The McShay Show - Our Favorite Day-Three Steals and QB Landing Spots
Episode Date: April 26, 2026Welcome to The McShay Show! Todd and Steve are recapping all the action from day three of the NFL draft, including their favorite value picks and quarterback landing spots. Check out TheRinger.com/McS...hay to see who your favorite team picked.0:00 Welcome to The McShay Show! 1:45 Favorite Picks from Day 3 of the NFL Draft2:45 Pick 101: Jermod McCoy (LV)7:20 Pick 109: Gracen Halton (SF)10:30 Pick 110: Jonah Coleman (DEN)13:25 Pick 114: Devin Moore (DAL)16:15 Pick 115: Elijah Sarratt (BAL)19:00 Pick 116: Keionte Scott (TB)20:55 Pick 117: Travis Burke (LAC)25:10 Pick 122: Mike Washington Jr. (LV)28:50 Pick 135: Bryce Boettcher (IND)31:40 Pick 138: Kyle Louis (MIA)36:15 Pick 136: Bryce Lance (NO)39:15 Pick 141: Kamari Ramsey (HOU)42:10 Pick 152: Justin Joly (DEN)45:05 Pick 165: Nicholas Singleton (TEN)47:50 Recapping the day 3 QBs The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available.Host: Todd McShayGuest: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, and Daniel ComerSocial: Abou Kamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Day three of the NFL draft is in the books, and we're ready to recap it with 14 of our favorite picks.
Plus, what happened with these quarterbacks?
You know, there's 363 days until the 2027 NFL draft.
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We watched it all, man.
There was a lot of...
Honestly, this draft sucks.
I talked to an NFL scout who said this is the NIL has ruined the draft, and this is...
There's no players to be having...
Get out of here.
Like, I get it.
Maybe 6th, 7th round.
There's not as much depth, but there are a lot of intriguing picks today.
And I promise you, 63% of the league last year, 63% of the league was from day three of the draft.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Wow.
So today's kind of important.
And we're here to go through.
We didn't come up with any number that we had to get to.
We just mentioned I talked after we watched the draft on day three,
rounds four through seven,
and decided these 14 picks are the ones that stood out to us.
So we're going to walk you through these 14 picks,
tell you why they stood out,
the impact that these players are going to make,
and how that made the team that drafted him better.
Okay?
Then we're going to get to the quarterbacks,
which was a wild ride.
But let's get to the picks first.
Metsch started off.
We start the day after 100 picks in the first three rounds, Thursday and Friday, with pick 101.
And that one jumped out to you.
Yeah.
Didn't it jump out to everyone?
I mean, it's Jemond McCoy, the corner from Tennessee, who, it feels like five minutes ago,
we were talking about potentially being in the top corner in this class in a top 15, if not a top 10 pick.
So obviously he fell because of concerns about the knee, right?
Yeah.
ACL missed all of last year.
There's some concerns about it being a long-term issue,
how it will affect his durability of the course of his career,
all those things.
That's why the player fell.
But if you're looking for a risk versus reward,
this dude, when you look at his tape in 2024,
there is a reason why he was so highly ranked by so many people.
He might be the best man-to-man corner in this class.
And if you're a Las Vegas and you're comfortable enough
with the durability that you can get a good player.
Listen, this is a four-year deal.
You are assigning him to a four-year deal.
Yes.
If you feel good about four years from this player,
this potentially turns into an absolute steal.
Now, is corner their most pressing need?
No.
It's not.
But you get a young, talented player
where the value is too good to pass up.
You're trying to improve your overall roster.
I love that pick as long,
listen, as long as you're comfortable with the durability,
for four years.
Yeah, here's the deal, man.
You're looking, it's a risk reward, you know, risk assessment, if you will, right?
And the Raiders are looking at this as we're still rebuilding.
And we just brought in at the number one overall pick.
John Spitex is like, we got our quarterback.
But Kurt Cousin's going to start the season.
Yeah.
And at some point, we're going to insert Fernando Mendoza.
And we're building towards getting to a point where we go into the 2027 season
feeling really good about things, right?
So we have all sorts of needs coming in.
It was obviously the quarterback position, wide receiver, safety, no cycle.
But Corner was on the top five list for us because, yeah, they brought in Toronto Johnson at Nickel.
But they drafted an upgrade, I believe.
And I know he's a nickel safety.
We'll see how they work it out in this defensive scheme under Rob Leonard, the coordinator.
But now I got a playmaking four three, like, dude and Stoogues that I drafted earlier.
and I'm getting McCoy in the fourth round.
And yes, talking to teams, it's like they're looking at the risk of this saying he's going to be ready to go.
We just saw him work out.
It wasn't like great, great, but he's getting back to where we need him to be.
He ran in the four-threes at his private workout.
And on top of that, like, yes, the medical is saying the word degenerative.
That's what you're hearing with the knee injury.
Now, the assessment is there's a chance to get to that second contract that you talk about in four years,
and it kind of takes away from what he could do from a long-term standpoint in the NFL.
But I'm talking about year two, 2027, trying to put the best 22 on the field.
Exactly.
And this guy could be a starter.
Yeah, we drafted Darien Porter in the third round last year.
Okay.
We got Max Stokes, obviously, from Green Bay, you know, a couple of years back.
Eric Stokes, yeah.
So Eric Stokes.
Yep.
And now we got Stoaks, Trade An Stox from Arizona, who we just drafted.
We brought in to Ron Johnson.
Now we got McCoy.
Yeah, and Porter, look, you hope he takes the next step this year, but he wasn't.
It didn't really light the world on fire with his rookie season.
So a little more insurance there, a little more competition.
You're improving the overall roster.
Yeah, I like that pick a lot.
at that point.
Right.
Exactly.
There was talk, like, you know, his agent, Moologeta is, frustrates some owners because
he drives a hard bargain.
And, like, it is what it is.
You want to be represented by people who are going to drive a hard bargain for you, and the
people in the league get frustrated because of some situations that arise because of it.
I'm not here to judge one or the other.
I'm here to tell you maybe the way the process was handled, the medical reports, all
those things combined to where teams were like, we'll wait and see.
where he is in the fourth round?
Well, he got to the first pick of the fourth round.
And so it was good to see McCoy come off the board.
That must have been a brutal two days for a young man who is talented enough on talent alone
to be a top 10 to 15 pick in this draft.
Okay?
The next pick that jumped out to me, man, I loved...
This is your guy.
One of your guys.
I loved Grayson Halton, defensive tackle, interior defensive lineman from Oklahoma.
