Senior Bowl Practices Recap

Will recap those, plus Xavian Howard goes to Vegas for the Pro Bowl and we'll discuss willful blast and the ramifications of entering old man trying to do athletic things. Territory. I think I'm officially there from somewhere in South Florida. All of that and a heck of a bunch more on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So I think it's best to kick off this podcast asked by reminding you what you can expect from Drive Time

with Travis Winfield. This is a podcast that focuses on football, and it's always been about football, opinions on how to make the football team better. Things that are are excelling with the current football team, all ball, all the time, with the occasional streaming service series recommendation, and that's where we'll keep it. It's an exciting time of year, the roster construction time of year, in my opinion, arguably the most exciting time of year. So that's where the focus

will remain. Sound good, And before we go ahead, I want to go back here real quick, just touch on the weekend that was previously didn't discuss this on the Monday podcast, but conference championship weekend in the books, and just wanted to put a note in here how cool it is to have kind of some fresh blood in

the Super Bowl game this year. I mean, I saw a stat or a figure from I think my brother sent me this, so it's something like it's been nineteen years since we had a Super Bowl that did not feature Brady Manning off Us Burger or the San Francisco forty. Isn't that like a wild stat I thought that was pretty cool. So it's gonna be Bengals and Rams. Also to me a great indicator of how team building processes

can really happen in multiple ways. There's no one way to get to the Big Game and just one season ago, you know the Bengals being a four win team two years ago, a to win team, drafted up, build it up, did sign some nice free agents. And then you have the Rams who have just seen star player and acquired star player and put themselves in position to go to their second Super Bowl inside of four seasons and for them hopefully to win their first one under Sean McVeigh.

And that's the game we're looking forward to next Sunday. But before we do that, I want to look back here a little bit in this previous week with the Whiffle Blast tournament as well as the Fish Tank podcast, and we start on Tuesday, the episode of the Fish Tank with myself. It's called Travis Wingfield I Can Do. This is out now on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. From the Miami Dolphins dot com home page.

Seth and o J welcomed me into the Tank and what a surreal moment that was to get to tell my story on a show that I'm a huge fan of that I was a huge fan of before it became part of the Miami Dolphins umbrella. So big thanks for those guys for giving me the platform to do that. Go check it out now, give them a five star rating and give them a nice review, let them know what you think, and go back and listen to the

entire catalog of Fish Tank episodes. Those guys are great storytellers and they helped me get my story out there on the Fish Tank. And before the Fish Tank came out, I hung out with the guys from the Fish Tank for the Whiffle Blast Tournament, a whiffleball tournament that was held on Saturday the Jason Taylor Foundation. A lot of good stuff they do there in terms of raising money for kids with pediatric cancer other pediatric emergencies, and a bunch of teams came out. A great cause, a great

weekend for everyone involved. And you know, I throughout the course of this week, I've been feeling some soreness in my abdomen and my whole life. I've been terrified of appendicitis because of just the horror stories I've heard, so I was worried it was that, but it was not. It's just some soreness from the torque of swinging a whiffle bat. You guys ever tried to hit a real whiffle ball with a real whiffle bat and that skinny, thin barrel of a whiffle bat. It's not as easy

as it looks. So first of all, we all agreed to get there about an hour before the game starts. We could get some warmups in, maybe you could take a few hacks. And we we get there, and you know, O J had told me ahead of time that they were very good on on defense and needed some more firepower on offense. And I'm like, perfect, I don't pitch. I can play defense, but my bat is what I bring to the table. And um, we get there, and I was aware that this our team had some good

pitching on it. I wasn't aware of just how good they were, because when I step into the batter's box for warmups, I thought, we're taking biting practice. They just start throwing these curveballs and fastball and sinkers and risers and all these different pitches. And I'm like, I think I foul tipped like three or four of them, like William Mays Hayes in Major League, having to do ten push ups everytime at the ball in the air, and

