April 25, 2026 • 53 mins
Chuck and Jessamyn continue coverage of Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft and we hear from Seahawks 6th round draft pick, WR Emmanuel Henderson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, presented
by Frost Brude Coors, Luck Cold is the Rookies and
brought to you by Dino's Paul been written on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Love Drums comes to talking football, Talking football over drums
and some porns, little brass, a little bit of brass,
a little bit of brass. The boy does the drums?
They really come through. Don't they make you want to
talk about football all day long? Somebody could just stand
behind me twenty four to seven, just played drums.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Don't tempt me for your birthday, you know, Ashley and
I will scheme something up.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, I don't put it past the two of you,
all right, sure, well, good afternoon everyone. This is Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM, Day three
NFL Draft coverage twenty twenty six. We've been providing it
for you since the Mallar Melon Mock Draft on Wednesday afternoon,
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and here we sit with two rounds to go in
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft and still bringing it
to you pick by pick right here on the radio program.
And so welcome board. My name is Chuck Powell I've
got you till three o'clock. Then Jackson Felts takes over.
Felts and Company takeover at three o'clock. We've got Travis
(01:24):
Smoger running things back at the studio. Man, he's smooth,
He's smooth operator.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They Travis is the backbone of everything that's happening today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Thanks you, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I am dead serious.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Jessimon's here. This is like her thirty eighth hour of
draft coverage. Yeah, have you been a part the entire process? Oh? Wow,
look at you?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know what. Don't look at me because it wears
on my face. I'm just kidding. I love the draft
and I like being here for it. I like supporting
every one of you. Who are I mean? You do
the morning show? You're here today. It's a Saturday. Jackson's here,
all right, he's hosting at three. Everybody chips and everybody contributes.
I love it during this week and I'm all for it. Yeah,
(02:06):
so I'm gonna be here for it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I love it. I love the events like this
as a radio station and of course as father draft,
miss the inventor of the draft, Miss Holiday. Of course,
I'm excited to be here and by some sort of
role during our actual NFL draft coverage.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, I know you don't have like the bowl full
of jelly thing going on because you're a little too slim.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For that's a little different role. Yeah, Like, just to
explain it a little bit to you, Jessemin, like, I
don't consider myself the Jesus of draft coverage.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, I wasn't referencing Jesus. I was referencing Santo.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, hear me out. So it's not that, okay, not
the reason that the draft exists.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, Oh I see, I see, I see.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Nor am I the draft miss clause of the holiday either? No,
that's Rob Rain, that's Jolly Sat Piccolas, right there, Rob Rang,
who's there to, you know, keep our lives filled with joy?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Exactly and at least knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm not that I'm I'm not mel Kuiper. Mel Kuiper
Junior kind of is the godfather of the draft. He's
the one that made us realize how cool this event
could be. So I'm not putting myself in that category.
I'm more of the Charles Dickens.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The master of ceremonies, the Charles Dickens of the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Because they say that Charles Dickens is the person that
really did invent the holiday that is Christmas, all the
stuff that leads up to the actual meaningful things that
Jesus provided h and all of the wonderful, miraculous things
that Santa provided. So he invented the holiday. Many people
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give him credit. So what all I've done, Ashley, in
a very humble way, is be the Charles Dickens of
the draft.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, I accept that. I accept that. I am not
sure if you said actually or you called me Ashley.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I don't think I called you Ashley.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What did you say, Travis? Did he say actually or
did he say Ashley? Okay, because I was debating either way,
I do think that that is an appropriate metaphor or
yeah or likeness. Now I'll accept that one. See, I
could see that happening because if if Ashley was working
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on a show, I could see him calling her Jess
as well. But no, either way, I just like it
because you guys bring more fun to it. I know
that by by this time, in our years of covering
what we cover, the draft has become automatic. You know
it is, Oh, We're already a big thing. You guys
just put a very special, fun spin on it, and
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you bring joy to it because everybody gets so into
the internet and so overly analytical, and they read all
these different things and they think that they know more
than this person, and it becomes a YouTube fight and
all this stuff. You guys make it fun.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We try and I that's the idea behind it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I am here and that's why I am here for
all eleventy thousand hours that I'm going to be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So here we go into our one o'clock hour and
also into the sixth round. So the fifth round has
just ended. The first pick in the sixth round has
just been made. The Cleveland Browns have drafted a quarterback
named Taylan Green, who's a bit of a freakish athlete.
