750 01:27:22.640 --> 01:27:24.399 but he could be a player down the line that 1751 01:27:24.760 --> 01:27:28.199 finds a role because of that athleticism, size, speed, stride 1752 01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:29.000 is all really good. 1753 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:33.560 Moving on to the tight ends here, with apologies to 1754 01:27:33.800 --> 01:27:36.720 the Bells, we will not get to Chris or Skyler tonight. 1755 01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:41.760 Kenyan Sadik leads off at tight end and and I 1756 01:27:41.880 --> 01:27:44.439 guess there's and we'll get into this with jeremih Love. 1757 01:27:44.479 --> 01:27:48.640 There's been so many people speaking effusively in praising Sadik 1758 01:27:48.720 --> 01:27:50.880 in Love, I want to talk a little bit about 1759 01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:54.600 potential warning signs, potential red flags, because with the f 1760 01:27:54.720 --> 01:27:57.399 FPC tight end premium scoring, there's been a lot of 1761 01:27:57.439 --> 01:28:00.159 people falling all over themselves the draft sidique in the 1762 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:02.159 early to middle part of the first round of Brookie 1763 01:28:02.239 --> 01:28:05.399 drafts coming up in a little over a month. This 1764 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:09.000 dude put on a show at the combine. And I 1765 01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:12.399 think part of the reason that his agility at his 1766 01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:17.039 speed was so good compared to previous tight ends was 1767 01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:20.079 because there's not as much Kenyan Sadik as there was 1768 01:28:20.159 --> 01:28:22.720 say a Michael Mayer or a Rob Gronkowski. This is 1769 01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:25.800 not a large tight end now, We saw that that 1770 01:28:25.960 --> 01:28:27.960 kind of worked out for Aronde against in the second 1771 01:28:28.039 --> 01:28:30.840 last year with Los Angeles, and perhaps it can work 1772 01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:34.760 out for Sadiq this year, but or over the course 1773 01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:37.760 of his career, I should say, but in regards to Sadik, 1774 01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:39.920 do we need to prep ourselves now that if we 1775 01:28:40.119 --> 01:28:43.199 draft him, we have to understand that this guy may 1776 01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:46.119 not be in every down tight end at the next level. 1777 01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:48.359 He may not be the type of guy that can 1778 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:50.399 get out there and run block when he needs. I 1779 01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:53.359 know he's a good blocker, but when he's blocking these other, bigger, 1780 01:28:53.479 --> 01:28:57.880 more physical athletes in the NFL than what he was 1781 01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:00.439 facing in the Big Ten, I do think that there's 1782 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.159 a little bit of a learning curve here, and maybe 1783 01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:04.119 a learning curve that his body just will never be 1784 01:29:04.279 --> 01:29:07.199 built for. I don't question the fact that he could 1785 01:29:07.239 --> 01:29:10.159 be successful at the next level. What I do question 1786 01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.520 is him being able to do it and being on 1787 01:29:12.640 --> 01:29:14.960 the field as much as we would like him to 1788 01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:19.079 be given his expected draft capital in FFPC rookie drafts. 1789 01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:21.640 How oft am I or how on am I? In 1790 01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:24.720 regards to the Sadik size and perhaps some other warning 1791 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:26.079 signs about him, Shane. 1792 01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:29.479 I think it's a fair point, and it's why to me, 1793 01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:32.960 Sidiq is much more. It's much important what the situation 1794 01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:35.680 looks like. You know, if he's drafted to a place 1795 01:29:36.119 --> 01:29:38.600 that has a tight end established, as he goes to 1796 01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:43.239 San Francisco and George Kittle's there short term, then you 1797 01:29:43.319 --> 01:29:45.760 know he's not probably not going to get on the field. 1798 01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:47.159 You know you're going to play him in the slot. 1799 01:29:47.199 --> 01:29:49.760 It's almost the Kyle Pitt's type of situation where we 1800 01:29:49.880 --> 01:29:52.319 know what the talent is, we know what he can 1801 01:29:52.359 --> 01:29:55.399 do as a receiver and as an athlete, but playing 1802 01:29:55.479 --> 01:29:59.560 Sadek in line is almost malpractice because you know, one 1803 01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:04.119 on block NFL edge rushers and uh the edge rushers 1804 01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:06.960 aren't gonna buy that he's blocking them. So, you know, 1805 01:30:07.039 --> 01:30:10.359 I think Sidiq has that ability more so than an 1806 01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:12.960 Ronde Gadsden, for example, as a player that could place 1807 01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:14.840 them in line, that could do some blocking. I think 1808 01:30:14.880 --> 01:30:18.199 the techniques there, you know, but sideiq is is best 1809 01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:20.720 in the red zone. I'm not even one hundred percent 1810 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:22.279 sure he was the best tight end on his team, 1811 01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:25.760 which is a question. So twenty twenty seven Jamary Johnson, 1812 01:30:26.439 --> 01:30:28.880 but you know who it was two fifty seven, and 1813 01:30:29.199 --> 01:30:31.720 you know, has the tight end profile, and Oregon kind 1814 01:30:31.760 --> 01:30:34.159 of was leaning on him a little bit more later 1815 01:30:34.279 --> 01:30:36.680 in the season when they needed someone on the field 1816 01:30:37.439 --> 01:30:39.960 for the run game. So, you know, I think sidiq 1817 01:30:40.479 --> 01:30:42.880 is could be a boon for fantasy because that it's 1818 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:44.920 a nice thing about these top two tight ends, Like 1819 01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.560 if you are drafting them as a team, you're drafting 1820 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:50.000 them to catch the football and so that's at least 1821 01:30:50.079 --> 01:30:52.439 what we can get with Sadik. But I do think 1822 01:30:52.680 --> 01:30:56.720 there should be some trepidation over playing time as a 1823 01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.880 rookie if the situation offers another tight end that that's 1824 01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.960 going to block. The nice thing that we have seen 1825 01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:05.119 the past two years is teams moving to more twelve 1826 01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:08.960 or thirteen personnel teams, Like you know, they are figuring 1827 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:11.960 out that having a tight end in the slot works well, 1828 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:15.279 and that might be a benefit now than it was 1829 01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:18.199 three four years ago. You know, when Pitts was a rookie, 1830 01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:20.319 even though we had such a good rookie year, but 1831 01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:22.279 we saw him get off the field. I think Sadik 1832 01:31:22.319 --> 01:31:25.000 at least could is more than likely going to go 1833 01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:27.000 to a team that's willing to use two tight ends 1834 01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:28.760 and Sadeqk's going to be the one catching passes. 