October 14, 2020 • 31 mins
DRAFTED’s eighth episode brings listeners to the night before — and the first day of — the NFL Draft, Round One. We hear from Ohio State teammates Chase Young and Jeff Okudah as they go second and third overall, as well as Louisville’s Mekhi Becton, whose Top 10 draft dreams fail to come true.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutch Sports
Group and I Heart Radio. How are you doing? How
you do? Did I say your name right there? You
did perfect? How's everything going? Man? Go? Well? Go? Well?
(00:20):
What are you talking to right now? I'm actually at
the field. Get a little field work out in right now.
I only needed a minute or two. I just want
to call I do the West Coast for the forty
niners and then I cross checked the corner. So I
just wanted to touch base before the draft. Just make
sure you can know we're interested or someone. We're going
to be targeting everybody in our buildings kind of up
(00:42):
for you. So we're excited about the opportunity to possibly
get you in the red and gold. And uh, I
wish you the best of the ruck this week. You man,
and enjoy it and you're gonna finally know where you're
playing here soon. I appreciate it a lot. Have a
good week, and brother, talk to you. Take care. Welcome
(01:03):
back to Drafted nine nine six. Now you you got
last one. No, you've got a lass one. This is it.
The last day and night before dreams are realized, hearts
are broken, and a lifetime of work culminates for these
eight players than draft tomorrow. They wanted to draft of
(01:27):
police tomorrow. We're peering behind the curtain into what happens
before the cameras start rolling and the draft begins. This
is what it's really like to be in their shoes
or bed, and it's saying Bassie's case, it's eleven o'clock
and I'm already bad. I just kind of wanted to get,
you know, a saying expects to be chosen somewhere in
(01:49):
the mid to late rounds on the second or third
day of the draft, but he's still feeling nervous even
before round one. I had a lot of people hit
me up today, old teammates, the boy Williams. Good luck
this weekend, kid, however the chips may fall, trust the
man above, Happy for you and your family, keeping any
(02:10):
praise this weekend. Whatever you do, don't give up. No
matter what happens is this weekend, Alex Bachman, it's your time.
He probably regardless he put in the work now as
Thomas hoping to reward much love always, it's ready for
the draft. So yeah, man, it's a crazy time. But
(02:32):
I'm excited. Man, I'm only excited to see things happen tomorrow,
So I'm just getting ready for it. One of my
goals was to become more consistent in my faith, and
you know, I've just been reading, reading the Bible lot
more than you know, putting my faith and trust in God.
Especially night before you know, one of the biggest weekends
(02:54):
of my life. I'll definitely keep me saying and pushed
me through this process as it has you know, out
my football career, just everything else that's been going on
in my life. So taking that word to bed tonight,
it will be the last thing I look at and
I just kind of sleep on it. And now tomorrow
at the start of something of a special weekend, and
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I couldn't be any more happy about it, feel good
about it. Another cornerback, Virginia's Brights Hall, experiences a similar
private moment. So it's the night before the draft right now,
and um, some feelings, man, I'm I'm really excited. It's
crazy because lately I've just been thinking about how you know,
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I got here and just the people who have impacted
my life, and so it's just surreal to just be
in the moment where the opportunity is about to come
and um, it's only you know it's coming very shortly,
so super excited about that, and and I'm just so
thankful that, you know, God has just paid the way
(04:03):
for me to be able to get here and get
where I'm at. Whatever, Bro, I didn't sleep that at
all last night the whole day. This is Kansas City
Chief safety one Thornhill, Bryce's friend and former teammate in Virginia.
(04:26):
Watch watch when they started, like when it actually started. Bro,
already no, but yeah, but I could not sleep last night.
I woke up early like sixth Truth is he wasn't
sleeping because he was trying to keep his hand right. Well,
I didn't want to roll over and mess up the
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fade because I got to get the fade right. But
other than that, it was, yeah, I can't sleep. I'm
excited though. Your your life about to change, man, Bro.
That's Craig Bro really just thinking about like high like
this is a dream like you, just as you have
as a little kid. I just remember, like in class
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the teacher asked what you want to be one day
when you grow up? I wrote, all my thing, I
want to be a football player in the NFL. And
now like we got a chance to do that, it's
just wilder. Think of all the things that got you
to this point. It's crazy. I know, man, I don't
even I'm excited for you that I'm definitely gonna be
tuned in. I'm gonna watch watch every tea. Man. Yeah,
(05:30):
I'm praying. I'm praying you go to day. But if
it don't happen, That's what I was saying, And it's
just gonna add just more a chip on my shoulder
and fuel to the fire, just even like because eight, Yeah,
at the end of the day, it's it's out of
our control. It's out of my control. So wherever I go,
I'm you know what, you know what type of player
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you are pressing you are, so as soon as you
whoever drift you or wherever you go. Yeah, yeah, you
know you're a dog. Got you got that ain't Yeah,
So it really don't matter. Like when me, that was
the biggest thing with me last I wanted to go
first round so bad. Yeah, And like when I when
I didn't go first round, I was disappointed. Yeah, but
like if you really think about it, it wasn't meant
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to be. Like yeah, and you're at the best situation
you could have been in like this is a perfect
fit for you. That's why I feel like, I mean
it was it was meant for me to come here. Man,
Like I can't get drafted first round because they didn't
have a first round pick, and they pick me up
in the second round and then we won the super Bowl.