I mean, his combine numbers were fantastic and everyone was
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expecting them to be fantastic, and then he still blew
people's minds at six foot six and two hundred and
twenty ish pounds running a four three five forty for
goodness sake. So Taylor Green comes off the board. A
lot of people believe that even if he doesn't make
it as a quarterback, he's that candidate that well, he's
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such an athlete, and he sold long that maybe he
develops into a wide receiver if he doesn't become a quarterback.
So another interesting pick from the Cleveland Browns, who believe
it or not, have had, by many people's estimation, a
great draft to this point. This is the Cleveland Browns.
They've bumbled more drafts than just about anybody in NFL history,
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and yet they've had a very interesting draft to this point.
So we just came off the board. So at one
eighty two, that means the Seahawks at one eighty eight
are just one, two, three, four, five, six picks away
from their selection, their fifth selection in this process.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And then the Cardinals, another one we were talking about
who has not been extremely successful of late. They're on
the clock right now at one eighty three, so it'll
be interesting to see what they do. After you had
admitted they have had a pretty successful draft so far.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I mean, maybe the best one in the division
to this point. Like I said, I think the Seahawks
draft has been very sound. Where Arizona, just where they were,
had a chance to have a spectacular, shiny object pick
that the Seahawks were never going to be able to
get to and Jeremiah Love. So, I mean, Seahawks really
didn't have a chance to kind of create that kind
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of electricity with their draft this year. They just had
a really sound draft at this point, and the Cardinals
have just made their pick, a linebacker out of Iowa
named Carson Sharrar. So we are five selections away from
the Seahawks, and so we'll get there very quickly. And
then once we hear the pick, Rob Wrang will be
here to evaluate it for us, because this is Rob's
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opportunity to shine, and when I say shine, he'll be
able to provide information I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So do you get to ask him? What was the
name of the flea on the quarterback from North Dakota
State in nineteen seventy the flea on that guy's dog?
What was its name?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Everybody knows that? Oh okay, sorry, that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Was common knowledge. Yeah, he is unbelievable. Even you tried
to test him yesterday and was like, I'm gonna try.
I'm going to test him, and he goes, he look
down his notes, he was all mad at it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right, So yeah, we'll have Rob to evaluate it
for us immediately coming up here in a little bit.
So let me tell you, because part of this afternoon
role of covering the draft for you is to keep
you up to date with everything that's going on while
you've got your headsets on and you're mowing in your
front lawn. The thirty second pick in round number one,
of course, Jedarian Price, going all the way back to
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Thursday out of Notre Dame, the backup to Jeremiah Love,
and yet the consensus, if not unanimous, second best running
back according to analysts in this draft. And the Seahawks
just did an old sticking pick. They were trying to
move down, but they just sat there at thirty two
and decided, hey, let's get the running back we like.
Let's not get cute about this, and Jadarian Price is
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now a Seahawk. Yesterday they had two picks in rounds
two and three, one in each round sixty fourth overall,
another stay and play, and they grabbed Bud Clark, a
safety out of TCU, six years worth of experience at
the college level. Bud Clark so a lot of games
under his belt at the college level, developed into quite
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a very good college football player. But he's got the
athleticism as well. For four to six foot one inches tall,
one hundred and eighty eight pounds believe to sort of.
I mean, if you're thinking, is he a Kobe Bryant type,
my answer to that is yes. I mean, this is
somebody who played Kobe played cornerback in college and then
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showed safety abilities. Clark played safety at TCU, who's shown
cornerback abilities. But I think at the National Football League level,
their scouting reports sort of read the same way. Experience smart,
you know, fiercely avid about the sport of football, good teammates,
and a Sea Hawk type guy the way that Mike
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and John have been drafting here the last three years.
