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Carnell Tate could be the next Ohio State stud receiver. Would Grant & Danny like him at 7th overall?
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00:00Another chance for somebody to win tickets to see the Black Crows and Whiskey Myers tomorrow at 4 o'clock
00:06ahead of the Beltway Blitz.
00:08Each and every day leading up to the draft, which is nine days away, we are previewing the possibility of
00:14another top draft pick landing in D.C.
00:17This is our countdown to the draft, 10 prospects in 10 days.
00:34Let's see who the wheel lands on today.
00:48Carnell Tate, wide receiver, Ohio State.
00:55To the outside.
00:57Yes!
00:59Touchdown!
01:00Carnell Tate!
01:02Love it.
01:02Sayan, well protective, lets it go.
01:05Tate!
01:06Touchdown, Bucca!
01:10Sayan, loaded, wide open, Carnell Tate!
01:1544-yard touchdown!
01:17The ninth play of the drive.
01:19Sayan getting a little bit of heat.
01:21Going deep to the end zone.
01:23Touchdown, Carnell Tate!
01:28Carnell Tate!
01:29Carnell Tate, the wide receiver from Ohio State.
01:32And by the way, those are five of the scariest words for cornerbacks in the NFL.
01:38Wide receiver.
01:38That's right.
01:39From Ohio State.
01:40He's a little track record there of late.
01:41Look at the list, right?
01:42You got, I know Marvin Harrison Jr.
01:44Hasn't quite made good on pick number four, but super talented.
01:47Good player for the Cardinals.
01:49Garrett Wilson of the New York Jets was the 10th pick in 2022.
01:52Was an offensive rookie of the year.
01:54Chris Alave, I think, is one of the most underrated players in the NFL.
01:56Yep.
01:5711th pick in 2022.
01:59Outstanding.
01:59The best receiver in the league last year, the offensive player of the year, was Jackson
02:03Smith and Jigba.
02:04The 20th pick in the 2023 draft.
02:07He's become arguably a top two or three player at the position.
02:11Obviously here, Terry McLaurin consistently punches his ticket for 1,000 yards.
02:15Curtis Samuel was a versatile playmaker and did good things in the league for many years.
02:19Emeka Igbuka is maybe the next really good wide receiver to break out from Ohio State.
02:24He flashed a bunch after being drafted in the 2025 draft last year.
02:29And then there are other guys who have had success.
02:32Noah Brown, Paris Campbell, KJ Hill, Devin Smith, Antonio Holmes, Michael Thomas, Ted Ginn,
02:38Joey Galloway, among them.
02:39I don't know if it's wide receiver you, but it's close to it at this point.
02:42At this stage, I would say that it is.
02:44I mean, the track record is really, really, really, really good where it's not just guys
02:48that were the number one option there, right?
02:49Like if you were the number one option at fill in the blank school for a while, you would
02:53go and be good at the next level.
02:54You know, the Miami connection, whether it's Santana Moss or Andre Johnson or some of the
02:57names you'd run through, Michael Irvin.
02:58Now it's the, well, he was the third or fourth option for a couple of years because this other
03:02guy who's now going for 1,200 at the NFL level is there.
03:05And they've got two running backs that are NFL players and whatever.
03:09Again, Garrett Wilson, Terry McLaurin were never the first options at Ohio State.
03:13And here they are thriving at the next level.
03:15This is Ohio.
03:16This is wide receiver you as far as I'm concerned.
03:18And it shouldn't matter to me as much as it does, but I'm giving way more benefit of the
03:24doubt to Tate because of that.
03:25Well, I think that there is a reason to bump him up your confidence meter, so to speak,
03:32because he went to Ohio State.
03:34You know that it translates better.
03:37I think that's reasonable.
03:38When you have a track record recently, and I mean over the last several years, of the
03:45offense that they run, the coaching that they get from head coach Ryan Day on down to their
03:50wide receiver room with Hartline who's moved on, but that entire group of coaches that have
03:56been around and calling plays and involved in the development of players like Marvin Harrison
04:01and Carnell Tate and Garrett Wilson and Chris Alave all the way back to McLaurin and Curtis
04:06Samuel, when it works, it makes you think, okay, well, the pipeline is strong for a reason.
04:15They run the types of routes in that offense that they're asked to run in the NFL.
04:19They practice and prepare and have facilities like an NFL team.
04:24They are coached by guys who could coach at the NFL level.
04:29It's a level of competition thing as well, not just in the Big Ten, but on a national stage
04:33where you're playing in the playoffs and for a national championship, and your rivals are
04:38teams like Michigan who have starting quarterbacks in the league and players all over the place
04:42that are budding team captains.
