NFL Stock Exchange: An NFL Draft Podcast - 261. The Fellas React To CFB25's Top 100 Ratings

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Trevor Sikkema and Connor Rogers take a break from Summer Scouting to review and react to CFB25's initial Top 100 rated players. The duo talk through the top 100 withy players they believe are too high or too low in their ratings

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It's awesome. Sign up now at youtube.com slash BS, device and content restrictions apply. Local and national games on YouTube TV. NFL Sunday ticket for out-of-market games excludes digital-only games. Welcome to the NFL Stock Exchange podcast. In this episode, we are going over the top 100 rated players for CFB 25, the college football video game. We are so hyped for this one. And it's great timing because we're right in the middle of summer scouting. We just finished our offensive

players for summer scouting. And so we've got a good idea of what we think of these guys. So it's great timing because we're right in the middle of summer scouting. We just finished our offensive players for summer scouting. And so we've got a good idea of what we think of these guys. So it's really cool to match up and see, does EA agree? Does EA have these guys a little bit higher than we would, a little bit lower than we would? Plus we've got some thoughts on some of the defensive guys that we have seen as well. I'm Trevor Sycamore. With me as always is Connor Rogers.

Let's get hype for college football, baby. Let's ring the bell. Welcome to the opening bell of the NFL Stock Exchange Podcast. I'm Trevor Sikkim, but that is Connor Rogers. And this is where the fellas go through the top 100 of the college football 25 rating, early ratings. Connor, I'm very excited for this episode. It's a little bit of a break in the action from summer scouting for us.

It's a little bit of a break in the action for the listeners as well, but we have to, right? It's a joyous time. It's time for celebration. We've waited 10 years. We've waited over a decade for this. College Football 25 is going to be out this week.

We cannot wait to play it with all of you guys as well. But just to stoke the flames of the hype that is this game a little bit more, EA recently put out their top 100 players for their rankings for the game, and we wanted to go through them. So we're going to go through all 100 guys now we're not going to individually go through all 100 guys but we're going to show you the top 100 and since connor i have just gotten through all the offensive positions for summer scouting it's going to give us a chance to freak out about some of these

players you know whether whether we see them on the list and we didn't think they were going to be there whether they're a little too high a little too low and of course we'll you know give a little here and there about some of the defensive players if we've got any takes on them. But Connor, how you doing, my friend? I'm very excited to go through this with you, buddy. I can't wait. You know, when we always go a little off the rails at some point in the summer, just break up summer scouting. This is just a blessing, right? The fact that we get EA College football back in the mix. Because it's like we've built up to this, right? We've watched all the offensive players.

I know you and I are going to start to kind of steer towards the defensive line group, which has a lot of talent as well. We we watch enough college football that just because we haven't done summer scouting for all the positions, we know how good some of this corner classes and things like that. And if this feels like this is the closest I can remember to a holiday for a video game doesn't it feel like the truly like truly i'm trying to think of the last thing that felt like this as a release the gta trailer was massive but it was a trailer i feel like when red dead 2 came out it was a big deal but i don't know something with this just feels like all of the groundwork and years that have led to this and the twists and turns and the fact that all the early returns look so promising uh it's gonna be an incredible week man dude i can't i can't wait for this game for a lot of different reasons but i was just having this conversation

with somebody the other day you remember midnight releases oh yeah like you remember wait online at uh gamestop dude like gamestop yeah you know what actually i learned was a cheat code was so everybody would just wait at gamestop and i used to for i think like modern warfare 2 modern warfare 3 i did gamestop and i would do madden every now and then that's what I would do it for. I remember GameStop would have like little Madden tournaments like while you waited in the consoles that were set up. So it was fun. But then my friend and I realized that if you go to Walmart, if you go to a 24-hour Walmart. I never even thought of that.

You can just get it there at midnight as well. Without the line. I cannot remember which Madden we did this for, but it was like, I don't know, 1045, 11 o'clock, like 11 p.m. We had an hour until midnight. The guy who's working the video game section was just like, I don't care. I'll ring it up for you.

Whatever. You can take it now. And so, and so we just ended up buying Madden like an hour early. I don't think the coolest thing in the world. Oh, bro. I,

I, you know, if streaming was available, we would have, we would have had millions and millions of years, which we would have been, you know, 30,

but yeah, this, this game, I'm so excited for it. Obviously it's not going to be a perfect game. There's going to be a lot of, of things that they're going to work out and improve upon. But it really looks like they have at least taken what has been this incredible hiatus

and given that the respect it deserves with so much of the detail that they are putting in this game. Different playbooks, the recruiting, the NIL stuff. At least they're not just saying like, oh yeah, it's been 10 years. Like here's a college football game. That's just okay. It feels like they're actually, um, you know, making it worthwhile. If, if any fan would say that over the last 10 years, I completely agree. You could tell multiple years have been put into it, which if you are a gamer, you know,

that anytime multiple years are put into a game, there's just a drastic difference. The attention to detail for this feels the early things I've seen about playbooks, the atmosphere specific to the school's entrances. Obviously, this world we're living in college football now, like the fact that players can opt in and we have the actual players in the game is just unlike anything we've seen for a college video game and i'll just say this it's nice to break up the summer like people have been asking me because it's the off season for us like we record this podcast we do summer scouting people been asking me like yeah what have you been up to and i was like well i wake up you know uh i'll take the dog somewhere and do some summer scouting and watch some concerts on youtube and then i basically for the Mets bullpen to stress me out every day. Like,

that's what I do. And now it's like, I can just play college football. Yes, that is the beauty of it. The memes have also been unbelievable. Corey Canaan, who does a lot of good NFL draft work on Twitter and just the honest dubstack and everything. He had my favorite meme for college football 25. And that was anybody out there. Who's a Marvel movie fan from end game. When Tony is dying, you know, if you haven't seen the movies yet,

sorry to spoil it for you. It's been like six years. So I don't feel bad about it. Like Tony is dying and, and pepper and pepper says to him like, Tony, it's okay. You can rest now. And Photoshopped over Tony Stark's face is NCAA 14 with DeJar Robinson.

Perfect. I think I did see this. That is just phenomenal work. It's just an unbelievable meme. I mean, there have been people, like a big faction of people, that have just been grinding that game for 10 years and had to keep buying systems as systems break i mean systems don't last 10 years right right especially then we'll see what my ps5 does i hope it lasts 10 years probably won't yeah like it's just disc

fade and break it's just totally it's totally different it's good for you good of you to bring back the going to the store to buy video games like there's there's probably people young enough watching this show that have never even really done that in their life right i miss the novelty of it me too i miss i miss the hype i don't miss standing next to a lot of people who don't know how to shower. When, uh, I was just going to say, Oh man.

