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Seth and Sean dive into each of the Texans' draft picks from this class, what they said they bring to the team and what Texans brass had to say about them.
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00:00I do like some of their picks, though, especially the first couple picks.
00:03Keelan Rutledge out of Georgia Tech and Caden McDonald out of Ohio State.
00:07Let's start with Keelan Rutledge, who we talked about plenty on Friday,
00:11but just for the sake of completeness, let's start there.
00:14Because he is, by definition, the crown jewel of this draft class.
00:17He's their first-round pick.
00:18They move up to 26 to take him.
00:20Here's what it sounded like.
00:24With the 26th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft,
00:28the Houston Texans select Keelan Rutledge, guard Georgia Tech.
00:34Okay.
00:35And guard may just be limiting it, Seth,
00:38because he might get a crack at center with this team.
00:41At least in the immediate future,
00:45center is a bigger question mark on this team right now,
00:47assuming health for everybody,
00:49than left guard and right guard are right now.
00:52Well, in Fabeci, Wee Woo also played three games at center
00:55at the end of his career, too.
00:58So there's Evan Brown has played center.
01:01Jake Andrews has played center.
01:03You still have Eli Cox on the roster.
01:06There are a boatload of guys who might compete for the starting center spot
01:10during training camp,
01:11and I think they're all going to get a crack at it.
01:15It's as competitive a situation as I think I've seen
01:18on the Texans' offensive line in a long, long time.
01:20So that part of it's encouraging.
01:23Rutledge is really fascinating because I think there is so much about his upside
01:31that is based on his explosiveness, his strength, his athleticism,
01:36in a way that I don't think a lot of people necessarily put in their scouting report.
01:42And I think part of that is just the way he moves,
01:45it's a little bit of a deceptive, he's not as fluid,
01:50so it doesn't necessarily look as explosive as it actually is.
01:53A lot of the same way Ariante Ursari was, too.
01:56Ariante Ursari is kind of deceptively fast, deceptively explosive.
02:00It's not a skin tone thing or anything with Rutledge.
02:04It's more just the way he moves doesn't match necessarily
02:09just how quickly and explosively he's moving.
02:12He's a little stiff.
02:12Yeah, yeah.
02:14So we'll see where he ends up.
02:16This is courtesy of Aaron Wilson of KPRC2.
02:20He had an interview with Brent Key, the Georgia Tech head coach,
02:24obviously Keelan Rutledge's head coach in college,
02:28and he thinks Rutledge could be an all-pro at center.
02:30I think he, depending on how it works out at center there,
02:33I think whether it's this year, whether it's next year,
02:37when he makes the move to center,
02:39Red's going to be an all-pro center in the league.
02:42I do believe that.
02:43I strongly, strongly believe that.
02:45Okay.
02:45And again, this is his head coach, so he's biased.
02:49Yeah, yeah.
02:50But Brent Key, you know, himself a former offensive lineman,
02:54he's, you know, that's a pretty good opinion right there on Keelan Rutledge.
02:59Well, and I think that's where, you know,
03:02some people made the understandable argument that, well, okay, what?
03:06If they're thinking about trying him out at center,
03:07why would you draft a center in the first round
03:09when there's so many other centers back in the third or fourth round?
03:13First of all, I don't think they were drafting him specifically to play center.
03:15I think that's a chance.
03:16But they're not going to base just some snaps at the senior bowl
03:20as evidence that he's going to be a good center in the league.
03:22If he does work out to be a really good center,
03:24they've got a guy that's got the versatility to be guard or center.
03:27But, like, Tyler Linderbaum was drafted in the first round.
03:30Multiple really good centers have been drafted in the first round.
03:33It just doesn't happen as often.
03:34Yeah, yeah.
03:35And I'm, like, that part of it,
03:37A, I don't think they drafted him specifically to play center.
03:40B, if it does work out, it's not a wasted draft pick
03:44just because he ends up playing center instead of guard
03:46because Wyatt Teller is not going to play forever either.
