UDFA Rookie Signings & Class Rankings for ALL 32 NFL Teams: Part 2 | Why Jalen Coker is an Intriguing Fantasy Football Sleeper (Ep. 149) - FantasyPros Dynasty Football Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to fantas Pros NFL Draft Show. My name
is Derek Brown and with me as always the Minnesota
mad Man, Thor Nisdrum. What's up, baby, We're gonna sit
here and dive into UDFA class even further.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Man.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We got the first episode out. We ran through teams
in your article for the df UDFA class rankings thirty
two to eleven. We're gonna dive in these top ten classes. Thour.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm fired up.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
We're in the weeds right now.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're deep in the weeds.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
And they thought it was it was we were mad
for even doing one episode on the UDFA class. No, no,
we got we got two for the sikos out there.
We got guys to get into and these top ten classes,
we got some really interesting prospects in here. Both guys
that should have been probably drafted overall, but then also
some very interesting Fantasy more so dynasty stashes, but guys

(00:54):
that absolutely could make the rosters this year and potentially
become Fantasy contributors down the road.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh absolutely agree, man, So you need to head over
to fantasypros dot com right now, pull up Thor's article.
As we roll to these top ten teams. Thor's gonna
give you the slant of all these guys draft prospect wise,
in the trenches and the nitty gritty. Look, if I've
got to take on any of these guys, they're popping
for me in fantasy, you're gonna hear from him. Man,
let's kick this off Thor number ten on the list,

(01:21):
Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm gonna say this right now.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
None of these skill guys, and they drafted a good
bit of them, really pop for me and stand out.
What are your thoughts on them?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
So the Jaguarers, coming at ten, they signed one dude
that was in my top two hundred pre draft and
that sort of juiced him up a little bit. And
that's Josh Proctor, the safety from Ohio State, a kid
who and I had him one hundred and ninety ninth
on my bart U six one and a half, one
ninety nine, seventy percentile athlete. He was a guy who
was at top recruit coming out of high school, goes

(01:53):
to Ohio State early in his career. They tried to
get him on the field and he badly struggled, so
then they had to pull him off. Then he had
an injury season ending injury in twenty twenty one. He
got bench in twenty twenty two, so things were not
going good for Procter, but he was one of those
guys that was able to take advantage of the extra
COVID season, so he comes back. He had talked about this,

(02:14):
like after he signed with the Jaguars, about how he
thought he was going to be a three and done
guy when he came out of high school. Certainly his
recruiting pedigree would have suggested that, but he needed to
double that time. So that sixth year that's where he
turned it around. He was good last season on the
field for Ohio State. He was an All Big Ten
Honorable mention eight pass breakups. He also had to pick six,

(02:35):
So I think it's possible that he could hang around
as a backup safety.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Then.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
The only other thing worth mentioning with the class that
the Jaguars brought in after the draft wise, you know,
and this sort of goes along with the top of
their draft. He thoughts, you know, they bring in Brian Thomas.
They wanted to fortify that receiver room that had taken
a shot this offseason and free agency with the big
time defection. They also got after it that position in

(03:01):
the udfas that their second and third rank guys on
my board were both receivers, as was the fifth. The
top two ones are the notable ones, because one of
these guys absolutely could make the roster and a little
bit kind of different prospects. Joshuasifaz I had just outside
a draftable grade. I am two hundred and sixtieth on
my board. He is utsa's all time leading receivers six

(03:24):
two one ninety three on him. Uh, he has the
hands for sure, and he knows what he's doing out there.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Will the athleticism be enough?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
We didn't get to see him task because of injury
in the pre draft process, But will will he have
enough of that to hang around? Certainly the receiving skill,
he's got that, so they're gonna have to find that
out in camp. The other guy they brought in was
sort of the opposite David White, junior from Western Carolina,
coming up from the lower levels six a shadeover six
to two. He's basically the same height as Cifhas, but

(03:56):
two hundred one pounds so a little bit bigger and
a seventy fifth percent athlete. David White Junior showed some
some receiving skill down there at the lower level. He
is very raw, though he has that physical package that
is impressive as well. But the thing that he is
he could potentially make the team on initially. He's a

(04:17):
really good gunner on special teams and he will plug
some other holes on your special teams units as well.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
That is what is going to have to be the
foot he is led with.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Let's say, to beat out a guy like stephas to
beat out some of these other younger veterans that the
jayguars will have competing for those backup wide receiver spots.
If he can show them that he can be a
gunner as a rookie, that's how he makes this team
over some of those guys.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Makes that argument, but that's that's what he's gonna have
to do.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I don't disagree, man. I am happily surprised to
see the New Orleans Saints sitting here at the ninth
rank position, considering, you know, I was not a fan
of what they did in the draft, not so much
the players, but how they attack the draft. To see
that I'm at nine definitely warms my heart a little bit. Thore.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
What do you think about their class?

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, I was a little bit higher on Mickey Loomis's
work during the draft than you were, and then especially
in comparison to his division rival GMS.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well that's fair, won't We won't.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Get into that, but they did a really good job
him and the overall scouting department, and then the aggression
the investment in the udfas afterwards, and the Saints have
been a team that historically hears, at least since I've
been doing a recent past, historically have invested in the
UDFA process.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
They do it again here.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
They get one of my top ranked udfas in Dallan
Holker from Colorado State. The tight end really more of
an h back with Holker six foot three, two hundred
and thirty four pounds, sixtieth percentile athlete, very interesting profile
on him, so that he doesn't have speed for seven
eight and then he also is not explosive. He was

(05:56):
only twenty fourth percentile with his ten yard split. And
he's also one of the older players in the class
and in that small package, like I was mentioning, But
the thing that he does have its ball skills. That's
what he you know at Colorado State, he had a
ton of catches, and then he also had a bunch
of contested catches.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Ten contested catches last.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Year were two more than any other tight end in
this entire draft class. The other thing he does is
break tackles after the catch, because the one part of
his athletic profile that shines, it's the agility stuff ninety
fourth percentile in his three cone, eighty third percentile in
his shuttle. That change of direction you see it when

(06:37):
he has the ball in his hands makes it more
difficult for the defenders descending down to get a clean
shot on him. And he has fluid and I says,
a runner, and also some vision to set people up,
and he can bounce off some of those off angle attempts.
The one part of his you know, he is sought off,
Like I mentioned, that's why he's gonna have to be
an h back.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You can't put him in line.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Or he's gonna get ragged all but he could potentially
make it as a guy like I comped him to
both gave in the pre draft process, as that sort
of H back guy that can handle the efficiency targets,
the stuff in the short and intermediate sector, get a
little separation up up till then he's going to make
the catch and then he can pay per cut the defense.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think he can make that case here with the Saints.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
But the part of his physical package that is misleading
and helps him with this on the field is he
has crazy long arms despite the fact that he is short.
He Dallan Holker tied with the six foot seven, two
hundred and sixty pounds colossus third tackle tight end Brevin
span Ford that we talked about in the last episode
that signed with the Cowboys for the longest arms of

(07:40):
the top fifteen twenty or so guys that I had
ranked in this position group and might have even been
the overall you know, going down that gave Holker a
deceivingly large.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Catch radius that he used to good effect.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
And he doesn't really drop the ball either, so I
mean he has good hands, has good ball scales.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
He's one of those guys.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
That will go on attack the ball, you know, and
and also the full extension out It's it's misleading with
him because you look at him, it's like he doesn't
he doesn't look like much, doesn't run very fast off
the line, but very aggressive getting after those balls, and
he has those inspector gadget arms to go out and
meet it and he'll come back if he has to
to go and get it.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
And then you know, like I said, if he has
any space.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's where he can start breaking the tackles and getting
him field. A better yeat guy than you would think
just from his foot speed, I think he's got a
real shot to hang around for a while. Like I said,
Compton to both scape, only other guy in this class
that that sort of intrigues me, I guess I would
say is the Yale wide receiver Mason tipped in. He

(08:43):
has the game and the athleticism to hang around as
a developed developmental prospect potentially for future slot duties. But
he's going to have to show that in camp, that
that his game has progressed far enough as far as
the scale, obviously there's some runs there. But I actually
had him at the very end of my my draftable
grades to fifty one on my board, you know, a
little under five ten one seventy nine, eightieth percentile athlete.