1835 01:31:29.119 --> 01:31:32.600 Yeah, there's no questioning his athleticism and how good, how 1836 01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:35.319 agile he is. In fact, if we were to look 1837 01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:38.760 at his impressive combine performance and compare it to other 1838 01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:41.680 great combine performances, we'd have to go all the way 1839 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:45.159 back to twenty twenty six to see what Eli Stowers did. 1840 01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:47.560 He was unbelievable as well. In fact, some of the 1841 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:51.039 stuff that Sadik did, Stowars did even better. And I 1842 01:31:51.079 --> 01:31:53.680 think they're roughly the same weight. I think Stowars has 1843 01:31:53.800 --> 01:31:56.520 like what three inches maybe on him, three four inches 1844 01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.479 on Sadiq. But this is a guy and I've been 1845 01:31:59.520 --> 01:32:01.479 hearing this more and more over the course of the 1846 01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:05.159 last month. And again maybe this is people, you know, 1847 01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:07.439 just because we don't have a whole lot going on 1848 01:32:07.640 --> 01:32:10.000 right now and we're trying to come up with new narratives. 1849 01:32:10.039 --> 01:32:12.199 But I have heard people say that they like Star 1850 01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:15.239 Wars better at the next level than Kenyan Sneak, which 1851 01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:19.720 could prove to be true. But there are some red 1852 01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:22.159 flags with Stours as well. What are some of those 1853 01:32:22.399 --> 01:32:24.880 and who do you think is more successful at the 1854 01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:28.000 next level? Shane, would you have Stours as your number 1855 01:32:28.039 --> 01:32:29.960 one tight end over Kenya Seek. 1856 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:33.079 I'm try and go quite that far, but I'm definitely 1857 01:32:33.239 --> 01:32:36.520 a Stours fan. You know, this is a four star 1858 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:41.680 quarterback coming into college football who ended up moving to 1859 01:32:41.760 --> 01:32:45.359 tight end, transferring way down, ends up settling at Vanderbilt 1860 01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:48.239 the last two years. We have a profile coming out 1861 01:32:48.319 --> 01:32:51.680 on him either tomorrow or early next week. And I 1862 01:32:51.760 --> 01:32:55.720 did the film study and Diego Pavia was this quarterback 1863 01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:58.600 runner up in the Heisman. I was amazed at how 1864 01:32:58.680 --> 01:33:01.039 much Diego Pavia could not hit Eli Stone, like Eli 1865 01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:03.880 Stowers was making these crazy catches in the open field 1866 01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:07.079 that it shouldn't have happened, you know. So like from 1867 01:33:07.159 --> 01:33:10.920 a a perspective of value, like I'm probably gonna draft 1868 01:33:11.039 --> 01:33:14.560 more Stours in rookie drafts, right instead of spending a 1869 01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:17.479 top five FFPC rookie pick on Sadik, I can move 1870 01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:20.359 down to the late first and take Stours. I don't 1871 01:33:20.399 --> 01:33:23.840 think the difference is enough for fantasy. I do think 1872 01:33:23.880 --> 01:33:26.640 Sidik is more polished, certainly as a blocker. I think 1873 01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:29.479 Sidik is more polished as in terms of a mover 1874 01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:31.640 and the different routes that he has, especially in the 1875 01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:35.159 red zone. But I think Stowars has that potential and 1876 01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:39.840 because of you know, the QB conversion situation is still 1877 01:33:39.880 --> 01:33:42.000 a little bit wrong when we talk about room to grow, 1878 01:33:42.640 --> 01:33:45.039 I think Stowers has that room to grow. I think Sadiq, 1879 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:47.119 you know, could we kind of know what he is 1880 01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:50.239 and has that elite potential. But I think Stowers could 1881 01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:53.359 turn into an elite pass catcher in and Rondez Gasden 1882 01:33:53.520 --> 01:33:56.520 type of role. That's what you're gonna have stours do. 1883 01:33:57.680 --> 01:34:02.319 The wide receiver and tight end portion of Shane Hallum's 1884 01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:05.520 analysis tonight is now complete, but we're not going to 1885 01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:08.720 let Shane go gently into that good night quite yet, 1886 01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:11.640 because we do have to pick his brain on Jeremiah Love, 1887 01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:13.880 who the who his number two running back is in 1888 01:34:13.960 --> 01:34:17.119 this class, plus so much more. He's Shane Hallum, draft 1889 01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:19.479 expert from Draft sharks dot Com at Shane P. 1890 01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:20.359 Hallum on X. 1891 01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:22.479 Don't go anywhere, because when we come back, we'll not 1892 01:34:22.520 --> 01:34:24.560 only be talking about those players, but we'll get into 1893 01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:28.199 Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson as well. 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And I think if there's 1922 01:37:23.399 --> 01:37:25.720 one name, Shane that has come up over and over 1923 01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:28.479 and over again with this year's rookie class, it is 1924 01:37:28.600 --> 01:37:30.680 the Notre Dame Rushier, Jeremiah Love. We don't have to 1925 01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:33.479 spend a whole lot of time talking about him, because 1926 01:37:33.600 --> 01:37:35.880 what can we say that hasn't already been said? What 1927 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:38.720 I will post to you is this, If Love is 1928 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:42.279 to bust at the NFL, why is it? What would 1929 01:37:42.399 --> 01:37:45.319 cause him to bust? If he does have any red flags? 