that was about as good as I could do. And I was like, oh my goodness is this is gonna be an embarrassing day for me. And then I get up to bat in the first game and it was like I struck out chasing a ball in the left handed batter's box. I had a called strike three looking that went up over my head and curved into the strike zone behind home plate, because wootball, all you have

to do is hit that square behind home plate. And I'm like, oh my goodness, and all my teammates are taken walks and I'm just like, all right, I'm the I'm that guy. I'm the one caused all the outs here. But then it picked up. We got those victories early because our pitching was so rock solid. I don't think we allowed to hit until the playoff round. And again, hitting is very difficult. Most of these games are like two zero three one, you know, very low scoring games.

But late in the regular season, at Game three, got on the SNY with two home runs, including a monster shot that went over a tree that was beyond the left field uh home run line or fence, whatever you want to call it. That there wasn't an actual fence, just painted lines in the ground, so that kind of got me going. Then we get into the playoffs for

the one seed. We get an easy victory in the first round, go into the semi finals, and we tied with this team, and the tiebreaker was you get to have one person hit the ball from your own team pitching, so you can lob it in and whoever hits at the furthest on the fly wins the game because I gotta keep things moving here. And our guy comes up. I really wanted the bat. We didn't choose me, but I wanted it. I had a couple of home runs

on the day. I was the only one of the multiple home runs at that point of the game or of the day, and I just kind of felt like I was in a groove, but we didn't go in my direction. That's okay. I'm a good team player. Supported our guy and he grounds one right into the turf in front of the home plate like three ft and it rolls a long way, and OJ is like, yeah, out here, out here, and he's like, no, no, no,

it's where it lands. So we're like ship that went, you know, that didn't even make it down to the women's teas and engulf and uh. The next guy comes up, and this guy has been hitting the ball well on us, even though we we got him out with some fly balls, but he was he was stroking it pretty well. And he comes up there and he tips it off of

home plate, like right into the ground. We win on the three foot tie breaking hit in the tiebreaker, and then we come up in championship round and we're tied in the final inning and your boy comes up with two outs and gets a big knock for the squad, and then the guy behind me hits a triple to drive me in and that was enough to win the championships. So Whiffle Blast champions It was fun. After the fact, o J calls me up like three hours later, my wife and I are at dinner with my daughter and

he's like, I'm still so pumped up, man. And he didn't even play an inning. He was just our full time coach, and he was still fired up. Multiple hours after the fact. We got this big cup, a big trophy, and they sent it home with there's a father's son combo on our team. They sent it home with them first. I think I get it next, but they were sending pictures of it next to the fireplace. He was drinking

a beer out of it a lot of fun. WillFull blast the JT Foundations for a great cause helping out children with cancer and other tragic diagnosis is of the like so j T Foundation, Seth Levitt, O, J McDuffie, Shawn Toad, DJ Presch, all those guys. Phenomenal event, phenomenal time. I had an absolute blast childhood coming back out even

though the weather was atrocious. It reminded me of baseball tryouts back home in the Pacific Northwest where it's thirty forty degrees out and there's wind blowing on you all day long. Not great, but we made it through and we got a championship to put on the wall. So that was the weekend. That was as we anticipate another week end ahead here on this Friday edition of the Drift Time Podcast. And in this weekend, you'll have the Senior Bowl Game on Saturday from Hancock Whitney Stadium there

in Mobile, Alabama. That's at two thirty kickoff Eastern time, one thirty their local time. And then on Sunday we have the Pro Bowl and xaviing Howard making his third start in the Pro Bowl Game that will kick off at three o'clock Eastern on ESPN from Las Vegas, and you can watch it on yah who Sports, NFL Live, NFL dot Com on the NFL app There. You can also listen on Westwood One Serious NFL Game Pass all