(09:06):
But those were clearly the top two guys at the
Saint Scott coming out of the draft.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, I agree with you on Holker and Tipton. I
think they're both really strong calls. And looking at the
wide receiver room for the Saints, I mean, after Chris o'lave,
it's a Shmorgas board of just random dudes. I mean
we got at Perry, yes, I have like Rashid Shaheed,
but then you got bub Means Equinimias, Saint Brown, Cedric Wilson,
like Tipton could surprise and be the wide receiver four. Heck,

(09:31):
if at Perry, which he didn't show a ton last year,
if he's not ready to be the consistent wide receiver three,
I won't be surprised if we see Tipton. I mean, look,
I understand this is a moonshot here, but challenge for
the wide receiver three roll for the Saints tested extremely
good eight point zero RAZ four point three to three speed.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
And if you look at just his profile, man like
I know.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yale's a lower level of competition, but still like a
seventeen point one A dot, so we I know he
can get downtown. I do agree with you that he
played a lot on the boundary in college. I think
he goes to the slot in the NFL eighty four
point three receiving grade last year in college, so tipped
in somebody. I'm gonna be stashing him in a lot
of different spots, man. But over to another team where look,

(10:18):
they're trying to stack this depth chart, they're trying to
bring in talent. I think they did it, and you're
ranking at eight. You agree with me here? Thor what
do you think about the Carolina Panthers DFA squad?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, the Panthers. I thought that they had a poor draft.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I thought they made some wonky decisions and maybe would
have gotten more attention if it hain't been for what
Terry Fonto was doing. Discot Dan Morgan there, But I
do have to tip my cap for what they did
after the draft. The scouting process was there, and the
aggression on the top end guys was there as well.
They had a very interesting strategy where they for the top.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
End guys, they eskewed the FBS.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Players and went into the lower levels and basically grabbed
out the top dudes from there at at their respective positions,
two of which are skill guys that I think dynasty
owners need to keep an eye on, In particular, the
top one, Jalen Cocher from Holy Cross I don't understand
why that kid didn't get drafted. I'll I don't get
it out, don't get don't get it, don't get it
at all. He has better tape than a lot of

(11:17):
receivers who ended up getting taken. I suppose it's just
that he comes from the FCS, but he played FBS
opponents and he had a couple of those cornerbacks in
a blunder, including one that got taken in the draft
this year in Elijah Jones from Boston College, and made
some play multiple Hail Mary catches during his career, and
the contested catches that were his cut up with that

(11:40):
was highly entertaining. The ball skills overall are what is
awesome about Jalen Coker. That's that's what really jumps out
down the field. He has the late hands thing that
delays the defender's ability to turn their head around to
make a play on the ball. And I'm talking some
of the latest hands of any of the receivers that
I saw in this class. There is one where I

(12:01):
kept having to go back, rewind, go before it go
back because it was difficult to even tell when he
put his hands up. It was like literally the ball
at you know, is this downfield shot over over the
shoulder and there was a dude who was right on him,
and he didn't put the you know, it's like he
did a little cup thing there at.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
The very end. But like, you know, it's like his
arms are by his side and then all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
It's like he knew the exact split second to just
you know, cut the thing out and makes that play
down the field. The defender must have been so confused about, oh,
the ball.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Was on the way.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Like, so you know, he has he has that part
of his game that I love. Spears the ball outside
of his frame, very reliable hands, and you know, people
out there they might be like, well, you know, you
know it's the subdivision thing. But he also must attest
it as a bad athlete, not really actually six one
and a half at two hundred and eight pounds eighty
fifth percentile athlete. The only part of the profile that

(12:53):
that was was not quite as good was the foot
speed in mid four or fives. But the thing about
him is like it's not I mean, he's faster than
Keon Coleman, and it's basically a subdivision uh in some ways,
UH version of that although he gets more separation than
than ke On Coleman. Key On Coleman is predominantly the

(13:13):
downfield thing. But both guys that can make the plays
down the field have the really good hands down the field.
But Jalen Cocher with his testing profile, his ten yards
split interestingly was very quick in you know, in conjunction
with that, he actually had the exact same ten yard
split as Adi Minshall, who ran in the low four threes.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
And you see.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Jalen Coker get off the get off the line pretty quick.
It's you know, the downtown stuff. The foot speed isn't
you know. He's not gonna send anyone in terms of that,
but he will absolutely flip those fifty to fifty balls
decidedly in the favor of the offense. And the other
thing that his vertical was insane as well, and you

(13:53):
see that burst with him. It's the acceleration with Jalen
Coker out of the route breaks trying to get.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
A step off the line.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
It manifests in all sorts of different ways on his
game tape and then certainly down the field getting up
and going and getting it when he had to do that.
There were so many impressive plays with him on film.
I remember one specifically where a cornerback was holding on
to his left arm all the way down the last
ten yards down the sideline and the quarterback chucks it
up to him anyway. The refit throwing the flag before

(14:22):
the ball even gets there. Jalen Cocher puts out his
right hand. He doesn't have his left arm. The cornerback's
holding onto it like a toddler throwing a tantrum with
his father. This guy knew the ball was coming. He's like, no, Jalen,
you're not embarrassing me. So he's holding onto his arm.
Coker catches the thing with one hand, just puts the
hand out, grabs a thing with one hand, and it's

(14:43):
a tuddy decline the penalty and just stuff like that
was super duper impressive with him, and I think he
has the athleticism with that package to absolutely hang. Not
only is he going to make the roster put that
one in ink, he is a threat to Jonathan Mingo
for that wide receiver four role. So Jonathan Mingo better
start working on his game. But the other one's deep brow.