1930 01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:48.760 What are they? What don't you like about Jeremiah Love? 1931 01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:49.119 Right now? 1932 01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:53.359 I think the biggest thing, and we highlighted this and 1933 01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:55.560 the profile up at Draft Sharks, you know when I 1934 01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:58.479 did the film, part portion of that was his vision's 1935 01:37:58.600 --> 01:38:01.600 just slightly inconsistent. And I think if there's one thing 1936 01:38:02.159 --> 01:38:05.239 that's going to cause him to be a bust. I 1937 01:38:05.319 --> 01:38:07.560 don't think it will happen. Would be he goes to 1938 01:38:07.640 --> 01:38:11.680 a place with a subpar offensive line and Love's vision 1939 01:38:11.760 --> 01:38:14.880 isn't enough to overcome that. You know a lot of 1940 01:38:14.960 --> 01:38:17.119 there are a lot of plays where he is running 1941 01:38:17.199 --> 01:38:20.199 to where you know he's if it's an off tackle play, 1942 01:38:20.199 --> 01:38:23.119 he's running off tackle. He's not looking for that cutback lane, 1943 01:38:23.159 --> 01:38:25.840 he's not hitting it, or you know, he's just going 1944 01:38:25.880 --> 01:38:28.279 where the play is supposed to go and missing maybe 1945 01:38:28.319 --> 01:38:30.560 bigger plays there. I think in the NFL, if you 1946 01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:31.920 have a week offensive line, I think we saw with 1947 01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:34.319 Ashton gent last year at times, you know a week 1948 01:38:34.359 --> 01:38:37.199 offensive line and you have some of those vision limitations. 1949 01:38:37.319 --> 01:38:39.600 That's like the one thing it can sometimes be tough 1950 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:44.760 to overcome that blocking. Whereas you know Adrian Peterson, one 1951 01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:46.279 of the best running backs of all timer I had 1952 01:38:46.359 --> 01:38:49.359 great vision and he could overcome a bad offensive line 1953 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:52.119 because he'd always find wherever there was a whole, he 1954 01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:54.439 could find it and get there. I don't think Jeremiah 1955 01:38:54.439 --> 01:38:55.760 Love has that type of ability. 1956 01:38:56.960 --> 01:38:59.119 All the teams you mentioned in the first hour, Titans 1957 01:38:59.199 --> 01:39:02.039 Commander's Giant. If you had the one on one chain 1958 01:39:02.119 --> 01:39:04.720 and you were dead set on taking Love, which team 1959 01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:07.159 would you want him to go to out of those 1960 01:39:07.239 --> 01:39:09.840 three that would maximize his fantasy potential? 1961 01:39:11.079 --> 01:39:13.079 I think I think I'll have a little bit of downside. 1962 01:39:13.199 --> 01:39:17.600 I kind of lean Titans because you know, I always 1963 01:39:17.600 --> 01:39:21.039 worry about a running back with a rushing quarterback. I 1964 01:39:21.079 --> 01:39:23.960 think Jackson Dart and Jane Daniels are probably more rushing 1965 01:39:24.119 --> 01:39:26.520 quarterbacks than Kim Ward is, though he is a little 1966 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:29.920 bit too, But you know, I think there's more downside 1967 01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:32.560 for that offense as a whole. You know, Washington's probably 1968 01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:36.079 the safest bet, you know, but I don't think. I 1969 01:39:36.079 --> 01:39:38.760 don't think landing spot matters for Love. Someone's taking him 1970 01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:40.119 in the top ten. He's He's the one on one 1971 01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:44.239 in every format for me, even at super Flex. Yes, 1972 01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.359 though you can make an argument depending on your team, 1973 01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:49.920 to take Mendoza over Love. I'm taking Love one on 1974 01:39:50.000 --> 01:39:51.159 one in the super Flex League. 1975 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:56.399 If you're if your three quarterbacks were cam Ward, Aaron Rodgers, 1976 01:39:56.479 --> 01:39:58.439 and Justin Fields and you have the one on one, 1977 01:39:58.680 --> 01:40:00.880 would you take Doza over Love? 1978 01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:09.319 Maybe? Yeah, you know, I think it depends on really 1979 01:40:09.359 --> 01:40:11.439 twenty twenty seven. You know, like like that league where 1980 01:40:11.439 --> 01:40:12.960 have a bunch of twenty twenty seven picks. I'm going 1981 01:40:13.000 --> 01:40:15.439 to take Love one on one, and my quarterbacks will 1982 01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:17.720 still stink. And you know I'll worry about that in 1983 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:18.000 a year. 1984 01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:22.199 Uh yeah, that's that's a problem for future you right right. 1985 01:40:23.880 --> 01:40:28.640 The list of potential number two running backs in this 1986 01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:33.640 draft goes on and on. Shane, I've heard Washington, I've 1987 01:40:33.760 --> 01:40:37.079 heard Johnson, I've heard Price, I've heard Coleman. There was 1988 01:40:37.119 --> 01:40:38.840 a time I'm old enough to remember when it was 1989 01:40:38.920 --> 01:40:42.079 Nick Singleton was the number two in this class too. 1990 01:40:42.159 --> 01:40:45.720 As a DeBie player, you probably know even better than me. 1991 01:40:46.680 --> 01:40:50.159 Who is your number two running back right now in 1992 01:40:50.319 --> 01:40:50.920 this class? 1993 01:40:52.439 --> 01:40:56.239 It's Genarian Price, the other Notre Dame running back Jeremi 1994 01:40:56.319 --> 01:41:01.039 Loves teammate. I think being Jeremi Love's teammate does have 1995 01:41:01.159 --> 01:41:04.720 some red flags to it. Where Jerring Price, he wasn't 1996 01:41:04.800 --> 01:41:07.119 used as a receiver at all. And this is where 1997 01:41:07.119 --> 01:41:09.520 I think, you know, film and then even the work 1998 01:41:09.560 --> 01:41:13.760 at the combine, the drills are important. Jenerium Price looks 1999 01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:17.880 like a natural pass catcher. I'm sure, Bulky you remember 2000 01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:20.920 Jonathan Taylor and the narratives around his past catching and 2001 01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:23.039 then the combine. I was like, he looks like one 2002 01:41:23.079 --> 01:41:25.720 of the best pass catchers in this draft, and he 2003 01:41:25.960 --> 01:41:28.079 was right, but that's what knocked him. I think Price 2004 01:41:28.159 --> 01:41:31.479 has that. You know, it's such a smooth mover. He's tough, 2005 01:41:31.840 --> 01:41:34.640 really low pad level, has some home run ability, even 2006 01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:37.680 though you know Love's not. He's a four or five 2007 01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:42.520 speed player. He's not maybe the quickest, so he's doesn't 2008 01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:45.279 have this elite athleticism like a Mike Washington. But I 2009 01:41:45.319 --> 01:41:48.159 think Price has that combination that can work. We've now 2010 01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:52.000 seen two big time mock draft smel Kiper and Daniel 2011 01:41:52.039 --> 01:41:55.319 Jeremiah with jeneriing Price in round one. Again, to me, 2012 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:57.319 he tells you how bad the twenty twenty six classes 2013 01:41:57.319 --> 01:41:59.159 as a whole. Jenering Price is getting into the first 2014 01:41:59.239 --> 01:42:01.479 round of the NFL draft, but that's not out of 2015 01:42:01.520 --> 01:42:02.399 their own possibility. 