What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we move into our third positional capsule of the twenty twenty five off season slash twenty twenty four review. But really it's more about the future and heading into what we might expect next season. So we'll do that. Plus I have multiple segments planned, but I might push some off later down the road because well, we have a
lot of time to do this. All. We'll go ahead and jump right in the running Backs National Championship game and maybe some more from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcasts. Yeah, so the programming notes, I just want to make sure I get right out in front of off the top here is. You know, I have little bullet points and things I've just kind of thought about over the last
couple of weeks. And that's one of the beauties of having, you know, the every other day program that we have here in the off season. And you know, I'm certainly within my capabilities of doing this daily. As you know that I was the kind of the godfather of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast doing it daily there, but we don't do that here, so I'm able to kind of I don't want to say put more thought behind, but I marinate on ideas more and I have a quarterback ranking
list I want to get to. I want to talk about the coaching carousel, but for the sake of time purposes and the fact that we do have so much, you know, to get to, or so much time to get to all the stuff over the course of the next few weeks, I'm going to do the capsule first and just kind of see where we come down at
the end of it. Sound good, obviously. I'm sure the listeners have noticed a bit more liberties here on the show in terms of what we can do, and I want to lean into that and make sure that we're giving you guys the best content possible and not be so restrictive on certain things and things we don't So no wide receivers coach yet, no special teams coach yet. I saw some folks asking me on social about the
idea or the possibility of Brian Hartline. I love that idea, although I think he's a future head coach in college football, so that might be kind of tough. To push that across the goal line special teams. The only name I really had in my mind or off the top was John bones Fossil just because of his track record, and I think the Dolphins could obviously make a big upgrade there if they went in that direction. But he went to the Where did he the Titans, I believe is
where he wound up. So we'll give you guys cover on who winds up being in those positions and how the Dolphins run out their staff and everything really everything from now until they play a football game in September.
And before we get to the running back position, let's go ahead and talk about that national championship game because today is kind of the only day that makes sense to do that, right, because we're still we're about about forty hours removed when this podcast will publish from that game. And my first thought is, did any of you guys sense the least amount of juice for a college championship game in that one than any game other of all time?
Like I forgot that it was on that Monday multiple times, And in fact, we were shooting Dolphins HQ last week and my producer was talking about how he thinks the game was on Saturday, and I was like, is it really That's that is exactly what college football should do. Put it on a big Saturday before NFL playoffs. Like I do think that they got way too late into the calendar in terms of it being on January twentieth, but the Saturday night before the conference championships. That kind
of makes some sense, doesn't it. Why did I just go full Trump? I don't know, So that was something I kind of thought off the top. My other thought was the playoff bracketing kind of ruined it, Like I don't Notre Dame getting that path, and of course Carson Beck and his eyes being too far apart was the second biggest issue he had besides the injury. Him not being out there made that game kind of a breeze
for Notre Dame. And I thought Penn State would win against Notre Dame as well, So I don't really know how they were able to get all the way through there. I thought those were two better football teams they beat, but just kind of lacked juice. And for Ohio State, man, I like the playoff. I like these bigger games down the stretch, but like it used to be, if you lost to Michigan brought you didn't get to go to the game, So I don't know. It's it seems it
almost seems diluted. I think college football is. It's a they've leaned into what it. One of the elements of it that I loved about it, and that's the fact that it's the minor leagues. It's it's minor league football is what college football is. And I used to love it for the pageantry and the tradition and the rivalries and the local interest, but that's gone. So that's all it is anymore at this point. I like watching tape.