Like it just things happened for a reasons. Bro, That's
so true exactly. Sometimes. Yeah, imagine though too, like this.
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I mean, you probably wouldn't want to be with any
other team than where you're at right now. So it
all worked out, and and you're gonna be able to, like,
as you keep balling and doing your thing, in the end,
you're gonna be able to make more and you probably
have a better deal since like you're not limited to
like a fourth year. You can get out of that
in three years. And then as you continue the ball,
(06:57):
you're just gonna make up the dividend into Yeah, I
just want to I wanted to see how Yeah, I'm
a little nervous. I was telling everybody, like, I ain't
gonna be nervous. Fact, watch watch when it start, it's
gonna like you're gonna feel different, Like you're different the
(07:20):
whole time. I was just sitting there like every every pick,
every pick, you like every pig and you just wait
for your phone to read, just like it's so much. Man,
that's crazy. It's going fun, fun time. Yeah. I even
tell people I'm gonna be emotional. Bro, I feel like
it's gonna be like that. You don't know. That's that's
(07:42):
the thing. You're gonna be so exciting. I mean just watch. Yeah, bro,
already know if you get drafted, I got call you.
As soon as you get drafted, your phone ringing all
the little Yeah. Wait, I'm gonna wait a little bit
then we're gonna talk. I want you to tell me
how you feel. Got she Bro? I appreciate she calling, though,
(08:05):
I have fun? Did you have fun? Yeah? All right,
sounds good by police can't tell me Freeze what I
might it's her name. I don't really here like here.
(08:28):
I think it's about it coming a couple of hours
or some hours. Some hours because he's here though. That's
Ohio State cornerback Jeff Okuda Rolling calls from the car.
His former os U teammate Chase Young is on the
other line. I was saying, though, bro, because Barnes ain't
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fun with us, what do you mean? I mean, I
don't know, Bro, I might be overthinking it rhy because
I was thinking, like, damn, I really ain't her from
Coach Barnes rest and it's this whole process started. Coach
Barnes worked with Jeff and Chase as the assistant secondary
coach and special teams coordinator at Ohio State. How many
(09:10):
how many people who haven't heard I mean out of
her from drew her from Kwan, But the secondary group
was Titus hug Bro, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm like, say you think that we and if we like,
we say it's lock Denis for life. And I thought
about it like that. He probably wouldn't tug with us
because the special team she probably albably sucked us in
(09:32):
a moment, probably was like Loki. Right, Well, so they're
called drops. But another comes in, Hey, Hey, how are
you I'm doing good? Uh? You got ahead to Grand
Prairie right now. That's Jeff and Karen's aunt, Jessica, another
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honorary ant are close with but not related to h
How are you feeling. I'm I'm a little nervous, anxious. Really,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I said man,
I don't think it's where you're going. I think it's
the fact that I don't want you feeling like that. Yeah,
and Jay was like you so motherly, I said, a man,
(10:15):
it's just just to make sure that you're okay. I'm
telling uncle that we never know what he's gonna do.
He may bless you with somewhere else or just put
you in a place you We just don't know, but
we just we're proud of you. Whatever decision happens today.
Thank you so much. On man, I'm talking about from
the beginning to the end and on further. I'm super
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proud of you and your sister no matter what. So
whatever decision, wherever you go, just always know that we
are always gonna be here for you. And and I'm hungry.
I'm putting my stomach on the table for you. I'm
putting myself by stuff a bit, growling all day when
(10:56):
until your thing is called, I'm a hold out of deficate,
you know what I'm saying. I know that he's definitely
watching over you. All right, all right, We'll be right back. Well.
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Bryce and Jeff wrestled at their faith and how the
next few days will unfold. Louisville offensive tackle McKay Beckton
strikes a different post. I want to do as I
want to take you presure to do that before? Are
you starting on too much? Okay? Get uh? Who's up? Well,
(11:52):
we want to take it up. What did you got
to say? Who gonna pull the trigger? Who's gonna pull
(12:14):
the trigger? Yeah. McKay and his family set out hats
from all thirty two teams in the living room. He
needs easy access to grab the right hat the moment
he's selected, So I'm wearing knees just hunt right here. Anyway,
this this kind of got the broom because that's the
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that's the kind of hat one war. No know what
I'm saying when I whenever I get picked, I'm wearing
this kind of hat with the two long what so
only one? It's only one hat over, it's only one
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hand and there's another had but it's a flat burn one.
Okay over, I'm wearing them one. So I just I
just put out the top ten picks. I'll just put
on the top ten picks. McKay only arranges hats for
the first ten teams if he's apprehensive about when and
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where he'll be taken he isn't letting it show yet.
But it's not just hats the players have to worry
about at the moment. How are you doing right now? Good?
