Speed Dating The NFL Rookie Class

First of many, right, yeah, it's gonna be rookie intensive for the next two months, because that's you know, that's the hot news. And then of course we've got we're only a couple of weeks away from free agency in full bloom, so the tampering period starts, I believe on the fifteenth, so we've got that coming as well. There's gonna be a lot of potential big moves. Tee Higgins might be on a different team in two weeks, which would be pretty wild. He could be in Chicago, Bear,

I doubt that's happening. I don't know. I still can't believe the is traded the thirty second overall pick for Chaselaypool. Oh last year, Oh yes, that hurt there are a lot of intriguing wide receivers. Yeah, you would rather have yeah than Chase Claypool. That hurt, but you're not gonna be crying much for Chicago when they turn that first overall pick into like three firsts and two seconds. There's

the perfect, the magic scenario for the Bears, Brian. They go from one to two, pick up like a first round pick next year and a second round pick this year. Then they go from two to four and pick up another couple of first round picks and a couple of second round picks. They could just stockpat. They could move down two three times in this draft and still get impact players and tons of picks. The Bears aren't such a great spot. Now. I have an off the cuff

pivot idea. If you want, we can talk about these um the grades for like facilities and nutrition. Yeah about that, Yeah, and doing right. I don't know if it's I'd never before that I've seen until now. Well, first off Vikings finally champions champions at something raise the banner. They had six different categories, I believe, and the Vikings graded in A or A plus in all six. It is important. You don't want to it is important. Free agents look

at that kind of stuff. But it's the Commanders and the Cardinals though, getting Cardinals and make their players pay for food. I can'tnot my head around that. No, you're paying these guys millions and millions of dollars and even you're you're you're even like your your bottom of the roster guys are like, you know, three hundred thousand dollars and you're danging them eight bucks for a chicken sandwich. Seriously, and not NFL pro to even college teams. They feed

the media for free. Unbelievable. Yeah, you're like, wow, come in after a practice, like it hasn't be eighty nine cents for that granola bar? Kyler. Yeah, sorry, that's I mean, we were ragging on like Moneyball in you know, the early two thousands, the scene where David Justice finds out he's got to pay a dollar for his own soda, and that's their got right, And that's in two thousand and I don't know's it is. That was. That was what was the Washington grade for their traveling party was

F minus or something? Yeah, I didn't know there wasn't F minus. Disaster franchise, and and then that article that came out about recently about Dan Snyder. They're very serious allegations in there, but one of them is he charged his own tea Charged Washington, I'm gonna guess was before they were football team. You know, their original name. He put the logo on his private plane and charged the team four and a half million dollars per year as

an advertising his own team. So dumb. I'm sure there's some good accounting reason for that, but I don't I don't know. They're not cooking. No God, no, no, man, think about it. He's got so much dirt on these other owners. The fact that they haven't kicked him out yet, it tells you he's got all the dirt. He knows where all the bodies are buried in the NFL. This the we're calling this episode speed dating the first round

of a rookie draft. We've already established via early drafting the rookies that are going in the first round of rookie drafts and um and this includes like best ball re drafts that are already happening. So you know, we've melded in and we have found the first round of the rookie drafts, and we're going to go through the twelve players, the twelve rookies. These are the These are

the most important players at least right now. Yeah, and of course no one's on a team yet and landing spot doesn't matter, but really, based on talents alone, these are pretty much the top twelve thirteen guys. I will say it's an interesting class and that at each position there's like two or three, maybe four, you know, standout guys. Then every everyone else in the position, it's all the same range of outcomes we're in past years at least, feel like there was three or four tiers at like

running back and wide receiver. Fuels like it's the big dogs in some cases bigger dogs, and then it's just ten other guys that kind of are all but we'll get into them all. Like I think the running I think running back is from what I've seen so far, running back is super deep. I think this thing is like ten guys deep. But the guy at the top

stands alone. Bijean Robinson. You want to talk about Bijean Robinson As we get started, we don't have to get into them too much if you haven't watched the Bijean tape. And when I say tape. I'm talking about YouTube highlights. Yeah, And don't you know the best way, the best way for people at home that don't have access to all twenty twos and stuff like that, watch full games. The full games are out there, so you can watch every

snap of a player. If you watch just the highlights, obviously you're gonna miss all the low lights and you're gonna get deceived on a lot of stuff. Watch full games for people that you're players you're targeting. That's the best way to real get a read on the player you're interested in. Agreed, but uh yeah. Bijeon running back out of Texas, perfect size, basically six feet two twenty.

