Fantasy Football Daily - Quentin Johnston and Rashee Rice | On the Clock! NFL Draft Podcast

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

Flying solo on today's On the Clock! Pod, Brett Whitefield (@BGWhitefield) breaks down two draft-eligible wide receivers who played their college ball in Texas, TCU's Quentin Johnson and SMU's Rashee Rice. Interested in playing Best Ball in 2023? There's no better place than Underdog Fantasy. Use our code FANTASYPTS to sign up for a new account at Underdog and not only will you get a 100% deposit match up to $100... but you'll get a Fantasy Points Standard subscription for only $5! https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-fantasy-points --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fantasy-points-podcast/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to the Fantasy Points podcast brought to you by FantasyPoints.com. Top level fantasy football and NFL betting analysis from every perspective and angle. From numbers to the film room with a single goal to help you score more fantasy points. Yo, we are back for another episode of On the Clock. I am your host, Brett Whitefield, and today I am rocking. solo dolo. That's right. No guest today.

It's just me, just you. We're going to be talking some draft. Today, I wanted to bring you a couple wide receivers that I have, I would say, refreshed opinions about. So, you know, I've talked about my process at nauseam. And one of the things I want to keep reiterating is when I dive into the film, I do what they call a preliminary watch on every player. So I go through, you know, a list that's extraordinarily long of players. And I try to watch a game or two to get a feel for the player and their skill

set and where I like, I kind of start developing my opinions about them. There's two receivers here that I've completely, I don't want to say I've one 80 done, but I've changed my mind a little bit about what I think they're, their ceiling in the NFL is and where I think maybe I like them in the draft. One of those guys is TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston. Let me tell you about Quentin Johnson. Now, this is, he's an interesting guy because he was kind of the consensus number one receiver for how long. I don't know, since what fall maybe. I think maybe PFF was one of the first companies out there to put him as their number one receiver and then short, you know, pretty quickly after a lot of people followed suit. And then he kind of slowly, I mean, I think he's still in that conversation.

most people. But when I initially watched him, I was not really impressed. One of the games I viewed was the the 20-23 college football playoff game against Michigan, where, you know, outside of a couple fluky plays, he was really, really quiet in that game. I didn't see the, I guess, this crazy big X alpha dog receiver that he's kind of been billed as. I didn't see, you know, I just. I didn't see, you know, I I didn't see a guy that, you know, you're going to get 12 to 14 targets a game. I just really wasn't sure. I mean, most of his production came on one really long play. And I know, you know, you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But there was really nothing in that game that made me say, wow, this is a, this is a really, really great, great prospect here. That one play happened to be a busted coverage. So, long story short, I get around to actually finally doing my full study on Quinton Johnson. And I kind of had, I'd been telling people he was going to end up my fifth or sixth wide receiver in the class, likely. But when I actually scored him, the scores bared something out completely different. He scored as my, he's currently sitting as my third best receiver in the class. With a really solid score, like a really firm first round grade that's comparable with other first round ride receivers the last few years. Some notes on him that I think he's really, you know, some traits he puts on tape.

He is that freaky athlete that he's been billed as. He does have exceptional size. He's 6-4, 215 pounds. The number one thing to be excited about with Quinton Johnson is his rare blend of size in speed, and he's got a really, really legit amount of lateral quickness as well. His linear movement skills for a guy of his length and size is honestly tremendous. The combination of physical traits here, it's an attractive one. And it really makes his ceiling one of the more exciting.

players in the draft. I know that's a big, bold statement, but that's the truth. When you get a guy that has the movement skills that he has at that size, we've seen these receivers do very well in the NFL. Yeah, but what do you get with him on the field from a production standpoint? You get an explosive playmaker. It's not crazy to think that a guy with his crazy athletic ability and body, control, you know, is going to be a playmaker, but that's exactly what it is.

All those traits pop when he has the ball in his hand specifically. In the time I've been scouting, you know, draft classes, I think it's been about eight years. I haven't seen anyone that's a 6-4 receiver comfortably hit spin moves in the open field as often as Johnson does. What this kind of highlights is like this elite level body control. And for a guy of that size, it's incredibly impressive. to be able to, you know, running full speed with those long legs hit a comfortable spin move. It's rare.

