00:00Josh Kendall's mock draft.
00:02Josh included a bunch of trades into this mock into how Ian Cunningham could be trading back,
00:10making all the trades to get us at least eight picks.
00:14So we covered Trayden Stooks earlier.
00:16He would be the second round pick at 52.
00:19In round three, and there is a lot that goes into this.
00:24I am following the maze.
00:25I'm laughing because I'm like, man, this is not easy to follow.
00:27It is not easy to follow.
00:29My eyes are going crossed on this, so keep up with me.
00:32If I get something wrong, correct me.
00:33He's got the Falcons trading pick number 79 and 231 to the Chiefs for number 84
00:39and a fourth round pick in 2027, which gives us Brennan Thompson,
00:44wide receiver at Mississippi State.
00:47Yeah, he's a quick little guy.
00:49He's not very big.
00:51He's an honest guy.
00:53He's like my size.
00:54I mean, he's 5'9", 165.
00:58But he can win against press coverage with his quickness off the line.
01:05He can track a deep ball.
01:06The guy, he's not a bad player.
01:08Problem is, he hasn't stayed healthy over a ton.
01:12He has had an issue with drops.
01:17And you're not getting much in the blocking game.
01:21But he is a deep ball threat.
01:24You could use him to create some plays with some jet sweeps and some screens and stuff.
01:33So you could use him in a few different ways.
01:36But he's just not the biggest guy.
01:41No, he's not.
01:44And I'll just speak broadly because I agree with everything Bo's kind of talking about.
01:48But I'll speak on this a little, you know, with a wider net here.
01:54The 42640, I'm hoping that's at least in their line of thinking, right?
02:01You know, this conversation around raising the ceiling or raising the floor
02:04and trading back and trading up and doing all kinds of stuff.
02:07I at least hope that somebody with the speed, and we've talked until we're blue in the face
02:12about the Zachariah branches and how I want all the yak yards.
02:16A 42640 and the 550-plus yard plays he had in college last year.
02:22I mean, that's speaking my language.
02:24I don't know that he's the guy.
02:25He's a little bit too slight for me like Bo was talking about.
02:30164 is just...
02:33164, I think, as a wide receiver is almost like talking about arm length for an edge rusher.
02:37It almost like, you know, the whole conversation about where's Ruben Bain going to get drafted
02:42and is he dropping out of the top, you know, 20 or whatever it may be,
02:46it's because of arm length and also because the off-the-field storyline kind of stuff.
02:51This, to me, when you talk about a guy that small, that's almost disqualifying.
02:55It's tough.
02:56But I do love the speed.
02:57I love the explosiveness.
02:58And I love the line of thinking of getting a player at that spot that can do some of those
03:02things.
03:02Bruce Feldman is a guy that I kind of respect as a writer.
03:06Covers college football for a very long time.
03:09Wrote a lot of books on college football.
03:11And he has a list he puts out every year called the...
03:14Like, it's his freak athlete of college football.
03:17This guy's on it.
03:19There's no doubt.
03:20I don't want to mince words.
03:23He is a freak athlete.
03:24He's a phenomenal athlete.
03:26He's small.
03:28He's not...
03:30He's going to be a guy that you probably can't really have in on a lot of any wide zone
03:37block in place
03:38where you need a wide receiver to do anything because he's not going to do much.
03:41But he can absolutely play.
03:44Do you want him coming across the middle, though, and getting lit up?
03:48I don't care if the league's changed or not.
03:49It ain't changed that much.
03:51So, that is why you bring up his size.
03:54But he could absolutely be a guy that you come in.
03:58I don't mind him in the fourth or fifth round kind of thing.
04:02I really don't.
04:03Because I think he could be really explosive and you could mix him.
04:08That's why the next pick I know you're going to get to, I like this pick better because of that
04:14pick.
04:15Well, yeah, the next guy's a little bit bigger.
04:17In round four, pick number 106.
04:19And this would have come from the Texans with a trade package in the second round.
04:23Chris Brazel, wide receiver from Tennessee, 6'4", 198.
04:26Yeah, I'm all on board with this.
04:27I talked about Brazel last week when we were covering some of the wide receivers and some of the depth
04:32at that position.
04:33I think that the ball skills are good.
04:35I think he's just fluid.
04:37He looks really fluid.
04:38And, you know, we touched on a couple of different wide receivers last week that's like running upright or look
04:45a little bit different.
04:46And I just think that he looked very, very fluid in the way he's able to attack the football.
04:49I like the playmaking ability.
04:51Yeah, he is.
04:52He's funny you said fluid.
04:54I wrote down tall and smooth in his routes.
04:56Yeah.
04:57His intermediate stuff is not the best, but he absolutely ate Georgia alive in the first half of that game
05:04in Knoxville last year.
05:06Some of those were contested catches and jump balls.
