The Ringer NFL Show - Live 2024 Mock Draft With Surprise Trades and Surprise Listener Comments

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

LIVE SHOW in Detroit on April 24: Click below for tickets! One week out from the 2024 NFL draft, the guys run through a LIVE mock draft and discuss all 32 picks in the first round, ideal landing spots for top prospects, potential day-of trades, and much more (2:42). Tickets: http://bit.ly/ringerdraft24 Check out our 2024 Ringer NFL Draft Guide here! Click here to watch the full mock draft on YouTube as well! Email us! [e-mail] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, and Ben Solak Social: Kiera Givens and Jack Sanders Producer: Kai Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey there, humanoids. It's the Maskman David Shoemaker. It's a new era in professional wrestling, and that means a new era here at the Ringer Wrestling show. Kaz here, every Monday and Thursday hang out with me and my guys' shoes on The Masked Show. And Ben Cruz here. Come kick it with me, Cal, and Brian on Tuesdays for Ringer Wrestling worldwide, where we hit on the most interesting headlines and even react to some of Maskedmans and even your hottest takes. Don't tap out. Tap in to the Ringer Wrestling show feed now on Spotify. or wherever you get your podcasts. Worldwide. Welcome to the Ringer NFL Draft show live on YouTube, baby. Yeah, that Solex Generations winning out over DK.

DK, do you feel young and hit now that we're live on YouTube? Yeah, I have no idea how this thing works. I don't know what YouTube is. I'm used to magazines and reading books. Yeah, you're used to magazines. All right. Read the articles, Craig. Yeah, yeah.

It's good writing. DK., flex, you're reading. I get it. We are doing a live mockery. All four of us are going to be making 32 pick. Obviously it's 32 picks. It's a mock draft. You get that by now.

But we're going to be going through the catch is we don't know who's picking for what team yet. We're going to randomize each pick as we do it. We're going to use this little twister randomizer. I had, I think it's a little bent. And so it's not going to work. So I'm going to do it on my phone. They have not innovated the game of twister since it was invented.

And because it's the optimal game. It needs no improving. Yeah. Could you imagine playing this now that we're old, like having to like bend and stuff? I would collapse. Isn't that just yoga, kind of? I feel like they just turn that into a business. Dude, a yoga mat that has twister things on it?

Yeah, that's the move there. Save it, Craig. Don't tell people about this. This is too good. Write this down. This is live. We can't cut this out. That's a great idea.

So we're going to be going through. We're going to be updating. We have a wonderful, beautiful big board here that we're going to be updating as we go through all 32 picks. Oh, yeah. It's so big. It's big. Look at that thing. It's beautiful.

It's green. The gradient color. A little yellow sneak it in there. A little sunshine yellow right there. I don't know what the ringer's secondary color is. We're green. We're a green family, but I don't know what second. The Ringer NFL draft show has a really strong Mountain Dew vibe, which I appreciate.

That's what we're angling for right there. It's just like nuclear waste. And I like it. Radio action. And then ground rules here, again, we're doing what we think will happen, not what we think should happen. So, you know, if they have to hold me back and restrain me as if, you know, if, you know, D.K. gets the Giants pick and thinks the Giants will take J.G. McCarthy. It's, I don't get to weigh in. You know, it's what we think is going to happen here. And it's in beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

So whatever you guys think is going to happen, you can disagree with it, but that's what we're going to go within these drafts. And then also ground rules, it's harder to do a mock draft without trades. It's also hard to do a live show with trades. So we have a trade god. There have been some pre-decided trades that we will be informed of as the show progresses. Which, if the real NFL draft would like to take that idea, that's also a banger. There's something there. Okay. Yeah. Just Roger Goodell just pressing a big red guy in his armchair being like, and the bills are moving up and they have to figure it out. That's sick.

Goodell just descends in week nine. He's like, Garrett Wilson, you're going to be on the Chiefs now. That just seems better. I would love them all to play Twister up there when they get drafted with Goodell. That'd be fun. Better than the hugs.

All right. Without further ado, shall we? Shall we get into this business? All right. This is our like super high tech thing. Spin the wheel. Let's spin the wheel, baby.

Hold it up to the camera. Like, like it's the most boomer thing. we're doing on this show. I know, yes. It is super boom. Okay, grandpa, hold it up to the camera. I can't do it.

Do your settings app. We're doing it. Boom. Who is it going to be? D. D. Oh. Solek.

This is rigged. This is rigged. You get to make the first, it's extremely not rigged. It's Ben Solick. You get to make the first pick for the Chicago Bears. Craig saw it. Who do you, uh, Solac, we're on the edges of our seat here. You know, I can't, I can't even imagine.

Yeah. that big, big, big draft rise for Joe All on this one. Here he comes down the mountain. No, it's, it's Caleb at one. It's been Caleb at one since, like, last summer, right? I think that we, we're taking for granted the fact that, like, we get a draft once every, like, five years, 10 years, really, where the guy who's going to be the first overall pick at the end of the previous season is actually the first overall previous set, the first overall

pick once everything's set and done, right? Like, Caleb has held this position now for over 12 months on, and really, like, it was never close to losing it. There was, there was a moment of, oh, Jaden Daniels, like, oh, maybe the Bears will trade the pick. But in general, like, this has been Caleb. It will be Caleb and understandably so. He's got multiple all-pro ceiling to him. He's got multiple Super Bowl season to him.

He's got MVP season to him. Like, he is that caliber of quarterback prospect. He's going to save the Bears. If he doesn't, it'll be funny, but he is going to save the best. Wow. T.K., less words. We've talked about on the draft show about how Caleb Williams is a lot like either Aaron Rogers or Patrick Mahomes and on the field. You know, I'm not necessarily saying Caleb Williams is necessarily.

like Aaron Rogers off the field. You know? Who is? Everyone do, well, we'll everyone do their own research, as Aaron Rogers would say. But I do think Aaron Rogers

dominated the Bears for so long that is it cruel to tell Bears fans they might be getting their own version of Aaron Rogers on the field? Or is it actually like the most accurate way to describe Caleb Williams is that what you just saw, the dominance Bears fans just endured,

they might get a taste of themselves with this pick. I think anytime you talk about like either, you know, multiple MVP winning quarterback or the two guys that he's been compared to are Aaron Rogers and Patrick Baham. So both of those comps are kind of problematic. I will just say the situation has really rounded out well for Caleb Williams. Like the Bears have done a good job of surrounding him with talent. They traded for Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, you know, the offensive line that could still improve

in this draft. Things are really looking good for Caleb Williams. Not only does he have the talent, but now the situation that he's landing in is pretty good. And I'm very, very excited for what he can do in the end of the end. So whether that turns into Aaron Rogers or Patrick Holmes or whatever, I don't think we need to worry about right now, but he has a great situation to fall into here. We just got a comment from Jeremy who says they always listen at 1.5 speed, so this is weird. I didn't really think about that. Everyone sounds drunk.

We all sound like six beers. Also, somebody on Twitter responded to the photo. I posted Craig and said, Craig looks like AI Tom Cruise, which I will be calling that back and referring to that many times. Tom Cruise on the field, not off the field. We want Tom Cruise on the field. Don't let that go to Craig's head because he's like seven inches taller than Tom Cruise. So I...

Wow. Huge for Craig. His wishes. All right. Second pick here. We have the randomizer, high-tech randomizer, is going to land on. Craig! Am I yellow?

Tom Cruise. You're yellow. AI Tom Cruise. You go. You're a second pick, Washington, baby. What are they going to do? Look, I don't necessarily agree with this, but I, you know, I have to select what I think is going to happen.

I'm going to go with Jaden Daniels, quarterback. LSU going to Washington, although there's been some buzz today. Yeah. Jane Daniels meeting with Minnesota, you know, shaking things up. I think so, so for context, yeah, for context, usually the agents of these players, if they don't believe that there's any chance they're going to fall, they're not going to take meetings with teams that will be like, you know,

picking at 6, 7, 8 or whatever if they think they're going number two. And the fact that Jane Daniels is now quite late in the game, taking a meeting with the Vikings is. kind of interesting. Do you think he's retaliating after Washington had 20 people to Top Golf? Speed dating. They have the Bachelor. They had 20 prospects fly in for the week of the draft. Like, what is going on? I need every story from that Top Golf. I just need like, you know, Jay J.J. McCarthy like super tryharding coming up in golf pants. I need like Drake May just being the guy who just like swinging with one arm trying to hit it over the fence. I need, I need every anecdote

from this Top Golf event. Did they really go to Top Golf? It is. Oh my God. Dude, it's like a Buddy, Buddy. sitcom season four conceit. Like, what if everybody went to top call, we figured out who's the, who's been the second overall pick? It's ludicrous. Do you think it was all 20 players were at one, like, T-box?

No. I had maybe four, for five players. I think there were multiple, and people were reading into who's at which T-box, right? Interesting. Like, like, Jaden and Drake were in T-Box one. Jays McCarthy's in T-Bix with Michael Pennix. There was a lot. I need these stories, Craig. I need him so bad. What was

Washington hoping to accomplish with this. See who's got the nicest swing. I think competitive is. They want to see who's like getting absolutely angry when they're getting out drove. I think they want to see that. And then I also think that they're probably trying to see like hand. But yeah, I think they're just trying to see who's sizing

each other up. It's like, it's like rattling a cage of puppies and trying to be like which one's not afraid. They have all the security footage and they have their team of psycho pseudo-analysis scouts going through it, coming through it back in the facility trying to figure out who's the guy. It really is like ranking your friends though. It's like the old Myspace days. Yeah.

Where you're like, I just went from seven to nine. You know the show Undercover Boss? Do you think they had one of their like executives just serving food or something? Bob Myers is just in the back, like Shirley Temples? No one knows what he looks like, so it's fine. Anyway, Jane Daniels. All right, Jane Daniels to Washington. All right, next up here, we got the randomizer.

