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2021 NFL Draft Defensive Backs Preview, Top 5 Offseason Moves

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Travis is back for another installment of the draft preview series. Today, Jordan Reid of The Draft Network joins to discuss the prototypes for playing in the Miami secondary, the best press cover corner, slot corner, middle of the field safety and a whole lot more about the 2021 rookie class of DBs. Plus, Travis ranks his top 5 offseason moves and discusses the Peter Schrager mock draft.

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Fail touchdown, Miami Run? What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the Draft previews continue. We're talking to Jordan Reed of the Draft Network to break down this class

of defensive backs. We'll talk about Miami's own dbs and what we look for here in South Florida, will break it into tears, tell you who the best press cover corners are, the best corner safety converts, and a whole bunch more with Jordan's plus Peter Schreker dropped in mock Draft. We're gonna discuss that I lift, my five favorite moves of the offseason, and my latest show and streaming recommendation station. All of that and a whole bunch more. This edition

of the Drive Time Podcast presented by AutoNation. So Peter Schreeger broke Dolphins Twitter on Thursday morning with his latest mock draft where he goes around and talks to people in the league, people in the know, and tries to get the most accurate depiction of what he thinks could happen on draft night. But he also gives you a bit of a disclaimer and saying that this is the best I can do with the information that I have. He's not standing by of the way, just talking about

different scenarios. And that's why I like about this mock draft from Peter Schreeger is that it prepares you for different possible outcomes. In this year's draft, he has Miami at number six, taking Northwestern offensive tackle Rashawn Slater, who has played inside a guard before as well so an offensive lineman that can play multiple spots. He is fluid as all get out, a great pass protector, had a great tape against Chase Young a couple of years ago

against Ohio State. A lot of folks are gonna point to that tape and say, this is the best tackle in the draft for my money. Moving up from twelve to six a tackle, it could be. It could feasibly be an option. I don't see it personally, but we'll find out what happens come draft night. I do happen to like the tackle class at pick eighteen a whole bunch.

And someone posed this question to me in the mail bag last time around about who is the best pure right tackle in this class, and to me, that's Tevin Jenkins out of Oklahoma State. He is a mahler, a finisher, a barrier. You heard us talk about this on the Wednesday podcast with Joe Marino breaking down the offensive line. Maybe it's Tuesday, I forget talking about this offensive line

class and and Tevin Jenkins. I told him that Brandon Thorne and Brett Coleman, two of my favorite analysts in the NFL draft industry, in the breakdown industry, that they have Jenkins number two behind Pine Swool, and Joe Marino just got out of his chair and started applauding that because he loves Tevin Jenkins as well. I think eighteen could be a great spot if someone like Jenkins, someone

like Christian Dery Saw falls to that position. But I do wonder if your move up from twelve to six would be four a tackle who possibly could be there at number twelve, if not a rock solid consolation at

that spot at pick number twelve. So that's my thought on the Peter Schreeger mak, I want to get to this real quick before we welcome in my guest today, Jordan Reed of the Draft Network my top five offseason moves so far from Miami, and this will change post draft because we have so many picks to make, and of course an elite prospect probably coming our way at number six if Miami picks in that spot. My number

one offseason moves so far will Fuller. I just think the things he adds this offense from my dynamic standpoint from I stretched the field standpoint to force defenses to play two high safeties and really take a lot of attention away from the underneath game. But also the savvy route running of this guy's game. He is so crafty underneath. He excels on the routes that I think too or throws best. He can separate, he can make big plays after the catch. To me, he has everything you want

and a number one wide receiver number two. Adam Butler talked about this on Twitter on Wednesday a little bit. How his explosion his first step off the line drives so well with this defense. Is thought process of getting so many bodies up on the line, create confusion in the possible pass protection scheme, and then send bodies in

different gaps and confuse the O line. And Adam Butler's first step quickness, his get off really really accentuates what Miami does when mugging up those two linebackers in the A gaps. You put the onus on the center and both guards to communicate quickly and effectively to get that blocked, and his first step quickness helps that tenfold. He's my

second favorite offseason move. Number three is right in that same vein with Bernardrick McKinney, because he can do so much in those A gaps both as a blitzer as a run defender. He's a traffic cop out there. He's gonna get the defense lined up, he's gonna have his run fits nailed down, tough, and I think the Dolphins

are just saying basically, good luck running the football. Honst this year with both Adam Butler, but Nardrick McKinney, Brand Scarlett, all these guys they made additions for in that front seven. Number four offseason moves so far with signing Matt Skura, I talked about his tape a little bit. His pass protection and run blocking wind rates on ESPN the only or one of four centers and twenty nine and tw twenty to be top ten in both of those categories.