03:49For a rookie to play center, Seth,
03:52on an offensive line that's had its issues the last couple years,
03:56he's been a guard at Georgia Tech.
03:58If he were to get mixed in there at center
04:00and it turns out he's the best option at center,
04:03are you more concerned?
04:04Well, you may not be concerned.
04:06Do you have a concern level about the physical part of it?
04:09Do you have a concern level about the mental part of playing center?
04:12I don't have that much of a concern about it
04:14because they have a starting center right now.
04:16So if he plays,
04:17it's going to be because he's handled the mental side of it
04:19and the physical side of it.
04:21So, yeah, there's a mental part of it that is a challenge.
04:24But he's also got a veteran on either side of him.
04:27Where last year, you've got a young player,
04:30Jake Andrews might as well have been a rookie.
04:32He'd barely played any football in the NFL.
04:36With, you know, he had a veteran player
04:38but who was new to the team on the right side of him.
04:40And then on the left side of him, he had a rotating,
04:42he had a rotating competition at left guard,
04:46which neither guy would win.
04:48In-game.
04:49Yeah.
04:49In-game rotating at times.
04:52And neither one of them would be even active in the second half of the season.
04:56So it was a bad situation.
04:58And it got better when they moved Titus Howard down
05:01and Jake Andrews had a veteran next to him.
05:03Yep.
05:03So that part, I'm just,
05:05the composition of the offensive line right now
05:07is just so much better in terms of veteran savvy competition,
05:11everything else.
05:12If Rutledge ends up being the starting center,
05:15if Fibetchi Weewoo ends up being the starting center,
05:18it's not going to be because they thrust him in there,
05:21the way they were planning on thrusting Juice Scruggs back in there.
05:23Yeah.
05:24Juice Scruggs, if he hadn't gotten injured,
05:26was going to be the starting center without ever having to actually earn it.
05:31This is going to be a different situation now.
05:33So I'm happy with that.
05:34I am too.
05:35I am too.
05:35All right.
05:36The next one, Caden McDonald.
05:38With the 36th pick in the 2026 NFL draft,
05:42the Houston Texans select Caden McDonald.
05:45All right.
05:46Defensive tackle, Ohio State.
05:49All right.
05:49So Caden McDonald, very emotional time for Caden McDonald.
05:52This, Seth, from everything I've seen from the experts out there,
05:56air quotes, experts out there,
05:58the Texans, I'm not seeing them get A's or A minuses from anybody.
06:02A lot of grades in the B range.
06:04And what is kind of buoying their grade with people right now
06:07is getting Caden McDonald with the 36th overall.
06:10Right.
06:10Because people that are upset when you take a player higher than where they were slotted,
06:16the same people, if Caden McDonald had been drafted by the Texans, let's say, at 28,
06:21nobody would have said, well, why draft them here when you can get them at 36?
06:25Right.
06:26So they get a good grade for this because they waited until 36
06:29when the people that are grading pluses and minuses didn't,
06:34they expected them to go earlier than that.
06:36I love the prospect.
06:38We talked about him a lot, and I watched a lot of him at Ohio State.
06:43There's a lot of upside that's very justifiable upside.
06:48You're not just looking at him and thinking like, well, if he can get his act together.
06:51He was 20 years old during the season last year, had to kind of sit and wait and bide his
06:56time
06:57because there were other starters in front of him when he was a younger player.
07:00And he was just, he was incredibly productive.
07:02He just makes plays.
07:03He just, he uses his hands really well.
07:06He's got, if you watch his highlights, you'll see he's capable of rushing the passer,
07:11and he does some nice things.
07:12That's not his calling card right now,
07:14but I do think that he's got way more upside than a lot of people thought.
07:18And the biggest thing about him that was a surprise to some people was a lot of people thought
07:23that D'Amico just didn't like 330-pound defensive tackles.
07:26He thought all he wanted was, you know, 300-pound guys that are quicker, more explosive, etc.
07:32Sneaker, yeah.
07:32Yeah, and that's just, there is a place in this defense for a big-body guy like that.
07:37And D'Amico said in his press conference, yeah, we've tried to get bigger guys in here.