No running back has been drafted inside the top twenty in the NFL draft since Sequon Barkley went second overall in twenty eighteen. Bijean could go top twenty. He will go first round. He'll go I think he'll go first round us as I've now mentioned like five times as in the off season. No way. I don't think Beijean Robinson would get passed at the bottom of the first round. The Bengals and the Chiefs, and if he falls to

one of those, it's brain exploding. Levels or Eagles. Eagles are ye Eagles too, Yeah, right, Miles Sanders free agent, Yes, but the Eagles with their the Eagles would be out of the three, would be the least desirable because of Jalen Hurt stealing the rushing touchdowns and the committee of backs that they almost always use. But we talked a little bit about him last week. Right now again team TBD, but he's going bijan at the end of the first round.

He's LAB four in redraft right now and in rookie drafts. I mean, if you're in a super flex league with no quarterbacks, this is the league you're still taking Bijean Robinson, no matter how needy you are at I mean trade yeah, you're not drafting anyone but Bijean Robinson with the first pick in any form, no matter what your format is.

You know, Jean Robinson's the first pick, including super draft in two quarterback leagues because none of the quarterbacks are Joe Burrow coming out where You're like, dude, isn't It's like, can't fail? You know, Andrew Luck can't fail. You know, there were there were guys that just everything looked so perfect for this player to make the make the transition to the NFL. There's not there isn't a quarterback I

like that industry. And you can trade the rights to Bijan or your draft Bijean whatever for justin fields plus maybe, I mean you can for sure. Yes, he is hands down the number one picking all rookie drafts, regardless of former that we said. But that's about it. So yeah, be Jean Robinson. If you haven't watched him play or watching the highlights, well, the things that make him special are the footwork, the vision, the balance. You know, this is it he is. He can catch, he can run

you over, run around you, run by up. Yeah, he's the He's a total package guy. He's the sae Quon Barkley, Zeke Elliott, Leonard Fournette. Probably shouldn't have gone as high as he did, but he's gonna be a first round running back in the draft. You don't see it often, No, you're not, well, not anymore. Robinson will be. He'll be um uh potentially if it falls into the right landing spot. Be Jean Robinson can be the highest scoring running back this year. Yeah, he could have a rookie year like

Barkley did, like Adrian Peterson did. He falls absolutely the second player being taken in fantasy drafts right now. Rookie is Alabama running back Jimir Gibbs. He played one year at Alabama after transferring from Georgia Tech. He is an elite receiver, maybe the best receiver in this entire class. Definite three down back. They do not have to take him off the fields of the third down, accepting is

the fact that his past protection is not great. He led all of college football in running back receptions of fifteen yards or more. Jamir Gibbs is very fast. The knock on Gibbs he's he's not small, but he's not big enough to be a powerful back either. So he's got to survive on a little bit of elusiveness and guile and him being slippery, which he is. But there's a lot to like about Jamir Gibbs currently going off the board number two. College football fans saw him pretty

much every Saturday because he played for Alabama. YEA, Gibbs could potentially outscore Robinson this year if the right in a better landing spot. That's right. He's a ticka below when it comes to talent, but he's definitely higher than the rest of the other running backs in the class.

It feels that way. It feels that way. The third player being taken is Ohio statewide receiver Jackson Smith in Jigba, And first I want I think his parents, because in jigba could have been pronounced a lot of different ways, but it's exactly how it looks, which is fantastic. We really appreciate that boy. He has got some remarkable all ball skills and footwork. Talk to people, get us up

to speed on Jackson Smith in Jigbo. Yeah, six foot one, two hundred pounds, pretty good size coming out of Ohio's state. Basically the consensus rookie wide receiver one. We'll talk about the other guy in the compo very soon here. But as you were alluding to, great route runner, great hands, might not be the fastest guy. He's not gonna run the forty in the combine. I'll run on his protey, but he'll be like a four or five forty kind of guy. But that's nothing to be too alarmed about.