And you're really standing out there. Oh yeah. Yeah. For a while. And like, even there was a time where like you're young enough and you have to explain like an older sibling or someone's driving you and you have to explain to your parents,

like you're not going out and like, like smoking weed or something. Like you're literally waiting for Matt. waiting for madden like i'm waiting for video games i'm not like much something much more addicting like it's a much worse game yes a substance that is so much worse for me something that can absolutely and will ruin my life and productivity and stop me from doing my homework and cause me to not have a girlfriend yeah something that will absolutely tank our future marriages, but all right.

So let's get into this. Let's, let's throw the ranking up here. This is, I think this is just EA sports.com. I'll throw it right up on the screen. So anybody who is watching on YouTube, you can see it there.

If you're listening to your audio only for this episode, it's going to be a little bit tough to follow. Maybe this is what will, you know, make you make the jump over to creating a YouTube account and to follow. Maybe this is what will make the jump over to creating a YouTube account and subscribing to the channel. Salute if you do. So here we go. This is it. This is the list. It is in descending order. So Quinn Cooley is not a 100 overall here at number one. We're going the opposite way as of course, anybody who listens to Summer Scouting

knows that's how we do it around these parts. But yeah mean you can see it on the screen here uh hopefully the the clarity is good enough as we're sharing the screen as we are sharing this screen um we've got a couple of different ratings that you guys can see for all of these players now obviously it's not going to be great for offensive linemen but we've got overall, we got speed, we got acceleration, strength, awareness, jumping ability. So when we get to the end,

after we do the top 100 of overall rankings, maybe we'll just do it. Have a quick glance of like, okay, who's the fastest, who's the strongest, right? Right. We can do all that,

but buddy, I'm starting off hot with 99. Cause when we did the tight end episode, I told you. I told you, man. He didn't have the volume. He's playing with Brock Bowers. They were obviously going to funnel all the passing attack when they went to the tight ends through Brock Bowers.

He's one of the greatest tight ends of all time. But still, in the top 100, coming in at 99, Oscar Delp, baby. He was tight end two for me on the tight end episode i think oscar delt is in for a huge season and very clearly our friends over at ea believe so as well so i'm hyped about this one this is a good one to get us started with when i saw his name not only did i think of you right away but i was like damn ea is they're in their scouting bag yeah there's some guys on this list that we know are good college football players but there are some guys that they are they are

projecting and I'm not saying the ratings are wrong like Delp is that talented right but they're calling their shot and saying like okay this guy is going to be an elevated role and has the talent to be really really good so that was So that was pretty cool to see. They really did their homework, in my opinion, on some of these rankings in the top 100. As you see my guy Kyle Menungai not too far right below Delp there as the 96th overall player. Rutgers getting some deserved love, a 90 overall running back

with 93 acceleration. I was so pumped when I saw him on this list. Yeah, he's got to be the highest Rutgers player on this list. I would think so, and they have some players this year, but he's that guy. What was it, first 1,000-yard rusher for Rutgers in like 12 years or something? Because Pacheco didn't even do it.

No. That's what's crazy about that. Okay, hold on. I'm going to make sure I get this right, because it is nuts that he was, where is this? First Rutgers 1,000-yard rusher since 2012. Yep. Yeah.

Pacheco had four years in a row of over 100 carries, but, I mean, he was good, but he never topped. He never got to 800. Kyle Menungai, future. Menungai's going to be great. Yeah, he's going to be a stud. Yeah, by the way, just to shout him out, Dustin Smith, he does a lot of the Madden ratings.

He's a good friend of mine. And so I know he was involved in some of the college football ratings as well. And so they really do. I know people like to kind of nitpick and get on the Madden ratings and things like that but the undertaking that is oh my god giving all of these players ratings is is just absolutely insane and dustin and that team over there they watch endless hours of film to i can't imagine right to to try to put out the best product that they possibly can and i know

that they've been watching players and doing ratings for like over a year to try to it's think of all of the players that because there's no baseline there's none right you can't go off of anything that has been there before it's basically just you've got to watch so many of these players look up some statistics, come up with everything. And it's just unbelievable undertaking. So again, just wanted to shout those guys out when you were kind of pointing out

what a great job they have done of making sure that they're watching everybody. And it's not just, you know, stats. They're not just looking at like, oh, who had the most catches for tight ends last year. We're going to put them at the top. They're really watching as much film as they possibly can. Well, going through this list, it was mind-blowing to me because i thought about how

many hours you and i put into not just the draft but really this time of year summer scouting like when we're on like a hiatus from a lot of our other jobs and it has been so many hours a week just to get the offensive players done that are draft eligible right like there's underclassmen on this top 100 that i mean sure there are superstars that i've seen but there's also plenty of guys from like i haven't watched them right i don't know who that is i need to use my time more accordingly i can't just watch guys for fun all the time so the fact that i it's yeah it's a wild undertaking and i think i agree with you i think they deserve a lot of credit for how much like they really really really care about being right.

Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. Menungai comes in at number 96. Another summer scouting name, Josh Connerly Jr. The left tackle from Oregon comes in here at number 95. Again, like I said, we're not going to go through every single one of these players. There's a defensive player that I do want to shout out here comes in at number 94.

Billy Bowman Jr. The safety from Oklahoma, was really intrigued by him. And I think he was draft eligible last year. Okay. But he ended up coming back to school, and I was like, man, he would have been one of my favorite safeties in this class because it wasn't a great class beyond Tyler Newbin you know Kim Kinchins didn't really have a great year last year but I thought Bowman could have been up there for safety two safety three in last year's class and he opted to return so I'm excited to see excited to see him check out the speed I mean Bowman you're talking about a guy that ran a 10 8 4 100 as a sophomore in high school.

Like, this dude can fly. He's got real track background. It's cool to see the speed show up. Xavier Estrepo, the wide receiver that I was a big fan of. 95 awareness for him. That goes back to the summer scouting conversation that we had. It's like, you know, you were lower on him than i was which is fine i looked at him and i was just like he's just so savvy i like this dude a ton he's just

a really savvy football player uh so his awareness being high and that being a standout trade for him totally makes sense from what we saw emory jones the right tackle from lsu talked about him as maybe sticking a tackle in the nfl maybe he kicks to the inside, but they've got him in the top 100. But it's at number 92. It's not like some people look at the LSU offensive tackles and they go, oh, yeah, Will Campbell and Emory Jones, they're both top 20 players in the country. And I think Will Campbell is.