04:44So there's plenty of reason, I think, to be willing to look at where he went to school
04:49and say, if he went to Tulsa, maybe I'd feel differently, but because he's a Buckeye,
04:54I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
04:55And there's something to that.
04:56In addition, you welcome the challenge.
05:01Because in some places, a lot of recruits, and by the way, this isn't crazy.
05:03This is actually one of the things that led me to make my decision in recruiting.
05:07I kind of went, I don't know if I'm going to be able to play there for a couple of
05:10years.
05:10You know, I'd like the school, I'd like to go, but do I really want to sit?
05:13Or I got a good path to play.
05:14A lot of guys, they're not scared.
05:16You go to Ohio State, there are pros at that spot, the same position you play,
05:21that have been in the system and have advantages over you.
05:24So, not being afraid to go compete and stay there, that actually, I think it's a feather in his cap.
05:28Well, to that point, his freshman year might have been year one of NIL.
05:33Maybe, you know, he certainly could have gone somewhere else.
05:36And he only caught 18 balls in 13 games and was not used very often.
05:40The 2024 season, he easily could have gone and played somewhere else, transferred, no questions asked.
05:47He stayed there, won a national championship, and he played a good bit.
05:50Caught 52 balls for about 730 yards.
05:52This past year, he was the guy at wide receiver, drawing the top assignment from the opposing secondary.
05:59And he ended up averaging 17.2 yards per catch.
06:03That's what's interesting about him.
06:04For a guy that gets dinged for explosiveness, or, you know, is he going to be able to take the
06:08lid off in the NFL?
06:09Is he a vertical threat?
06:11Is he an X receiver or more of, like, your traditional Z?
06:14Because I see him more, Danny, as, like, that possession Z receiver.
06:16That, like, let's run the digs and the crossers and the drags and the stuff in the middle of the
06:21field, some of the inbreakers, and use our body to box people out.
06:25That's what I think of him as.
06:26He averaged 17 yards per catch last year.
06:28Got down the field a lot.
06:3051 grabs, 875 yards for him last season.
06:34But I think he's, there's more than meets the eye, Transformer style.
06:38Now, Jeremiah Smith occupies a lot of attention.
06:40That's the knock, is that a guy that went for 87 and, you know, led the team in yards on
06:44the opposite side of the field is going to command some coverage and the like.
06:47But the things that I like, body control, didn't drop a pass all season long.
06:52The straight ahead 40 time is not as good as, you know, John Ross.
06:56Let me know when John Ross has big impacts.
06:58I mean, he's above the threshold for me for track speed.
07:01Game speed is another level.
07:03He's able to keep his acceleration as he goes down the field.
07:06There's a lot of Tett McMillan there, a guy that, you know, who didn't run a 4-3, but is
07:11right around that 4-5 range where Tate is.
07:13Would you not want Tett McMillan on your team?
07:14There's been a number of guys that have run right in that range.
07:17He's 6-3 running there instead of, you know, a 5-8 type burner.
07:22He's a different player.
07:23I think he's more well-rounded, and we're going to see some more of that.
07:26And I'm ascribing to him some stuff that he hasn't done as much of yet, and I think he will
07:32do.
07:32It's not based on the production.
07:34It's not.
07:35It's not based on he was the number one guy, went for 90 catches, Blitnikoff award winner.
07:39That's not there, but I think at the next level, I see a little bit of Tee Higgins.
07:42I see a little bit of Devontae Adams, kind of similar builds.
07:45I think he can do a lot.
07:45So I keep, you know, the Tee Higgins comp is everywhere.
07:49I just don't see that when I watch him.
07:51I think that the reason people say that, you could tell me if you see it,
07:55it's kind of how he moves.
07:56He is not explosive.
07:58It's almost like, I hate to say it this way, but the worst thing about Tee Higgins is like,
08:02he's a little bit of a stiffer, not a twitchy, fluid, dynamic guy.
08:07I think that's right.
08:08It's kind of like a longer, stiffer, bigger-bodied thing.
08:11Well, you go 6'3", 190, whatever.
08:14Plug it into the computer, you know what spits out is Tee Higgins.
08:16I mean, they look, you know, you take the face away, they look really similar.
08:19That's kind of my point, is it's a body-type thing, more than like a style thing, per se.
08:23I do think Carnell Tate does a really good job along the sideline.
08:26You saw that in his, you know, sizzle reel.
08:29And he doesn't drop passes, to your point.
08:31His hand size is huge.
08:33He's 96th percentile hands.
