Drive Time: 2025 Senior Bowl Practices Recap

Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, opening the show with the Day two and Day three notes from the Senior Bowl down in Mobile, Alabama. And we're gonna get Kyle Krabs on the show who was in Mobile and Fort Worth for the Shrine and Senior Bowls, and we'll have them on the Monday show after the game on Saturday, to give a full breakdown of the practices and games and just kind of a check ins. We're going to be very heavily involved in the draft

process this year. Ten picks, I feel like it'll be more. Let's go ahead and start with my notes from the broadcast and the all twenty two from three days of practices out in Mobayo, Alabama, and I took note of

two quarterbacks out there. One was Jaln Milroe, who I talked about on the Wednesday show, and Lewis Riddick did a hit on him where he talked about how Milroe needs to go to a program that has a good developmental program for young players and has the time and patience to develop him and see through some of the issues he has in his game, because you could see how much he struggled throughout the entire week, and he seemed to have some real issues with the football itself.

A couple of throws fluttered out of his hands, very duckish, and he's below the nine inch hand threshold that there kind of is in the NFL, where if you don't have that big of a hand, it's kind of tough to be a good quarterback in this league. He was late to see stuff. He threw a terrible interception. He stood in there like a deer in the headlights, and

took some sacks players that get blown dead. I'm starting to think you might have a chance at him in the third round, and you're really only doing that because of the hope of a three year project in developing the physical skills, which again I think might be up the alley of the Miami Dolphins and what's on their menu, as it were, for draft prospects at this position, insanely

highly physical upside. But you can get him at a lower cost because there are a lot of things you have to iron out, Like that's kind of your approach. That's the approach you have to take if you want to replace Tua down the road, right, Because Tua gets you to a certain level. I would say he's a better version of Alex Smith when they made the transition

over to Patrick Mahomes. Like I think two was a top ten quarterback, and you can win a lot of games, and you can win championships with Tua with the right pieces around him. Now, if you want to get into the we're going to be there every single year no matter what happens. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson level. These are the kind of players you would gamble on.

Does that make sense? So if you're going to replace twoa, don't do it with a milk toast white dude, right for instance, you know someone that just goes out and like Kyle McCord is not going to be an upgrade on two A tongue by loa. Don't waste your time there.

Take the big risk and gamble in the third or fourth round if you want to do that, and see if you can develop a player for two or three years, and maybe he does turn out to be Lamar Jackson or maybe you know what Malik Willis showed you in his you know third year devent like you can put you can put these guys in position to develop their game, to get into a position to maybe be that big upgrade you're looking for, but you're never gonna get there

if you don't invest. So Milroe, it was a rough week, but that's kind of where I come down on him. The other quarterback I noted was Tyler Shook from Louisville. I think I called him show last time I got to watch the tape because I have no idea what type of quarterback he is, but you can tell he played shortstop as a kid. I'm always intrigued by guys that can snap the football from that dropped arm slot and he just slings the pill all over the yard

with you know, three quartered arm angle. He had really good low location in a low red zone seven on seven slant to Jayden Higgins. Sorry it's a mouthful to say, into a tight window. Then the very next throw he drives this far field out to the corner of the end zone for a touchdown the test Johnson. So he

has live arm talent. And just as I write that, he throws this nice peelback touchdown to Elijah Arroyo in the red zone and it showed the arm elasticity where he kind of went across the body and flung the thing out there. But he had the under route on a little play action naked boot, so wide open, and for him to never have seen to not see that

is incredibly alarming to me. It takes away all the good us off from the arm because if we can't see the most basic of stuff, if we have to teach you how to play quarterback at this level, it's very tough. See Skyler Thompson for example. Running backs. Only a couple guys made the notes here. I did, like Bishel Tooton from Virginia Tech. I know Miami fans know him well. He had some good pass pro reps and ran the ball pretty effectively. Alli Gordon had no idea

where he was going in pass pro. He's a very high cut, tall runner. This is an interesting class where everyone has like traits to like, but there's also a lot to not like about a lot of these guys. One of the guys I think is the most well rounded and versatile pieces that was at this game, or this week of practices and in the entire draft class is a guy that you know well and a guy that I know well from my PAC twelve days. Damian Martinez,

the Miami running back. He's just a you know the scene in forty year Old Virgin when he's going through the box of porn that he gives to Andy, the forty year Old Virgin, and he's like, Oh, everybody loves Raymond. How'd that get in here? That's just a good show. Damian Martinez is just a good runner. He gets on his track, he reads out his blocks, he sees the crease, and then hits it with absolute conviction. He didn't run

a lot of zone in college. There was more zone at Oregon State than in Miami, for sure, But you know, I think he can be taught that because of what I've seen from his running ability. He's two hundred and thirty pounds in slippery and then just pulling up his tape. I saw him catch a ball in space against a Virginia defensive back and completely joked him down the field.

