Fantasy Football Daily - College Fantasy Football Dynasty: 1-Round Freshman 2024 Mock Draft

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

On this episode of College Fantasy Football All Access, the guys kick off CFF Dynasty month with a 2024 1-round Freshman mock draft. Who will be the number 1 pick: Jeremiah Smith or DJ Lagway? Will two Clemson WRs be picked in the first round? Will there be a Running Back selected? Will Zach be able to resist making the homer pick in Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola? Come find out and take your game to the next level with CFF All Access. Make sure to follow us for more valuable college fantasy football content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What? What you're shaking your head? You're welcome. Hello, this is the CFF All Access Show again today. And it says, in it, guys, because we are talking freshmen. And this is how we all enhance our teams come the spring slash summer. And, you know, I've got quite a few drafts going on right now. But, you know, we've got a question on Twitter from a good friend of ours,

the great Felix Sharp. And Felix had a question. And it's a very relevant one that I thought we should probably address right off the top. And that is. Actually, I don't have the specific question. But paraphrasing, he'd asked, what is our strategy when it comes to these freshmen slash supplemental? Because it's not all just freshmen, right? What is our strategy and how do we approach freshmen and our sort of,

of a total mix of our freshman supplemental drafts. So I have a few things to say about that, of course, but I wanted to kick it over to Josh and kind of get his perspective before I started just spouting numbers and data that is going to bore the rest of you probably in some way. But I wanted to kick it over to the esteemed Josh Chevalier and kind of get his perspective on the freshman drafts. There's more than one way to skin a cat here. a lot of different ways to look at this. I'm very interested here you guys have to say.

Yeah, and I think if you asked all three of us, we'd probably have three different opinions. And that's what's so great about Dynasty, because all three of us have won different leagues in the last couple of years even. And yet we probably all approach it a little bit differently. And specifically, I think Felix was asking like, all right, how much do you factor in that group of five versus P4 freshmen, right? Because, like, you know, in Devi, it's so heavy P5 or P4 that a lot of times you're going to see people, even from that world, maybe draft those players higher. But then you've got Boise State that literally has like, Zach, you might have the actual number, but like 10 to 12 years of like a thousand yard running backs. And so those are so valuable. But the problem is, and you have a kid like Sire Gaines that we may or may not talk about today that's coming up at Boise State. He's a true freshman.

he sounds like he might be the next man up. And normally, and normally you would go, yes, grab him. But in the NIL era and the transfer at any time, like you just don't know when a bag is going to come to one of these players, it's too big to resist like a Damien Martinez at Oregon State. And so if you asked me this question two years ago, I would have said, yeah, I mean, I'm actually going to go for system and players that, you know, fit in those different systems.

So Boise State running back round one, I probably would have been snatching up sire gains this year. But in this era, I'm starting to rethink things a little bit and going, man, I'm going to go talent and not even try to out. I'm going to factor in landing spot to a degree and we'll talk about that tonight. But at the G5 level, it's so hard to predict whether those players are going to stay there because the Cullin Lacey's of the world, the Jammari thrashes, right? They are getting bags and they're leaving after a pretty big.

season at the G5 level. So I am taking that less into consideration. I will say, you know, based on talent, and then we're getting into other things today, some don'ts I have for drafting from certain teams. You know, if it's not the top guy, then maybe you don't want to draft a certain wide receiver or running back in a stacked room. But what do you guys think? I mean, you guys probably have a different opinion than me on this. Yeah, Zach, go for it. Yeah, it's the transfer portal really makes it, um, A lot more tricky. I would say, especially when I'm going into any dynasty draft, really the last year and probably the last two years, I feel like there's a lot of talent that hits the portal

that you're going to, that you have a better idea of or feel for how they're going to pan out at certain places. And that kind of leapfrogs any of these freshmen. I still think there's, especially when you get down to the G5, it's such an unknown. And sometimes it's so hard to to really get any good information where they might have some freshmen come in that you think is going to be, you know, like the world on fire, but you just can't get any info. And when I'm, when I'm drafting, I really want to get guys in those early rounds that I know are making an impact on the spring, right, that maybe they're not going to be that RB1, but you're hearing, the coaches are talking about them, other players are talking about them, and you're starting to get a sense of,

all right, this guy, this guy fits in this team and in this system. But I kind of, I kind of Kind of to what Josh said, the transfer portal has changed my thought process on that. And I would say I probably lean more towards trying to get those value transfers and then take some shots on some freshmen maybe a little bit later. But again, I still think outside of maybe a handful of G5 guys when you go into these drafts, if you go back and look at any prior dynasty drafts, there's a lot of swing and misses a lot. and you don't want to have that many swing and misses in a dynasty in those early rounds. And I think that's why it's for me, I want that known value. And even if you only get a guy for a year or two, I still like that. And then try and hit some of those freshmen that maybe aren't as highly rated,

but could make an impact in those mid-round. That's how I generally approach freshmen in these drafts. Yeah, well, in terms of historically, and you mentioned this, Zach, it's a massive, massive bust rate. We're talking about these prospects coming from high school to college. And, you know, for most people, the corollary would be the NFL draft almost, where, you know, most dynasty guys, we're obviously in a different world. They're looking at it like, oh, well, you know, is it a similar hit rate? I've actually got this question recently. Is it a similar hit rate from college to pros as it is from high school to college?

And I think I took it on the Dynasty Nerd Show. I had to politely say, good God, no. No, you want to talk about bust rates. We're talking at different level. I went back because I have to research this. I have to walk out if you're going to get questions like this. So I went back the last three years of recruiting. I'm going to start with 2021.

I'm going to go position by position in terms of guys who I perceive to be relevant and startable out of the top tier or, you know, the top 40 for quarterbacks, top 40 for running backs, top 85 for wide receivers, and then, you know, tight ends are tight ends. So first off, we'll start off with tight ends. Tight ends, you want to take your weight until, geez, probably round seven, eight, nine, ten for the tippity, tippity, top. and then don't touch them. And then just pretend they don't exist because you're going to take a while for them to actually go out there and make an impression very, very rarely.

And it's similar. This is somewhat similar to NFL. Rarely you're going to get that tight end who comes in a freshman and just takes the entire room over. We prayed that that would happen with Eric Gilbert. It did not. I would say pretty much the great Brock Bowers is the one comp we have as a true freshman.

There aren't many of them. You know, so sophomore year, junior year, I tend to start looking then at tight ends, you know, depending on what the waiver wires look like, you'll want to be combing them. There's always a few that will sort of crop up and you just prioritize those. Summer is really going to help with the tight ends too. So like you just simply cannot over invest in them. It takes too long from the bare fruit. And depending on what your roster looks like, most teams roster-wise,

I'm also doing another column that Josh and Zach, you know, I enlisted them for some data to help with. When it comes to tight ends, the successful dynasty rosters, you have at most four out of 45 spots. Most of them have three. Some of the successful ones just have two. And then they just rotate through the wire. So you're talking about a very limited investment you even. We'll now start with the real conversation. Let's go to quarterbacks.