I mean, it sounds funny, but you're not going to see a lot of guys that size performing that move in the open field a whole lot. It's usually going to be smaller slot receivers or running backs hitting spin moves. But man, Johnson, that's like his go-to make you miss move. I love it. The best part about his game in the open field, too, is once he's, he does beat or defeat a tackler, he is the speed to just completely outrun the other players in the field. And more importantly, he's got this alpha mentality of, hey, I know I'm bigger and stronger in fashion than you. And if I feel like it, I'll just run right through you. Now, I would

say that that mentality maybe dwindles a little bit at the catch point. You would like to see a guy of his size be a little stronger at the catch point. I do think he lets D.Bs get into his body and disrupt his ability to catch the football when he's in tight confined spaces or when he is airborne. But for the most part, the physical traits are there to get better at that, to implement more play strength and concentration with the football. All the traits are there. He's definitely exciting. The other thing you get with Johnson, he's not just a gadget guy where you're throwing screens to or designing short touches for. He has a complete deep threat skill set. I mean, he's more than just fast.

Johnson's got a ton of speed. He's got acceleration to destroy cushions and stack defenders. We've already mentioned that body control, but he also has great ball tracking skills that allow him to finish plays at a super high rate. When the ball's in the air, Johnson, he almost doesn't even to look at it. He just knows where it's going to be. He can make mid-flight adjustments to the ball, contorting his body in mid-air to make contestant catches in heavy traffic.

Now, we talked about those deficiencies already where maybe he does need to go a little bit stronger at the catch point. He needs to do better at using his body to box out cornerbacks, especially because they're pretty much all smaller than him outside of a handful of guys. But that's ball tracking ability, gets him in position to make plays all the time. He got to some balls that you wouldn't expect the receiver to get. Max Duggan, his quarterback at, TCU wasn't the most accurate passer in the world.

And a lot of times just threw up a Yolo ball and expected his guy to go get it. And some of those balls were really, really good. I mean, some of those plays on the balls were just really, really good where, you know, at the time Dougan throws the ball, it's often into double coverage. You're just like, this is going nowhere. And then Johnson will come out of nowhere. You know, he made a litany of crazy plays in those situations. There was one play this year where he reached over the defensive back's head and pinned the ball to the defensive backs back.

That's how he got the ball. But that, you know, his body control, he mixes that with a really good blend of, I would say, route running IQ and body positioning in the route phase, not necessarily at the catch point. But this type of stuff makes him a really valuable target on back shoulder throws as well, especially if he's going to see tight man covers at all. or between, you know, the corner and safety on cover two looks. If he's with a competent quarterback that, you know, understands how to throw a good back shoulder ball, you know, they can really exploit, you know, those two high looks, especially cover two with Quentin Johnston,

being able to hit those back shoulder whole shots, as I like to call them. The other thing that really surprised me with Johnson's game is he, man, he was an underrated route runner. And I think he's got a lot of room to grow in that. guard. At the top of his route, he kind of showcases this exceptional hip and ankle flexibility. And he, that's pretty rare for a guy his size, like really, really flexible ankles. Like, he can get really low to the ground. And he's got that explosiveness. So you pair that flexibility with a violent cutting ability. Man, he, that change of direction stuff pops off the tape.

Now, he didn't run a really diverse route tree in college. You know, a lot of what TCU does. It's this extreme tempo spread offense type stuff. He's running mostly go balls, hitches and slants. Occasionally would run a deep crosser. But for the most part, that route is really simple. But when he has to hit that, you know, that slant route or a post route where he's, you know,

putting his foot in the ground and exploding, accelerating out of that break, he does it with ease, man. And he generates a lot of separation more than I thought he was going to for a big body receiver. And then furthermore, on those hitch routes, He has good ability to decelerate. A lot of times you get these bigger frame receivers.