07:41It just hasn't worked out.
07:42Yeah.
07:42So when it comes time to stop the run,
07:45instead of the Texans having to play a five-defensive line package,
07:49instead of having to walk a safety up into the box,
07:51hopefully McDonald can be a part of just saying,
07:54hey, we can stop the run with a seven-man front.
07:57We don't have to be overly aggressive when it's time to really bat in the hatches.
08:01Emotional time for Caden McDonald.
08:02This was his interview right after getting drafted on the NFL Network.
08:08Caden, we see the emotion overcoming you.
08:11It was important for you to stay here, to have your moment.
08:14You just had a long hug with the commissioner.
08:16How would you describe this?
08:18It's emotional, man.
08:19I knew I was supposed to be here, and I'm just so blessed.
08:22I'm just so thankful.
08:23I'm just so emotional.
08:24Like, where I came from, now I'm here.
08:27It's a blessing.
08:29It really is so fun to watch you experience this.
08:32You know that this Texans defense is a force to be reckoned with.
08:36How will you make a day-one impact?
08:39Disrupted.
08:39Making it easier for the DN, and we all go together.
08:42We're going to work.
08:43I'm ready.
08:44Thank you, Caden.
08:45I love that.
08:46There's still tears streaming down his face, and he's breaking down what his role on the
08:50defense is going to be.
08:52The interesting thing about Caden McDonald is that, by various reports, he seems to have
08:58come up with a nice family in a not-awful place or anything.
09:02And nobody is quite sure exactly what he's talking about, which circumstances he overcame.
09:06Was he like a three-star recruit or something like that?
09:10Maybe that's what it was.
09:11Or he just had to sit and bide his time at Ohio State.
09:13Yeah, he did have to do that.
09:15But, yeah, he worked hard.
09:18Ended up playing a bunch this last year and got drafted.
09:22Maybe it was just the green room situation.
09:24Yeah.
09:24Maybe the fact that he was – nobody knows what it's like in the green room.
09:27The situation that I came up from?
09:29Like, what are you referring to?
09:30If you ain't never been to the green room, don't ever come to the green room.
09:33Have you been watching?
09:34You don't know about the green room.
09:36Have you been watching the last 22 hours?
09:38Yeah.
09:39Have you been watching?
09:40Oh, man.
09:41Did you see the video, Seth, of his little nine-year-old nephew reading a letter to him?
09:46I saw it.
09:47I didn't watch it because I didn't feel like being up in my feelings.
09:49Yeah, I was up in my – I retweeted it.
09:51I'm like, I'm not crying.
09:52You're crying.
09:53I've got it bookmarked.
09:54Yeah, yeah.
09:54It's pretty good stuff.
09:57I'm going to enjoy Caden McDonald.
09:58Here was Greg Cosell.
10:01This is a little bit of film work from Greg Cosell here, Seth.
10:05Yeah, this was when he was on our friend – well, your friend, Ross Tucker's podcast before the draft,
10:10and they were going over the top defensive linemen.
10:13He had Caden McDonald listed as one of his top guys.
10:16McDonald is a pure great run defender, and what was unique about him watching his tape
10:21is that not only did he win with physicality, but he made tackles.
10:25You rarely see a defensive tackle make as many tackles in the run game as Caden McDonald,
10:31and that's what really jumped out.
10:33I mean, you see a lot of defensive tackles, as you know.
10:35They're great.
10:36They're physical.
10:37They're tough, and they win.
10:39You know, they probably get a plus from the coaching staff on particular plays,
10:42but they don't necessarily make tackles.
10:45He was really good.
10:46But this guy is a – he is a run defender, and that's the way he'll start.
10:51You know, he doesn't – he's very limited right now as a pass rusher.
10:54He doesn't have a vertical element to his game moving forward to rush the quarterback.
10:58Can he become that in time?
11:00We don't know the answer to that.
11:02But if you're looking for a dominant run defender in the middle of your defense,
11:06he is a high-level prospect.