Okay. We'll go to 2021. Of the top 40 quarterbacks, only 11 them, 11, proved to be serviceable or even relevant QBs up until right now. Now, killed Williams, Drake May, they're gone. JJ gone. He was at Michigan, though. How relevant was he, honestly, in college fantasy? I'm not looking at him as a college fantasy hit.

And I'm sure you guys are probably in the same opinion because the startability of Michigan quarterbacks. And you don't know when Harbaugh is going to go. and pull at Penn State and literally not throw the wall the entire second half. It's just, it's danger zone. You got Jaywin Milrow hit Jackson Dart. Garrett Newsmeyer coming in. There's still a lot of projection involved with three years down the line on these guys. Four, actually, going into four.

Garrett Newsmeyer was still projecting on him. He's just getting the job. That's a long time to hold that spot. Kyron Drones, we've talked about him ad nauseum on this show. Chris Kay, block your ears. Caden Salter flunks out of Tennessee, has a couple of, like, low-level beefs, runs with the cop, goes over to Liberty, nuclear, number one QB for me.

But, you know, took him a little time. He flunked out of Tennessee. We couldn't take him right away. It wasn't like you were investing. Like, that was a tough call. Shadura Sanders, he went to Jackson State. We didn't even get a chance to draft him then. So you look at some of the names,

Barron Morton. I included Baron Morton. Forgive me. He shouldn't even be named. He's like Baltimore. You know how I feel about him. And I hate Andrew Katz because he just took Will Hammond from me in Names League. Good pick.

I'm coming for you, cats. I'm coming for you, buddy. So that's 11 guys. Drones just relevant last year. Shador just came in last year. What was he supposed to do? He was in the FCS. Baron Morton is a disgrace.

Miller Moss just got the job now. and he threw three picks in the spring game. And you got May, McCarthy, Caleb, already gone. There's a short shelf life on the tippy top guys at QB. And then you look at the rest down the board. We're going to go to 2022. Kade Klubnick is a starting quarterback. Calling him his fantasy success is a stretch.

I know. But he's a starter. This is what we're qualifying as hits at the top of these top 40, right? That's technically maybe a hit coming in. It's year three on Kate Kloobnik? He needs to impress. Connor Wegman, Texas A&M, you got nothing out of him, year one and two. He was hurt last year.

I'm a big fan. I do think he has first round caliber talent, but we didn't get anything out of them. Again, a blown spot. Drew Aller, Penn State offense. Alex Orgy coming in right now. I don't know, maybe. He's fighting for the job? Josh Hoover, TCU.

Dang. All right. Legit starter. Year three. that's what we're talking about. He was number 34, 35, and then Thomas Castellanos. Again, UCF transfers to BC even to get this gig, right? A lot of misses here.

A lot of guys you had to roster for a long time. I've only got seven hits, defined hits, and these are even, that's very loosely termed. We're just talking about getting starts as hits, okay? That's QB. Now we're going to go to this year. Hey, Frotan, real quick, before you go, let's take a quick break. and we'll come right back. I'm on it.

I'm loving this conversation, man. Get us. All right. We're passionate about our stuff, right? So I'll try to be more brief. Arch, Dante Moore, Nico, Jackson, Arnold, Avery Johnson, Winoa Sellers, Aidan Childs. We got seven.

And that's Counten Arch, who isn't playing, but you still, what are you going to do, right? Until year three. So you've probably drafted him first round, right? Yeah, exactly. I should probably put Malachi Nelson in there because he's starting at Boise. But again, that's a transfer, right? So we're not even getting them at his original spot here. A lot of projections still involved. But you have seven guys you can say,

boom, I'm getting starts out of this year. Point being, a lot of volatility in that QB room. You're going to have to keep those spots for a longer time than you probably want to hold them in a traditional, you know, dynasty format where I think you have to in every dynasty league, and this is another, you know, sort of tangent point, you got to have those taxi squads. Very important. Five taxi spots and three, whatever it is, I think every dynasty league should have that so that you can plan ahead because you're going to have to have guys. You know we're taking the year one zeros.

Props to C2C. That's their metric and it's a great one. This is what we're dealing with with QBs waiting, lead time. Okay? Okay. So first off, when you're in those quarter, be prepared. How long strategically are you going to keep going at the freshman in general? All right? We're not even talking about all these because as soon as the season's over, these these waiver wires are freezing. If you're at 12, 14, 16, even 20, there's still going to be plenty of guys that you're going to look at and say Camden Benjamin has a path to playing time. You know, I know what I'm going to reasonably get out of him.

Running backs were now climbing the chart, you know, that had a good spring, and they're involved, and they're relevant. And that's where the G5 really comes in. Year 2 is really where you're getting a lot of those G5 guys, especially have a limited waiver wire, which is more relevant in C2C. But even when the league's freeze, you're going to get it. All right, we'll go over to running backs now, okay? We'll be running through from the 2021 class. I got eight guys from the top 40 when I'm looking at and consider starting running backs. Okay?

Eight. That's three years down the line out of 40, 32 misses. Three quarters of that class. Ride receivers, 2021. I got nine of the top 85. Nine that you're looking at it is saying week in, week out. And some of them are gone. Worthy's gone.

Neighbors, gone. Mitchell, gone. Brian Thomas, gone. Marvin Harrison, gone. Troy Franklin, gone. You only have Jacoby George, Ameka, Eggbuka, and end of the list. Holy crap. That's what we have right now of the 2021 class of the top 85 wide receivers. I don't know what more you want than that. Let's go to 2022. I have 10. Okay, 10. And that's pretty damn good. We got Byrd and Stewart, Ted. Barry and Brown is included. Maybe, right? Antonio Williams. He was hurt last year.

He's a starter. He's relevant. Like, I'm really scraping the bottom here. Isaiah Bond. Kendrick Law has a starting job in Alabama. Okay. Does that count as a hit? You know, we're two years down the lines.

Year three. Nick Anderson, Oklahoma, ding. Is Dane Kia hit? I don't know. I don't know. I don't, not really. With Jamori Macklin coming in and Barry and Brown? Like, are those hits?

Jeremy Bernard, year three, you've gotten nothing out of him. Nothing. That's the end of the list. I mean, are we excited? I'm not excited at all, you know? I'm not excited at all. All right, and now we'll go to the final. Seven running backs from last year's class that you can look at and say,

okay, good, I'm projecting, I feel great about them. And there's not, and that's even brutal from the top. Caleb Jackson, Roderick Robinson, I don't know, he just got over-recruited, he's got transfer portaled. Darius Taylor, of course, Justice Haynes, Cedric Baxter, even they're in potential shares. Caden Fegan, I feel good about Fegan, right? Then you get to wide receivers, that's seven running backs, 10 that I can look at and be like, haven't been successful yet. You have exactly two, two freshman running backs, excuse me, wide receivers from last year,

there were starters. Trey Wilson, and again, it was, you know, 600 yards, even though he had the eight touchdown. It really just conception because of the dual usage that he got out of the backfield because Robert and I was so desperate for anybody who could catch a pass, right? So those are the only two you got anything out of last year. I'm projecting with Jacoby Lane, Omarian Miller for Colorado, maybe. Zechariah Branch, we talked about him, maybe. Carnell Tate, Noah Rogers at NC State now.

who's cannibalizing our friend Concepcion and Jonte Cook at Texas. Look at what we're dealing with here. Not everybody's going to be Ted. Not everybody's going to be Luther Burden. In fact, most of them aren't. So you have to go into these freshman drafts, and this is how I personally look at it.