Dustin Jefferson's a four or five guy. Cooper Cups a four six guys. I was about to run off their names. Cooper Cup four to six two, Davante Adams four five six, Michael Pittman four or five two, Seedee Lamb four or five. So yeah, no concerns there. His his pie in the sky comp is a Cooper Cup. He's like that kind of guy. They can just get open. He's gonna catch the ball. He's not gonna run from the slot like Cup though, Willie, I think he can run from all

over the field. I think a lot of these can. A lot of these rookies can, even the shorter ones. But at six one, he's got the size to play from the outside. Um only played three regular season games in twenty twenty two, so that kind of dings his h prospects a little bit. But he had three hundred and forty seven yards in the Rose Bowl when not bad right right now, Wide receiver twenty nine, so he's right outside that wide receiver two range. Yeah, and he's

in redrafts and Rady drafts. He's expected to be a starter getting drafted there as a wide receiver three. Whoever takes him, so Jackson Smith and Jigba will be a immediate starter or whatever team drafts him. Because some teams in the top ten is going to end up selecting him. Um have we haven't put landing places to these players, any of these players yet, and so you know, and it's tempting to speculate a little bit about where some

of these players could go. UM, but if I were to put Smith in Jigba on an NFL team, if I think he's going to go in the top ten, UM, it could make sense for him to hit Atlanta UM, which you know is still looking for some help at wide receiver, even though they went that direction last year. Las Vegas at seven need some depth after Davante Adams and he would be cheap depth. Tennessee went wide receiver

last year. They go wide receiver again at eleven. So there's there's a couple of There's no Patriots at fourteen. They're about to lose Jakoby Meyers. They're they're constantly needed. If you want to tank somebody's career, put a wide receiver. If you're pulling for if you got some rookies on roster already, you've been a prey. If their wide receivers, they don't go to the Patriots because that has not worked out ever. The fourth rookie being taken is USC

wide receiver Jordan Addison. Now, there is a kid who won the bullet Nikoff Award last year twenty twenty one while he was at Pittsburgh. Then he transferred to USC. He still did well at USC, but USC had a lot of weapons and they didn't rely on him nearly as much, so he didn't put up the same kind of eye popping stats Jordan Addison did last year as

he did the year before. But an elite route runner, lots of separation through manipulation of defenders, an extra top end gear that helps him separate after the catch as well. The downside and Jordan Addison, dude is skinny, really skinny, and not at all physical. Basically, you touch him and he's down. But you know that that reminds me of those concerns from a couple of years ago, the Vante Smith liquid he just did. It took him, It took him a while to fill out that frame a little bit,

but yeah, it was the BMI concerns. Yeah, they are there though for sure. Other concern about Jordan Addison is like half of his catches or within five yards of the line of scrimmage, and so you didn't get a real look at what he can do as as much as of downfield receiver, at least not with USC. So that's Jordan Adison. He's going off the board at number four. Bring people up to speed on the fifth rookie being taken, wide receiver Quinton Johnson. Yeah, six four two fifteen out

of TCU. He's kind of the probably the most prototypical X receiver in the draft, you know, just your outside boundary guy has got that kind of size. Kind of looks like AJ Green a little bit. To me, I would take AJ Green's career. I don't think he's got quite the AJ Green ceiling. I don't claim to be, you know, a pro scout or an expert film analysis guy, but I see a lot of body catches when I was watching John Johnson highlights. Now everyone want the body

catches in the NFL. Those defenders get there and they hit a little harder than they do in college. So I don't know, but he's still likely he's gonna be most cases, JSN, Jordan asenor they're gonna go before Quinton Johnson and Quintin Johnson probably the third wide receiver to go in rookie drafts. In most cases, wide receiver forty one right now in re drafts. So he's in that wide receiver three range where you know you're you're gonna expect some production out of him pretty much right out