11:08All this stuff, Seth, everybody talking about, boy, the Texans got a steal,
11:11and hearing Greg Cosell.
11:12My biggest question is, why was he there at 36?
11:15Well, I think, though, everything that Cosell said right there is where defensive
11:20tackles these days get drafted because, you know, he's a two-down player right now.
11:26And Casario was very careful in his press conference when Aaron Wilson asked him
11:30about his upside as a pass rusher.
11:31Casario said, look, guys need to lean into their strengths,
11:35and we'll see how much he can develop as a pass rusher.
11:37But they look at him as a first and second down type of player that they need on this
11:42team in specific situations, not just on first down,
11:44but short yardage, goal line, trying to close out a game when you just got to get a stop,
11:51or when you're, you know, from behind and a team's trying to run the ball,
11:54when you're trying to come from behind at the end of a game.
11:58And, like, that's what he is now.
12:00I think he can definitely develop and do –
12:02Vince Woolfolk is the best example of a guy who's an awesome run sufferer,
12:05but also at times was the most important pass rusher on the Patriots
12:08because he was so good at getting pushed up the middle.
12:10Up the middle, man.
12:11He never had more than three and a half sacks in a season,
12:13but he was a vital part of their pass rush at times.
12:16I could see Caden McDonald being that type of a player.
12:20But, yeah, like, why would he be available in the second round?
12:22Because that's where teams tend to draft guys in the first round at defensive tackle.
12:27They're three down players.
12:28Right, right.
12:29All right, this was probably the most polarizing pick that Nick Casario
12:33and his staff made on Friday.
12:35With a 59 pick for the Houston Texans, they select Marlon Kline.
12:41Tied in, University of Michigan.
12:43Okay.
12:44So, Marlon Kline, who I think a lot of Texan fans had not heard of before Friday night,
12:50you know, kind of toiled in anonymity and obscurity for a few years at Michigan
12:54because he had future pro bowlers in front of him on the depth chart.
12:58Was a captain of the team last year.
13:00Didn't have eye-popping stats.
13:01They had a freshman quarterback at Michigan.
13:03He's from Germany.
13:05Played soccer and switched to football.
13:08The biggest thing I was impressed with was he's, like, literally from –
13:11when I heard him talk, Seth, I'm like, oh, okay,
13:14he's somebody, like, whose family is from – like a military kid who's from here.
13:18He wasn't a military kid.
13:20Yeah, he's, like, literally from Germany when I first heard him talk,
13:23and then I saw there was a cut, like, on learning to speak English.
13:25I'm like, there's no accent or anything.
13:28Like, it's – here is Marlon Kline.
13:32Ben, let's go to the one on his meeting with the Texans here.
13:35This is Marlon Kline on his meeting with the Houston Texans.
13:38Yeah, I think, you know, I had my first formal with them.
13:42They were my first one at the combine, and I was all nervous.
13:45I've never talked to an NFL person before, so I sit down.
13:48I'm kind of, you know, shaking my voice.
13:49I'm like, man, I called my agent right after.
13:51I was like, make sure these guys don't think, you know, I'm a slappy or whatever.
13:55I just tried to make sure, like, because I tried to impress them.
13:58I wanted to come to Houston from the beginning.
14:00My fiancée can tell you that.
14:01My family can tell you that.
14:03And I think, you know, just the vibes that I got from the coaches.
14:05I've been around successful coaches.
14:07I've been around, you know, leadership that has brought us to 15-0
14:11in national championships and Rose Bowl wins and all these things.
14:14And I know what – you know, I've seen what it takes.
14:16And that's the kind of vibe that I got from that organization.
14:19And, you know, Coach Ryan and Coach Ferentz.
14:23I texted Coach Ferentz this morning.
14:24I'll tell you this coach.
14:25I texted him this morning.
14:26I said, let's work.
14:27Bring me home.
14:27And it ended up being like that, and I'm so pumped up.
14:30I can't wait to call him after this and get going.
14:33He talks fast, too, man.
14:35He's a fast talker.
14:36Yeah.
14:37I looked up German words for slappy.