Hyphins, what color are you? Are you blue? I don't know. which, uh, I'm red. You're red. You're red. There you go. All right. There's high fits. Oh, wow. It's me, baby. All right. Three. Be careful here, Hyfitz. Your, your, your job is on the line right now. I'm sure Bill Simmons is watching. Okay. Um, well, uh, I'm not getting calls for trades. So I am going to take Drake May, the quarterback from UNC and I'm going to run home to the bank because, oh my God. The Patriots. I shout out to him, Ben Glickman, the editor-in-chief of the ringer.com who said this to me like last,

about last year's draft. He was so right, which is this. And Craig, you've said, said this too. The second pick last year was better than the first pick because you get to just take whoever falls to you and if it's bad, whatever. The Patriots, the Washington, if they get Jade and Daniels, Drake May wrong, huge problem. New England just gets to sit there and just take whoever. Like the fact that New England just gets to sit there and take Drake May, they both get Drake May, but they also don't have the pressure of having gotten it wrong. Incredible for New England. I also think that Drake May is going to be incredible. But the Patriots just total lack of accountability by getting the third pick. This does kind of suck, though, setting it up.

for Drake May to step into new offense. I know. Has nothing going on. Like we were, you know, Hyvitz, you're such a big, like, fit over, over, you know, nurture over nature.

And it would just suck if we just throw Drake May into this team that has, you know, a bunch of waiver wire, wide receivers and nothing else going on offensively. And he's just bad. And he just gets Josh Rosent.

I will say, the one advantage they do have is the defense is probably going to be pretty good. And that gives them a little bit of a foundation. And hopefully, they make a trade. Brandon Ayuk,

rumors out there right now that the Patriots might be interested in a guy like Brandon Ayuk. I don't know if they can, they're obviously not going to go up the third pick to get him, but maybe a future first

or something like that. But yeah, they absolutely need to get him more help. And, you know, the Patriots, this offensive structure worries me a little bit. Yeah, they do have Jacoby percent.

And so they can sit for whatever period of time they'd like. The main thing is always trying to figure out how your guy learns, right? Because some guys can learn, like on the bench, QB2,

holding the clipboard, on the whiteboard, Tuesday. Some dudes just need to go out and do stuff. Like they do by learning. I'm a huge du by learning guy. Like I just make a bunch of mistakes and I figure it out and then I go. And so, oh, sit Drake May. Like, you know, don't let him get hurt. There's some veracity to that. But if he's not a good learner on the chalkboard and like needs to go through the process, be kind of the QB1 and making the mistakes on the field, you got to put him out there because you want him to be ready and be good next season when presumably you get a few more weapons in the building.

Totally agree. Select one. He's Drake Mae is 21 years old. And I think 21 year olds generally learned by making massive mistakes. I also have to say, So like, we have a couple of YouTube comments here. Chris says, Solek is dressed like Mr. Rogers. I just was trying to be cozy. It's a little nippy out.

Artigan. He does look cozy. Cormac also says, how long until Solex's baby looks older than Solac? A while? I'm an adult. I'm big.

Babies look like old. Babies look like old men when they're first born. Yeah, they didn't. Probably not very long. Fourth pick here. Who's like, oh, am I holding it wrong? Yeah, I am.

You're good. You're good. Oh, great. Craig again. I want to go this whole draft without picking. You got a mock draft in your life. I'm like, I feel like the haze of the barn. I don't need to do any more mock drafts in this point. Arizona Cardinals' fourth pick, Craig, who you take him?

And you're getting no calls about trade right now, right? The trade god is not weighing in right here. The trade god is ignoring you right now. Yeah, no answer, silence. This is pretty simple then. I do think that Thor is a real hot spot for a trade-up, But if they're holding steady, I'm going with Marvin Harrison Jr. Wide receiver in Ohio State.

I personally feel like at four and five, I just want both these teams to take wide receivers. I don't want them to trade out. Fantasy brain. Yeah, sure. The top of the receivers are so good in this draft. I just want Justin Herbert and Kyler Murray to have somebody to throw to. I don't know if that's too much to ask. But I'm happy.

I'm happy there was no trade-up, and I can stay here and give Marvin Harrison to the Cardinals. DK, I've asked it before, I'm going to ask it again. If Marvin Harrison Jr. were still Marvin Harrison's son, but he was named Fred, would he be the first pick in this draft over Relink Neighbors and Romadunze? What if they're all their names were Fred? Yeah. Fred Adunzei, Fred Neighbors and Fred Harris.

I think maybe he is getting a slight cachet bump or whatever you have it because his name is Marvin Harrison Jr. Nepotism. He has all the skills. He is a complete prospect, good. route runner, elite size, elite catch radius. He has an incredible body control. He's like Garrett Wilson's body control in, you know, 20 pounds or whatever, how much heavier he is. He scores a ton of touchdowns. He can go deep. He can get off the line. Like he has a full skill set.

His name, his name maybe affects it a little bit. But again, I'm going to say Jerry Rice's son is in this draft. And we're not talking about him. So please stop saying. It's Jerry Rice Jr. It's Brendan Rice. It doesn't matter. His last name is Rice. Jeremiah. Harrison, Carter Jr. is going to go round four. Maybe Brendan Rice. Please stop saying

Marvin Harrison's skating by on his name. You guys, I think it's finally time that I announced that my last name is actually Goodell. I didn't want that to affect things. You were going under a pseudonym and you chose Horlebeck. And that's a good last name.

No one would notice. Yeah, it's a real smokescreen. No one looked at that. All right. Let's recap the board here, the first four picks. So we pull it up. We got the Bears taking Caleb Williams.

quarterback at USC. We have the Washington commanders taking Jayden Daniels, quarterback at LSU emerges from their top golf bachelor party. Patriots take Drake May out of UNC just because they get to sit there and be like, sure, whatever. Cardinals take Marvin Harrison, Jr.

You know, if he was Brendan Harrison, we'll see. But those are the first four picks. Chargers are on the clock there with five. However, I am hearing from the trade god in the heavens that we have a trade. We have a deal. The is that the sound, do it again. Yeah, the siren.

That's our high. Yeah, yeah, do it. I like that, actually. The Minnesota of Vikings, are sending the 11th and 23rd picks plus a third rounder next year. Oh, that's a good deal. Moving up, Minnesota has the fifth pick. Now we will do a little randomizer action.

Minnesota on the clock. Actually, wait before we do that, the sound one more time. We have to do the sound. Yeah, thank you. That was really important. All right. And for the wheel, it's our sound effects budget is quite low. It's just crazy.

It's crazy. It's crazy. Cride. Crack. Dickon. It's rid. They're trading up. They're trading up to take Ladd-Macon.

conkey. You got to get the guy. But he's there. You got to go get him. You got to get your guy. If Minnesota's training up to five here, they presumably won a quarterback. I'm giving them John James McCarthy, aka J.J. McCarthy, Michigan man,

immediately stepping into one of the best supporting cast of any quarterback getting drafted into top five in a long time. Although Caleb's is pretty good at one. But yeah, this is an immediate situation where he doesn't have to start. Sam Donald's there. and he has a full cast of characters around him. Jefferson, Addison, Hawkinson's coming off an injury. They've Aaron Jones now.

So they have a great coach and play caller, Kevin McConnell. So this is a great pick. Look, I've come around on J.J. McCarthy at 5 from Minnesota because if you put him in a great situation, I think this could work. I agree with you. This makes a ton of sense. And like you said, okay, what would you put the over-under on how many games he sits? Do you think that they would actually start Sam Darnold this year?

Or if this trade happens, or do you think they just go straight to McCarthy? I think over under like two or three and a half, I would say. Top five. He's probably playing by October. Top five quarterback picks generally don't sit for very long. Well, I think my question, so, like, you've kind of been harder on McCarthy. I'm curious. Again, I do think this is probably on the short list of the greatest group of past catching weapons,

any rookie quarterback will ever have worked with. Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Hawkinson off the AC on, as Craig said, Aaron Jones is one of the better receiving backs. You're not a huge fan of McCarthy, but I'm still like, I'm curious. Do you just believe that J.J. McCarthy, because this is a perfect situation, can he just kind of immediately be delivering like an 11-win season? Like the Vikings, could they just beat the lines in the NFC North? Like, let me add to that question before you answer, Ben.

Okay. Drake May in New England, year one, Jay-Macarthy in Minnesota year one, who has the better statistical season? Oh, J.J. McCarthy, 100%, no question. McCarthy, like, I'm tough on McCarthy, but my line on both Jane and Daniels and J. McArthur's whole time has been, I like both players. I don't want to go spend the pick that's going to be necessary to go get the guy. I don't want to take JJ at five. I'd love to get him more in like the Mac Jones,

Paxton Lynch range, right? Like 15, 26. Because there's a big difference between those picks. I think JJ's destined to be a Brock Puritan. He's destined to be a Jimmy Gropolo, like the 13th best quarterback in the league. And you don't want to dedicate a top five pick to that and have to give that guy a huge contract.

But when he's on the rookie deal with those weapons, yeah. I mean, like the Vikings can be quite productive, quite early with JJ or honestly with Drake or with Jaden. Like they are well suited to install rookie quarterback and go. Can I just say something real quick? the chat, just thirsty for Craig right now. Craig is the ringer draft show.

It's all the Scientologists after the Tom Cruise comment are watching. I think that's what it is. Mike says I think I prefer listening to the podcast because I'm finding Craig to be very distracting during the live stream. That's just my wife with a pseudonym. Yeah, that's a plant. Unfortunately, a lot of people are saying this.

We get it, Craig. I pay all of them. Craig is Ryan Reynolds and welcome to Rexham where it's like Rob McLean. He's just standing there and just like everyone wants it to Ryan Reynolds. I do have my own gin.

So check. There you go. So the top five picks there. So we got Caleb Williams, the USC. We have Jaden Daniels to Washington. We have Drake May to the Patriots. And then we have Marvin Harrison Jr.

The Cardinals. And we have now, JJ McCarthy, the Vikings. And then, you know, what? Well, look at that.

Little squad there at number six on the board, the New York Giants, baby. Give me, giving me, all right. Oh, my God. All right.

Spin that wheel. Oh, please, please, please, please. I love that we're holding a phone up. Well, you know what, man? It's just... Hey! Adjust again! No!

Oh, that's me. That's me. Oh, that is you. Oh, I did it. Okay. I got confused because... This is the best time ever. I don't have to do anything.

Wow. Breathe. Breathe. Okay. So, again, we're doing... I'm so glad JJ McCarthy's off the board so that we don't even have to have the conversation. Yeah, you're lucky. The Giants...

I certainly need a receiver. I think the questions between Malik, neighbors at LSU and Roma Dunezada Washington. It's just different structure, different folks. I feel like Malik Neighbors is faster. D.K. You comp, and Ricky Bobby, and I feel like the Giants just need that element of speed and he would be awesome. I will say this.