2016 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:06.079 Do you have do you in your mock draft? Do 2017 01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:07.479 you just have Love in the first round? 2018 01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:10.520 Yeah? It just love for me. I think Price will 2019 01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:14.159 be a top fifty pick and I We'll see where 2020 01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:15.880 these other running backs land after that. 2021 01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:19.560 Yeah, how many running backs do you think if Love 2022 01:42:19.680 --> 01:42:22.199 is the only one on day one. How many running 2023 01:42:22.239 --> 01:42:23.760 backs get drafted on day two? 2024 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:28.920 I I mean, I'll probably I would probably bet on four. 2025 01:42:29.960 --> 01:42:35.319 My gut tells me three. Uh and I but I 2026 01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:37.439 like the Penn State guys enough that I want to 2027 01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:41.159 believe there's a chance, But I feel like it'll be 2028 01:42:41.239 --> 01:42:42.640 less than we want. 2029 01:42:44.279 --> 01:42:47.600 We were talking about Washington Huskies before. I think Joan 2030 01:42:47.680 --> 01:42:50.800 of Coleman played in Arizona right before transferring to Washington. 2031 01:42:50.840 --> 01:42:52.399 Am I making that up? Or did that happen? 2032 01:42:52.920 --> 01:42:53.239 Correct? 2033 01:42:53.560 --> 01:42:56.840 Okay, all right, good, I'm not losing it. Coleman is 2034 01:42:56.920 --> 01:42:59.399 a guy that you do not put in front of Price. 2035 01:42:59.520 --> 01:43:03.279 You have in front of Coleman. But certainly Coleman, with 2036 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:06.880 his size and his chops in the backfield, there there 2037 01:43:07.039 --> 01:43:10.159 is there are some some really good traits to like 2038 01:43:10.239 --> 01:43:12.439 with Coleman, and ultimately I think he could be really 2039 01:43:12.520 --> 01:43:15.640 successful at the next level if he is paired in 2040 01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:17.760 the right sort of tandem. I don't think he'll ever 2041 01:43:17.840 --> 01:43:20.800 be a Bellkow. But perhaps you think that there is 2042 01:43:20.880 --> 01:43:21.880 that ceiling for Coleman. 2043 01:43:22.920 --> 01:43:26.800 I think that ceiling exists short term. You know, I 2044 01:43:27.079 --> 01:43:29.039 don't think he's ever gonna I don't think Jonah Coleman's 2045 01:43:29.039 --> 01:43:31.399 ever going to be a top five NFL running back 2046 01:43:31.479 --> 01:43:33.600 that you're like, Wow, this guy's you know, on that 2047 01:43:33.720 --> 01:43:36.520 Saquon Barkley level. Like Jonah Coleman. You go back to 2048 01:43:36.560 --> 01:43:39.039 twenty twenty four and watch this film and I think 2049 01:43:39.079 --> 01:43:41.720 you see a player that's more explosive, that's a little 2050 01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:45.439 you know, a little more athletic in short space, and 2051 01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:48.880 like last year was just just a touch slower a touch. 2052 01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:51.880 I'm not sure why, and that's that's kind of my 2053 01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:55.399 big question. But still, you know, the size, the cutting ability. 2054 01:43:55.880 --> 01:43:57.960 You know, he doesn't fumble, he does everything right, the 2055 01:43:58.039 --> 01:44:02.359 technique's good, the vision solid. Like he's an NFL contributing 2056 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:04.960 He's a one bee that is going to get a 2057 01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:07.439 good amount of carries and I think produced with those carries. 2058 01:44:07.760 --> 01:44:11.119 He just needs that chance. So I like Coleman. I 2059 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:14.600 think situation is more important for him than maybe the 2060 01:44:14.680 --> 01:44:15.760 other backs in this range. 2061 01:44:16.399 --> 01:44:23.520 The decision by Emma Johnson to do everything at the combine. 2062 01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:24.960 I think he was the only who did the three 2063 01:44:25.039 --> 01:44:26.800 cone the only running back right that did the three 2064 01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:30.439 cone drop. And he was being lauded by a lot 2065 01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:34.159 of people in the fantasy football industry that he was, 2066 01:44:34.359 --> 01:44:36.000 that they were happy to see him go out there. 2067 01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:38.159 It shows that he wants to compete, that he was 2068 01:44:38.239 --> 01:44:41.159 doing everything, which I think is kind of nice in 2069 01:44:41.239 --> 01:44:44.600 a vacuum. But ultimately, if I'm looking at these guys, 2070 01:44:44.720 --> 01:44:46.880 I just assume they have that killer instinct. I just 2071 01:44:47.000 --> 01:44:49.359 assume that all these guys want to compete. And if 2072 01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:52.079 I'm Emma Johnson and I know doing the three cone 2073 01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:54.399 and the forty is gonna hurt me, I ain't doing it, 2074 01:44:54.479 --> 01:44:57.119 and I'll let teams figure it out themselves. So I 2075 01:44:57.199 --> 01:44:59.680 was kind of disappointed. I guess maybe I was more 2076 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:02.039 dis pointed, not in his decision to do all these 2077 01:45:02.279 --> 01:45:04.680 but the actual execution of it, which turned out bad. 2078 01:45:04.680 --> 01:45:07.079 Because I was kind of high on Emma Johnson until 2079 01:45:07.159 --> 01:45:09.279 I saw what he did at the Combine, and now 2080 01:45:09.319 --> 01:45:11.840 I'm not nearly as high. And some of these, you know, 2081 01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:13.600 a couple of the other guys Coleman and Price will 2082 01:45:13.600 --> 01:45:15.920 talk about Washington in a second. I actually like a 2083 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:19.600 little bit more. Johnson looked pretty good in the Big 2084 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:22.479 Tent last year, and now I'm wondering if he does 2085 01:45:22.600 --> 01:45:24.760 have the chops to succeed on the next level. Shane, 2086 01:45:24.880 --> 01:45:27.119 where do you have Emma Johnson among your running backs. 2087 01:45:28.199 --> 01:45:30.680 Yeah, I mean I think for me, he kind of 2088 01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:34.119 sits in that RB four A range. I have him 2089 01:45:34.119 --> 01:45:37.520 above Washington, And you know, I think Johnson is an 2090 01:45:37.560 --> 01:45:41.640 elite pass catcher, and I think NFL teams now have 2091 01:45:42.079 --> 01:45:44.439 a lot more tools at their disposal. So you know, 2092 01:45:44.479 --> 01:45:46.840 if you remember gunner Helm last year at the combine, 2093 01:45:46.960 --> 01:45:49.600 was injured and did everything anyway, and like you look 2094 01:45:49.640 --> 01:45:51.880 at his RADS score and it's deep red and it's 2095 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:55.319 like this guy stinks. Right, But teams now you know 2096 01:45:55.399 --> 01:45:57.560 you have film, you have GPS tracking on that film, 2097 01:45:57.880 --> 01:45:59.319 Like there's a lot of things you can do to 2098 01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:02.039 check the numbers and see what you want to do. 2099 01:46:02.119 --> 01:46:05.680 I think Emma Johnson, you know, I think competing is 2100 01:46:05.720 --> 01:46:07.760 good for him. But he is small and he is 2101 01:46:08.159 --> 01:46:11.880 slow for that size. But everything else to me is 2102 01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:15.239 