Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome into the Fantasy Pros, a dynasty football
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Speaker 1: am joined by Ray Garvin. Ray. How are we doing tonight? Man?
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Speaker 1: breaking it down as we move into draft season. All right, Ray,
Speaker 1: So on the Doctor tonight, We've got news that we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're just gonna put a bow on the free
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Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm moving on. Free agency is done. I'm
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one conversation and we're going to look ahead
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two class look like? What are the
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Speaker 1: some news obviously. You know, we recorded last Monday night,
Speaker 1: Thursday night last week, and there are still some key
Speaker 1: players that had not signed at that point. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna get down. We're gonna get and breaking those down.
Speaker 1: Let's just go chronological order again. Juju Smith Schuster resigns
Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh. Now, he had some offers there for Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I think was one of those teams that was interested.
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember the other team that actually
Speaker 1: made like an official offer, but Kansas City was a
Speaker 1: potential suitor. He opts to return back to Pittsburgh for
Speaker 1: another season on a one year deal. So give me
Speaker 1: the breakdown here. Dynasty impact, Juju still very very young.
Speaker 1: What can we expect from Juju moving into next season
Speaker 1: and beyond? Yeah, I think it was Philly. Wasn't it
Speaker 1: Philly that had another offer out. I know Philly was interested,
Speaker 1: but I can't remember if it was actually Philly that
Speaker 1: made an offer. Well, yeah, Juju back in Pittsburgh for
Speaker 1: another year. Um, this one was you know, from a
Speaker 1: fantasy dynasty, from a dynasty perspective. He's still incredibly young.
Speaker 1: He's one of the most productive wide receivers in NFL history,
Speaker 1: according you know, based on his age up to this
Speaker 1: point in time. And he's still a talented player. I
Speaker 1: just you know, Ben Roethlisberger, what is he right now
Speaker 1: at this at this stage of his career. There's Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 1: There's Chase Claypool. I think it's I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of what we saw last year. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, it's gonna be the Chase Claypool week.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the Deontay Johnson week. And then when
Speaker 1: you when you bench Juju after starting him for four
Speaker 1: weeks and him not doing anything, then he erupts and
Speaker 1: goes off for you. I just think, you know, this
Speaker 1: is if if I were a fantasy manager that did
Speaker 1: not have Juju and I personally believed in the talent,
Speaker 1: which I do, I would be trying to acquire Juju
Speaker 1: now because I don't believe he's gonna be Pittsburgh after
Speaker 1: this season. I know there's rumors or the salary cap
Speaker 1: is supposed to increase next season, so potentially he's banking
Speaker 1: on himself for this season to get a larger payday
Speaker 1: in free agency next year. But you know it's for
Speaker 1: the for Juju and for Pittsburgh. This just seems like
Speaker 1: like a headache waiting to happen. I mean, it's whose
Speaker 1: week is it going to be? Very rarely did all
Speaker 1: three of them go off in one single game. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that ever happened last year, so I
Speaker 1: don't really anticipate it happening this year. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be whose week is it? Is it Juju? Is it
Speaker 1: Deonce is at Claypool? Or which one is the odd
Speaker 1: man out? It just seems like a headache waiting to happen. Man,
Speaker 1: the Ravens were the other team that made that Ravens,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and then the Steelers. I know Philly was involved,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that they've put the off of
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah. I completely agree, and especially too with
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh moving into next year. They've been vocal about we
Speaker 1: have to take some of the pressure off of Ben Roethlisberger. Right,
Speaker 1: we have to get a running game going. We have
Speaker 1: to get back to that ground in pound football. So
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then the overall target volume decreases
Speaker 1: at that point, and so you know, Juju, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: going to be even harder than it was this past
Speaker 1: season to predict who's going to step forward and who's
Speaker 1: going to stand out that game. So I'm not as excited.
Speaker 1: You know, it would have been great to see, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm a Juju dynasty manager and I had Kansas
Speaker 1: City on the table to go play with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and I see that he returned to play with Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and Ben Roethlisberger at this point of his career, I'm
Speaker 1: a little I'm a little ticked off, But I do
Speaker 1: think that I am willing to acquire Juju because of
Speaker 1: this down year what I'm expecting to be a down year,
Speaker 1: and then let's hit the open market again next year
Speaker 1: when the TV deals kick in, the salary cap jumps
Speaker 1: back up. Let's see where he can land if he
Speaker 1: lands a big deal. So I still think he's going
Speaker 1: to have value, But It's definitely not going to be
Speaker 1: what we hoped or expected it to be. Chris Carson
Speaker 1: returns to the Seattle Seahawks on a two year deal.