I wonder if, I kind of wonder if Romodunzee will just thrive better in New York. It's a very challenging market. And I just think that, I kind of personally feel like Romo Dunezai might have a better career on the Giants. The neighbors. Well, having said that, I think the Giants are going to take Malik neighbors. I think Brian Daibu wants to go fast. I just, I really think that Brian Dable, like, had a very poor poker face throughout the combine.

D.K., were you there with me in Indy, like, seeing, like, all the Giants receivers talk about how, they all were talking about how happy Brian Dable was to speak to them. Really? No, I don't, I don't remember this. Why? So, okay, first of all, my question is, in terms of the fit, do you think that there's any redundancy with neighbors in the fact that they drafted Jalen Hyatt last year, kind of like a field stretching deep threat type guy? Or is just, neighbors just so good,

it doesn't matter at all. I mean, I think you just move around, you do whatever with them. And I also just think as a matter of principle, I don't know if you just like use your sixth pick because you used the third rounder last year. That's like card before the horse. I don't know.

So like you're sitting there a little like grid. Is this the right pick? No, I like, I'm saying if the grings, I'm reading the chat. The chat's really funny. We should have a live shot for all of our pods. This is great.

Is it just all about Craig's the five o'clock shadow is handsome. I need to be both for Craig's, Like, pretty much whoever makes the pick and gets the big screen is just getting bullied for their background. I keep getting yelled out for my cardigan. Craig's super hot like the usual. That Craig is so hot right now. Yeah, yeah. I think I like, I think you're right in that if the Giants are picking between neighbors and Adunze, I think they will take neighbors.

Very funny to be once again doing the Darius Slayton contract thing. Right. So yesterday it was like Darius Slayton. Oh, yeah. Who like for the fifth year in a row has led the Giants in receiving. And for the fifth year in a row doesn't have a year next year. Would like to get an extension. Yeah, I think they want to get a speed element that they like more than Darius Slayton.

And I know that because they keep not paying Darius Slayton. Hi, Fitz. Do you want a quarterback to be available at six? I would do horrible things for Drake May or J.N. Daniels to fall. And I don't want Jay to McCarthy. Do you want J.J. McCarthy to be available at six so that you, the Giants have to sweat that out? If the Giants took him, I'd be, I'd talk myself into it in 12 seconds, maybe 13. Okay.

If the Giants could trade back, I would be open to that. but if the Giants took McCarthy, I feel like the roster, I just don't see McCarthy being such an open. Like McCarthy makes so much sense to the Vikings with like a Shanahan-esque team. Like he's kind of like Kirk Cousins light. You're replacing Kirk Cousins for really cheap.

You pay Justin Jefferson. I think the Vikings like could build up a defense to make a Super Bowl run. That makes sense to me. The Giants just, I, no. It's like I get a superstar. No, more Daniel Jones. The whole thing's sad.

Just get a cool receiver. Whatever. All right. Titans are up next. on number seven. Seventh pick here. Who's going to win? Oh, you again.

Is it going to be? All right. D.K. is killing it at this point. Yeah, DK. Yeah. Such an incredible bit. DK.

Our senior, senior draft analyst or whatever your title is. This is where I take it easy. You guys tell me about these players. So, I mean, the Titans take Joe Alt, All the Paul Bunyan at a Notre Dame. D.K., why did you comp show all to to Paul Bunyan?

because he's six foot eight. Yes. He's extremely tall. That's it. Sorry, cool. He's really tall. It just makes you think of a tall person when you see that he's six foot eight, you know? Maybe that's maybe not my best comp ever.

But yeah. No, I love it. I also just really do think the Titans Need line. And also I just keep coming back to the fact that the head coach's dad is the offensive line coach. And he's going to look his dad. His dad's going to be like, we're taking it like Logan Roy. Like they're going to look him in the eye and be like, no, dad. We're going to take Roma Dunsay and his dad's going to look him in the end.

Like, now, they're going. the lineman. Joe Alt next to Peter Skoranski. Oh, that's pure sex right there. I love that. Will Levis, man. What kind of sex you have? Offensive tackle sex.

Offensive lineman, that's the part that reminds you. That's the part that gets you going, the line play. Oh, yeah, big time. Yeah, big time. They, um, the, the, like the Titans kind of, you know, uh, showing and and, and tipping their hand that they're going to take tackle. Like, there's some debate like, oh, maybe they trade back or whatever. This offense, man, like, if they get a good tackle, they're pretty.

and like Callahan's there. And like they have everything they need to find out if Levis is good or not. They like they're not a tackle away from competing but they're a tackle away from finding out if they're real. And so I think it's great. Like they can just stay and take all. It's one of those like not sexy,

ho-hum, nobody cares picks, but it's a great, great franchise pick for them. Titans are in all-time, like Titans are in all-time talk yourself into them this year team and then they're going to win four games probably. But like you could really, you know, man, DeAndrejad's kind of still got it, Calvin Ridley.

You know, Tony Pollard, you had a bad year, but he's good. Trail on Berks, baby. This is his year. Jig, year four, whatever it is. Yeah. All right, let's do it. Number eight here. Come on, baby. No whammies. No whammies. Atlanta Falcons. Let's see how long we can go without Dekha. Come on, baby.

All right. It's going to be me again. Yes. This is great. So Atlanta Falcons here on the board at number eight. This is so, everyone has them taking Dallas Turner, the edge rush around Alabama. Is there, is there, so I can see it. I'm torn between that and like, I don't know, maybe they could take Latu Latu at a UCLA.

Like the defensive coordinator for the Falcons right now was coached Latu in college. And then at the same time, you also have maybe Byron Murphy because the Falcons have a bunch of defensive tackles who are older or might just not be on the team in 2025. So I mean, before I lock this in, So like, do you have, or D.K., you haven't gone yet.

Should I go Dallas Turner here? No, I'm not. That's not how this is. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm taking it easier now. Fine, I'll be boring. Dallas Turner, he's good.

His name is, his name is pretty, like, Baywatch could have had a character named Dallas Turner. Oh, yeah, totally. Has he got like a cowboy vibe to him? Like, Will Anderson. Yeah, Will Anderson is a better player in Alabama, but imagine if Will Anderson had been named Dallas Turner. Yeah, Dallas Turner shows up to the Santa Monica Beach. He comes from Texas. He's never been to the ocean before.

All the girls love him. A cowboy hat. That probably happened in the show, so. I'll check that. All right. All right. I've got the math running. Right now,

DK having not made a pick through eight picks, is a one out of ten chance. Yeah, I was going to say, what are the answer? Yeah, this is 10% of the time, one person makes no picks.

So keep it running. Let's also bring up the big board here. Let's bring up the big board here. Let's just do a little recap on where we're at. So we have eight picks in the bag. We got Caleb to the Bears. We got Jen and Daniels to Washington. We got Drake made of the Pats.

We've got Marvin Harrison Jr. The Cardinals. We got Chargers. traded down with the Vikings. Vikings, like J. G. G. McCarthy. We got Malik neighbors to the Giants. We got Titans taking Joe All, a.k. Paul Bunyan, out of Notre Dame, and the Falcons taking Dallas Turner,

Baywatch Star, and Atlanta. Bears are on the board at number nine. There we go. Should we go a little spinny wheel? Come on, baby. O'Dethia, the inevitable spiny wheel. We got it. It's rolling. Come on yellow. Damn.

No, not even a shot for D.K. Not D. K. That's nine. Solac. You get the bears at nine. tickets. This is amazing. I'm, I'm, so I,

I'm really happy that Romadunze has become like a standard expectation for this pick. And that's the pick I'm going to make here at nine for the Bears. When they signed Keenan Allen, it was like, or traded for him, excuse me, it was kind of like,

hey, like, they got DG Moore, they got Keenan Allen, Cole Kmetz on extension. Like they have their pass catchers. But when you look at the elite teams, like the teams that make long playoff runs, which the bears are trying to build that.

Those are teams that have multiple elite past catchers. They have multiple great weapons. And Kenan Allen's only there for a year. He's getting old. Cole Komet is not that. Like, they need to add more to DJ Moore in the future. When you also look at the teams that develop young quarterbacks well, they're teams that have multiple elite pass catchers, right now.

This is the move right now is you got to have a guy and then a guy who can also be the guy on any given week. And that's going to be DJ Moore and Roma Duns Day long term for the bears. This is a great, like, this year pick because it just incubates Caleb so much. It gives them such great weapons. And it's a great like year two and year three and year four pick because you move on from Keenan Allen and you still have two potentially wide receiver one caliber players. DeJ Moore is what, 26? Like, they're both under 27. They're entering their

primes while Caleb's on his rookie contract. Like, this is the build that got the Bengals to the Super Bowl a couple years ago. This is a perfect pick. And I'm not, I don't mean to beat it to death, but Caleb Williams really does remind me a lot like Aaron Rogers. And in every way. Yeah, in every way. He believes anything you tell him, pal. I was at the combine. I talked to Caleb Williams for 30 minutes about Dr. Fauci, you know, it's just in every way. We are, like, people can clip this show, guys. That's a number of. That's a number. happen. Yeah, do your own research. But no, but Caleb Williams on the field does remind me of Aaron Rogers. And Romadunzei reminds a lot of people of Devante Adams. DK., you have shades of Devante Adams.

Dk. You have shades of Devante Adams and your draft guide at, and if they'll draft. dot the rear.com, not that we're asking you what you think for any of Spick. So loveing that. So is it cruel to be taunting in front of Bears fans' faces? Oh, you're going to have Rogers and Devonte Adams. It'll be great. I mean, it feels, setting them up for a fail. Yeah, it feels like we're cursing them or what's the word, jinxing them. But yeah, I mean, I still think stylistically, it makes a ton of sense. If you, if you're building a receiver group to look like a basketball team, like DJ Moore, yards after they catch, like incredibly elusive. We got Keenan Allen who can get open early and move to chains.

You got, and then you have Roma Dunesay, who is a pure X receiver, like a throwback X receiver. He can win even when he's covered. He's so good, dude. He's so good. So I love this. I think, man, I'm just getting more and more excited about what Caleb Williams can do in the end of it. I hope they do this because the weapons for the bears are a little top heavy. Like we said, it's like DJ Moore, Keenan Allen.