Just nervous. I guess I'm not even nervous yet. Actually
I think I'll be nervous and I put this stuff on. Yeah,
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I can't wait. That's Jeff Okuda again, starting to fret
over what team he'll be playing for in what city
he'll be living in. I really think you're going to
be like you're going to be like appreciated. But okay, okay, okay,
I'll get I'll get anything to you. Like it's so
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you're wearing like that's I just feel like that's set
your challenge for a long time. Yeah, definitely. I liked
how it look. It's so clean and professional and it's
like so stylish, like people are gonna go crazy, you
know it, get it. I'm excited. Okay, all right, see, okay,
(14:30):
what appreciate it shows Chians. This is Jeff's friend and
former Ohio State quarterback Tate Martel. So pretty much like
I don't want to walk to them. Now they get
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to pick like which house they want to click into?
Oh so like so like look at people, because they're
saying all the equipment to like the top fifty like prospects,
and they're gonna like streaming. They get like live streaming now,
and I think they have like a heads up of
who's about to get picked, so then they can just
automatically already like flip it onto it a little. I
(15:16):
don't know, right, Hey, Jell was the test experiment. See
how it goes. I think James see it on TV.
You already know. Rush. I don't know. I don't know
what's about to happen. But really, de Try really has
the whole draft in their hands. Really, I mean, I
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don't know what they're gonna do. Bro. Did they say
that they're gonna take you a three? No, they never
came out and said it. Valcons I'm gonna do a salt.
I saw the trick is trained up to two to
get chased. No, no, no, no. My agent texting me
was like, no, that that's not true. That was not
because I heard I heard, like since you said what
(16:02):
I said, that defension is gonna go, Bro, what You're
gonna be dead because you want I want to see grow.
I try to cut tackle the at This is he
big as hell six seven to six? Are you lying
to damn like change playing tight end but not like
as cuts him, So you can't even really just came
(16:24):
trying to dump him for realm you might bring because
you see even camp Cancer used to hit his ass
like he was hurt and gronk, but like Cam Cancer
had to through all his ship in there like full speed,
Camp Chancellor. That's Camp Cancer. The Crown had a little
bood to him on God it was Kelsey kid. Oh
(16:47):
this is crazy. Have you have you heard like trying
to get up to the three bro not because like
even with the draft, like you know how Bro teams
were not talked like with Clayborne. When the Cowboys traded
up for Clayborne, they didn't even talk to him. To
Hop says, no, this is I've been like Butterfact myself.
I wanted to where j K is gonna go to Enrico,
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but like everywhere else is just like damn, I wonder
where he's gonna go owner, He's gonna go on this
side to see house. I got to play out, Jeff
got to start right now. Really now, at last, the
moment finally arrives once again with you here tonight and
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we understand the world that we know has changed and
makes me changing on the presumable future when we are
still here to be part of one of the great
communal sports experiences. Only thirty miles away from where Jeff
and his sister Karen and their aunt Jane tune in
McKay Beckton and his family gathering their living room in Plano,
Texas without further won't started up, you just started good locked.
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Every team I'm not going to start ever. Draft is
officially Cinatis are on the club. Cincinnati makes their pick
quarterback Joe Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner and twenty nineteen
(18:28):
national champion from l s U. Not going first overall
is a disappointment to Chase and Jeff and McKay. But
now at pick number two, anything can happen, so we
believe the pick is in. Let's see what more what
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with the second pick in the NFL Draft, the Washington
Red Skoots for like Chase Young, defensive end Ohio State.
Congratulations came when the Redskins caught my phone coach with
very on the phone and he asked to speak to
my dad and he actually told my dad, uh to
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tell me that I was gonna be at Washington, um risking.
Definitely a surreal moment, you know, a grateful, grateful moment.
So there you see Chase, a very very happy young man,
a team captain in the nucleus of that defense that
will love the fewest total yards per game in the
nation last season. Chase gets another call right after the
pick from Washington. What's up? What's that? What's up? What's up? Risk? Congratulations, Man, appreciate,
(19:44):
appreciate you, man, appreciate you. This is Ohio State associate
head coach and defensive line coach Larry Johnson sr uh
So dream coming true. Man, This is what you worked
hard for and how probably man to be where you
actually know we gotta get back in the lad Yes,
no question, I'm ready for you know me already. I'm already.
I'm waiting on you before you. I appreciate you, Look,
(20:09):
you appreciate Look back over this thing, man, Like you know,
we weber that sitting down there for writing those goals
down right, you know, going to our little gold sheet
and said this is where it is. And I remember, huh,
I remember at all. I'm the very thing you remember
saying that they tell you and said coach, John's won't
be one of your best. Yeah, I told you, I
(20:30):
told you. Yeah, you didn't worked out, man, I worked
out so that it's time to go to work now,
you know we feel about that right, Another chapter, another journey. Okay,
you know the elite special Now, no, don't let it
take anything you have. And as soon as we get
a chance to get up to get the back together again,
I'm getting the lamb go to woman. You got it,
I'm coming. Yeah, you have, buddy, Appreciate you most love.