Speaker 1: This is a two year, fourteen point six to five
Speaker 1: million dollar deal with five point five million guaranteed. So
Speaker 1: we talk about like, I did not see this coming.
Speaker 1: I did not see Chris Carson returning to Seattle, let
Speaker 1: alone for seven million dollars per year. So Chris Carson
Speaker 1: into next season, you know, Rashad Penny pour one out
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be a thing here. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: what are we doing with Chris Carson next year? What
Speaker 1: are the fantasy implications of him returning to Seattle. You're
Speaker 1: gonna ride Chris Carson to hopefully a playoff spot, you know,
Speaker 1: in your fantasy league next year, because they are going
Speaker 1: to feed him and wear him completely out, Like I
Speaker 1: think they are about to get every last penny's worth
Speaker 1: out of Chris Carson. They clearly had no faith in
Speaker 1: you know, Rashad Penny, DJ Dallas, Travis Homer, whoever, whatever
Speaker 1: random running backs they had in the backfield last year.
Speaker 1: They had no confidence in that. They weren't going to
Speaker 1: take another running back high in the draft. They are
Speaker 1: about to ride Carson into the ground. And at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't even think you can trade him for something
Speaker 1: that you really feel comfortable with giving up a starting
Speaker 1: running back in right now, an offense that you know
Speaker 1: has Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. So listen,
Speaker 1: if you have him, I'm pretty sure you're happy, at
Speaker 1: least for this season because they are going to feed him,
Speaker 1: and Carson's gonna get the volume. He's gonna get the volume.
Speaker 1: And there's this stigma or this narrative around him always
Speaker 1: being injured and that's just not the case. So if
Speaker 1: you have Chris Carson, good for you. You know he's
Speaker 1: he's not going to bump up significantly in my dynasty ranks.
Speaker 1: But if I have him, and I don't believe I
Speaker 1: have Carson anywhere, if I did have him, i'd be
Speaker 1: happy for this season, especially if I was a contender. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can really look to sell
Speaker 1: him because you mentioned it, like the value that you're
Speaker 1: going to get if you do try to sell him
Speaker 1: right now isn't going to be what no one's giving
Speaker 1: up a first round pick for Chris Carson, and at
Speaker 1: that point for twenty twenty one, none of the running
Speaker 1: backs are going to be there in the second round
Speaker 1: that you feel super confident plugging in over what Chris
Speaker 1: Carson is going to get. Now there's the door is
Speaker 1: still open for Russell Wilson to be traded. Adam Schefter
Speaker 1: has been vocal that he has not you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't think that that door is closed. It might not
Speaker 1: be to Chicago, but it might be somewhere else. So
Speaker 1: you know, the Chris Carson fantasy outlook for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one specifically is drastically important or drastically different than with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Town versus him not being there. So
Speaker 1: but yet regardless, he's going to get the work in volume.
Speaker 1: As king, So, I did not see this one coming.
Speaker 1: But Chris Carson returning to Seattle sounds good for his
Speaker 1: fantasy stock moving forward, Philip Lindsay, this is one situation
Speaker 1: that does not sound good for his fantasy stock. Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay signs agrees to a one year deal I believe
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans. So, now the Houston Texans backfield,
Speaker 1: who is David Johnson, Mark Ingram and Philip lindsay, right,
Speaker 1: are you wanting to roster any of those three players
Speaker 1: in Dynasty? No? Man, I don't want any of them,
Speaker 1: none of them. Zero. If I had to pick one,
Speaker 1: to be David Johnson. But the fact that they're bringing
Speaker 1: in all of these running backs with David Johnson there,
Speaker 1: I mean, it just how bad does this this look?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? From a from its team standpoint,
Speaker 1: it just looks bad. You trade DeAndre Hopkins for David Johnson,
Speaker 1: and then the very next season you bring in two
Speaker 1: veteran running backs. And I understand they had to replace
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson, but that's just I just don't want. I
Speaker 1: don't want any of them in Dynasty. If I had
Speaker 1: to choose one, it would definitely be David Johnson. But
Speaker 1: this just Houston just it's it's just a mess all
Speaker 1: the way around. Houston is just Houston. We have a problem.
Speaker 1: It is a mess. The further that we get into
Speaker 1: the offseason, the more and more I become convinced that
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's out, Like them signing Tyrod Taylor, the moves
Speaker 1: that they have made around you know, they have signed
Speaker 1: so many free agents to like two point five million
Speaker 1: dollar deals. Like, I don't think a day has gone
Speaker 1: by this past week where I didn't see a deal
Speaker 1: that Houston has agreed to player a contract with player
Speaker 1: X for two point five million dollars. You know, like
Speaker 1: they're just signing these guys and hoping that one of
Speaker 1: them can or some of these guys can just stand out,
Speaker 1: Like they're all undrafted free agents essentially. So, man, this
Speaker 1: is just not a situation that I think that you
Speaker 1: want to put Deshaun Watson back into. So this overall offense,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay as far away as I can.