So he has impressive shake. He had an explosive run and team drills where a guard lost a block on duo and he just had the vision, the peripheral vision to see the backside of that man would be blocked because of the one half of the combination block and he just could skip over a gap on a smooth jump cut with no issue and then took off with speed. He's got rare movement at that side that pairs with his vision. We'll talk about him here more in just

a second. Wide receivers Kyle Williams from Washington State. But ba baa five four wash egg. Just you gotta win the day, fault cript head and Gray. He's awesome. I love his game. He was a transfer from UNLV. He balled out this year and I try not to get too high on Washington State prospects. So they go to the Senior Bowl and they dominate there. Your boy's gonna

go crazy about it. He's starting to separate himself in the route running discussion I talked about on the Wednesday show, and here's what I know about watching him from broadcast copy. All year long. They threw to him on every critical down. He was the go to guy. He's quick, but patient

in his details in the route. He has a knock for pushing a defensive back into one spot, then throwing the counter to that exact momentum against it to keep them on their heels, and not able to transition smoothly like he can. He has very secure hands. He's an excellent ball tracker, capable of stacking the red line. That's the line you're gonna see painted on practice fields where the receivers try to keep the route on that line.

To hold that and not get pushed to the perimeter where he can then track the football over that shoulder to give the quarterback a huge window to throw with. It gives you bigger margin for air. Imagine you're taking your pitching wedge onto a green that has thirty feet of radius. Now give it fifty feet. You're gonna hit more greens right then. At practices this week, it was more of the same, but just winning his routes immediately

with a quick release. He has the top GPS speed among the receivers this week, twenty one point three six miles per hour. You put that with elite route running and very very solid river your solid hands. Gotch a good thing to have right there. We'll talk more about him in just one second. I'm making fun of myself. Cut just tumble my words. Stay with us here back after this Xavier Estrepo from Miami. He was in the notes on Wednesday. He blocked his ass off in these

two sessions. He adds value in the way that he can align to a bunch stack or trip formation. Bunches and stacks are just two receivers and tied together, trips is three obviously in the screen game, and give the defense a player to contend with that can both block, be a key lead blocker on the point or pick his way through traffic like a running back with the football.

You put a player like that out there that either can't block Jim on eight Chian or does it make yards after the catch, Mike ASICKI, It really limits what you can do if you have three guys like that, which Waddle's that guy, Well, Wattle's not a great runner with with screen game to be perfectly honest, But give me like John new Smith who can do both. Give me Exavier Streppo who can do both. And give me a Jalen Wright who could do both. We're cooking with gas.

That's three different positions there too, So it's a very unique personnel grouping. But that's what Streppo gives you. Jayden Higgins from Iowa State, I'm having a really hard time with him. To be perfectly honest, I need to watch some more of his tape there in karage. Some of his routes look smooth, others look slow, and I need to find out the calibration of why that is. He has some serious wins where he leaves him in the dust.

And Daniel Jeremiah said there's some Nico Collins movement ability at that size. I'm not seeing that on these Senior Bowl practices. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm willing to admit that if I am, and go check it out and get the evidence here for you guys on the show. But he did say that. Dj did say that there's not as much polish because Nico Collins is like a top you know, he's one of the best receivers in the NFL. So let's not go crazy here. Tesz Johnson

from Oregon have Marsha my gosh. I love watching him play man. He'd had the first spin cycle we've seen in these one on one reps at receiver where he just put the guy into the absolute uh being today and he was flying away there for a little bit. The way he can release off the line of scrimmage then re stack at the top, he has really good

attention to details. Some guys will win that route right away off the line, and then they are so like intrigued by the space they've created, they get lazy on the rest of the details and it allows the defensive back to get back into good shape and recover. But he stays on it and then snaps it inside and generates three yards of separation off of that highly detailed route. Runner at one hundred and fifty six pounds, you better be really smart with your routes and you be the

best crossover guy in the entire game. Jack Besh from TCU update on him. He had a huge block on a tunnel screen that went for a big game that's all over his tape. The very next play, he pulls down a pop fly throw from Jaln Milroe. That too, is all over his tape. He's just stronger than the defensive backs on those plays and he prevents them from elevating to make the catch because he can kind of hold them down while holding the line and still have

the athletic ability to elevate himself tight ends. I mean, the two guys that popped off were on the notes on Wednesday, Mason Taylor and Elijah Arroyo. Mason Taylor, his top speed was like a twenty one point five miles per hour or no, no sorry. In the games this year, he almost hit twenty two miles per hour and that was like the sixth highest of all the eligibles in college football at that size. And he caught everything. He just pulls everything down. Man. He ran away from guys.