His twenty nineteen tape is very very good, powerful guy that can get movement, can anchor and pass protection as well. So I'm excited about Matt Scura a number five. The addition of Justin Coleman as a slot cornerback, a guy that can play both inside outside physical press. He doesn't he has that confidence You're gonna hear Jordan Reid talk about here in just one second. Good ball skills as well,

fits in the running game too. So those are my top five Offsason move so far for your Miami Dolphins, Will Fuller, Adam Butler, Mcnageric McKinney, Matt Skura, and Justin Coleman. And with Justin Coleman, let's pivot here and talk about defensive backs. And before we do that real quick there, one of the goals of this podcast is to dispel some of the myths. I mean, you guys heard the two A tongue of my lower podcast earlier in the week talking about quarterbacks and some of the misnomers about

two was game out there right now? Something out there about big plays and deep balls and allowing too many explosive plays with his defense, Like where where did that happen? Because I didn't see it happened. Most of the years Dolphins were so rock solid through Gerald Alexander's just preaching the message. The big place happened to the secondary. Bobby

McCain's presence back there. He was so fluid it getting over the top and coverage, passing off coverage, finding his landmarks and getting to the football making big plays as well. So Bobby McCain, for my money, was one of the best players on the defense last year, on the team in general, and I think he is so important and so critical and so crucial to this defense and has come so far from his development as a free safety, and to me, he looks great back in that position.

So just wanted to get that out there before we pivot now to my conversation with Jordan Reid of the Draft Network to break down this Dolphin secondary, this upcoming draft class in the defensive back room. He's also going to explain to us some of the techniques and some of the ideas behind certain packages plenty in this interview here with Jordan Reid and joining us now on the Drivetime podcasts, NFL draft analyst at the Draft Network, the

host of the Read Option podcast. He's not that Jordan read, but he is Jordan read. Jordan, thanks for coming back on the Drivetime podcast. Man, welcome in, No problem drivers. It's always a pleasure being you're talking about with one of our longtime friends of the podcast here. I want to say, Jordan, you might have the most guest appearances by anyone not named John kN Jemmy are fellow multi media analysts here on the Dolphins website. I think this

is like your third or fourth appearance, Man leading the way. Yeah, I'm losing account. Man. I love talking about the Dolphins, so it's always a pleasure. I always love your Twitter, you know, basically going back to twenty nine team and they began to just accumulate draft capital and you always had positive things to say. So we appreciate that here

with the team with the podcast network. Before we get into this real quick, Jordan's scouting season has been wild this year, you know, different than any other year in the past. How has it been for you so far? Man, Yeah, it's definitely been different, just because it feels like you're

playing catch up with a lot of these guys. Just because the way we run our department is pretty much the same as far as the NFL team, So we actually split into regions this year, and we split it up by conference, so I'm responsible for the SEC, the big twelve fcs, and then some D two and three three schools as well, So we didn't have the normal

access is what we always have. And if you think going back to last year when the pandemic really it was around March and the Combine had already happened, and a lot of important things on the calendar had already happened as well. But with the pandemic happening now as when it did happen like Markie April of some sort, you're kind of playing catch up just because you don't

really have as much access to the fall. And then in the spring, we didn't have the combine, and really your first content with a lot of these guys was during the postseason All Star games, so it feels like you're a little bit behind, but now you're starting to catch up with Pro Days and things of that nature happened.

I feel like I fell behind during the season because of all the guys that just opted out, plus working for an NFL team sometimes Saturday is a little bit busy, but having guys like you come on the podcast here and educate us. That's what we're looking for here as

we gear up for this draft now just three weeks away. Jordan, it seems like it comes by faster every single year, and last year didn't have other sports to entertain us, like the n stable A tournament or the starter baseball season or the NBA playoff push here, so things are better here. And typically we have Jordan on to talk about orderbacks, skill players, something on the offensive side of the football. But Jordan, I want to just go ahead and first start with this. We're gonna have you talk

about defensive backs on this podcast. And we talk about this on the podcast previously with Brian Flores and to a tongue of Valoa and having that defensive minded coach and and Flora's will tell you. The first thing he'll tell you is he's not defensive mind. He's a football coach, but he does direct some of the best defenses really in recent NFL history. And so I think having that perspective of hey, I'm gonna talk to my quarterback about what the what the defense wants to do to you,