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All right, man, have a good for your time. Appreciate
your brother. As Chase continues to celebrate with this family,
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces the Detroit Lions are on
the clock with the third overall pick. And back in
Grand Prairie, Texas, Jeff Okuda watches his friend in former
teammates dream come true. He does hello, Hello, Hello, Yeah, yes, sir,
(21:32):
I'm doing Yeah. I got my family. I got my
family with me right now, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, thank
you so much. Coach. I'm blessed. I feel bless right now.
Thank you so much, Yes, sir, thank you so much, Yes, sir,
(21:56):
thank you so much. Coach, Thank you so much. Need
you get your past? Okay, yes, sir, thank you so much. Coach.
H h right, lions brought up your man, Yo, No
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need to connect, I need connected. Connect go thin kidding
my pretty overall? Oh my god, that's crazy. Wow, disconnect
(23:09):
from that perfect Yeah? Because yeah, yeah, Mom is smiling
(23:38):
right now. Yeah. After everything Jeff went through to get here,
all the struggle and heartache, his unbreakable focus on this
one singular goal he's had since he was eleven years
(24:00):
old to today, After all that, it's impossible to overstate
what this means to him. What's up? Man? Thank you
so much. Two buck eys in her own really kind
of like three really kind of like three in the
(24:20):
first three calls continue coming. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, I
got one question for you. You're gonna be a better
gunner than Terry in the NFL. Are you not gonna
do that stuff anymore? That's former Ohio state head coach
Urban Meyer. You know what me, coach? Now, I'll get
I'll get it there at gunn and I'll make some plays. Hey,
we're so happy for you. When I was texting with
Jane all day today and you did a dude, Thank
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you so much. Coach. You believed in me early. Uh,
You're tough on me, and I think that that's part
of the reason why I'm here today. Real I'm still
gonna stay tough. Funny, I'm gonna watch it and I'm
not gonna tell you how good you. I'm gonna tell
you what you need to work on every time. Thank you.
Coach there surely wants to stay. Cong Congratulations, thank you
so much, just so so happy for you. About sitting
(25:03):
in your house that day. Your your dad for me
a glass of wine and we sat there talking about
the Siano and Combs are down there are wow. Well, congrats.
Now go be a leader in that locker room. They
needs you to go help a win. Get there. I
will much love to dude, much love. We'll be right back.
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The New York Giants have the next pick at number four.
They're a team McKay spoke with, and one that's been
very open about needing an offensive tackle. So this could
be McKay's movie. And then you see the react Grandbury,
Texas where Jeff is wrong. It's most really interesting that
(26:01):
tells seven in this draft. Everybody got seven people or seven,
Oh teresting. So the Giants, why not go you to
roll you know not where? And nobody did get in
with the lost of not that's a tackle applied with
Jenner Gold junior out of that, that's so stunt. They're
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there are school. They tell him the outside lot back
from Clemson, but they got Gellbot the outs a taxi interest. Listen.
It certainly seems Dave Gammon has made it clear he
loves what he likes to call the od Molly the
big guys up front, I say it since they're what
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the jet is in. Let's go to the commission, ri
the RK pick and it's ready. Frinny unfl draft the
New York Giants like Andrew toss back on. That's when
jis what they said, I'm better than He's better than
the Giants. Drafting a different offensive tackle could cost McKay
(27:18):
an enormous amount of money, depending on how much later
he ends up being chosen. Miami selects Alabama quarterback to
a Tongua Villoa five and another quarterback. Oregon's Justin Herbert
is selected sixth by the Los Angeles Chargers, with the
Carolina Panthers on the clock, McKay might have his next opportunity,
followed by the Arizona Cardinals, two teams that could use
(27:40):
a tackle. How high had you heard from various sources
that he might go? We had we heard full all
the way up to the Jazz Is where it was
full McKay's dad. After the combat, that's when when everything
just blew up with McCay. He's you know, talk at
a dr have. You know, we constantly see everybody saying
(28:03):
he was, you know, one of the top five linen
in the draft. So you know, we didn't know where
exactly what he's going, but we kept hearing different things.
People kept out on this different stuff, but it still
was the unknown. I was, you know, making us nervous
of the situation because you really didn't know exactly what
was going to happen on where he was going. After
the combine and McKay's epic forty yard dash performance, now
(28:24):
he has to wonder is he falling in the draft
because of an issue with his on the field performance
he kept or has he not been picked yet due
to a completely unrelated reason. You're saying, O stunned McKay
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watches as Jacksonville goes on the clock for the ninth choice.
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All ten hats Mackay laid out earlier still face him
untouched as the Cleveland Browns prepared to make their selection,
and now with the last pick in the top ten pending,
he can only watch and wonder how much further will
he fall? Coming up on the next episode of Drafted,
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what's enjoyable? It's just his heart wrenching. At the same time,
I was in and out watching the first round, just
because watching guys get pig kind of made me build
up anxiety and things like that. Do that and suffer
the embarrassment of not being drafted possibly Hello, oh, come on,
I can't here. Hello ry sir. That's why you already
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know it's on their head. That's crazy. That's crazy. Drafted
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What are you talking to right now? I'm actually at
the field. Get a little field work out in right now.