He did everything. We'll talk about him more in a second as well. Arroyo, his route running is tremendous. Guys are legit scared of him getting vertical and it allows him to stack and then break kind of like Tes Johnson, but we're talking about like a six foot five, two hundred and forty pound guy that does this or two fifty. Then he breaks it off and they're still getting vertical to keep up with the deep ball because they're a phrase going to run away from them and be this

high catch radius guy. All of a sudden he's wide open on the dig or the out and turns into a runner after the catch. Jackson Hawes was a guy that I was really intrigued to watch coming in, and at first I thought he was really losing kind of the point of attack battle in pass protection and in the run game. But as the week went along, he

got better at that. I think his hand striking got better and his feet were working more in unison with his hands, and then also he was doing some pretty good work as a rout runner where it was more physical and blocky out type of stuff. I thought that his tape showed a more fluid mover than what I saw on the tape during the Senior Bowl. But he remains a guy that I would keep an eye on. This tight end class. You can pretty much pick what round you want to take one in and feel pretty

good about it. I think Taylor and Arroyo are going to be top forty picks in that range, so if you're gonna get one of them, you probably should do it. In the second round, provided they make it to your second round pick. Warren's not gonna get pass like the fifteenth pick, so you have to go there up top

with him. I don't really think Colston Lovelin's an option for this team because of his play style, but there's a lot of guys you can't go wrong with here, and Taylor and Arroyo I think are going to be big time NFL players, and Jackson Hawes to me, could be a much better version of what Durham Smith is

for you. At tackle. Arianta Esri from Minnesota, I thought he struggled against some of the long arm power guys, and that's what those guys are designed to do, right That strike stops your feet and then the train keeps rolling downhill through your strike zone and they put a hole in your chest. A couple of guys were able to get his feet stopped, and he wasn't very fluid redirecting back inside and got beat that way a few times.

They were kind of dogging on him on the broadcast because he kept giving up the inside post and it's like, dude, you gotta learn and fix this thing. But he really picked it up in the team period. Where he had a wash down block the point of attack for a big run off his side, did a fantastic job in pass pro until he got beat on the inside post again on a pass rush where Mike Green, who had a great week, split him and the guard. He's there's a couple of tackles and the maybe back end of

the first round second round territory that I like. I don't like as much as like Patrick Paul where he's at right now, but there's gonna be some options into that second round. And one of those guys that I thought showed well was Emery Jones. But when he moved into guard is when I liked his game better. From LSU, He's huge. I thought he looked really comfortable and his kick slide past that and strike any reaction to the rusher's first move. He would show patience and bring his

feet with him. Then they kick him inside at guard, and I thought it was his best rep of the entire week. He squeezes the a gap and leans you know it, gets a good pad shelf down into the chest plate of the or the shoulder pads, I should say of the pass rusher, and cuts off the slant from a three technique across his face and just shuffle stepped him into the center. Like that intrigues me. I think there's gonna be we'll get into this city of

the show. But there's a lot of tackles in this class I think make a lot of sense to draft as a potential like long term solution after Austin Jackson's contract ends. If it doesn't, you know, come back for you here and can play guard while they get that experience to kind of be that and your third tackle. Like,

there's lots of options. There's so many options to go after this offensive line this offseason, and we heard Chris Career say it they're going to focus on that position, so I'll be curious to see how they do that. Speaking of offensive lineman, the interior was even better than the tackle play in this in this game. And you

heard Kyle Crabs in the show shoot. I don't know he does the show so often these days, but he talked about how the Shrine Bowl was kind of the skill players and the Senior Bowls kind of the trenches. I think that proved out. Although Kyle Williams really had a huge week and you know, guys, do know how I feel about tes Johnson. Kyle's not gonna like test because he's too small. But that's that's all right. Let's go ahead and actually take a quick breaks. We're up

against fifteen minutes here. Let's take a quick break, come back and talk about these interior offensive linemen. We'll do the entire defense. I have my top twelve and your male bag questions. Busy, busy show today. All that's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Winfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Next week on the podcast is Trench Week. I made a song. I'm excited for you guys to hear it. It's another one of those stupid Travis productions I put on the show over once in a while.