We're gonna get to the running back class here in just one second, which has like thirty names that you can consider draft eligible or draft worthy prospects this year, on top of a free agent class that is total do probably the worst free agent group there is the year at the running back position. But in that game Quinn Shawn Judkins and Trevion Henderson, Oh brother, I like both those players quite a lot. We'll save that for
the future segments. Is it Riley Leonard like, you know, gonna be a future general manager of a car dealership, And then Will Howard will see him at the Senior Bowl this week. I don't really know how I feel about his game, but a Mecca Obuca man, we'll talk about receivers down the road here. That's a guy that in the second round seems like the type of player the Dolphins need at that position for multiple reasons. Speaking of receivers, I was I was watching Ted McMillan, the
Arizona kid. I didn't know he was six ft five like I seen him on tape, but I only was six foot five. He plays big man. I'm interested in him at thirteen as well. Anyway, that was the national championship game. It's just stunk. I love Marcus Freeman. I think he's gonna be a future possible NFL head coach. Ryan Day, you know, kind of saves the day there in Ohio State. It was like they wanted to fire him before the Michigan After that Michigan game, and now
here he is a national champion. But my biggest takeaway from the game was like snoozefest man. That was boring. I didn't even care about it. I didn't watch the second half of the game, just really couldn't care less. So the college football has to figure out their sweet spot because they used to have it, in my opinion, and this year they're expanding and trying new things. I think they kind of overshot it. They have to reel it back in because that was a pretty much of
a joke of a National Championship game, hard pivot. Like I said, I have some thoughts here on I did a new quarterback list. I want to talk about the coaching carousel here in just a second, or not just a second, but at some point, but I want to wait until I gets more rounded out. I do think it's interesting that the AFC East in a league in an era where offensive coaches are kind of the in
vogue thing. And you know, I remember Brian Florish's talk all the time about like not being defensive minded, and I always appreciated that perspective. But if you ask Mike Vrabel, he'll say the same thing. I'm a football coach. I don't have an offense or defensive perspective. It's you know, they get tabbed with what they coach, what they played
in the past. And we have seen this exodus of Roberts Law and obviously Bill Belichick, and they bring in Gerrod Mayo, and they X, you know, acts out Robert Sala and Jeff Olberg gets the interim, so they're like defense, defense, defense, and they come back out this cycle. The Jets don't have the young quarterback, but the Patriots do, and they go out and they hire Mike Rabel, a defensive guy, and they go out and they hire Aaron Glenn, a
defensive guy. And then Sean mcdermot's a defensive guy who's grandfathered into that position from a previous era, right and Bill Belichick obviously was that. But it's the only division in the NFL that has seventy five percent defensive minded coaches.
And I think it might make things tougher on Tua to produce against those teams when he goes out there, especially the Patriots, who he kind of seemed to figure out that scheme over the years, and now he's gonna have to figure out a scheme that has given him
issues with the with the Titans in the past. But it's interesting to me, I think that we don't really see that very often, and I think I think of Rabel Moore as like a culture guy on like a tone setter and just a CEO of the program, which I kind of think is a good idea in today's NFL with the way players are just a sidebar. I just drove home from drop taking my kids a daycare, and I drove by several bus stops on the way back home. Dude, every kid is just this is like
such an old band. Take what's the deal with airline food? Every kid is so locked in on their phone it kind of makes me sad. Man, I don't know, let's just put a pin in that, right, there's let's go ahead and pivot out to the running back position here, you know, and talk about the Dolphins internals, a group that I thought was gonna be far more productive than
it was in twenty twenty four. I'll never forget one day after practice, you know, Waddle and a Chan hang out together a lot, and Raheem was kind of pals around with them, and Reek Wood here and there, but not so much. And I was like telling them, I was like, yeah, I saw the four of you guys in the sideline together. I was thinking to myself, what is that about five thousand yards worth of offense right there? And they were all like, yeah, yeah, probably, And they