I think Jones is a really good football player, but I'm more towards the side of sort of where, you know, EA is with him. Maybe not as low as in the nineties, but a little bit lower certainly than where Will Campbell is. Right. That's a good call out. Like Connerly and Emery Jones are really exciting and on the right trajectory and trending the right way and still have inconsistencies in their game. And that's why you see them, you know, players 90 to 100 rather than players, you know, 1 to 40.

Our favorite player's name to save, Jonah Savanaya. We can't escape him. It's like he just shows up every time we do a show at this point. He's going to be on every page, actually, of this. Yes, he just keeps appearing they put him at they rank him at right guard then they rank him at left tackle then they rank him at center then nose tackle come on just sweating um he comes in at number 89 here uh evans we get a couple of defensive linemen i'm excited to watch nick scowerton from texan m patrick payton from

florida state they're kind of next on this list. Evan Stewart. Okay, this is another player. 85th overall on this list. Extremely fast football player. 95 overall speed. 98 overall acceleration. Oh, yeah.

But look at the strength, man. 53 overall strength. That is a big reason why I think a lot of people look at evan stewart and go oh yeah top 30 top 40 player in the country we were pumped the brakes a little bit on that in summer scouting again seems like ea is kind of with that as well yep and then uh why it's mylam right i saw somebody in the youtube comments really bailed us out we thank you whenever you have a pronunciation especially for a player of a school you root for, we love that.

Yep. I mean, great to see him getting his love. I can honestly argue that he could be even higher. And we need to look at more of the tackles ahead of him. But I thought he was phenomenal on tape. Yeah, really. He's a really good player. 92 overall awareness, 88 overall strength.

I mean, those are a lot of the categories that you want from an offensive tackle. So it makes a lot of sense that he would be in the top 100. We got Trey Harris, a wide tier sense that he would be in the top 100. We got Trey Harris, the wide receiver from Ole Miss, coming in at 81. Jalen Daniels, baby. He will probably be, let's go, like one of the most favored players people use. Running like a quarterback with 88. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, because look, here's the thing. Thor, nicer, tweets about taking over Kansas all the time. Yeah. Because I think that's what he did in NCAA 14. He was just like, oh, I'm going to take a terrible program like Kansas, and I'm going to make it a powerhouse. Kansas ain't no, like... If you're logging on with your boys, that's a chalk pick.

Like, if someone picked them, I wouldn't clown you, but I'd be like, oh, okay. I mean, it's a lot easier than it used to be. I should just say that, right? Right. I mean, you got Devin Neal at running back. You got Jalen Daniels at quarterback. Yeah, Neal is really highly rated on this list, by the way. I mean, he's a good player, so I'm not hating on it, but like, yeah.

So have you watched any Howard Cross yet? So I watched him a little bit last year. He's 77 on this list. Him and Deontay Lawson. Deontay Lawson is the middle linebacker from Alabama. He is 76 on this list. When I say those, it's ranking, obviously not overall. A lot of these guys are tied for like 90 overall.

Both those players are really intriguing to me cross is very small he's a fire hydrant yeah i actually i don't i we should say this for the d-line episode but i'll just say real quickly like i have no idea what he weighs and notre dame is actually really usually good with list listing height and weight they're very like they're very honest they even go quarter inches which a lot of schools don't what do they got for them they say i haven't met six one and an eighth on a list they say six one but the weight is what i'm interested at they haven't met 288 but it's weird when a d tackles that short i don't know he's he is a gap shooter man like shooter that's what i remember most about it when i was watching he's a really interesting one I don't know. He is a gap shooter, man. Like shooter.

That's what I remember most about him when I was watching him. He's a really interesting one. We'll get there on him for sure. Okay. All right. Yeah. He is somebody that I'm excited to get to. So, all right. Next page here.

There's four different pages broken up into increments of 25. Mitchell Evans, tight end from Notre Dame. Yeah. Guy we talked about extensively. Love that. I think he was tight end three for me. He comes in number 74, number 90 overall. Somebody who, you know, you talked about this,

limited athletically, right? And only in 83 speed and only in 86 acceleration. Coming off an ACL, I want to say. Yeah. Do I remember that correctly? I mean, I think that that goes into it. But his strength is up. It's an 83 overall and his awareness 90 overall. I mean, I think that that goes into it. But his strength is up. It's an 83 overall and his awareness 90 overall.

I mean, I think that that just shows you again, what I saw in film with him, pretty smart football players. That's why I ended up having him at tight end three Jackson Dart. We're going to talk about a couple of the quarterbacks. I think within this group of 25, 25, he comes in at 73, 73rd highest player in the country. Ole Miss quarterback, not too far in front of him, Jalen Milrow, the quarterback from Alabama, comes in at 71.

You shocked that these guys are here, or would you think they'd be a little bit higher, a little bit lower? What do you think of these guys? You got to realize a game like this in a year where we don't have Caleb Williams and Drake May coming into a season, they got to curve the quarterbacks at some point. That was what stood out to me with this list. I thought there was a quarterback curve, and we didn't even get to the guys

that I think benefited the most from it. So I'm fine with this. Like, if you say Jackson Dart and Jalen Milrow, those are household names to college football fans. Yeah. So these are fine with me. Milrow having 91 speed, and I know he's very fast. I'm not saying he's not.

Alabama is just, they're going to be a juggernaut in this game. So, yeah, and I thought Dart, that's really fair. Gelati right in the middle of them, the pass rusher from Louisville. I watched him last year thinking he was going to declare. He shockingly went back to school. I thought his tape was awesome. I don't know how he's going to test, but I thought his tape last year was awesome. I will rewatch him in a couple weeks when we do our Edge episodes.

I love him getting some serious shout and shine as a 90 overall there. Yeah, it doesn't really shock me too much with Dart and Milrow both being in the top 75. I think there's a little bit of a quarterback curve. You're right. But these are also two quarterbacks who their skill sets are very video game friendly. Great call out. Right.

Because it's like Milrow where I don't think that Milrow is like Lamar Jackson fast or Mike Vick fast or something like that. Like he is obviously a very fast quarterback. So you have to, when a quarterback automatically brings that kind of speed to the table, his overall is going to go up. So even though he struggles with some accuracy issues, some decision-making issues, you have that athletic ability. I think Dart also has some good athletic ability as well, as you can see, 84 speed.

And Dart also plays within Ole Miss' offense very, very well. The reason why why if i remember correctly i don't want to please correct me i don't want to speak for you if it's different but for me personally when i was watching jackson dart the biggest question mark i had is what are you outside of lane system right like when lanes you know first read doesn't go well i didn't see a lot of like natural playmaking ability where you were really confident outside of that you can't really quantify that in a video game so like those are things that maybe areas that we would knock both of these guys that it's difficult to do that

in a video game format so again that makes sense to me why they're still top 75 players they're going to be high impact players um oranje gaston the second the tight end slash wider seer from syracuse i've been lower on him fat rating a lot of people you know he's at 91 overall he's a 69th overall player nice um but that's that's so smooth silky i'm gonna ruin it for you that was too silky i'm gonna stop the pod that's that's a little rich for me him being it at number 69 i know a lot of people really like damian martinez the halfback from uh from miami who was at oregon state you were a big fan i liked him yeah i had him uh as running back eight when i did the rankings. He's just a powerhouse.