Keenan is going to be 32 this year. Cole Commet. then it's like, D.K., name another Bears wide receiver other than DJ Moore and Keenan Allen. Tyler Scott, who I don't think did really anything as a rookie. 35-year-old V-Lis Jones Jr. Yeah, they got the little

punt returner from the Bengals, is he still there? Nope. All right. 10th pick. Trent Taylor. I don't know. It's Dante Pettis, who's somehow still in the league. Oh, yeah. Tenth pick. Yes.

Who! Crick. Dick. What are we up at the odds right now, All right, I got three to the fourth to the tenth power is 5.6%. All right. Soak is young Sheldon. Let us keep going, maybe. I'm good.

It's a calculator. I didn't do it off the dome. I was saying the whole time. I appreciate you looking at that up. 6% chance that D.K. has not picked. Solex, young Sheldon, and the Craig, the comments on Craig are, we have, dude, I've never realized Craig is such a smokeshow. It's just like all people are really.

We need to be done with this bit. We need to move on from this bit. All right. Well, then pick someone for the jets that said. Craig, you love it. I don't. Okay. Number 10.

I know everybody wants Brock Bowers to go to the Jets. I'm not going to give it to them. Bo! What? The Jets need an offensive lineman for Aaron Rogers to stay on the damn field. That is the single most important piece of the Jets. Would it be cool if they had like a fun tight end? Tight ends are famously not important in their rookie seasons.

That is not what you need right now for Aaron Rogers. You need to win right now. They need to tackle. I'm giving them Olu Fashu at a Penn State. and this is going to keep Aaron Rogers' other Achilles from snapping four plays into the game. I love that. Maybe he'll make it six plays. Maybe six.

Yeah. It is good and it is defensible and, like, you can't trust Morgan Moses and Tyrant Smith. I think that's fine. I would say that Brock Bowers is like a good pick that helps Rogers. It also does help Roger stay in the field. Tight ends, like, you know, chipping and blocking and helping those tackles. Like, you know, there's water both sides of the bread here.

Pretty good. I'm not going to like to look. I, like, spiritually disagree. agree to my core because on one hand, Rogers is literally infamous for never integrating rookie receivers. And then tight ends are infamous for outside of last year, almost never compared to his rookies. All right. It just canceled.

Pemdos. All right. 11th pick here. And again, the Chargers are picking now because the Chargers traded down from the fifth. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Minnesota. Yeah. No.

So incredible. Yeah, so like, you're picking for the L.A. Chargers that's traded down. Wild. T.K. K. DK, why don't you take a watch? Just go. Go grab a snack.

Do you have to watch a kid or something? Go get some coffee. Let the babysitter take a, yeah, take a lap. I think I'm taking Brock Bowers here at 11 for the Chargers. Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah. So I think, so you've seen some Brock Bowers, like, I think last month there was some, like,

what if he falls to 15, 16, 18? And over the last couple of days, we've seen a lot of, like, every team that's in, like, the top 10, like at 7, at 8 and 9, they're all mean with Brock Bowers. It really feels like his range is going to be top 12. I believe that. Right now at tight. end for the charges we have Will Disley. Yeah.

Hayden Hurst. I will have no disley. Yeah. No disley hate here. You will have disley slander and you will like it, sir. Brock Bowers here. This is a yards of the catch weapon. He's a designed catch weapon.

He's a downfield guy. He is a all around a player at tight end. We're talking about a Sam LaPorte, a level of impact in terms of year one, right? I think he can be that sort of a producer. He also helps some of the protection problems, right? Like they could, I think, should add a right tackle. but they do like Trey Pippins in the building at least the previous staff did.

Put the tight next to Trey Pipkins, protect him a little bit from the outside rushers and you can get away with the Trey Pipkins. So I think Brock Bowers be a great pick for the Chargers at 11. Love it. Yeah, let's bring up the board here. So we got 11 picks on the board. Just a quick recap.

That was surprising. So like what I see you're saying. Also, Bauer was just like a football player. I feel like Harbaugh is going to talk about him and use some like 40s football players to be like, yeah, Brock Bowers. Like that's how it's supposed to be played. Like it does seem like a Harbaugh kind of guy.

So I like this. And they need pass catchers. Like, we can't ignore the fact that, like, with wide receiver and office to tackle at both huge needs, take a tight end. Get half of both. All right. So let's keep rolling here. Let's go.

So we have the 12th pick here. We have the Denver Broncos around the board. Let's see. At this point, I'm actively rooting against D.K. Ever getting a sense. And he still is out. Come on, come on, come on. Come on.

So the Seahawks are at what? 16. Okay. We got to make it to the Seahawks before D. Okay. All right. Denver here at 12. I kind of think Denver is in like,

they just need everyone territory. Like anyone and anyone best player available kind of thing. Yeah. It's like they obviously need a quarterback, but you need a lot of help on defense. I'm going to give them an edge rusher. I'm going to give them way out to Latu out of UCLA.

I think that's what I would have done too. I was trying to prep for this just in case my name finally came up and I was like, corner maybe. I think you could pair them with, with CERT and have a really good duel there. But I think pass rush probably makes the most sense in terms of like bang for your buck at that spot.

And I don't think they're probably not going to take like a bow knicks or Michael Pennix at that that high. Yeah, I definitely don't think a quarterback is going that high. I do agree with Craig. Like it's kind of like who is good, take the best that you can get. They have tackle needs spots. They have corner needs spots. Like those guys are there. Edge is like the one of the leanest groups in this year's class.

Like there's some good top guys. Then it falls off. And so if you're Denver and you're thinking, we're just taking good dudes, you feel a lot better about your ability to get a starting corner around two and starting tackling round two. they don't have their own too pick, but just as an example, then you do about a starting edge.

And so getting a guy here that you'd like as a player can get on the field right now. And I compliment with Bradley Chubb, like used to be there in Denver. I like it a lot. I like, yeah, I think this is a great pick and they just need football players. 3% chance that DK doesn't pick in the first 12 picks. I need everybody to know in the pre-show. Our producers asked us, they were like, if you guys do the wheel, you know, there's a chance that like nobody makes a pick.

And we were like, yeah, that's ideal. That would be optimal. That's exactly what we want. That's exactly what we're hoping for. D.K is the one person I would choose to be suffering through this right now. Delightful. 13 for the Raiders. Oh, no.

Oh, no. No. No. No. No. D.K. gets the pick for the Raiders. Make it count, buddy. Take back.

This is tough. The Raiders. Yeah, honestly, I actually think this is one of the hardest teams to figure out in the entire draft. So there you go. Good luck, D.K. Who are the Raiders taking with the 13th pick? Okay. So this is the draft of what we think is going to happen.

There is an awful. lot of smoke around Michael Pennex and the Raiders. I think there's a chance the Raiders trade back up into the first and take him later in this round. And that's maybe the most realistic thing here. But I'm giving him Michael Panics. I think there's too much smoke to completely ignore it. The Raiders just can't help themselves as a franchise.

It feels like they are always making decisions exactly like this. If we're doing this mock draft and we're putting a lot of thought and we're having all these picks be like really reasonable and like a good marriage of like who's on the board with what the. team needs and like thinking all that. And then one pick is like, man, that would be really controversial. A lot of people would see it as a reach. And that pick is the Raiders.

I think we're doing something right. Yeah. And that's how the first round always goes, right? There's a couple of picks who are like, this is super out of left field. I agree. The smoke on Pennix is, for the Raiders especially is huge. The other position there has been smoke for them on is outside corner. And they're both Terry and Arnold and Quinion and Mitchell are here.

And so this is actually kind of like an ideal board for the Raiders. If this is their short list of guys, like everyone's available. If they take Pennix over to Quinnian Mitchell to choke. It's an unbelievable choke, but, you know, I think DK's right to prognosticate the choke. But you say that, but at the same time, but if Michael Pennix is good, they're never going to be like, yeah, I wish we had a cornerback. Well, yeah, if the player you draft is good, you don't feel about the other players you didn't. I think, but I don't think that the chance for Pennock being that is that high. That's why you grade drafts after the draft instead of after three years.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, the whole like, you know, top draft is kind of insane. Really just doing fan fiction here. I love that. My first pick, I'm just swooping in and just making Austin Gales is absolutely miserable. It's just dying inside. Next up here, we have the New Orleans Saints picking 14th. We got on the spinner of death.

Watch DK make every pick now. Who's green? Is that me? Yes. All right, excellent. Go down to New Orleans Saints, 14th. Who they taken? I'm very tempted to take corner here, and I do think that's a potential for them

because they were thinking about a Marshall and Latimore trade this offseason. With that said, this is Talis Fugga, the tackle out of Oregon State. That's what they would be doing here. Left tackle for them is a huge, question mark with the way that Trevor Penning, it was a first round pick in 2022, has played over the last couple years. He's also had injury concerns. Right tackle Ryan Ramcheck, who's a wonderful

player, excellent talent, might be at the point with his knee injuries where he just can't go. He might just be medically done. He might medically retire. So their tackle position is about as dire as any tackle position in the league right now. So if you're getting one, like the OT3 on the board here, falling to you in Talese Fugga, and people think Fulaga might be a top 10 pick. I think that's absolutely kind of a run the card in. Even if there's no Fulaga, I can see them taking Tri-Fontinu here, J.C. Latham here. This is a better tackle than they might end up getting at 14 on draft night.

So Fulaga to the Saints, I think they would take a minute on the clock to make this selection. I like that one a lot. All right, 15 here. We're going 15 to the Indianapolis Colts. Here we go. No whamies, no whamies, no whamies. Feeling good. We got.

Craig. Oh, who? Craig. Craig. Craig. Oh, whoa. Craig. I think this is pretty easy.

A couple great corners have fallen and not been drafted yet. I think the Colts desperate leading to cornerbacks. I'll give them, I'll give him, Quignon Mitchell. Ooh, yeah. Good pick. The Colts cornerback situation man last year, they were just throwing young men at the problem. Just like, fifth round rookie, six round rookie, UDFA, somebody, please be good. Anybody be good for us.

And like, they had some fine play, but it was nobody who was enough, right? And so, yeah, they are, the Colts are low-key in a great spot because the corner could fall for them, edge could fall for them, two of their biggest needs. like they're a good tradeback team. They can go and start the run on the second receivers if they want. Like the Colts, I have a chance to do a really,

really good thing in this draft. Like propel the team forward. So Chris Ballard's like, and never begin a trade back Olympics and take a guard, but whatever. Quinnian Mitchell, big, strong, fast, well-built person.