of the gate. But again we'll see where he lands. Six player taken rookie taken. Is we finally get to a quarterback now? Obviously in super flex this, you know these players, all these quarterbacks move up potentially to pick number two. So but in non super flex, non two quarterback leagues, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young. First here, everybody's talking about his size. It's probably the single biggest talker at the combine. He's six foot tall and he's thin. He

had a rough, rough day on Friday. First he said, basically, he quote, I've been this height my whole way. It's just really it's a tough birth. That would be a tough kid to get birth to. And then while he's making that preposterous statement, someone not at the exact same moment, but someone takes a picture of him from behind the podium and he's wearing these sneakers that are like platforms thick souls. It's like, no, no, you cannot do you know,

you know what he should have done. That would have been really really funny, is walk up to the podium with a big like step ladder and then get on the step ladder to just make fun of the whole thing, like a crate or something, and then you know, get on the crate. You can get on some stilts, but uh, I think that would have been really funny. He's drawing a lot more attention right now. It's almost worse than Kenny Pickett in his hands last year, and it's just

like came out of nowhere basically. But everything else about Bryce Young looks very promising, excellent overall passer. He's got an NFL caliber arm that can make all the passes that he needs to make. He's got tremendous pocket poise, very calm under duress. He has subtle moves in the pocket to buy some time, and just the pocket intangibles. For Bryce Young, it's the stuff you can't coach. Do you panic when the when the when the pocket is breaking down is kind of built into you. It's like

a fight versus flight response. And some guys got it and Bryce Young's got it. Um doesn't make many mistakes. He's got decent mobility, can extend some plays those legs. Um, but yeah, that's you know, Bryce Young feels like the probable first quarterback taken in the draft. Yeah, we shall see you though. Yeah, that's it's still up, still up in the air. Yeah, well we'll talk about a couple

of the other ones. Yeah. The number seven R rookie off the board in the early drafting, early fantasy drafting is running back Zach Carbonet, uh ucl Carbonet or Charbonnay Charbonnet. I think it is Charbonne. Some great names and this we got some great ones coming up. But yeah, he's uh, he looks like not a lot of fun to tackle, Zach Charbonnet out of UCLA six foot one, two hundred and twenty pounds. But he's not just a downhill run

order at all. He jump cuts, jukes, he can catch, He's got Bill Cow potential, and uh, I think we're going off football guys rankings here. I'm right with him. Where they have charbonnais RB three. You'll see some other varying opinions out there, but I'm I'm all in on Charbonne at RB three. I'm very excited to see where he ends up. Just he he's a monster, but he's agile. He reminds me of a like a mark Ingram in his prime, kind of looks like a James Connor two

three down. He thought's interesting my because he's so tall and upright. I thought he reminded me of former Viking Robert Smith, without the Robert Smith track speed and acceleration. And I'm not worried at comp I'm worried a little bit because he is. He is very tall, I mean six foot one running back is you know you are at the high high slow though I don't know he doesn't. He doesn't run that tall. There's another running Yeah, I think he does. But yeah, well, you know, we'll we'll

look more at him. I've only watched one of his games so far, so I really can't say for sure. I'm not one hundred percent in on. I haven't watched enough. He's got a lot more wiggle than you would expect. The vision and footwork are good, but his acceleration. I want you next time you're looking at Zach Charbonnet, I want you to look at the acceleration. This dude is slow to get up to speed, and that could be

a real problem at the NFL level. We'll see among running backs in this class though fifth in yards are runs of ten plus yards last year, so do like that he can produce. The eighth rookie Ohio State quarterbacks. CJ. Stroud also a very interesting guy. Incredible accuracy he has. He throws the most catchable pass in college football Super High Football IQ makes all his reads. Some people are knocking CJ. Stroud a little bit, well, not knocking him,

just throw cautioning. He's thrown balls to Garrett Wilson, Chris O. Lava. Now we just mentioned Jackson Smith in JIGBA. Marvin Harrison Junior is awesome. He's going to be a first rounder. I mean, this is the guy has been surrounded by amazing wide receiver talent and he's throwing to open receivers a lot. He is not the same. He doesn't have the same kind of pocket poise that Bryce Young has. He can break down in the pocket a lot more often.