Halton is not the biggest cat, right?
he's a one technique three technique type what do I mean by that it means in like a 4-3 that
has a that has a nose tackle he's that kind of guy where you're looking not your traditional
zero technique who's like who's who's a big citrus from Iowa State Dominique Orange right not a
335 340 pound guy just taking up space this is a guy who can play's nose tackle and create
penetration pressure if you will like quick first step get up there and cause wreak some have
or at three technique he can do the same.
And I like that versatility as well, right?
He gets drafted at 109 by the San Francisco 49ers.
And I just, I look back at my notes on Halton.
Season ends, two years he's productive.
Keeps getting better, right?
Finishes the last two years with 63 tackles, 13 tackles for loss,
eight and a half sacks, has 59 pressures, okay?
he's actually a better run defender than he is past rusher in terms of finishing getting home
and listen like he's not one of those run you know you see the defensive linemen they run the
loop right and you're trying to see the body control when they get there are they able to kind
of steer quickly are they the titanic i'm not saying he's the titanic but he's certainly not
like a speedboat who's going to turn turn that quickly so he leaves some sacks on the field
but pressures half the game, man.
I mean, talk to Sabin about that.
One of his biggest things is talking to Nick, like,
Sacks are the most overrated stat in football.
Give me pressures.
Do you affect the quarterback?
Do you affect the quarterback?
And then flush him out for other defenders and flush him out so he can make a mistake.
So 59 pressures he has the last couple of years.
Yes, he's six, two and a half, 293 pounds.
But he runs a 482 at the Combine, man.
He's a 36 and a half inch vertical.
That's like running back wide receiver stuff at that size.
And so at the Senior Bowl, it's like he and Lee Hunter are very clearly the two best interior defensive linemen.
Now all of a sudden he's sitting there.
I had a late second.
Well, I had a third.
We landed on third with him in terms of a great.
It was 80th player overall on the board.
And the 49ers get him at 109.
And I look at San Francisco and I say, man, this is a perfect spot.
You're talking about a rotation, getting after.
guys, Alfred Collins, we drafted last year in the second round. We got Odigizua, Oso Diggi Zua brought in from
Dallas. C.J. West drafted in the fourth round last year. Now we get four guys. And for these penetrating
defensive tacklers, you want to keep those legs fresh. I think this is going to wind up being a really
big pick for San Francisco. Yeah, I mean, their pass rush fell apart because of injuries last year. You need a
guy who can generate some of that for them. Whether you get it off the edge or in the middle. I mean, I'd rather
interior past rushes of the times because it's the quickest way to get to the quarterback and affect them.
I'll take the next pick, too. The next pick out of the 14 that we really liked was Jonah Coleman.
I battled this for so long and I feel like a sellout, man. I like Jonah Coleman's tape more than
Mike Washington Jr.'s from Arkansas. The problem is Mike Washington Jr. from Arkansas
ran what he ran and Mention will get to it in a little bit, I think. Ran what he ran and you see the
explosive numbers. Well, Jonah Coleman, who was more
consistently productive throughout his career, he didn't run.
And he didn't run because, you can call it whatever you want,
didn't run because he's not that fast and you watch him on tape.
That's the biggest knock.
You see him get tracked down from behind at times,
and he's not going to be a guy who, you know, catches a crease and goes for 50.
But guess what?
To me, that's an overrated aspect of the running back position.
Go back in history, even like Emmett Johnson, right?
Emmett Smith.
So you got a running back who's been productive.
and at three things that really stood out to me when watching his take.
The first is the vision.
The second is the shiftiness, like the short area, quickness.
And the third is the contact balance.
Those are my three favorite things at the running back position.
So you got a bowling ball with eyes and a little, okay?
That's what he is, man.
He's a bowling ball with great eyes.
The body type is insane.
Did you give the height and weight?
He's 5-8-2-20.
Just picture a bowling ball.
You've got a remote control on that can go with great eyes and vision for the hole.
Oh, and by the way, he catches the ball well.
31 receptions last year.
We talked all about Jeremiah Love averaged over 10 yards per catch, 10.4 yards per catch.
Guess what?
He was 11.4 yards per catch last year.
And it wasn't like on eight catches.
It was on 31 receptions.
It was a good amount in college.
man. So I love where he was drafted. You got the Broncos, right? And they target the guys they want.
And he winds up being the third back off the board. And I'm a sucker for not doing it. But I also
appreciate the fact that it's kind of what they do. That's what Sean does. He's going to see his guy
and he's going to take him. They did it last year with R.J. Harvey, right? They got Dobbins coming
back. He's got the Liz Frank injury. Sounds like he's going to be good. But
You worry about that kind of resurfacing.
RJ Harvey had some moments but wasn't what they hope totally.
Now you get three backs to rotate.
Now as the season goes on, 17 games, some injuries, whatever happens, you get three guys.
I think Jonah Coleman's going to play a pretty good role for the Broncos.
And we're talking about the 110th pick overall.
Depth and talent right now is what you're getting.
And MJD and a little Morris Jones-Jrew body type?
Yes.
It's not like he's a chunky 22nd.
It looks like a, he's just all muscle.
It's a crazy body type.
All right, I'm going to go the 14th pick in the fourth round.
You knew I was going to love this pick as soon as it happened.
The Cowboys take Florida Corner Devin Moore.
Yes, that's your guy.
Devin Moore, I think, is being undervalued for a couple of reasons.
One, there are durability issues, man.
This guy's had a hard time staying healthy.
And even this year when he played, I think, 12 games,
you felt like he had kind of gotten over the hump.
Well, ends up he gets groin surgery after the season.
and it really affected the way that he ran.
He didn't run well at the combine.
He ran in the four-fives.
Not the end of the world,
but we expected a much faster time.
Then he ran at his pro-day
and ran even slower.
Well, he was recovering from groin surgery.
He was trying to compete,
but he wasn't going to run well.
He says that he runs in the high four-th-th-threes.
McShey says he runs in the high four-threes.
I don't believe in McSae,
I want to see that speed on tape.
And when you see Devin Moore turn and run
with Chris Brazzle,
who did run in the four-threes at the combine,
you get a feeling for how fast this kid is
when he's healthy.
I just think for Dallas to get
this kind of a talent. Again, he's got to stay healthy, but this is a guy who has a frame
at 6.3 and a quarter inch with 31 of 5 each in his arms. And again, don't look at the
combine time. It's 4-5. I think this guy's a 4-3 guy. I really believe that. This is a
corner that has potential to be not only a starter, I think it has potential to be a number
one corner for an NFL team if he can stay healthy. Christian Parker now gets another piece
for his defense. You want to improve a Dallas defense?