Just fits the Colts draft style. Uh-oh. We have a trade. The trade god. What? That's a siren. That's more like the trade police. I need a God sound.

What is the sound of God? I'll work on that. I'll get back to you. It's, you know, it comes to you. Like the burning bush. All right. So the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, the Seahawks.

Hell yeah. We really have not seen these trades. We don't know what these are. Trading their first and second pick plus second rounder next year to the Seattle Seahawks on 16th pick. Kansas City is on the clock, baby. Moving up. Interesting. All right.

Let's see. We're going to do this little spinner. Who gets to make this pick for the Kansas City Chiefs? who's it going to be? Oh, please, please, please, please. Yes. Oh, Soak, you get to pick for the Chiefs. Chiefs just moved up to the 16th pick.

Who is Kansas City taken here in Solac? Could they make this move for? I'm taking J.C. Latham, the tackle at Alabama. I think that, like, which, oh, Chiefs traded up 16 picks take a tackle, like boring, lame, not sexy. Latham might be a top 10 pick. Like, some of the smoke on Latham right now is nuts in terms of the teams that he's meeting with and the expectations for him. This is a bad, this is the classic tackle prospect who doesn't get put as like, OT1 or OT2 because like he does have like oh low the testing numbers like all these highlight real

pancakes you just watch the film like oh he doesn't lose like he wins every rep and it's just too busy winning it's just it's silent and it's dominant and and it's well rounded and it's excellent the tackle situation for the chiefs last year was about as prohibitive to their offense as the wide receiver situation was the wider receiver stuff was more visible like oh the drops and the messed up routes but donovan smith at the left side regularly losing joan taylor on the right side with the consistent penalties right now like they would expect Juan Yamoros, who was a third round pick, a young guy really unproven to be their starting left tackle. I think they want to have better protection from a homes. I think you have to protect the investment

that you've made there. J.C. Latham, I think, slides in as starter day one on the left tackle and pretty much shuts things down on that side. He's got that level of potential. Wide receiver's just so deep. It's always so deep. So even like, oh, you know, there's Rishi Rice questions with his legal situation. Wide receivers are a bigger need. You can address it later. You really, really can. I know they just traded future picks to move up. But if they're moving up like this, I was between Terry and Arnold and getting a Legerious need replacement and J.C. Latham. And I think Latham would be the pick. Yeah. Let's throw the board

up here. So we are halfway through. We got the top 16 picks done. We got four quarterbacks in the top five. We got Marvin Harrison, Jr. and Malik neighbors and Roma Dunesley off the board. And we also have, what, one, two, three, four offensive tackles already off the board. We'll see whether there's, obviously, it might be like a record amount of offensive

tackles in the first round might be a record amount of offensive players. She's moving up for Latham. I think it, I agree. So like, like, at the end of the day, it's like a lot of picks. People want them to have a receiver. You're investing in Patrick Holmes' safety. It's like you can't get them secret service on the field. You might as well just trade it for a tackle.

It's funny because I would say the receivers are better this year than they were last year and they won the Super Bowl last year. That's the thing. Look, they traded away Tyra Kill and won the Super Bowl twice, and they got Marquis Brown to replace Marquez Valde Scantley. They need a tackle more than they need a receiver. You guys see that Andy Reid quote about Cadarius? Yeah.

Is that one of the most talented players on our team, baby? Back in, baby. I'm back. I'd say we're so. back, but I never left. I was never gone. Since we're halfway through the draft show, I want to read a couple comments, which is from Cooper. Ben looks like he would star in a Disney made-for-TV movie about a kid who became a GM. I accept that one. That one's fine. That's good.

Yusuf says, Ben, my wife says your voice is too shrill for our newborn baby. Jesus. That's her problem. I don't know if you want from it. That's on her. The wife for the baby. Only read the happy ones. Oh, sorry. No, no, no, no. See, because it's not Hyphitz. It's Austin who's sending them in our, in our That is true. And he's sending all the ones about you being hot and all the ones about me looking dumb.

And there's ones about me looking hot he's not sending. I've been reading. Give us a palette. Give us a palette cleanser of Craig being super hot. Max says Solac looks so hot when he's uncomfortable with praise. That's definitely not what he said.

Just kidding. That was about Craig. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, good talk, good talk, you talk. All right, next up here. We got the Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, we'll spit it to see who goes. Come on, baby.

Keep it going. Closer to the camera, dad. There you go. Sorry, yeah, I'm just. I'm like the kind of commercial. Me again. Yes. All right.

I saw people complain and say if the chiefs were moving up for this, then they were moving up to go ahead and get ahead of the Jaguars to take Brian Thomas. That's a great point. I think the Jaguars are absolutely interested in Brian Thomas. I think Brian Thomas would be a great pick here. They're taking Terry and Arnold. If Terry and Arnold has fallen to them at 17, they moved off of Darius Williams this year as their cornerback too.

They have Tyson Campbell was a nice corner one. I don't think he's like a high tier corner one. And so drafting a first round guy, potentially having Campbell is a great two and Arnold stepping into that role. It just gives you a much better man coverage on the outside, which you have to remember they made a defensive coordinator change this year.

Mike Caldwell is out. Ryan Nielsen is in. Ryan Nielsen's pressed man, baby. We are lining corners up and we're letting them go to work. He's coming from that saint system, right? Where they just had those great outside corners for so long. And so the Jags really do need to invest in that position. I know they're looking at all the top receivers

and there's a ton of smoke there right now. Wide receiver would not surprise me. Thomas would be a great pick here. But Arnold all the way down to 17 is excellent for Jacksonville. That's the choice they'd make. I totally agree. I think that makes, I totally agree. 17 picks in.

If you were like, Ben, you know, grade the first round. If this is how it'll look in a week, I would call this one of the best picks of the first round. Looking at it right now. Terry Arnold, lights out. All right. Spilling the board here for the Bengals at number 18. Yeah. I'm like the progressive commercial with LL Cool J.

Like, that's not how you take a selfie, dad. Solek, can we get an update on what are the odds of me being picked one out of the first 18? Oh, that's so much harder to calculate this thing. Okay. figure it out. All right. Cincinnati up for me here. Look, as much as I'd love to give them like a sexy wide receiver as they plan for

perhaps a future without T. Higgins. Do it. No, I'm going to give them an offer. I'm going to give them a Marius Mims. I'm going to give them a big mauler on the line because I think that's still the most important thing for Cincinnati is keeping Joe Burrow upright. And they just need a big boy up front to move some human beings, move some weight around. So I'm going to Marius Mims.

I really, I like this a lot because the Bengals have Trent Brown who they went and they got from the, the Patriots. That's the team that plays New England, right? The Patriots, they went and got it from the Patriots to kind of just like hold the spot for a year. But you do not want Trent Brown long term. You don't really trust Trent Brown's health long term. So Mims sit him for a year and then plug and chug him in in Brown spot. And you still have Titanic tackles.

You still have Orlando Brown. And Armarious Mims are just enormous at the bookends. Giant people. Yeah, yeah. Mims and Trent Brown are almost like the same size, like the same height, not that far off in wait. And Mims also,

the Bengals, this makes sense too, because the Bengals kind of redshirt their rookies. Like they draft Axel to sit behind Jesse Bates and replace them. I think they'll take, you know, they took a receiver,

Charlie Jones to replace Tyler Boyd this year. And then I think they take a receiver maybe to replace T. Higgins. And then you have Ameris Mims who can redshirt because he's played eight games. He's played eight games. He's played eight games. He'll get over that.

Like, I think this makes a ton of sense. So, All right, let's do this. Eventually, I'll have to rig this for D.K., but let's do number 19 here. For the L.A. Rams. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. There's a glare on high of the screen.

Hold it still for crying out loud. Sorry. To the camera. I'm sorry. It's Craig again. I've started, it's, it is what it is. This is wild. Yeah, this is a great.

D.K., are you having a good time? Starting to get kind of mad. Do you want to just go? Should we donate it to a good cause? No, no. Are you having a good time? We have to stick to the sanctity. of the spinner.

So let's keep it going. With the Rams here at 19, Aaron Donald just retired. I'm going to pick somebody on the defensive line. I'm probably going to just clog it right up with Byron Murphy just to step in for Aaron Donald.

As a Seahawks fan, this would make me so mad because he is extremely disruptive interior pass-risher. Aaron Donald has given the Seahawks fits for like a decade and it's just so disappointing. I was pretty glad to see Aaron Donald

retired, to be honest. No offense, Aaron. But getting Byron Murphy in that defense makes so much sense. He's just going to help everybody on that offense or on that defensive line. Just disruptive guy from the interior. The Aaron Donald retiring Kyler Murray being like, thank God. They can quote tweet. Everyone in the NFC West is like, oh my God, finally.

I love that D.K has only picked once and they also traded the Seahawks out of the TV. That is just the anti-DK mom. Also, when we did the pre-show, didn't D.K go three times in a row? Yeah. To start the thing. Yeah. I'd tell you, Byron Murphy, there's, like, when you, when you read it plugged in people, there are people who say that, like, Byron Murphy might be one of the best defensive

players in his class, right? It just has how the league views them. And so figuring out where he goes right now is really, really tough. It might be a top 10 pick. Yeah. But there's not a lot of defensive tackles. And, like, the Rams are, like, yes, they're one of the earliest ones that actually have that as a big need.

So it's hard to figure out. Mm-hmm. All right. Number 20 here, Craig, your Pittsburgh Steelers on the clock. I still don't even know what I still don't even know what I've. do if I got this. See who it is. Oh, I'm safe again, baby. Ah, it's not me. Is it me? Solac. Oh, all right. And this is, this is a immediate and thrilled Brian Thomas. Let's go. Okay. The wide receiver out of Washington. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wide receiver for LSU. You move on from Deonti Johnson. You go get Dante Jackson. Congratulations. Weird trade. Love it for you. George Pickens now as wide receiver won with like, you know, Corderoe Patterson and Calvin Austin. Van Jefferson. Yeah, man, it's just horrible vibes. Denzel Mims, my guy, haven't sold my stock yet. Still around. And I never will. And I never will sell my Denzel Mim's stocks.

But Brian Thomas, it's funny because he's a little bit redundant with George Pickens and that he is like a bigger body and a longer body, but he's also so good vertically and he's so good down the field. But that's the exact sort of skill set you kind of want to be redundant, right? If you're redundant with having like two super small slot guys, that's a problem. You're redundant with like two like contested catch guys who can't separate. That's a problem. Having two guys like George Piggins and Brian Thomas,

who can both be X's and they can also do work from the slot, do work with the ball in their hands. Like that's just, that allows you to be really, really, really versatile, go pick your matchups, hunt your spots. You can change your gameplay week over week. It's a really, really nice pairing.

Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, whoever's throwing the football, it's going to be deep shots in Pittsburgh. And that's what Brian Thomas, I think did best when he was with LSU. So good down the field with the catch radius. It's a really, really nice fit. Brian Thomas, I feel like needs to be a little bit on the DK.

Metcalf development track where it's like, hey, man, go be fast on the outside and I'll throw it up to you. And in the meantime, you can start to be a more nuanced route, run, and all that stuff. And having Russell Wilson is like almost perfect. Obviously, I think even if Justin Fields ends up starting halfway through the year before that, Justin Fields also has a beautiful deep ball down the sideline. So, yeah, this makes a ton of sense.

So let's go to the board here. So we can pull that up. We got 20 picks in the bag. Craig, you're feeling this is probably the best possible scenario, right? Craig, where you get Brian Thomas with the 20th pick and he falls to you with this board right now? Yeah, I think, look, just depending on putting all the weight on George Pickens this season to catch every pass and be the guy. in Pittsburgh is kind of like a lofty ask in my opinion.

Even if he's redundant, this is all Russell Wilson does anyways, throw the deep ball. I hope the Steelers are just like layups and threes this year. Run the ball and throw it deep. The Warriors. Yeah. Rock, Mori ball. Just play Mori ball. So right now we got four quarterbacks off the board with Caleb Williams and Jaden.

And we, uh, Jaden Daniels, J.G. McCartney. And we've Drake May. We got four receivers plus Brock Bowers, so five pass catches off the board, a bunch of tackles. 21st pick. We got the Miami Dolphins. Dolphins. Oh, yeah, I can't say that word, right. Dolphins.

Dolph. Dolph. Oh. Oh, hey. Welcome back. He's back, baby. D.K. All right.

21st pick. Miami, dolphin. Dolphins. Doll. Like a, like a, like a doll that you play with. Doll. Yeah, doll. Dolphins.

It's, it's there. Miami's on the clock, DK. All right. There's a couple of guys. There's a couple of guys I really like here for the dolphins. It could go defense. line, you can go past pressure. I'm going to go with offensive line, Troy Fautano

who obviously right now, there's still some question marks over how long Toronto Armstead is going to be wanting to play in the NFL. So this gives them a guy they can plug in at multiple spots on the offensive line, eventually be their long-term left tackle. I just think this is a meat and potatoes pick for the dolphins. Typically, we want to go for a guy who, you know, is going to be super fast or something like that, but this just makes a ton of sense for them.

Troy Fattano, man. Like, he hits the caliber of, like, this office alignment can be a weapon for you. Like, he is so good moving. It is such a dynamic athlete. He's great in space. Like, you can build a running game around the idea that you have a Troy Fontenau. And that's such a cool bar to be able to clear. And, like, Joe Alt doesn't clear that.

Olufashana doesn't. Troy Fontonoo does. Incredible. All right. Well, sorry, I'm kidding. We're getting word from above. Oh. Oh.

Oh. I just like the halo theme was the most true. Yeah. I think, I think, did it touch me back. Goddell should come down like on a wire every pick. Like Brianna, the Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gadell needs to be bringing more to the table.

We got to talk about this on the pod. The draft is such a big dog and pony show. Gadell just there in a suit. We need more outfits, costume changes, entrances, man. There's only 13 first round picks attending the draft. We need more pomp and certainly. Give me something, Raj. They were going to have the guys show up on boats in like the Bellagio fat or something.

And they were going to scrap that idea. We need to do that. That was an awesome idea. Bring back the boats. That was good. Bring back to boats. Also, J.C. Latham's like 340 pounds.

What could go wrong putting him in a little boat to get them to the middle of a fountain? You know what I mean? Like to be incredible. Sure. All right. So let's throw us. So the trade god here.

Let's see here. So we have the Eagles around the clock at number 22. The Philadelphia Eagles have traded the 20s second pick to Buffalo for. Moving back six spots at 28. They also get 144th pick this year and a third rounder from Buffalo next year. Buffalo moves up to the 22nd second. pick. It's a little randomizer. Buffalo is on the clock and now who's making this pick for the bills. Who's making this pick for the bills. It is. He's a late breaker coming around the

corner. It's Stanley Kelly two picks in a row. He's due. He's a poll. Oh no. He's just been like a lap behind everybody for the first hour. Just been drafting off you guys. All right. So in a real world scenario that Bill's trading up in the first round, I feel like this is this would be for And I agree. This is going to be a controversial pick a little bit because, you know, we've talked about this many times. Adi Mitchell's analytical profile is very concerning. But he's a big, fast, explosive jumpball winner who can get deep, he can get open. Ad.

Mitchell on the Buffaloes feels like a match made in heaven to me. The Buffaloes. On the Buffalo. Did I say that? On the bill. Yeah, but that's kind of thought that was like a cool joke. I thought that was like on purpose. It's also kind of weird, by the way, that the name of the bills is it, the

Buffalo Bills? Yeah, is it named after the guy Buffalo Bills? I assume so. Yeah, I don't know that. I've never thought about this before. I assume it's named after Buffalo, Goody. Let me get on that. The logo's a Buffalo.

Let me get on that. I've never thought about this before. I'll play on the name of the famed Wild Wild West showman, Buffalo Bill Cody. Yeah. So, but it's, is there any other city that the logo is the city? That's a good question. Anyway, I can't think of it. What are you talking about?

The logo is a bill. No, sorry. No, it's a Buffalo is the city. Wait. But the logo is a buffalo. The name of the mascot is a Bill. Is it weird that in my head, a Bill is a Buffalo? That's what happened to me.

I was like, how that is? The Buffalo Williams. Bill has nothing to do with Buffaloes. Now that I think about it. None of this makes sense. Why are they called this? I think that we should, I think Bill should be a nickname for Buffalo officially. Yeah.

Or just like saying he's a Buffalo now. That sounds right. Producers in the chat right now are just screaming at us to get on. Yeah, anyway, we should probably move on. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, yeah, congrats on AD Mitchell to Buffalo. Okay. All right. Yeah, I will say, I do think 80 Mitchell is going to be the fifth receiver off the board.

Like, as the dust is settling, it seems like he's the guy. It seems like he's going around one. Yeah. All right. The 23rd pick, the Minnesota Vikings have traded that pick to the Los Angeles Chargers as part of their deal to move up. So the charges are on the clock. Ben Solac, you get to decide charges are on the clock with the 23rd pick.

If you don't give them a wide receiver. I don't want to. It's going to be a defensive. I gave him Brock Bowers. I want to give them an offensive line. Oh, right. We gave him Brock Bowers. Right. That's right. I want to give them an offensive lineman. Now, we've exhausted most of the traditional tackles, right? Graham Barton is there, but he's probably playing on the interior. I don't want to give him Xavier. Oh, this is actually this is the first tough one. I'm going to give them. I'll give him Taylor Guyon, the offensive

tackle at Oklahoma. Tyler Guyon is not a player that I would be taking here. I have some concerns about the sand in Guy's pants. He doesn't really seem like a, is he a Harbaugh guy? I don't know if I like this pick. I already said it. Okay. make him change the graphic. It's fine. They can do it again. What does that mean the sand in his pants? He's not heavy enough? Yeah. So he's, he really, he carries a lot of his weight in the upper half. His legs are pretty thin. He's kind of on stilts, right? And so when he goes to drop his mass and anchor, right, and then take power to him, he struggles with that through his chest. He has a lot a mass underneath. And so he still has, like, a frame that can carry it. So hopefully he can get

bigger, he can get a little bit heavier. But you're going to play him on the right side, maybe developing for a year behind Pipkins. I think that investing in the offensive line is very much the horrible way to go about things. This is an unfriendly board for them, though. When you get to this area here in the late 20s, or excuse me, early 20s, and a lot of the top tackles have gone. And now the best guys like Jackson Powers Johnson and Graham Barton, you can make that pick.

Like they do have a need at center, but I don't think they'd be going there that early in round one. I don't think those guys are to that level. And so I picked Guyton, but this is a weird spot for the charges. It's very likely they end up with this 23rd overall pick. And so something to figure out for them moving forward. There's also plenty. I'm sure if you're making picks, we've regretted immediately. fantasy football that happens.

There's definitely been GMs who picked a guy. And then like, we're like, damn, should have picked that other guy. Immediate regret. Yeah, just incredible. We've all that. We all had buyers. Buyers. Yeah.

All right. Next up on the clock here, we got the Dallas Cowboys with the 25th pick. 24th? Sorry, 25th. I can't count. Yeah, the 24th pick. 24th pick Dallas Cowboys. We've got, oh, I already hit it while I was doing it.

I'm sorry. I forgot. We got there. Is that? It's so lucky. So, Dallas Cowboys All right

I am taking oh man I'm not prepared for this either Johnny Newton looks like he might make sense Gran Boy They pick a defensive tackle two I'd be

I'm stunned that you don't think Cowboys would take like a Graham Barton or I'm thinking like if I move Graham Barton to guard and then I move Tyler Smith to tackle that's what I like the most right now on this board I will say that like

I think the Cowboys are a great team candidate to just go nuts in round one like with the Michael Parsons situation developing as that is. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up taking edge rushers. They feel like they're not moving on from him. I've heard they like Edger and Cooper. When you say the Micah Parsons thing, you're saying the Cowboys might get rid of Michael

Parsons? There's the whole like, oh, they're kind of sick and tired of him. Like the Cowboys feel very like on a precipice as a team. Like no one has extended past 2024 and those teams tend to behave very weird in the draft. Big trade up, surprising picks in the first round. Like the, not a lot would surprise me. Really shocked me from the Cowboys pick. I'm going to take Gran Barre in here.

He played offensive tackle at Duke. He's considered more of an. Interior offensive linemen in the league. Right now that the Cowboys have tackle needs because Tyron Smith has gone, but they have Tyler Smith in hand, who they drafted to be the left tackle era parent. He's just been so good at guard. And so they can take a tackle and leave Tyler Smith at guard, or they can take a guard, Graham Barton, and then move Tyler Smith to tackle.