the fun spot there. Howard is the fourteenth player in Dolphins history to be a three time Pro Bowl starter, and he's the second cornerback joining Sam Madison tent On ten to do so. He's also the fourth Dolphins cornerback to be selected to the Pro Bowl at least three times, joining Madison ten On ten, Patrick sur Tan and Brent Grimes. And it also marks the seventh time in the past nine years the Dolphins have had a member of the

secondary go to the Pro Bowl. Always members of the secondary, going back to Rashad Jones through Brent Grimes all the way back to the Madison and Curtin days in the early two thousand's X but by now you know it's had a fantastic career. Seventy two games played, seventy one starts, two forty one tackles, two sacks, twenty seven picks, seventy passes, defense,

four force fumbles, three fumble recoveries. He has two picks, sixes and one fumble for a touchdown, and his twenties seven picks since lead the National Football League, also one Pro Football Writers of America. All rookie teams say safety Javon Holland will also be at the Pro Bowl to

provide insight as a correspondent. So make sure I check out our social channels Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, the whole lot of them for coverage there from x as well as Javon Holland, and of course our website Miami Dolphins dot com for photos and updates on the twenty two Pro Bowl.

We mentioned the Senior Bowl a second ago. We're gonna take our first ad break right here and come back and get into the week that was in mobile measurements from the Senior Bowl coming up, and then we'll get to the notes from the three practices National and American team on the field there at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Travis Wingfield, Drivetime Podcast, keep it locked right here. So Senior Bowl practices have come and gone once again here on this

Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast, February the fourth. Travis Wingfield, your host, And before you get onto the practice field, everybody had to go through the poking and prodding as far as the athletes are concerned. The media certainly did do that. But the measurements for the players have been posted. They're all over Twitter throughout the course of the week. You can go back to the Senior Bulls timeline and find all those measurements. And I spoke to a few

people around the league. You know, some writers, some draft knicks that like people that cover the league, I should say, and the common theme is what the hell are they putting in the draft waters these days? I mean, I mentioned this on the preview series. The measurements and testing numbers of some of these guys, really most of these guys, is beyond absurd. We talked about Daniel Filele among a crop of absurdity is the absurd ityst where I made

up right there, but file kicks it off here. And I told you guys he was pretty new to football in the preview series, only having his real season income in terms of college experience with the Minnesota Gophers and Power five football. But listen to this six O eight one That means six eight with a one tenth of an inch. I've never seen eight in that number before.

I've never seen six eight seven that's more than Trent Brown and McKay Beckton, the heaviest players in football hands eleven, I haven't seen more than ten before ten ten and change. Thirty five and three eight inch arms and his eighties six and a quarter wingspan is the biggest one I've ever seen in terms of these combine or Senior Bowl measurements.

Absolute freak, Daniel Filele. How about Mark's Hayes from Oklahoma Thirty four and a half inch arms at six four six ft four and a half three and a half inch wingspand that is exceptional, exceptional length for an interior offensive lineman. You can control your reps so much easier when you have the sand in your pants and that length to help get the initial strike and slow the momentum before it gets into your anchor. The wild dichotomy with Hayes, though, with those vines for arms kind of

has leaves for hands. In terms of eight and three quarter inch hands, that's a pretty crazy split there. Brandon Thorn of the Trench Warfare Newsletter, one of the best offensive line mines out there, was very impressed by his game. He said he's a brawler through contact who understands leverage, with a good processor. Going to hear more about him later on ed Ingram from l s U thirty three and three eight inch arms. He's six ft three three seventeen and watching him out there, I think he's got

the frame to carry him even more. Ten inch hands too, I mean grip strength, all that stuff you want up in the trenches. Who else back on the inside? Zion Johnson thirty three and seven eight inch arms, ten seven eight hands, eighty two and seven eight inch wingspan. That's another absolute lengthy monster on the interior and the way he plays on the offensive line, that's a great combination