They gave up way too many plays, way too many passing touchdowns.
Here's how you do it.
You go out and get edge rushers like Malachi Lawrence.
You add a guy in J. Sean Barham when you want to do these different kind of pressures,
simulated pressures where guys are dropping, guys are rushing.
That is J. Sean Barham.
He is a perfect fit for that scheme.
You have these two talented edge guys and you add this talented corner.
I mean, oh yeah, not to mention, by the way.
Sorry.
Want to improve that past defense?
Go get the best safety to come out.
in quite some time in Caleb Downs at Ohio State.
I mean, this was clearly the goal, and they have attacked it,
and I think they've targeted the right players of their system,
and gotten good value at the picks.
Yeah, I love the pick.
I mean, anytime you talk about a guy in the fourth round,
this is where you get gems, man.
You take some...
Take some hacks.
You're not afforded as a GM the luxury of taking real big risks
unless you're Minnesota with Caleb Banks.
Right.
Most general managers steer clear of those rules.
risks until you get to a certain area of the draft. And the higher the reward with that risk,
the earlier you're willing to take, this is a player with a pretty good reward, not as high
as Caleb Banks, but still pretty high. So get him in the fourth round, you're feeling pretty
damn good about it. The big guy is a corner guy all of a sudden. I'm a corner guy all of a sudden.
I like it. All right. Next up for me.
Elijah Serat was a tough evaluation, the wide receiver from Indiana, because my gosh, is he productive?
Does he deliver in big moments?
Is he reliable, right?
But he doesn't run well, and he's not explosive.
And so you kind of have to figure out, all right, how do I balance that when I've got,
I've got other big receivers like Trey Lance running in the four-threes out of North Dakota State?
I got Ted Hurst from Georgia State not producing it at Indiana in these big games against,
Oregon and Iowa and Penn State and the college football playoff, right?
And so to me, I put him just inside the top 100, Elijah Surrott.
Almost 3,000 receiving yards in his career.
I love the story, too.
Starts out at St. Francis, okay?
Then it's James Madison.
Then Signetti with a bunch of other players like, you're with me.
Let's go.
Indiana.
First year there, they make the college football play.
He's the guy.
Okay.
He's six, two and a half,
210 pounds,
longer arms,
big hands,
catches almost everything,
3.6% drop rate,
big, reliable possession target.
Then this past year,
he comes back in and like same deal.
You got Omar Cooper Jr.
He's awesome.
You got the slot guy
who's like 6'4,
Becker, Charlie Becker,
okay?
So they got some talent,
but he's still in the moments.
I love the story, too,
Adam.
Watching the tape with Aaron Rogers and Devante Adams and the back shoulder fade stuff over the summer sends it to Mendoza and says, we've got to get great at this.
Think back to the Indiana season how many times they needed it on a third down, a fourth down, fourth quarter, red zone, back shoulder fade, Sarat.
So it's the kind of like work ethic, care for the game, all the little things that you need.
I wasn't shocked that he got to the fourth,
but where they got him was a great value.
The Baltimore Ravens at 115 select Elijah Surratt.
And then I look at the depth chart,
and we were talking coming in this draft, man, they need a fourth.
They got, like, Rashon Bateman does this thing.
They've got, Tess Walker does,
their hopeful will continue to get better,
all surrounding Zayflowers, obviously.
But their fourth was Lejante Western.
With all due respect, they could use an upgrade over that or at least have another guy.
And Elijah Surrott, to me, will wind up being the fourth receiver for the Baltimore Ravens.
It's a pretty damn good spot to get your fourth receiver early in the fourth round.
And another big frame guy.
Yeah, I love that pick too.
All right.
What's next?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Go out and get Keontes Scott.
The nickel corner, I really think, from Miami, but we'll see where they play him.
this guy is fun to watch.
I mean, he ran in the low four threes at his pro day,
so he's got speed.
I knew he was fast, but I didn't think it was like that fast.
No, no.
He's not overly big guy,
5-11 and a quarter inch.
That's average, 193 pounds, average.
I mean, he built more like a corner than a safety.
But when you see that speed on tape,
it's also the closing speed,
and he will come up and strike you.
He plays a violent game.
He's not afraid to get after it.
Some of that gets him in trouble.
He takes some chances he will get caught out of position.
But two interceptions in 2025, both pick sixes.
He's dangerous with the ball in his hands.
He had a punt return early in his career for a touchdown.
I think he's a versatile guy that can play.
I think he's got the speed to play high.
Probably the best fit for him is at the nickel.
I mean, get this.
He had five sacks and 14 tackles for loss in 2025.
is an aggressive player.
And I like the Tampa just continues to address that defense.
You get another hurricane after getting Ruman Bain in the first.
Yeah, man.
They're getting better on defense.
They're getting younger on defense.
I think it's a good pick.
I mean, you brought in the team that played for the national championship on the strength of its defense, and you brought in their best defensive linemen.
Oh, yeah.
And their best secondary guy.
Yeah.
I mean.
I thought Scott would be gone before.
then, to be honest with you. I thought he had a chance to go on day two. Yeah, I mean, we,
I mean, we finally landed in the top 100 with him at 66, man. We thought it was going to be third round.
Yeah, yeah. The goes to show you, man. After he ran that time at that position.
Next one up, Travis Burke cracked the top 100 for me at Memphis, right, the offensive tackle.
At the very end, it literally 100. I remember standing the senior ball field behind the quarterback's
throwing, Tailing Green, Garrett Nussmeyer, all those guys.
And all of a sudden comes up this massive man, who I'd met before, but it had been a minute
since I've seen him.
David Deal.
Remember him?
It's like a fifth round draft.
He looks good, though.
He was big, but he looks good, man.
He looks fit.
I'm not messing with him.
I've almost called over my bodyguard, Mench.
Because he came over to me with a purpose, right?
And the purpose was, hey, Travis Burke.
I was like, yeah, I know.
He's like, I want to really tell you.
you do know him.
I was like, okay, yes, sir.
Pan out, you know?
He shows me pictures of Travis Burke as this lean, like tall six foot eight.
Apparently Travis Burke in high school had this like gross spurt, right, from like six two to six eight.
The combine is six eight and three quarters, three hundred and twenty five pounds.
But in high school, like as a freshman or sophomore, he's like six two and I don't know, like 200 pounds.
And then, but he carries it beautifully.