that's kind of my idea here. So when you think about that from the quarterbacks lens, how much value is there and having that offensive experience in your in the back of your mind when evaluating defensive players, it means a lot just because they're studying pretty much that side

of the ball. Whenever you're you're inside of the game and you're studying structures of defenses in your outlining, and you're seeing who is circled on scouting reports, so you're always going to be aware of the dbs and where they're gonna be on the field end. As a quarterback, you already know that the safeties really are the tail tale as far as the coverage here, there's some coverage reads, some coverage keys that you can get as far as

indicators from the defense. So safeties are very important. And then you know, but with the Dolphins, how obvious and how great to shut down corner can be for the defense. With Saving Howard and you know Byron Jones, both of those guys having riff years last year, so you guys are very familiar with what the shut down corner can

do for a defense. That's what we're gonna talk about on this draft class this draft podcast is the cornerbacks and the safeties and and try to find out what might be fits for this Dolphins team if they go back to that. Well, I think it's the deepest position on the team personally, but coach Flores turns this position over a lot, whether it's futurest contracts, guys that come in for practice squad spots, or in the draft. Last year, I think Noah Bonogamy was one of the surprises of

that first round. So we continue here, Jordan, and you know I can give you the traits that the Dolphins look for. It's you know, long speed ball tracking, physical press at the line. When you first start looking at defensive back, safety or cornerback. What are some of the key traits you look for? Well, of course, this technique.

I think that's one thing that you have to realize what you're scouting at the position, and you have to figure out exactly what scheme they would fit, either a zone corner or a man corner, and there's different variations of what you look for in either. Of course, with man corners, you're gonna be looking for more body control technique at the position and patients at the line of scrimmage, depending on the coaches want you to get their hands

on them. Or hands off. As far as playing five yards off in the press technique and then zone corners, you're primarily having then what's playing like what's called a side saddle technique, which is just panty for turning your back to the sideline. You want to see how quick they're able to drive back downhill as well, especially if you're in a primary cover three scheme. But the Dolphins do a good job of mixing up the coverage is a lot just because coach flowlocks to do so much

in the front seven. You have to have those defendable guys on the back end, and primarily you want those guys to be really good in man coverage. And you know, we'll get into some of these other guys here in the second as far as the prospects, but I look forward savvy at the position as well, for guys that

uh that are able to read route concepts. And what I mean by that is sometimes you have guys that are just covering brass and then you have other guys that notice certain concepts and are able to attack the ball. Ball skills aren't super important to me at the position, but I just kind of treated as like an added incentive with that as long as you're staying with your guy and keeping him from catching the ball, I'm completely

fine with that. And that's why I said getting interceptions and you know, turning the football over and getting it back to your offense. That's kind of an added incentive to me. But something that I've learned a lot, and I valued this a lot at the cornerback position, just because I think half the battle as far as these young guys transitioning to the position on the next level is confidence, and I think Zavian Howard is a great, great example of that is somebody that's just not scared

when they're out there. They're not scared to show their ability, and whenever they make a play, they're gonna let the entire stadium know that. So I just I'm always fallen in love with cornerbacks that are what I like to call extroverts. So you're Jalen Ramsey's, You're Gyre Alexander's. People that are just ultimate competitors. I love that. That's a great that's a great phrase for that. You just checked so many boxes there for things I want to cover

here real quick. First of all, you talked about the coverage mixing this defense does. I've learned way more football from evaluating Coach Flora's defense and Josh Boyer defenses than any other time in my life. So I love doing that. You talk about the ball skills of the defensive backs now, Coach Joe Alexander here in Miami will tell you that's

his number one priority. Find the football, get the ball, and it's it's funny you talk about Xavier Howard and Byron Jones and the way those two guys kind of offered juxtaposition. You have probably the best ball hawk in the NFL, and Xavian Howard you talk about his confidence, the way he kind of undercut some of those over routes and just plays with a I'm gonna flash a window for you, then close that thing real quick. And then Byron Jones last year, watched that guy at work

every single day before practice on tracking the football. Winds up having a career hiding interceptions last year too. So one more question, Jordan before you with the Dolphins here before we get into the draft class. You talked about confidence there a lot, and I want to get your