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold agreed to a two year deal with the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Dan Arnold, of course the tight end that
Speaker 1: played in Arizona last year, or two years, six million
Speaker 1: dollars deals. So we had talked about, like Ian Thomas
Speaker 1: for the longest time, like Ian Thomas, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him, he could break out, He's got the opening
Speaker 1: here in Carolina. Well, now they go out and they
Speaker 1: get Dan Arnold. So two years, six million dollars deal.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that screams that he's going to
Speaker 1: be the locked in starter. Do you have any interest
Speaker 1: in Dan Arnold for dynasty purposes late round. No, not really,
Speaker 1: I mean late late round, last couple of picks and
Speaker 1: a dynasty startup. Sure, but it wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 1: Carolina took like Brevin Jordan, you know, Pat Fryar within
Speaker 1: day two of the draft. Like, no, I don't no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they move into next season to say, well,
Speaker 1: we've got Dan Arnold, so that tight end room is fixed, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we don't have to look at that at all. I
Speaker 1: definitely could see them adding in someone else. But yet
Speaker 1: I do think that he could still be that guy
Speaker 1: like that spot starter. You know, you get him on
Speaker 1: your dynasty bench. If your starter goes down, depending on
Speaker 1: the matchup, you could plug him in and just see
Speaker 1: what happens. But outside of that, I'm not going too
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Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay signed with the New York Giants here a
Speaker 1: four year, seventy two million dollar deal, so they obviously
Speaker 1: had the opening with Golden Tape being released. So now
Speaker 1: you're going into next season with Kenny Galladay, Sterling Shepherd,
Speaker 1: Darius Layton Evan Ingram, Kyle Rudolph at your tight end spot,
Speaker 1: and then Sequon Barkley and DeVante Booker in your backfield.
Speaker 1: So what Dave Gettlman and Jason Garrett and you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Judge, what they're doing is they're giving Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: everything that he needs and it is now completely up
Speaker 1: to him. So, in my opinion, in my rankings, Kenny
Speaker 1: Galladay did not move like I had already bumped him
Speaker 1: down because I was expecting that if he was franchise
Speaker 1: tag that he was going to be with Jared Goff
Speaker 1: and that wasn't necessarily a great situation, so you know,
Speaker 1: I was kind of taking that into account. And then
Speaker 1: he signs here with New York. There's competition on the
Speaker 1: roster for targets. Yes, I do think that they're going
Speaker 1: to be throwing the ball quite a bit. But yet
Speaker 1: at the same time, he's got more mouths defeat in
Speaker 1: that offense. So he's a low end wide receiver one
Speaker 1: high end wide receiver two for me in Dynasty. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts here with Kenny Galladay landing in New York?
Speaker 1: Is he kind of in that same ballpark for you?
Speaker 1: Are you a little bit more bullish on him, a
Speaker 1: little bit more skeptical. Where do you land? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's a low end wide receiver one, like you
Speaker 1: just said high high end wide receiver two. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't move the needle significantly for me. But because
Speaker 1: I do still think that there is a possibility that
Speaker 1: they add another pass catcher in the draft, and if
Speaker 1: they do that early, If they do it early, I
Speaker 1: know Giants fans don't want to hear that they want
Speaker 1: to take an offensive lineman, which would be the prutent move.
Speaker 1: But if they do go with a pass catching weapon
Speaker 1: early in the draft, you know, I think Gladay back
Speaker 1: in back back in like low end, like wide receiver twelve,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver twelve or thirteen or fourteen is about
Speaker 1: that range. Like wide receiver twelve to wide receiver fifteen
Speaker 1: is about the range for me. But you really, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to bury the lead. I think this
Speaker 1: is Listen, the Giants have had a pretty good free
Speaker 1: agent signing so far. Like they've done a really good
Speaker 1: job of being aggressive, trying to surround Daniel Jones with weapons,
Speaker 1: and this is what you're supposed to do, Like you
Speaker 1: drafted this guy high in the draft, it was the
Speaker 1: first round pick. Give him weapons. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't forget how excited people were about Daniel Joe going
Speaker 1: into the season. And then I know things didn't turn
Speaker 1: out the way that we thought they would, but people
Speaker 1: were kind of bullish on him a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So surround him with some weapons and now you're looking
Speaker 1: at a wide an offensive situation of Edvan Ingraham, se
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley, Kenney Galladay, Daniel Jones' athleticism. This is not
Speaker 1: a bad looking offense on paper. So it's not anybody
Speaker 1: moved up. It's Daniel Jones moved up a little bit
Speaker 1: from me. So let's see what he can do here.