to have. This game was full of guys with these long armed, heavy sand in the pants type measurements when it comes to the interior or tackle positions on the offensive line, like Georgia's Jamari Sailor eight inch wing span, thirty four inch arms, six ft two twenty pounds. Talk about pad level, getting underneath the guy and can tilling him with your grip strength and your long arms, two gapping. All that stuff comes from these guys builds and if

you're gonna go up against those guys on defense. Talking about Sailor and Johnson, Marquis Hayes and Daniel Filele. You need similar traits like Tygreek Smith from o s u Ohio State. He comes with ten and three eight inch hands, thirty three and five eight inch arms, and eighty one inch wingspan. Anything over eighties is really impressive and off the edge at six ft three to five, it's kind of that mix outside linebacker, defensive and you're Andrew Van

Ginkle types. How about a big end more of your Zack Steeler types. Another Zach from Florida, Zachary Carter six ft three and a half to eighty seven. It's a big, big end thirty three and three eight inch arms and eighty one inch wing span. These guys are built different man. And what about Sailor's teammate Davante Wyatt, George's defensive tackle, seventy eight inch wingspan, thirty three inch arms at six ft two and a half three hundred and seven pounds.

Talk about squatty body playing with low pad level from that interior position to get under these big long offensive lineman and control the rep with the power that he has in the burst and to get off Davante Whites from my favorite players in the entire draft, of course here at Senior Bowl to Cincinnati linebacker Darian Beavers is an absolute wrecking ball. Six ft four to fifty two, wingspan thirty two and five eight inch arms. You want your mic linebacker might be him. I think one is

a great weight for Missouri running back Tyler Batty. He's five ft seven and a half. He's come back and shot out of a can with some of the most explosive tape in this entire draft class. I also think three or to ten six ft six ft and a half for Rashad White from Arizona State. Like Batty, he's got the juice, really carried that Sun double offense. When he was out there was a huge drop off. Let's go back to the line and tackle. I've seen some pretty big names in the draft community with a crush

on this guy. Trevor Penning from Northern Iowa, teammate of Spencer Brown, who went to the Senior Bowl last year, then to the Buffalo bill and had a very nice rookie season. But Penning, he's a bullyball type and the measurements match. Six ft six and a half three dred thirty pounds, ten and a quarter inch hands, thirty four and three quarter inch arms, eighty three and five inch

wing span. That is so impressive. How about going back to another squatty body on defense and Travis Jones, who really is a nose tackle but multi position defensive tackle. Six ft four and a half, three hundred twenty six pounds, thirty four inch arms. That's a pair of vines for playing inside for a guy that usually you see in

the seventy six to seventy eight range. Talk about thirty four inch arms and eighty two and three quarter inch wingspan with ten and a quarter inch hands to boot this guy that those measurements match what I saw on tape from him. How about Federian mathis Bama always has a dude like this? Just Ray Kuan Davis two years ago? How about six ft three and some change six point six ft three point seven three pounds, thirty four and five eight arms, ten three eight inch hands, and eighty

three and a half inch wingspan. They're just built differently. And you know, we we broke the wings wingspan laws here with this guy, pery On Winfrey from Oklahoma on the defensive line. Eighty five and five eight inch wingspan, thirty five and a half inch arms at six ft three and a half three oh three. These guys I just continue to be so impressed. And U C l A has one of their own with O Tito Agbania,

who was a late addition to the game. Eighty four and three eight inch wingspan with thirty five and an eighth inch arms at six ft three and a half three and twenty six pounds. It's kinds of ridiculous. We promised the length. It's here. How about North Dakota State's offensive Tacklett Matt wallet Zac eighty five and three quarter inch wing span with thirty five and eight inch arms

at six ft six seven three and ten pounds. It's like Jake long build, and going up against him would be a guy like South Carolina edge Kingsley and Agberry eighty three and five eight inch arms or wink span rather thirty five inch arms off the edge thirty five that's odd. Bat Territory six ft three and a half

