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00:06Everybody's talking about who the Giants should take at five, but the pick and the player that
00:10will have the most value in production is who I hope they grab at 37. Alabama wide receiver,
00:16Jeremy Bernard, 6'1", 206, and he may not be the fastest and most explosive wide receiver in this
00:23draft being clocked at a 4-4-8 with a 10-5 broad jump and 32 and a half inch
00:28vertical,
00:28but his skill set is his mitts. The Giants lost Wondell Robinson, but they brought in two speedsters
00:36so they can balance out their receiver room with a weapon whose skill set can help this past game
00:41not only be dangerous, y'all, but consistent, and that's his sure hands. The Giants receivers dropped
00:4813 passes last season alone. Bernard had 64 catches, 862 yards, and seven touchdowns in 2025,
00:56but PFF tracked 94 targets with just one drop. In fact, he had four his entire career. And you know,
01:05these Bama wide receivers are always NFL day one ready. So here goes a couple of plays that's going
01:10to show you guys how Jeremy Bernard can be a Saint Bernard for Jackson Dart. That's a reliable dog
01:17on this week's Blue Rush draft profile.
01:23All right, you guys see Jeremy Bernard down here. Look, the speed may not be the first thing that
01:29jumps out on tape when it comes to this kid, but his mittens are. I'm telling you, this kid,
01:35this kid has stick them on his hands because some of the catches that he makes or has made throughout
01:42his career. That's what jumps out on tape to me. And also the route running as well, being in that
01:49right spot for his quarterback to make a play, whether it's on a second and long or a third and
01:55long type situation. So first one, obviously I got to put this one up. Simple goal route, simple nine
02:01route. I don't know, back, shoulder, fade, whatever you want to call it. I don't know why Ty Simpson
02:05throws the football like this, but watch him. That's what you call playing above the X's and O's
02:13right there. And he, give me, give me a rock. Give me my piece of candy right here. Give me
02:19that money
02:19right here. Let's break this down. Love the way that he's able to slow down. So that tells me that
02:26he knows how to track the football. Look at his eyes. He knows that it's an underthrown football.
02:326'1", he looks a little bit shorter than this defender right here, this DB right here. Gets
02:38himself ready to load up on that inside foot, outside foot, my bad, outside foot, and go up
02:45for the football. He has the ability to attack the football with his hands. You see a lot of guys
02:53go
02:53up and try and body catch it. No, watch the way he tracks with his eyes, tracks the football with
03:00his
03:00eyes and has strong hands. Catches, mosses, whatever you want to, Bernard's, whatever you want to call
03:08this. This, I don't remember seeing this on You Got Mossed, Randy Moss. We need to, maybe need to go
03:14back and put this on there. But this is a hands catch. This is an all hands catch. You don't
03:19come
03:20down with this football if you try and catch it with your body because that gives this defender a chance
03:25to get that helmet in on that football. Look at where, if you catch it with your body, right here
03:29with the chest, that helmet makes a play on that football. The hand can get in there and make a
03:35play
03:35on the football. But the fact that he's able to make a strong big boy catch using all hands, and
03:42this is
03:42what I love. Because there's one thing to go over top of somebody and the moss them like this, but
03:49you got to be
03:50able to survive the fall on this catch as well. And this entire time, they are wrestling, wrestling for
03:58the last pizza pizza the entire time. But this is just want. This goes to show that this dude can
04:06come
04:06in and have Malik neighbors type hands right away for this Giants offense. I know this may not have been
04:12a third down or some sort of, I know you're maybe looking for me to show him with his route
04:17capability
04:18and all that. No, I wanted to highlight the number one skill set he has and what he would add
04:24to Jackson Dart's development in this Giants offense. And that is pure hands. Everybody says
04:3310 toes down. No, 10 fingers up right here. Next, let's watch his route running right here.
04:41We've got a sin route. We call this sin. You've got the seam with the end and you've got the
04:47the crosser, the deep cross over here to take the safety. Let's watch the route and catch and then
04:52we'll go back to it. Hands catch, gets off field, touchdown. He ate against Wisconsin. He had a big
05:01game against Wisconsin. Let's rewind this. Here's what I like about it. In the NFL, like when we run
05:07this concept, he's going to be bumped out even more. It's going to be a one-on-one situation. But
05:12for
05:12whatever reason, Alabama, they've got these three guys really close to each other when it comes to
05:18this route concept. Sin, all right, like I said, deep over, the deep crosser. You go under the
05:24wheel, over top of the mic, 18 to 22. This guy, it might be a love for the game type
05:30route. You're
05:31busting your butt to run this safety, run this hook to curl defender out of there. And then this is
05:39going to open up a zone for this dig route, the end. So seam, end, sin. Widen's just a little
05:49bit.