like really good. This is probably the best catching, pass 2103 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:17.279 catching running back in the class. He's a really good 2104 01:46:17.399 --> 01:46:20.760 just rhythm runner, Like the patter of his feet moved 2105 01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:22.159 to kind of a style where he can make that 2106 01:46:22.319 --> 01:46:24.720 shift and it's a lot more consistent. He's not like 2107 01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:27.560 this herky, jerky, you know, an open space guy, and 2108 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:29.960 it makes some really tough to bring down and get 2109 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:32.960 a clean hit on him, which I always like. Knows 2110 01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:35.239 how to kind of set up the second level. Takes 2111 01:46:35.319 --> 01:46:38.520 good angles watching his film like this could be the 2112 01:46:38.680 --> 01:46:40.800 RB two in the class if he was a little 2113 01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:43.199 bit more athletic, you know, if we saw this for 2114 01:46:43.359 --> 01:46:46.880 multiple years. So it definitely holds me back. I think 2115 01:46:47.039 --> 01:46:50.840 Emma Johnson, I like for fantasy more than reality. Even 2116 01:46:51.239 --> 01:46:53.520 because of the pass catching, I just think he's gonna 2117 01:46:53.520 --> 01:46:55.279 be hard to keep off the field. I think you're 2118 01:46:55.279 --> 01:46:57.199 at least gonna get some receiving out of him. 2119 01:46:57.479 --> 01:46:59.439 Yeah, which is great. We love that. We love pass 2120 01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:02.239 catching run. I'm willing to look the other way on 2121 01:47:02.359 --> 01:47:04.520 a lot of stuff when it comes to pass catching. 2122 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:08.359 Running backs. Mike Washington Junior was probably the biggest winner 2123 01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:12.000 at the running back position at the Combine athletically. I mean, 2124 01:47:12.079 --> 01:47:14.920 his speed score was unbelievable. What he was able to 2125 01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:18.199 do at his weight and getting that body that size 2126 01:47:18.279 --> 01:47:21.520 to move that fast was pretty awesome. I know he's 2127 01:47:21.560 --> 01:47:24.359 dealt with some injuries before. I saw some people Shane 2128 01:47:24.760 --> 01:47:27.600 moving him up to their running back two in the class. 2129 01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:29.840 Now we know you didn't do that, but at the 2130 01:47:29.920 --> 01:47:32.800 same time. Where was he? Was he a Day three 2131 01:47:32.880 --> 01:47:34.760 pick for you prior to the Combine and it's now 2132 01:47:34.920 --> 01:47:37.520 day two? Or did you not bump him up as much. 2133 01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:40.359 After the Senior Bowl had him as a Day two 2134 01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:45.239 pick in round three? And so this maybe his athleticisms 2135 01:47:45.560 --> 01:47:48.079 was better than I expected. I mean, how could it 2136 01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:50.680 not have been? But I gin guess we expected something 2137 01:47:50.760 --> 01:47:53.520 pretty good. So I could see Washington being the third 2138 01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:56.800 running back off the board after Love and Price, you know, 2139 01:47:57.680 --> 01:47:59.720 but you know, I went back. I tweeted kind of 2140 01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:01.960 a threat about this when I was working on the 2141 01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.600 film article for draft shirts for what Mike Washington went 2142 01:48:04.680 --> 01:48:07.239 back to his new Mexico State tape and watched him 2143 01:48:07.640 --> 01:48:10.039 and it's like it's like a completely different player, you know, 2144 01:48:10.119 --> 01:48:12.359 two years ago, and no idea what he's looking for 2145 01:48:12.520 --> 01:48:15.520 in a hole, no idea you know how to how 2146 01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:18.039 to kind of shift and make a cut behind the 2147 01:48:18.119 --> 01:48:21.039 line to get the most out of that explosion. He'd 2148 01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:24.760 slow down a lot to make a cut. Well, you know, 2149 01:48:25.479 --> 01:48:28.199 in the fumbles have carried on through this year. And 2150 01:48:28.279 --> 01:48:30.960 then you watch him in Arkansas against the SEC, and 2151 01:48:31.039 --> 01:48:33.640 you see a player that clearly got much better coaching 2152 01:48:34.079 --> 01:48:36.000 at the running back position and what to look for 2153 01:48:36.199 --> 01:48:37.640 and how to make a cut and what the what 2154 01:48:37.760 --> 01:48:40.279 your feet are supposed to do. So to me, that 2155 01:48:40.359 --> 01:48:42.439 bodes well. I mean you see the improvement from him. Yeah, 2156 01:48:42.439 --> 01:48:44.840 he's older, he's only had one year of development. I 2157 01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:46.359 think it's a red flag. I think you got to 2158 01:48:46.399 --> 01:48:48.399 be worried. You know, he is a receiver in high school. 2159 01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:50.760 I think the receiving chops come out despite the size. 2160 01:48:51.239 --> 01:48:52.920 I think there's a lot to like that power and 2161 01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:55.960 smooth movement. I think the upside is, you know, a 2162 01:48:56.079 --> 01:48:58.079 lead running back is an elite running back. I think 2163 01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:00.560 the downside is a player that can't you'll get on 2164 01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:03.239 the field that that's more athlete than running back. So 2165 01:49:03.399 --> 01:49:05.640 probably the biggest boom or bust of this running back 2166 01:49:05.640 --> 01:49:07.079 class are those. 2167 01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:10.199 The four guys that we just discussed Coleman, Price, Johnson, Washington. 2168 01:49:10.319 --> 01:49:13.560 Are those the four guys if they if you were 2169 01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:15.359 to say four running backs are gonna go on day two? 2170 01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:17.279 Are those of the four that go on day two? 2171 01:49:18.039 --> 01:49:22.159 Yes? I think Johnson's on the border and I think 2172 01:49:22.239 --> 01:49:24.880 he could fall out of there, you know why, Like 2173 01:49:25.119 --> 01:49:27.960 kind of my guts is three. But those are the 2174 01:49:28.039 --> 01:49:29.760 four that I envision. 2175 01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:32.119 All Right, we have to talk We talked about the 2176 01:49:32.199 --> 01:49:33.880 Notre Dame guys. We have to talk about the Penn 2177 01:49:33.880 --> 01:49:38.479 State guys here too, because Penn State was such a 2178 01:49:38.560 --> 01:49:42.560 wild story this year where Drew Aller comes back, Singleton's 2179 01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:44.680 coming back. You know, they had all these this talent 2180 01:49:45.119 --> 01:49:48.600 and they were under they were undefeated. Who do they 2181 01:49:48.640 --> 01:49:50.680 lose to? Is it Indiana? Was that the first loss 2182 01:49:50.720 --> 01:49:54.399 that they had this season? And things just fell apart. 