I'm going to go for the first three, four rounds. I'm going to take the best. I'm going to take my favorite freshman. If typically in one of those first four rounds, I'm going to take an older junior, senior, that emerged up top of death chart, and I know I can plug and play right away. I'm going to get an every week starter.

I'm probably going to take one of those in there, too. And then from there, I'm pivoting hard. Unless I've got good camp buzz, because we're doing this in June. We're doing this before August, before summer's open. Everything we're getting is going to come off of the spring. You have to prioritize news. You have to prioritize system.

If you already have somebody in Minnesota, if you had Zach Evans last year, bang, you go with Darius Taylor. You want to keep that house in order because you don't know who's going to be the one. You don't even know who's going to be the one from the year prior, especially if they're getting over-recrued. So I do think with freshmen there is an element of premium rooms. I want to cobble it all together. I want to surround it. I want to build a fence.

I'm a fence builder. All right? Think Fortnite. I want to build in that room because you don't know what you're getting. And I know if it's a premium room, I'm going to get one of the guys. I'm going to get the Treveon or I'm going to get the you know the quench on which everyone's going to be I'm going to get them. That's typically how I look at these supplemental drafts. Freshman early, premium freshman, cobble together, keep my house in order.

And then I'm pegging guys that I've seen do it in college that I know have a defined role out of the spring and I know can contribute to my team. End scene. Love it. I'm Josh, take over. No, I mean, those are all great. great points. And now we're about to do a one-round freshman mock. We're doing one-round first-a-month. And thanks to David Brown and Carps who are in the comments and mentioning that I have sleeves, right? Thanks. Yes, yes. We've got sleeves tonight. Thank you for

not. No guns and the rest of us. Appreciate it. But yeah, you know, I mean, I do think, I think, again, this is where you have to be willing to pivot. There was a few years ago in C2C where everybody was drafting as if this was a Debbie. right and so you could draft five rounds in a C2C or you could draft Debbie-ish right and then you can go straight CFF and you could just stack teams well in the CTC world that has pivoted right where a lot more people do that strategy that just gave you where they're drafting CFF heavy pretty early on in

dress because they just see the hit rate is just so much lower and I think the same is true right and this is what you're saying the same is true when you take a freshman you better know that there's a clear path to them having a role. And even then, you better be ready for either, if it's a Texas, right, with Jante Cook, you might have gotten them in then back into the first round last year. And they brought in Isaiah Bond, Silas Bolden, Matthew Golden. They got Ryan Wingo coming in, right? And so you just, there's nothing that's guaranteed anymore in college football. So you need to make sure that when you're picking, it's like last year, Byron Brown was on a lot of, because he was a, he had the, playoff push. And a lot of people don't allow waivers. And so last year he was a supplemental

pick. But in a lot of drafts, he didn't go to the fourth or fifth round because people were picking up freshmen. He's a guy. I would say, man, if you know that those guys are going to hit, get him. He's going to have two to three years of playing and let some of the other people take some of these freshmen. And there are exceptions. And those are some of the players that I think we'll get into tonight. The guys that the exceptions to these rules that we're talking about, who are great players. And the format that we have for you guys tonight is we're going to do a one-round mock, all incoming freshmen, right?

So all first-year players. And what we're going to do is we're just going to go in order. We're going to do Zach, Eric, and then myself. We're going to do 12 picks. And then at the end of 12 picks, we're going to give you why our reasoning for each player. And then at the end of the 12 picks, that would be the end of the show. But I think this is going to be a fun format to get into guys that we really like,

the guys that I think we would select at the top and then go from there. So, Zach, we're going to let you start us off here with the first picking this draft. And this is a guy, I'm assuming that you're going to pick, that you guys should all pick in your drafts. Yeah. So I feel like there's an obvious choice this year for the number one. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think it's got to be Jeremiah Smith, a receiver at Ohio State. You know, he consensus five's target.

guy coming into Ohio State, 6-3-2-15. Just, I mean, there's a reason why he's a five-star guy, right? He's just, I mean, he's one of the best receivers in this class. He's stepping into a situation where the coaches loved him this spring. I feel like they tried to not overhype him, but every time you read something about him, he was doing really well this spring. He was one of the fastest freshmen to get the black stripe off. is after like three practices.

Like I said, just making plays all spring long. And he's one of those guys. He's one of the few guys, few freshmen that right now we really have slotted as as potential starting this year, right? There's not a lot of those guys out there. And he's one of those guys. He's getting drafted in best balls for this year, right? You don't typically see many freshmen, maybe two or three getting drafted in those

picks. So, I mean, he's one of those guys that he's stepping into a system where I'm a little, I'm interested to see how this is going to work with Chip Kelly because typically it's QB and running back there, right? You want that dual-threat quarterback that's going to get your points and then the running back. They just feed the running back receivers. They're not awful, but it's not what we've become accustomed to at Ohio State where you can have two guys that hit the top 10. So Ryan Day is still there and it's still going to be part of his offense. So I think there's still value there. But for me, he's just a guy that we just talked about, you know, the hit rate.

And he's a guy that it just feels like he could start this year and probably will start this year. And he's going to be making plays in an offense that's going to score a lot of points. So that's who I would go with right here at number one, Jeremiah Smith. All right, fair enough. Well, I'm in the two spot. As far as Smith goes, I don't think anybody's going to. have any arguments with if that's your decision. The only thing I'd really say is, you know, QBs depending on the league, are the lifeblood in terms of scoring. And, you know, if you're in a

deeper format, you want to have the top guy there and you want to have somebody you can bank on. Obviously, Jeremiah Smith, I was fortunate enough to see him in person last summer. And he absolutely dominated everybody in the field. It became completely obvious that this is a different special kind of talent. And you're going to take number one, no problem. But there's also another player going number one overall in a lot of dynasty supplementals, be it CFF, be at C2C. In fact, in Nate's 24 team dynasty that just started drafting today, he was taking

number one overall. So I will take from Florida, DJ Lagway. And, you know, heading into the elite 11 last year, it was, All this theme was there with Rayola. He really, he was the top dog. Everyone was talking about him. You know, Dylan, Dominic Raola's kid, the Matt Stafford's best friend and all that. You know, the legacy type thing.

But, you know, DJ Lagway was still in that top five conversation. He went in that Elite 11 final. He looked awesome. I actually got a chance to talk with him pretty extensively after the sessions. And Kim Way really liking them in terms of a kid. very humble. He had in terms of the one of the throwing sessions, I think is pro day, he wasn't particularly happy with how he had performed.

And, you know, had mentioned that. That was after day two. And then in day three, in the full seven-on-seven session, just came out, looked way more comfortable. When the bullets were actually flying is when he was better than under the weird structured 20 throws and do the rollout here. And you're running the whole thing. It's more mechanical.