Yeah. A lot of fun to watch. I ended up watching him. There are a couple of guys on this list that I ended up watching after our episode, because either you yelled at me or the good people yelled at me. Martinez was 11 for me. He ended up coming in at 11.

They have two great running backs. So it's going to be interesting to see how they use him after they got him to transfer there. Yep, very true. Nick Singleton from Penn State. I'd have had Martinez a little bit higher than him. He's 64. Martinez is 67. 94 speed, right? Yeah, Singleton's just an insane athlete. So again, like a video video game it's hard to it's hard to bring you bring him down too much all right so we got a couple of summer scouting

guys here as we get into the top 60 jayden roberts the strongest man walking the planet yep literally the hulk as you said go offensive guard from alabama he is 60th overall he is only a 93 strength connor in my opinion that is six points too low i i agree actually i would kind of lean into it and have made him a 97 or 98 strength yeah i would i would have leaned into it i truly would have they leaned into it into it with the organ guys as you see tez johnson up there right like okay now i gotta know okay hold on now i gotta know now i gotta now i gotta know i's the strongest player in the top 100? Who's the strongest player?

Oh! So, it's... Ariante Aresley, the left tackle from Minnesota. He is... You just went on the rant of watching guys after we did summer scouting. He was on my initial list. I didn't get to him for the episode. Big mistake not getting to him in the episode big mistake not getting him to him in the episode

i agree i was really disappointed yeah he uh he ended up in my top 10 tackles top eight tackles on the revise he's phenomenal dude he's tackle four for me yeah i get it i get it like he's a big man that can move a very impressive player six foot'6", 330 pounds. I mean, he brings a lot to the table to like, man. He really does. Now, he's not stronger than Roberts. Nobody on this list is, by the way. And I've already watched Walker. Dion Walker right there from Kentucky.

Did you? Okay. Yep. The Godfather, Dante Corleone. Glad to hear he's doing better. I. The Godfather, Dante Corleone. Yep. Glad to hear he's doing better. I know he had a blood clots situation recently. So he was back with the team. I've watched Kenneth Grant.

He is strong as hell as well. Okay. I think Roberts is stronger than everybody I see ahead of him on this. Okay. All right. All right. I just needed to, you know, we needed to make sure that we were there. Shoot.

Where is, oh, I got to go the other we were there. Shoot, where is... Oh, I got to go the other way. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm spoiling it for Google. We've gotten off the boat. The audio-only people, though, they're sitting pretty. They're sitting strong. They didn't get ruined.

Listen to us panic right now. So it is quite hilarious to me that the smallest player on this list, Tess Johnson, and one of the biggest players on this list, Jaden Roberts, are right next to each other at rank 60 and rank number 59. So damn, Tez Johnson's strength is a 43, and he is still 59th overall. If you turn on weather in your game,

there's a chance Tez Johnson blows out of the stadium. Like that, if you put on high precipitation and winds, there's a feature in the game that Tez Johnson is in the slot and he starts gravitating towards the sideline. You're wrong for that. Dude, I know he's awesome. Like, don't get me wrong, he can fly, but man, 43. You're not wrong.

43. If I'm Tez Johnson, I post a bench press video tomorrow and say, yeah, 43? What do you think he benches, though? Better than 43 strength. I don't know, brother. Yeah, that's fair. Who knows? Who's to say?

Who is to say? Can he bench 225? He can, dude. These are our D1 athletes. It's true. 96 speed, though. If I'm him, though, I take that. Like, yeah, I'm one of the fastest players in the game.

I don't care about strength. Keep hands off me. All right. Landon Jackson, the edge rusher from Arkansas, is somebody that I was very intrigued by going into last year's draft cycle because he was draft eligible. He's like 6'7", just a super long wingspan he's also like 260 so he's legit he's legit size he's got legit length i think he could be in for a monster year

i had him in my top 64 last year's draft before he ended up coming back. I remember when I started to hear a lot about him later in the season, I was like, whoa, I got, and I like panic watched him one of those weekends. And I was like, yeah, I was like,

yeah, I see it. And then I think like, it was like hyperventilating watching the tape. You know, when you like, you see like super high grades or tweets coming in on a guy and you're like,

man, I'm behind on this dude. Right. Especially during the NFL season where you and I do a lot of other jobs like and i was like oh yeah i see it and then he went back to school like two weeks later and it was like okay so i was underselling him he's not 260 he's six foot seven 280 that's crazy dude he i'm excited is he like that's like a tyree jackson build yeah but i you know you I know you like the tape. This better than Tyree Jackson.

Right, right. Scrolling a little bit. You mentioned Kenneth Grant. He's 55. Tyleek Williams. A lot of people like him. He's at 54. My boy, Luke Kendra, the guard from Cincinnati.

I thought I was going to kind of going to be first on this. Yeah, you had him in that episode, and now he's above Jaden Roberts. So I had him above Roberts. I had seven in the summer scouting episode and I had Kendra at six and I had him as like borderline top five offensive guards. Dude. Yeah, man. Well done.

Thank you. I know ball, you know, ball, you ball you know hey just i'm i'm just here to toot my own horn if there's anything i'm here for on this podcast we fired up the stream yard just it's to be an absolute narcissist um denzel burke he could have went in the top 50 last he could have gone to the top 50 danny stutz, who is the keeper of the greatest Instagram caption of all time. What's that? When he posted a picture of him in-game celebrating a big tackle or whatever, and the caption was,

I'm like communion, the cracker with the juice. No way, dude. dude oh my god this man this is an entertainer he didn't i'm not leaving video like hype video narrated by the boss he also has like a shirt out right now that is him in his locker smoking a stogie like arnold schwarzenegger style and i think the caption of i i think the the shirt says like like texas fears oklahoma oklahoma only fears god or something like that like he's he's he is he is the greatest character in college football is this player one in the entire thing i I remember I didn't know anything about him until Mike Renner, RIP. He's not dead.

We just haven't heard from him. He recently got engaged, by the way. Oh, congrats to Renner. Shout out. Shout out. He texted me. He's like, brother, have you watched Danny Stutzman? This was last year.