(15:03):
I'll kick it to you for more thoughts on Cocher.
I know you like him too. That the other one
on the defensive side of the ball that I thought
might get drafted was the Virginia State cornerback Willie Drew
was He was fabulous at the at the lower levels.
And then the third one, Jaden Sherdan, who also kicked
it to you to talk more about the Monmouth running
back who tested interestingly in a small package, sort of

(15:23):
an unorthodox game, but absolutely someone that could hang as
an RB three.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, dude, I'm with you on everything you stated on Cocher,
And just to put context around this, we talked about
him on the Draft Sleepers episode went really deep into
his game.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
So people need to go check that episode out.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
But amongst all FBS and FCS wide receivers ninth in
yards per route run last year, ninth in PFF receiving grade.
Watching his film for there were a lot of similarities
in terms of skill set that reminded me of just honestly,
as far as draft capital goes, a cheaper version of
Javon Baker, there were tons of similarities when I was

(16:01):
watching their film. Whether you want to talk about the
route running, you want to talk about the body control,
you want to talk about the after a catchability and
to set up corners. Yeah, I love the jailing Coker
pick I was. I'm with you. I don't know why
he was not freaking drafted. I don't know why he
fell to UDFA. I think it's wrong. I adamantly disagree
with the NFL on that point. So love Cocher, love
Carolina taking him. And yes, Mingo needs to be looking

(16:24):
in the rear view because Coker's coming, Baby, He's coming
for that job. Jayden Sheridan is a guy we we
do have to talk about. We also mentioned him on
the wayside on the NFL Draft Sleepers episode. But tiny
package five eight, one eighty seven. But straight line speed
for days, dude, I mean the juice and the burst
is there. Looking at just his testing, A lot of

(16:45):
the short area, the jumping stuff he didn't do grade in.
But the ten yard split, eighty six percentile, forty yard dash,
you ran a four, four or five. I love your
comp in your UDFA class rankings article of Donnell Pumphrey.
Think that's very, very, very appropriate. He's got juice and burst.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
The only problem with Jordan is and he's gonna have
to clean this up at the next level.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
He runs like mister McGoo.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
The division is very questionable at times where you're just like,
there's there's a hole over there, what are you doing?
He tries to bounce a lot of different stuff outside
and you could see that like maybe that's, you know,
him trying to hit the hole. Run consistently. You can
do that kind of things. Considering the competition he was
playing against weekly the NFL. Not gonna fly man. Everybody's

(17:28):
running a four to four in the freaking NFL. So
I like the package, I like the player. Definitely stash
him in Dynasty. Moving on, man, who makes the seventh
spot in your UDFA class rankings.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
A franchise, it does the draft process well and always
invested in the DFA process as well. So they I mean,
that's how they continually improve the margins of their roster.
That's the Philadelphia egos. They got two guys that I
had as draftable grades on. They got another one who
was a top three hundred, and then one actually a
couple more outside of that that were just outside my

(18:01):
top three hundred, so five guys in total there the
best one, the best prospect that I had on my
board heading in was Gabe Hall from Baylor, another guy
that Debro you and I saw down there in Mobile.
He impressed me down both as far as his physical
traits were pretty obvious. He is six foot six, two
hundred ninety four pounds with ninety second percentile athleticism with length,

(18:23):
so like I mean, there's just not the you know
a ton of human beings that are built that way,
and so you know that jumped out, especially that can
move that way, so that he can he's a fluid
mover as well, so that sort of jumped out. I
remember one play in particularly where he chased some guy
to the sideline, running back and funneled him all the
way out on this concept, got off his block, ran
down the line and was able to help you know,

(18:45):
funnel this guy out. And I remember layout Tu Latu
was vociferous in his you know, encouraging of the hustle
that that Gabe Hall had made on this one particular play.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
But that's what you see with him.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
The so you love the the you know, the arm
length is thirty four and a half inches. He has
an eighty four inch wingspan, so, like I said, super
duper long. Former Feldman freaklister, and I like his first
step in addition to all that other stuff I was
talking about with the hustle, the thing that Philadelphia needs
to work on him with, and this is going to
determine if he can hang around and how long he does.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
If they can fix it, he could be a starter. Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
At the next level is the stuff after the beats,
after that snap, so he gets on you really quick.
He gets to dictate the terms of the dance because
of that first step, because of those long levers, He's
gonna get his hands on you first. But the problem
with him is he plays too high, and I don't
know if that is something that can be fixed, because
then he'll pop up right and so that he allows
these offensive linemen that he is more talented than. And

(19:45):
he also gets the head start on them to battle
back in the reps because then he immediately then gives
away his leverage. That's what got him stuck on the
blocks at Baylor, so and especially the power guys were
able to just bully you backwards at that point because
he didn't have the base under him. But that's Philadelphia
will just see see if you can polish him, see

(20:06):
if you can you know if there's any way, is
there too much stiffness there, you know, in the lower
half to even be able to do that in the
hips and stuff like that, or is it something that
we can work on, but you definitely have the tools.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Other guy I wanted to shout out was Kendall Milton.
I know you're a fan of him, Deebress.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
I'll let you talk more about him, but he's a
guy that at least has at two hundred and twenty
five pounds, He's at least going to bring two things
into the NFL. I don't know if he brings anything
more than this, but I know he can grind out
short yardage stuff and I know he can pass block
the other stuff. He definitely can't catch the ball, and
I don't know what the explosion you're gonna get, but
at least someone interesting there for Eagles fans to keep
an eye on that I had two hundred and thirtieth

(20:41):
on my pre draft board.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, Kendall Milton's the guy that I ear mark for
this class man. We talked about him on the Draft
Sleepers episode as well thirteen the Yards of the Contact
for a ten twenty one twenty first in breakaway percentage
last year and the guy that breaks tackles, man, I mean,
I know, the athleticism is not fantastic. I watched him,
m he reminded me of Roshawn Johnson with less pass

(21:02):
game utility. Again, not going to be a pass passing
down guy can block and that could get him on
the field for those reps, but really a guy where
he's gonna have to cash his checks based off of
what he.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Does on the early downs. Moving on to this next team.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Who do you see cash and checks from the UDFA
class for the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, so we'll stay in the division and and hop
over there. Washington love their their draft class this year
that a new administration they brought in boy or they
sharp mashed it.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And in contrast to some of these Washington classes we've
seen in the past, this one was, you know, dinger
after dinger while the draft was going Thursday through Saturday,
and they continued that right on through into the UDFA process.
Where to be successful in UDFA, you have to have
the clever decision maker that prioritizes this. You have to
have the scouting department behind him who has done those work,

(21:55):
and the weeds that people are listening to the podcast
would appreciate get getting way out there in the way
with their scouting.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
And then you also have to have at least.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
A modicum of financial backing from the ownership group, right
because they have to understand the importance of it. And
there's some teams, some organizations that just won't. To me,
it's fishing pocket change out of the college compared to
all the other expenditures that you make. This is udif
it's the cheapest way to find talent, like it might
be the last frontier to find that talent. Yeah, that

(22:26):
we have right Like every single year, at a minimum,
twenty percent of the snaps that are taken in the
NFL are are by undrafted free agents. And so it's
a it's a it's a thing that more organizations should prioritize.
And Washington they had all three of those things this year.
They had that decision maker, they had this scouting process
all the way through, and they got the commitment from
ownership in the post draft thing that started with the

(22:48):
Colorado my top rank guy on my pre draft board
that they signed Colorado State cornerback Chigozi and ussium Uh
six foot one, two hundred pounds with eighty nine percentile atletic.
I was surprised that that kid did not get drafted,
Like I said, two hundred and thirty first on my board,
and some of these guys you, it's like, why didn't

(23:09):
he get drafted, because then it goes into UDFA and
it becomes this wild bidding war. And this this is
the first indication that we had that Washington was going
to put the resource into UDFA. They won his bidding war.
A New Sums with a three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in guaranteed money total guarantee. Not no, only a
portion of that was signing bonus, but a decent bit