2183 01:49:54.520 --> 01:49:57.560 James Franklin gets fired. Now he's at Virginia Tech before 2184 01:49:57.600 --> 01:50:01.000 the college season even ends. As faris Bieler would say, 2185 01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:05.399 things move pretty fast around here. Nick Singleton, you've known 2186 01:50:05.520 --> 01:50:10.159 for years, uh to owning him in Debi what happened 2187 01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:15.000 to him at Penn State to to lose so much 2188 01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:18.239 of his prospect shine to the point where now a 2189 01:50:18.279 --> 01:50:20.640 lot of people would even put k Tron Allen above 2190 01:50:20.760 --> 01:50:24.159 him and Shane. The fact that he's got he's dealing 2191 01:50:24.199 --> 01:50:26.760 with a broken foot right now. Is somebody going to 2192 01:50:26.840 --> 01:50:29.119 find a nice little value on him. Some team gonna 2193 01:50:29.119 --> 01:50:31.199 find a nice value on him when it comes to 2194 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:33.880 be the NFL Draft. Knowing that, you know, we don't 2195 01:50:33.960 --> 01:50:36.000 know how far along the foot is to being healed, 2196 01:50:36.039 --> 01:50:38.640 and we missed out on a lot of stuff at 2197 01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:42.479 the combine and workouts and stuff after he fractured his 2198 01:50:42.560 --> 01:50:43.520 foot at the Senior Bowl. 2199 01:50:44.720 --> 01:50:46.840 Yeah, I mean, I think that hurts, but I think 2200 01:50:46.880 --> 01:50:49.840 the NFL and US know he's an elite athlete, is 2201 01:50:49.960 --> 01:50:52.680 one of the best athletes of the position. Singleton and 2202 01:50:52.760 --> 01:50:55.199 Kate Troan Allen couldn't be more different. Singleton was this 2203 01:50:55.479 --> 01:50:59.520 elite athlete, super explosive, the deep speed was there, of 2204 01:50:59.520 --> 01:51:01.880 the home run threats there, just never could get the 2205 01:51:02.000 --> 01:51:06.119 running back position down with you know, the division was 2206 01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:08.760 so poor early in his career and he saw like 2207 01:51:08.880 --> 01:51:11.760 slight improvements every year. But I was just waiting for 2208 01:51:11.920 --> 01:51:14.479 the blow up the year that Nick Singleton would become, 2209 01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:17.279 you know, a fully well rounded running back. You know, 2210 01:51:17.359 --> 01:51:21.560 in a Penn State system that has some of the 2211 01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:24.920 best training staff in college football. You know, we see 2212 01:51:24.920 --> 01:51:27.239 the elite athletes out of Penn State every year, like, 2213 01:51:27.560 --> 01:51:30.279 how do you not develop as a runner? And that's 2214 01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:32.840 what gets me, like, I think I'll have a lot 2215 01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:37.000 of Nick Singleton and rookie drafts because I'll bet on 2216 01:51:37.159 --> 01:51:40.039 the upside and he's gonna come to me we'll see 2217 01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:42.399 what the situations are. But cheaper than a Mike Washington, 2218 01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:44.800 cheaper than you know, Jonah Coleman, And I think the 2219 01:51:44.920 --> 01:51:49.479 upside is above those players. But I never saw an 2220 01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:52.720 NFL running back in terms of the little things, the vision, 2221 01:51:53.079 --> 01:51:55.880 the footwork, the ability to make guys miss just never 2222 01:51:56.000 --> 01:51:58.880 came around. Whereas Kate ron Allen is like the perfect 2223 01:51:59.199 --> 01:52:02.399 technique running back who you know knows knows how to 2224 01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:04.239 how to get low through the hole and knows how 2225 01:52:04.279 --> 01:52:07.399 to take contact and uh, you know, knows how to 2226 01:52:07.479 --> 01:52:09.560 how to what cutback lanes to look for, how to 2227 01:52:09.600 --> 01:52:13.279 follow zone blocks that Nick Singleton just ignores. But Alan 2228 01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:16.920 just isn't explosive, Like he is so slow off the 2229 01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:19.039 snap that you're like, I don't think this can work 2230 01:52:19.359 --> 01:52:22.039 in the NFL. And it's why I still see both 2231 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:24.319 his Day three picks, like, I think a team in 2232 01:52:24.439 --> 01:52:26.560 this weak or twenty twenty six class could take a 2233 01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:29.560 shot on either one in round three, but uh, I 2234 01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:32.720 think both just have these glaring holes out there that 2235 01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:35.359 makes it tough to really see either one as a 2236 01:52:35.720 --> 01:52:38.079 day you know, Day one player contributor in the NFL. 2237 01:52:38.920 --> 01:52:42.439 If only you could combine those and make a Nick 2238 01:52:42.560 --> 01:52:46.319 Allen or a k Trot Singleton. You'd have somebody competing 2239 01:52:46.359 --> 01:52:48.520 with Jeremiah Love to be the number one running back 2240 01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:51.439 drafted this year. Alas we don't have that. We have 2241 01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:54.159 two separate players. If you were to take a shot 2242 01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:57.800 on one of these guys at the next level right now, Shane, 2243 01:52:58.119 --> 01:53:00.520 not knowing where they end up, would you rather put 2244 01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:02.159 your chips on Singleton or Alan? 2245 01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:06.439 Yeah, give me Singleton. I mean I think Alan could 2246 01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:09.680 be fine, could you know, be a nice bench running 2247 01:53:09.720 --> 01:53:13.159 back for you. But like at this point, I mean 2248 01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:15.760 I would swing for the fences and give me a 2249 01:53:15.880 --> 01:53:18.239 Nick Singleton if he goes to a good situation, gets 2250 01:53:18.279 --> 01:53:20.399 the playing time, gets the coaching that he could be 2251 01:53:21.000 --> 01:53:22.640 the best running back to come out of this class, 2252 01:53:22.800 --> 01:53:24.880 which is saying something when you have Jeremiah Love out there. 2253 01:53:25.560 --> 01:53:28.119 The last running back I want to talk about is 2254 01:53:28.680 --> 01:53:32.479 Demon Claiborne, the Wake Forest product, a guy that I 2255 01:53:32.600 --> 01:53:35.920 was I was drafting in this Super Sunday draft in Louisville, 2256 01:53:36.159 --> 01:53:40.640 Super Bowl weekend with a redraft manage league is not 2257 01:53:40.680 --> 01:53:43.279 even best ball, and I did see Claiborne go off 2258 01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:45.720 the board in a handful of drafts towards the end, 2259 01:53:46.359 --> 01:53:48.680 I'm wondering what you think of him as a pro. 2260 01:53:49.359 --> 01:53:51.600 Is he big enough, is he strong enough? Do enough 2261 01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:55.920 people like him, as Stuart Smalley would say, to be 2262 01:53:56.039 --> 01:53:58.399 a successful NFL running back. How much of a sleeper 2263 01:53:58.479 --> 01:54:00.640 is Claiborne in this year class shame? 