didn't even come close to that. And the running back position was a big part of that. With Raheem, most are kind of being relegated to a secondary role. And my general take on all of this, and you know, I still think you could argue it has maybe the most talent in the room of any position group. But I just thought the management of the room itself was about as wrong or as misplaced as it was in any other area of the team, though I can certainly
understand the ideology behind why it was the way it was. Like, here, you have this back that is truly capable of springing a big one on any given play, and you know, I've seen cutups from the coaches where they talk about his ability to make adjustments and hit small creases and follow his track, and he turns these eight yard runs into the electric ones. And the concept of having backs that can do everything in your offense helps maintain that
illusion of unpredictability. Though I would argue that the Belcow situation with Devon a Chan, which is who we're talking about here, made things predictable because a He's just not a pure inside runner. The vision is not there, it
doesn't exist for him. Be I thought his vision and decision making was really, really poor this year, and that comes with the seven hundred and four to two hundred and seventy eight snap difference for a chant to Raheem to one seventy one for Jalen Right, So your top three backs that was gonna be a little bit more of a committee, just a stark shift from years past when they would rotate and use guys through. And those data points are without mentioning the lack of simply grinding
it out back there. You just can't search for the home run on every single carry and the result of that was the most negative runs in the NFL since twenty seventeen. They had eighty runs that lost yardage this year, and with the way the offense was kind of hamstrung to playing short, it really it really put a damper
on things. And the biggest caveat and the most positive one is I think that he offers a chan just as much value as a true flexed out option in the passing game, and that, paired with the more with the move up to get Jalen Wright, made me believe there was an approach here to get both those players
on the field. And I called for right to Wally pitp Raheem most of the year, I thought he would do that, and I thought we got that in the New England game back in week five or six, the game that Devon mostly missed that concussion, but he became reduced in his role. It actually just became more Devon, So we saw a vastly different split, and it tells
you how valuable this position is in the offense. As the group saw, excluding alec Ingold, twelve hundred and twenty four snaps of the team's eleven thirty eight, so they were averaging more than one running back on the field per snap on the field at the time, and if you include the fullback, it goes up to fifteen sixty one,
so substantially more usage of this position than others. And I have no issue at all with the pairing of twenty eight and twenty five next year as the top two guys, but I think it needs to be even without additional snaps going to Devon as a receiver and run that from twenty one personnel or hell, we talked about tight ends in the show. How about twenty two personnel grouping that has John Eu and Tyler Warren, Devon and Jalen Wright and Jalen Waddle as the other eligible.
I like that five man lineup that maintains the speed element you had with Reek. Via Devon, you get that Josh Jacobs factor with the physicality I cannot stop talking about. With Jalen Wright, fix your blocking woes off the edge to a degree and have multiple size options with a bona fide number one receiver and we'll get into that in the receiver episode. With Waddle, I can argue about
his skill set until I'm blue in the face. But just food for thought there about how the construction of this whole thing could look if they make a pivot. The individual players here. Devon ah Chan number twenty eight, truly one of the most dangerous players in the league. With the football in his hands and when he's feeling it like he was in that Jets game, he can take over games. Sixty yard runs, twenty yard runs, a fifteen yard touchdown run. That is needle moving running back play.
But we didn't hit explosives like that really all year long, like we did all year long and twenty twenty three, which to me goes back to the usage with how you had him with Brahim as a change of pace compared to the Belcow aspect of a chance game. It reduced the number of explosive plays where we really really lacked them, and that's the number one reason the teams didn't give us more chances to throw the football down
the field. If you can't run it and can pay for having those light boxes with explosive plays in the running game, they're not gonna get involved down in the box in the fit and open up the explosive lanes in the passing game, because hey, if you can only run in for five yards max, we're gonna take away the deep passing game. One of my very favorite parts.