and two sixty one on the back end. How about Illinois safety Kirby Joseph with an eight inch wingspan even though safeties are built crazy, thirty three and a quarter inch arms at six ft and a half two hundred pounds, solid, solid numbers for him. How about a late game edition here as well with Eric Johnson, the defensive lineman from Missouri State. Listen to this three hundred pounds at six ft four eighty two and a half inch wingspan thirty

four inch arms. Welcome, Welcome to mobile, sir. Let's go ahead and finish up with a couple of tight ends. Here Isaiah Likely from Coastal Carolina seventy eight inch wing span thirty two and a quarter inch arms six ft four to one U c l a is Greg Dolchich eighty one and a quarter inch wing span thirty three and seven eight inch arms six ft three and a half to forty eight. And then Grant Kelcata from SMU eight inch wing span thirty eight thirty three inch arms. Goodness,

thirty eight would be crazy. This this game, these players, it's just different. Things have changed these days, man, Like the game of football is changing even more than it ever has. And guys that are built like this, athletes like this, continues to get better baseball what we already know? All right? Who's ready for some practice notes coming up after our last break here? Drivetime Podcast Travis Wingfield Senior Bowl coverage. So it's a wrap down in Mobile for

the Senior Bowl as far as the practices go. We have the game coming your way on Saturday on NFL Network to thirty eastern kickoff. There to get a look at the National and American squad and a bunch of good prospects, a bunch of first round picks, a bunch of second round picks, and a bunch of picks and rounds three through seven as well, a loaded crop as

it is every single year. And I want to go ahead now and go position by position and kind of break this thing down about some of the players that I thought really stood out during their workouts throughout the course of the week on the practice field, and if the quarterback position, we start and really end for me with Malik Willis, because this is the kind of guy

who tests. He tests your ability to learn lessons as a scout, I think because one of the things, and you know, amateur scout, whatever you want to call yourself, someone that does this for fun or all the way up to a full time actual position. You always have to be able to be willing to accept faults and flaws and misses and be able to be self aware enough to know where you messed up. And I think the quarterback position with regards to intangibles versus tangibles is

where a lot of that can really occur. With Malik Willis. You know, this is a guy who here's a guy who started his career with the Auburn Tigers, so you know the talents there, Like, that's one of the top colleges football programs in the entire country. That's where he began. He wound up at independent Liberty, where obviously a week like this in Mobile for a player like him as

much bigger because of the competition. Now that said, the talent level that he faced because of the independent schedule, Liberty played a bunch of big time teams, and he

had his moments in those games. But what I'm ultimately getting at here, excuse me, is this an annual conundrum about do you draft for production and try to minimize your mystery with the prospect or do you roll the dice in anticipation of trying to hit YACHTSI if all development goes according to plan, I'm not gonna sit here and say Maleek Willis is going to either be a superstar, home run pick or nothing at all. He very well

could fall in the middle there somewhere. But I think when you look at what he is at this moment in time as a college prospect, you have the loose, elastic type of arm that can slingshot any throw from

any platform to any level of the field. That right there is enough to get you out of bed in the morning and say, Okay, I want to work with this guy every single day, regardless of what the rest of his skill set looks like, because I know at the end of the day, when he gets there, when he hits his potential, when he reaches his peak, he has that throw in his tool bag, and while he's getting to that level developing, we can rely on that as well. He also has four three speed in the toolbag.

Sounds pretty nice, doesn't it. And you see those throws on tape a lot, and we saw it this week in Mobile And what you don't see in practices so much outside of the team portion of practice is going through what you would go through in a game with your checks and your defense and your concept and what the concept is designed to do in terms of attacking that particular coverage. And Willis does have a lot of great tape of on time on rhythm throws, but there's

also some instances where it's not there. So are you willing to work with that and develop the the ungodly traits this guy has because we saw it all week long. He dazzled throwing the football all over the place and falling away to his left and dropping that arm angle