take on we we mentioned his name earlier. No, what I bunogamy I want to get your take on his rookie season and what you kind of project for him here in year two because he played last year the first like he came off the bench in week two when Byron Jones got hurt and played for a couple of games and he got tested a lot. And that's what happens, right, Rookie cornerbacks are gonna get tested when

they're on the field. What did you see in his game in college in his rookie tape and how can he you know, as the youngest player in the National Football League last year, take all of that, take the fact that he was only a dB in college for two years and build that confidence and build that repertoire to become the next shutdown corner here in Miami. Like,

what's your what's your prognosis here of Noah Eggonogamy. Well, I'll go all the way back to my first experience with Noah, and it was at the Combine, and you know, you have all these players that have a lot of people at their podium. You know, the media is all over the place just talking about the combined with the podium obsessions, and was one of those guys that was kind of low key. A lot of people weren't really at his podium obsession. It was probably me and like

five or six other people. I have no idea why it was that way, but he ended up being the first round pick, so obviously a lot more people wanted to talk to him after the fact. But I love his background story. Both parents actually ran track in the sec um. One went I went to Alabama and the other ones to Old miss if I'm not mistaken. So he had the genes and when he was coming out, everybody knew that, but it was just his experience at the position. He didn't have a whole bunch of it.

But you turn on the tape him going against Alabama. I thought he played really well in that game for the most part, and it's kind of just like he's just playing off of his natural ability. He's not playing with a lot of technique. He played wide receiver primarily his first year in Auburn, then transition to the other side of the ball, so you know, he has boss skills. Definitely,

he can find the ball in the area. It's just a matter of him just continued to get experienced reps at the position, and with him playing in the slot, I think that's gonna help him a lot. But he also can transition outside too, so he has that versatility that coach Flow talks about all the time. So I think he's gonna end up being a good player. But it's just a matter of him just consistently and continuously

getting rips. He had some good bounceback reps late in the season last year when he filled up front Xavien Howard, who was ejected in the Cincinnati Bengals game with he and Tyler Boyd getting into it there. But that is neither here nor there. Let's go ahead and pivot to the reason you're on the podcast. You're talking about this draft class and Georgia. I went over your top fifty big board. Here. What you guys can find on the Draft Network here Jordan Reed, NFL draft analyst for the

Draft Network. Here on the Draft Time podcast. Please subscribe, rate review of the podcast, all that fun stuff for us. You've got three cornerbacks in your top twenty four, your top twenty five, and then a safety at thirty one, another corner at thirty two, and that's it for your top fifty. Let's go ahead and start with those first four guys. Caleb Farley, J C. Horne, Patrick's Artan the second,

and Greg Knewsome out of Northwestern. Which of those guys are I should say, are all four of those guys to you in the same tier? Is there a break in there somewhere? And how do you separate those four guys As far as first round guys, I think they're all in the same tier. As far as ones that I think that are going to go in the first round, I think Farley is probably the one that is a little bit up in arms right now, just because everybody has heard about the back injury. Will never know the

severity of that. That's up to each team's medical team to determine how comfortable they are with that. But overall, I think he's want to be more talented of the bunch, but once again, you have the injury situation to factor in with him. My favorite of the bunch actually is J. C. Horne. I love the NFL bloodlines with them that he and

Patrick certain have. But even though he's not as far along technique wise as Farley or certain or even a Newsom, I just love the upside that he possesses in I'm sure a lot of people and a lot of you guys have been following him on social media or even at his pro date. He is the ultimate competitor and I just love that at the position just because, like I said a bit earlier, and that I just love players at the cornerback position that it extroverts. I love

them having that confidence. And if you think about the elite talents at the position, that is one trade that they always have in common. But certain I think he probably is the most safe of the bunch, and for lack of better words, just because he has the polish central looking for at the position and he has what I like to call a high floor. You know exactly what you're getting from him and day won and that's

the starting corner. I think he can go on to be one of the better players at the position very early on in his career. But I think the ultimate wild card in the group is probably Greg Newsom, the second. He's the one that didn't get a lot of buzz initially, but he gave up the least amount of yards of any cornerback that received twenty or more targets last year in the fbs UM And if you go back and watch him in the first half against Ohio State in

the Big Ten Championship game. Justin Fields didn't even look at his way at all. He didn't argue to him, not one time. He was great in the Wisconsin game, and he was fantastic against Nebraska as well. Um, he does have something that he needs to clean up. He is a little bit grabby at the position, so we just needs to stress to take me a little bit more. But I think that will come along as he continues