I think you could look at Devaughan in his third year with the process to get him more involved in even more ways, and one of my favorite parts of his game was those digs where he could sink his hips into the break and angle that route off at ninety degrees, explode off the top of the route and make a tough catch off his frame. He doesn't really have any interest in providing security for the quarterback and pass protection, so those snaps I want to reduce as
much as you possibly can. In twenty twenty four, Raheem most Or at number thirty one was kind of next in the pecking order here, kind of got relegated after that fumble against the Bills, which I understand. Just a difficult year for a guy that just one year ago scored twenty one touchdowns and produced just under twelve hundred
yards from scrimmage. Starts with that injury in the open that forces him out of the lineup for three games, comes back and logs his highest rep count of the year against the Patriots with forty four, has that fumble, and Indie plays thirty snaps against the Cardinals, then the fumble in Buffalo and saw his snap count reduced for about a month. But then he did finish the year with four consecutive games between twenty one and twenty six
snaps in each of those four games. Never really got going like he did in twenty twenty three, but man, the flashes were still there. Like the Patriots game I mentioned when he was rolling up defenders still love to watch his blend of track speed and sure sheer determination. I think that the way he runs really soften things up for HN and twenty twenty three in a way
that it did not in twenty twenty four. One of my favorite Dolphins backs to watch over the years, quite honestly, and the injuries, the fumbles and a player that I think is a budding star behind him and Jillan Wright all kind of points to a relatively obvious cap move here. You can get out for a million in dead cap space compared to over four million if you bring him back, and that could be a swing tackle or a starting safety over a number three back, which to me makes
a lot of sense. Speaking of your number three back, number twenty five, Jaalen Wright, his snap count tailed off at the end of heam's run of twenty plus snap games down the stretch, and I think it really came after that fubble against the Jets that the touchdown or the Patriots touchdown when he fumbled the snap between he and Skylar Thompson. But I still contest that this is one of the young players I'm most excited about for
twenty twenty five. I think you can cut the tape on rights runs and compared to the rest of the room, put together arguably the most impressive package of straight up impressive runs with good pacing decisions, balance power, backside vision. I think you can utilize Jay Dubb in a variety of concepts and schemes. I think that he could he could be your change up to the duo and inside zone encounter. He can create explosives in a way that
I don't think most backs can. We saw it in the New England game with the broken tackles to big plays, and he damn near slipped out of one against the Jets in that finale where he could have had a long touchdown run there too. I'm buying big on Jalen
Wright's upside in his sophomore season. Jeff Wilson, when I think a number twenty three, I think about the run he had with the Dolphins in his first two games where he posted like two hundred forty yards from scrimmage in three touchdowns against the Bears and Browns back in twenty twenty two, and the twenty twenty three Cowboys game winning drive, his crucial runs there on third and short, and then the fourth quarter of this year against the Jaguars where he kind of took us to victory in
that one as well. He brings an element of power to the backfield and a personality the locker room that's impossible not to love. One of my favorite people. He is scheduled to be a free agent. I cannot imagine he is back. I always thought he was a bit miscast in this room. Not the system, but the room, and there is a difference there. He's a good zone runner, but the explosiveness was never his game. What this room needs we talked about it power, physicality, pass protection, as
semblance of balance in terms of what people are good at. Luckily, I think you have those things, and I cannot imagine this team thinks differently given the assets that used to go get Jalen Wright. Look, I don't get it, I really don't. I mean even that indie game he gets five for thirty three and really never gets a good look again coming off a thirteen for eighty six game, and I think that's certainly going to be a there's certainly going to be a back or two added this offseason.
But man, if it's not a chan and right one A and one B, then I think you made a major miss in terms of resource allocation and projection of the player's development. That needs to be the case in twenty twenty five. This is not a room that needs significant resources allocated to it, just some power, which I think it has. That's all I crave and for those
traits that we are missing. Let's go ahead and take a break, come back and talk about the free agents and the draft prospects at running back in this year's class Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. If the Dolphins are interested in the running back position, I do not imagine it will come via free agency because watching this class doo dooo, man ah,
it was tough to watch. It starts off. I'm gonna go on athmetical order here for the guys that I watched, and I will tell you about the ones I did not watch and why Cam akers There is an absence of a second gear that is jarring. But but I can see the fit and the vision, really good patience to press the scrapebacker into the wrong direction then wind it back to that lane. And perhaps this is all the experience he had with Minnesota, with the Rams, with
the Houston Texans. But he sees stuff open, presses it, anticipates it and gets there without having to give away where he's going. There's just nothing special there. He's not twitchy. I mean, the injuries have kind of robbed him of that. He's not explosive or even fast. He's just a good runner that processes and sets up blocks. Well. He's not a threat on third downs because he can't pass pro.