and flinging that thing out there. That's Malique Willis to me, is the most interesting, fascinating player in this entire class, because a a lot of folks don't believe that there is a top ten pick in this draft that will go to the quarterback and beyond that, maybe even on a first rounder, and then be the unique traits that

he has. The four three speed that we that he's clocked in college or will clock in the combiner close to it, with the four four in that range, with that arm, those are traits that you don't scoff at, and I just think Malik Willis he has all those and I cannot wait to see where he goes on draft Day. If I had to guess, I would say top ten because those types of traits they're rare at

the running back position. Rashad White from Arizona State. I love watching his game in the Pack twelve and here at the Senior Bowl, and you'd be hard pressed to find a more complete back this week in Mobile He's an ideal six you mentioned, but he has the makeup of an every down back at the next level, just what Herman Edwards called upon him last year at Arizona State to do. He's a physical between the tackles banger, but he also has the burst to leave second level

defenders in his dust. He also clocked a twenty one point one five mile per run this week. I think that was the fourth fastest time last I checked from Jim Naggy in terms of their GPS tracking. Everybody uses GPS, get on board it. He clocks a twenty one point one five mph run. He also showcased his compliment of complete back skill set, a smooth runner, a fluid route runner, caught forty three balls last year, and the temperament to handle pass protection duties. What a player he looks like.

I also liked running back Tyler Beatty from Missouri. Thought his speed translate. He looks fast out there. Also loved Damian Pierce from Florida, the past protection drills alone were enough to say, alright, that guy is an NFL back. He also had twenty seven reps and pass pro as a collegian last year and no pressures allowed at the receiver position. I thought Jalen Tilbert from South Alabama was among the best receivers out there all week long. In fact, the top three guys for for what I saw and

you can't see it all we're receivers. Jalen Tilbert from South Alabama, Khalil Shaker from Boise State, and Christian Watson from North Dakota State. Gives you an idea of these smaller school guys and and you know FCS guys coming up and making big time place. Jalen Tilber, the release package is what's gonna get my attention every single time. He has that joystick type quickness at the line to get off press and then from there the stacking track skills to make it payoff down the field. And he

did that all year long for South Alabama. Khalil Shakur, it's the same thing. The art of receiver is more about just than just hands and speed. Chief among that is your release package, and that's where Shakur shines He's difficult, difficult to get a hand on and pass in a in in press coverage because of the synbiotic relationship between his lower body and upper body. With his hands and his feet, he can move and and thwart contact all

in the same motion. It's like we talked about with the quarterback having their eyes and feet hardwired to make reads. Same thing, getting off the line for a receiver with your hands and your feet. He got on top of dbs all week and maintained that separation down the field to give his quarterback easier targets. And then we also mentioned Watson all the guys that were down in a

mobile talking about him. He made the most plays all week long in red zone, one on one, in full field, eleven on eleven, just tons of plays for the North Dakota State product. And he's a very physical, get off me type of guy that creates separation through physicality, but also enough suddenness at the tight end position. Isaiah likely did not change my opinion one bit about him. Love his game. The same things that he shows on tape

I thought appeared all week in mobile. If the ball is close with that massive catch radius, he's likely to pull it. In no no pun intended, or maybe there was a pun intended. Not only were his hands among the best of the crop this week, he just moves at a different speed than his Senior Bowl counterparts. And you know, just to mention this real quick, I thought Jeremy Ruckert also looked very smooth and everything he did. And Trey McBride was an absolute monster attached inline in

the blocking game. That's just what he does on the offensive line. What a group this is. Here's your overall takeaway from the Senior Bowl and really, this entire draft class offensive line and edge might take up half the picks in the first round. Both of these position groups are absolute lutely loaded. You might see six or seven tackles go in the first round. And that's before you get to Tyler Linderbaum from Iowa. That's before you get to Zion Johnson from Boston College. And he is where