We're gonna be talking about the tackles the interior offensive line. We'll be talking about defensive tackles. That's a Monday, Wednesday Friday production. We will talk about tackles on Monday and do the entire you know, our roster free agents and draft picks, do the exact same thing for the interior guys on Wednesday, and do defensive tackles on Friday for French Week. And the Trench Week really kicked off with a bang here with Grey's Abel. Saw someone called him Greg.

One of the beers called him Greg. I know another guy named Greg's let's pull that hang out one second. Longfellow Deeds? Wow? Is that des Frest name?

lost a rep yet? And he said yeah, if he has, it was on air. Not sure. Many guys have helped themselves the way Zabel has this week, and it just kept getting better. They had him do the competition rep at the end of practice where everybody gathers around and watches him. He locks it down looking so effortless. Jeremiah said it reminded him of the week that Zach Martin had when he was down there before getting drafted in the first round by the Cowboys back in Mobile all

those years ago. Jalen Rivers is a guy we talked about on Wednesday also from Miami. I finally saw him lose on that jump set rep from the guard position where we talked about that on the Wednesday show where

those guys were jump setting like crazy. He got clubbed and it knocked him right off the spot, but he had a key block pulling from the backside to lead a back for a big run in the team period where the edge closed in and he had an angle, but you could see Rivers's life the thirty five inch arms just kind of extend and get enough of a piece of that edge to knock him off the track

for that big run. He also cleared a lane with a seal in red zone work for a touchdown where he came off of his original block and caught a piece of the backer right at the point of attack. Those are the kind of combo blocks you're looking for if you're a Miami Dolphin evaluator. Marcus bo from Perdue. I like his pad level, his strike, and the absorbed combination in the drop back game, especially at guard. I

thought he struggled at tackle. I think it's a pretty easy conversion inside for him and that might actually bump him down somewhere in the second round if you are so intrigued by that. Willie Lampkin from North Carolina, the first rep you see, you can see this guy's wrestling background. He's gritty, he's tough, he's feisty, all that stuff. Kind of plays center like Brent Grimes played cornerback, you know what I mean. But the most unique part of his

game he's five ten, two hundred and seventy pounds. Darnell Washington, the tight end from a couple of years ago, was two hundred and eighty pounds when he came out. He is going to be lower than you to have better leverage than you, and his flexibility allows him to sink into that anchor so nicely. You have to imagine that

he has to get bigger. I mean, he does, but he also had a rap against Dion Walker, who's six foot six three forty five, where Walker looked like he collided with a concrete wall when Lampkin struck him with his punch. Because of all this, I went and watched his tape to confirm what had to be true. And he's a plus athlete to the numbers, not quite as good as Aaron Brewer. But like, let's be real here,

he's too small. It's that simple. He's not going to be able to drive Jordan Davis off the football or Zach Sealer. But would I spend a seven on him and see if we can stack thirty pounds on him in two years and if he can carry it. I bet he could because he's a try hard guy that will do anything. But this is the kind of developmental pipeline guy I'm talking about here, Like he's gonna fall

deep into the draft because of a serious deficiency. Can you put him in your pipeline with a low investment, a seventh round pick or a priority UDFA and give him two years in the program to build thirty pounds of muscle, or just thirty pounds in general, why not? Like why not? You know, Wyatt Millum. I don't want to keep dunking on the guy, but I am just not seeing it here the West Virginia Prospect. He's out

of control. It looks. It reminds me of a liamin practice far too often on the other side of the ball. Defensive tackle Walter Nolan, this guy we talked about from Old miss and the update on him is I'm still trying to figure out the best way to describe his work as a pass rusher. Jeremi I did a good job of it. He said that he gives you nothing to put your hands on because of how he can coil and explode. You just can't get a piece of him.