I only needed a minute or two. I just want
to call I do the West Coast for the forty
niners and then I cross checked the corner. So I
just wanted to touch base before the draft. Just make
sure you can know we're interested or someone. We're going
to be targeting everybody in our buildings kind of up
(00:42):
for you. So we're excited about the opportunity to possibly
get you in the red and gold. And uh, I
wish you the best of the ruck this week. You man,
and enjoy it and you're gonna finally know where you're
playing here soon. I appreciate it a lot. Have a
good week, and brother, talk to you. Take care. Welcome
(01:03):
back to Drafted nine nine six. Now you you got
last one. No, you've got a lass one. This is it.
The last day and night before dreams are realized, hearts
are broken, and a lifetime of work culminates for these
eight players than draft tomorrow. They wanted to draft of
(01:27):
police tomorrow. We're peering behind the curtain into what happens
before the cameras start rolling and the draft begins. This
is what it's really like to be in their shoes
or bed, and it's saying Bassie's case, it's eleven o'clock
and I'm already bad. I just kind of wanted to get,
you know, a saying expects to be chosen somewhere in
(01:49):
the mid to late rounds on the second or third
day of the draft, but he's still feeling nervous even
before round one. I had a lot of people hit
me up today, old teammates, the boy Williams. Good luck
this weekend, kid, however the chips may fall, trust the
man above, Happy for you and your family, keeping any
(02:10):
praise this weekend. Whatever you do, don't give up. No
matter what happens is this weekend, Alex Bachman, it's your time.
He probably regardless he put in the work now as
Thomas hoping to reward much love always, it's ready for
the draft. So yeah, man, it's a crazy time. But
(02:32):
I'm excited. Man, I'm only excited to see things happen tomorrow,
So I'm just getting ready for it. One of my
goals was to become more consistent in my faith, and
you know, I've just been reading, reading the Bible lot
more than you know, putting my faith and trust in God.
Especially night before you know, one of the biggest weekends
(02:54):
of my life. I'll definitely keep me saying and pushed
me through this process as it has you know, out
my football career, just everything else that's been going on
in my life. So taking that word to bed tonight,
it will be the last thing I look at and
I just kind of sleep on it. And now tomorrow
at the start of something of a special weekend, and
(03:17):
I couldn't be any more happy about it, feel good
about it. Another cornerback, Virginia's Brights Hall, experiences a similar
private moment. So it's the night before the draft right now,
and um, some feelings, man, I'm I'm really excited. It's
crazy because lately I've just been thinking about how you know,
(03:40):
I got here and just the people who have impacted
my life, and so it's just surreal to just be
in the moment where the opportunity is about to come
and um, it's only you know it's coming very shortly,
so super excited about that, and and I'm just so
thankful that, you know, God has just paid the way
(04:03):
for me to be able to get here and get
where I'm at. Whatever, Bro, I didn't sleep that at
all last night the whole day. This is Kansas City
Chief safety one Thornhill, Bryce's friend and former teammate in Virginia.
(04:26):
Watch watch when they started, like when it actually started. Bro,
already no, but yeah, but I could not sleep last night.
I woke up early like sixth Truth is he wasn't
sleeping because he was trying to keep his hand right. Well,
I didn't want to roll over and mess up the
(04:47):
fade because I got to get the fade right. But
other than that, it was, yeah, I can't sleep. I'm
excited though. Your your life about to change, man, Bro.
That's Craig Bro really just thinking about like high like
this is a dream like you, just as you have
as a little kid. I just remember, like in class
(05:07):
the teacher asked what you want to be one day
when you grow up? I wrote, all my thing, I
want to be a football player in the NFL. And
now like we got a chance to do that, it's
just wilder. Think of all the things that got you
to this point. It's crazy. I know, man, I don't
even I'm excited for you that I'm definitely gonna be
tuned in. I'm gonna watch watch every tea. Man. Yeah,
(05:30):
I'm praying. I'm praying you go to day. But if
it don't happen, That's what I was saying, And it's
just gonna add just more a chip on my shoulder
and fuel to the fire, just even like because eight, Yeah,
at the end of the day, it's it's out of
our control. It's out of my control. So wherever I go,
I'm you know what, you know what type of player
(05:50):
you are pressing you are, so as soon as you
whoever drift you or wherever you go. Yeah, yeah, you
know you're a dog. Got you got that ain't Yeah,
So it really don't matter. Like when me, that was
the biggest thing with me last I wanted to go
first round so bad. Yeah, And like when I when
I didn't go first round, I was disappointed. Yeah, but
like if you really think about it, it wasn't meant
(06:11):
to be. Like yeah, and you're at the best situation
you could have been in like this is a perfect
fit for you. That's why I feel like, I mean
it was it was meant for me to come here. Man,
Like I can't get drafted first round because they didn't
have a first round pick, and they pick me up
in the second round and then we won the super Bowl.
Like it just things happened for a reasons. Bro, That's
so true exactly. Sometimes. Yeah, imagine though too, like this.