Their top speed is their top speed, and they don't have the ability to stop on a dime. I think of, and this is not a comp at all, but I think of a guy like Julio Jones in the NFL. Julio is a big body receiver, but you would never tell that by the way he ran routes. Ridiculous athleticism where, you know, very explosive could get to top speed quickly, but he could also get to no speed quickly and slam those breaks with precision and be at his spot and ready for, you know, the ball to be delivered to him with his hands available and his numbers shown to the quarterback. Like what this does is it makes for a really attractive profile. Think about the way the Seahawks are able to use D.K. Metcalfe. He's so big and so athletic. And I'm not saying Johnson is or isn't that athletic. I don't really know. I know he's a really, really good athlete. I know D.K. is also a really, really good athlete. I know D. D. D. athlete. But when you have that size and speed combo, defenses really have no choice but to respect that. And they're going to give you a lot

of cushions. And when you can take advantage of those cushions with, you know, slamming the brakes and hitting those hitch routes and hitting those speed outs right on the, right on the boundary there, that really gives your offense some built-in free yards. I made the statement, I think, on Scott Barrett's podcast. It had to have been two or three years ago at this point, but there's never a game in which D.K. Metcast shouldn't have 100 yards. And I firmly believe that. And Johnson kind of has that upside.

But the reason is, is you just, there's so much free yards to be had on the field with the things he can do against a cushion and the way they can attack a cushion. It's really attractive. And then furthermore, if you want to start throwing him some smoke routes

or some design screens when you get that cushion, like he's going to make you pay on those too. So I think, I guess in summary, the perceived floor of Johnson is a lot higher. than I thought it was. I knew he was a ceiling player. Anytime you're talking about a guy with all these immense physical traits,

that just automatically goes into your brain as a ceiling player, right? But I didn't, I guess I kind of took his skill set for advantage and how big his floor actually was. I think there's a lot of built-in offense you get with him. I know I've seen a lot of people comping him to Kevin White. And I think they look similar on the field.

They are similar size. They both have dreads. they kind of play in a similar offense. I guess I can see the stylistic comp, but I don't think White had the detail-oriented game that Quentin Johnson does. And Johnson's got a lot of room to approve for sure. There are reps of him against zone coverage where,

you know, like a deep crosser where he sits down nicely in the hole in zone. He does a good job of feeling that out. But it's not every rep. And he does need to get better at that aspect of the game, especially if he wants to be a high volume receiver. He is going to have to get better at doing those little details, working with his quarterback on scramble routes and stuff like that. Yeah, there are reps of him doing that,

but he's going to have to get better at it. You know, if we're going to talk about weaknesses real quick, because I probably just described what sounds like a Hall of Fame wide receiver. So it's not all perfect with him. So a couple of weaknesses. He didn't really have to face press cover. at all in college. And when he did, there were even moments where I would say he struggled.

That's where I was kind of talking about this, in some aspects of his game, he has this alpha mentality where he's the big bully, he plays bully ball, especially with the ball in his hands. And then in other aspects, you don't really, you know, you don't see it. And that's, you know, whether it's at the catch point or sometimes even against press. Now, listen, the reps he faced against press are nothing. You can't even really take notes about it because it's so few. and far between that like, I mean, we really don't know.

This is a perfect case of I can't tell you he can't do it because we really just haven't seen if he can or can't. But that is a concern. You want a bigger receiver to be able to get off press because, I mean, the one way to slow that athleticism down is to try to slow his feet down at the line of scrimmage and not let him get into his release because presumably longer leg guys,

they need more room to operate to get into the release. much rather probably do that and play with the safety over top than have, have Johnston working against a cushion where, you know, he's really good at attacking that cushion and he can threaten the outside shoulder really well. And then we already talked about the built-in free yards you get when you play that cushion. So I'd much rather try to get up and press a guy. So the fact that we don't have a good resume of him beating him, that is definitely a concern.

I also mentioned that limited route tree, you know, yeah, he does, the routes he ran in college, he ran very well, but there was almost hardly any variety. And he really didn't run a lot of double moves either. The NFL is going to be way more advanced than what he was doing in college. And so it's like, I don't know how long that transition period is going to be for him. It could be a very steep transition period. We already know he has the physical traits to do all of these things. But the timing aspect, the precision of route depths and break points, like, depending on where he

lands, there could be a transition there. so that I would say, you know, proceed with caution in that regard. Yeah, and then, you know, I mentioned and I want to reiterate the physicality and the place during disappears at the catch point at times. This is actually my exact quote from my Quentin Johnson's scouting profile that will be in the fantasy points prospect guide is. For how gifted and supersized athlete Johnson is and how strong he looks in most facets of the game, it is both puzzling and concerning how easily he allows defensive backs to outmuscle him in contested situations. This could explain his general lack of touchdown production as well. So true.