Speaker 1: This is this is all about Daniel Jones in my opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, Kenny Galladay, Darius Layton, Sterling Shepherd, like they
Speaker 1: just kind of stay where they were. Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: excited about necessarily super excited about any of them, but
Speaker 1: this is all about Daniel Jones, and let's see if
Speaker 1: he can take that next step forward. Now, Jones last season,
Speaker 1: I remember Tags and I were talking about this on
Speaker 1: the main podcast, saying like people were pretty excited about
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and we were pumping the brakes, like, listen,
Speaker 1: he's a streaming quarterback in the first ten weeks of
Speaker 1: his season. We're just absolutely brutal last year, and I
Speaker 1: think that if he gets a more favorable schedule heading
Speaker 1: into this next season. Now, I'm not at the point
Speaker 1: where I've studied the schedules and broken them down yet
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one, but I do think that he
Speaker 1: can have value because if he can get just get
Speaker 1: the ball out into his playmaker's hands, he of course
Speaker 1: has the mobility. So I'm excited to see what happens
Speaker 1: here with Daniel Jones. Down the road, DeShawn Jackson is back.
Speaker 1: Apparently he still has some value here for NFL teams.
Speaker 1: He signs a one year deal with the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: I nearly, I nearly did it, right, I nearly called
Speaker 1: them the Saint Louis Rams. I nearly did it. But
Speaker 1: I but DeShawn Jackson with the Los Angeles Rams on
Speaker 1: a one year deal. I'll just I'll dovetail this with
Speaker 1: the next one. Josh Reynolds and the Titans agreed on
Speaker 1: a one year deal here, so you have Josh Reynolds,
Speaker 1: who was in LA he leaves, he's now with the Titans.
Speaker 1: Will break that down in just a second. But DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson any interest for you? Man? I assume that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a starter, But it doesn't just all
Speaker 1: come down to him staying healthy. Yeah, it all comes
Speaker 1: down to him staying healthy. And I just think, I
Speaker 1: know this should be very simple to remember, but it's
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford chunking the ball deep. So if Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: is healthy, there's still probably very few people in the
Speaker 1: NFL faster than the Shawan Jackson. You have to understand
Speaker 1: he grew up in LA's, he played high schoolball at
Speaker 1: Long Beach Pollie, he played college ball at CAW. Like
Speaker 1: he's home and this is his last hurrah, he may
Speaker 1: try to put on a show. So I still think
Speaker 1: he does have some value. No no, no, no, am
Speaker 1: I going out trading any kind of draft picks to
Speaker 1: get to Sean Jackson. If you have him on your
Speaker 1: team already, I think you've got you know, wide receiver three,
Speaker 1: wide receiver four with crazy upside that's just on your
Speaker 1: bandch or if you need a desperation flex play. I
Speaker 1: still think he's got fantasy value. With Matthew Stafford in
Speaker 1: this Rams offense, he's gonna start. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: bad news for Van Jefferson, good news for I just
Speaker 1: think this is a good move for the Rams. I
Speaker 1: think this opens up things underneath for Cooper Cup and
Speaker 1: Robert Woods. It helps out Tyler Higbee, it helps out
Speaker 1: cam Akers Like his speed is unmatched, it's unrivaled. So
Speaker 1: good move for the Rams. And I think Deshan Jackson
Speaker 1: he's gonna have some boom weeks for us in fantasy
Speaker 1: if he can stay healthy. It's been nearly a year
Speaker 1: and I still do not understand the Van Jefferson selection
Speaker 1: in the second round. Still don't understand it, man. And
Speaker 1: if you're replacing him with the thirty out thirty four
Speaker 1: year old Deshan Jackson at this point, that's a little concerning.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned Josh Reynolds, let's talk about him. So
Speaker 1: with the Titans, now I'm intrigued by this. Like Josh
Speaker 1: Reynolds his flashed here or there. He's been inconsistent, certainly,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been someone who we could necessarily rely
Speaker 1: on for fantasy. But towards the last half of last season,
Speaker 1: he actually was contributing, like he was making an impact.
Speaker 1: And I think now that you look at the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans roster, it's AJ Brown and it's Josh Reynolds and
Speaker 1: Anthony Firkser, like those are your three main receiving options.
Speaker 1: So as of right now, I do expect them to
Speaker 1: add someone else. To do expect them to add more bodies.