He's so consistently getting guys in their heels all week long. Jamari called well from Oregon. What a day he had on Wednesday. He started with power in the one on one portion and was just dog walking guys. He's a squatty body type that can really work under you and just play through you. But then he started flashing the slant to the outside shoulder and just sliding by guys with quickness. Legit, I didn't know his measurements. I was thinking he might be like six three, three thirty. Nope,

he's six foot one, three hundred and forty pounds. I love that body type for a guy that can both play the run and stack it up, but also has some wiggles. A pass rusher could be a Benito Jones plus in that regard off the edge. The spoiler of Top twelve. The best player of the entire week was Shamar Stewart, and if you follow my coverage, you knew that was going to be the case because I've been talking about this guy as a perfect fit. At two

hundred and ninety pounds. They can play edge and kick inside defensive tackle for an Anthon Weaver defense that loves to rotate guys around and use rush games because of the explosive lateral agility, dog mentality. He's got rare bend and power for that two hundred and ninety yard frame where he can play the one technique off your center, he can play the three technique off your guard, or

he can play the five technique off your tackle. He thwarted a cut block backside and team period and closed down to the cutback land for a tackle for loss. Later on he bowl rushed the right tackle and the pop alone helped him disengage from the attachment from the blocker, and he sent the right tackle up to Birmingham with the way he knocked him back and sacked the quarterback. He made a big play on a peel back on Wednesday as well. He was everywhere I've seen people talk

about it. He doesn't how much a plan where he can't finish that well, but I think there's plenty that'll work with this a player you get him into your program. Mike Green from Marshall. Just seeing his composition, I don't think the weight is going to be an issue for him. He did add some weight and carried it very well

this week up to like two forty five. I think it was the way he threatens the upfield shoulder and then has a really fast and violent swipe to keep with a bend around the corner to keep his frame clean, which he has to do with that size. I think he can win a lot of rushes as a rookie. His finishing on tape is probably the best part of his game, where he has this knack for getting the quarterback to the ground by like collapsing their legs, but not in a Brady Rule type of way. It's kind

of hard to explain. He had that rep that you saw on Social where he buried Organs Josh Connory. There were just a bunch of wins against those jump sets where you know the tackle, even the guard wants to go reduce the space between you and he, so he jumps out there. And they'll do that in this drill because the defensive lineman can kind of take liberties with

how much room they have to rush. And so there was a counter on that on Wednesday, and the guys were kind of jumping under their pads and bowl rushing them and knocking them backwards. And Connorley had a nice bounced back rep on the very next rep after that happened. But he did have a pretty tough week. I thought Connorly did. Donovan oh Man, there's a Boston College edge. He's a rouco. I hope I got that right. I didn't.

He flashed some twitchy, freaky blow by rush moves. DJ was raving about how you see the most gifted rusher short in the corner and the way he did that against Connorlely in a one on one pass rush situation where he sets the tackle up for a crossover step and then rips across the outside like you're trying to like squeeze that angle, like you're bending the curve around a mountain with your you know, your sports car, where the shoulder kind of dips under and you simultaneously angle

your way back into the quarterback and almost pin them in that spot. It's a good way to not run around the quarterback and get a sack. He showed some of that capability in his pass rush arsenal At linebacker Jeff Bossa from Oregon. He was in Wednesday podcast, but update there. I just love the way he plays on a string as a hookbacker in coverage. He sees the quarterback's eyes and moves with it. He had a nice play on Jayden Higgins a pop on the hookup route

that he ran during the team portions of drill. That's a big receiver there. Jack Kuiser from no He had some nice plays sinking down into the running game and the point of attack where he would basically, you know, shorten the distance, then scrape off that block and go

make a tackle with a point of attack. Had two TFLs also picked off Milrow where he was the curl defender and just kind of read the eyes back over to the middle of the field and jumped over under an over route, jumped under the over route for the easy pick at cornerback. Trey Amos from Old Miss withdrew after the weeks after Wednesday's work, and it was easy to see why in terms of the fluidity he was

the guy from that group. He gets into phase and a couple of verticals and the way he drives back down the stem is as sudden as you've seen in this class, and that's going to be a theme for the next three guys I talk about her. In fact, these guys were all in the notes on Wednesday. Isaiah Thomas from Florida State, Quincy Riley from Louisville, and Maxwell Harrison from Kentucky. We're all in the notes. Thomas just stays so low out of his stands through the route,

doesn't lift his pads and get himself off balance. He's a big cornerback and he moves like that. That's going to make him a high pick if he runs well. In Indye. Quincy Riley, the instincts were all over the tape. Once again. He blew up a screenplay, undercut a dig and dropped the pick. But he trusts what he sees and just goes. And then Harriston was awesome. He was a terrific cover guy. Just mirrors, gets into phase, stays on balance through contact, and rides the receiver to the perimeter.