And he was playing behind an amazing OSU offensive line as well. That may have hidden some, you know, some issues that c J. Stroud might have to deal with if he gets drafted by the Colts. And that crappy offensive line, which is a possibility. By the way, he's just an average arm talent. I mean, I think he's probably gonna be his sweet spot's gonna be fifteen year, fifteen yards downfield. He's gonna be an intermediate level passer. I have some I have a little bit of concern.

I'm not about six foot three, six foot three about that. That's right. The ninth rookie off the board wide receiver Josh Downs, brings us up to speed on him. Yeah, Josh Downs at a University of North Carolina, five foot ten, one eighty not huge, but uh he plays big um, serious threat from slot. But he can line up anywhere, supposedly as a forty two inch vertical. Yeah, so that's that's the that's high if you not know so, he

can go up and get it even at five to ten. Uh. He's led all wide receivers in this uh rookie class in contested catch win percentage seventy five percent, where when you can jump forty Yeah, and uh yeah, he's got speed. Um. A lot of people were comparing him to be like a Tyler Lockett type player, which is certainly a compliment. Right now, wide receiver fifty four in redraft, so he's you know, he is certainly draftable and really like this

is he's gonna be a good player regardless. It sure seems like but if he gets lands in the right spot, yeah, he could really like come out of nowhere and people can be like, who is this kid? He's incredible? So he's Josh Josh Downs. Yeah, we've got a handful more guys who are gonna get to Let's take a quick break and we'll be back in just a moment. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charting, Brian Johnson with you, we're going through the most top drafted rookies, the most

topped drafted, whatever, the top drafted rookies. We know what you mean. Yeah that we're we're starting to get up to speed on It's we our attentions entirely on NFL during the NFL season. Now we go back and we start looking back at the at the offseason, trying to figure out which rookies matter to you, Which rookies are you're gonna be drafting come August for most of us, although rookie drafts start in some leagues, yeah may right off drafts many times. Yeah, standard, but you know, up

drafting rookies right now. Absolutely, it's already happening. You get him at a much greater discount before you know what team they runs. A lot of people are free to draft rookies when they don't know where understandable. Yeah, it's it's it's a risk, but uh, great risk comes great rewards sometimes the tenth rookie too. That will discuss Boston College wide receivers Zay Jones, he's uh, first of all, he's short. Flowers Flower, I said, Zones Jones, that's gonna

be a problem. This is not gonna be the first time I'm gonna do that. Boston College wide receiver Zay Flowers short, pretty thin, decently built though for a thin guy. Um, he's the rare senior wide receiver with first with like a first round upside. You rarely get the senior wide receivers that do that. Maybe because he played at Boston College. I'm guessing if he'd have played and not that Boston

College is invisible. I mean, you know, I remember Matt Ryan went to Boston College, where he's like the last guy. Remember right now, Vikings had a defensive tackle with red hair who went to Boston College. Took him early in some draft. I mean there I Boston Colleges yielded some good players. Uh, Zay Flowers fast, lots of big plays. He averaged fourteen yards per catch last year, which is good, but the two years before that he seventeen and sixteen

yards per catch, which is fantastic. Flowers is elusive, avoids contact, and he's a finisher, which I love. Scored twenty six touchdowns the past three years. I love wide receivers that get the ball and then are working to get in the end zone. Nobody better at that than Justin Jefferson. I love that. And that's and Zay Flowers gives you a little bit of that. Mediocre ball skills, small catch radius, he's not a big guy. He doesn't get a lot

of separation. We're out running. There are some negatives and Zay Flowers, but currently projecting with a lot of mock drafts to go at the bottom of the first round of the NFL draft. Some names you will recognize, of course, and also into Boston College. Doug Flutie of Horror, Oh, yeah, absolutely, I didn't know this one. Matt Hasselbeck, Oh, I didn't remember that, Okay, and Bill Romanowski. M if this is