08:35The 6'2", and a quarter-inch size is 78th percentile.
08:38He'll be a big, wide receiver.
08:40But he's not heavy, so he's going to have to add some weight.
08:43You would think with his body type, a la Higgins, where it's very slender,
08:47it's like kind of limmy, and there's not a whole lot of meat or physical build to him.
08:52You would think he would be faster than he is.
08:56I was surprised he ran a 4-5-3.
08:59Now, people made a huge deal about that.
09:01I don't think that's a death sentence, or even matters.
09:03The league, as you've said many times, and just said a few minutes ago,
09:06there's guys all over the league at wide receiver that run a 4-5 that are going for 1,000
09:09yards every year.
09:104-5 is perfectly fine.
09:12It is below average.
09:13I mean, it is 39th percentile.
09:14So I kind of wonder, okay, it's not the stats.
09:17It's not really the tape.
09:19Like, what are we hanging our hat on exactly for you to be a top-10 pick?
09:23I love Carnell Tate as a first-round wide receiver.
09:25I've said this all along.
09:26I think he's a good player.
09:27I think this is 60 to 75 catches for 900 to 1050 yards almost every single season.
09:34But I view him in a great offense, Danny, as like a wide receiver, too,
09:38who I would have zero problem drafting in the 20s,
09:41or even in the high teens, 17 to 20 or something.
09:45Seven overall just does not feel like the range.
09:47Like, what I'll tell you is, you mentioned Jeremiah Smith.
09:49For people that don't know, he's...
10:03...mid rounds, hopefully by Washington in the third round.
10:05Wyatt Young out of North Texas, and then Jeremiah Smith fourth,
10:08who was facing better competition, better corners, more attention,
10:11and he still put up those numbers.
10:13Caught 87 balls.
10:1587 balls this year.
10:16Again, you're talking about a bunch of guys from, like, you know,
10:20random conferences that are basically ahead of him in that conversation,
10:23or dudes like Malachi Tony from Miami who were catching pop passes
10:26and stuff behind the line of scrimmage, right?
10:28But I bring this up to say that Jeremiah Smith took so much attention,
10:33and you have to wonder about that.
10:35Like, when you take him out of the equation,
10:38and Cornell Tate's dealing with a bracketed coverage from a safety,
10:42or double team, or he's treated like a number one,
10:44what might those numbers look like?
10:46And I think that's going to be held against him, too.
10:48It is a fair question, and my response is what happened to other Ohio State receivers, right?
10:53I mean, what would you have said about Garrett Wilson,
10:56Tara McCorn, Emeka Buka, or a number of these guys?
10:58But that does not mean he will be the same.
10:59Also, those guys were faster than him, all of them to a person,
11:02and I would just say are a little bit twitchier than him, too.
11:05Yeah, I mean, different bodies, different people, different everythings, right?
11:08But I guess my point is, can he hold up?
11:11Again, there's enough track record there.
11:13These are different types of guys.
11:14Chris Olave is different than Nick Buka, who's different than JSN,
11:17who's different than each and every one.
11:18Garrett Wilson ran a 4.38.
11:20Yes.
11:21He's a different receiver, yeah.
11:23There are, I mean, Daniel Jeremiah gives his pro comp to Olave, which...
11:27Olave ran a 4.39.
11:29Yeah, which I don't see it as much.
11:30Again, that's what Jeremiah said.
11:32To me, this is more, again, Devontae Adams and T. Higgins.
11:35A bigger-bodied guy, not in terms of hulkiness.
11:38He's not DK Metcalf, looks like Megatron.
11:40But a longer, limier, maybe a little bit stiffer,
11:43where to me, the only question that I've got really is,
11:46what does he do with press coverage?
11:48Can really good, long, limby press coverage corners
11:51disrupt and bother him?
11:53That's my question.
11:54That's the thing I don't know the answer to.
11:55Because it's not as if his get-off is incredible.
11:58I just see, if he gets up to stride, he's faster than you think,
12:03great body control.
12:03I think he can be a medium-level number one, a la McCorn.
12:07These are the guys that I'm always wrong about.
12:10We talked about it earlier with Malcolm Kelly and some other guys,
12:13these big, wide receivers.
12:14The idea of them is intoxicating.
12:16But there's not many examples, by the way.
12:18You're comping him to T. Higgins.
12:21Generally, you should not be drafting a guy like that in the top ten.
12:24Now, T. Higgins, it worked out.
12:26He's become an excellent, basically a number one wide receiver
12:30who happens to be the number two in Cincinnati.
12:32Because Jamar Chase is incredible.
12:33They have the best guy on the planet, maybe, in Jamar Chase.