(23:31):
of it was funneled into year one salary. They are
telling you that kid will be on the week one roster,
so you can lock that one in. Tom Pelasera from
NFL dot Com tweeted out after that. He said half
the league was in on a New Sium after he
went undrafted, So it's like, why didn't they use a
seventh round pick.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
On him and pay him a lot less?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
A New Siam was probably thrilled that he didn't go
drafted because that signing bonus is you're talking high of
the fifth round or even late fourth totally guarantee, you know,
like as.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Far as that goes.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
He broke up eleven I'm sorry over the last two
seasons he broke up eleven balls. After he had transferred
to Kara As State from cal was originally signed.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
With a power five school.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Like the size, like the athleticism, like the ability to
play the ball.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Then they go out Washington.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Did they get another size, athleticism freaky guy who because
of they're gonna need to work on his instincts on
the field to get him there. But I thought, just
with the athleticism in his size package, he was going
to get drafted. That's the Texas Tech safety Tyler Rowans.
At two hundred ten pounds, he was in play.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
To crack four to three.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
In fact that the sports books, I believe Dee Brat
prize picks, I believe his number was four to three flat.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I want to say it was low fourth, yeah, somewhere
low for three range like he was he was slated
to fly.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, and he was so.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
But we didn't get to see that number because he
pulled I think he pulled his handmy on his first
attempt and so but the forty is near the end
of some of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
So he was able to get some of the other testing,
but we didn't get to.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
He didn't We didn't ge to see him if he
was going to beat that four three flat number. We
did get to see his broad jump, which was one
in shy of the NFL Combines all time record. This
guy is a freak athlete, you know, a multi time
film and freaklister. Everyone knows he is a crazy burner
at two hundred and ten pounds. But yeah, he's gonna
have to work on the technique and the instincts. And

(25:21):
he said some weird stuff at the Combine about uh,
not believing in space or other planet.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Said that was Tyler Rowans. It's like Tyler Tyler.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, Like if I was Tyler Ewans his agent at
his podium session, I would have been like I would
have been.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
In the back like the cut cuts, wrap it up, be,
wrap it up, be.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
You know, like on on The Chappelle Show. But I
don't know if that contributed to him falling out. But
I thought, Tyler Owans is gonna get drafted sixty seventh round.
But watch just a couple of other things on this class,
because I thought it was the approach the specific guys
they got, but the overall approach it was holistic. But
the last couple offensive guys. And I'll let you talk
more about these guys, de Brooks. I know you like

(26:00):
Michael Wiley for Arizona. He's got a shot. Sam Hartman,
he definitely has the television career coming, and he don't
mind bringing him in whatsoever. I mean, he was one
of the top quarterbacks that was not drafted. Wasn't surprised
that he wasn't drafted. People that listened to all of
our episodes know that you and I were not high
on him and didn't find it to be.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
A draftable guy. But he did put up big.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Time stats in college, just a metric ton of passing years.
A lot of them were done in wake Forest's wonky
clawfense offense with the slow mesh. But last year he
went to the more conventional offense at Notre Dame and
played well there. But you're lacking the arm strength and
a smaller package. Not a ton of athleticism with him either,
and was not good under pressure the last couple of seasons.

(26:41):
But at least you bring him in and you see.
But the last thing I want to say about this,
as far as the holistic approach that Washington took, they
had done so well in the draft, and then some
of these guys I am already mentioning were some of
the top guys at their position that weren't drafted.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
They went beyond that. Though that's not all, folks.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
They also signed some of the top special teams guys
in this class. Not the kickers and the punters, but
I'm talking the core special teamers that you know like that.
I would have if I did a core special teamer ranking,
these guys would have been up there. They all ended
up going undrafted, but they they were guys that plugged
every single special teams a hole on their teams.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
That core guys.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Colson Yankov from UCLA the guy that I ranked to
the top full back in this class.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
He's like an h backie full back ye type guy
that can catch the ball.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
He does have utility on offense as far as that goes,
not not a hugely value utility, but he absolutely can
play as far as that goes. But he's an awesome
special teamer. He was on all UCLA's different units. So
so they bring him in and I think he's he
hangs between the special teams utility and then the ability
to bring him in if you need the lead blocker,

(27:49):
if you need that smaller h back guy shifting around
for like you know, some sort of Dallan Holker type stuff.
Holker's better at that kind of stuff. But Yankov can
he can do with a backfield. You can put them
all over the place. The next one the Marcus Rosami Jacksaying,
another guy we saw down in Mobia. Not athletic whatsoever.
The forty time probably killed any shot that he had

(28:10):
a going. He doesn't drop Baalzo as a receiver and
that's what Georgia used him as. It was just as
like the Tertiary when Carson Beck or Bennett before him,
when they would get through their read like it was
like Roasamy Jackson was like the last guy in the
train stop and if he threw it to him and
he was open, he doesn't drop the ball. So he
has really really good hands, but he's not going to

(28:32):
be creating any separation at the NFL level where he
gives the vou it's special teams. He was on all
the special teams units at Georgia as well. And then
the last guy they signed to keep an eye on
to potentially hang is safety from Iowa State named Ben Nickel,
who people overlook because his defensive work wasn't quite as good.
But he has a really good size athleticism package and

(28:54):
is an awesome special teamer. He tested in the ninety
six percentile as an athlete and like I said, was
one of this class's best course special teams players. So
you want to talk about a team that destroyed the draft,
they got the interesting guys top at their positions. Then
they also went to the care off. Let's grab guys
that can plug all these special teams holes. This was
a smash process all the way through for Washington.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
A big agree man. And the first I'll lead off
is just double him down on what you said on
Rosami Jack Saint guy, Like, if you're talking about the
fantasy utility of him, it's not gonna pop off the page.
Fantastic hands. He is going to endear himself to NFL
coaching staffs, and he is going to endear himself to

(29:37):
just I mean really whatever team he stays with it.
And I think it's gonna be the Commanders. Okay, he
blocks his butt off too, so if you're gonna have
him on the offense, it's not just the special team stuff.
He is going He is one of the best run
blocking wide receivers in this entire draft class. So the
athleticism bumped him down and not he is gonna be

(29:58):
on that roster. I believe he's gonna that team Week one.
The guy I'll bring up for fantasy utility is Michael Wiley,
and really it all begins and ends with the receiving utility.
I think he's just the air apparent Austin Eckler on
this roster.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Man.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
You look at what he was able to do, and yes,
he was dinged up a good bit at Arizona. So
not the counting stats that you want and stuff like that,
but the last three seasons sixteenth, twenty, fifth and fifth
in yards per up run. He definitely could play in
the passing attack and definitely is a guy that, look,
if you're looking to garner guys on your taxi squad

(30:33):
that have the ability to catch passes if they get
an opportunity, then if we're in PPR leagues, if they're
on the field, they're gonna be running routes. Michael Wiley
is a guy that has to be discussed in that
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Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, there's been some Bronco fans that don't like the
comments I had to say about the Denver Broncos draft class.
Hopefully they'll be happier with me on this one. The
Denver Broncos at the top five UDFA class in my metrics.
They smashed after the draft was done. Sean Payton is
he you go back every single you know when he's
been the head coach, back to his time with the Saints.