to get rips. You mentioned Patrick Surtan there, and you know, you say that name to Dolphins fans and they're gonna say, let's get that guy because his dad was so good here for so long in Miami. But it just seems I'll never ever say like, not gonna happen. And I think ig monogamy was a good example of that when it comes to the draft, and I'm sure you get it all the time when your mock draft, Jordan, that's

never gonna happen. Man, you're out of your mind. I'll never say that because that's not how the draft works. But just with the way the cornerback depth chart stacks up where pass or tam probably goes, I just don't know if it's gonna happen here in Miami, as would probably be the case for those first four or five

guys on that list. So if I were to ask you, Jordan, let's let's talk maybe day two or later, maybe even pick fifty year later, who were some of the best press cover corners in this draft class outside of that top tier guys. Yeah, that's quite a bit in this a sniff. We're just starting at the fiftieth pick. Um If Melifonal from Syracuse. Everybody has heard of that last name before. His brother was the second round pick of

the Raiders a couple of years ago. But one thing I do want to say about is don't compare him to his brother as far as their possible career arc. I think it's a totally different player. But he has that length that the Dawnkhins covered. He's about six ft two, about two hundred and five to two hundred and ten pounds. I don't know his exact meagerable from his protein, but um, he's a very long press man corner. I think he can play in soon or man. So he has the

versatility that's looking forward as fantastic fall skills. He was great in the North Carolina game. I think that was one of his better games of the year, uh in the season opener there. So if Melifonal was definitely one player to keep an eye on, another one is passing the debo from Stanford. Another player that a lot of people really forgot about in this in this draft class, just because he opted out a season ago, so we didn't see him last year. But prior to that season

I thought he did. He played really well and he had the one bad game against UCF and where Dave Davids ran a double move on him, and it just seems like everybody rings that up when you're talking about um Austin Adebo, and you just forget about the positives that he brings to the table. Very very smart player, very disciplined. I think he has some things that he needs to clean up as far as it's disciplined. I think that's one area. And what I mean by that

is he kind of to try to excuse me. He tries to do other guys's assignments as opposed to speaking to he is just because he gets a little bit nosy as far as like jumping routes and just playing undisciplined football at the time. So if he just learns to just stick to his assignment, I think he definitely can be a dependable starting player. We talked about bloodlines with Patrick Surtain in this draft. There's another player in this draft class that has some more good NFL lineage

in the jeans, Asante Samuel Jr. From Florida State. And that kind of leads me into my next question for you here, Jordan, because I've seen him band you about as as possible slot cornerback, but I've also heard him in interview say like, no, you want to try me on the outside first, because I can. I can do it. I'm a good enough player to do that. Would he be your top slot cornerback? And just if you can continue on that thought process, who are some of the

best slots in this draft? It will be between him and Elijah Molden. I view him as an outside corner as far as the science, Samuel, I think he can't play outside, And he said he blatantly said this. He said, look, I'm the same as that side as jire Alexander, So why can't I play outside? And he ended up being

a first round figure. Just talking about Jy here, but he's not quite as twitchy as what Jire was coming out, but I think he has the same type of upside that Jire definitely does possess as far as what he eventually could turn into. I'm a big fan of him. I think he's the best tackling corner in the draft. Um. And like I said, I'm a big fan of him. I love everything that he showed at the position. And then Elijah Molden, I'm I'm a big fan of this

guy too. I would he would be a guy with und the table for just because you talk about somebody that's just a football player, another one that has NFL bloodlines. To believe, his dad played for the New Orleans Saints if I'm not mistaken. So, Um, just an incredible football player, can come up to tackle when you want. It's very savvy. He attacked the run with the same type of intensity that he has in coverage, and he's just one of those guys that you know it's just gonna be a

real good player in the next level. Covering press man corners here are slot cornerbacks. And I want to ask you about this because both of our starting safeties here in Miami and for my money, a top ten safety tandem in the NFL that played really well last year. Limited big plays, but they also come down and cover because they do have cornerback experience. Eric Rowe had played on the outside, played on the inside. Bobby McCain same story.