Speaker 1: Maybe we see that with an early draft pick, but
Speaker 1: at this point, Josh Reynolds does have a little bit
Speaker 1: more fantasy appeal to me personally than he did, you know,
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. So what are your thoughts here? Were
Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds landing in Tennessee just super quick? Yeah? Right now,
Speaker 1: he does, and if you have him, i'd try to
Speaker 1: trade them because they're going to add somebody else. But
Speaker 1: I agree right now while we're talking about this this topic,
Speaker 1: he has value and because of that, I try to
Speaker 1: move him, all right. And then Chris Conley signed a
Speaker 1: one year deal with the Houston Texans. Again I don't
Speaker 1: know what Houston's doing. And then Sammy Watkins is visiting
Speaker 1: the Ravens and also has a visit with the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts after that, So apparently Sammy Watkins, just like Deshan Jackson,
Speaker 1: still has some appeal there for NFL general managers. With
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about Chris, you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about Conny, I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: Chris Conley. You can you can host your own separate podcast.
Speaker 1: You can host your own separate podcast talking about Chris Conley.
Speaker 1: It will be it'll have one listener and it'll be you.
Speaker 1: Uh no, I I am good. I'm good talking about
Speaker 1: Chris Colley. I am interested in talking about this twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two class man. So let's talk. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at let's just say the top ten. Let's just
Speaker 1: go down this list here, the top ten players that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about here from the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two perspective. And again this is important because we want
Speaker 1: to get ahead and deliver the content for you guys
Speaker 1: that you can then apply to your dynasty leagues when
Speaker 1: you are discussing including some of these twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: first round picks, well, who could those players eventually turn into?
Speaker 1: Now this comes with a caveat and disclaimer and all
Speaker 1: this like if you would talk if we had done
Speaker 1: this a year ago, and we were talking about the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one class, we probably would have been talking
Speaker 1: about a guy like Chuba Hubbard. Chuba Hubbard at Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State coming off a two thousand yards season. Like, listen,
Speaker 1: the situation is going to change. The draft stock is
Speaker 1: going to change drastically throughout the next season. Injuries happen,
Speaker 1: all this, this and this so, but this is an
Speaker 1: important exercise to at least be able to get these
Speaker 1: players in front of you and to be able to
Speaker 1: talk about them. So I'm just gonna throw this to
Speaker 1: your first man, Who do you want to talk about? First?
Speaker 1: Who is the player in this twenty twenty two class
Speaker 1: that excites you the most? And then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1: I think BRUCEE. Hall has to be at the top
Speaker 1: of the list, the running back from Iowa State one
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pounds taking over for David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: If you just look at his stats, man just very,
Speaker 1: very productive, can catch the ball out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: He's got that size to be a three down thread
Speaker 1: at the next level. But Bruce Hall coming out of
Speaker 1: Iowa State has to be at the top of everybody's
Speaker 1: draft board right now. Where we stand for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two prospects. And I know that you haven't even started
Speaker 1: to dive deep and at this class yates. But I
Speaker 1: know you've heard about Bruce halland I know you've seen
Speaker 1: some Bruze Hall just you know, in film study or
Speaker 1: just college in general. He's a stud Yeah, he definitely is,
Speaker 1: and you talked about it. Him stepping in for David
Speaker 1: Montgomery absolutely carried that load and has I mean, he
Speaker 1: was in the Heisman conversation and is going to be
Speaker 1: in the Heisman conversation for this next year. So Bruce
Speaker 1: Hall there, let's talk about a wide receiver here out
Speaker 1: of an ark And so that's Treylon Burks. What can
Speaker 1: you tell me about him? He's massive, He's enormous, He's fast,
Speaker 1: he wears five XL gloves, he returns punts. He hunts
Speaker 1: hogs with a knife, literally like he hunts hogs with
Speaker 1: a knife. He's country, he's fast, he's just he's one
Speaker 1: of the most He's a name that a lot of
Speaker 1: people are not they're not familiar with now because he
Speaker 1: plays on a horrible Arkansas team. But when you just
Speaker 1: look at his physical tools, his production from the past
Speaker 1: couple of seasons, on a bad Arkansas team. I've heard
Speaker 1: comparisons to a young Josh Gordon without the offer field issues,
Speaker 1: or in Andre Johnson for Treylon Burks. Uh, he's going
Speaker 1: to be a player that I promise you. As more
Speaker 1: people get acclimated to this twenty twenty two class, the
Speaker 1: more excited everybody is going to get about Treylon Burks.