And I was like, no, I haven't. And he's like, you've got to watch him because he's a wild man on and off the field. Like, he's just, he's crazy. And I was like, you know what? This might be LB1. Man, I'm on his recruiting profile right now. Whenever I see somebody's from Orlando, Florida, I just think that they, like, grew up in Disney World. I didn't know he was from Orlando, Florida.

Yeah. Does that explain a lot or something your reaction is like that explains okay so much so you are a florida man so give the good people you actually don't have to you can leave it as a surprise it's up to you or mystery it's just it's so florida man like for like everything like that we think about florida is like cranked up a notch in orlando yeah yeah it can be i've been to orlando because orlando is the center point right like orlando you can get like the culture from north florida from the east coast from the west coast from the southern tip of florida like and then you also had this melting pot of all these tourists that

that will come for disney world and then you've got all these like snowbirds who are down there that are just like down there half the year. So Orlando is just a wild place. There's a lot of conferences in Orlando. You can be whoever you want to be in Orlando, Florida. And very clearly, Danny Stutzman was. I like it.

It explains his origin story. You love a good origin story. He's not the Joker, but he's his own man. Jason Henderson from Old Dominion, who we haven't watched him for summer scouting yet. No, not yet. But I want to look this up to be sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brother, the last two years that he's played college football, in 12 games each season, 186 tackles, 170 tackles. It's got to be exhausted. This man is putting on a clinic. That is, that's jarring production. That is, that is, that is an insane amount of tackles.

Did you see the amount of times you have to get back up off the ground throughout a season? I'm bad at math here. Let's do some math real quick. In 2012, when he had 186 tackles, he was averaging 15 and a half tackles a game. Is anybody else on the field? Right.

Can I get some help? It's literally just him at that point. What are they playing with a red card? They're like down one guy. He's the only linebacker on the field. Yeah. It's like dime package. They just only have him out there.

They're literally just running a dime base defense. We've got Donovan Edwards running back from Michigan here at number 49. I thought that was a little bit of like there's a little name recognition to this rating i hate sounding harsh on player ratings it's like the biggest haterade you could you know you could oh you're chugging it right now i am absolutely like i have a i know i'm doing a keg stand yeah you're keg standing a keg of haterade and nobody's holding my legs up. No, look, Donovan Edwards is a really good college player and it's a college video game.

And here's the thing. Donovan Edwards comes in ranked 49th. Ashton Ginty comes in at 44. Ginty is so far and away more productive, more efficient than Edwards is. But again, Edwards has a lot of athletic potential. And this is a big year for him to really bounce back because last year was just not a good year for him. more efficient than edwards is but again like edwards has a lot of athletic potential and this is a big year for him to really bounce back because last year was just not a good year for

him so uh we will see if he ends up you know being worthy of this 49th overall ranking dylan fairchild the left guard from georgia who we talked about 48th overall i mean this is somebody who yeah i like them i was like you did i liked him i had him though let's call what it is i had him as um the sixth iol we did top fives for that show he was he was six for me i think i had him at eight yeah i had him at eight i had so i was a little bit lower on him your boy donovan jackson coming in at 46 there's probably a little low for you. Yeah. It's he was. Yeah. I well, too, but he's in the top 50 at guard.

So I thought this was. Yeah. OK, because Tyler Booker is only 40. Right. Like when you stack it up with the rest of the player, there is one on here that your jaw will hit the floor a little bit. But we'll get there on this. Oh, yeah. Oh, we're it's we're going to get there eventually.

Abdul Carter is a freak. They got him at, you know, defensive oh, yeah. Oh, okay. We're going to get there eventually. Abdul Carter's a freak. They got him at defensive end, obviously. Yeah, because he's switching over from off-ball to edge run. Which is interesting because, I mean, last time, we thought he weighed, wasn't he weighing like 215? No. Oh. No, no, no.

No, no, no. He's 260 on their thing. I'm mixing him up with someone. But he is. Do they have a little history thing? Sometimes schools have the little history tab. I might be thinking. I want to make sure I have this right.

I mean, my brain is just. I'm thinking Harold Perkins, by the way, from LSU. He's 220. You are, but I will say this. They do have a historical tab on Penn State's website. As a freshman in 2022, he was listed at 233. Right, okay. Sophomore last year, he was 249.

This year, they've got him listed at 259. Which Penn State's nutrition and weight room program turns people into aliens. So I believe them. But I did think when he was a big deal as a freshman, he was light for a front seven player. Now he's not at all. They have the player's social media handles from Penn State on here.

His Twitter handle, 1NCRDB1. No idea. Sure. Yeah, sure. That tells you how about ball Abdul Carter is. Yeah. He just went wrote the recommended yeah he's just he's got the xbox generic uh just give me a gamer tag and let me play call of duty

they're like you rip abdul carter isn't available for you but we do have and cv jumbled letters and he goes okay we do have Zippiest underscore lawyer 65. Okay, done. Yeah, there it is. We got Torrey Horton, the wide receiver from Colorado State here, number 45. Again, Ashton G.T. at 44. Those are quite literally, those are rookie numbers. Like, we got to get them up.

I mean, Ashton G.TD is a top 20 player in the country. He is. I know he plays running back, but this, to me, this game specifically, you don't necessarily have to worry about positional value. Who's good? Who's good at what they do? In my opinion, nobody was better at affecting the game for the running back position than Ashton GD was last year.

Back to the Abduldul carter like letters thing for his username it made me think of like one of the best nicknames in all sports right now there is a defenseman on the montreal canadians okay name arbor jack guy okay last name is pronounced jack guy but it's spelled x h e k A J. So his nickname is wifi. Like, you know, when you get your, I mean,

that's incredible. I think it's the best nickname in sports. That's amazing. Yeah. It's phenomenal. I love that. It's a, I truly love that.

It's really good stuff. Yo, Devin Neal is 42 overall. Yeah. I told you he's up there. What? Yeah. Dude, I like Devin Neal a lot. I do too, but I was like, oh.

He's not better than Ashton Ginty. Yeah, it felt like Ginty got hosed a little bit in perspective to every other running back on the list. I mean, shout out to Neal. Shout out to Neal for getting this number 40. It's good when guys get recognition. Like you don't. Yeah.

I like Neil too. He's easy. He's one. He's a favorite back of mine and it's a really stacked running back class. So again, this just goes back to the point. If you're picking Kansas rebuild and you're like, Oh,

I'm gonna have my work cut out for me. Nah, it's chump change. You get that. You got Jalen Daniels. Come um jonah monheim the center from usc my uh iol four he was my top center i had him right behind brailsford and brailsford uh spoiler alert i think we're gonna get to him yeah a little bit higher on here so um monheim is 41 he is a 94 overall or sorry a 94 awareness i mean that is exactly what his bread and butter is so i think that they nailed

it with that him moving to center is going to be great yeah yeah clay webb the left guard from jacksonville state who we think probably best to center at the NFL level. He's number 37. Taj Brooks, who I did not watch for the running back episode. Same. And I went back and I watched him. And he's in my top eight. I think he's RB8 for me. He's very good.