He's better when it's alive and, you know, it's showtime. And that's really what you want to see. Since that, he went out and had a phenomenal senior season and definitely physically has all the tools. I mean, he's got the big arm. He's thick. He can run. You see that the full package that he has. And from a C2C perspective, sure, you know, you could look at Sane or Rola.

but I think here in a college fantasy football only format, that ability for him to be almost the Tebow archetype with a better, more polished arm sort of a thing, it's just too tantalizing to pass up, and I'm going to go with DJ Legway. Josh is muted and he doesn't realize it. Thank you, sir. You're back.

I was saying, man, I like that pick a lot. I did want to get your thoughts on Billy Napier. right, he's the primary play caller there. And kind of looking at historically with him, I think Anthony Richardson was the top quarterback as far as like fantasy points per game at 25.5 that he's had in the last 10 years. And so, you know, any curiosity for you,

is that any concern for you? Or is it just, man, Lagway is just so talented. He's going to be thrown to good wide receivers. And so talent overcomes limitations of the system. Well, I mean, he's going to sit for a year. That's something that Real was probably going to have over him. I mean, Zach could speak to whether or not he plays or not. But with Lagway, again, it's always system.

It's always a system thing with East Florida guys. It's never talent. It's the system. Yeah, totally. And here's the thing. We're going, and I don't want to go too far off of it, but we're going off a system that has a trajectory in the Sun Belt Conference. He's in the SEC.

and you know, I've said it before, but what do you think happens in year three of Billy Napier? Do you think he's just going to Levi Lewis his way through this? Is that what's going to happen? You know, is that what he's going to do? I don't think so. I don't think you're going to get the same deal that you got in Louisiana because he can go back to the Sunbelt any time he wants. He gets fired in Florida. He'll have a job tomorrow in the Sunbelt.

You aren't going to get back to the SEC. He could do whatever he wanted at Louisiana. He was a better recruiter. He had better talent pool. He was pulling all the guys who weren't going LSU out of Louisiana, fertile ground. Now you're in the SEC. And now it's year three. And now it's put up or shut up time like Dan Mullen had.

And we saw, let's not forget, Florida did it score points at one point. I mean, Dan Mullen went and had the Kyle Trask, Cadarius, Tony, Kyle Pitts. We all saw it. I mean, that happened. And they were putting up 40 a game. They're putting together a set of talent that's going to have those capabilities, potentially next year. You know,

we'll do it this year with Graham Murrits. I think they're going to be in the low to mid-30s. I think they're going to score a hell of a lot more than people think. When it comes down to your job

being on the line and you're on the cutting blood and you've got Trey Wilson out there, you know, and you're not used it. You got Elijah Badger, right? You've now got DJ Laguer. They're going to put up points.

They're not going to want and not score, okay? I'm ready. I'm okay with it. The best of the best that are in the SEC, Navy knows he has to keep his foot on the gas pedal. I think it's happening and the talent wins out here.

So I'm going to go with Lagway. I'm not as concerned about the system. Yeah. And I think too, right, we have to consider with Lagway. Okay, this schedule this year is brutal. And so there's a chance that Napier doesn't make it out of this year. And if that's the case, then who do they hire? Well, they hire somebody to keep Lagway, Trey Wilson.

They're going to keep them happy. Yeah, they need to bring somebody in with offense. And that very well could be. that very well could be Jed Fish from Washington, even though he just got there. I mean, he's an old Florida guy. They're going to bring in a, anyway, my point is they're going to bring in an offensive play caller

that's going to play to lagway skill set. So I think either way, this plays out in the long term. You know, just wanted to see what your perspective was on that. Hey, we're going to take a quick break here, and then we will resume the draft. All right. I am up with pick 1.3. And I am going to take another one.

wide receiver. And this is part talent, part system play. But I'm going to go with Micah Hudson, wide receiver at a Texas Tech. He's a dude, you know, Texas Tech. This is a system with Zach Kittley that has been in the past, unbelievable. I mean, I think they've struggled a little bit at the Big 12 level at Texas Tech. But, you know, we're expecting with Will Hammond coming in, who Eric Froton mentioned earlier, that eventually when he takes over this, I think this, this, this offense will be able to get on schedule. You know, Michael Hudson's the highest rated recruit ever at Texas Tech. He is, if you've never seen him, he's 6 foot 195.

So he's got a good build. He honestly plays, in my opinion, and you guys can push back on this, but he plays a lot like Malik neighbors. So he's a yak monster. He can take it underneath. You can take it over the top. But he's going to get you yards after the catch. Super explosive.

Great hands. but that's the type of player. He has more Malik neighbors mold than a Jeremiah Smith, right? He's a bigger, you know, your prototypical X. So Mike Hudson can play all over the field. It's in a nice system. He's got a chance. I mean, he had a knee injury that he got cleaned up.

He had it in high school, got cleaned up in the spring. But he's got a chance to contribute this year. I doubt he is dominating over the first three or four games, but he's a guy that later in the season could come on and could give you production. in that system, particularly if Mike Bainbridge's boy, Baron Morton, is on the bench and somebody else is in there. What do you guys think about Michael Hudson? Go forward to him. Yeah, I like him. I think if, and I don't think that the injury, you know, it's nothing serious and it's not, he's supposed to be back this summer. I think if that wouldn't have happened and we got to see a full spring with him and actually get a little bit more, I probably would have considered him more at that one spot.

You know, my top three, we're going to be Smith, Wagway, and Hudson. And I think if we could have got a full spring of him just to see how he's going to operate, because they need a guy like him, a playmaker like him in that offense. They also need a quarterback taking him to the ball. But I really like that spot in that system. And I think if they can get it figured out, he's going to be a guy that you're going to get, you're going to get some solid value with him over the next few years in that role in at Texas Tech. Yeah, I like him a lot too. It's funny, that body type, he reminds me of Percy Harvin, almost a little bit with that, you know, that 6 foot, 61, that 195, he can still break tackles, you know, but he isn't a giant.

Being said, that's not really the mold that's winning in the current NFL and college. It's speed and separation and road manipulation. where he really excels is, man, he is incredible with his ball tracking, his ability to high point. I mean, he's got great hands. He really does. And he's doing it downfield. The thing is with Texas Tech, and it goes to a little bit what we talked about one of our previous shows, is Joey McGuire, the head coach, is a defensive guy, the lifelong defensive coordinator. And Zach Kittley comes in. And once again, you know, it's, Zach Killey wants to cook and he's given Tosh Brooks 300 carries.

So that isn't what he's ever done before. It isn't what he wants to do. And it kind of goes speaks to what happens when defensive coaches call shots. Zach Kittley's neutered. How long can that stand?