Started his career as a slot corner, goes outside, eventually moves to free safety. And you mentioned Melofon, who I feel like that might be a name because of the testing metrics and the length and stuff back there. But you can correct me if I'm wrong. Who are some of the guys that could possibly be you know, maybe it's immediately, maybe it's long term guys that convert from

cornerback to the safety position. Well, there's the two guys that I think will be in the Dolphins wheelhouse and they're looking for somebody that can be converted safety, and one is Israel Kwamu. He's a cornerback from South Carolina and a lot of people talked about j. C. Horn coming out of South Carolina, rightfully so. But the guy on the other side was a really good player as well. He originally started at safety when he came to South Carolina,

but they have some injuries and he had to position back. Outside, but he does struggle a little bit as far as um. He's a bigger guy, so he's about six before two and ten pounds, and he has some struggles with transitioning in and out as far as his breaks and then out of out of his technique too as well. So with him coming down from the roof from safety, it's not as dependable for him to show that hip fluidity. So he's one player that I think some teams, not

just the Dolphins, could have ranked as a safety. And then another one is Shane Wade from Ohigh State, the player that everybody is very evidence of as far as what he was a couple of years ago, he primarily played slot corner and then he played outside. Last year he was battling turned toe injury, which he did reveal at Ohio States Pro that he didn't participate at all. But he is on the four team of this month. He's gonna test and do everything that he needs to do.

So um him showing that he did struggle a little bit. He faced some challenges on the outside, but he is a dependable slot guy that maybe some teams that see him as a safety as well. I'll be really curious see where he goes on draftick because like you mentioned that that twenty nineteen tape, he was for my money in the first round. Then you talk about through the injury, playing outside and and just having more on his plate in terms of what he did at Ohio State. Fun

player to watch. Can't wai to see his draft story. Now I mentioned your top fifty big board here to how many dbs you had on there. We've got one true safety in the bunch and Trayvon Mulray out of TCU.

I feel like he might be the leadoff for this next question for you, Jordan's who are some of the best middle of the field rangey guys that can that can play that center field and get to sideline the sideline and help you take the football away in that back in best middle of the field safeties in this class, Well, there's a couple of them that I do like. And um Andre Cisco will be one that I like to

mention from Syracuse. He's your true traditional free one high free safety was a ball halk coming out of Syracuse. Tim plus interception to his career. Go back and watch him against North Carolina, just like against just like for mill and fun will both of those guys that really impressive games. And he had an interception where he was able to bait the quarterback into throwing it deep and he almost returned it for a test now, but I'm a big Fancisco. We didn't see him a lot last year.

He ended up tearing the A C O and he hasn't been able to do what during the pre draft process, So there is a little bit of risk with taking him, whether it's at fifty or even later on in the draft. Another one is Richie Grant from you see he's helped himself a ton this year from how he has played this year, but also going down to the Senior Bowl, he was a lot of people's top player there as far as that helped themselves the most. So, UM, if you're looking more of a Day three guy, you can

say Richard Account the third from Georgia. Uh, there's a little bit of risk there with him. He was actually on a motorcycle accident to where he wasn't able to perform at his best at Georgia's prote and he he received some numbers that he wasn't very happy about. Um, I don't know the exact numbers as far as I think he ran like four eight two or something like that, but he plays much faster than that on tape, So maybe some teams they're just gonna trust the tape with him.

But he is a true traditional single high pree safety that you could get maybe in like the fourth or the fifth round. I love it. And the opposite of that is, you know this Dolphins defense McCain, Rode, Brandon Jones last year, they all play you know, too high, single high, They come down in the box, they blitz, they do everything. It's it's fun to watch. Like you mentioned the variety, But if you had to pick some of your top box safeties in that your class, who

might they be? Javon Holland from Oregon. He's one player that I think that a lot of people have forgotten about just because he was along the lines of some of those opt outs like Gregory Russol, Michael Parsons, and Jamar Chase where we didn't see him at all last year and even like his teammate, and they see who opted out in the twenties seasons, So what's happening with those opt outs as you kind of forget about who they are and what their skill sets tend to stand

for in Island is one that primarily played the slot in twenty nineteen, but he had some one high rips in twenty eighteen that are very impressive as well. So Javon Holland definitely would be a name that I have marked as far as one of my favorite box safeties and another if you're looking for a day two guys have some NOZZL game from Florida State. More of your Swiss army knife that can play in the box, but also he can play a little bit out wide as well.