Yep. Yep. Really good player. He has some of the best. Not better than Chintzy, if we want to keep that bit going. Yeah, he's not. But Taj Brooks has some of the best RB vision plays of almost anybody that I watched. He's not as physically gifted as these other running backs are.

That's why it took him a little bit to become a starter at Texas Tech. That's why he's still going to be one of the older running backs that's in this draft class. Yeah, he's at fifth here. He sees it, man. He definitely sees it. Colson Loveland, he's got to be tight end one. Well learned.

I mean, the Michigan rankings, very deservingly so, are high. That team's a powerhouse. Yeah. He comes in at 33-92 overall. Parker Brailsford, the center from, well, I mean, he played at Washington last year. Now he's going to be playing at Alabama. He's92 overall. Parker Brailsford, the center from – well, I mean, he played at Washington last year. Now he's going to be playing at Alabama. He's 32 overall.

Man, just that's a lot of respect for him. But I think that it is deserved. You mentioned Harold Perkins Jr., the outside linebacker. I think he's best as an edge, but he's 220 pounds, so he can't play on the edge. So he's just going to be an off-ball linebacker. He comes in at number 31. Do we know what they're doing with him this year why did i think he's going back to off ball oh he's going back to off ball now yeah i believe so man and he's got all the talent in the

world like and he's and he's extremely good at rushing the passer right he's just 220 pounds so you do the old i hope they use him this year the way way Utah used Devin Lloyd the last year he was there when it was like, Hey, first two downs, you're off ball. Third, Devin Lloyd got tons of hand in the dirt reps on third downs. I hope they do that. They did blitz him. Yeah. When you bring your NASCAR package out on the field for passing downs, take your freakiest off ball guy and let him rush. So I hope they do that with him. That's why they pay you big bucks. Should I be the defensive coordinator at LSU? Yeah.

Absolutely not. But they want to hire me as a consultant. Here's what you do with your five-star freakazoid. Yeah, yeah. Again, again, you walk in the room as the consultant, full tuxedo, whiteboard behind you, and it's just two pictures. It's just a picture of Harold Perkins,

and then it's a picture of Devin Lloyd at Utah. And you kind of like turn around, and you do the thing where you flip the whiteboard around, and that's what it is. And you just kind of like put your hands up, and you're just like. And then you walk out. We have this.

But we could have this. Boom. And then you go. Throw it down and walk out. I take Zelle, Venmo, Apple Pay, whatever you guys want. That'll be freaking great. I work on tips. Dylan Gabriel.

I understand why he is this high for. College game. For a college game. I watched him for the quarterback episode or afterwards because a lot of people were like, hey, you got to watch Dylan Gabriel. Yeah, they were not happy with us. I am not his biggest NFL fan. I think he's a great college quarterback.

I hope he lights the world on fire, has the best year possible this upcoming year. We will see. I'm just not super bullish on his NFL path personally, but I can understand why he's 30th overall here in these rankings because Oregon's offense is going to put up stupid numbers. That offense is going to put up stupid numbers. That offense is going to be, in this game, you get two of the fastest receivers in the game with a 92 overall quarterback.

I mean, Oregon's awesome like that offense. Yeah, and you have Jordan James at running back. And you have Terrence Ferguson at tight end. And you have Ajani Cornelius at right tackle. And you have Josh Connerly at left tackle. I mean, what?les. Right tackle. And you have Josh Connerly at left tackle. I mean, what? Stupid. Stupid.

This is almost having Dylan Gabriel at number 30th overall is basically like hedging. Maybe you don't think he's the greatest. He doesn't have the greatest quarterback talent in the world. But he could win the Heisman. He's going to put up 55 points a game, and he could absolutely win the Heisman. He could win the Heisman trophy yeah nfl draft be damned he's gonna be fun to play within his game and watch his upcoming college football season quinn ewers the quarterback from texas he comes in at 27 overall um so that's his that's getting us to the final page here right the best players in ea

college football the top 25 uh in the initial college football rankings because uh i will have the game remind you roster and ratings are subject to change in future title updates just had to make sure that i got this yeah yeah if you have one bad game you get bumped down to a 58 overall your book that's how it goes. You have to enter the transfer portal. Your boy, Jaden Ott. So here's what made me... The halfback from Cal. This one's funny to me, right? I had RB6 when we did that show, and they got 97 acceleration.

Like, he's one of the best players in the game, and they have him at 92 speed. The whole point... He's faster than that. The whole point of Ott is that he's one of the most deadly breakaway players in the country. So you're all in on that he's faster than that the whole point of ah is that he's one of the most deadly breakaway players in the country so you're all in on that he's awesome like they are but they kind of nerfed down his best attribute it's just funny to me i don't know give me a 95 speed yeah

i feel like he's got to be he's got to be 95 um or seriante ursery coming in at number 24 overall we mentioned him 97 strength six foot six 330 pounds uh just to give him a little bit of a shout out because we didn't during the offensive tackle episode because we didn't watch him this guy's awesome the footwork the foot speed from him at six foot six 330 really impressive to me i think he's really good in pass pro He's actually a much better zone blocking big man, offensive tackle than you would expect for a player of his size. Um, not as imposing with his strength, but I think that's also because he's Connor. I don't know if you noticed this when you watched him, but he's pretty high wasted. It's tough for him to really sit down in his stance and really like channel that power from

his lower half. So he's a better zone blocker than he is a man gap blocker, but just a really good offensive tackle player who, like I mentioned, snuck into my top five offensive tackles once I watched him. Now we get the crazy running back run here. We had Ott before, Trevion Henderson, and Amari and Hampton back-to-back, 93s overall.enderson gets that sweet 94 speed hampton has the 81 strength i almost would have went all in and just given hampton

like the 90 strength or something right he is an absolute house yeah he's he's the built he is a runaway train when he was coming at you yeah i have no uh no qualms here emekid buka top 20 big respect for abuka and like you said on the wide receiver show trevor like that floor is so so high that how could you how could you bet against him at all i yeah no qualms i mean abuka is one of the best receivers in the country and they treated him like that. Yeah. 98 overall awareness. So I was trying to get to before my screen change. That's that is the part of his game that is most reflective of how good he is.