You know, you got him coming in. You got Michael Hudson. He's incredible. It's what they were dying for. They were trying to get out of Geran Bradley last year. I mean, they were just begging for him to be that. And he, uh, everybody wants to see this work. Everybody wants to see Micah Hudson get the Jerrith Stern's, you know,

workload that we saw before, uh, with just the volume. Hopefully that happens. But my gosh, it's tough to pass them up at number three with that history on his side. Yeah, for sure. This will definitely be the year that we'll figure it out. And, you know, honestly, if they are going to give Todge Brooks, 300 carries again. I bet you Mike Hudson's out of there after year one and he's going to one of the blue bloods. I have zero type of shares in best balls. I just, I don't believe it. Like,

he's going to break down or they're going to pivot when they have a more competent quarterback, which, hey, they didn't have a competent quarterback last year. Right. I'm totally with you on that. Totally in agreement. Hey, Zach, take us to 1.4. Yeah. So, originally I was going to go receiver here, but I think I talked myself in the last, last 30 minutes. I would go running back here, partly because after talking with Josh a little bit, just kind of on some of these freshmen, it's just not as deep this year. And I think there's one running back I really like. So I would want to go out and get him. And that's going to be Quentin Martin at Penn State. Now, he's a guy that he's behind, you know, Singleton and Allen this year.

So he's not a guy that's going to be immediate playing time. He's competing for that RB. B3 in that system. But he's just a guy that four-star guy, 6-2, 200 pounds, came in this spring, did really well, had two touchdowns in the spring game. So he was able to adjust in this system. I love the system. You got Andy Codell, Nikki, there, who just running backs are gold. I mean, that's what you want in his offense.

and the other thing about this guy, and when you have a running back that can catch the ball in this offense, I don't know if you're going to find very many more valuable running backs in CFF. And Quinn Martin can catch the ball. I mean, he did it in high school. He caught his senior year. He had 53 passes for 764 yards and 11 touchdown. So, I mean, this guy, I mean, he's, you know, to me,

again, you're waiting. It's going to be one of those guys you probably have to sit on for a year. But the upside and the potential with him in this system just feels like it's through the roof. If he does what I think he's going to in this offense. Yeah, I like that pick. I mean, again, you never know what's going to happen next year, right? If Kate Tren Allen comes back or Nick Singleton comes back. But holy smokes.

I went on his show. and was talking Devi like two months ago and Quintan Martin was in my RB3 and as Debbie freshman. But his whole highlight tape, we're watching his highlight tape. In the first three minutes is just him running routes out of the slot and outside.

And just like killing dudes. I mean, he's a legit route runner. I mean, he could start at Penn State. And, you know, maybe not as a freshman, but as a sophomore at wide receiver. I mean, he is that good. and like you said, Andy Coltonicky, like just, I mean, the creativity in his offense and in his brain. I mean, he just is the quintessential put a guy in position to succeed.

And so I think a guy like Quentin on Martin is going to find a role at least by year two. And he's going to be really good. So I like that pick. Yeah, have you watched much of them yet, Froton? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I checked out Quentin Martin, of course. And they also have, it's funny. it's it's the same deal with Penn State

or year they brought in Ketron Allen and Singleton and then this year they do the same thing like all right we're going to go with the bigger more complete back at Quentin Martin and then we're going to bring in Corey Smith by and it was 170 pounds not the same as you know 220 and 220 which a couple of just

beasts with Alan and Singleton but it does have the thunder and lightning dynamic and especially as you mentioned with Andy Colnicki lineage-wise followed, of course, the great Lance Lippold from Buffalo over to Kansas. And here we are. So when it comes to him, Penn State is his tried and true. We know what they want to do. James Franklin loves pounding the ball.

You can only imagine what it's like this year if Allen or Singleton gets hurt. If either of those guys, you know, experiences any attrition, it's on. So I can't argue with that, certainly skyrocketing upboards. And I feel like teams, certain teams get it right more often. And certain teams have the whole trajectory more defined. And I'll use the example of Penn State and Georgia, right? Penn State, you've seen, you know, some Journey Brown. Well, the Sequin Barclay to Journey Brown, you got hurt.

But then, you know, trying to figure it out, okay, we get into Singleton and Allen. It's structured. They have them here for two years. They don't mess around. Those are the two guys. And then in comes Quentin Martin. You know that it's been groomed for him. With Georgia, yeah, I like Nate Frazier a lot.

I feel like in terms of a complete back, Nate Frazier does a lot. And, you know, you talk about the ability to run passes. Frazier can run a wheel router two. You know, I watched him run and run some stuff. out of the slot, run some screens, and we'll create doing it and be able to get skinny a hole. He's always jigging, you know, like doing the shoulder fakes. I love his style.

But how many times have we seen Georgia running backs come on in? Oh, Andrew Paul. He's the greatest thing we've ever seen. Oh, my God, Branson Robinson. He's 230 pounds. He's going to be good. Kendall Milton. And they're gone.

Before that. Yeah. Exactly. Thank you. And they're gone. So, you know, some, some. there's a pecking order in some places where there's just more loyalty where they just they know what they want, they get it, and they're happy with it.

George has never stopped in recruiting. They're always over recruiting. You're always in danger if you're having one of their guys. And this is no different. Roderick Robinson, too. I watched him Dominique two years ago at the elite 11. He was the Jeremiah Smith of the elite 11 two years ago. I mean, everybody is just too much.

And he's doing it out of the slot. as a running back, he was killing people. So I'm just like, oh, my God, what happens when he gets between tackles? In comes Trevor E.TN, you have two years. You've got to wait three years until he's relevant. So that's not how Penn State rolls. Totally understand. Security is so important to top of the draft, and you're getting that with Martin.

Yep. You have to understand. This is go back to the beginning conversation, right? Even more than just a P4G5 split, you got to understand the tendencies of teams and what they're going to do and who they're faithful to or over-recruiting. stuff like that. So that's a great point, Proton. Why don't you take us to 1.5? Yeah, I'd love to take a QB, but I already took one, you know, so I'll wait a little, Bella. You guys have your shots at them, and I'll pivot over to a wide receiver again.

I'm going to go to Alabama. I'm going to take the guy who reclassified from 2025 to 2024. Ryan Williams, again, that same archetype of the 6-1 light, though, you know, the 165-ish. We look at him, you see some of the Xavier worthy. You know, I just can't help it in terms of that ability to take the ball. And as soon as he gets it, he's accelerating and he is at top speed extremely quickly. He's in a snap. He takes it, boom. As soon as he plants that foot and he decides he's going up field, he's a rocket ship.

And again, as we discuss, he's 17 years old. We're class for I'm 2025, 24. He was two-time, you know, Mr. Alabama. Sophomore and junior, he's coming in. You have the Kaelin-Dibor era, which, sure, he'll sit there and he'll learn. But what did Kailen DeBore just do? What did he do when he came into an already established running wide receiver room that was picked by Jimmy Lake?

And he said, hey, okay, there's plenty here for me to work with. Polk, McMillan, Adunze, bang. All top three, first, second, third rounder. Actually, McMillan might have been fourth. Regardless, three NFL draft picks right there out of the gate. He picked, I mean, Ryan Williams is already there. He's an Alabama kid. He was going.

He's the same recruit. He came in and he stayed. Oh, boy, is he going to be rewarded by Kalin DeBore for staying? You're going to have a couple of serious seasons in two years. It's going to happen. Maybe Bernard's the guy this year. okay, fine. But dude, I ain't afraid of Kendrick Law, right?

He ain't stopping him. I'm ready. And give me Ryan Williams. Yeah, Zach, you got anything to add to that? Yeah, I mean, that's, so my last pick that it was between Martin and Williams there. And, again, just, you know, I think he covered it really well, but just, I just love that guy. I think he's going to be a big time player in that offense. Yeah.