And so he's like, he used to be a baseball pitch.
in a first baseman.
It was like a three-sport athlete.
But his dad was a football coach.
And his dad was an offensive line coach.
And they played it like a storied program, right?
In Florida, I believe it was.
And so he's telling me this whole backstory.
And he, David Deal, who was with the Giants, won two Super Bowls,
knows a little bit about being a later round pick in developing.
I think he was a 13-year starter for Eli Manning and the Giants, right?
knows a little bit about developing tackles.
Yeah.
And so he talks to me about the development
and how quickly he picked things up
and how he's growing and how, yeah,
he used to be a baseball player
and he used to be this, like, scrawny kid,
but he's a nasty son of a gun.
So I go back from the,
I go back from the Senior Bowl
and I put in the tape.
And it was one of the first plays that I watched.
I want to say he was Nebraska.
He just pancakes and, like, stands over him,
like, dipping it a little bit.
Let them know it.
Watch it.
5-1-70 runs in the 40-yard dash at that size.
6-8 and 3.
He's almost 6-9 and 325 pounds.
Listen, he's obviously tall.
He's long levered.
He's still developing.
And yeah, his dad was an offensive line coach, and he was with David Deal,
but he's not used to his body totally yet.
And you can see it at times.
But he moves well.
And so it's about continuing to develop him the pass rush, the balance.
and keeping the pads low and the leverage.
But he's got all the traits.
And then I see where he's drafted into,
and you got a team with Roshan Slater at left tackle
and Joe Alt at right tackle,
and they were both injured last year.
Man, we had problems.
If that comes up again,
we better not have to be trading for Trevor Penning
and bringing him in.
He kicks in a guard.
My point is they need offensive line depth.
We saw how devastating that was for the Chargers last year,
and they've got a guy now who can develop behind those two tackles and be a swing tackle.
And I see a bright future for Travis Burke.
And I just love the story, like how quickly it all happened for him,
even though he grew up playing all these sports, but dad's a football coach.
But then he grows a body to actually be an offensive lineman, you know?
And he knew it was coming, but when's it going to come?
And then he gets, he bounces around different colleges and finally winds up in the right spot with David Deal.
And Deals tracking me down at the senior bowl to tell me,
this guy and the tape was pretty fun to watch.
Yeah, he's got the left tackle, right tackle versatility.
He's lined up a little bit of both.
I love it.
We talked to Joe Hortiz at the Combine,
and I said, do you get worried about certain positions with injuries
and do you kind of make sure you have depth there?
And they go out and make sure they have a guy that can provide some depth.
And he's not ready to play now, I understand,
but he has a chance to grow into a really good swing tackle or only is created.
No question.
And you get the feeling that Harbaugh identified that one.
Yeah, he seems like a Harbaugh guy.
All right. Let's go back to the Raiders.
McShay said earlier that Jonah Coleman is the third best back in his class. He misspoke.
The third best back in his class is Mike Washington, Jr.
I get. I like Jonah Coleman, too.
I gave you that one on our board.
I like, and I guess they backed you up the way the market backed you up. I get it.
But to get Mike Washington at Pick 122.
We're talking about back here who is 6-1-223 pounds and ran a 4-33.
40-yard dash with a 1.5-1-10-yard split.
This dude is explosive.
He's coming off a breakout season at Arkansas.
I think he's an ascending player.
I think he's getting better.
I think you're getting a guy that's going to be even better next year.
Okay?
So that's what I'm talking about with the ascending player.
He runs with a narrow base, but he's just got the size and power to break tackles.
And you see that speed is not just track speed.
It translates to what you see on the field.
He can take off and just.
pull away when he gets a seam.
Other thing I like about him, I think he's going to help you in the passing game.
He's got the frame to develop into an excellent pass blocker.
He's got 33 and 5 eighth inch arms.
He's a big target with a wide catching radius.
And you're bringing him in to be the compliment to Ashton Genty,
which I think helps Ashton Genty.
You don't have to overload them with the workload.
You can use Genty in a couple different ways, right?
And I also love the way it's going to help your quarterback's Kirk Cousins.
Initially, Fernando Mendoza, after that,
because you're going to say committed to the ground game.
You can set up your play action package,
take some pressure off the quarterbacks.
I love this pick because he's so talented.
It's just a great value pick.
But when you slot him into the role that he's going to have with them,
it's value and need and fit.
It all works.
Yeah, I like that pick a lot because let's not,
okay, we've got Ashton Genti.
Let's just let's not assume that he can carry every handoff.
and that he can catch everything out of the back.
Like, let's keep him fresh late.
And we're not winning a Super Bowl in 2026.
Let's manage how we utilize Ashton Ginty this year.
And as we get in 2027 and start believing we can make a run in the playoffs,
we'll change how that looks.
But I think that's a really smart, honestly, top to bottom, I've loved what the Raiders have done.
And we'll get into the whole draft tomorrow.
We have a big breakdown.
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So that was
Mike Washington, the Raiders at
pick 122. 1-35,
the Colts made an important pick.
Yeah, they get another inside linebacker and Bryce
Betcher from Oregon. I want you to imagine Bryce Becher. Is that the second linebacker they took?
Yeah, C.J. Allen. I'm going to get into it. I'm going to get into it. Okay, sorry. No, you're good.
Bryce Becher, I want you to imagine Bryce Betcher is that he's on Oregon's campus. He grew up in that area, by the way.
And he's walking by, he's a baseball player, and he's walking by the football practice. And he's starting to get the itch.
And the problem is, I want you to think of Captain America when he was scrawny Captain America.
Okay. He was 210 pounds. He was like, I'm going to get, I'm going to go on.
and play with these guys from Oregon, these four stars and five stars, I'm going to get murdered.
Bulk's up. He's now 233 pounds so he can be competitive in play with him.
Ends up leaving baseball, even though he's drafted by the Astros, I believe in 2024,
to become a, to go on to the football team, lead the big ten and tackles in 2025.
One of the things that's interesting about him, I love his motor, I love how tough he is,
I love his instincts, both against the run and in coverage. I think he's going to be a
a special team's guy right away, and I do think he's going to play meaningful snaps on them on defense as a rookie.
He's just that good of a player.
But we went to the Senior Bowl, and he's practicing with these guys, and he knocks his teammate during a walkthrough.
He knocks his teammate on his ass because this guy doesn't know how to gear down.
I mean, he is all gas, no breaks all the time.
But when you get a feeling for how he is off the field, we actually got some inside information.
Tucker's brother is a scout.
for the twins.
And so he knows Betcher from the baseball world,
calls him a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy.