He just wins in such a variety of different ways. He's not going to be the fastest, the quickest, but he is fast. He is quick. He is big. He is strong uh relatively but it's that 98 awareness that you really understand how uh how good this guy is and how he wins as a receiver we got two quarterbacks back to back here carson beck comes in at number 18 shadour sanders comes in at number 17 um best in the game these quarterbacks i i don't think i don't think i don't think we're gonna

have a quarterback after them on these ratings i don't think so either i'm just scrolling a little bit no these are the last two guys these are the top two quarterbacks in the college football game um yeah i i guess i mean it makes sense right i i have connor wigman as my qb1 going into the year but there's so much unknown about him that I can understand him not being in this conversation. I don't even think he's in the top 100, which to me is a snub, but that's fine because he just hasn't had a ton of action. I agree, and I thought this is a college game, right? We had the conversation about some of the quarterbacks as college quarterbacks.

Cam Ward should have been in the top 100. I get he turns over the ball. I get there's some problems about him as a pro. He's one of the most electric quarterbacks in Cam Ward should have been in the top 100. I get he turns over the ball. I get there's some problems about him as a pro. He's one of the most electric quarterbacks in college football. Yeah. I don't know how he's not in the top 100 yet. I don't know. I don't love him from the NFL draft, but you're right.

For this game, I think that he could have been in the top 100. Yeah, Chador QB1. 80 speed. Nope. Higher than it should be yes uh but no problem with him being a 93 yeah i mean like him being in the conversation it's fine it's not a running quarterback nope nope okay nope it's fine even like carson Beck, not a 74 speed. Nope. But okay. I mean, once again, it's like a college game, so there's a curve on the quarterbacks.

We're nitpicking, but just saying what I see. That's why I get paid to sit here with the microphone. Look, it's just the fellas going over, you know. That's it. College ball 25. That's all we're doing. We're chewing the fat. Yeah, it's just the fellas.

Barrett Carter coming in at number 15 overall. Hell yeah. Wow. Yeah, put some respect on a linebacker's name. Well done, EA. fat yeah it's just the fellas uh barrett carter coming in at number 15 overall hell yeah wow yeah put some respect on a linebacker's name well done ea because here if you are sick of your boy like cheesing with a fast quarterback be clemson use barrett carter and you can actually spy productive there you go actually i like this a lot not bad that's not bad um teteroa mcmillan coming in at number 14 we you know we're just enamored by how incredibly talented this player is at his size and what he's able to do so him being in the top 15 and 94 overall um no shock there your ot1 my ot3 kelvin banks jr from texas coming in number 13 also a 94 overall and then we got Luther

Burden at number 11 also a 94 overall too low what'd you say too low it is it is to be a 98 overall Luther Burden should be above a 95 I think he's he should he should have been in this top three category I'm cheating and I'm scrolling a little

bit which yeah that's the one I told you we get there this top three category. I'm cheating and I'm scrolling a little bit, which. Yeah. I hate rally. That's the one I told you we get there. Is Tate Rattlage going to win the Heisman? Shout out to Tate Rattlage, man. I think I'm going to start overall with the game. Yeah. And to New York, dude, all Heisman ceremony. I will say it's tough to watch Tate Rattlage and like find a lot of holes. He's the best pass protecting guard in college football, in my opinion. And he's got legit size.

Yeah. They gave him a 95 strength. So what was his dad's name? Hold on. We can't forget. This is the most important part of the whole thing. Oh yeah. It wasn't.

I'm getting there. Don't worry. Dean or something. I think it was Dean Ratledge. Tennessee tech legend. I hope he's in ultimate team. Dean Ratledge. Yeah.

Yeah. He needs to be up. If there's any area of Tate Ratledge's game that i think that you would have subtracted when it comes to like an overall it would be the fact that okay he's a he's very good at the finesse parts of the game uh really good pass protector maybe i wouldn't have put him like 95 strength i mean 95 strength he's they have him listed stronger than jayden roberts jayden roberts and it's like okay you're you're missing you're missing me there i think that he should have been a little bit lighter

when it came to the strength category. But hey, shout out to Tate Ratledge, man. I, again, thought that he could have been somebody who could have gone in last year's draft class. Right. And he ended up not doing that. Queen Sean Judkins, halfback from Ohio State. Well, Ole Miss, now Ohio State.

He comes in at number nine. Again, 95 overall. I'm very, very excited to watch these two safeties, by the way. Malachi Starks and Caleb Downs. Caleb Downs didn't even draft eligible, actually. I can't even say that. But Starks, a lot of people think Starks is a true first-round safety. Stud. I cannot wait, man. And then the last two offensive players, we got them in the top three here. Ollie Gordon, the second, the most productive back in all of college football last season. He's number three overall, 96 overall rating.

And then Will Campbell, the left tackle from LSU, number two highest rated player in the game. Again, at number 96 overall. There's only 396 overall players. It's Ollie Gordon, it's Will Campbell, and then Will Johnson, the cornerback from Michigan, who I also can't wait to get to when we get to the cornerback episode. But, you know, Yash and JT being 44, I hate to go back to it. And Ollie Gordon being number three overall. Yeah, it's a bit much.

Make it make sense? Make it make sense? It's a bit much. And I mean, to me, like when I turn turn on the tv a player in the country that i feel like i don't want to miss a second of this year is luther burden and for that reason i think he should be a top five player in the game i would have had luther burden in the 96 category yep i would have had i would have had luther burden number three overall who is the player you are the most excited to use in this game

that we went over today? Not in general, just from today's ratings. I think from the defense, actually my mind immediately goes to defense first. Mason Graham from Michigan, who's number eight overall here who we haven't even gotten to defensive tackles yet and I watched him I watched just a little bit of Mason Graham and I cannot wait to user control this dude because I am going to just absolutely whoop every guard's ass that is sitting in front of me I'm gonna become a game wrecker. He's unblockable. He's unblockable. He's, oh my God, this D-line class looks so good.

All right. So him, Quinshawn Judkins, just because I'm going to mash the truck stick button and try to watch him go, you know, vintage Mike Allstott on an entire defense, just breaking every tackle possible. Jalen Daniels, I know that's a fan favorite of mine, the quarterback from Kansas.

I'm excited to get to play with him in this game because I think he is just an electric player. But those are a handful that come to mind. And then you mentioned it, Harold Perkins, kind of like a cheat code, right? Just because of his speed. James Pierce Jr., the edge rusher from Tennessee who is number four overall in these rankings, 95 overall. 88 overall speed for an edge rusher from tennessee who's number four overall in these rankings 95 overall um

88 overall speed for an edge rusher i know that's like that's crazy to think about stark's 93 overall speed if you want to roam on the back end yeah those what about you who you got stark's when i look at those stats yeah i mean a lot of the guys you said, I completely agree with. They're just so freakish. I mean, you look at like Travis Hunter and how freaky of an athlete he is. What you could do with Travis Hunter. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Oh, we got to look at the fastest dudes.