14:40Boomkopf is probably the best one.
14:42It means blockhead.
14:43Okay.
14:44Be sure.
14:46He's got kind of a little bit of a Georgia twang to him because he went to this
14:49boarding school in Georgia.
14:51Yeah.
14:51That's why he doesn't have an accent.
14:52He was here in high school, and he came to America specifically to play
14:56American football.
14:57That's right.
14:57And so it wasn't like he fell in love with it while he was over here for a bit
15:01or anything.
15:02That's where I do think the – I don't want to give him too much of a pass for
15:07being late to play football because he played in high school.
15:10And then he played at Michigan, who does a good job churning out tight ends.
15:14The one thing that I thought was interesting about him was that he hasn't played a
15:17boatload of special teams, which I get that he was a backup behind three tight
15:22ends that would eventually be starters in the NFL.
15:26But, like, I don't know exactly why he wasn't used more on special teams.
15:30He's got good speed to run down on kickoff and whatnot, but he's definitely a bet
15:36on traits more so than his actual production.
15:38Do you think he plays on special teams here?
15:40Oh, yeah.
15:41He's going to have to.
15:42I would think so.
15:43I would think so.
15:44Here was Nick Casario.
15:45This pick –
15:46It's not a doom cough.
15:48This is probably the pick that if people are a little sideways on this draft class
15:54or upset at all about this draft class, they're pointing to this pick
15:57because the perception is out there.
15:59Look, all the experts, Mel Kuyper's like, I had him like 150th on my board.
16:04There was another that didn't even have him in their top 150.
16:07Daniel Jeremiah had the most favorable one that I'd seen until I heard McShay
16:11had him in his top five tight ends.
16:13Jeremiah had him like 85th or something like that.
16:15He got picked 59th.
16:17Now, who knows if there were other teams out there that were looking at him.
16:19This we know because Nick Casario said this on Friday.
16:22They did try to trade out of 59.
16:25We were looking at both.
16:26I mean, I think this draft is kind of emblematic of who we are.
16:30We've looked up.
16:31We had opportunities to go up.
16:32I mean, I think when we walked in the draft room, I think we put like 10 boxes on the
16:36board.
16:36Like we had a, hey, here's the trade down group.
16:40Here's the trade up group.
16:42All right, what's real?
16:43What's not?
16:44I mean, we probably talked – I don't want to say half the league.
16:46We probably talked to half the league here, you know, over the course of the day.
16:48What's your appetite for moving up?
16:50All right, got it.
16:51All right, if we want to move up, what would that look like?
16:54All right, if we – let's say we don't pick at 38 and we end up moving back, what does
16:59that look like?
17:00So that's kind of how we approach it.
17:03Okay, and that was a different answer than the one I was thinking of.
17:06But he specifically, when asked about drafting Klein, said that they had some trades that fell apart at the last
17:12second, at 59.
17:14I think the – and the biggest thing about all of this is that if they overdrafted him, it was
17:21a pretty extreme overdraft.
17:23But it's also that they just also liked him more than Sam Rauch or Oscar Delp or Claire – I
17:32mean, multiple different tight ends that were more highly ranked than Klein.
17:36The Texans just flat out liked him better for whatever reason.
17:40So it wasn't – so it's a combination between you might feel like they overdrafted him, but it wasn't a
17:46desperation reach because, gosh, we've got to get a tight end.
17:49And this was the tight end that they liked better than five or six guys who are still on the
17:53board.
17:53Yep.
17:53And that'll be – you know, that'll be the interesting thing to watch over time is how well they develop
17:59– how well he develops, obviously.
18:00Day three started with the – for the Texans, at least, started with the 106th pick in the draft, the
18:07sixth pick of the fourth round.
18:09Here is WWE superstar Raquel Rodriguez, who's from the area here, announcing the selection.
18:15Mi gente, this is WWE superstar La Masruda.
18:19Raquel Rodriguez, here live for Torneo Texans, a girls' flag tournament at Estadio Borregos in Texas, Monterrey.