(32:06):
He prioritizes the UDFA process and it's not just whatever
he has to do convincing the ownership to buck up
for it and the scouting department of let's get after it.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
He gets.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Sean Payton gets after the udfas probably more than any
coach that we have in the NFL. There was the
one kid that Lavelle Bailey, the linebacker from Fresno State,
that I mentioned before in the last episode that Cincinnati
had lost out on the bidding war for He explicitly
said in his comments after he ended up signing with
Denver that the reason he did it. He said, there

(32:37):
was like three or four teams that were right around
the same dollar month, he said, but only one head
coach of those four teams, three teams called me. That
was Sean Payton. That's why I ended up going there.
So Sean Payton also will flip decisions. In the past,
there's been some the thing with who's the quarterback? Was
it Tommy Stevens where there was the story of Sean

(32:59):
Payton was like, you know, calling him and trying to
negotiate his UDFA contract as the draft was going, and
then you know he was going to go to some
other team in Sean Payton's like, no, you're not, and
they ended up trading for a pick at the end
of the seventh round to take up or whatever. But
I mean, that's what his He gets super aggressive with it,
and that's probably the that part that aspect of him

(33:20):
of like the roster.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Building, that inclination.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I love it because you know, again, this is where
you can can win on the margins and you can
get value for free. And he chips in with the
rest of the scouting department and everyone else with it.
It's not just about the dollar months sometimes can be
pretty close, but you can flip them. The three top
guys that they got in this class on my board.
Interestingly enough, Denver gave each of them identical guaranteed money

(33:46):
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars A piece that was
offensive tackle Frank Crumb from Wyoming, running back Blake Watson
from Memphis, and the safety Dash Nickel defender Omar Brown
from Nebraska. Frank Crumb, I thought he was going to
get drafted. He's a six foot eight skyscraper with ninety
eighth percentile raz athleticism. The Broncos absolutely need depth on

(34:09):
the offensive line. I believe he will be making the
roster as a multiple multible dude, if nothing else, a
developmental project, but with some real traits there, especially at
his dimensions and with the length Blake Watson deebrh. I
won't go too long on this because I know that
you're gonna wax poet at cabal and book Blake Watson.
But he was a guy that a former wide receiver.

(34:30):
When he signed at Old Dominion the early part of
his career, it was both, you know, initially as a
freshman didn't get on the field. Then Old Dominion was
one of the very few teams where they canceled their
season out right during the COVID season played zero games,
and so because of some of these things, it took
Blake Watson a couple of years, but then he ended
up breaking out there after they he'd come in as
the receiver, they switched him to running back, and his

(34:52):
last active season at Old Dominion he popped off and
that's when some of the bigger programs came a con
in the transfer portal, he chose Memphis and beat out
a couple other guys that were vying for that RB
one role. They had a pretty crowded backfield in the preseason,
but Blake Watson sent them all, put them all on
a milk carton and ended up having over sixteen hundred
all purpose yards with seventeen touchdowns last fall and continued

(35:15):
in their lineage of throwing to the running back, which
I know you're going to talk more about de Bro
the last dude. Omar Brown, a guy between the versatility
of playing safety, playing nickel. We have seen that that
sort of stuff. He was a guy who was a
standout at the lower level with Northern Iowa, one of
the better FCS programs, who then came up to prove
the concept at Nebraska and he absolutely did. He got

(35:36):
shouted out as an All Big Ten honoree last season,
so he's another guy to keep an eye on. But
all the way through the process is there for Denver
with the UDF face.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
I've already picked up Blake Watts in a number of
leagues where rookie drafts are already popping off. Baby, I've
drafted him in the late fourth, early fifth. I've spent
money on waivers to get him on my Dynasty rosters.
We talked about him on the Draft Sleeper episode.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Kid Can Play.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
I love the fact that you highlighted him here eight
point nine raz And just for the the tackle breaking
metrics of last two seasons, Man twenty third in breakaway rate,
thirty third in breakaway rate. He was fourth in yards
of the contact for attempt and elusive rating in twenty
twenty two. He's got the size to handle the load.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Man.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
He could play on passing downs and looking at this,
just this depth chart for the running back room. Javonte
Williams is an unrestricted free agent after this season. Somagp Ryan, Heck,
I don't even know if he makes it a week
one on this roster. They spend a fifth round pick
on Audrick Estimey. You know, and anybody that's tuned into
my or tuned into this show knows my thoughts on
Audric Estimey. Eh. I really think there's a path for

(36:41):
Blake Watson if he can prove himself. If Jealeia McLoughlin one,
if Jealia McLoughlin doesn't take the step forward that I'm
hoping and think that he can do as the passing
down back in this offense, you could see Blake Watson
could take that job if they don't want to bring
in another guy. And look, Peyton has talked about it.
If he thinks that Watson the size of the utility

(37:01):
to be able to handle the early download, we could
be talking about, I mean crazy. And this is the
upside shot here thor Blake Watson being the starter for
Denver next year. I don't think it's as far fetched
as people believe. Man, And looking at what Sean Payton's
done just with running backs in general, I mean we
know that there's fantasy goodness to be had.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
The kid has talent, he can play.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
I want to win every Dynasty roster that I possibly can, man,
so I love his game. Who is also hugging it
up in the next team you want to discuss here
for the Now that we're in the top four of
UDFA classes.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
The number four team on my last is another team
that historically smashes, at least with the current guys in
the building, and that's the Seattle Seahawks. Last year they
had in this space. In my UDFA rankings, I ranked
Seattle's UDFA class number one in the NFL. They pulled
out three guys in that class that ended up appearing
in fifteen or more games as a rookie Jake Bobo,

(37:57):
longstapp for Christa and tight end Brady Russell. I think
I think they're gonna get something similar out out of
this haul.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Here.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
The during John Schneider's time there, Seattle has signed all
these different dudes, Thomas Raws, Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Curtis, George
Fan Poona Ford, John rad Again, uh, Deshaun Sheed, Jiron Johnson,
like all these different dudes. You know, again, it's some
organization prioritize it, and decision makers do and the ownership

(38:25):
will get behind him. Some do not, and and Seattle
is obviously one that does. This class checks in number
four for me. We had two top two hundred guys
on my pre draft board in Nelson Caesar from Houston,
the edge rusher who had a great season last year's
first team All Big twelve, and then Garrett Greenfield and
offensive tackle from South Dakota State.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
We brought up a couple of.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Times on on this this you know, between this this
episode and the last one with the Yankee twins and
and and some of those guys. But the the FCS
Colossus program that went undefeated, won the national title last year.
Garrett Greenfield six foot six three eleven eighty seven percentile athlete.
I thought he was gonna get drafted, for sure. There's
some work to do there for sure on his technique.
But this kid was an FCS All American for three

(39:06):
straight years. This is a kid that should have been
playing in the FBS. And you know, maybe in hindsight,
he maybe would have considered going up to the FBS.
It probably would have, you know, could have gotten them drafted.
But you also can't really fault him for staying with
his brothers and winning the national title last year and
the classes team that they had built. The other couple
guys deebra, I'll kick it over to you to talk

(39:26):
about those. But the other two guys that I had
draft able grades on more relevant for the fantasy folks
out there, from Seattle's class, Jack Westover.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
They keep them local with Washington.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Last year with Washington, the team that made the college
football national title game, Jack Westover. He their tight end
was like the outlet dude. The dude like when defenses
put too much of the coverage resources to stop the
three stud receivers and they would do the umbrella coverages
and they throw out double teams at a dunesday and
on all those things. Washington would that when west Over

(40:01):
like he's just a super duper reliable guy in the
shorts to intermediate range, where you know, then you toss
him the ball, he's going to catch it every time
and he's going to get you yardage. And so they
would payper cut people to death when they were like, no,
we're not gonna let you throw it to Oh dude,
we're gonna take away with Dune and try to take
away McMillan and Polk and Washerton's like, okay, we'll do