I love that.
Colts had a massive need.
They had a big need at inside-Lyghurs.
We don't talk about Tucker's brother
being a Major League Baseball scout enough.
No, I mean, it's, yeah.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
We could probably, there's other players
we could probably get in there.
They get CJ Allen with their first pick in the second round.
Now you've got two talented linebackers.
It's funny because I wrote in my Betcher report.
I'm like, he's a green dot linebacker.
mean by that is you're going to want to be communicating the
defensive calls to him and he's going to get
everyone lined up, make sure everything's where it needs
to be, he's your communicator, he's your leader.
Well, C.J. Allen's that guy, too.
So I don't know what they're going to do, but when you have
two of those and you get them outside
of the first round,
the cults have addressed that need pretty much in the
best way they could without having a first round pick.
It's awesome.
I love that. I love all of that.
The next
guy, I'm sorry, I'm just jotting down
this note. This next guy is one of my
favorite players in the entire draft. And I knew he was going to fall and I didn't care. And I
shoved him right in. It's 64 on the top 100 board. I knew Drew Aller was going to be a top
100 pick. Couldn't do it. No interest in bringing him in. I knew Kyle Lewis had a really good chance
to fall the fourth round because of his size. It's a linebacker out of Pittsburgh. Didn't care.
I want to be able to look back at this board and say, told you so. And that's exactly what's
going to happen with Kyle Lewis. He's six foot nutton. Two hundred and twenty nothing pounds,
220, nothing pounds, right? But he just makes plays. And he covers like a safety. And some
teams viewed him kind of as a safety. I don't care what you view him. That's 898 snaps in the
box. 578 snaps in the slot. He had another 253 snaps at the edge position. 26 starts he had
at Pitt. He's a special team's kickoff punt coverage, Maven. It comes to the Senior Bowl,
and it's he and Bud Clark, it's like every time I look, I'm getting his stiff neck looking around,
every time they get an interception, punch a ball loose, around the football making plays.
Those are the best two defensive players in terms of playmaking and difference making at the
senior ball that week. Then he goes to the combine. What's he do? Oh, it just runs a cool
four, five, three, right? It jumps a cool 39 vertical.
90th percentile the last three years.
He jumps a cool 10-9 broad, 95th percentile the last three years.
Okay.
This guy had six interceptions, 12 past breakups over the past two years.
He is excellent in space.
Okay.
You know who else the Miami Dolphins drafted?
Before they drafted Kyle Lewis at 138 overall?
The third biggest playmaker that,
week of the Senior Bowl in Jacob Rodriguez, who was punching balls out and picking them off too.
And the number one linebacker in college football last year in terms of playmaking,
leadership, toughness, taking the ball away, all those things.
So now I'm sitting here and I'm the Dolphins, and my roster's a mess.
Every position you look at, like those are their starters.
They brought in Jordan Brooks from Seattle and Tyrell Dodson from Seattle.
Yeah.
But now I've got Jacob Rodriguez who will supplant and Kyle Lewis who may be used as a sub-packaged nickel, dime certain roles, right?
Like a dime linebacker as a rookie.
Cover kicks, do all those sorts of things.
Let him continue to bulk up.
But I think at the 138th overall pick, you're going to wind up drafting a player, John Eric Sullivan,
that is going to be an impact guy.
In a year or two, he's going to be a full-time starter.
And he's going to tell everyone who passed on him to go bleep.
themselves because I told you so. I told you so in my tape at Pitt. I told you so in my tape at
the Senior Bowl. I told you so in my workout at the Combine. What else was there to do? I can't
get taller. I can't get bigger. I'll put on some pounds, but what's it matter? I just make plays,
man. What strikes me, and he is near the top of the list for this kind of a player,
the two free agency mentioned, Bulls signed from Seattle who just won a Super Bowl, right? What does it
take to win? What does it take to get there? We're going to bring in two guys who knows what it takes.
look at the character profile
of the defensive players they're taking.
Jacob Rodriguez,
Chris Johnson, the corner from San Diego State,
Michael Taff, the safety from Texas.
Great point.
The character of the players
that they're bringing on defense,
this is setting a tone.
This is a different room now.
This is what the expectations are,
and you're doing it with young guys.
And I guess that's one,
if there's a silver lining
to having to, like, rebuild an entire defense,
this would be it.
You get to come in and bring in your kind of guy.
I'll tell you what.
John Eric Sullivan in a weird way is in one of the most enviable positions I can imagine.
Isn't it?
There's no pressure to win right now.
I get a roster that's totally ripped down to the studs.
And I get to build it with all my guys with a million picks.
They came into this draft of 11 picks.
I'll have to go back and look and figure out how many they wound up using.
But you get like, you know, double-digit picks to just reset this organization.
And we know it's going to be a couple years to build and we'll get a bunch of picks next year.
and we'll keep doing it.
So it's going to be pretty cool to see how it all works out.
But a great start by GM, John Eric Sullivan.
Yeah, I love it.
All right, next up on the list, we get into the 140s.
We get a couple.
1-30s.
1-30s.
Bryce Lance is the next one for you.
Yeah, Bryce Lance, New Orleans.
Remember when Mike Evans played with Johnny Mansell, Texas A&M?
Yes.
And it was kind of like, well, is Johnny Mansell that good or is Mike Evans that good?
This is like Cole Payton and Bryce Lance.
Okay.
It ends up Bryce Lance might be.
reason why your guy from Colpain might be viewed so so highly.
Bryce Lance is 6.3, 204 pounds, 32 and eighth inch arms.
Nice try.
434 speed.
You just see it at the, like going against FCS competition, he is a nightmare to handle.
By the way, a 1-4-9, 10-yard split.
Does that even exist?
That's like, I mean, it's crazy.
It's probably three steps for him.
So this guy is going to take the top off the coverage.
Yes.
That's what he needs to be.
I think you, did you compare him to Christian?
Watson, was that your comp? I did. He's not quite as physical as, but he also, I think he tracks
the ball better, like in terms of going up and down the field and a little bit better, I would
say, after the catch. I love the comp. So now you've got this guy who is, he's a little raw,
he's going to have to develop, but he has all the talent in the world to be a big time
vertical weapon. You got a young quarterback with a big arm and Tyler Shuck, and you just look
now what Mickey Loomis is doing
and how he's got his quarterback, so what
does he do? He goes out and gets Jordan
Tyson the first round. He gets
tight-in, Oscar Delp, on day
two, and now he gets Lance
on the third day of the draft.