we kick it off here. He took snaps at center this week and one of the most impressive things we saw all week was that he was out there every day after practice getting extra reps because he had never snapped a football before. Did all three days, even in that trenial downpour on Wednesday. Now that wasn't tarential. That's the wrong word for a South Florida uh resident. We know what that actually looks like. It was just steady rain all day. But he was out there in the

rain snapping the football. But with him, there's so many things, like, first of all, the way guys are built. It is very important. How big is the backside, how bigger the quas and the and the legs and the ankles and the calfs. All that stuff is important. And this guy is so built in the lower half, and you can see that size and sheer power generate from the lower half. That's where all sports start, the lower half, every single

sport you play. It's from the hip, you know, below the waist is where all of the power is generated for the most part. And he does that where he drives guys off the football. But he also is so light on his feet that he can shuffle over and get in front of a player who's not stacked. Like so,

a stacked defensive lineman is right over your nose. Not being stacked is off your shoulder, and that can allow them to rush half a man, which obviously is a much easier proposition but he quickly closes that distance and gets square to his blocks. He drives guys off the football light feet. He can do a bunch of things. Played both sides of the offensive line, played inside and outside. I'm a huge fan of Zion Johnson's game. Also, Michigan guard Andrew Stubort just never saw him on the ground.

He was solid, technically sound, didn't get out over his skis, never looked overwhelmed in really any really area. I thought he stayed square to his rushers regardless of the slant or their hands or whatever they tried to use to beat him. He would find a way to get them off of his of his block. And you know Perry on Winfrey, we'll talk about him here in a second from Oklahoma beat guys all week long, and Stupor came in for the first rap after he had about twelve

wins in a row and held his own. That was impressive. Also liked Markus Hayes from Oklahoma talked about his measurements a little bit earlier. Patients in the hands. That was a big theme this week was how patient guys are with that punch and not panicking. I thought we saw plenty of that from Marquis Hayes out to the tackle position, and you want to talk about hands, Trevor Penning. I think it's probably the story of Senior Bowl week right now.

And I saw some folks say that he got better on the on day three in terms of the technique and all that stuff, but where he really shined was the temperament and the way he plays. You go to a bunch of social media or Twitter videos from from

people taking clips down there. Uh, he tried to get into a fight with just about everybody, not like a fight fight, but just that extra play to the whistle and make sure you're doing your job and just a tone setting type of temperament that he brings to a team. But also addition, addition to the measurements popping off the page, the a three inch wingspan, six ft six three ten

ten and a half inch hands. You see those hands I think really show up in the tape because again he's so patient with the punch and it doesn't get him out over the SKEI doesn't get him leaning back on the heels, doesn't get him weaning sideway to side to side, and that grip strength once he gets a hold of somebody, it's pretty much over because he's so

strong in that regard. And I think that that physical prowess is probably where some of that temperament comes from, because he knows he can dominate guys physically throughout the course of the game. Just the temperament, the traits, He's going to be a first round draft pick. Mighty Vin moved himself from the top twenty this this week with the performances he had out there at the Senior Bowl. Also, Bernard Raymond from Central Michigan, another one of these guys

that's new to football, came over from overseas. You see that grip strength these guys in their hands, it's so impressive. Guys had a very tough time detaching from Raymond and pass brushing drills. How about Perry and win Free from Oklahoma. The lightning quick hands and once he got to a half a man, he took that that small sliver of

space and he made it his own. He would shoot those gaps and whether it was a quickness off the snap or using his hands, the heavy, heavy hands to rip those initial punches away and slide rapped by a guy. We saw it all day long, swiping guys put him on the ground making tackles for lost and eleven on eleven versus the running game. What a complete looking player Periyan win for you is and he can play all

across the defensive line on the inside. Travis Jones from Connecticut plays with so much power and such good pad level that he was driving guys back into the backfield all day long. I just wrote down, looks like he's going up against tackling sleds because he was getting that push and driving that thing four or five yards every single time. Also liked Haskell Garrett from Ohio State and

his pad level. He was in the backfield all week long and one on one his bul rush and the ability to strike that middle plate offensive lineman don't want you inside in that middle plate. He was getting to that spot and he was constantly winning the low man battle. Haskell Garrett off the edge. Jermaine Johnson from Florida State didn't practice on Thursday. My just called his shot because