an NFL dot com article. If Matt Ryan is the eighth best NFL player from Boston, true Donovan number two, Art Donovan's at the Hall of Fame having you have to watch Ernie stoutner number one. Who Ernie Stout Maybe he's maybe he's awesome pictures. I don't know. It looks like the fifties. Uh yet Tom Nalen center number three, And I think I'm saying Romanouski. Yeah, Matt Ryan pastleback o from Matt Ryan. Come on, that's Matt Ryan. It's

all the fallout from the super Bowl. In that Vikings game they blew the was the thirty three nothing thirty one nothing? Yeah, that's that's too bad, poor Matt Ryan. All right, Well, Matt Ryan can daub his tears with one hundred dollar bills. So yeah, there's that. The eleventh rookie that we'll discuss. Wide receiver case Sean Boote Boute Yeah maybe and Bote Yes, this is just a gift from the name gods here. Sylvia has a nice long career.

Keshawn Boute wide receiver wide receiver out of LSU six ft two five still only twenty years old turns twenty one in May. Really stood out as a freshman sophomore, but last year he slowed by injuries. He's had some off field issues won't dive into so his stocks a little down. But this is the guy's a true freshman. A few years ago people are like, oh my god, he's going to be the top wide receiver in his class potentially. So the potential is there just a little.

He has some injury concerns and again off the field stuff, but no long term concerns. Really. He can lie anywhere as well at six feet, should thrive from the slot. Main strength is his ability to produce yards after the catch wide receiver sixty one right now. He said he's going to run a four or three forty this weekend and compares himself to Stephan Digs. So we shall see.

He's certainly confident. Yeah, but yeah, you better be. But there's been some pretty good wide receivers coming out of LSU lately, so ken Boutet could be the next one doing the gritty. If you're in a twelve team league, dynasty league, whatever you're thinking about rookies, here's your twelfth

here's your twelfth rook game. And then I want to just touch on two other guys, Ole Miss running back Zach Evans, and I'm seeing vastly divergent mock draft landing spots for Evans from anywhere from round two to day three, deep into day three. So I think there's still a lot of work to be done on Zack Evans right now. But let's talk about him a little bit. He's tall, but unlike many of the taller backs, he is also a strong, punishing back. He's he's strained as hamstring before

the combines. We're not going to get any combined detail on Zack Evans, which is too bad. But he does say he's going to be ready for the Old Miss Pro Day and he'll participate in that. He is a tackle breaker. We don't have a lot of those in this draft. This is the guy who's just stiff arming, slapp. He's all over the place and just running down guys. It's oh, it's so much fun to watch. Zack Evans is a pulling up. Zack Evans is highlights is super

fun stiff arming spies. Yes, yeah, it's great. Technically, very sound runner. I love I love his motion, I love his footwork, I love There's a lot I like about Zach Evans. The bad thing about him, you know, is a big power back. He's you know, typically not elusive and you know you're gonna get that um and his past protection is awful and he's not a receiver. He is a power back. But you know what, these the guys who score touchdowns, and at the end of the day,

we want touchdowns. Zach Evans from Ole Miss very fun to watch him. Now there's two other guys I want to throw at you. Tank Biggsby has one of the great names in college football. He is the Auburn running back and let me tell you, I love this kid. I pulled him up because of his name, Tank Biggsby, and then I'm watching him like, oh man, this guy's

really good. Sadly he's not the power back like Zach Evans, though, No, I wish he was a power back with the name Tank Biggsby, like six to two hunty pounds I want like a Mike Alstot. Yes, but he is. He is the shiftiest back other than maybe Beijean Robinson, and it's a different kind of shifty he is. Bijean Robinson is more just like slippery. You think you got him, but you don't. Tank Biggsby. It's the it's the shiftiness. He has special moves. Watching him play, he'll be you know,