In addition to drafting a guard
and Jeremiah Wright, and adding
left guard, David Edwards and Free Agency,
they are building
around their young quarterback,
they are giving him weapons, and it's
not surprising that they took two receivers.
I mean, that's how, there's
Chris Alavi, Alave, and then there's some role players.
There's not really a number two on this roster.
And when you look at Chris Alavi's injury, the fact that he's going to
his last year of his contract, it made sense that they were going to go after two
wide receivers.
I didn't expect them to be able to get a talent like Lance that's going to fit what they
do, and I think going to contribute early at this point in the draft.
Yeah, I like that.
I think, give me speed for a guy who's got an arm.
Give me speed.
Yeah.
And that you see some plays of extending and rolling and give me some guys who can actually stretch it.
And even if I'm not throwing it to you, you're stretching it to open things underneath.
And, you know.
The analytics on Christian Watson, when he's in the lineup for the patterns.
Oh, it's wild.
What he does for other receivers?
It's wild.
You have to look at it.
You have the way he opens up space.
And did you mention who, they drafted another speed receiver, didn't they?
They drafted Tyson, Jordan Tyson.
So they got their route runner.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
Sorry, sorry.
Yes.
Yeah.
I knew there was a second receiver.
It may have been another team I was thinking up.
And then Delp down the seam.
You got another weapon there.
Who was, I believe, the fastest of the tight ends.
Yeah.
He ran in the four-fours.
Other than Sadiq.
Saddick, yes, yes.
Of the tight ends that weren't first-round picks, yes.
Okay, so my next up is 141 overall.
Kamari-Ramsey's a safety out of USC.
Started his career at UCLA, transferred to USC.
That's a no-no.
We heard from Bill Simmons.
You can't do that.
Big time, yeah. Bill's not alone on that. That rivalry is fierce, man, within L.A.
But transfers within the city, you know, one spot to the other, which is a no-no.
But does so as a six-foot, 202-pound safety, right, who can play all over.
And it almost worked to his disadvantage at times throughout his career, I thought,
because he played, what was it, 728 snaps at free safety his career, 556 at slot,
364 in the box.
I think that was the last, that's two years maybe.
And so I think this past year kind of in that nickel role,
it wasn't necessarily his best spot or he just was still adjusting,
but he did it for the team, right?
He also missed three games in 2025 with a knee injury.
So you kind of combine all these things, and you're talking about a safety that we were talking about in 2024, like he's the up-and-coming guy, like Caleb Downs and Ramsey, right?
It was before Thineman came on the spot.
It was before Emmanuel McNeil Warren and some of those other safety.
So the talent is absolutely there.
The versatility is there, right?
And he gets drafted to a Houston team that just keeps getting richer, man.
I look at Houston, and Nick Casario kind of managed it brilliantly.
We talked about that in the first two nights of the draft.
But you look at now you bring in another safety.
They've got Reed Blankenship, who came over from Philly.
They've got Kaelin Bullock.
Now we've got this versatile piece in the back end,
and a guy who can help take the ball away,
who can play some different spots.
I just, I thought Ramsey had a chance to go top 100.
I'm not sure if it was maybe a little bit of the medical
or teams with the tape last year.
not being quite as good.
But I talked to some teams that thought he was going to be a third round pick and really liked it.
So I'd be curious when we text some people after.
I've been digging down stuff on McCoy today, digging down stuff on Dion Burks today.
So there's been a lot of questions about a few guys who have fallen.
But Ramsey's a player who I think is going to weigh out play his draft slot, you know?
Yeah, I was like, do they have a knee there?
And then I was like, who cares?
It's too good of a value.
I mean, you take the best available player there.
It's, I think it could be a steal.
When you build that kind of roster, it affords you that ability.
The next one was a favor of both mine and Steve.
I'll handle it.
Steve can take over if he wants.
Justin Jolly on tape is absolutely a third-round pick at worst.
The tight end out of North Carolina State.
You're talking highly productive, over 1,100 receiving yards, 11 touchdowns over his last two years, okay?
This guy is 6.3 and 5 eighths of an inch.
He's not the tallest tight end, but it's not like he's that short.
He's basically 6-4, 241 pounds.
He's not going to be your in-line Y tight end.
But as an F, I saw him block, man.
I saw him work to block.
That was the thing that I like.
He competes with effort.
His competitiveness was awesome on tape.
Now, his finishing and his sustaining was not great.
He's not built for it, right?
But he couldn't run during the process, right?
And he was nicked up and couldn't run.
And I think that that's what led to this happening, him falling to, to, what did I say?
152.
But then I look up and I'm like, all right, who drafted him?
Finally, he's off the board.
Fifth round.
Who drafted him?
Oh, Denver.
Yeah.
Joker.
Right?
Sean Payton's kind of a guy.
Sean loves these guys, man.
And he will compete and block.
But obviously, at 241 pounds, it's not going to be his strength.
But he's got these long arms.
And he's got the ability.
I see speed on tape.
And I see the ability to separate.
I think he's one of the best.
I would argue, man.
I'm trying to think before I...
I would argue in terms of like separation skills, like craft.
The way he gets off the line for his frame is impressive.
Right?
Yeah, it is.
And it showed up at the scene.
Quiley, he had a great...
great week at the Senior Bowl.
Like his advanced route running, that's what I put in my report, like consistently through
tempo and leverage of his routes.
And like the subtle, like technical nuances with the head bobbs, the shoulder, like, I don't
know.
I was really, I was really, I'm getting choked up talking about Justin Jolly.
I like him that much.
I think that this is going to be a player who's going to make a real difference.
And I know that they're always looking for, like, weapons and different guys who can come in
and play a certain role.
can get open on third downs, and I'm just looking at what they have right now.
You got Adam Trotman, what I talked about, and then Evan Ingram.
Yep.
He's going to be the, he's going to take over Evan Ingram's role at some point.
Evan Ingram's on the back nine.
Yeah, like maybe the last three holes.
So that's, there's some vision in here, and Ingram doesn't always stay healthy a full season.
Like this one makes a ton of sense for me from Denver.
Yeah, I mean, I've been humbled before, maybe it'll be humbled again,
but I think when we look back at this tight end group
and who came off the board and the order of it all,
the people are going to be like,
huh, why did that guy go before Justin Jolly did?
You know what I mean?
It just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm going to go pick 165.
Tennessee Titans get Nicholas Singleton,
Nick Singleton out of Penn State.
Look, not a great year for Nick Singleton,
but this is a dude who ran for 3,400 yards
in 45 touchdowns in college.