He definitely reads like a Sea Hawk type player. So
that was the selection yesterday at the end of round
number two. Then in round number three, a slight little
trade was made in which they added a pick from
the Pittsburgh Steelers, which we'll have a little bit later
on this hour, and they moved down from ninety six
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to ninety ninth in the draft and grabbed Arkansas cornerback
Julian Neil. So, for those that were worried about, hey,
Rake Wolan leaves, where's that long rangey corner that we
might need in the future to match up with long
rangey wide receivers that we're gonna have to face. Well,
I suppose that's the theory behind adding Julian Neil six
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foot two inches tall, two hundred and three pounds, with
the near thirty three inch arms ran a four four nine.
He ran a four nine forty. We got a really
slow corner four four with a forty inch vertical leap.
He won over the Seattle media hoard with his interview
Friday and very charismatic character and apparently went out earlier
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that day jess and bought a Seahawk hat because when
they sent him the shipment of hats, the Seahawks weren't
in it. And he said, well, I.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Think this anty went out and bought it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, go get me a seahawk hat. So I have
a Seahawk cat to put on. And so Ant goes out,
gets the Seahawk hat, brings it in and the end
he's got it. And he felt that it was like
he had a premonition about it. Yea, And so now
he's a sea hawk and again reads like a Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What I like about it is you get thirty one hats.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He was specifically looking for to make sure, like, would
you notice of any of the teams? I have to
look right, you'd have to be looking for it. And
he noticed that Seattle was missing and it's like, yeah,
I need that hat. Yeah, which I just loved. And
hopefully later on we'll get to listen to a little
bit more from yesterday for those who might have missed
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his entire draft call here with the media, not the
one that you can watch online, but actually the one
that we heard. It's about seven plus minutes and it is.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Phenomenal personality and Mike and John laughed last night about yeah,
we picked the really confident guy. Yeah. So that was
the third round selection yesterday, and then an overnight to
think about the fact that we're not picking again until
the sixth round. As Ian pointed out. Ian's been doing
the shift before me on Saturdays for a number of
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years and they've never not had a pick to break down.
When he arrived, there was no pick, Not in the
fourth round, not in the fifth round, not until the
sixth round, which we're closing in on. And then sure
enough John either John just has got board doing activities
around the Virginia Mason Athletic Center or boast evens with
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somebody that he had his eye on and felt was
worth getting into the draft in the round number five
and grabbing because a little surprise move earlier today, a
move they took a fourth round pick from next year
where they have eleven picks and they're now down to ten,
traded it to clar Evel for their fifth selection, one
forty eighth overall, and grabbed Bo Stevens, a guard out
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of Iowa. I don't know a ton about Bo Stevens
six five, three fifteen. I can tell you that, but
what you really do need to know is this is
an Iowa guard and they're always well coached, they're always
fundamentally sound, and last year they were recognized as the
best offensive line in college football. They were awarded as such,
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and he was a part of that group.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know what, the one thing that I always say,
when offensive linemen speak like offensive lineman, I know they're
going to be good. And I say that with all
the respect in the world for them, But Ian Sun
offensive lineman. Right, So I held up this note to him.
I think I have it still here, but I said,
speaks like an offensive lineman, and I love it. And
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that's what you want, right, because I think that we
all know that if you're an offensive lineman, if you're
being talked about, it's never good. Right For the most part,
you know, they're you know, seen, not you know, not
heard kind of situation. But if anybody in the media
is talking about them, that's bad. They only talk about
him if you go fourteen games without a sack or something, right,
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you know that, then you're like, oh, that's when you're
talked about in a good way. But he talked about
he actually he has a fiance and you know, they're
getting married on July fourth, and he he opened up
a little bit about that met at Iowa like he
has just like a home and home like Iowa guy,
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and just only wanted to he did not want to
divulge any sort of details about his style of game.
Just I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. And yeah,
he was great. He was great. But he just sounded
exactly like every single offensive life and I've ever talked to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, well, we just had a trade. So Greg Bell's
notifying me that the Seahawks trading down from one eighty eight.