they'll be, they'll be. It'll he'll be running a sweep and you're like, dude's dead. There are two defenders on him, and the next thing you know, he is. He has dashed between both guys, broken tackles, and now he's gone, and now the speed's kicked in and he is gone. Tank Biggsby is I'm I'm I am fascinated by this guy. I think he is. I think he has the chance

to be very special. You'll like this. Well, the negatives. First, he he's a little he's tall, kind of like charbonnet, but he's not as thick because he's like six ten. So he Yeah, he's Antonio Gibson almost. He's almost like an out of position wider if we were playing running back, great receiver, but he runs side. He loses power in short yardage situations. That's a knock on him. But this

is worth noting. Went to Auburn, by the way. Yeah, terrible offensive line that ranked third worst in Division one football, ninety second overall out of one hundred and thirty one offensive lines. Auburn's was ranked tanks rushing grade though was twenty second in ninety fourth ranked line, he was ranked forty third and rushing he was nineteenth in rushing in twenty twenty with the ninetieth so he had no help. Essentially get it all on his own. So he gets

the right landing spot. Yeah, Tank, four point two yards after contact for a player who's not heavy. I just I'm I'm fascinated by this guy, and we're gonna. I'm gonna. I can't wait to do a deeper dive on Tank Bigsby. Let me give you one more name. No, Anthony Richardson here. We didn't discuss him at all. Um by the day, by the way, I think it is growing. I think it's because he's not expected to start in twenty twenty three.

Depending on where he goes. Many people believe that Richardson is best suited to sit for a year, learn for some period of time. Maybe it's half a season, maybe it's a whole season. Maybe that's part of why. Yeah, Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud, they're expected to probably starts day one. Yep. And when we're talking Texans, Colts, Yes, Pam Throws, probably maybe Falcons. There are teams that were gonna draft and

probably start a quarterback anyway. And then Will Lets, who we're not talking about today, but we'll talk about him too. He almost has a better chance to start this year as see in the league. Yeah, I think, no, I think I think he does for sure over Richardson. But but yeah, but Richardson gives you the rushing upside that everybody wants in their quarterbacks. We just did a whole episode on do you have to draft a rushing quarterback?

Richardson gives you the rushing upside. I mean, he's built in the mold of the best rushing quarterbacks in the league today. Yeah, that's how you break your scoring system wide open. Yeah, he's got the he's got that super high ceiling that we've seen from the Jalen hurtz Is and the Yeah and Justin Fields coming on. Need some help or work as a passer, of course, but yeah, very excited. But again this year, I don't know, I don't know, You're not going to get anything until the

second half of the year at that earliest. He's definitely more of an intriguing you know, dynasty stash. But for sure, the passing has got a long way to go. If you're it depends on your roster, of course, and if you think you're competing or not. But if you're in desperate need of a quarterback and you're rebuilding, he might be the best quarterback to take out all these quarterbacks, right if you're you're not playing to win this year. Yeah, it was down the wall, yea, So he could be special.

Now we thought that about Trey Lance. I mean, Trey Lance was a similar situation, true, and he really hasn't gotten his chance to be fair enough. It hasn't prove it, but it hasn't. But it is what it is. Yeah, you know, I took him in one of my dynasty leagues, and I've been just languishing waiting for Trey Lance because I'm like, I want the i want the rushing upside, i want that piece of that offense. I'm like, this is this would be great and now has not come

together at all, unfortunately for Trey Lance. Well, there we go, speed dating the first round of the rookie draft a little bit on everybody. Yeah, there are we'll talk. We'll break him down by a position, later. Like you said that, there are like another ten guys that could have fallen in right after Bijon and Gibbs, and they're all there's a lot of intriguing names out there and they're all, like I said, they all kind of the same range

of outcomes. It'll be fascinating to see running back the running backs in this draft, and that's what we like it's been. It's been pretty quiet on running backs for a while now. We haven't had just like a deep running back draft for us for several years. There's fourteen, fifteen guys that could have an impact year one, yep, if they get the chance. Tank Bigsby, baby Ah. We love it. Thank you for listening. We'll be back next week. We're gonna have some we'll know a lot more about

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