I couldn't say it any better than you guys. The opportunity is there for you. him to compete with touches right away. If he is too small or too young, I mean, he's going to be, if Bernard has a year that we're expecting, he'll go pro, and then we'll see Ryan Williams step into that wide receiver one role

in a dynamic. He could do it right over. Who knows? Totally. He gets his feet wet. Like, I'm not afraid of apprentice of law in any way shape of form keeping him off the field. I'm just not.

Ryan Williams is. It's on. It's on next year. His talent is crazy. Yeah. So I love that pick. Hey, we're going to take a quick break. here and then we'll come back and finish out the last seven picks of the draft.

Hey, before we get into the next pick, I wanted to break this up a little bit. Ryan Karp asked the question, so when is it important to draft a freshman who will be good someday but not right away versus impact right away? And is your roster dependent on this answer? Zach, I want to give you a chance to answer this first. You just pick Quint on Martin as a guy that is going to probably have to wait a year. And so how would you answer this question? Yeah, no, that's a good question. I think it's dependent on a lot of things. For sure, your roster,

like if you need a running back or you might want to try and find a guy that's going to help you right away versus somebody that's going to be good someday. I think there are just some guys, and it just goes back to the system, right? There's just guys that fit in the system really well. And a guy like Martin, where I'm okay with waiting a year and knowing that he's probably going to be a guy in a year or two that's we're going to be really high on, right? He's a guy that we're going to be taken in the first few rounds of a best ball draft. And so it is dependent. But a guy like that where they're just athletically, they're just above everybody else

and they're stepping into a system where they're just going to fit really well. I like that. Typically, I want to get guys that are going to play right away. And that's why, you know, the Jeremiah Smith pick for me at one was he's a guy that's going to play right away. Ryan Williams was up there too because I feel like he's going to play this year. He might not play a lot, but he's going to be a guy that can make an impact and his future looks really bright. But it's really a guy that if I'm okay with waiting a year, if he's going to have a really high ceiling or appear to have a really high ceiling, like Martin does.

But again, it can really depend on what you need to. I mean, that's what makes dynasty so different is you could just have so many different needs. And maybe you're coming in with a team where you can, you have a really good lineup this year. And you can take a chance on some guys that might not be playing this year, right? You just like their upside their potential. You can take a guy earlier. But typically first round, second round, I want a guy that's going to get me some value in that first year, unless it's a guy like Martin where I'm like, all wait a year.

but I'm going to get that value. I feel really good about getting that value next year. Yeah, Froton. It's not that important for me. I never take freshmen looking at, okay, well, I'm going to get this out of them this year. I'm going to get X amount of starts. I assume I'm not going to get them. It's way more important to have a defined system and just a path.

The path is very important for me, given more project them to CFF because this isn't C2C. I don't care about how good he is, you know, in terms. of his NFL projection. And Felix in the chat, you know, just sort of reemphasizes that point and what he mentioned. And it's just the 247 stuff, they're not, they don't care about us in fantasy. They don't care about the college production. That's not what 247 is doing, you know. They're not projecting collegiate performance.

That's what we're trying to do. So I never look at a freshman as this is, this is my guy this year. I'm going to slaughter him in. He's going to save me. it's all about year two year two is the most important thing so if if there's somebody who's right in front of them i'm going to be less inclined to take somebody you know and unfortunately i guess like hidron young would even be kind of relevant in this for notre dame where it's just like yeah thought you look at that room you know and just his skill set does it fit in there and you got

you got love who does everything you know he's taking the slot rolls you got price who's a hammer and gibran pain's hurt but then he'll be back next to you know he's got he'll be back next There's just so much in there and so much conjecture that you have to really, that's going to knock them down, I think, in every reason. Yeah. Yeah, those are such great points. Yeah, it's going to be context dependent on every player positionally, right? Like I took Nico at the 1.1 last year in a league. I trade away a bunch of stuff to get them because I needed it for this year.

I got the championship in that year, last year in that league. But I needed also to reload for the next couple of years. years at quarterback and I knew that they paid Nico a lot of money to come there and they weren't going to let them go. Tennessee is a great system. So things like that. I think you just have to take context into it. And I think that leads into our next, that my next pick, I'm going to pick another wide receiver and at 1.6. And that's going to be T.J. Moore from Clemson. And he's a guy that I, man, before he played in the All-American game, I thought for sure I was going to be able to get him in the rounds three, four of drafts,

as long as they didn't have a Clemson fan in there like Shane, because he just wasn't rated that high. He went there, he went into that game as a four star, a high four star, but like maybe a top 20 wide receiver and came out of that game as the top 20 player overall in this class. And I think like the number three, number four, number five wide receiver, whatever. So T.J. Moore is the guy that I absolutely love, though. I mean, I think his skill set's awesome.

Honestly, when he was on the field, and one of the things I've taken consideration with freshmen is how they perform in all-star games because it's like competition. And when him and Jeremiah Smith were on the field together, to be quite honest, he just flat out-out-out-played Jeremiah Smith. I mean, he was open more than him. He was open underneath.

And when you watch TJ Moore's film, you see a lot of him going over the top. He's 6'3, 190, but he averaged 25 yards of K. catch in high school, or his senior year in high school. But then you see him in the All-American game, and he's catching over the middle. I think he had 12 catches for like 160 yards in that game. It was unbelievable. But T.J. Moore, he's coming into Clemson.

Outside wide receiver is absolutely open there. I mean, you got Adam Randall and Bryanto, who's another true freshman. Yeah, remember Adam Randall? Remember that guy? Oh, he's going to be the greatest thing in the world. Oh my gosh, get ready for the Adam Randall show. Yeah, nothing. Yeah.

Now he's fully cucked by T.J. Moore. Right. And I think, to be honest, I don't know what other people feel about this, but T.J. Moore, to me, is the best wide receiver prospect that's come to Clemson since T. Higgins. I think he's that good. I think he's going to be awesome on the outside. I think he'll start from day one, potentially. And I think if we're judging.

club nick so far he just hasn't had an outside wide receiver this could give him a couple here with west go um but i like t j more i think you see clemson they're going to be faithful to their players right they don't they want them to stay and so you know what you're getting and i think there's something about drafting players early they're probably going to stay if they're at clemson and they're and dabo's going to be faithful to them so there is a certainty with clemson wide receivers or clemson players in general that you don't get necessarily with other teams. And so I like that as well with TJ Moore. Yeah, I mean, it's a right point. T.J. Moore, I don't want to talk about him because a lot. And I'm a little upset. You got him at six here because there's a draft going on right now

as a supplemental. I was on the clock at 12 and I was about to pull the trigger as if they got a really good trade offer from our boy, Justin Leo, with volume pigs. I had to move down. But I'll tell you, I had him all cute up and ready to go. I had him ready to go. I was thrilled to see him at 12. And you hear taking him at 6? I'll say this. Cam Coleman got a lot of love this spring.

