00:00The New York Jets leave round number one, not one, not two,
00:06three first-round draft picks for the New York Jets.
00:12And Kenyon Sadiq is the guy I want to start with here, Joe,
00:18because Kenyon Sadiq, I thought, entered into the Oregon season
00:23with really high expectations.
00:27And I don't think it would be unfair to say that he came in
00:31underneath those expectations.
00:3451 catches, 560 yards, eight touchdowns as a whole,
00:42but was not routinely over 50 yards.
00:45In fact, only four such games.
00:48In the college football playoff, his numbers were 2 for 19, 4 for 22,
00:53and 5 for 29, no touchdowns.
00:56How much of that was Oregon either dominating or, you know,
01:03kind of really up against it?
01:05How much of that was these moments where actually the number one tight end
01:11looked like it was Jamari Johnson, who's still going to be an Oregon duck?
01:15Duck, how do you feel about Kenyon Sadiq here with the Jets,
01:20the 16th overall pick, and what type of year one contributions he can make?
01:24You and I had talked about it from a body type and his combine.
01:28He was going to be that player that teams fell in love with, right?
01:32But he's a tight end.
01:33And to your point, in Oregon's biggest game, Sadiq at times was nonexistent.
01:39And that's the problem that I have.
01:41Are we looking at Kenyon Sadiq as the second coming of Brock Bowers
01:46or Fannin from Cleveland that could just catch every pass and be there?
01:52And, oh, by the way, he's a dominant run blocker.
01:54I don't think he is.
01:55He looks like he's a dominant run blocker.
01:58But, again, I don't see it.
01:59I think he's too rigid.
02:00Again, if we're talking pure route runners, I'm sorry.
02:04I think Mason Taylor, who they took out at LSU two years ago,
02:09was a better route runner than Kenyon Sadiq at the tight end position.
02:13How do they use Mason Taylor moving forward?
02:16We'll see.
02:17But Kenyon Sadiq, I think to me, Kevin, is going to be that guy
02:21that we claim to be a potential bust.
02:24He could be like a Kyle Pitts type of player.
02:26Remember, we were wowed by Kyle Pitts, you know, coming out of Florida.
02:30They reached up and grabbed him in the five hole, and he had one good season,
02:35and all of a sudden, it's the hot and cold.
02:37I think that's what we're looking at in Kenyon Sadiq.
02:41Now, Pitts all of a sudden seemed to come into his own,
02:44obviously, with Kirk Cousins at the end of the regular season last year.
02:48But when you look at the body of work, it's not –
02:52he didn't live up to the hype up until this point.
02:55Pitts, to me, has been a bit of an enigma.
02:58I feel like not many people would remember that he –
03:01he went for 1,000 yards in his rookie season.
03:04Like, that's a real thing that happened.
03:08And he was injured all throughout his next year,
03:11and then just – it clearly wasn't working.
03:15Or, you know, what would be his junior and senior seasons
03:18if he were to, you know, keep it that way.
03:21And then it just kind of turned on, right?
03:24I know everybody remembers the game against Tampa Bay,
03:2711 for 166-3.
03:29But he had entered that game over the prior two contests,
03:3213 catches for 172 yards over the two games.
03:37He closed out really strong for Kyle Pitts.
03:41And I don't mind the analogy because the thought on Pitts was just,
03:46what a freak, a total –
03:48Kenyon Sadiq's a freak, right?
03:50That's what it's supposed to be.
03:52The athletic testing was just totally bonkers.
03:56It really was.
03:57I wonder if the Jets, in bringing in Sadiq,
04:02after spending a high-level draft choice on Mason Taylor last year, Joe,
04:06are thinking about running, you know, more of this 12 –
04:10obviously, we saw McVay last year with the Rams go to 13 personnel.
04:14And I wonder if a Jets roster, we look at, okay,
04:18Garrett Wilson's the number one.
04:20But, hey, we think Sadiq and Taylor are the next two guys on this depth chart
04:26for pass catchers.
04:27You know what, Joe?
04:29I don't hate that.
04:30I think that's a little bit exciting.
04:32Now, props-wise, questionable, right?
04:37Will it – at some point, Sadiq's going to have to feel like a –
04:41not Bowers, but, you know,
04:43he's going to have to feel like one of the five best tight ends
04:46within the next three or four years for us to feel good about the pick.
04:50So – but it's also on the board.
04:52I mean, Colston Loveland broke out last year a little bit, right,
04:55as things went on.
04:56So it's on the board.
04:57So it's on the board.
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