2264 01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:03.000 Yeah, I think he's intriguing. I mean, he's a really 2265 01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:06.720 good athlete who had the rib injury this year I 2266 01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:09.399 think kind of capped him. The wake Forest offense wasn't 2267 01:54:09.439 --> 01:54:11.560 as good two years ago. You see that kind of 2268 01:54:11.560 --> 01:54:14.760 speed demon shiftiness in the open field that can have 2269 01:54:14.840 --> 01:54:16.560 a role in the NFL. I mean, I think Claiborne 2270 01:54:16.640 --> 01:54:18.520 is probably gonna make his bones as a return guy. 2271 01:54:18.960 --> 01:54:21.199 That's gonna be kind of the first thing, and then 2272 01:54:21.439 --> 01:54:23.439 he can be kind of a third down running back. 2273 01:54:23.960 --> 01:54:27.079 He gets tackled too easily. He's you know a little 2274 01:54:27.159 --> 01:54:29.920 more always trying to make the big play and sometimes 2275 01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:32.720 gets some caught and because he can't really break a tackle, 2276 01:54:34.119 --> 01:54:36.479 it goes poorly for him. So I definitely see him 2277 01:54:36.479 --> 01:54:38.960 as more of a number two running back in the league. 2278 01:54:39.079 --> 01:54:41.760 But he could have you know, big run and it's 2279 01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:44.119 seventy yard touchdown here and there. That makes you say, oh, 2280 01:54:44.399 --> 01:54:46.199 he's a guy should have, you know, on the bench. 2281 01:54:47.600 --> 01:54:49.840 Moving on to quarterbacks, as we wrap up the running 2282 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:54.720 back conversation, Bernanda Mendoz is an interesting player because a 2283 01:54:54.960 --> 01:54:57.640 not interesting player. Well, he is an interesting player, but 2284 01:54:57.720 --> 01:55:00.439 the whole thing about the situation is very interesting and 2285 01:55:01.039 --> 01:55:04.119 interesting in a good way. He's probably gonna be selected 2286 01:55:04.199 --> 01:55:06.319 number one. He's gonna go to the Raiders. They have 2287 01:55:06.439 --> 01:55:09.920 Clint Kubiak, who I think is a really smart offensive 2288 01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:13.880 guy who knows how to scheme his players up to 2289 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:16.960 play to their strengths, which I think is a feather 2290 01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:20.600 in Mendoza's cap. He's gonna have genty behind him. He's 2291 01:55:20.640 --> 01:55:23.600 gonna have an improved and healthier offensive line in front 2292 01:55:23.600 --> 01:55:26.439 of him. Rock Bauers obviously on this team. Jalen Naylor's 2293 01:55:26.479 --> 01:55:29.279 there as well. We'll see what Jack Besh does in 2294 01:55:29.680 --> 01:55:32.279 his second year, so he's got some things to work 2295 01:55:32.359 --> 01:55:38.239 with there in Las Vegas. I think what's interesting is, 2296 01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:41.039 at least the reporting that I'm seeing is that the 2297 01:55:41.119 --> 01:55:43.479 Raiders don't want to start him week one. They want 2298 01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:47.359 some veteran to kind of start over him and then 2299 01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:49.560 ease Mendoza, in which I think is the right way 2300 01:55:49.640 --> 01:55:53.319 to do it. My question for you is, even though 2301 01:55:53.439 --> 01:55:55.359 he is going to be the number one overall pick 2302 01:55:55.439 --> 01:55:58.199 and he won the Heisman and he was the National 2303 01:55:58.319 --> 01:56:01.640 Championship quarterback and all these things, how good of a 2304 01:56:01.720 --> 01:56:03.520 pro is he going to be? Like? What? What's his 2305 01:56:03.720 --> 01:56:06.560 ceiling at the next level. I've heard a lot of 2306 01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:10.239 Jared Goff comparisons, which I think is fine, but at 2307 01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:12.119 the one on one I would I would hope for more, 2308 01:56:12.279 --> 01:56:14.840 something more dynamic than that. At the peak of his 2309 01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:17.640 powers in the NFL shape, what's Mendoza going to be? 2310 01:56:19.520 --> 01:56:19.840 Uh So? 2311 01:56:20.039 --> 01:56:22.479 So my compent a rookie guide, I think is it 2312 01:56:22.600 --> 01:56:25.800 was Eli Manning with some rush rushing ability, you know, 2313 01:56:25.920 --> 01:56:29.199 tossed in some scrambling ability tossed in which I think 2314 01:56:29.239 --> 01:56:31.840 is better than Jared Goff, but still probably more than 2315 01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:34.279 more than you want with with the one on one right, 2316 01:56:34.560 --> 01:56:36.760 And I think that's what Mendoz is going to be. Like, 2317 01:56:36.800 --> 01:56:38.880 I think I'm with you. I think a situation's perfect 2318 01:56:39.199 --> 01:56:43.880 Kubiak offense allows a quarterback to to really be in timing, 2319 01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:46.760 you know, be able to get those throws out, and 2320 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:48.720 Mendoz is accurate enough to I think to hit that 2321 01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:51.840 and do that. He's going to have the offensive line upgrade. 2322 01:56:51.840 --> 01:56:53.840 He's gonna have brock Bowers, he's gonna have Ashton Gent 2323 01:56:54.039 --> 01:56:56.039 to lean on. That run game. Kubiak is always going 2324 01:56:56.079 --> 01:56:58.000 to be run first. I think all this works. I 2325 01:56:58.039 --> 01:57:01.640 think where Mendoza falters is under pressure, and there just 2326 01:57:01.760 --> 01:57:03.920 wasn't a ton of that because of the RPOs and 2327 01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:06.479 the timing rounds that they had in Indiana. But when 2328 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:08.760 he did get pressured in the Big Ten Championship against 2329 01:57:08.800 --> 01:57:11.560 Ohio State, for example, you know that that's where he struggled. 2330 01:57:11.560 --> 01:57:13.239 And there's times he put on the Superman cape and 2331 01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:16.159 and and made a great throw under pressure and it worked. 2332 01:57:16.199 --> 01:57:18.159 And so I think you see those flashes, but I 2333 01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:20.239 think it's going to take some time for him to 2334 01:57:20.279 --> 01:57:22.399 do that. It's great to want to start a veteran. 2335 01:57:23.039 --> 01:57:25.239 There's not a veteran on the market I think is 2336 01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:27.520 going to compete with Mendoza in camp and and the 2337 01:57:27.560 --> 01:57:30.960 whole team's gonna say, you gotta, you gotta start this year. 2338 01:57:31.000 --> 01:57:33.000 They gotta start Mendoza, like he's so much better. Right, 2339 01:57:33.079 --> 01:57:34.760 you know you're gonna lose the team if you don't 2340 01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:37.520 start the best quarterback so I think he'll be good. 2341 01:57:37.600 --> 01:57:38.880 I don't think he's going to be great. 2342 01:57:47.279 --> 01:57:49.800 Oh do we lose Shane. We may have lost Shane, 2343 01:57:50.520 --> 01:57:51.119 or maybe it's me. 2344 01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:55.560 He's still hearing you go out there, we go, You're back, 2345 01:57:55.680 --> 01:57:59.159 You're back, We're we're both turning there. 2346 01:57:59.319 --> 01:58:01.880 All right. Sorry, good, not great, is what I'm hearing 2347 01:58:01.960 --> 01:58:05.319 from you, Shane, And for at least from fantasy. Yeah, 2348 01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:08.239 I think there's a capped up side with Mendoza. You know, 2349 01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:10.439 people trying to call the Joe Burrow. I mean, Joe 2350 01:58:10.479 --> 01:58:13.640 Burrow was elite in that season at LSU. I mean, 2351 01:58:13.760 --> 01:58:17.880 under pressure, every throw was incredible. Like Mendoza is not that. 2352 01:58:18.600 --> 01:58:21.399 But I think he has the traits to be, you know, 2353 01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:24.960 to be in the Brock Purty tier of quarterback where 2354 01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:27.760 he could be a top twelve quarter fantasy quarterback. But 2355 01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:32.039 you just you're not gonna get the number one scorer. 