And T.J. Moore is just better. In my opinion, it's just better. Cam Coleman, while I understand, he's just a straight up bully X from like the Jeremiah Smith mold who's he's a bully. I'm not seeing fancy releases out of them. I'm not seeing the route manipulation. I'm just seeing a guy who's going over the top and housing people, which is impressive with Coleman. But like feet are a little slow for me when it comes to like his getoff,

not seeing a real release package. TJ Moore is fast and really athletic. Basketball background, I believe. Froton. He hit 21.9 miles per hour. hour in high school. That's how fast he is. Yeah.

I mean, some of these guys, too, it's tough to calibrate that high school speed to, to college. And that's really what I saw with Coleman. He's like, well, he's physical and he's big, he's built. He's just ready made already. And I understand that part of it. But teaching more so much more fluid and smooth. And his hips, you know, his ability to get out of the brakes.

It's just he's very fluid for that 6-3-190-195. You figure he'll probably clear. year two by the time, you know, he matures and boy, I just... Easily, his frame is big. Yeah, he's got a big frame. I see, like, he's got a little... If there's somebody who's going to be Tederoa out of this class, it's going to be him, in my opinion.

That's what I thought, too. When I saw him, I thought it was similar. All right, fair enough. I hate that pick. Yep. Well, we'll stop gushing over T.J. Moore here before, uh, we escalate him anymore. We just got to get stuck running too if we're getting long.

Yeah. All right, Zach. Yeah, so I'm going to stick with receiver here, Brian Wingo, Texas. And I know he's entering a room that is full of talent, Isaiah Bond, Jonte Cook, Golden's there. But he's a guy that really stuck out this spring. Sark talked about him quite a bit. He was making plays.

This spring, he had a really good spring game, had two touchdowns in that spring game. He had the game winning touchdown. And it's a guy that, Sark, I mean, he talked about, he was a guy that showed up and they think he can make an impact this coming year. He ran a 10-5 in high school in the 100. So, I mean, the guy's got some speed. So again, this is another pick for me that I love the talent and I love the system that he's going into. I know there's a lot of talent in that room already. But you also kind of play that whole, all right, probably not all those guys are going to stay if they're not all getting the time they want or they're going to be, you know, they're not going to be there next year.

And it's his time. So I just, I like this fit a lot. And so he's a guy that I would love to have on my team with that potential in that system. Zach, 10500 meter at 205, like his size. when he's going to be 215 by the time that the season starts is unbelievable. I mean, 108 is an elite time, right? Yeah. You know what?

Xavier Worthy ran 106, 9. Yeah. So my man's running in 1055 and he weighs 50 pounds more than Xavier Worthy. I mean, that's absolutely crazy. He is more dynamic than I think people thought coming into Texas. And he's unbelievable. Froton, I'll let you take it from here. Yeah, the barometer for like the hundred meters for me is A-chain.

because he is the barometer for 100 meters. Yeah. He was like, man, he was like 10-3. I want to say like he was high 10-2s, like 10-3. He was living around 10-5ers running at 10-5. So, yeah, and with Wingo, too, you saw in the spring game, he had a 40-yard go route, and he beat the guy for a 40-yard touchdown by 5 yards. Yeah.

Right off the line. By 5 yards on a 40-yard touchdown pass. like probably he smoked this corner he was right up on it he was playing press man was like oh you won't be doing that again and this is this is wingo has a raw talent you know this isn't even reformed he torched that guy i always want to get to you know you want to be careful about spring because you get the a jai hall effect but uh you know that was a different ball game when the wingo looked great for me all right i'm going back to quarterback all right let us get get a few more of these out and i'm going with my guy

My man, Carlsbad High School's own San Diego County product, Julian Sane of Ohio State. Sorry, Air Nolan. Sorry. Bad news. You're going to be transferring sooner rather than later. It's over. Find a new place to play. Julian Sayans in town.

And I'm going to tell you right now, I see him getting starts before the end of the season. I know I said it before. I'll say it again. He will get a start sometime before the end of the season. he is so good. I can't even like I was there at the Elite 11th, I'm for three days and was just blown away because he was, he was, you know, renowned coming in,

but nobody expected him to be as incredible as he was because he doesn't have the package that Riola has and that DJ has. He doesn't have the thick 6-3, you know, develop 225 plus and Rioa more than that. frame that is just so projectable. But his arm is right there. He can whip it, not worry about his arm, and it's clean.

His ball's coming out smooth as silk. It's cutting through the air. It's the type of thing where he needs to gas it up. He doesn't, it doesn't wobble when he throws his, you know, body into it. I was lucky enough in July last year, a year ago, to go out and run a full set of routes with Carlsbad High School and received caught passes from Aden, Sayan, and Julian. Julian Sane's older brother, Aidan, is the starting quarterback at Penn. So I went out and I caught passes from those guys.

I caught a 50-yard bomb from Julian Sane to end the session. And we weren't letting me off the field unless I caught it. Unless I caught one. So I was going to have to keep running that 50-yard route, my old ass, and that wasn't going to go well. So I caught it. And I will have that film out sometime. But I've seen it. I've experienced it.

I've caught his passes. And it's like it has baby powder on it when it's coming in. Beautiful ball and everything. And he's smart and he's dead serious too. He's all business. He wants to be great. You can see it. You can feel like the interview you talk to this kid is focused.

And as a bonus, he kind of looks like a young Mike Leach to me. Like I see his face and the hair. And I'm like, my gosh, you looks like. like Mike Leach, you know? So RIP to the great, the great pirate Mike Leach. And I love Julian saying. I have no doubt that he is a first round quarterback. He is two years ago, it was Jackson Arnold and I went and I got every share of him I could. I still believe in him. I've got all his rookies. It's Julian saying there. He's my guy. I want him. I like it. I like a lot. I know. I know. I know. I know. No offense. No, I love that. Hey, my next pick. I

1.09. I'm going to go, man, I'm, I'm struggling here. I think I'm going to go, though, with DeMond Williams from Washington. QB, he's a short dude, but this dude, like, what wins in college fantasy football is a dual threat quarterback. And Jed Fish knows how to call an offense. And I could see DeMond Williams taking over in the middle of this year. I mean, I could see them getting off to a slow start, letting him figure out the kinks. And he's still figuring out, but like Washington swears this kid as a future star. You know, when I saw him, again, at the All-American game, I thought he was excellent. He's got the talent and the tools to be around for a long time.

And I don't see him necessarily being like a surefire, you know, gone after three years type guy. So I could see you getting three years of startability out of a DeMan Wold. Williams. And man, as soon as Fish went to, from Arizona to Washington, DeMond Williams went straight with them. I mean, so he's his guy. He is who Fish is banking his future on there in Washington. And even if he leaves, DeMont Williams will find a landing spot and will be great in the future.

Another 8-11 participant. Another guy really liked. Certainly, I mean, the spot, it's all there. It all makes sense. we already even have a like a benchmark with Fafita with fish doesn't care if you don't fit the traditional mold. Can you do it? Man, DeMond Williams are good throwing that ball out there. And like you said, he's fast.