18:28With the 106th pick in the 2026 NFL draft, the Houston Texans select Fabecchi Weewoo, guard from Oklahoma.
18:37Vamos, Texas!
18:39Yeah!
18:42They must have had that spelled phonetically on the card.
18:45Oh, yeah.
18:46I think it was spelled phonetically everywhere.
18:48Yeah.
18:48There's no part – I can't even look – I can't even look at the actual way you spell his
18:52name yet.
18:53I don't trust myself to completely – I'm going to do it right now.
18:56Boom.
18:56I'm ruined.
18:57Yep.
18:57Yep.
18:58No, I got a –
18:59It's coming up next.
19:00It's Weewoo.
19:00It's Weewoo.
19:00It's Weewoo.
19:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:03I know people thought I was joking when I tweeted out the phonetic spelling.
19:07They thought I was trying to screw them up or something.
19:09No, man.
19:09It's Weewoo.
19:10Weewoo.
19:11Fabecchi Weewoo.
19:11Like one of those English police sirens.
19:15Weewoo.
19:16Weewoo.
19:17Now I won't be able to get that out of my head for the rest of the show.
19:20Here's Weewoo in his interview after getting selected on what are Texan fans getting.
19:28Man, you're getting a violent player.
19:29You're getting an extremely smart player.
19:30You're getting a physical player.
19:32And you're getting a finisher.
19:33So, you know, I hope to display all that stuff on the field this year.
19:37You touched on this earlier.
19:39That interior offensive line group is all of a sudden a really fascinating one come training camp.
19:44Not just because of the sheer number of guys they've brought in, in the case of Ed Ingram brought back,
19:49but just the position versatility with all these guys.
19:54There's going to be a ton of mixing and matching going on, I would guess,
19:56as they try to figure that whole thing out.
19:58No, and I think that's where it's just – it's hyper-competitive.
20:01Now, the other thing about it, too, is you're going to see that Weewoo had played
20:06four of the five spots on the offensive line, so he's played some tackle.
20:10I would be really, really, really surprised if they were looking at him as a guy
20:14that could play tackle potentially.
20:15His versatility is going to be he can play guard or possibly play center.
20:19And he's got a lot more actual in-game experience playing center than Rutledge does.
20:25But there's five guys right now on their roster who either are centers
20:30or have played centers, and there's going to be stiff competition there.
20:34And then for the swing interior offensive linemen, too, it's a lot, man.
20:38They got a lot.
20:40It's an impressive environment compared to what it's been in the past where it felt like
20:47you could have walked in – if you were at training camp, you could have jumped the partition
20:51and stepped in and maybe fooled people for a few steps.
20:55In the center, yeah.
20:56He's like, oh, wait, no.
20:57Wait, who's that getting destroyed by Mario Edwards?
21:00Is that a draft pick or is that just some 170-pounder off the street?
21:05It looks exactly the same.
21:06I can't tell.
21:07Oh, yeah.
21:09What's the kid's name, the little gamer who roots for the Texans?
21:12Twitch?
21:13Twatch?
21:14Yeah, what's the kid's name?
21:15Squatch?
21:16Ben, do you remember his name?
21:18Stretch?
21:20Sketch.
21:20It's Sketch.
21:21Sketch.
21:22Sketch.
21:22That's what it is.
21:23Stretch.
21:24Put the streaker in there.
21:26Yeah.
21:29So did you know that was the first Oklahoma player that's ever been drafted by the Texans?
21:34Really?
21:34Yeah.
21:35Yeah, I found that out listening to the last part of day three.
21:39Vandy came in after I did the hot tag to him at 2 o'clock.
21:42I was listening to he and Johnny, and Vandy had all sorts of little factoids.
21:46Yeah, that's the first Texan to ever get drafted from the University of Oklahoma.
21:50As I scanned my famously photographic memory, yeah, I'm confirming that.
21:55And?
21:56Yeah, no.
21:57No Oklahoma players.
21:58No Oklahoma players.
21:59Okay, this is, we don't have the call of the Woody, or the Wade Woodass pick, the linebacker
22:04out of Clemson.