So here I was building you up, perfect timing to
pick one eighty eight and then they make a move,
so they're gonna move down to one ninety nine. No
details as to what else they got for doing that,
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probably a seventh rounder, Okay, thank you, Greg. It is
for pick two forty two. So they got one ninety
nine and two forty two. So just like that, we're
now eleven picks away, twelve picks away from the Seahawks
instead of two picks away, as they've made a trade
with the New York Jets, and now the Jets are
going on the clock. And now the commanders have just
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taken Kate tron Allen out of Penn State, which is
a name that I mentioned about twenty minutes ago as
a really accomplished collegiate running back that had not been
taken yet in this process. So he's now with the
Washington commander. So instead of the Seahawks being on the
clock here at one eighty eight, it's the New York Jets.
A trade made in which the Hawks take their sixth rounder,
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moved down eleven spots to one ninety nine and at
a seventh rounder at two forty two. As John just
cannot help himself, he just like I need more picks.
I know it's a down year for picks, but I
just need more of them because I'm bored.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I think it's exactly what I'm back in the ward
run too.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I'm whittling. I whittled the flute out of a one
piece of wood for Mike McDonald to play a song
for us, and he's already mastered it because he's a genius.
And now I need something else to do. Let's make
a trade with the Jets.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well, they're the ones to make a trade with because
they typically make awful moves, so and that is coming
from a fan's perspective. What I like about this, though,
is because I think the more players that they have,
the more new players that they have, the more they
have to work with. Because I personally think that it
is not exactly what happens in the draft. It's what
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happens on those fields that we're overlooking right here, those
practice fields. That's when they truly find out what kind
of competitors they have, what kind of teammates they're going
to have, and who is gonna work the best in
what positions, and they find gold. But I don't think
it's I think, yes, it obviously comes from the draft,
but the more chances you have at that gold the better.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, again, they should be on the clock right now,
but the trade puts the Jets on the clock, so
it give us a little bit of time. And we
were talking about Bo Stevens before this move was made,
the fifth round selection out of Iowa, and yeah, and
Jessman was talking about how he sounds like an offensive lineman,
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and it's I just want to point out that how
refreshing it has been. I mean, I've been here for
this is my eleventh year here in the Seattle market,
and I think for ten straight years Seahawk fans have
been angry that offensive line was not more aggressively addressed
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in the draft for ten straight year. And then maybe
the Gray's Abel, not just the pick of Gray's Abel,
but the success that Gray had last year, just hitting
the ground running and then winning a Super Bowl. I mean,
we've hardly heard any We've got to get an offensive lineman.
I also want to use the opportunity to talk about
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Anthony Bradford because for the first half of last season
at right guard, Corbyn Smith and I were talking about
this before I popped on the airwaves. The first half
of last season was spent just Anthony Bradford just got
clowned by everybody in town, and there was video evidence
of him appearing lost at times. But I don't know
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if I don't necessarily hum milling it when I you know,
I don't spend hours watching the All twenty two and
trying to figure out exactly, you know, all the nitty
gritty details. I'm not sure I would recognize them if
I saw them about being a great offensive lineman or
whatever the position might be. I'll base it off of
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this when I watch a game, if I haven't started
yelling at an offensive lineman, Odds are they played a
pretty good game that day. Yeah, they didn't do anything
like turno or a turnover a penalty that that cost
a drive, or they didn't get whooped by some defensive tackle.
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And I don't know, we acknowledged it enough at the
tail end of the second half of last season that
we weren't bashing Anthony Bradford hardly at all in the
second half of last year. And by the time the
playoffs rolled around and your steam roll in your way
pasted opponent after opponent, Anthony Bradford's name just was not
coming up and obviously he didn't stand out as oh,
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the key to that game was Anthony Bradford. But him
not standing out as somebody that cost you on a
play or two was certainly a shift in how Anthony
was being evaluated and on obviously how he was actually performing.
So to go into this draft process and really not
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have felt this feeling of not having any need to
draft offensive lineman. Sure, if you want to add a
Bo Stevens and give you some depth and that maybe
he develops into a starter eventually, but that's not why
you're drafting him here. This was just an opportunity to
get a really smart, really sound offensive lineman from a
really sound program known for developing offensive lineman. And if
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nothing else, he's going to profile as a backup. Probably
he's gonna toy around playing a little bit of center
when he gets here.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Probably gonna yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Probably gonna play some right guard. And so to me,
what's that pick suggests, Jess, is that Bo Stevens gives
you one of those This is a nice off the
bench player to have on your offensive line here. Uh.