So yeah, the production was down last year
And I do have some concerns about how he's seeing things
I didn't love the vision and the patience
As a runner last year, I get that
Yeah, it's not his thing
But
But we are talking about a guy
Who was number 19 on Bruce Feldman's freak list
And at 219 pounds can apparently run
According to Feldman a 43540
We're talking about speed, we're talking about production
I believe that if he hadn't broken a bone,
Again, not a knee injury.
Nothing like that.
He broke a bone in his foot at the Senior Bowl.
If this kid runs at the Combine at 219 pounds and he runs in the four-th-threes,
are we talking about him in the sixth or fifth round?
Are we talking about that?
No.
I think it's a sixth round, by the way.
I don't understand.
And Tennessee has a need at running back.
That's why we thought they might target Jeremiah Love in the first round.
And I get not taking a guy that early.
I get not taking a running back of four.
You could say it was the right move, to be honest with you.
Well, they didn't have the opportunity.
Oh, that's correct.
Arizona took the three.
That's right.
And there are reports that they very well could have, you know,
they wound up taking Carnell Tate at four.
But yeah.
Thank you.
But my point being is that a lot of teams were mocking him to Tennessee.
Yeah.
They need a guy that can compliment Tony Pollard.
They need a guy that can share the workload who's reliable.
Third few is carries.
Third few is carries in the league.
You got a young quarterback.
You cannot do that.
You have to show a greater commitment to the run.
Now you get a guy in there who, again,
needs to clean some stuff up.
It wasn't great last year.
But talent for days, the frame to handle a heavier workload.
At this point in the draft, I love this pick.
Yeah, and it was interesting seeing not a far range between the two on day three of Ketron Allen going a little bit earlier.
And then Nicholas Singleton, the two Penn State running backs that kind of like Clemson and Penn State.
It felt like all the prospects disappointed this year.
Was it a systemic, you know, was it everything that was going on with the program or was it the player, the chicken or the egg thing?
Or it was all these players just didn't play.
I think it had to be a little bit of both, right?
Yeah.
But Allen and Singleton here, their name's called on day three.
And they're two guys that coming into this year, we thought could be day two running backs.
So that part's intriguing for the teams that wind up with the Penn State running backs.
Okay.
Singleton was late fifth, sorry.
Late fifth.
Yep.
quarterbacks. Let's get to quarterbacks.
So the quarterbacks came off the board in a interesting way, right?
Surprise Ty Simpson for some people, not others in the first round after Fernando Mendoza was the first overall pick.
Then you had two quarterbacks going the third round after none were selected in the second round.
It was Carson Beck from Miami and Drew Aller from Penn State.
Then we get into the fourth round of the draft. Meanwhile, or mind you, we still have
have Garrett Nussmeyer on the board from LSU. We have Cole Payton from North Dakota State.
We have Talen Green. But the first quarterback off the board, Munch, is Cade Klubnick.
A player we liked a lot coming into the season, me even more than you. And I'll own that.
I liked him a lot, too, though. That's fair. I thought he was progressing towards. The end of the
2024 season went really well. And you started to see him kind of more decisive in, really
realizing where he wanted to go with the football.
You saw him as the runner, the competitiveness.
I saw him at the Manning Passing Academy and like a sponge to Peyton and like the way
he carried himself.
But there were a lot of things that were leading towards maybe he could be first round
pick or certainly day two.
But then the play, I would argue, regressed.
I saw a quarterback that was overly caffeinated in the pocket.
I saw a quarterback that wasn't trusting things.
And as the season progressed, he lost confidence.
but there's still that talent there
and the Jets take him
in the fourth round.
Thoughts?
I think you hit the nail on the head
with your analysis of his play
and that's ultimately why
I get the, I mean, the Jets need a quarterback, right?
I mean, Gino Smith's 35, soon to be 36,
coming off a bad year on a one-year contract.
Everyone in the world knows the Jets need a quarterback.
This is not the right guy.
You had other better options in my opinion.
But your draft, here's what I can tell you.
This is the information.
and I can tell you, right?
Both, from all different sources and just dipping into knowledge and experience.
Clubnik's a great guy to have around.
Clubnik's going to study his ass off.
True.
Clubnik is going to fight and compete and try to get some snaps this year and all that,
and maybe he will.
But when they draft their guy in 2027, whether it's Arch Manning or Dante Moore or
Brandon Sorsby or whomever it's going to be,
They've got three picks in the first round.
Clubnik is brought in to be the backup, too.
Because Gno's going to be like, peace, you know?
Mm-hmm.
So that's what this is all about, truly.
I get it.
You know my feeling on that, though.
What?
I think you sign backups, you don't develop them.
I know that.
You get a, you wait.
I would wait for K.
K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K.
It could be an excellent backup, by the way.
I do believe that.
This isn't knock on him as a player.
I like my backup quarterbacks
go play for someone else,
get some game experience,
probably not win that many games,
and then I'll sign you as a backup.
Yeah, when you have the amount of picks
that the Jets have,
it's never a bad idea to bring guys in.
It's like just no matter what your situation is,
it's never a bad idea to bring guys in.
So I don't have a problem with this.
And they had a plan with all these additional picks
to utilize one of them.
But you think they should have taken a different quarterback, correct?
That's really the story.
Yeah, okay.
I do, but then the draft happened.
Right?
Yeah.
Because, like, to me, you're not...
Clubnick's is in the same category as Garrett Nussmeyer, who falls to the seventh round of the Kansas City Chiefs.
That's a big story.
We'll get to that in a half second.
But Clubnik's not in the same category.
And Clubnik's in the same category as Nussmire and also Calliak Manus, Aethonemanis, Aeth,
Caliachmanus from Rutgers, who I just watched more tape on the other day.
Super, like, mechanically sound, feet are married to eyes, accuracy is outstanding, average arm.
Some mobility, but like, but he's in that category.
Baron Morton, my guy.
Your guy.
Got drafted.
I know he did.
Say sorry, would you every once in a while?
Baron Morton.
Can't do it.
So you've got Clubnik and Calliakman.
Monis and Nussmeyer and Morton are all in that same category of they're going to be backups in the league.
And sure, if we hit lightning in the bottle, awesome.
But who are the guys that we want that we know, like we trust their process that they're going to be teachers aid,
which is probably the worst way I can put it, but like really great in the quarterback room.
Okay.
Then you've got another category like Jalen Milrow a year ago.
Yep.
And Talen Green and Cole Payton.
my guy Cole Payton fell later.
I think, pardon my take.