I think that's what they're going to do here. Barton's a lights out player, man. He's as Eddie steady as they come. I think that he has the versatility of play pretty much four, maybe even five spots on the line if you like him at center. So this is a good pick for the Cowboys because you can kind of figure out what gap he plugs once you get him into the building. So Barton at 24 to the Cowboys.

I like that. Can I also point out that D.K. We were freaking out. He went like 13 picks. I haven't picked since number eight. It's not as funny though. It's not as funny. It's not as funny.

Yeah, yeah. Did you vet the randomness of this randomizer? I mean, if I wanted to, how would I do that? Like I sit there like air style like a hundred coin flip. Yeah. I don't know. That seems really hard. I kind of just Googled it.

All right. Next up here. We have the pack. It was 25th overall. We have, all right. So we have, yeah,

Here's our board right here. We got Graham Barton in Dallas. We got Tyler Gutt into the Chargers. So I think we are still on pace to have like a record amount of offensive players in the first round and offensive tackles. Which I guess I'm curious, maybe we can hit this at the end. But I'm curious if we think this is just about this year's class or if there's some kind of trend here. But there's a lot of just positional cornerstones like quarterback receivers, tackles and cornerbacks. I think there's like a lot of foundational building blocks like no linebackers, no safeties.

Yeah. I think it's probably just random. I mean, you're not going to see like a time of the challenge. every single year. But yeah. All right. Next up. One percent chance that Hyphids doesn't pick and 16 straight picks, by the way.

Oh. Packers. Oh, is it? Please, please. So lack. I can't be stopped. This is such a bad spot for the Packers because they would absolutely love to have taken Graham Barton.

Like that would have been huge for them, delightful for them. They would have been thrilled by it. I don't think Jackson Powers Johnson is the sort of athlete, the sort of player that they want and the interior. Accordingly, I'm going Cooper to Jean. There's the corner slash safety. at Iowa. I do think for the Packers,

he's probably going to find more reps early at safety relative to corner. There are people who are worried about the corner situation in Green Bay. Man, you got to watch some of these young kids.

Carrington Valentine was playing great ball for them on the outside last year. Jay Alexander, hopefully coming back healthy. I think they're better at corner than people realize. Safety is the spot of weakness.

So you bring DeGine in. He's got the ability to play corner. You start him at safety. See if you can make the transition. Maybe he's backing outside corner up to start. So you're kind of figuring stuff out in camp.

We're talking about a 6-2, like 205 guy with really. really good movement skills with great zone eyes. He understands how to find the ball. And there's nothing wrong with safety having the ability to go play man coverage. Also, you rotate him down. He's over to tie down. He knows what he's doing. That's excellent news. And so Dijin to the Packers, I like, this is a bit of a fall for Dijin. Dijin's line right now. It's like 21.5, 22 and a half. He gets down to Green Bay at 25. They just get him into

the building, solve the problem later. Figure out where he goes later. Another first round defensive player. This is like eight or nine. First time Lucas Van Ness from Iowa last year on D2, too. They're getting Hawkeyes into the building, all right? That makes a lot of sense. D.K., am I crazy for St. Cooper to Jean, is Kirkland brand Jalen Ramsey? Is that crazy?

I mean, I guess from the point of view of super athlete who can play safety or corner, it makes some sense. I think Ramsey was on a whole different level, though. All right, so next up here, we got Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I love when the bays are back to back with Green Bay and Tampa Bay. What's the Green Bay, by the way? Where is that name?

Another great question. I have truly no idea. What is the Green Bay? Lake Michigan. What are you talking about? Is there an actual green bay? It's called the Green Bay. I've watched a thousand games at Lambo. They've never had the track, the shot of like, and the Green Bay. I'm like, is there, like, they show

everything in the city. There's an actual Green Bay. It's on a bay. I wouldn't say it's like an amazing bay because it's just a northern Michigan. Like, it's not like there's like a ton of commerce going on, but there's commerce. Yeah. There's a lake, guys. Well, then why is it called a bay? This is scintillating content, guys.

Anyway. I love that every time they cut to a Rams or Chargers game, they always show like the Santa Monica Pier, which is like an hour and a half away. Right, exactly. What are we talking about? I've never seen the grade bay. That's all I'm saying.

All right, next up, Tampa Bay. By the way, I think people that live in Tampa call it Tampa and not Tampa Bay. Oh, me again. Gosh. This is ridiculous.

I can't be stopped. All right. I really like Jackson Bowers Johnson here to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, there's been some conversation. Like maybe he's not going to be around one player. has been some conversation. Maybe Zach Frazier

out of West Virginia is the first center off the board. I think that, like, it's true that a couple teams have Frazier higher and maybe the Parrish Johnson isn't like as early as we thought, but I still think he's the best center

in the draft. I do think he's the most likely one to go round one overall. For the Buccaneers, you had the retirement of the Redhead, not Kappa. Jensen, Ryan Jensen. You had Ryan Jensen

who retired this past season. They have a pretty weak depth chart right now on the interior. They already had one last season and they're still losing more talent there. It'd be nice. to get a guy in Parrish Johnson who can firstly play the pivot. You can snap the wall.

You know he's the center. He's also guard size, right? He is 330 pounds. And so if you do want to play some stuff out in camp and see if you can switch spots with him, he does have the size to kick over to center unlike some other, or kick over to guard, unlike some other centers in this class. So Powers Johnson for the Buccaneers, it's a bit of a wheat, eat, eat your pet, a bit of eat your vegetables pick.

But it's a necessary pick for them as they kind of try to rebuild, enter a new era here under Baker Mayfield. Look at all those Ben Solax on this chart. Oh, it's electric. It's just on a bruggy-buggy. What's more like? that Ben goes five straight or that D.K. went once in the first 20.

Well, okay. So that's one over four to the fourth power. And we can pull up the board, Jackson, we can pull up the board here too. 4% chance. No, 0.4% chance. I get 4% in a row. Wow. Coming down the final stretch here, which is a bunch of Super Bowl contenders

plus the Cardinals and Seahawks. They know. I didn't even know that was controversial. Sorry. All right. So six picks here left. So we got Arizona Cardinals or on the clock. This is from a trade down they had last year.

Let's see who's going to get it. Who's going to get it? Who's going to get it? Hold it still. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, it's me. Damn it. I'm literally like the guy with the L.O. Cool J. you're like, that's not how you take a selfie. Like, that's how I feel doing this. All right. I'm on the clock for the Cardinals.

I have not, wow, 18 picks. I haven't picked. Arizona, dude, Jared. Jared, Gers. No question. If Arizona gets. Oh, wow. He's still there. He's still there. Jared versus should of Florida State. Cardinals don't have a lot of like good players. Like they have Kyler Murray quarterback and they have Paris Johnson Jr. At tackle.

And so they don't need the positions teams traditionally need. But if you're getting Marvin Harrison Jr. receiver and you still can get a pass rush or like Jared Verst. Like it's the kind of guys that just don't usually fall. And so Arizona needs that. They also need cornerback, but they're still picking like 35th, I believe. So you can like if just supply and demand, like there are not many pass rushers, but Arizona could get easily Jaredverse.

And then there are like three cornerbacks that they could very happily walk away with an eight picks. I think that the odds are that we will be saying on Sunday that the Cardinals like the winner of the draft, we'll be asking if they can compete in the NFC West for the division title. All right, I like it. Cardinals are Marvin Harrison,

Jr. and Jared Verst, man. That's a good day in the office. Monty, Austin Fort. Eagles are on the clock. Your 20th pick. The Eagles traded for the little spot. So the Eagles are on the, let's see who Philadelphia takes.

Who's picking for Philly? It better not be so lack. It is Craig, Craig. Finally. Where are you pointing that thing, I'm sorry, I started looking in front of you. When I was looking at the camera,

the camera's in the same spot every time. Put it. If you put it in front of your, front of your face. I was looking at the camera and it was good. It was working when I was looking at the camera, but then I started looking at the screen and I get all messed up.

So I need hold it, whatever. Just put it in front of your face. Make the Eagles pick. Okay, okay, okay. Geez. I'm going to give Philly a corner. Dariuslay and James Bradbury are kind of older, both in their 30s.

I'm going to give them Kool-Aid McKinstree. Kool-Aid. Great, man. Look, when in doubt, just give the Eagles a guy from Bama or Georgia. And so I'm going with Kool-Aid, and I'm filling up. out there. I'm doing some long-term planning at the cornerback position for Philly.

Like that. And they, they would have, I think, like, if they know they're getting Kool-Aid, they would have, I think, I think, moved off the Bradbury contract and they'll just start them. Like, I don't even think they'll necessarily have to sit them for that long if they don't want to. McKinstree is an interesting cap for round one. It turns out a little bit more health concerns, I think, than we thought there was the redraft process. It was him and Nate Wiggins out of Clemson, but I think, like, both have a shot to go here when we get to this late stage. I don't know if either does. So figuring out, like, the back end of this corner class, after Cooper DeGine here in the first round is a tricky one.

All right. So we can go to the, we have the Detroit Lions here. Heard him. Ninth pick. So first of all, we are going to be at the draft, the NFL draft in Detroit. Detroit week, seven days from today. We have a live show on next Wednesday, six days from today. We still have some tickets.

So you can go, we can, if you go to NFL draft show on Spotify, we have it in all our episode descriptions, we can throw a comment out there, maybe something in the YouTube page. But we have a few tickets that have been released. So if you want to go and you'll be in the draft for Detroit or anywhere to look, you want to list random cities around Detroit and driving distance, any of those places. If you're in Battle Creek, if you're on Rockford? Sure.

If you're coming up from Toledo. Heck yeah. Drive onto Detroit. We're doing a live show at the St. Andrews Theater. And so we have some tickets left. We're going to make D.K. run of 40. It'll be great.

Yep. All right. Detroit's also on the water, by the way, because there's more lakes up here in case anyone was curious. They show those on the broadcast. The Great Lakes. Craig. We're picking for the Detroit Lions, Craig.

Who are they taking? 29th overall. Man. Ooh. Chop Robinson still on the board? That's what I just looked at. So like goes, ooh. Ooh.

I mean, Chop. Dan Campbell, Chop. Right. Chop kneecaps, it's perfect. I'm going to give him Chop Robinson

out of Penn State, edge rusher. He's a good, he would be a fun compliment to Aiden Hutchinson, like a speed guy kind of off the edge. They have a lot of power-based brushers, I feel like, and he gives them that explosive element.