22:05This was probably not as extreme for Texan fans, Seth, as the Marlon Klein pick in terms
22:13of, you know, the feeling that they overreached a little bit.
22:16But this is, I think this fits into that category for some Texan fans.
22:20The Texans were at 117.
22:21They moved back six spots to 123, and they take Wade Woodass, linebacker out of Clemson,
22:27who is immediately probably a guy that's going to contribute on special teams.
22:32John Harris actually ran into Frank Ross during the commercial break after they selected Woodass.
22:38Johnny went down to the cafeteria to get some food.
22:40When we were doing day three of the draft, Johnny and I over at the stadium, he ran into
22:43Frank Ross right after the Woodass pick.
22:46And Frank Ross was extremely happy with that pick.
22:48He liked it a lot.
22:49And he has, so he's a converted safety.
22:52He's very long, very fast, straight line speed.
22:56He'll go sideline to sideline, but also very raw as a linebacker and still needs to work
23:02on a lot of the finer technique aspects and getting his reads right, which is exactly the
23:08kind of guy that you trust with that defensive staff.
23:11They do a great job of developing these young linebackers, but he's also used on special teams
23:15a lot.
23:15And I think his upside is he might, if he accepts the coaching and really utilizes all that
23:23athleticism, could end up being something in coverage as a linebacker that I don't know
23:27if we've had, I can't even remember the last time, but really a tall guy that can get in
23:33zones and get in passing lanes and use that length.
23:36When you watch his college highlights, a lot of it, I was watching him play versus, it was
23:41Clemson, I think.
23:42Or no, they were wearing, oh, it's because he's Clemson.
23:45They were wearing their all orange.
23:46Yeah.
23:47And he almost looked like an old Jim Boeheim defender.
23:50Oh, he's got these long lanes.
23:52He'll 2-3 zone, yeah.
23:53Yeah, and he's getting his hands up in passing lanes.
23:56That's great.
23:57So between the orange uniforms and his ranginess, the upside is really impressive, and he'll
24:02have a chance to compete for it.
24:04He will.
24:04He will.
24:05Here was, and we'll do acknowledge me in a minute or so here, Wade Wood has on staying
24:10at Clemson.
24:11A lot of these guys that you're drafting now transferred at one point or another with
24:14the portal.
24:15He stayed at Clemson the whole time.
24:17Yeah, I mean, Clemson's a special place, first of all, and I'm not a quitter.
24:22I'm not just going to give up and waver for some money, for some change, you know.
24:27I don't, that's not really my goal, monetary status.
24:33Yeah, I'm not a quitter.
24:35Okay.
24:36So this is my...
24:36JL Petrie vibes when, you know, not leaving Baylor.
24:39Not leaving Baylor.
24:40This is more than what I want Wade Wood has to do.
24:41I want him to walk up to his new teammates on the very first day.
24:44His new teammates, Keelan Rutledge and Fabecchi Weewoo, and call them quitters.
24:50Call them quitters, yeah.
24:51To their face.
24:52Yeah.
24:52Well, let's see.
24:54Fabecchi, at least, he transferred up.
24:56He was at North Texas.
24:57Yeah, so did Rutledge.
24:58Yeah, Rutledge transferred up, too.
25:00That's different than, like, jumping over to another...
25:02Sounds like quitters to me, man.
25:03I don't know.
25:04No, that's an ascender.
25:06Okay.
25:06That's like saying somebody left AAA to go to the majors, and they're quitting on their
25:11AAA team.
25:11I'll find somebody that fits Wade Wood as definition of a quitter between now and the end of the
25:15show.
25:16So, all right, let's do...
25:18Let's do...
25:18Tamari Ramsey transferred from UCLA to USC.
25:21He did?
25:21Yeah.
25:22Quitter.
25:23Quitter.
25:24Yep.
25:24He did follow his defensive coordinator there, though.
25:27Who, apparently, also a quitter.
25:29Yeah.
25:29So, yeah.
25:29Tell that guy he's a quitter, too.
25:31Yeah.
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