(06:36):
I mean, you probably wouldn't want to be with any
other team than where you're at right now. So it
all worked out, and and you're gonna be able to, like,
as you keep balling and doing your thing, in the end,
you're gonna be able to make more and you probably
have a better deal since like you're not limited to
like a fourth year. You can get out of that
in three years. And then as you continue the ball,
(06:57):
you're just gonna make up the dividend into Yeah, I
just want to I wanted to see how Yeah, I'm
a little nervous. I was telling everybody, like, I ain't
gonna be nervous. Fact, watch watch when it start, it's
gonna like you're gonna feel different, Like you're different the
(07:20):
whole time. I was just sitting there like every every pick,
every pick, you like every pig and you just wait
for your phone to read, just like it's so much. Man,
that's crazy. It's going fun, fun time. Yeah. I even
tell people I'm gonna be emotional. Bro, I feel like
it's gonna be like that. You don't know. That's that's
(07:42):
the thing. You're gonna be so exciting. I mean just watch. Yeah, bro,
already know if you get drafted, I got call you.
As soon as you get drafted, your phone ringing all
the little Yeah. Wait, I'm gonna wait a little bit
then we're gonna talk. I want you to tell me
how you feel. Got she Bro? I appreciate she calling, though,
(08:05):
I have fun? Did you have fun? Yeah? All right,
sounds good by police can't tell me Freeze what I
might it's her name. I don't really here like here.
(08:28):
I think it's about it coming a couple of hours
or some hours. Some hours because he's here though. That's
Ohio State cornerback Jeff Okuda Rolling calls from the car.
His former os U teammate Chase Young is on the
other line. I was saying, though, bro, because Barnes ain't
(08:49):
fun with us, what do you mean? I mean, I
don't know, Bro, I might be overthinking it rhy because
I was thinking, like, damn, I really ain't her from
Coach Barnes rest and it's this whole process started. Coach
Barnes worked with Jeff and Chase as the assistant secondary
coach and special teams coordinator at Ohio State. How many
(09:10):
how many people who haven't heard I mean out of
her from drew her from Kwan, But the secondary group
was Titus hug Bro, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm like, say you think that we and if we like,
we say it's lock Denis for life. And I thought
about it like that. He probably wouldn't tug with us
because the special team she probably albably sucked us in
(09:32):
a moment, probably was like Loki. Right, Well, so they're
called drops. But another comes in, Hey, Hey, how are
you I'm doing good? Uh? You got ahead to Grand
Prairie right now. That's Jeff and Karen's aunt, Jessica, another
(09:55):
honorary ant are close with but not related to h
How are you feeling. I'm I'm a little nervous, anxious. Really,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I said man,
I don't think it's where you're going. I think it's
the fact that I don't want you feeling like that. Yeah,
and Jay was like you so motherly, I said, a man,
(10:15):
it's just just to make sure that you're okay. I'm
telling uncle that we never know what he's gonna do.
He may bless you with somewhere else or just put
you in a place you We just don't know, but
we just we're proud of you. Whatever decision happens today.
Thank you so much. On man, I'm talking about from
the beginning to the end and on further. I'm super
(10:35):
proud of you and your sister no matter what. So
whatever decision, wherever you go, just always know that we
are always gonna be here for you. And and I'm hungry.
I'm putting my stomach on the table for you. I'm
putting myself by stuff a bit, growling all day when
(10:56):
until your thing is called, I'm a hold out of deficate,
you know what I'm saying. I know that he's definitely
watching over you. All right, all right, We'll be right back. Well.
(11:30):
Bryce and Jeff wrestled at their faith and how the
next few days will unfold. Louisville offensive tackle McKay Beckton
strikes a different post. I want to do as I
want to take you presure to do that before? Are
you starting on too much? Okay? Get uh? Who's up? Well,
(11:52):
we want to take it up. What did you got
to say? Who gonna pull the trigger? Who's gonna pull
(12:14):
the trigger? Yeah. McKay and his family set out hats
from all thirty two teams in the living room. He
needs easy access to grab the right hat the moment
he's selected, So I'm wearing knees just hunt right here. Anyway,
this this kind of got the broom because that's the
(12:38):
that's the kind of hat one war. No know what
I'm saying when I whenever I get picked, I'm wearing
this kind of hat with the two long what so
only one? It's only one hat over, it's only one
(13:00):
hand and there's another had but it's a flat burn one.
Okay over, I'm wearing them one. So I just I
just put out the top ten picks. I'll just put
on the top ten picks. McKay only arranges hats for
the first ten teams if he's apprehensive about when and
(13:21):
where he'll be taken he isn't letting it show yet.
But it's not just hats the players have to worry
about at the moment. How are you doing right now? Good?