I owe a big cat of it.
I think I'm supposed to send him a crying video.
I think it was picked 130 or 140, we said, if he hadn't been picked.
Well, guess what?
It was the fifth round for Cole Payton.
To Philly, though.
So when you're Philly or you're the Browns,
and you kind of, you've got that backup,
and you've got a situation in Cleveland,
you're bringing in developmental.
And that's what day three is for at that position.
So those are different categories.
So the Nussmeyer part is fascinating, but is it?
Everyone in the league knows that Nussmeier is a better quarterback prospect than Kade Klubnick.
Everyone in the league knows he's a better prospect than Kaliak Manas and Baron Morton,
as much as I like Baron Morton, I'm like the biggest Baron Morton dude, it turns out in the draft around,
outside of the Patriots and Elliot Wolfe.
But why does Garrett Nussmeyer fall all the way towards the end of the seventh round of the Kansas City Chiefs?
He's an undersized quarterback who has some durability concerns.
It's not the durability.
Yes.
But don't tell me that's not part of it, man, because it is.
Like if he was a bigger guy, I think they may not be as concerned about it.
Yes, yes, yes, undersized with durability.
But it's a, you have the details on it.
It's a cyst touching the back.
He's a cyst on his spine.
The oblique injury wasn't a muscle thing.
It was a cyst pressing against his spine and affecting a nerve,
which I'm not a doctor.
I don't know exactly my understanding is if they had to do,
that he's been symptom-free for a while now,
and if they had to do surgery, it would be minor surgery.
Yeah.
But I don't know if other teams are seeing it that way.
He does have a cyst on the spine that compresses on a nerve.
The bigger issue, and I'm not going to pronounce this right,
is Pateller tendonitis in his knee.
Yeah.
That's probably, I mean, teams are going to be concerned,
about that and how much is going to affect him long term.
Right.
So that's the bigger issue.
And trouble staying healthy.
Like in 2024, I told you, I don't think I've ever watched a quarterback who I could
physically see on tape looked like he was worn down.
And they, like Ty Simpson this past year, like they had no run game.
It was wearing on him, but physically he didn't look the same.
Then he played in the bowl game.
And I saw that a little bit more of the juice, the urgency and drops and the maneuverability.
And then this past year, there's reports of.
the tendinitis and then also we clear it was so obvious watching some of the tape it was hard to
watch like this poor guy like he's not himself why is he even out there um but the medical reports
must have shown i mean it's obvious they showed it showed a lot more because everyone in coming
into the year just to show like the national scouting service had them is one of the top i think
what top two or three grades maybe the top grade of all players yeah i'm not saying that
I don't put any stuff.
I'm just trying to give context
without giving other teams
and what they have.
But he winds up with the Chiefs.
And that's a pretty enviable situation to be in.
Yeah.
That's great for him.
That's a great spot for him.
When we talked about Ty Simpson going on the Rams,
I never thought, you know,
they've just got Justin Fields.
He still have Patrick Mahomes.
I don't know.
They were going to take a quarterback.
But now he goes and learns from Andy Reed
from Patrick.
I mean, it is a great spot.
I'd much rather be a seventh round draft pick
to the Kansas City Chiefs of film Garrett Nussmeyer,
then be a second round draft pick to the Browns
or to the Jets or to some of these other organizations
or situations, right?
Most other teams, it's not just the Browns of the Jets.
I mean, this is different.
Right.
So, yeah, so that was the story.
It was wild to watch.
It was frustrating to watch for Garrett Nussmeyer.
And the last thing is, you know,
Dionne Burke's, the wide receiver,
who we had a late third round grade on,
top 100 prospect, come to find out,
You know, the back, the medical stuff with the back injury that he fought through this past year,
raised some red flags for NFL teams.
And so he winds up, you know, taking a massive fall in the draft.
He's an explosive vertical receiver.
Everyone in the league you talk to just based off the tape is he's a top 100 guy.
The Colts wind up taking him late in the seventh round for two reasons.
One, yeah, the medical.
But two, what happens is, and I've been texting with people, and the one GM was texting another
person who was in the know with Dionne Burks.
It was like, hey, we know about the back, but like, is there more here?
What's going on?
Because this seems unreasonable.
Teams start to worry, like, oh, Berks is still, does everyone else know something we don't
know?
And so it's no fault of Deon Burks and the back in the medical issue probably isn't
as big as everyone is.
Right.
The medical issue isn't as big and isn't as concerning is where Berks winds up falling.
and it's an unfortunate part about this process.
No one wants to get egg on their face and say,
oh, you took Deanne Burks in the fourth round?
Man, we'd have bet.
You know, and that's just not the deal.
So there's a lot that goes on on day three
with concern about are we taking, you know,
a bigger risk than we need to take.
But I'm glad that Berks lands in a place
where, honest to goodness, in Indy,
he can wind up being like a number three or four,
eventually, probably like a number four or five this year
and being explodes.
Like a, and finally, for the first time in three years,
he's going to have a quarterback, and Daniel Jones,
who can actually throw the ball down the field to him.
John Mateer could in three games,
and he had, like, 300-plus yards receiving.
But Matier broke his thumb, and then he wasn't,
he was kind of closer to himself at the end of the year
in the college football playoff game.
And then Berks was ready to go again.
Michigan tore him apart.
So I'm pumped that Berks lands in a spot
where he can actually give the big bleep you to the rest of the league,
because I think he's a really,
really good player who's been in a bad spot for the last few years with Jackson Arnold and
Mateer, who I really like, but the thumb injury just reduced him to a runner and kind of short-yardish
thrower. Yeah, it's important of having a good medical staff that you trust to. Everyone else
would be saying whatever they want. If you have a guy that you trust saying it's time,
like now is the time you should take a chance on this guy. He could be a home run for them.
So this is a lot of fun. This is our day three recap tomorrow on Sunday.
We'll get it out late afternoon, early evening.
We're going to take, we've just spent a lot of time doing a breakdown of the entire draft.
We're going to have a lot of fun with it.
We're going to get to basically everything.
So check back on Sunday early evening-ish.
And in the meantime, keep checking out the website.
We're really proud of what has happened this year, and we'll continue to build this thing.
It's the ringer.com slash McShay for all the scouting reports.
If your team drafted someone, go check it out, man.
There's a lot of good stuff in there.
Meshay Report, too.
Get the McShay Report, too.
The report's coming out Monday morning.
We're going to have a big breakdown.
Favorite picks for every single team.
Metsch, five stars.
Thanks, ma'am.
All right.
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