I feel even better about it reading it out loud to you guys. Johnson didn't score a lot of touchdowns in college, and this is probably a good reason why. He wasn't that true red zone dog that you're expecting a six, four, two hundred and 15 pound receiver to be. He's going to have to get better in these situations. And I bet this type of stuff will drive some coaches insane. Can you coach them up? Can you get him to play with that physicality? Those are questions that teams are going to have to answer.

I can't tell you that. Long story short, if you were strictly scouting this guy based on trades, Johnson would easily be the top receiver on the draft class. He's got everything you could covet from a physical standpoint. Plus a good bit of developed technique and alignment versatility. I like Johnson on the outside. I think he can also play as a big slot sometimes too. Not something I want to do in full-time,

but he definitely gives your offense the versatility and the variability to do those types of things. With that said, though, there's enough concerns to foresee a steep learning curve at becoming a full-time player in the NFL, especially considering the likely draft capital investment it's going to take to acquire him, his lack of production in contrast to a skill summary

also needs explaining. that's a big question. If I were an NFL team sitting him down in these team meetings at the combine, I would be asking myself, why, you know, for as talented as you are, what's this lack of production? A cop I have for him is Christian Watson. They're very similar players. I loved Christian Watson last year.

You got to remember, sometimes public takes, it's not because Watson scored so high for me. It's because I was weighing how he scored for me versus how, how the public perceived him. So I felt like I constantly had to go on podcast and on Twitter and pound the table for Christian Watson. When reality is, he scored as like my fifth best receiver last year, which is probably higher than most.

I had a first round grade on him. But similar situation to Watson where all the physical traits in the world, some really nice developed skills as well, but there's going to be this high draft capital investment into him with, you know, I wouldn't say great production. It's not like Christian Watson was putting up ridiculous. this number, same with Quentin Johnston here. So long story short, though, Johnson scores is a first round pick for me, and he ranks inside the top five positionally.

I already mentioned he's my wide receiver three. All right. Some team fits. I don't know that there's any team in the NFL that can't use a six-foot-four, two-15-pound guy with these traits, but inevitably people are going to ask me, team fits, where do you see this guy going? I think I mocked him in my mock to the Kansas City chief. Chiefs, I love that fit.

He would be a great blend with Tony and Skymore there. He can do all the same things MVS did for them this year. He's going to give them a little bit more versatility and a little bit more ceiling there. And that size and the frame that he has pairs really well with, I would say, smaller, speedier, elusive type players and Carries Tony and Skymore. That could be a really, really interesting trio going forward because all those guys are fantastic athletes with make you miss potential in the Open. and field. And with the way teams are playing Patrick Mahomes right now, like, I would love to try to get as much rack out of my receivers as possible. So I personally, I would love that fit. Another great spot I think would be the New York Giants. Initially, I was thinking Zay Flowers would

be a great fit for them. I don't know that they need another small, fast slot receiver type guy. I know Flowers can play on the outside as well. That's not what a, you know, that's not what I mean necessarily, but Wondell Robinson is, there's just too much overlap there for me with with, uh, Zayflowers. So anyways, we're we're going to move on.

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Another receiver I wanted to wrap about for a second is SMU wide receiver Rashi Rice. Rice hailing from Bullard, Texas. He was a modestly touted three-star recruit out of high school. does not matter to me. He chose to play at Southern Methodist. He had an impressive college football career. In 2022, he earned first team all ACs, all AAC honors. I like this guy a lot. He has a ton of positional versatility to his game. He's roughly six foot, 200 pounds-ish, got decent length. He can play X if you need him to. He can play Z if you need him to. He can play in the slot if you need to. He can play in the slot if you need

too. Skill summary really quick here. We have an exceptional route runner with fantastic ball skills. I love that combination. You give me good route running and separation and ball skills. Yeah. You're automatically going to score well for me. Those are two premium traits for me at ride receiver.

I consider premium traits. Route running, ball skills, hands, and then you've got to be able to create after the catch. Athleticism is obviously in there as well, because that is important for receivers, but it's not in my trades bucket. That would be in my athleticism bucket. Anyways, the SMU offense limited Rice's route tree.

That is the starting point when talking about him as a route runner, because you're going to see that. People that haven't watched enough Rishi Rice, they're just going to throw that in your face right away. Oh, SMU, they play this crazy tempo, crazy spread offense. He didn't run a lot of, you know, run a lot of different types of routes, which is true. But the routes he was responsible for running, he ran with extreme precision in dynamics. This is another guy with really flexible ankles and the ability to sink his hips.