He's a player that you're gonna watch. If you see him and you know whoever he plays for, he'll be like, oh, we can do better than that. That's that's how you'll come away from watching his game. I don't think he fits what we're going for at the position and doesn't have the discernible traits like game changing speed or the immerse power. He's a running back three type, which is what we do need, I think. But this is like
a minimum deal camp type of tryout situation. Again, he played in three similar systems here in his career than the Dolphins play with. He played for the Rams, the Vikings in the Texans. What I'm trying to say, aj Dillon, I wrote down two sentences and got out slow, indecisive, not overly powerful, even at his size, all the way out after just a few runs. He reminds me of nause Harris coming off an injury as well. Nope, pass
conclusion there. JK Dobbins, I love JK. Dobbins tough, low center of gravity to bounce off tacklers with a speed sites the vision and the shiftiness to create bad tackling angles, allowing him to get forward, lean and accumulate extra yards and all types of plays. Incredibly willing and pass protection, good enough of a threat as a pass catcher to
keep your third down flexibility in place. There's a love of the game, a thirst for him when you watch him play, and he's the kind of player who could have been counted out several times, but that's justified with the injury concerns. I can see why Miami would avoid him. He's missed four games this past season, missed all of twenty twenty one, missed nine games in twenty two, missed sixteen games in twenty three. I bet the Chargers bring him back cheap anyway. My conclusion a really, really nice
compliment to what you have. I just don't think he's in our budget for what he's going to ask for, for what you would get from this player, even if it's a one year prove it situation, because I don't think you can offer him the playing time that he'd want. I like the player, I don't see the fit would complement a scheme shift. Though he does have to see he does seem to have a feel for whatever kind of play you call so outside zone or inside stuff. I think he can do it all. Probably my most
preferred option in the class is Rico Daddle. I love the ability to make a second level defender miss in a small space and to squeeze gaps and generate shed. You know, the guys that shed the block and try to make arm tackles. He can get through those even at his size because he's not you know, he's not diminutive, but he's not huge. He runs to daylight, and he and to outside shoulders to maximize runs like he hasn't run through guys and trying to square them up. He
understands angles and how to make tackles tough. That compact build five eleven two fifteen helps him generate some of that through you know, weightlifting. You can see the drive in his lower half, his feel for the combination that he can or like a combination block that he can burrow in behind and get extra yards like we need that man, Like it's it's third and two. The block is being made right at the point of attack, and there's nowhere to go but the back the butt of
your own blocker. Just go between their shoulder pads and burrow in there and try to fall forward and get those extra yards. He does that really well. Not the most consistent decision maker and can run himself into a tough look. Does this little half spin thing where he winds up getting caught and forced back where a shoulder and four lean would generate more positive yards. He has
a very limited route tree without twitch or technique. He does provide pass protection to combine with that short yards running ability for a good third and medium to short option. My conclusion here probably my preferred player in a class where considering cost and skill set, he might be the best one. Physical downhill style matches the ability to read blocks in his own system that allows us to be
portable across multiple systems. I have low cost interest to round out the running back room here and just be done with it for twenty twenty five with like a UDFA to go along with it. Najee Harris hoh Man lax Burst to consistently win the edge would likely have to incorporate a different run scheme when he's in the game. Not to mention the tell for the defense. He had twenty nine percent success rate and three point three yards per carry on runs outside the tackles. That's third lowest
in the NFL. He's consistently slow, regardless of the scheme he telegraphs his decisions, doesn't have the sudden burst in short space to influence tacklers into misses. They usually get a piece, And even if he's powering with forward lean, he's still leaving plenty of yards on the field. I'm not even gonna cut the pass pro game tape. It's awful conclusion pass Elijah Mitchell coming off a hamstring injury in August that cost him the entire season. That's a
long hamstring injury. But if you want the best runner for the system, this is the guy. But I do think we will pivot at least a little bit and probably aren't just looking for more outside zone runners. But that's where he's special. Understands angles and leverage and takes great tracks to make great decisions. He's tough too. He's a solid base and good feet to keep himself upright through contact, even at the line of scrimmage against bigger bodies.