(40:21):
another seven yeard game to Jack Westover. And they would
do that, you know, or else we're going to Dylan Johnson.
So I liked him in terms of that. I comped
him to Joside Degera, and then the the last guy
was George Lane, the Boise State running back.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh deebro I comped to a guy near and dear
to your heart in Rico.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
O'donald know he got some thoughts on him and Westover,
So I'll kick it back to you.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, man, Westover made us some money on prize picks.
I remember that very very fondly. You were like, bet
the Over, It's gonna happen, and I was like, so
Westover holds a special place in my heart and my pocketbook.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
But really, Halani is the guy that I want to
highlight here.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Looking at the I love the Rico Dudle comp five ten,
two oh eight, eight point three raz and you look
at the other.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Parts of his game.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
I mean one point two to nine yards per out
running college one to eleven point seven or higher ELUCID
ratings in each of his final three seasons. He was
banged up a little bit through college at Boise State.
All he's got to do, dude, is beat out Kenny
freaking McIntosh for the RB three roll and he's making
this roster and I think that is definitively possible because

(41:28):
what did mcinash do anything like as far as the
test last year's process testing, anything that he did last
year in the NFL. I think Alani can make this
team as the RB three. So people need to be
stashing him because I think Seattle is a team that
is going to run the ever love and heck out
of the ball this year. So definitely like him for
taxi squads. And I'm just gonna shut up and listen.

(41:50):
I'm just gonna hang up and listen and let you
talk about this next team.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Go ahead, have a day, buddy.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
The Minnesota Vikings check in at number three and the
UDA rankings this year the past two years is where
you have noted the Vikings increased emphasis and undrafted free agents.
Prior to that, it was highly swing and miss. I
don't know if that was a Rick Spielman thing. I
don't know if that was a ownership commitment thing. But
the past two classes that Quacy Adelpha Mensa has put

(42:19):
together with the Vikings after the draft have both been
extremely impressive.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
They did very very well. My metrics.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Last year signed the guy that I had as the
top rank UDFA coming out, a guy named Ivan Pace Junior,
who turned out to be the surprise undrafted rookie and
one of these surprise rookies in the entire NFL. Took
over at starting linebacker gig immediately and he was wearing
the green dot on his helmet for a decent personal
last season, too. Has become a defensive immediately, became one

(42:46):
of the defensive building blocks for the Vikings. They also
pulled out of that one their top special teams Ace
naj Thompson and intriguing developmental pass rusher and Andre Carter
the second. This UDFA class for Minnesota falls right in
line with that, and I think that there's a real
shot that they get similar type value out of it,
perhaps not an immediate starter like I've been paid, who

(43:06):
was one of the best rookie defenders, but certainly long term.
The guy that that that I ranked on my pre
draft board similarly to Pace, I think I paced twenty
twenty five spots above him, but you know, at least
with it within a round, was Gabriel Murphy, the ed
rusher from UCLA. I had him one hundred and forty fourth.
He was edge eight and on my board six foot

(43:26):
two to forty seven, ninety third percentile athlete and a
tremendous pass rusher. Gabriel Murphy the last three years. The
first one was at North Texas, you know where him
and his brother were before that.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Then they transfer up to UCLA.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
That's where they teamed up with Leo two Lato, like
we were talking about when we hit the Dolphins in
the previous episode, because they signed his brother, Murphy twins
broke up, unlike the Yankee twins who went together to Houston,
but the Gabriel Murphy the past three seasons, over a
combined nine hundred and twenty one pass rushing snaps, he
had eighteen sacks and in those three seasons aforementioned three seasons,

(44:03):
his PFF pass rushing grades were ninety point four, eighty
seven flat, and eighty seven point six. Not many guys
in this class can can compare with him in terms
of just that on the field the past three years
in college football.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
That's what he does is good after the quarterback. He's
very good at it.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
He times up the snaps, he gets ludicrously fast jumps
off of it. He's a big time time the snap
guy where there be times where he'll descend on the
quarterback so fast, like that offensive tackle wouldn't have a
shot in the Pac twelve to touch him because because
he had timed it up correctly and then he'd blow
by him.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
But then there's other times, you know, he'll jump.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Off sides two sometimes where it's like he's trying to
jump it, trying to jump it. But you know, again,
the utilities there the reason that he goes undrafted number one,
that's his only utility. UCLA the past two seasons dropped
him in the coverage only twenty nine snaps. And then
the other thing is his arms are super duper short,
so he has all the other stuff that athleticism certainly

(44:59):
is nfl CA. He's certainly shown his ability to get
after the passer, which Brian Flores in particular is going
to love. But he's going to be a situational guy
at the next level. Could be a good one though
in terms of the sac numbers, the pressure rate, especially
in that super duper aggressive Flora's defense. The other couple
guys I want to shout out for the Vikings, Dwight Mclothurn.
I had him one hundred and seventy second on my

(45:20):
board cornerback from Arkansas. He's a guy with length six
foot two. He also has ball skills breaks him up
and extensive experience at the highest level of college football.
He started four years in the SEC. Previous to Arkansas
was at LSU, where he was a starter as well.
Of course he carried that over to Arkansas. Last year
he was having a breakout season until he got a

(45:41):
turf toe injury that Reek Tafagan essentially ended at But
the ball skills, like I said, with eight career interception
and speak to that.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
The last thing.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
The Viking sign two linebackers. I think that that I
had draftable grades on and I think whoever does better
amongst these two guys is making that roster. They probably
are fighting with each other. Vikings do not have a
a lot of linebacker depth. Their top backup there is
Brian Asamoa, the Day two disappointment from a couple of
years ago. If they don't really have anything else, so

(46:12):
one of these dudes, like I said, I think is
making it, and that's Bull Richter from air Force and
Dallas gam from Toledo. Bull Richter is interesting because he
played He was a safety earlier in his career, then
he played off ball linebacker. Then last year because of
the defections at air Force had had and trying to
get more havoc, they move him to the edge, which
he absolutely you know, it's not going to play regularly

(46:34):
in the NFL. Could do it situationally as a pass rusher,
but he wreaked havoc in the MWC coming off the
edge like he had all kinds of fun. He's six
foot one, two hundred and forty eight punts, ninety ninth
percentile athlete, so that athleticism that he had that allowed
him at least to be on the back and the
third level initially certainly has retained that at the bigger size.
As he put on more weight, he's going back to

(46:56):
linebacker off ball linebacker, and he just has to prove
that he has the chops for that. But the past
rushing utility that he showed it in wreaking havoc last
year at air Force, I think is something that appealed
to the Vikings. The other guy, Dallas Gant, started out
his career at Ohio State, was a big time recruit
struggled to get on the field there, so he transfers
down to Toledo. He was tremendous at Toledo six foot

(47:18):
two and a half two twenty eight sixty third percentile athlete.
Dallas gann is probably Dallas Gan has the edge on
Richter in special teams utility, So that is what he
is going to have to try to win some of
those spots in camp to make his case over Richter.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
He is not the.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Athlete that Richter is, and I think you can do
more things with Richter defensively. So it's the Vikings are
going to be between those two things and who can
make the greater case with their biggest strength. But those
are the guys I wanted to shout out with the Vikings.
A very good top three UDFA class this year.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yeah, really strong, A lot of athletes here.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
The guy that I'll mention here before we move on
to the top two, Ty James Dude, and I think
that he could look if he blows up in camp,
and really for everybody, I mean just crazy production at
mercer Man eight point zero raz You're looking at just
the the numbers he put up at Mercer and I
get the level of competition three point seventy three yards

(48:14):
per route run his final two years at Mercer three
point five four point four yards per route run. Like
we talked about this in the last episode, if you're
playing at small school competition, I want to just see
you just body veaking dudes. I want to see you
crushing it and blowing up the numbers. Ty James, did
that tell me?