He's got ridiculous twitch. He can snap in and out of his brakes with ease. I mean, he generates separation incredibly easily. And I know the level of competition wasn't necessarily Power 5, but the corners in the AAC really didn't have a chance. And, you know, Rice was dealing with not great quarterback play himself. There were a lot of times where Rice would generate a ton of separation and then a ball would be either off target or thrown late or whatever,

and it would kind of bring the defender back in play. So some of that, if you're not really sure what you're looking for on tape, some of that separation gets minimized a little bit by that. But I still think if you have the coaches film and you're watching Rishi Rice, you can see that quick separation, that quick twitch. And then, furthermore, he has the long speed to make you pay for that separation. You know, when he generates that separation and there is a well-thrown ball, you're not recovering on him.

One of my favorite things about him, too, in terms of his route running, is understanding how to attack off coverage and use tempo to create false steps. He does this a lot. So he's a super, he's got this great athletic profile with tons of explosiveness and great long speed. And a lot of times you see college receivers get into this habit of they just run everything at full speed. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it also makes you predictable.

It makes it really hard to faint and throw your corner off and create those false steps. And what Rice does really, really well is he, he uses different speeds and tempos in his route running to create those false steps. He gets guys turned around all the time. The amount of times you'll see a cornerback actually turn his hips the wrong direction just because Rice is threatening a different tempo is actually pretty insane. We mentioned the ball skills. Those ball skills allow him to maximize that separation.

So I think a good way of putting it is there's a difference. difference, and we've mentioned this on the podcast before, but I think Joe Marino did a really good job summarizing this. I'll kind of reiterate it. There's a difference between ball skills and catching ability. They're two different traits. Ball skills are having that instinct to know how to position yourself to get ready to catch the ball. Think about it like an outfielder adjusting to a fly ball. So if you watch an MLB outfielder, they can almost get to the spot of the ball just based on the sound of the bat. I mean, it's actually wild.

Well, good receivers that have ball skills do the same thing. They see the way the ball comes out. They can judge it in the air really, really well, and they get themselves into position to make catches. So when I say that his ball skills allow him to maximize a separation, what that essentially means is Rice has enough separation developed that mixed with his ball skills where he can actually get to a ball that is perhaps underthrown or thrown long, you know, if he hits it in, he hightails it into his top gear,

where the cornerback, because of that separation, is still going to be reacting to where Rice is on the field. So when a quarterback gets beat, his instincts turn from, I'm now looking for the ball to, I'm now trying to get on this guy's ass so I don't get beat. So what happens is when you have that good separation, and good ball skills, you're already adjusting to the ball and the corner is still adjusting to you. So you see this a lot in Rice's tape.

There were so many vertical routes that were underthrown for him where he has to work back to the football in air. And the corner is so busy realizing he's cooked that he just goes flying by the ball because he's just high-tal-and-tallant trying to get back to Rice. So we see this in the NFL all the time. A lot of times it will end up with a pass interference penalty on those underthrown balls. but I think Rice is going to be exceptional in that regard. Rice, he's not really a big guy either, but he will out physical his opponent. I wrote in my scouting notes for him that Rice is the embodiment of an alpha dog at the receiver position. He wants all the smoke all the time and he will not back down.

Whether it's at the catch point or the way he finishes plays with the ball in his hands, he is going to bring it. This is not hyperbole. he is incredibly physical at the catch point he's only six foot 200 pounds it doesn't matter we just talked about quentin johnson and how he kind of loses some of that alpha mentality at the catch point if ray rice could or ray rice my god if rishie rice could get him half the competitiveness he has at the catch point quinton johnston's ceiling would be even higher but man rice rice will body opposing defenders in the air i mean he is fantastic to get the catch point. He's physical. He generates that late separation you're looking for.