Tuesday and Wednesday were so good. He kept finding that middle chess plate and getting hands in there and then dropping his power and the lower half explosion and all of that exertion right through the rep and bul rushing guys and putting them on their back. I saw him put multiple pound even Big Old File at three eight, putting those guys right on the on the back side. Abe Lucas from Washington State, he got everybody. He was doing it all week long. Also had a slew of

counter moves with heavy impactful hands. What a player Jermaine Johnson is My j Sanders also had a big knockdown on Big Old File because that that wiggle that he has the side, you know, I'm gonna bluff inside, go around the outside. He ran around the arc for some big pass rush wins. He puts urgency in your kick slide to get to him quickly because he has the juice and then from there he can convert to power.

And I think that what makes him so intriguing as a prospect is that he can play that edge position and be a good run defender, so he can be a three down guy for you, a guy that can play you know, sevent of your reps when he gets fully on boarded off the edge. Also, boy A Maffe from Minnesota, I just put down that he won a bunch around the corner with explosion, got a long arm move that he does pretty well too. And then Logan Hall from Houston just wrecked guys all week long in

the past rush game. That was just a fun matchup to watch upfront between all of these guys in the trenches offense and defense and finishing up the edge position. Arnold Ebekey Day from Penn State a ferocious spin move. The length and speed combination to create angles and win with that long arm move. What an impressive player. He looks like possible first rounder as well. At linebacker. This class is just full of jaw dropping builds and body compositions,

and Beavers is no exception. He's long, he's rangey, and he showcased both of those traits all week. I thought in coverage were my favorite drills to watch, Make no mistake, the one on one coverage drills favorite the offense, but you would not know that from watching Beaver's play. He used leverage and a quick change of direction skill set to stay in the hip pocket of opposing tight ends. Plus he had a good week in the past rush game as a stand up two point rusher. Also thought

Chad movement from Wyoming coverage instinctive. He's the kind of guy that really pops in the games. Not to say he didn't practice like that, but watch out for him tomorrow in the game. Cornerback cam Taylor Britt from Nebraska. They had a screen beater drill where you had to fight through an initial block and then get to the ball carrier, and he attacked that thing the way I attack a Darry Queen Blizzard. He just ran right through the blocker, right into the receiver and put him on

the ground. His tape is the exact same thing. One of the most physically impressive, imposing players in this whole class, cornerback Mario good Rich from Clemson, thought he played with great leverage, knew how to put himself at the top of the route in great position to break at the same time as the receiver. That's a reactionary skill, right because they know where they're going. You don't know where they're going, and you have to react just as fast as them. He did a great job of that all

week long without getting grabby and getting flags. Cornerback Kobe Bryant from Cincinnati. Confidence and patience, man, those are imperative trades at a position where physical prowess is necessary, but he displayed all of the above in the one on one drills, squatting on routes, pulling the trigger to get his hands on football's all week long. His understanding of leverage without getting grabby like good Rich at the top

of the route was evident all three days. To safety Sjalen Petre from Baylor, speaking of hands on football's, do it all safety has absolute springboards in his shoes. He is such a quick trigger and quick closing distance type of player driving on routes, making life difficult on pass catchers. Nobody wanted to go up against him because he was getting hands on balls all the time, routinely in position

for potential splash plays. The versatility he demonstrated in college playing in the post, playing in the box a slot cornerback was also on display here in mobile. And finally, Joseph Kirby from Illinois, he had a really nice pass breakup showing some range and deep coverage. I just think that pairs well with the physical mindset that he brings as a box safety for the Illinois fighting in line I and into the pros. Alright, those are my senior

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