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Thorp?

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Any of these guys, And I know I'm gonna hurt
your feelings here a little bit with your vikings, but
are you really just enamored with Brandon Powell, Jalen Naylor,
Nikhil Harry, Trent Sherfield, all of these guys at the
top of that receiving depth chart behind Justin Jefferson and TJ.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Hockinson and Jordan Addison.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
I'm not I won't know. The receiving death is terrible.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah, bad dude.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Yeah, one of those guys, if they signed a receiver,
will have a shot there. They're gonna have a battle
royal for those those last couple of backup spots that receiver.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Absolutely agree and Ty James, I think has the talent
man breaking into the top two of this UDF A class.
I mean, you were talking about talent here. Who's the
talented guys you want to talk about for the New
York Jets.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Yeah, So the top two classes that I had for
the udfas this year, they were significant. It was like
those two, then a drop and then the the you know,
the next group of teams that Vikings edged out. But
then it was like, you know, you had a group
in there of like four or five, and then there
was another drop. But these two teams at the top
we're going to talk about were clearly ahead of the pack,

(49:38):
and the Jets just narrowly got edged out by the
team that we're going to talk about in a second.
The finished number one in the UDFA rankings. But as
far as the Jets class, the reason they did so well,
it was crazy aggression at the very top, the best
of the best that didn't get drafted and guys that
absolutely probably should have gotten drafted. Those were the guys
that the Jets zeroed in on and got really aggressive with,

(50:01):
and in particular, the Ethos was the front of the
defense overall, but in particular defensive front. Eric Watts from
Yukon Edge Rusher tooled up kid. I had him one
hundred and forty second on my board. Leonard Taylor from Miami,
the defensive tackle, was a top ten recruit coming out
of high school and had crazy pass rushing numbers last year.

(50:22):
Item one hundred and forty eighth on my board. And
then Braydon McGregor from Michigan edge rusher. I had him
one hundred and fifty third on my board. Measurables are
all there with that kid. Six five to fifty four,
seventy fifth percentile athlete and was the top recruit at
Michigan the year that he came in. Had a slower
start to his career, didn't stay on the field regularly
until this past season, but he was a starter on

(50:44):
the national championship nasty defense of Michigan had this past season,
and like I said, retains all the athleticism and the
physical ability that led to him being such a highly
ranked recruit. As far as Eric Watts goes, he started
three of his four active seasons at Yukon. Yukon was
another one of those Select fIF teams I mentioned with
Blake Watson. The Old Dominion was one of the few

(51:05):
teams that canceled their season because of COVID Yukon was
another one in twenty twenty that canceled it. But Watts
in his four active season he starts three of them.
He needs work as far as the Polish goes, but
the measurables are really really good and really promising. And
he had the flash plays on defense, but not only that,
he had flash plays on.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Special teams as well.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Speaking to the first one, twenty two and a half
tackles for lots over the last three seasons, and if
you just isolated to the last two seasons, nine sacks
on defense and on special teams, two block field goals
and a block punt. The kid is crazy, crazy long,
six foot six two seventy four with very very long
arms and eighty third percentile athleticism. So the lank, the

(51:48):
vertical and the forty Eric Watts all was near the
top of this entire edge class. Leonard Taylor, like I said,
was the every program in the country wanted Leonard Taylor
when he was coming up to high school. As that
aforementioned top ten overall recruit. He goes to Miami. The
thing with him so pass rushing last year is where

(52:09):
he really set himself apart as far as on the field,
he was ninety fifth percent hour higher in PFF pass
rush grade true pass set true past set rush grade
easy for me to set and pass rush win rate. However,
the run game stuff is not quite there yet. And
then you wonder about the full like will be apples

(52:29):
to apples the translation of his hit the pass rushing
and the reason for that is he plays super high.
You know, I was talking about this with Gabe Haul earlier.
You know, when we hit on him, a guy who
has a ton of talent, but he pops up and
that's Leonard Taylor as well.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
He Leonard Taylor on the field.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
It's a north south bully and so he was able
to bully some of these interior offensive linemen in the ACC,
was able to shoot some gaps and was able to
create some havoc, particularly in the passing game. But this
is why he got washed out on on concepts because
he plays too high, and we want to see him
get better at shedding the blocks as well. That's a
technical aspect of his game that they can work on.
And then as far as the pass rush, you have

(53:10):
that north South bully thing going for you. They need
to teach him.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
A couple of counters off of that thing.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
So he has the fastball already, which manifested you know
at the highest level of the power five. Need to
get the change up with that, need to get maybe
a couple of breaking pitches, Dee Bright. I know, I
was a little bit short on the baseball metaphors so
far over our UDFA episode, so I had.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
To get one more in.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
But if they give him some more of that stuff,
then he could become a player again, you know, at
the NFL level. I'm sorry, you know, and harken back
to some of that stuff. If he can't and he
keeps playing too high, that's where it could end it
really for Leonard Taylor. But certainly a worthy dart throw
by the Jets there. And the last one, McGregor former
hockey player, just like his quarterback in college, JJ McCarthy,

(53:52):
so they had that in common. At Michigan. McGregor was
the top recruit in the twenty twenty class at Michigan.
Has that frame I was talking about before, and he
has that season, you know, starting on that nasty defense.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Last one I wanted to shout.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
Out was Tyler Harrell, who is a very weird profile
twenty nine point one yards per catch in twenty twenty
one at Louisville and he one third of the receptions
he had that season went for touchdowns, and so I
was like, oh my gosh, this kid is something and
he has the speed was apparent on the film. You
saw that during the pre draft in the four threes.
But the last two seasons, so he first he transferred

(54:28):
to Alabama, and Alabama and Saban Staff they had particularly
gotten aggressive with Tyler Harrow bringing him in thinking that
he was the replacement for Jamison Williams. No, he was,
he was an afterthought. Harrold was injured for part of
this season, and I think they were wondering, as he
has heard, as he says, and then when he came back,
he didn't really see the field. Then he went to
Miami for his last season and again didn't do anything

(54:50):
at Miami. He had a hard time even getting on
the field. Those two seasons combined, he only caught six balls.
Tyler Harrol has that speed that you can't teach, the
which absolutely deserves a look. And so the Jets we'll
find out that they can turn him around. But the
last two years were a bit concerning with him and
that's why he went undrafted.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, I agree to Harrold's the only guy that I
was gonna mention here, and just the numbers pop for
him twenty twenty one, Like you were talking about two
point eight five yards per route run, nine point eight
yak per perception. I mean those numbers pop, they play,
and you marry that with a seven point six raz
and the size. I mean, we're gonna find out. I
mean people talked about it last preseason. You heard people

(55:29):
hyping up Jason Browne and Exavier Gibson and we know that.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Look, the receiving step.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Charts kind of thin after Garrett Wilson, Mike Williams.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Is he stay healthy? Can he stay healthy?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
You and I are not fans of Malachai Corley, unlike
a lot of other people. Alan Lazar was sent to
the bench last year. I could see a world. Well, look,
if Tyler Harrel can show some of that promising camp
and earn himself a spot, might be able to climb
this depth chart a little bit higher than people give
him credit for. And speaking of giving a lot of credit,
man your top spot, go ahead, wax poetic baby, go ahead,