Speaker 1: He's my personal wide receiver one in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two class, right now. All right, all right, so let's
Speaker 1: talk about a wide receiver here. Now we're talking about
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in the twenty twenty one class out
Speaker 1: of Purdue, of course, with Rondale Moore. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: his teammate David Bell. Yeah, Yates, And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you saw number three flash on the on the tape
Speaker 1: when you've been studying Rondel Moore. But I mean David Bell,
Speaker 1: he just looks like a professional wide receiver. He's not
Speaker 1: the biggest, he's not the fastest, he's not the most agile,
Speaker 1: but he's ultra productive. He's always coming down with grabs.
Speaker 1: He could run the complete rout tree. He's he's just
Speaker 1: he's a really, really, really good wide receiver. And I
Speaker 1: mean as a true freshman. He filled in for Rondel
Speaker 1: Moore and didn't miss a beat. So you know, when
Speaker 1: you when you can pivot from Rondel Moore to David
Speaker 1: Bell and not miss a beat, that tells you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know about that player. And he is
Speaker 1: one of the guys who's gonna vide for that wide
Speaker 1: receiver one spot in twenty twenty two. He absolutely pops
Speaker 1: off the tape, especially when I you know, as I've
Speaker 1: been watching Rondale Moore over the past couple of seasons,
Speaker 1: David Bell has always been a name that has just
Speaker 1: consistently popped up on tape. A guy he has consistently
Speaker 1: popped up on tape when I've been watching Jake from
Speaker 1: when I've been watching DeAndre Swift. When man, that's George
Speaker 1: Pickens out of Georgia. So George Pickens here, I mean
Speaker 1: true freshman contributor right, correct me if I'm wrong. They're like,
Speaker 1: as just put up some ridiculous production over his college career.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about Pickens? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you just said it. I mean production as a freshman.
Speaker 1: If you go back to the bowl game a year
Speaker 1: ago versus Baylor, I mean, I think he had twelve
Speaker 1: receptions in the first half. It was just insane what
Speaker 1: he was doing as a true freshman. He went to
Speaker 1: Hoover High School, historic program out of Alabama, one of
Speaker 1: the top rated prep wide receivers in the country. And
Speaker 1: I know it's a lazy comparison because they both played
Speaker 1: at Georgia, but it's really hard not to watch George
Speaker 1: Pickens and think AJ Green when you see these diving
Speaker 1: catches that he makes, the body control, he's long, he's
Speaker 1: got that wiry AJ Green frame. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: some grabs that he makes where you're just like nobody
Speaker 1: else can do that, Like, that's just insane. So George Pickens,
Speaker 1: David Bell, you know, Treylon Burks, the white receiver class
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. I know the twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: class takes a lot of heat for being horrible, and
Speaker 1: I have contributed to that, but there are some very
Speaker 1: good wide receivers in this twenty twenty two class. And
Speaker 1: one key distinction about these guys Yates. Everybody that I listed,
Speaker 1: Burke's Pelle, Pickens, they're all six two in taller. They're
Speaker 1: not these five foot nine, five foot eight speeds there's
Speaker 1: much different than the twenty twenty one class. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: you said that, I was just about to you know,
Speaker 1: interject there that this class, right, twenty twenty one class
Speaker 1: is so there's so many slot receivers, so many speeds
Speaker 1: or guys. There are very few guys that lack that
Speaker 1: prototypical outside size. So yeah, when you're looking at Burkes,
Speaker 1: Bell and Pickens, and I mean, you can even talk
Speaker 1: about some of these other guys that we're talking about
Speaker 1: here in a second, like they can absolutely contribute, they
Speaker 1: can absolutely be one of those guys that we classify
Speaker 1: and say you are a prototypical wide receiver one. You're
Speaker 1: gonna play the X role. You're gonna win on the outside.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win with power and physicality and contested catches.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the running back class here though
Speaker 1: a little bit more so. There's a guy here out
Speaker 1: of Texas A and M. Now it's not CJ. Spiller,
Speaker 1: but Isaiah Spiller. What can you tell me about Isaiah
Speaker 1: Spiller here? Yeah, Spiller's a very very good back, very talented.
Speaker 1: He's got again that prototypical size, you know, five eleven
Speaker 1: six foot, two hundred and twenty pounds can bang between
Speaker 1: the tackles, but he can catch the ball in the backfield.