And he does it without getting caught, which is even better. And then when he has the ball on his hands, like, yeah, he'll prefer to outrun you or juke you if he can. But if he knows he can't and he just wants to move the chains, this guy's going to drop his shoulder and he is going to try to run you over. It's very impressive stuff for a guy this size. There's a lot of plays too where like he's running like a, it'd be first in 10. He'll run a seven-yard hitch, catch the ball at seven yards, immediately get wrapped up, and then he'll drag a corner for three or four yards because he wants to move those chains, and he's super competitive and super physical, and he is not shy about it. I also wrote that he's got a complete athletic profile. He's a well-rounded athlete. He's

moderately exposed. I'm not going to say he's the fastest guy in his draft. He's not, not even close, but he is fast. He's got good long speed. He has good lateral quickness, and I would say good acceleration. He checks all those boxes. I would be very shocked if he didn't test as like an elite athlete, but doesn't have that one, he's not going to have the one drill that makes him, you know, everyone talking about him.

I think he'll run a modestly fast 4-4. He'll be modestly fast in the agility drills. He'll jump modestly high, all of those things. So I think together, his profile, makes him an elite athlete, but doesn't have that one thing to hang his hat on. And he's got Premier run after catch skills. He's got really good vision. We mentioned the alpha mentality in the athletic profile,

the perform at a very high level with the ball in his hands. He forces mistackles at an exceptional rate. It's actually wild. How many tackles this guy breaks? I mean, it's crazy. Whether it's, you know, him destroying pursuit angles and forcing a defender to barely get their hands on him or what. Sometimes he juke guys out. Sometimes, you know, he hits a spin move, whatever it is.

He's forcing tackles at an incredible, he's forcing mistaggles at an incredible rate. I don't know why my mouth is not functioning at the moment. But anyways, he, because of his vertical skill set and his run after catch, like, this is another guy with a relatively high floor. I don't think there's a whole lot of risk here. you know, there might be a transitional period coming from the small school, blah, blah, blah, but he looked good at the senior bowl week against the nation's top senior corners. I don't know. I don't really know.

Same issues with Johnson as far as route tree is concerned. He needs to develop more routes. And he might already have them in his bag. We don't really know. This is like we said with Johnson. This is a classic case of, I don't know that he can't do it. We just haven't seen him do it. I also wrote one weakness of this.

He does need to improve with the small details. As you know in the NFL, everything gets tighter. Details matter more. When you're building a report with the quarterback, your quarterback needs to know and trust that you're going to do all of the little things to be better. One of the things I really, really noted is while he is a good route runner, sometimes he doesn't have a great feel for where to set his route down against zone.

you know the deep crosser is always a good indicator depending on the coverage shell you see there are many opportunities to sit that route down and give your give your quarterback a target in the middle of the field and rice seemed at times a little too eager to carry his route you know through the defense there are reps of him doing it correctly for sure sometimes they're in big moments as well but it does not change the fact that most of the time he's not doing this well. He needs to get better at it. Another thing, like, scramble drill, I mean, this sounds like it's such a small, small, minute part of playing football, but you really want to make your quarterback happy. You've got to work with them on scramble drill. Again, these, they're reps of Rice doing this and doing it well. There's also reps of him continuing to run 70 yards downfield when his quarterback's running for his life. So I would like for him to get more consistent working back to his quarterback here and making himself a viable target.

In the end, I think Rice profiles is a potential number one receiving option for a team. What's attractive about that is this is a guy who's probably not going to go until day two, maybe even late day two. I've seen a lot of people calling this guy a third round pick. He scores the second round pick for me. I think his blend of athleticism and refined technical abilities, I think it outweighs most of the concerns I have and just my scoring model scored him as a second round pick.

So I'm comfortable with him, you know, mid to late second, anywhere after that. And I think you're getting a value because of the chance he turns into a number one receiver. I think at worst, his floor, because of those traits we mentioned, this is a wide receiver, a really, really good productive wide receiver three in an offense. And, you know, I think there's a significant chance he lands somewhere in between a true wide receiver one and a wide receiver three. Anyways, that is all I have for you today.

I wanted to wrap about Quentin Johnson and Rishi Rice, because these are two guys that changed my mind about their potential in the NFL. And the more I dug into the tape, the more I liked. Listen, I liked Rishi Rice going into the Senior Bowl Week, and then he kind of fell off my radar because there were other guys during Senior Bowl Week who really impressed me and kind of jumped the board a little bit. But that's going to be it today. I hope you enjoy.

Thank you so much for listening. I will be back tomorrow with a special guest. But for now, I am off the clock. Thanks for tuning in to this edition of the Fantasy Points podcast. Remember to subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite platform. And come join the roster at FantasyPoints.com. I don't know.