Welcome to the Commanders Today podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. We are just about a week away from the draft and we are breaking down all of Washington's options for their six draft picks. Santana Moss and Logan Paulson joined me to talk wide receivers and hand out some superlatives. Let's do this time for some superlatives, and we want to stick to the wide receivers for this since you know, you guys have a little bit of special to you, knowing,
knowing what that might be. Okay, here, you know you're you're out office, you're making you were you were catching some balls right now. Okay, but they're blocking is a big part of it. There we go. We need that as well. Let's go to this. It all starts with your wide outs with their hands. Who has the best hands in this year's draft? Logan John Datson's the kind of walkaway guy from me. I think he just catches the ball really nicely out of his frame. He shows
a nice fearlessness and contested catch situations. I think he's got a nice grit, nice stuff. Those one handed kitches, those highlight kits, just kind of walking away with it. He was one of my favorites. But I picked George Pickings Um while I was from Georgia. I mean he effortlessly caught passes, played with toy with guys with the ball. I mean he would have a guy draped over him and just plucked it out of the you know, the air, with one hand. So he was a guy that stood
out to me when I watched his take. Now you both picked the one handed catches, like you gotta be able to get up there and get higher, but to be able to Yeah, okay, how about the best route running? I'll start with you, Santana. Oh, I have it. I'm looking at my sheet. I have Chris Olive. I just asked him how to pronounce his last name. He's one of the wide receivers from Ohio State that everybody is raving about. I just like how smooth he is with
this route, right. I mean, it's just it's like one of the things when you're watching him, it's like he's cutting a piece of cake when it when it comes in and out of his his brakes. And he reminded me of a couple of guys. One guy that stands out to most of me. It's Mike kind of you know, a fear you guys. But when I watched the guy or Harrison from UM the Coats back in the day, when he played against you know, played with my guy, Reggie Wayne, he was one of those guys that had
to step the speed. You didn't know how fast he was, but when you saw his rock running ability. I look at this guy, Chris Olive, and he reminds me a little bit of them. Yeah, my guy's Garrett Wilson another I say guy. I think I think the thing I liked about him is he throws his foot down a little bit harder in the ground, a little bit more dexterous in terms of the variety of kind of cuts that he's got. But yeah, I think both guys are excellent robber. Of course, Ohio State has two guys and
everybody is talking about and excited for. What about Logan? This is all ye the best blocker out there, it's important, yeah, to be George Pickens is my favorite blocker. If you watch his highlight reel blocking. He is a guy that takes a lot of pride and passion that he plays with great physicality and kind of bullies those TVs and you gotta love that. Oh, you know, it's so crazy because he was I didn't know we can use this guy. I was gonna use for three different slots. Pickers was
my first choice. But I looked at Drake London. I'm like, look, if you're two hundred plus pounds at six to four, you have to be a good blocker as well. So I got him from my best you know, blocking when it comes to just getting down there and getting gritty with those guys and then not a lot of guys enjoy that aspect of the game. When you've got somebody who does, we see how much that impacts. I mean Terry McLaurin, he'll take as much pride in as blocking.
You see him doing that as he does in running routes and catching passes as well. How about just game speed, Santana, Oh, I take the Alabama wide receiver. He got hurt, you know, right when things matter the most. I think Jameson Winson, I mean, I mean Williams and to me, just when you watched him run routes and just use his speed, A lot of guys at that position can't use their natural ability to stop and start like this guy. Dude,
he reminds me I probably wasn't his speed. I was running good four two four three when I came out, But I remember that folks would tell me that you only guy that I don't know what you're running at times. You know, I can't tell the difference from a curl and a goal route. So when I watch him run, he does the same thing for me. I'm watching, I'm looking at him and didn't know. I don't know where he stops on breaks. So I think he's game speed
is incredible. And just give me a name right here red zone front for you basketball, who you like those guys that can play hoops go up and be a favorite, tall, big target in the red zone in the end zone as well. There you go, the best attributes in superlatives for the wide receivers in this year's draft. For the latest Commander's Draft coverage, be sure to tune into Washington Football Today weeknights five thirty and ten pm on NBC
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