Really good reaction skills. He had an awesome win in the competition period as well. At safety. All my favorite safeties that were in this game dropped out because they were Lathan Ransom and Exavier Watts, the guys that played in the National championship game. But two guys that popped was Dan Jackson, who is the exact same name from the Key and Peel skit right, Dan Johnson from BYU right, and he looks just like that guy too. But he

had two nice wins. One against Mason Taylor on a vertical route and then he also stayed on top of Jackson Hawes a little end cut route in won both of those reps. And then KeAndre Jackson, a Hula Bowl call up name who showed out well at the Senior boll It's how you get yourself into the draft and make yourself some money man. Good job for KeAndre Jackson.

He made a play every single day, including a really nice pass breakup in red zone seven v seven where he read a slant flat combination and drove down the passing lane to take away that touchdown and break it up. I thought he matched up as well as any safety in one on ones versus tight ends and the Hula Bowl call up thing. It's been a busy month for him.

He's showing well and made himself some mullah. All right, let's take a break right there, come back and do my Top twelve from the Senior Bowl as well as your mail bag questions to finish up the show. That's all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, The big Dogs, the Top twelve, Shamar Stewart, Texas A and M Number one. My favorite player of the entire week, the two hundred and ninety

pounds edge, team, period, individual. He did everything run, game, production, sack, He used power and then speed and team and one on one. He was the best player out there. I thought Gray's Abel, little old North Dakota State grays Abel was second. The quote of the week. If he lost a rep, it was on air. He matched any and all comers. He is a Day two pick after the week that he had Walter Nolan out of Old miss

Who's going to be a top ten pick. I just hadn't watched him yet, and so I failed to give you guys proper commentary before the Senior Bowl. He is just uniquely slippery as a rusher, and I have very little doubt he'll be effective as a pro. Top ten pick all day. Mason Taylor out of LSU. He did everything you want to see from a tight end. He hit a second level block from the ye position, he made tough catches off of his frame, he outran linebackers

in safeties. Then you get these character references. I know it's his dad, Jason Taylor, but listen to the way JT talks about Mason, and you can hear on the broadcast and you can also hear it on the latest edition of the fish Tank podcast that came out this week. Really good episode with JT giving you a lot of truth in the last twenty five years or I guess really over the course of his entire life. Mason Taylor, He's special man. He's gonna be a really good pro.

Number five was teed Johnson, the receiver out of Oregon. He was the uncoverable guy, the one that made the drill look impossible. Downright silly movement at one hundred and fifty six pounds. Quincy Riley, the cornerback from Louisville. Fluid instincts kept pinning verticals to the perimeter and working his way back down this time on comebacks. He has NFL

movement and feel. Man, I didn't put tray Amos in here because he skipped the last day, and I dock guys for that, even though I guess I kept you were in there. So what am I talking about? Stuart was special. Kyle Williams number seven, the Washington state wide receiver up. He has the best release game all week

in Mobile. He won routes right away, and that gives you those indicators that two always talks about, right where if I have to get an outside release against outside leverage and I can win that, it tells me what that cornerback is going to do, which can dictate how the safety plays it. And from one quick snapshot, if I'm looking at you early in the progression, you win

your route. I can be informed by the rest of the coverage based upon that, that's what two loves about Jaylen Waddell asked him that personally, I think he would love the exact same thing about Kyle Williams, who really catches everything. He's always open. Seems like a good combination to me. Elijah Arroyo from Miami. The straight line speed, quick acceleration off the line, and the ability to lean and break off the routes is a deadly combination of

past game prowess. Man. I cannot imagine he has to wait long on day two to hear his name called. He was awesome out there. Jack Besh number nine, the TCU wide receiver. There was a vertical throw that was a miss where he had an extra gear to accelerate

to the football and outrun the cornerback. If he can do that with how he blocks in the screen and run game, and how he's able to create separation with physicality against type press coverage in a short amount of space, that's a lot of things I think we could have been better out last year. I think Jack Besch gives you all of those if you draft him, probably somewhere on day two. Number ten is Damien Martinez, the Miami running back, across the board as a runner, pass protector,

pass catcher. I thought he was the best back out there. He ran some zone of Oregon State more Man Gap at Miami, and he's two hundred and thirty pounds and has a great feel for stretching a run out and choosing the bang, bounce, bend lane that's take it wide, take it inside, take it back the other direction. I just see a player that can help you be versatile in your scheme and your week to week game planning

because he can kind of do it all. I just sort of like them all Michael Bolton's entire catalog, even if it's more of a Master of None type of situation. He's got really really good zone I think instincts that will be liked here. Mike Green from Marshall Number eleven. I docked him because of the skipping Thursday that, you know, he was so explosive. He did get washed in the run game a couple of times. But he's got freaky getoff and ability to angle as a rusher. That's that's