05:49A lot of the times, especially if we're in a bunch formation, we're taught to widen the touch paint
05:54here. But this is how they ran their routes down at Bama in Tuscaloosa. I can't tell them how to
06:00run
06:00their routes down there. They got a lot of success. You see them widen a little bit. You see them
06:04attacking this defender's back pad, the blind spot, as we like to call it. He's basically,
06:09the work is being done for him. I know a lot of people are looking like, why isn't he running
06:14faster? Because you want to, you understand, and this is him understanding route concepts,
06:20that you've got to allow this seam route to clear things out for you. So you almost have to be
06:28a
06:28little late. And you can see that he probably, and this is speculation, he probably in his peripherals
06:35see that this seam route, the clear out route, is getting held up a little bit, is getting contact.
06:43So you have to slow yourself down. Because if not, you run the in route part of it, and this
06:49seam
06:50route is held up. You two guys, one, either run into each other, or that muddies the view. It muddies,
06:58it muddies the water, I guess you can call it. It muddies the water for the quarterback in terms
07:03of there's too many bodies in one space. Slows himself down a little bit, sees that this receiver
07:11is now, gets out of it, gets out of the collision. Manages to touch paint. Remember, he was at what,
07:20like a minus two split here. So he widens out just enough to touch numbers, to touch paint.
07:27And what that does is that opens up that zone even more.
07:33Breaks rolls in there. Would love to see him be just a little flatter. But you've got all this space
07:38in there. You just know to be in your spot. Routes cleared out. Your space is cleared out. Be where
07:44you
07:44need to be. But what I love here, again, I like to see a tighter turn. And he'll get that
07:49when he's in
07:50the NFL. What I love here, what I want is to take one more step back into the football. He's
07:57going to
07:57have to do that in the NFL. But look again, look at the hands catch. He is catching the ball
08:04with his
08:04hands. He is now allowing, not allowing this ball to get on his body. Because now with this corner
08:11breaking on the route, and they'll be a lot faster in the NFL, if you try and catch this football
08:16with
08:17your body, the corner is going to get his hands in there to one, make it a harder catch for
08:23you,
08:23make it more difficult, or two, get some sort of pass breakup. But the fact that he extends his hands,
08:30catches it with his hands, and you see the corners on him, that allows him catch, pluck, tuck,
08:37drop, drop, step, vertical, put this right foot into the football, into the ground, and get vertical
08:43and get upfield. He knew all he had to do. He was in his spot. The concept got him open.
08:50His route
08:50got him open. His hands catch got him the space to be able to break a tackle, get upfield, and
08:58put speed
08:59on tape. Touchdown, Bama. Touchdown, Jeremy Bernard. So you've already seen two hands catches, two
09:06catches with his hands that show that he would be able to step into this Giants offense right away
09:13and make some big plays on a second and long, third and long, just whatever. Whenever Jackson
09:19Dart can be in a bad situation, just throw it up to this kid or put it in the spot.
09:23He's going to go and
09:23get it. Right here. You'll see him here. I put this one on here not to make him look bad
09:31or anything.
09:32Just again, I want to show that he is a reliable target for a Jackson Dart or for whoever his
09:37quarterback, whoever his quarterback can be. Don't want to see this guy in NFC East twice a year. So
09:44wanting the Giants to draft him. Hey, you get jammed sometimes. It happens. That's part of life.
09:50You get to the NFL, the Jalen Ramseys, the Patrick Sertains. Those guys are going to get hands on.
09:56What I love, how he's able to fight through it and still get vertical on the route.
10:02Now he's setting this defender up on the route. Gives a little inside head action to run this flag
10:12route, this corner route here. Takes a high angle. A lot of times you see young receivers just
10:20flatten it off right away. No, he goes high because he knows that this defender is to the inside.
10:27So you want to take this corner route angle. You want to take it high so this quarterback can throw
10:33you up and over. A lot of times if you just break it flat, especially with already being here to
10:39the
10:39numbers, this defender can undercut it. And in the NFL, they're undercutting, they're jumping it,
10:45and they're picking it. So he gives a little something, sticks his right foot into the ground,
10:49goes on the high angle to the corner, has some separation here. Quarterback throws him flat now.
10:58He's able to adjust to the throw. So you go high and allow the quarterback to adjust, to throw you
11:06low,
11:07and you adjust to the catch. Look at the separation he still has. Even though he has to adapt to
11:15the
11:15throw, and he's able to make that catch on the sideline. Now this play, look, he got a little
11:22jammed up, had a little confrontation at the line of scrimmage. Wasn't the cleanest release,
11:28but was able to get vertical and to have a clean stem when at the top of his route. And
11:36then the
11:36most important part gets two feet here on the catch. Like I can show you guys all the pretty
11:42routes. I can show you everything being clean. It's not like that in the NFL. These DBs, man,
11:48they get paid too. Things are going to happen. But the fact that Ty Simpson, I believe that's the
11:52quarterback here, Ty Simpson, was able to stay on him even after him getting jammed up a little bit
12:00on the release. That shows that he has full confidence on Jeremy Bernard's hands and his
12:07ability to go win at the top of a route and catch the football. This may not be a big
12:13catch and run and
12:14may not be the sexiest play, but this is a 20-something yard game. An explosive play in the passing
12:21game
12:21is 20-plus yards. This is an explosive play. Again, Jeremy Bernard showing that his hands
12:28is his number one weapon. It's his number one skill set. Lastly, got him here. Running another dig
12:37route. Get vertical. Snap. And take the hit at the top. Get up, young man. MetLife Stadium after
12:50seeing a snag like that. I guarantee you, MetLife Stadium goes, gets loud. I'm going to make sure
12:56because I'm the in-game emcee. I'm going to make sure they get hyped after seeing a catch like that.