(56:03):
give it up.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
Let's get number one DFA class in twenty twenty four
in the NFL is the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
A team that they get.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
All the Pat Mahomes, Pat Mahomes, Pat Mahomes. But the
reason that they continue to win it's not just Mahomes.
It's that every year in the draft, the ROI on
their slots is incredible, and then they always carry that
over into the UDFA process and not only have the
strategy of what they're going to do, which I love
every single season. I'll talk about that in a second,

(56:32):
but they also have the commitment to it and now
at this point because of the success. I talked to
an NFL agent after the draft recently and he was
talking about how they're the team if he was to
pick out of any of the thirty two. During the
pre draft process, some of these guys were they they
could go seventh round, but you know otherwise they're going
to be high in the UDIA face. The Chief scouts

(56:53):
are all over them being like, we want you, you
know after the you know, make sure you know we'll
get the number from the agent. We're going to be
con tacking you, and they so they get into their
heads then and then the kid the next month, six weeks,
he's like, the world champions want me. And so then
when the draft ends, if they happen to go undrafted,
the Chiefs are getting aggressive. Now they weren't lying there.

(57:15):
They're making the call, They're making the offers. The Chiefs
win a lot of tie breakers on these guys where
the money is really close. I mentioned that the way
that the Broncos do it is Sean Payton is out
there on it. He's calling everybody, you know, He's like
a it's like a call service guy. He's like call call, call,
call call. With the Chiefs, it starts a couple of
months before that and they carry it all the way through.
Stay in contact with these guys, and then they have

(57:37):
the financial commitment as well. But finish And the last
thing I want to say as far as that goes,
the five years have been doing these rankings, the Chiefs
only finish outside the top ten in one of those seasons.
Last year was number four. This year, of course, the
number one they have. They signed my top ranked underrafted
free agent and Fabian love It from Florida State uh
six foot four three, sixteen seventieth percentile athlete. I was

(58:00):
surprised babe On Lovett did not get drafted. The utility there,
it's a little bit, you know, one trick right now,
but the because he's not super disruptive as a pass rusher,
but he's very good in run defense, and you you
at least can work with him on the pass rushing stuff,
but on the run defense, the early down utility alone,
I thought that he would be drafted. And a guy

(58:21):
who projects to be a backup interior lineman that hangs
around for a long time, so I think that he's
going to make the roster.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Love it.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
And then the second guy, one of the highest rank
guys that I had coming out of the draft was
Curtis Jacobs, the linebacker from Penn State. So I'd love
it one hundred and tenth overall. I had Jacobs one
hundred and sixty seventh overall. Jacobs he has experience and
he has projectable traits in space, both those things. Three
year starter on very good Penn State defenses, and he

(58:51):
is awesome in run defense coming forward. He will plug
those gaps, makes the right read, gets downhill quick, and
then is happy to throw the show older pads into
the running back in the hole. The thing that he
that Jacobs has to do is prove that he is
usable on passing downs. They didn't blitz him a ton
at Penn State. And in coverage. I have a supposition

(59:12):
that he's gonna have to be hidden in the NFL
if you have him out on the field on those
plays his own concept. Dropping him onto the dump off guy,
you know, would be my suggestion as far as that
goes would not strand him in man coverage.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
But the thing of the downhill thumber guy, this is
the dude who twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Would have been drafted in the middle rounds, but because
of the way the game is going, that's why he
goes out. But he still has value that he can
bring to the team early downs. And then the other
thing with Curtis Jacobs his special teams, so he's gonna
give them value in turns of both that. Then the
Chiefs also signed my number two punter, Ryan Recco from
b YU. Tory Taylor is the guy who's going nuts
about all process because Tory Taylor's the kid from Iowa

(59:51):
that the Bears ended up taking in the fourth round.
Next level punting prospect. But outside of that, reco led
for at least for me, the next in line and
a very good punting prospect in his own right. We'll
go in there and compete. And then they also So
those are the top three. But in addition to that,
they got three other dudes that I had ranked in
my top two hundred and ninety pre draft. Offensive tackle

(01:00:13):
Ethan Driscoll, got an edge rusher from Charlotte who's kind
of interesting, has some length, a rangey kid as well,
and then a USC cornerback Christian Roland Wallace as well
that he got pushed out because of the lack of athleticism,
but he showed ball scals and he's over two hundred
pounds as well. The Chiefs not only the top end guys,

(01:00:34):
but they all which was you can compare with anyone,
but also the depth of it. They had more than
ten guys two for six, eight, ten, twelve, thirteen guys
that were on my pre draft five hundred. So it's
not only hitting the top, it's also spray the board
and let's see if we can find something on one
of these other guys. Lots of interesting namesy bro, I'll
kick it to you for the rest of the offensive

(01:00:55):
skill guys, but another smash process for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Yeah, I think they just crushed the process man, and
a lot of just varied prospect profiles for these guys.
A lot of the skill guys they got don't really
pop for me a ton. I think Amani Bailey is interesting. Look,
you could look at some of the metrics, elusivity metrics
and things like that, and he pops in some of
those categories.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
So I think he is interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
And depending on the depth of your dynasty league, is
he worth a taxi squad spot? Sure, but that also
depends on who you're weighing him versus even some of
these other guys like Jeleen Cocher we talked about earlier
in this episode. I like the guy, I don't love
the guy, and I think the damning thing, if you
want to point anything for him, while I'm a little
bit lower on him, is just the athleticism, especially at

(01:01:40):
the five seven two oh six two point two rats, is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Just not going to cut it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
But again, I do think his tackle breaking stuff is
interesting and his.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Film is a little bit better than that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
The athleticism scorer implies Carson Steel, I just dude, I
wanted to love Carson Steel, and then I'll saw how
Carson Steel tested on his forty and stuff. Now, the
other parts of his profile, like some of the jumping
and things like that, tested pretty well. I feel like
I fell in love with this profile a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Thor.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I feel like I'm having Yesteryear's ghost the ghosts of
Christmas past kind of knocking on the door and saying hi.
Because when I watch Carson Steele, I so thought of
how much I loved Ryan Knall when he was coming out,
and then I was like, I was like, ah, I
was like, man, I loved Ryan Nall. I was all
out there and the receipts are still out there. The
receipts are out there, people go, you can go look

(01:02:30):
it up on X. I was a big Ryanall proponent
way back in the day. I watched Carson Steel, and
I'm like, I'm getting some of these ghosts and some
of these feelings. I don't know how to feel. I
feel very conflicted right now. But Carson Steele again a
guy that we got to bring up here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Man. But look, this has.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Been a awesome two pack of episodes covering all of
these guys for UDFA. Thor's massive, amazing article is live
on fantasypros dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Go check that out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I mean, the man almost wrote eight thousand freaking on
UDFA alone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
So I mean, look, you want the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
DJing, you want the con the content, you want all
the parts and pieces of this entire NFL draft class.
I think through the process, we've given the people what
they want. We have gone through all the positions, all
the guys, all the sleepers, now through the UDFA.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
If there's something we didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Cover and we hit all the betting angles, baby, if
there's some we didn't cover, leave a leave a review.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Let us know what's up.

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