Just nervous. I guess I'm not even nervous yet. Actually
I think I'll be nervous and I put this stuff on. Yeah,
(13:43):
I can't wait. That's Jeff Okuda again, starting to fret
over what team he'll be playing for in what city
he'll be living in. I really think you're going to
be like you're going to be like appreciated. But okay, okay, okay,
I'll get I'll get anything to you. Like it's so
(14:06):
you're wearing like that's I just feel like that's set
your challenge for a long time. Yeah, definitely. I liked
how it look. It's so clean and professional and it's
like so stylish, like people are gonna go crazy, you
know it, get it. I'm excited. Okay, all right, see, okay,
(14:30):
what appreciate it shows Chians. This is Jeff's friend and
former Ohio State quarterback Tate Martel. So pretty much like
I don't want to walk to them. Now they get
(14:52):
to pick like which house they want to click into?
Oh so like so like look at people, because they're
saying all the equipment to like the top fifty like prospects,
and they're gonna like streaming. They get like live streaming now,
and I think they have like a heads up of
who's about to get picked, so then they can just
automatically already like flip it onto it a little. I
(15:16):
don't know, right, Hey, Jell was the test experiment. See
how it goes. I think James see it on TV.
You already know. Rush. I don't know. I don't know
what's about to happen. But really, de Try really has
the whole draft in their hands. Really, I mean, I
(15:38):
don't know what they're gonna do. Bro. Did they say
that they're gonna take you a three? No, they never
came out and said it. Valcons I'm gonna do a salt.
I saw the trick is trained up to two to
get chased. No, no, no, no. My agent texting me
was like, no, that that's not true. That was not
because I heard I heard, like since you said what
(16:02):
I said, that defension is gonna go, Bro, what You're
gonna be dead because you want I want to see grow.
I try to cut tackle the at This is he
big as hell six seven to six? Are you lying
to damn like change playing tight end but not like
as cuts him, So you can't even really just came
(16:24):
trying to dump him for realm you might bring because
you see even camp Cancer used to hit his ass
like he was hurt and gronk, but like Cam Cancer
had to through all his ship in there like full speed,
Camp Chancellor. That's Camp Cancer. The Crown had a little
bood to him on God it was Kelsey kid. Oh
(16:47):
this is crazy. Have you have you heard like trying
to get up to the three bro not because like
even with the draft, like you know how Bro teams
were not talked like with Clayborne. When the Cowboys traded
up for Clayborne, they didn't even talk to him. To
Hop says, no, this is I've been like Butterfact myself.
I wanted to where j K is gonna go to Enrico,
(17:10):
but like everywhere else is just like damn, I wonder
where he's gonna go owner, He's gonna go on this
side to see house. I got to play out, Jeff
got to start right now. Really now, at last, the
moment finally arrives once again with you here tonight and
(17:31):
we understand the world that we know has changed and
makes me changing on the presumable future when we are
still here to be part of one of the great
communal sports experiences. Only thirty miles away from where Jeff
and his sister Karen and their aunt Jane tune in
McKay Beckton and his family gathering their living room in Plano,
Texas without further won't started up, you just started good locked.
(18:07):
Every team I'm not going to start ever. Draft is
officially Cinatis are on the club. Cincinnati makes their pick
quarterback Joe Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner and twenty nineteen
(18:28):
national champion from l s U. Not going first overall
is a disappointment to Chase and Jeff and McKay. But
now at pick number two, anything can happen, so we
believe the pick is in. Let's see what more what
(18:50):
with the second pick in the NFL Draft, the Washington
Red Skoots for like Chase Young, defensive end Ohio State.
Congratulations came when the Redskins caught my phone coach with
very on the phone and he asked to speak to
my dad and he actually told my dad, uh to
(19:13):
tell me that I was gonna be at Washington, um risking.
Definitely a surreal moment, you know, a grateful, grateful moment.
So there you see Chase, a very very happy young man,
a team captain in the nucleus of that defense that
will love the fewest total yards per game in the
nation last season. Chase gets another call right after the
pick from Washington. What's up? What's that? What's up? What's up? Risk? Congratulations, Man, appreciate,
(19:44):
appreciate you, man, appreciate you. This is Ohio State associate
head coach and defensive line coach Larry Johnson sr uh
So dream coming true. Man, This is what you worked
hard for and how probably man to be where you
actually know we gotta get back in the lad Yes,
no question, I'm ready for you know me already. I'm already.
I'm waiting on you before you. I appreciate you, Look,
(20:09):
you appreciate Look back over this thing, man, Like you know,
we weber that sitting down there for writing those goals
down right, you know, going to our little gold sheet
and said this is where it is. And I remember, huh,
I remember at all. I'm the very thing you remember
saying that they tell you and said coach, John's won't
be one of your best. Yeah, I told you, I
(20:30):
told you. Yeah, you didn't worked out, man, I worked
out so that it's time to go to work now,
you know we feel about that right, Another chapter, another journey. Okay,
you know the elite special Now, no, don't let it
take anything you have. And as soon as we get
a chance to get up to get the back together again,
I'm getting the lamb go to woman. You got it,
I'm coming. Yeah, you have, buddy, Appreciate you most love.