13:03Again, dig route. Going across the middle.
13:12Again, dig route. Going across the middle. LBC. Linebacker country. Where the big boys play.
13:20Where the dudes that live 225s for breakfast. This is where they play. As a receiver, you got to be
13:27able
13:27to go in there with some confidence and know that, hey, I might get hit when I catch this football,
13:32but I'm coming down with this thing because this is what I do. And you can see this is a
13:37third down here.
13:38So here, he's got that dig route. You've got some sort of cover two man here. Got two high safeties.
13:44These corners are playing heavy, hard, and heavy to that inside. Nothing that we, as a receiver,
13:51we shouldn't win to the inside and cover two man. Puts his foot in the ground.
13:58Has some contact, but here, resets his stem for two to three steps before he breaks in on the in
14:07route.
14:07See it here. Two, three. Snap. That's what gets you the separation. A lot of the times,
14:13you know a receiver isn't polished when, at this point of contact, this is where they now break.
14:20Put that right foot into the ground, and now they break to run this dig route, this in route,
14:25after that point of contact. But again, that's why I say these Bama boys are day one ready,
14:30especially when it comes to route technique and having patience and running routes and setting guys
14:36up because, watch, you see it? Watch them get one, two, three. Watch the one, two, three steps here.
14:44One, two, three step. Look at his separation now. So what that did is it made the corner reset his
14:52hips again. Now when we make that step with our right foot and snap it in, we got him. That's
14:57what creates our separation. Now we have to run, run to our spot because we have to keep our separation.
15:05What that did, again, him resetting that stem, sticking that foot into the ground, and getting
15:10explosive to run to his spot on the in route, that makes the corner look silly and fall here.
15:18Now, it's all about going up and getting the rock. Now what I love about this, hey, you did your
15:25job
15:25third and what, nine? You got yourself about a what, 16-yard catch right here? A lot of guys will
15:31catch
15:32this and fall, y'all. This ends at 16 yards. This completion would end, this play would end at 16
15:39yards.
15:39And I said, he may not be a burner running a 4-4-8, 4-4-9. That's where he
15:44ran at his pro
15:45day. But it doesn't matter because if you can, you're athletic enough to attack the football
15:53and stretch your body out like that. You're athletic enough to put your foot into the ground,
15:59regain your balance, and now you just extended the play. You've got some yak. He's trying to get out,
16:07you know, trying to get that yak there, takes a hit there. Boom. Doesn't matter. I could have,
16:12you could say, oh, Brennan, you didn't do him any justice with, he didn't really route anybody up,
16:16and no, he didn't show elite routes. You're watching the wrong thing. If you're a receiver,
16:22and you watch these four plays, you're looking at this kid like he is polished. He, he could, he
16:28obviously is going to learn more when he gets to the league, but he is league ready in terms of
16:34understanding the X's, the O's, and the Y's. I understand the X's and the O's in terms of what
16:41the play is, what the route is, but the Y's. Why am I running this route against this coverage?
16:46Why am I stimming the way I'm stimming when I'm getting collided, when I'm getting collision
16:52at the line or even in the second level while I'm running my routes? He understands how to run
16:59routes like an NFL receiver and Jackson Dart, Matt Nagy, Malik Neighbors, and that Giants receiver
17:04and core and offense would be, will be ecstatic if they hear this kid's name called because he's
17:11going to be step in and be a guy that can contribute right away.
17:16You see the hands. Alexa, play Miguel, sure thing. You can bet that, never gotta sweat that,
17:23never gotta sweat a drop ball with this kid. The Giants do not need any more speed in this
17:29offense in terms of the wide receiver room. They need a route runner. They need a chain mover.
17:35They need a guy that can be a reliable target for Jackson Dart on third down. I also think that
17:40this kid is not going to have that much of a problem picking up Matt Nagy's offense because
17:45his offensive coordinator at Bama, Ryan Grubbs' system, pretty much had a lot of similarities
17:51into it. The RPOs, the pre-snap motion to get some sort of idea on how you're going to attack
17:57a DB's leverage off of how he's going to play you. And of course, he put his receivers in position
18:03to win the short to intermediate game. That is Jeremy Bernard's entire resume. You saw the tape.
18:11The Giants can add consistency to their pass game by drafting this guy at 37.
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