2356 01:58:32.319 --> 01:58:32.479 Ever. 2357 01:58:33.159 --> 01:58:36.039 The only other quarterback I'll bring up is Ty Simpson. 2358 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:42.000 I'm very concerned about his lack of collegiate experience and 2359 01:58:42.439 --> 01:58:44.399 now when he gets to the next level, I hope 2360 01:58:44.439 --> 01:58:46.880 he doesn't land with a team that's gonna throw him 2361 01:58:46.880 --> 01:58:48.920 into the fire right away. This is what I would 2362 01:58:48.960 --> 01:58:51.199 have loved if the Rams would have kept that extra 2363 01:58:51.279 --> 01:58:53.880 first round pick to draft him and let him marinate 2364 01:58:54.000 --> 01:58:57.479 behind Matthew Stafford. And now I just fear like this 2365 01:58:57.680 --> 01:58:59.920 guy is not going to be given a proper chance 2366 01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:02.960 at the next level. If he was, and if he did, 2367 01:59:03.359 --> 01:59:05.880 certainly I think there's some upside there. I just I 2368 01:59:05.920 --> 01:59:07.760 guess I don't know how much. How would you rate 2369 01:59:07.840 --> 01:59:10.399 Ty Simpson as far as how well, how good of 2370 01:59:10.439 --> 01:59:11.680 a pro career you think he's going to have. 2371 01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:14.920 Yeah, I mean I'm concerned over the last ten years, 2372 01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:18.239 first round quarterbacks with fifteen or fewer starts, Anthony Richardson, 2373 01:59:18.600 --> 01:59:22.880 Mitch Trubisky, Dwayne Haskins. That's the list that's not good. 2374 01:59:22.960 --> 01:59:24.840 That's not a good list to be on right now. 2375 01:59:24.880 --> 01:59:28.359 I think Tysons is very different from saying Anthony Richardson 2376 01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:29.840 or one of those type of players, Like what ty 2377 01:59:29.880 --> 01:59:32.039 Simpson's good at. His dad is the head coach at 2378 01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:34.840 UC Davis for twenty years. Like tysubs has probably had 2379 01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:37.680 a QB coach when he was four. You know, his technique, 2380 01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:41.439 I mean, his footwork is excellent. He but just the 2381 01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:44.960 decision making and the arm strength isn't there, you know, 2382 01:59:45.079 --> 01:59:47.600 and so when to me, like you look at a 2383 01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:50.439 guy like Cole Payton from North Dakota State, a quarterback 2384 01:59:50.479 --> 01:59:52.920 in this class who is footwork's all over the place, 2385 01:59:53.000 --> 01:59:55.319 but his arm is stronger than Simpson. If I clean 2386 01:59:55.399 --> 01:59:57.239 up that footwork, that arm gets a little bit stronger. 2387 01:59:57.520 --> 01:59:59.880 I think Simpson's capped out in a lot of those places. 2388 02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:02.039 He doesn't have the experience I think to make the 2389 02:00:02.119 --> 02:00:03.880 right decisions and get the ball in the right place. 2390 02:00:04.199 --> 02:00:06.479 I have a lot of fear. I think if it's 2391 02:00:06.520 --> 02:00:08.600 better for Simpson to go in around two, you know, 2392 02:00:08.800 --> 02:00:12.640 to get that and I don't think I haven't rated 2393 02:00:12.800 --> 02:00:15.239 currently as a late second round pick. I mean, he's 2394 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:17.760 obviously going to go higher than that, but I certainly 2395 02:00:17.920 --> 02:00:20.439 don't like him going in the first round than what 2396 02:00:20.560 --> 02:00:21.720 that means for his future. 2397 02:00:23.039 --> 02:00:26.680 Shane, this has been awesome having you tonight talking all 2398 02:00:26.720 --> 02:00:29.399 these rookies, and for anybody who's watching or listening and 2399 02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:33.119 they want to get more. The Draft Sharks Rookie Guide 2400 02:00:33.199 --> 02:00:37.399 available at Draft sharks dot com. Top fifty prospects, trade values, 2401 02:00:37.680 --> 02:00:41.479 model scores, production metrics, player comps as you've been saying tonight. 2402 02:00:41.840 --> 02:00:45.039 Combined results available at draft sharks dot com. How many 2403 02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:47.760 hundreds of dollars is this going to set people back? Shane, 2404 02:00:48.279 --> 02:00:48.720 It's free. 2405 02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:50.199 All you have to do is give us your email. 2406 02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:52.199 It's free. So there you go. 2407 02:00:52.720 --> 02:00:55.840 The Rookie Draft Guide available now at draft sharks dot com. 2408 02:00:55.960 --> 02:00:58.439 It's free. Get enter your email, they will send you 2409 02:00:58.560 --> 02:01:02.039 the guide. It's a fantastic Shane P. Hallim on X 2410 02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:04.479 keep up the great work. And final question for you, 2411 02:01:04.880 --> 02:01:07.720 the NFL Draft is in your backyard this year? Are 2412 02:01:07.760 --> 02:01:09.000 you going to be attending. 2413 02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:10.880 The draft? 2414 02:01:10.920 --> 02:01:11.199 Sharks? 2415 02:01:11.239 --> 02:01:13.600 Were actually going to Savannah, Georgia. We meet up for 2416 02:01:13.680 --> 02:01:15.560 the draft every year, so I will actually not be 2417 02:01:15.640 --> 02:01:19.760 in Pittsburgh, which is crazy. I didn't apply for credential 2418 02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:22.039 just to see if they'll give me one. But yeah, 2419 02:01:22.600 --> 02:01:23.119 kind of funny. 2420 02:01:23.880 --> 02:01:25.800 Did you do you guys go to Georgia every year? 2421 02:01:25.840 --> 02:01:27.119 Is it at a different spot every year? 2422 02:01:27.600 --> 02:01:29.760 Different different kind of Southwest spot every year? 2423 02:01:29.800 --> 02:01:29.960 We did? 2424 02:01:30.199 --> 02:01:32.079 We did Savannah last year, We're doing it again this year, 2425 02:01:32.199 --> 02:01:33.960 so I'm looking forward to it. 2426 02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:39.319 Fantastic stuff. We'll enjoy yourself. Say hi to to to Lenny, 2427 02:01:39.479 --> 02:01:42.960 to Jared, to Matt, to Kevin, to Alex, everybody there 2428 02:01:43.680 --> 02:01:45.880 always appreciate the great work that you guys do there. 2429 02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:48.119 Thank you so much for carving out some time with 2430 02:01:48.279 --> 02:01:51.279 me tonight, and we will have to do this again 2431 02:01:51.399 --> 02:01:53.880 very soon and obviously enjoy the draft. Shane. 2432 02:01:54.520 --> 02:01:56.479 Oh thanks Eric, you too, Thanks for having me. 2433 02:01:56.840 --> 02:01:59.279 Absolutely that's Shane Hallam, Ladies and gentlemen. That's gonna wrap 2434 02:01:59.399 --> 02:02:03.319 up tonight's show of FFPC insider Access. 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You can catch that 2456 02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:13.319 anywhere you get podcasts or watch it back on YouTube, 2457 02:03:14.159 --> 02:03:16.359 and we will be back this show. We'll be back 2458 02:03:16.520 --> 02:03:21.199 next Thursday, seven pm Eastern Time. More Dynasty talk Dynasty Nerds. 2459 02:03:21.319 --> 02:03:25.079 Andrew Mott makes his Insider Access debut. That's gonna be 2460 02:03:25.079 --> 02:03:27.119 a lot of fun, two full hours next week. We're 2461 02:03:27.119 --> 02:03:30.119 getting closer to draft season. Register and play now at 2462 02:03:30.199 --> 02:03:33.760 my FFPC dot com for Shane Halima, Marek Balkman. This 2463 02:03:33.920 --> 02:03:37.000 has been FFPC Insider axat