going to play at the next level. Number twelve Jalen Rivers from Miami. I think he's gonna be a really good guard, plus, he has movement skills for that spot. He's bigger than the requisite size and strength for inside at three hundred and thirty pounds thirty five inch arms. He's a rare, rare prospect. I would keep an eye on him on Day two as well as a potential

guard fix for you. My biggest takeaway from three days of a scout in these players and really getting about halfway through the positions for the capsules, there's a lot of good football players in this draft. It might not have the multiple Hall of Famers up top in the first round that some classes do, but that's not really our problem or our range. Anyways, we're at thirteen, you're gonna be in a position to get a very good player first round, type of player that could start right away.

You could take a number one player, probably at safety, tight end, linebacker if you want. You could probably get OT three, four or five in that spot. And if that's if that's armand Membu the Missouri I think he starts at you for guard next year and is your third tackle in the event of an injury, and has long term tackle prospects. I don't hate those options, especially if it's Josh Simmons, who right now to me from Ohio State is ot one, but he's gonna get knocks.

He tores acl back in October. There's going to be a really good defensive tackle because Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, both the Michigan guys, and Walter Nolan are all worthy of top ten selections. To be honest, there's just too many players for you to miss out on a player that should be a five year starter at cost control for you. But then as you go along, I think there's numerous chances to draft players and just play really good football with those guys, like athletes with acumen for

the game. It's all over the draft, the tight end position, the safeties, the offensive line. To be honest, there's a million defensive tackles. I think it's the best linebacker class in some time. This is a hard draft, I think to mess up. That's what Kyle Crabs always tells me. I agree with him. That's the takeaway that I have from this week in Mobile and all the capsules I've done.

I think there's going to be clusters of a handful of players at multiple spots that you pick at where you feel pretty good about what's on the board for you than those spots. I think they will add capital still at this point, I think they can really add you know, they could really add a couple more picks if you move, as you know, certain players and get those more picks and maybe move back in the draft.

Not to mention you, probably you probably are going to get two third round comp picks when we gets hired next year's cycle. I think he will. I'm excited about this. Let's let's go get us eight contributors at cost control for the next four years. That's the goal, and it can be done in my opinion. Let's go ahead and pivot off that and answer a few of your male bad questions and get out of here for the week

at Science and Football. In your opinion, is it best to draft an elite athlete and hope that it can become that they can be converted to another position or to our scheme, or is it best to draft a player that has more moderate abilities but can fit in right away. That's a great app By the way, Science and Football, this is something I struggle with every year. To be honest with you, there's an old I get

a cliche. I guess that the coach wants the player who's polished and executes, and the scout wants the ball of clay, the athlete that they can mold. I often find myself down the middle on that, and our scheme is unique, and it's something I've been trying to communicate for a long time now, and I guess doing a poor job of it. But they like tackles at guard. They like their build, they like their athletic ability. You are asked to get to different landmarks than the offensive

line are in other offenses. Like to spell it out like this. Let's say a player, you know a play is four seconds long, the same amount of time, but in our offense you have to get to a landmark fifteen yards away, and other offenses you have to get to that landmark that might be ten yards away. So obviously you need different players. So they like guys that have athleticism to play tackle and they like to make them guards. But if you have a freak athlete guard

that works as well. I think you have to balance the entire prospect and the entire case. If the upsides is so great that you can take the risk that it might not work out, then you don't do it, and then how high is the floor on the more proven player? Like you have to balance all that stuff

then with a scheme idea. This defense is so fluid and requires guys to play multiple spots, I think you do lean more towards the plus athlete that has that versatility, because if you get a bunch of those guys, you'll be you should be okay at dan PFL with our current draft picks, how many Day one starters should we

hope for and which positions are most likely to play? Safety, tight end, interior, offensive line or a small, fast wide receiver off the top, I do think that needs we have today, and again, this change is so frequently in this time of year, can can be different tomorrow. But if I can tell you we need a safety and we can bring back Javon Holland, and that changes the entire things, right, But I don't think that'll happen for posterity.

Just think it's worth explaining. But man, I just don't see the draft as trying to fill out your roster with the need you have. I think you take the best players and the premium positions offer greater value because of the savings that you get there. I always like to see what cost it is in free agency to get a player at a position. So, like, what's it going to be to get a top edge, Probably twenty five fifty million dollars wide receiver? Same right, what is

the top safety going to get? Like twelve million? So if you can hit on a receiver or edge, there's more value in that than the guard safety. But then also too, those positions do tend to slide, so you can really maximize the value, like the Lions class in twenty twenty three, right, Gibbs, Campbell, Branch, Laporta. None of those are premium positions. All of those players are already some of the best at their position, and I would say three of them are top five at their position.