You know how like every Loins fan loves James Houston Jr. so much, right? And they're like, Houston the fourth or whatever. Say it Lulins. They like, Chop Robbins is the sort of similar rusher, but he can like play more downs.

You can play more snaps. You can be on the field more regularly for like first and second down on the, on those rundowns. He's a really, really nice foil to, to like, to like, to watch the end.

It serves you have your weak side and your strong side rusher. Think like, chop to the lions is, is a, is a very fun peg if he makes all the way down here. Love it. All right. Next up.

We have the Baltimore Ravens here, picking number 30. Can we throw the, the top 29 picks up here. We have the board. So Ravens are looking at a board. I think the Ravens are the one that's given me the most trouble

because the Ravens have a lot of spots they need. But the trade gods are not calling. So that's, we have the Ravens here. Oh, DK's back? And we got the top 29 picks. DK's back.

Did we see the result of the spin? No, I screwed it up. It's my fault. We have the three picks left here. Who won? Did DK win? He's going to do it again. I screwed it up.

I asked for the board. And then I hit the button. I screwed. I confused everyone. It's my fault. But so just just give it to poor D.K. Yeah, D.K. Let's go.

Just pour me. Yeah, D.K. Just pick someone. Just pick someone for the race. Louise. All right. The Baltimore Ravens. To me, Darius Robinson screams Baltimore Raven.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Strong, strapping young fellow who they can plug in on the defensive line in that rotation. He's going to cause a lot of disruption. He can move and play different spots on the defensive line. I think he can play interior end on the edge. It's got that size.

and physicality and strength. So I think this is a really good value for- We're killing the last six, five picks of this draft. Yeah. Powers Johnson, Quillian, McIntry, Chopp, like Darius Robinson. These are great fits. We're so good at this. Look at us.

It's really easy. It's just easy. Two picks left. We have the San Francisco Sad Boy 49ers who just lost the Super Bowl, and it's always really sad for them. So we'll see who's making this pick for them, 31st on the clock. So I'm holding the camera now.

I'm getting better at it. There you go. Still moving it around quite a lot. There we go. You know what, man? Go birds. Again. I want to make this pick.

Okay. Don't worry. I'll be handling this. I'm going to take here Johnny Newton, the defensive tackle out of Illinois. Now, the 49ers moved off Eric Armstead's contract this year. And they filled that gap by getting Jordan Elliott from the Browns. And they brought Malie Collins in from the Texans. And they did the smart team thing, which is they have like enough guys where if they needed to start and just

rotate those dudes, they'd be fine. But I definitely think that that Nguyen is a far more impactful penetration player, one gap player, pass rushing player, the sort of style guy that they like more so than Jordan Elliott, more so than Malik Collins. Like this is like a pretty high-sealing player. The other thing about Newman that I think is really important for the Niners is that they really suffered for run defense at defensive tackle the last couple years with how much they they asked those guys to penetrate and get upfield. That was a big part of why they added J-1 Hargrave. He's such a good run defender. Still playing in one gap. Newton, man. He's that classic example of just like a penetration

defense's tackle who's also weirdly good at defending the run. And so I think Newton is a great fit for the Niners. Bit of a luxury, but I think they'd like it. All right. Seahawks, baby. DK. DK. As the spinner spins, who would you take if you were in charge? It's not spinning, Hyvitz.

Would I take if I was in church? Man, the board has fallen kind of weirdly for the Seahawks. It might be yours. How many pitched and so much. Give it to me. Yeah. Let's go.

Oh. Oh. Wait, is it not? It's me. That was crazy. Back to review. V.A.R.

Oh, I like, I don't know. That's the cat. That's my back on the phone is the cat. Wait, no, sorry, wait. No, it's like Moonlight. No, Moonlight, you're the winner. T.K.

It's your pick. He was out of bounds. I saw it happen. You got to check the tape. All right. So what I was saying was the board felt kind of weird for the Seahawks here. Obviously, they traded back from 16. Now they're sitting at 32.

I would have been running to the podium for Johnny Newton, but unfortunately he just went. Yeah, I don't really think the CX are going to like a guy like Nate Wiggins who just doesn't really love tackling. I don't think they'll take another. Which team is interested in a player who doesn't take another? Maybe this is why he's fallen. I don't know.

That's Craig, that's a great question. There are some. There may be some teams. So to me, this is coming down to Zach Frazier, offensive center. Offensive Center. I don't know why I said that. the center position. They have a big need at the center position.

The other guy I'm looking at here, which would be like the most Seahawks pick I can imagine. Seahawks love taking running backs and linebackers more than any other team in the first round is Junior Colson, the linebacker out of Michigan. I just think he makes a lot of sense for the Seahawks because, number one, they kind of missed out on the whole free agency run on linebackers. They lost Jordan Brooks.

They tried to get the Baltimore guy whose name Patrick Queen, and that didn't work out for them. And Mike McDonald, Ravens defensive coordinator went to Seattle as the head coach. They missed out in Patrick Green, but then Junior Colson played. He played in the system that McDonald's sort of installed in Michigan. So this just makes sense. He knows that system.

He could be their sort of center, middle of field guy that can control the defense. He can play all over the place. He's rangy. He's a great tackler. He's tough. He played half the season with like a club on his hand. He just fits, to me like John Schneider is going to be loving this guy. So I'm giving him, this is probably going to be deemed to reach.

that's perfect for the Seahawks. So Junior Colson. I need Seahawks' Twitter on Draft Night if they trade back 16 picks to take a linebacker. I will be a laugh. John Schneider, he can't help himself. This is, it makes his way. That content will be perfect.

But again, if the two picks we're saying are like the ones that are going to make everyone go crazy, the Raiders and Seahawks, I think that we've done a pretty good job here today. So, so I, Dek, I think that makes a ton of sense in that it doesn't make a ton of sense, but it also makes it sense.

So best remaining on the board, Nate Wiggins doesn't go, which I would be surprised that's kind of surprising. But I wouldn't be shocked. Just given the way things seem like that they're falling. Ladd-McConkie,

I think that's fair. Zach Frazier, I think that's fair. Troy Franklin didn't go. I think that's reasonable. Kingsley Sue Matia, man, is the one that the BYUu tackle

that surprises me. I think we're likely to see, see, hey, maybe Jordan Morgan out of Arizona go round one. But altogether, I think 32 for 32, we did pretty good with

Xavier Worthy. Let's throw the big board up here for the 32 picks. So I'm curious. DK, since you barely spoke, I want you to start. Which of these picks? DK, run through all 32 here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Give you an analysis. If I need a player. Sure. Yeah. Just, you know, quick 60 seconds. No, what actually is the question high fits? What would you like me to know? Which one of these do you think is your favorite and you think would be either the most

fun or the best fit or anything that gets your blood flowing on any of these 32 as you look at them? Can you do best fit or worst fit? Sure. Okay. So best fit for me? got to be Marvin Harrison, Arizona Cardinals. Just love that. I think that's perfect for them. He's a force multiplier for everybody else on that offense. Cardinals played that pretty perfectly. Worst fit? I think the scariest pick for me is the bill's trading up for AD Mitchell just because I see him as a boom or bust type of player.

I really do like his tape, but I think there's there's plenty of legitimate question marks about him. And trading up to get that guy is a little bit of a risk. So that, that, that, that, that, could be a boomer bus pick. That's a trade god for you. We're just, we're at the hands. It's a trade god. There's nothing to be done. Because in the NFL draft,

someone else makes the trades. Yes. Copyright. That's not what copy. My favorite pick overall. Trademark. Michael Paddick's the Raiders. That's your favorite?

That's my favorite pick. Just for the content, for the fun. All right. So again, a few reminders. We do the NFL draft show. You can subscribe to the ringer NFL YouTube page that you're on watching this right now. so it's YouTube.com slash at ringer NFL.

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we have released a few more. tickets to our Detroit show. So if you want to go see our live show, it's on Wednesday, April 24th in Detroit at the St. Andrews Theater. So go and get those tickets. We'll tweet them all. We'll make sure our Twitter, we'll make sure to tweet those out. And I think there

people are reselling them for around 300. So get them where you can. I know Craig Holreck. Craig's the worst marketing manager is reselling. Yeah. No, Craig understands that you create FOMO. It's like the telescript tickets for $1,500. Oh man, I can only get these for $250. It's pretty good. Like, you know,

they were going for two grand, but, you know, just a few hundred bucks. I'm playing chess. I'm playing marketing chess over here. They're basically ungetable. Don't even try to. Unless you click the link in which case they're there. Don't even bother. Okay.

Thank you. This was a lot of fun. Thank you to Danny Kelly who, well, he didn't really do anything actually, but thank you to Craig. Thank you to Solac. Craig apparently is really hot. No, DK, you did a lot. You're great. But thank you to Craig.

DK. only had five picks. So sad. Yeah. I barely picked either. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, Solac. So sad.

I ended up doing 18 of these. picks and also for weathering the storm. Select had 12. I had 10. DK. had five. High Fitz had five. Wow. Oh, wow. That's kind of wild. Ideal distribution. See you guys next week. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Chris.

Thank you, Kai. Thank you. There's too many people to name. Thank you. Also. Thank you. Everybody. Thank you. Connor. Thank you. I can't name everybody. But thank you, everyone. This was a lot of fun. But most of all, of course. The number one person who helped us the most. God? No. Thank you, Lord. Lord. Thank you, Ace of Base. Woo. Nice. Love Ace of Base.

And all the things they sang. You don't know Ace of Base? What is that? I saw the sign. Is it I saw the sign? It's I saw the sign, right? I saw the sign. Okay, he knows it.

He knows it. Jack, you could just end the street, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the first song in the pitch perfect movie. Great film. There you go. Oh, right. On stage.

Yeah. And then those movies were good. Anna Kendrick comes and says, you guys got to be way cooler than this. And then they sing some cool songs, and then they're all friends. Right. I feel like they do that song

like eight times in the movie just to like make you so annoyed with it. That, ooh, oh, oh, oh. Wait, do you know that the progressive commercial that I have referenced for like three times where your dad sees Ella Cool J? we're at a hotel for my cousin's wedding. Anna Kendrick was there and we're like whispering. She's like right behind us. And my dad comes over and he's like, who Anna Kendrick? Who's that?

Oh my God. And we're like, no. Hi, Fitz. I hope you know that that will be you in 30 years. Less than that. You will be doing that. Only the phone. Oh, my God.

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