Speaker 1: He's got enough juice and speed to pull away from
Speaker 1: the fenders. The thing is up. These twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: running backs. The only one that I think would even
Speaker 1: compete with the top guys in twenty twenty one is
Speaker 1: Breece Hall. This is where the class of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two kind of falters a little bit, is at the
Speaker 1: running back position. While I like Isaiah Spiller and the
Speaker 1: next you know, couple of guys that will talk about,
Speaker 1: they're not in the same range right now as Naji
Speaker 1: Harris etn Javant to Williams. You know, Spiller's had nice back.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I want to see some more,
Speaker 1: some more progression from him. And I'm sure you saw
Speaker 1: number twenty eight on tape when you were watching Kevin
Speaker 1: Mond as well. Yep, Yeah, he definitely has some flashes there. Now. Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: obviously they've had guys like Trey Sermon that previously then
Speaker 1: transferred to Ohio State. Reminder Stevenson, who we've talked about
Speaker 1: on this podcast, there's another running back that's going to
Speaker 1: be coming out of Oklahoma, Eric Gray. What can you
Speaker 1: tell me about him? Yeah. Gray is actually a Tennessee transfer,
Speaker 1: so he's transferred to Oklahoma from the SEC. He was
Speaker 1: my pick for sophomore breakout candidate in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: season pre this crazy COVID thing. But he's he can
Speaker 1: do it all. Catch the ball, he's got speed, he's
Speaker 1: got power, he's got a chility, and I think playing
Speaker 1: with Spencer Rattler in that Lincoln Riley offense in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve. Let me say that again, in the Big twelve,
Speaker 1: Eric Gray could probably put up monster numbers this season
Speaker 1: and really elevate his draft stock. He's going to be
Speaker 1: an NFL pick. Don't know how high yet, but that's
Speaker 1: what this season is for. But he's definitely one of
Speaker 1: the top five running backs in the twenty twenty two class.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about wide receivers again. There are two guys
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State here that I want to touch on.
Speaker 1: That's Garrett Wilson, who oh man, if you want to
Speaker 1: talk about popping off a tape anytime that I watched,
Speaker 1: you know, the big games for Ohio State. Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: is coming through with some phenomenal catches. And then christ
Speaker 1: O Lave, who if you paid any attention to the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one class, before you know players declared or
Speaker 1: returned to school, Chris Olave was being discussed as a
Speaker 1: guy who was going to enter and a potential first
Speaker 1: round pick. So Olave was someone that I really like
Speaker 1: his game. I comed him to Emmanuel Sanders and I'll
Speaker 1: probably stick with that all the way through next season.
Speaker 1: We'll see. But Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, what can you
Speaker 1: tell me about them? What makes them stand out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it's Ohio State. They just roll wide receivers
Speaker 1: in and out of that program. And Garrett Wilson is
Speaker 1: truly up next. Chris Lave, I think you hit the
Speaker 1: nail on the head. I think I saw you comp
Speaker 1: him to Emmanuel Sanders, and I think that's a very
Speaker 1: very good comparison for Chris Olave. Garrett Wilson, his athleticism
Speaker 1: is rediculous. The way there's a there's a play versus Clemson,
Speaker 1: I believe it was two years ago. There's a picture
Speaker 1: and it looks like it was photoshopped. How high above
Speaker 1: the defensive back. Garrett Wilson was out of out of
Speaker 1: Lake Travis and Austin Stuart program down here in Texas.
Speaker 1: But he's just I mean, he's he's a smooth operator.
Speaker 1: He's he's fantastic. I mean again, I cannot stress to
Speaker 1: you these wide receivers in twenty twenty two are legit.
Speaker 1: Like this is another really good wide receiver group, and
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson fits the mold. He can play outside as well.
Speaker 1: He's not quite as big as Pickings, Bell or Burkes,
Speaker 1: but he's he's not a small guy whatsoever. The question
Speaker 1: is who's going to take over at quarterback for Ohio State.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure they'll figure that out. They always
Speaker 1: do a wide receiver who I was really intrigued with,
Speaker 1: you know heading into the twenty twenty one even in
Speaker 1: summer scouting. You know last year was Justin Ross now
Speaker 1: out of Clemson. Now Justin Ross obviously had his is
Speaker 1: a neck injury, like he might not play football ever again,
Speaker 1: Like there are some questions here, I guess provide a
Speaker 1: little bit of clarity if you've got it for me.
Speaker 1: But Ross, when I've watched him, he's popped. He has
Speaker 1: the potential to be a absolutely, you know, top tier
Speaker 1: fantasy contributor. But does it all come down to health
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, so he sat out this past season
Speaker 1: with I believe it was a spinal injury. It was
Speaker 1: it was something like that, and you know, the reports
Speaker 1: was he wasn't going to get to play again, and
Speaker 1: now the doctors have cleared him. He you know, there
Speaker 1: were people who thought during his sophomore season he was
Speaker 1: the better way, he was a better wide receiver than
Speaker 1: T Higgins. Now, I do think T stepped his game
Speaker 1: up that season and really showed that he was the
Speaker 1: dominant alpha. But Justin Ross was supposed to be in
Speaker 1: this draft class and be one of the top wide
Speaker 1: receivers in twenty twenty one, but you know, had to
Speaker 1: sit out. He's recovered, he's been cleared to play. So
Speaker 1: I am I'm putting him here in this early top
Speaker 1: ten just based on what I saw from him as
Speaker 1: a freshman and a sophomore, and my fingers are crossed.