05:10Being 6'4", 200 pounds, and running well like he does, he ran a 4.37.
05:16That's a, that is, I mean, that's like watching, you know, a horse hit the Derby.
05:25You know, they're big, smooth, and fast.
05:28And that's kind of where he would fall in line.
05:31I'm a big, I actually really like him.
05:34And I think that I'm a bigger fan of Jeremy Bernard because I think Jeremy Bernard can run the entire
05:42route tree more than this guy.
05:47However, you do, you do have a couple of guys that fit that already that are under two-year deals.
05:53I think Elamide Zaccheaus can run the whole route tree.
05:55Drake London can obviously run the whole route tree.
05:58And Dotson even can.
06:00But this guy just gives you size and speed that you just don't have right now on this roster.
06:06So technically that would be the fourth round, right?
06:09Was it the third and fourth round you were okay with a wide receiver, Mike?
06:14Okay.
06:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:14This is exactly, yeah, exactly what we talked about.
06:17I just feel like once you start getting outside of the realm of guys, and it's probably, you know, honestly
06:21a reason I had a bigger trouble with Brennan Thompson.
06:23If you start getting outside the realm of guys that have the number one, number two capability, then I'd be
06:30interested to see if we would go for that.
06:31Because I, like I said, project players, yes.
06:3520-27 in mind, sure.
06:36But it just seemed like last year we had a lot of guys that could have fit three through ten
06:41on the wide receiver roster.
06:43And, you know, none of that ever came to fruition.
06:45And so, swing for the fences, and this, honestly, the conversation between Jeremy Bernard, who he just brought up, and
06:51Chris Brazel, for me, goes back to the conversation we had last week.
06:55You're raising the floor, probably, with Jeremy Bernard.
06:58He's going to be very smooth.
06:59He's going to do a lot of good things.
07:00But I think you're raising the ceiling with a Brazel when he can run in the four threes and runs,
07:04you know, what, two tenths faster than Jeremy Bernard does.
07:08I think there's a lot of upside there.
07:09Well, Josh has the Falcons picking again in the fourth round at number 125, and this comes from trading pick
07:15number 122, and then a 20-27 seventh-round pick to the Patriots for 125 and 171.
07:22You've got all this, right?
07:23Because there's going to be a test later.
07:24I hope you've got it written down for me.
07:25I hope you do.
07:26So, this guy, much bigger, 6'4", 313 pounds.
07:30It's Chris McClellan, defensive tackle out of Missouri.
07:32Yeah, he's bigger than that.
07:34I don't know.
07:35I mean, he's 6'4".
07:36You read what he's listed at.
07:38Yeah.
07:38On film, he looked a hell of a lot bigger than 315 pounds.
07:42He looked at least 320, and he does a really good job of moving the pocket.
07:48I went back and watched a good bit on him, and I really enjoyed watching him play because he's a
07:55lot quicker than you would think he is for that size.
08:01He does a good job.
08:03He's got, get this, he's got 34-inch arms and 11-inch hands.
08:09This is a man.
08:10I mean, this dude is a big boy, I'm going to tell you what.
08:16But, but he does get a little high in his, not the bad way, but, well, bad way on the
08:23field, not the bad way off the field, but he gets kind of, he plays a little too tall.
08:27Um, and he doesn't move great laterally, but I, and I just thought, though, he did a good job of
08:33continuing to chase down plays.
08:35Um, he's quicker, he's quicker, uh, vertically than laterally.
08:40Um, and it's kind of, is that the same thing?
08:45That's the right way to say it.
08:46He can get up, feel quicker, and he can't get left, right?
08:49It's vertically.
08:52I was going to let him live.
08:53I was going to let him live.
08:54Hey, words are hard sometimes, man.
08:56I know, man.
08:57I was doing my best to hold it.
08:59Uh, no, but I, but I think, and I was going to ask you, so he was, he was at
09:02Florida, uh, for his younger years.
09:04Do you remember why he didn't make much of an impact at Florida?
09:08I don't.
09:08Is it developmental or what?
09:09I mean, yeah, because they've been trashed for years, and they, they've been undercoached.
09:14I mean, um, what was the kid, uh, Prince, Umani, uh, Melelin, or whatever the hell his name is, he,
09:21he left Florida, and he wasn't overly, uh, productive at Florida, and he went to Ole Miss for one year,
09:27has a great year, and now he's playing for Carolina.
09:30Gotcha.
09:30So, there's, there's been a lot of guys that, I like Chris McClellan, though.
09:34I really like him a lot.
09:35Uh, I would, I would, I know that Ian Cunningham said that, and it's being kind of, uh, used a
09:42little bit of a talking point incorrectly.
09:44He said this isn't a, uh, deep draft for the defensive tackles.
09:48He didn't say it wasn't good.
09:49He didn't say that there are about a few guys that are good.
09:52He just said it wasn't as deep as we've seen in the past.
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