And those were critical players on a fifteen to two football team. So I always say draft for a player that you think will be the best long term. I'm really not a fan of a drafting for just what you need this year. I think it's very shortsighted and how you get yourself in a lot of trouble at s or sorry at Scooter v thirteen. How would you

rank Miami's prioritization of unrestricted free agents heading into the offseason. PS. Severance is the ultimate I'm following like eighty four percent of what's happening here, and all I know for certain is that it's efing intense and amazing. One of the best cast in shows I can remember. Yeah, Severance is like already a better call Saul. Good for me. I

really really like that show. As far as the unrestricted free agents, ma'am, you know, I see a lot of the panic from the beat and everything about how many free agents they do have. But show me one that's like an impact player, you know what I mean. That's kind of how I feel about it. Kaleis Campbell is probably my top priority of the entire group. I would say Tyreel Dotson as my linebacker three in hopes of upgrading linebacker two is a big priority for me in

that spot as well. But heto Jones, I liked what he did this year. I'd probably offer him another one year contract to come back. There's just not a lot, man. I think it's a good position to be, and they're gonna be able to, you know, take some losses and not be that worried about it and then add some players if they get the eight guys I'm talking about that can contribute on cost control contracts, and they can get three or four free agents, then we're going to

be an eleven win team again. That's fighting in the playoffs once again at Sea Gammon, do you have faith in McDaniel and the staff to do the things you listened out in your podcast at the end of the season. My first thought was, I truly hope McDaniel has the same list, But I have my doubts. I think there will be a concerted effort for change in general. I think that they realize they're going to have to do that because I think jobs might be on the line otherwise.

But I do believe that there will be an effort, but execution something else. We'll see, man, I mean, it could happen. It could not happen. We'll find out. We shouldn't just sweat and dread everything that happens beforehand, because what good does that do you? So yeah, I think it could happen. We'll see. I'm not I'm not like convicted that it will, but it could. At Rick Hernandez, seeing the importance of winning the turnover battle in the playoffs,

what's the outlook in this area. I'm worried whether we have the offense or whether the offense may be too dangerous with these timing patterns, sometimes throwing directly at a defender, relying on a receiver get into the right spot first. It's funny, isn't it. How we spend all this time talking about needs and how contenders are built and how we have to replicate that, and then it pretty much just comes down to who makes fewer mistakes in those playoff games. I do think we have to do a

bad job of generating takeaways next year. You know, that was one area this defense did not excel with. They can be more opportunistic and can, you know, put themselves in better spots to make interceptions. I think you can get more fumbles next year with the return of Field and Phillips and Bradley Chubb. It is an interesting point on the offense because it is a risky style, right, but that risk also increases the risk the defenses has. Defenses have of making a mistake, so you weigh the

risk and reward. But in general, man, as long as it's too and he's gonna throw a couple of picks like that year, but I really trust him to make the decisions there and lead us to the Promised Land with with how he makes those throws. So I prefer it, quite honestly. Last one here at a brash twenty seven, patiently waiting the arrival of our first sonde March twentieth. Congratulations, man, that's gonna be awesome. Any tips or tricks you know of to help us get through the first couple of months.

Just support your partner, man, That is number one. She's gonna go through a whole lot in this process. You're gonna change the way you look at her. It's gonna be amazing. You have to be the world's greatest assistant. Anytime you can help with late night wake ups, take care of the dishes or laundry, encourage her to nap. There's only so much you can do as the father early on, so just to communicate and be overly supportive. And then with the kid, just accept and embrace that

kids are going to cry and be difficult. Don't stress about it. It's life. You will want to especially in public, but kids cry, man, if the strangers will get mad at you for that. Most of all, You've got this brother, it's inherent and you you know what to do, don't sweat it. Next week Trench Week, we're gonna recap Senior Bowl and All Star Our games with Kyle Krabs. Busy week here on the show. I'm fired up. Let's get go,

Let's get out of here and enjoy your weekend. The last week of football coming up next week the Super Bowl. We'll have that recap for you as well down the road. In the meantime, you all please be sure subscribe, rate, review, follow on social at Winfold NFL. The team at Miami Dolphins Fish Tank Podcast, Seth and Juice. The JT episode was fantastic. The YouTube channel for Dolphins, HQ, media availabilities,

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