He can guard the shifty slot guys are carried down the scene with those tight ends as well. He said that he's more comfortable playing downhere in that box role. About six ft three, two hundred and fifteen pounds, so primarily one him around the line of scrimmage. Jordan read the Draft Network draft analysts for them, read Option podcast releases Top fifty Big Board recently on t d N. Jordan, what else are you working on? Where people can find

you and where can they find you on social? So you can find me on Twitter at Jordan's underscore read You can find me there on Twitter and you can also find my work on the Draft Network dot com. We have a bunch of stuff going on, and even if you want to simulate the draft of stent around, you can do that with that mock draft simulator. Um. You can read about the players as you're selecting them, their scouting reports on every single guy as well. Again, that's at j O R d A N Underscore r

E I D on Twitter. Nobody in the business does better background on these players than Jordan does, so check out his work. We had Joe Marino from t d N earlier this week. We're gonna have Trevor Sikuma later next week as well. We're gonna use these guys lat because they are the best in the business The Draft Network. Jordan read, Jordan, appreciate your time today man, and uh, thanks for taking some time out of your day. I

know you're a very busy man. Thanks as always having pleasure Jordan read from the dre A Network away, he goes. I love having him on the podcast. He's so thorough, so in depth, but also concise, and he lets me talk a little bit. It's my show. I love doing that. You gotta love Jordan read here from the Draft Network. We'll talk to him more in the future and probably after the draft is well to talk about some of the prospects of dolphins do wind up with because he's

such a valuable resource for us. Here, speaking of valuable resources, I consider myself to be a very valuable resource when it comes to recommending television shows because I'm extremely, extremely picky. I hate most television. I hate most movies, but the ones I do love, I get completely inundated and obsessed with. So I have a few more for you guys here on recommendation Station Friday, talking about Netflix show streaming shows,

whatever it might be. I have been flying through old episodes of It's Always Stunny in Philadelphia, but that's a reruns. We won't cover that as much share on the podcast Formula one Drive to Survive. Now. I'm aware this is three years old there into the third season, and even if you're not a Formula one fan, this show is so so much. There's so much of a Hard Knox feel to the show that it just grips you and pulls you in. You get entrenched in these rivalries, these characters,

these personalities, these drama. The drama of every single race, every single inch, every qualifying lap is so crucial. And I told my buddy, who's a big F one and football fan, like it reminds me of the NFL, where the stakes are life and death and every single detail you do. And he wrote back kind of laughingly, like yeah, except for it actually is life or death because these

guys can die on the race track. And but what I meant by that was that, you know, it's there's no patience, there's it's get results or you're gonna get out. Like the very first episode, this one team had two cars in the pit and they both of their cars had their tires not properly secured and they had to retire the cars from the race because of poor pit management. So it's it's very intense and like me, I'm gonna be into F one now. I plan on watching the

race on Sunday, which I believe is in Azerbaijan. I could be wrong on that, but Formula One Drive to Survive on Netflix is a phenomenal show and sports fans and fans of drama and one's gonna like that. I promise you check it out. Bad Trip. Eric Andre has the Eric Andre Show. He's phenomenal in Man Seeking Woman on FX, he is starring in this hidden camera type of jackass type like what's the other one? Bad Grandpa? Those all those Johnny Knoxville movies. It's the same director.

So it's this hidden camera show where he goes around and pranks people, but he ties in a storyline to it. It's hilarious. Some of the scenes will have you with your jaw on the floor. Cannot recommend Bad Trip enough. Then there's a documentary on HBO. I forget the name of it, but it's basically looking I think it's called Inside Q and On. I mean, just check it out. It's fascinating. It's I don't agree with it, but it's the detail on its blows your mind. So those are

my recommendations. Formula one, Bad Trip and the Q and On documentary on HBO. Let's go ahead and wrap up this edition of the Drive Time podcast. The next time you guys hear from me, I will be back in South Florida. That's right. The sabbatical up north in the Northwest is overcoming to an end. I'm heading back down

to sunny South Florida. Can't wait to get back to the pool, get some sunshine in my life, get back out to the beach, so we'll see you guys there for the draft run up as well as Draft Night. Are big Draft Night at the hard Rock Stadium. Come check us out. We're gonna have analysts on the stage breaking that stuff down for you guys. Myself included in that. So we're gonna have a lot of fun doing all that stuff on YouTube as well at hard Rock Stadium.

Fun fun month ahead here on the podcast. In the meantime, that's gonna be my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe, rate, review the podcast. Follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins. Check out the Fish Tank and the Audible podcast as well as Miami Dolphins dot com until next time. Until next week, fins Up.

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