He's athletic. I mean, he is dynamic. I'm concerned about his size. I mean, if he's going to be running like he has the ability, and he should, why not? I mean, the kids, he's super athletic. I don't want him to get killed. My only real concern with DeMond Williams is just size. Because it was him and kind of Colin Hurley around the same kind of relative size.

So like Hurley's a little thicker. But DeMond Williams, it was like him, House Heaney for TCU as well. Both of them. Really good. really athletic and they can still charge it up and put a little in like you know arm strength we're going to see

how it clears in the big 10 since he's now at Washington but man she's so so tantalizing with his athleticism I totally understand and he's a guy who just in the 24 team or there that dynasty went I want to say like

13 14 overall in a QB heavy league so look if the cat's out of the bag with DeMond Williams and I'm in, yeah, no problem. Yeah, one of the things I'll say, he probably won't go to this early in most drafts, and that's fine. But I wanted to throw him out there because I want to talk about him. And so you can probably wait a little bit on him.

But, yeah. I mean, he's 113. I mean, that's still real close. It's one-nine. That's true. I think you're in the teens, especially in the heavy league. Yeah, to your point in Froton, with dual threats, especially when they're smaller, you want to see if there's guys that take unnecessary hits or if they go out of bounds.

and DeMond Williams is one that I've seen so far go out of bounds when he needs to. Like he's smart, right? Some guys just aren't smart running the ball and they take unnecessary hits. I haven't seen that from him, which is one of the things that I liked about him. But you never know, right. Like, you know, he, a guy that's 185, he's tough to square up too because he is, you know, like he has, he has running back sort of traits in terms of his agility. So it's not like he's.

He's the Jaden Daniels archetype where he's jumping into a spine buster. You know, like, oh, I'm going to go and jump into you and I'm going to get spiked on the ground. He isn't doing that reckless stuff. Yeah. So, yeah. And he is thick. He is thick. He's not skinny.

Yeah. He's not Bryce Young. But yeah. No, totally. All right. Hey, Zach, we're going to do some quick hitters on these last three. But we'll take you at 1.10. Yeah.

So my heart says you go Riola here. But we just talked. talked about the values with a dual threat guy. So I can't, I can't go with Royola. I'm probably going to butcher this guy's name. Luke Cromenhoek at Florida State. So good athlete, great athlete. He actually was, he started out in high school as a receiver and then moved to quarterback. Just a phenomenal athlete and the fit in that system at Florida State. We saw what Norville had done with Jordan Travis and the value we got with him there. So I just like, I, like the fit there for him and again kind of playing the system and going for kind of a dual

threat guy that kind of goes towards the top of my list. Yeah, I'm going to go with, I totally agree. Yeah, no problem with that. Kromano. The good thing about him too with Florida State, he bought in early in the recruiting process to FSU and then he went out and he recruited all over the place. You know, when I got to, and I got to speak with him a little bit at length at the Elite 11 too, he was all about it he was out there talking to guys you see him you know politicking like hey you know we got some things going on here i i loved how he totally bought in norvel is they needed somebody to come in and be that savior you know you'll have the one year acculturation behind uh you know j u and then it's his gig and we saw what jordan travis was able to do in

unfortunately not a full season but no reason not to like recromanhook um i will go over and I'm going to take I kicked around a running back here but I just I have to get him in I have to get my guy in and I mentioned him earlier will Hammond Texas Tech give me Will Hammond engineering major extremely bright kid talk to him for about a half hour you know pulled his ear and it's like it was funny nobody was really talking to him at the elite 11 because it's just you know they they want the more boutique guys whereas I'm like oh college fantasy he died. So I talked to him at length about Kitley, about what, you know, what it was.

And he was talking about the installs that he did when he sat down. When he was even being recruited, Kittley could not wait to get him in the boardroom, sat there, did two installs for him. A couple of, you know, quick things. And he was talking about how he was very, the minutiae of each different route. And here's what you're going on. The cerebral aspect of the way Kittley approached. going through those installs with him, even when he was still a prospect,

it immediately gravitated to him because he's got an engineering mind. He's a very analytical kid, very smart, and it was just like catnip to him, and that's what really drew him to Kittley. As you saw, he was a three-star going in. He was like an 86, 87, heading into the Deweat 11, and he got his fourth star right afterwards.

He was excellent, polished, mechanical. Like everything he's doing is the right thing. I shudder to think what happens if Joey McGuire lets, and I got to think it's going to happen soon, if he lets him do it. I think he takes the starting job this year. You know how I feel about Baron Morton. Jake Strong is a placeholder. Will Hammond is the future. I think he gets reps this season.

And screw you, Andrew Katz, for taking him at 50. That's amazing. Yeah, man. Will Hammon Hammond is also a, uh, an Austin kid. So he's from Huddo High School. So he broke shattered records here. He was great.

He played with one of my friends there in high school. So fun stuff. I love the pick. Great pick. I'm going to go with another QB here. And, man, I haven't even been part of Dynasty drafts. I don't know where guys are going. But CJ Bailey from NC State, he's a guy, Robert and I guy.

He is, Eric, you want to say something? Our friend Jared just he, the great thing was, Jared had primed me for potential trade up all, all morning. You know, this is day one in the draft. He had primed me the night before. Let me know, hey, I might want to trade up and try to get this guy. So, all right, let me see what's going on here. He didn't even trust to go and trade up to where my spot was. He went over me and Leapfrog took him at 110, Cedric Bailey.

Wow. Okay. I'm not crazy. As long as the nice sticks around. Yeah, you know, and here's the deal, right? Like, it seems, I love again, you got to understand NC State, they treat their players like family. Like, C.J. Bailey got aggressively pursued by Miami at the end there. And he decided to stick with NC State because they were faithful to him.

And I think he's going to be there for a while at NC State. And they're saying he's already going to be the backup this year. And they're not, they didn't even. pursue anybody in the portal because they didn't want to risk losing C.J. Bailey in the long run. He's the future there. He'll sit behind Grayson McCall. And then he'll come in and he's going to throw it to Concepcion, Noah Rogers. I mean, Wesley Grimes probably. They got a couple freshmen, Charles, Taylor. Yeah, Justin. Did he get him in allie time? And so, and they're all going to come back, right, for years, you know, next year. So this is a kid that's going to step into a prime

system. He can run a little bit. He's six-foot-six and he's skinny, but, you know, he can do what a Grace McCall can do, 300 yards and, you know, four or five touchdown. So he's not a non-factor on the ground. So I like CJ Bailey. I like what he brings to offense and think that he's got a lot of potential. So, hey, guys, thank you so much for listening to the show. We have gone right up until the end of our time here. This was really fun. Man, I just, I love getting to chat about freshman. It's my favorite part of the offseason is getting to scout these kids and see what they got coming in, the new blood and CFF and all the other formats that we love to play. So we will be back. This is Dynasty Month, right? So we have a whole next week. We're going to talk about roster

construction after that supplemental drafts. We're going to do a Q&A. And then finally, we're going to release some rankings for you guys at the end of this month. So we are super excited to be kicking off this week or this month with freshmen. And so, Thank you guys for sticking around with us, and we look forward to having a whole month of Talking Dynasty. We'll see you guys next week at 9 p.m. Eastern next Monday. Until then, do small things with great love. What? What?

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