(20:54):
All right, man, have a good for your time. Appreciate
your brother. As Chase continues to celebrate with this family,
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces the Detroit Lions are on
the clock with the third overall pick. And back in
Grand Prairie, Texas, Jeff Okuda watches his friend in former
teammates dream come true. He does hello, Hello, Hello, Yeah, yes, sir,
(21:32):
I'm doing Yeah. I got my family. I got my
family with me right now, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, thank
you so much. Coach. I'm blessed. I feel bless right now.
Thank you so much, Yes, sir, thank you so much, Yes, sir,
(21:56):
thank you so much. Coach, Thank you so much. Need
you get your past? Okay, yes, sir, thank you so much. Coach.
H h right, lions brought up your man, Yo, No
(22:44):
need to connect, I need connected. Connect go thin kidding
my pretty overall? Oh my god, that's crazy. Wow, disconnect
(23:09):
from that perfect Yeah? Because yeah, yeah, Mom is smiling
(23:38):
right now. Yeah. After everything Jeff went through to get here,
all the struggle and heartache, his unbreakable focus on this
one singular goal he's had since he was eleven years
(24:00):
old to today, After all that, it's impossible to overstate
what this means to him. What's up? Man? Thank you
so much. Two buck eys in her own really kind
of like three really kind of like three in the
(24:20):
first three calls continue coming. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, I
got one question for you. You're gonna be a better
gunner than Terry in the NFL. Are you not gonna
do that stuff anymore? That's former Ohio state head coach
Urban Meyer. You know what me, coach? Now, I'll get
I'll get it there at gunn and I'll make some plays. Hey,
we're so happy for you. When I was texting with
Jane all day today and you did a dude, Thank
(24:42):
you so much. Coach. You believed in me early. Uh,
You're tough on me, and I think that that's part
of the reason why I'm here today. Real I'm still
gonna stay tough. Funny, I'm gonna watch it and I'm
not gonna tell you how good you. I'm gonna tell
you what you need to work on every time. Thank you.
Coach there surely wants to stay. Cong Congratulations, thank you
so much, just so so happy for you. About sitting
(25:03):
in your house that day. Your your dad for me
a glass of wine and we sat there talking about
the Siano and Combs are down there are wow. Well, congrats.
Now go be a leader in that locker room. They
needs you to go help a win. Get there. I
will much love to dude, much love. We'll be right back.
(25:40):
The New York Giants have the next pick at number four.
They're a team McKay spoke with, and one that's been
very open about needing an offensive tackle. So this could
be McKay's movie. And then you see the react Grandbury,
Texas where Jeff is wrong. It's most really interesting that
(26:01):
tells seven in this draft. Everybody got seven people or seven,
Oh teresting. So the Giants, why not go you to
roll you know not where? And nobody did get in
with the lost of not that's a tackle applied with
Jenner Gold junior out of that, that's so stunt. They're
(26:23):
there are school. They tell him the outside lot back
from Clemson, but they got Gellbot the outs a taxi interest. Listen.
It certainly seems Dave Gammon has made it clear he
loves what he likes to call the od Molly the
big guys up front, I say it since they're what
(26:43):
the jet is in. Let's go to the commission, ri
the RK pick and it's ready. Frinny unfl draft the
New York Giants like Andrew toss back on. That's when
jis what they said, I'm better than He's better than
the Giants. Drafting a different offensive tackle could cost McKay
(27:18):
an enormous amount of money, depending on how much later
he ends up being chosen. Miami selects Alabama quarterback to
a Tongua Villoa five and another quarterback. Oregon's Justin Herbert
is selected sixth by the Los Angeles Chargers, with the
Carolina Panthers on the clock, McKay might have his next opportunity,
followed by the Arizona Cardinals, two teams that could use
(27:40):
a tackle. How high had you heard from various sources
that he might go? We had we heard full all
the way up to the Jazz Is where it was
full McKay's dad. After the combat, that's when when everything
just blew up with McCay. He's you know, talk at
a dr have. You know, we constantly see everybody saying
(28:03):
he was, you know, one of the top five linen
in the draft. So you know, we didn't know where
exactly what he's going, but we kept hearing different things.
People kept out on this different stuff, but it still
was the unknown. I was, you know, making us nervous
of the situation because you really didn't know exactly what
was going to happen on where he was going. After
the combine and McKay's epic forty yard dash performance, now
(28:24):
he has to wonder is he falling in the draft
because of an issue with his on the field performance
he kept or has he not been picked yet due
to a completely unrelated reason. You're saying, O stunned McKay
(29:12):
watches as Jacksonville goes on the clock for the ninth choice.
(29:43):
All ten hats Mackay laid out earlier still face him
untouched as the Cleveland Browns prepared to make their selection,
and now with the last pick in the top ten pending,
he can only watch and wonder how much further will
he fall? Coming up on the next episode of Drafted,
(30:06):
what's enjoyable? It's just his heart wrenching. At the same time,
I was in and out watching the first round, just
because watching guys get pig kind of made me build
up anxiety and things like that. Do that and suffer
the embarrassment of not being drafted possibly Hello, oh, come on,
I can't here. Hello ry sir. That's why you already
(30:34):
know it's on their head. That's crazy. That's crazy. Drafted
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(30:57):
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