Hold on. Fastest player. Oh, look at this. I told you look at the fastest dudes. Hold on. Fastest player. Oh, look at this. I told you. The two fastest players. Well, now these might not be the two fastest players in the game. These are the two fastest players within the top 100 because that's all we have here.

But yeah, for audio only, we just sort of by speed. Tez Johnson, the wide receiver from Oregon. Evan Stewart, the wide receiver from Oregon. They are number one and number two on this list. And then it is Travis Hunter from Colorado. Yep. And we talked about Bowman's track times in high school. Yep.

Acceleration, who we got here? Evan Stewart. Yeah, that makes sense. Dude, Billy Bowman. Let's go. Yeah, he can fly. God, dude. Okay, you could also use Harold Perkins as a spy.

92 speed? 97 acceleration how am i gonna lure perkins into the portal and out of lsu to come to utah state yeah to come to umass listen here at marshall hey you're wearing a sick hat. You're wearing the sick Marshall hat. I had to do something college football related. You're actually on brand there. Strength, you know, you mentioned a couple of the guys. Who's the most aware? Dylan Gabriel's a 99 awareness. He sits down for dinner and he knows every fire exit

and every single suspicious person in the room. Wow. Yeah. He's like wearing the Iron Man helmet. Like you just look around and he's like he's like wearing the iron man helmet like you just look around and it's like scanning people's faces telling you you know everything that they've ever done since they were born that's dylan gabriel somebody somebody needs to photoshop dylan gabriel with the iron man helmet and then we will somehow we will somehow get it on this show it's a great graphic like that photoshop and then big letters 99 awareness ea college football who can i hurdle with oh travis hunter travis hunter yeah yeah look at this 96 overall jumping tetrault mcmillan being

a 96 jumping is the most unfair shit i've ever seen well because isn't he strong too in this he's already because he's already like six, what is he? Like six five? Six six? User controlled with Macmillan. Some people are going to be stupid good. Oh, controllers are going to get put through the television. Yep.

It's the reaction videos of this game. We told you. It can ruin your life. It can ruin your life. But it's so much fun. There we go, folks. Hopefully you guys enjoy that. That was a lot of fun for us getting to go through that.

And yeah, it's just the fellows going through the ratings. It's just the fellows going through the, you know, the college. That's all it is. Let us know what you guys thought of the college ball, 25 ratings.

I, you know, if you're listening to this, the second it comes out, you are mere hours away from the game coming out. So you get to actually put these into action, but you know, whenever you're watching this or whenever you're playing with it,

maybe, maybe you're playing with a couple of these players and going, yo, this rating is wild for this player. We would love to hear it. Come back to the comments. We're all freaking out about this game. We're going to buy this game.

I would love to set up some sort of NFL SC like league. I just don't know if we'll be able to do it this year. I just don't know if we'll have like the time to be able to organize it the way that we wanted to, but we will get something. We will get something college football, video game related going at some point in time with this, with this show,

because you guys have talked about it so much in the comments, but let us know, hit us up youtube.com backslash at NFL stock exchange. If your audio only, you can get us your video game thoughts at Connor J Rogers at Tampa Bay tray on X as well as Instagram. Connor got anything else before we got out of here, my friend in the comments,

tell me the program that you are rebuilding. Yes. Why? Yeah. Like for me, I think I haven't landed on this yet, but there's a good chance I end up using Utah state with Jalen Royals because of how much I liked him. There's a couple.

But yeah, I'm curious to hear what people are kind of eyeing. Because nobody's going to be like, yeah, I'm going to be Michigan in my dynasty. Good for you. They're awesome. How fun is that? Here's what I'm going to do. I am going to pick Vanderbbilt i think okay and just totally rebuild the bottom sec program that's a very top baby i'm just gonna i'm gonna punch with

the heavyweights every single week i'm gonna take my lumps you know for a couple of years or what i'm gonna do is the second the first offseason comes around, I don't know if you saw this, Connor, but do you know who Nick Harbour is, if I say that name? No. So Nick Harbour was the number one overall recruit in last year's recruiting class. He was a true freshman who hadn't played a single down of football at the college level yet, and Bruce Feldman had him number one on his feldman freak list that's why it sounds familiar he's yes he doesn't spell it n-i-c-k no it's uh n-y-c-k yes okay nick harbour was a like defensive end slash wide receiver recruit i think south

carolina thought that they were going to put him at defensive end. And he kind of said, no, I kind of want to, I want to win the Bolitnikoff. So he's playing receiver, but he's barely played receiver. So he doesn't really know how to play it yet. However, he is one of the most athletic freaks in all of college football. I will say in all of football, even at the NFL level, he is listed at six foot five, 242 pounds. This is a wide receiver, by the way, because he's a wide receiver, 99 speed, 99 acceleration, 98 jumping, 97 strength, strongest wide receiver in the game. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick Vanderbilt and then I'm going to give Nick Harbor, whatever he wants to come over to my program.

I'm going to sell Nashville as much as possible to him. And I am going to give Nick Harbour whatever he wants to come over to my program. I'm going to sell Nashville as much as possible to him, and I am going to make Travis Hunter's usage look like child's play with Nick Harbour, who is going to play all three phases of the game. He's going to rush the passer. He's going to be the wide receiver, or if the team is too bad, I'm going to put him at quarterback like we used to do in the old days of NCAA, and then he's also going to punt for me. So that's what, that's what my strategy is. Dude, he was trying to make the Olympics. Yes. Yes. Wow. Connor, Connor, he ran a,

he is six, five to 42. He ran a 10, 11, 100 meter dash. Dude, this is like T.O. Like new age Terrell Owens. Insane. That's wow. That's not draft eligible, but very interesting. I love what I love your headset. I feel like you you probably just inspired hundreds of people to do this, including me. I'm doing this.

He's coming to Utah State. He's going to Utah State. Yeah, let's go. Let us know which which program that you're going to Utah State. He's coming to Utah State. Aggie. Let's go, Aggies. Let us know which program that you're going to take over. That was a great question by Connor. But yeah, this is a lot of fun. We really enjoy this.

We'll be back next week with Summer Scouting. We're flipping over to the defensive side of things. We're going defensive tackle. So we'll get to talk about Deion Walker. We'll get to talk about Dante Corleone, Mason Graham. A lot of those guys, man. I cannot wait. It's going to be a fun conversation. I'm Trevor Sicken, but that is Connor Rogers.

Thank you guys so much for watching and listening to the NFL Stock Exchange Podcast. Enjoy CFB 25. We'll see you guys next week. Thank you.