12:35Right?
12:35But more often than not, if you're chasing that skill set,
12:38like you have this, you're hell-bent on this idea of what you like
12:41in a running back, as an example.
12:43Where you're like, I don't want the plotter,
12:45I want the pass-catching speedster.
12:47The receiver version of this would be, this is your plotter.
12:51You see what I'm saying?
12:52Like, I'm looking for the Garrett Wilson, the body bend, Gumby kind of figure.
12:57Like, he gets condored himself into, like, being in a small box.
13:01Or, like, you know, he can do some, like, magician trick
13:03where he gets into a soda can somehow.
13:06Like, that's what you're looking for at wide receiver.
13:08That is not what Carnell Tate is to me.
13:10But, yeah, I think the question is,
13:12I'm pulling up NFL.com's weaknesses that they have.
13:15Lacks ideal build and frame.
13:18I think that speaks to what I'm talking about.
13:19Where, at his height, you would think he would weigh, like, over 200 pounds.
13:24And he's not close.
13:25I think he probably needs to, ultimately.
13:27Maybe he will when he gets into a weight room.
13:29Long press corners will limit early release advantages,
13:32which you talked about.
13:33That's kind of the big question people have is bump cover.
13:47Five.
13:48That's nothing.
13:49That was a one-off injury.
13:51Not something that carries over.
13:52But we can open up the phones on Carnell Tate.
13:55800-636-1067.
13:57How would you feel about Tate being the pick at seven?
14:00It's such a massive need for Washington to add a wide receiver
14:03that even though I'm sitting here making the case
14:06that he's not worthy of that pick,
14:08I actually would not have any issue with it.
14:11Fast forward nine days.
14:13I'm doing the draft show with you, you know,
14:16on Thursday night or whatever that looks like.
14:17And they took Carnell Tate.
14:19I'm happy.
14:20Like, the word I'm using would be excited.
14:22I'm fired up that they got a weapon.
14:25I just think in a perfect world, last year, two years ago,
14:29two years from now, next year definitely.
14:32Like, Jeremiah Smith is a slam dunk.
14:33He's going to go in the top five.
14:34And he should.
14:35He's incredible.
14:35But that guy at seven, I would be screaming for three months
14:38like I have about Jeremiah Love.
14:39I'd have jingles that Darius could play about Jeremiah Smith.
14:42Jeremiah is a receiver.
14:44He was a bullfrog.
14:46He did it.
14:47And a Jeremiah to me.
14:49Yes.
14:50But that, I just, I don't have the same warm and fuzzies
14:53for Carnell Tate.
14:53Which I get.
14:54Wide receiver, two.
14:56Richman's, like, two on a bad offense.
14:59He could be a one.
15:00That's kind of where I'm at on him.
15:02That's, take him at 15.
15:03Take him at 18.
15:04Trade down to 14 and take him.
15:06And I recognize I'm the lone wolf here.
15:09Like they do on NFL Network before the game
15:10when one guy picks a game and no one else does.
15:12I like him better than everybody else.
15:14And again, I'm so biased because of this Ohio State thing
15:18where I'm going, every one of these guys,
15:20when you draft one, outproduces their role
15:23at Ohio State.
15:24Like, the thing that limits these Ohio State receivers
15:27the most is the other Ohio State receivers.
15:28Is the other incredible backfield mates.
15:30Is the fact that they're already up by 50
15:33on most of these teams they're playing each week.
15:34And maybe you don't get as many touches that way.
15:37These guys have been so productive to graduate.
15:39I think there's more in the tank than what he's done already.
15:42And my confidence, by the way, is you don't see many people saying that.
15:46So I could be very loud wrong on this.
15:48Well, but it's not like you're Galileo here.
15:50I mean, the consensus is that he's going to the Browns
15:53at number six potential.
15:54Well, fair enough.
15:54But I'm saying I like that.
15:55Like, I think I would be, I don't want to say the most excited
15:59of anybody.
15:59I don't know how you measure that.
16:00But I would be more excited, I think, than most people.
16:02You're the only person who's ever seen Carnell Tate.
16:04Yeah, no one else is allowed to be as excited as me.
16:06But I feel like I would like that at seven a lot more
16:09than most of this fan base.
16:11I guess that's the feeling I have.
16:12You're not advocating for Denzel Boston or Omar Cooper at seven.
16:15Or Casey Concepcion or something.
16:17I'm going to go to a guy that's.
16:30...a better player.
16:31He's a slot guy.
16:32Tate's unequivocally going to play outside.
16:34But we'll see what people think next.
16:35800-636-1067.
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