But the conclusion here missed seventeen games, six games, eleven games. His most games playeds eleven. But he is a scheme fit that features more physicality than what Twey gives you. For instance, you have to do this. If you're going to do this on like a one year prove it deal to show that he can stay healthy, might be the perfect number three typo option for you. I really like this idea with a deep day three slash UDFA type to round out the room. Javonte Williams, The juice
that I fell in love with at North Carolina is gone. Man. It's crazy how fast it goes for these backs these days. Man, A couple of injuries will do that to you as well. More years more were on those tires. Just never really got back from the major knee injury he did have, and they just don't have it, and he doesn't have anymore. He's so uncreative in his cuts and how he sets
up his moves. He doesn't play with his feet beneath him, and it causes him to stutter into his moves or flat out lose his footing and just leave yards on the field. He rarely makes the unblocked man missed or turns a ten yard run into a fifty yard run. Conclusion for me pass, non explosive, minimal pass game, help just a guy. Some notable names I didn't work up,
but have my list. Here are actually my number one and number three players, Nick Chubb and Aaron Jones, And in fact we're going to go ahead and rank them. I'll go in reverse order first for the drama of it all. Javonte Williams number nine, Nausee Harris number eight, AJ Dillon number seven, Cam Akers number six, JK. Dobbins number five, Rico Daddle number four, Aaron Jones number three, but I don't think he's anywhere near r stras fear
at his age and profile. Number two Elijah Mitchell, and number one is Nick Chubb, who is way out of our range because that's a great player. Who will see what he gets coming off They maybe maybe he is a cheap guy. I don't know, we'll see, but Nick Chubb would be the top option if he were available for a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very cheap price. All right, let's go ahead and take our last break right there, come back and do the draft
prospects this group is far more inspiring. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, can already tell you by the time spent on this podcast that the rest of the segments itased earlier will get bumped to a future episode here on the Draft Time Podcast, Let's go ahead and conclude with the Draft Eligi Bowl running backs. The Draft declarations. The Senior Bull and Shrine Bowl rosters are I believe set
outside of injuries changing those things. But Donovan Edwards from Michigan, Ollie Gordon from Oklahoma State, who will talk about R. J. Harvey from UCF, Jarquez Hunter from Auburn, Damian Martinez from Miami. I know you folks know him, the former Oregon State running back. I have some thoughts on him as well. Khalil Mullens from Michigan, Devin Neil from Kansas, somebody I have to watch, Brashad Smith from SMU BA schul Touton from Virginia Tech, and Marcus Yards from Delaware. I have
a lot of work to do on this class. Still across the board, the Shrine Bowl roster Jaden Blue from Texas, Taj Brooke from Texas Tech, Jacorey Krosky Merritt from Arizona, jack Quinton Jackson from Arkansas, Corey Kiner from Cincinnati, Phil Maffa from Clemson, and Rocket Sanders from South Carolina. How about that name. But as you heard, you're not gonna see these names on the top five or six backs I have you only gonna see one of those names
on those lists. Number one's Ashton Gent obviously Boise State. Difficult to verbalize how special this young man is. Uncanny combination of balance, quick feet, relationship with the timing and direction of his track to read and set up blocks with a pad level that allows him to drop down on a second and third level defender to bury them, then run away from everybody else with breakaway speed. Generational type of talent that can create yards in adverse situations.
He can exploit good blocking a la Saquon Barkley, plenty Capable as a receiver to stay in and play three downs with the mindset to provide protection for the quarterback. His vision is hardwired to his feet in a way that makes tacklers miss in the smallest of spaces. He schemed averse and should command a massive workload right away he's a top ten pick if he makes it to thirteen, which I think he could because of positional value. I
think you have to think about it. But when I do it, it would depend what else is on the board, and I would be awfully apprehensive after what I've committed to the running back position in the last two years. But man, I think about what a running game with a guy like him could do for TUA and it makes me excited. So I wouldn't put it out of your mind. But I don't expect it to happen there at that spot.