Speaker 1: One that that young man is healthy and he can
Speaker 1: just you know, everything him being on the field, he's
Speaker 1: safe and okay. But two, if he is you know,
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of what he was pre injury with
Speaker 1: the chance to get even better, he's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: a top ten guy. Absolutely. Let's fly through the last
Speaker 1: two wide receivers, and then we got a running back
Speaker 1: that we'll mention, John Metchi Alabama and then Drake London
Speaker 1: at USC. Now, USC, of course you talk about a
Speaker 1: program and Alabama, of course, two programs that just crank
Speaker 1: out wide receiver prospects. I mean, USC has been doing
Speaker 1: it for years. Alabama don't even need to go into that.
Speaker 1: So John Mechi and Drake London give me the brief
Speaker 1: synopsis on both of these guys. Drake London, massive, six
Speaker 1: foot four, six foot five, reminds me of Mike Evans
Speaker 1: playing with one of the best quarterbacks in the country,
Speaker 1: Keaton Slovis. He's going to be a monster in the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. Watch out for Drake London and John Metchi.
Speaker 1: We already saw him do damage on the feed yield
Speaker 1: opposite of Devanta Smith this past season, death taxas and
Speaker 1: Alabama having a legitimate wide receiver. John Metchi is next up.
Speaker 1: When Waddle was down, you know this past season, Metchi
Speaker 1: stepped up and he contributed in a big way. Let's
Speaker 1: end it here with a running back prospect out of
Speaker 1: South Carolina. I'm gonna be honest, man, I haven't even
Speaker 1: heard this name. The other guys on here, i've heard them,
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to scout them in depth. This
Speaker 1: one haven't. Haven't even heard about Kevin Harris. So give me,
Speaker 1: give me the give me the blurb here on Harris
Speaker 1: out of South Carolina. Yeah, five eleven, two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty pounds, former three star recruit was not supposed to
Speaker 1: start this season. Marshawn Lloyd, the talent to true freshman
Speaker 1: towards ACL opened the door for Kevin Harris. In nine games,
Speaker 1: sub two hundred carries, he had almost twelve hundred receiving
Speaker 1: a twelve hundred rushing yards and almost two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty receiving yards. He's big, he's explosive, He's a downhill runner.
Speaker 1: Reminds me a lot of a slightly juiced up version
Speaker 1: of j. James Robinson. Again, twelve hundred yards in the
Speaker 1: SEC in nine games with sub two hundred carries. He's
Speaker 1: legit all right. Well, that is going to wrap it
Speaker 1: up with the twenty twenty two class and at least
Speaker 1: talking about these top ten prospects. Of course, as we
Speaker 1: move past the twenty twenty one draft class, we'll dive
Speaker 1: right back into these guys and making sure that you're
Speaker 1: aware of these players heading into next year. But you know,
Speaker 1: you talked about these guys that are supposed to take
Speaker 1: steps forward and stuff like well, Jontay Williams. No one
Speaker 1: was talking about Javonte Williams at this point last year.
Speaker 1: So let's see, it's going to be really, really, really
Speaker 1: really interesting to see what prospects take that leap forward.
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson at the quarterback position. No one was talking
Speaker 1: about Zach Wilson whatsoever. He's now in the you know,
Speaker 1: in the conversation to go number two overall, So let's
Speaker 1: wait and see. But this is at least how the
Speaker 1: class is looking overall. Right now, hopefully can give you
Speaker 1: guys some at least idea. You can now take these names,
Speaker 1: go look at their highlights on YouTube, go look at
Speaker 1: their film, scout him in depth, make your own opinions
Speaker 1: on them. By really really exciting class, especially at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position for twenty twenty two. That's gonna do
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Speaker 1: mean shortened show. We got everything in that we needed to.
Speaker 1: How you feeling feel good? Man? Feel good? Let's do
Speaker 1: go another thirty minutes. Let's do it. Okays? All right,
Speaker 1: well I don't have just don't have anything to talk about. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, good because I don't have any I don't
Speaker 1: have any notes. All right. Well, guys, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. We will be back on Monday. What, No,
Speaker 1: today is Monday. We'll be back on Thursday. I totally
Speaker 1: thought today was Thursday. I'm done. I'm just gonna show
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