Number two Treveon Henderson from Ohio State. I went back and forth on he and Caleb Johnson and spoiler, my number four back Quinn Shawn Judkins, his teammate at Ohio State. I ultimately projected the sub four to four speed to win out. That's just I'm a speed queen. The ability to stick his foot in the ground and hit home runs in a split decision is kind of what the game is about these days. Exceptional player in the screen game with a crafty one cut urgency that sets up
his blocks and blow by defenders for long touchdowns. Big game profile doing exactly this. You saw it against Oregon. You saw it against Texas, You saw it against freaking Notre Dame. His burst from anywhere garners the attention of the defense. His ability to work laterally, like while pressing, makes for a lot of bad tackle attempts from safeties. He's a true home run hitter. When it's blocked, he's going to maximize that. Utilized as a route runner, as
a flexed out option, coverage indicator and winner. He ran a slug go for a bar against Purdue for a big play this year. Has some pass pro work where he dictate the terms, where he goes out and gets guys the will and want to makes me think he can thrive when introduced to new approaches like more inside running and pile pushing. Not a big profile of doing that of pushing piles or running diverse schemes inside, but he is the lightning to a thunder shared backfield with
Quinn Shawn Judkins. He's a top sixty pick for my money, and a really good football player. Number three is Caleb Johnson from Iowa. Now I talk about speed, and he didn't have that, but he does have balance, that contest gent in that metric, incredibly in control of his body through blows to the hip, thigh pad, midsection, up around the shoulders, constant foot drive with a gate that allows
him to explode off any platform any direction. Builds to a speed in a way that's like kind of many Dereck Henry almost and you see the power in his legs. It's a well built lower body bodes well for pushing piles and moving chains and short yardage. Good decision maker with plus vision to keep him in the rotation on all schemes. He doesn't have the breakaway gear, hasn't been asked to run a full route tree beyond basic running back routes, and doesn't have the stand up and cheer
pass pro tape. But between he and Henderson, I ponder a philosophical thought, do I want more speed or more power when I get light boxes. We've seen the packers this year go to the power route to full advantage. Kind of could be like a Josh Jacobs in that sense. I think he's a Day two pick. Quinn Shawn Judkins from Ohio State has a name from Key and Peel.
He just brings the boom man. He is the thunder violent physical player, doesn't really allow tacklers into his frame, even in tight quarters, because he'll find a way to get behind his pads and initiate that contact, or use a strong punch and stiff arm to free himself of pursuit.
This translates in pass protection and quite frankly, if you watch the way Ohio State uses him ahead of Henderson, it's not unlike the things we do with Julian Hill or our wide receiver sometimes with blocks out on the edge, and he's a heat seeking missile out there. He doesn't have the sweetest feet, the easiest glide, nor is he a home run hitter, but he's a tone setter with enough wiggle behind a line of scrimmage in point of attack to make his strength his weapon to make people miss.
Good decision maker as a runner, he's a Day two pick for me Omari and Hampton from North Carolina. Another well built back that seems to be all over this draft. Over six foot two hundred and twenty pounds, good burst and long speed, physical, angry player that finishes his runs. He's got start stop quickness. His restarts pairs well with a powerful stiff arm. He can kind of throw guys
off of his body. Plays with good ball security while delivering a strike inside the tackles, plays behind his pads, presses runs to the desired gaps with the intention of exploiting overplay with his cutback ability. He's not incredibly fluid as a route runner. He wins on angle swings and screens typical running back stuff, but it's the design over the route running that's getting him the ball. I do
trust him in pass protection. I have him as a late Day two early Day three Pick number six is Ali Gordon, the second from Oklahoma State super high cut runner, which is weird to watch. Two hundred and twenty five pounds with a highlight reel of higher hurling defenders, which is kind of a cool combination. Again, upright runner with a long stride, long legs, not a lot of wiggle or juice, but seeks out contact and punishment. He has this vertical lean that can push back defenders or run
through tackles with plus contact balance. He has the ability to read the flow and find the bend back lane even if the turnback. If the turnback that direction takes a bit of time for him to get back back because he kind of moved like a Cadillac in a way, but he builds to speed. He's not quick in short spaces. He's a vicious pass protector limited to screen game as a pass receiver. Oklahoma State. To me, he is an early day three pick. And I wrote this down just
to get it out there. I know everybody loves camp scattabow Arizona State, but he is to me a late day date, late day three pick or priority UDFA. I just don't see it the way some of y'all do. All right, that's the podcast on Friday. I want to get down the quarterback list. We'll preview the championship games.
I have some thoughts about the doom and gloom that you're probably gonna hear about a lot, and just kind of refute that a little bit, which I know is homer, But I have some thoughts on all that, the coaching carousel, and then I might have Kyle Krabs on the show to preview the Senior Bowl at some point. I don't know. We have a lot to get to here in the coming days and weeks. We will be doing full Senior Bowl coverage next week for you guys, So keep it
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