And it's nice to be in a situation if you're
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a Seahawks fan to feel like we don't have to
draft an offensive lineman to fill some big giant crater
on our offense this year. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I was just gonna say, I think I had like
a PTSD blind spot about that because I remember that
always being the issue, always being the issue.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And I mean, I mean the year we drafted Jermaine Effetti,
and by the way, Jackson Feltz predicted that the year
we drafted Jermaine Effetti, it was still like, yeah, but
we still need an offense.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, wow, that's going back. But
I mean you look at that, You look at Christian Heines,
you know, they they went there, and then uh, you know,
you look at Abe Lucas, Mike kug Mike Cougu who
we have and now that he's completely healthy and everything,
we're seeing the most of his potential. And but yeah,
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that that need I haven't. Like we were kind of like, yeah, okay, tackle,
we got tackles, all right, let's go, and then it
was like, well, what are we going to do with
guard and enter Gray's Abel. But that hasn't I can't
remember the last time.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That it hasn't happened. Since I've been here, it's been
over a decade that, Yeah, we haven't gone into a
draft with Sea Hawk fans a lot of I'm not
saying all.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Were we doing it last year for sure? For it
was guard right, we were looking at interior.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, I mean the relief the I mean it was
like a person climbing across the desert, a Seahawk fan
climbing across the desert looking for water oasis, and Gray's
Abel's name got announced and it was like a Sparklet's
truck just drove right up. You know. It's like some
oasis in the desert appeared before Seahawk fans and they drank.
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They drank from the bountiful fly of water that'spilled from
the truck. But that I mean, this again, eleventh draft
that I've covered, and this is the first year where
Seahawk fans have not been banging the table. We have
to get an office lineman, and I am so relieved
not to be having that conversation. It's because we gotta
we gotta find young, still very young offensive line right now.
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That's it's a great thing. And to me, I've always
believed that great offensive linemen aren't born necessarily out of
the draft. But out of finding the right guys and
then letting them establish continuity. You know, a fist. I mean,
you're gonna have five fingers up front, or you're gonna
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have a fist. And you know a lot of the
times if you keep mixing and matching, now you're trying
to get all the fingers to form into a fist.
We have a fist up front, and we already have
a fist upfront, and we were ready to punch people
in the mouth going forward, and we did it all
last year. So it's a it's a not just a
good to great position to be in if you're the Seahawks,
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but it is such a relief because we didn't spend
a lot of our draft miss holiday talking about offensive
line needs for the first time in over a decade,
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
And also there wasn't I mean, I know that we
were talking about corner with the absence of prequeling, and
obviously they address that, and Kenneth Walker that one was
just obvious. So I don't feel like people were screaming
from the rooftops about it because it was so obvious
that you want to replace the position of your Super
Bowl MVP. And I just don't feel like people were
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screeching for anything in particular. This year. It was like
calm and I'm like, yeah, you guys are basketing. Can
you continue to bask in a Super Bowl glory like
it just happened two months ago? Can we just chill out?
And everybody is so I didn't even have to. I
got defensive before I had to, because everybody's just like,
all right, let's see what happens.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, they picked eight was made by the Jets and
as Cooper, so we could have had an As Cooper,
an offensive guard out of Miami. And we've had a
couple of other picks get ticked off as well. They
are sitting on the draft board at pick number one
ninety one. The Jaguars are on the clock at one
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ninety one, and so now the Seahawks sit at one
ninety nine, eight picks away from their next selection, as
John continues to duke and jive his way through another
National Football League draft. So we've got we had time
to entertain a few other subjects before that selection is made,
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including where some U dub players have gone here today
and over the last couple of days. And so we
will come back on the other side with more draft
coverage for you. Jessmine McIntyre Chuck Powell with you here
from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Our coverage brought to
you by Frost Brewed Corps Light Cold as the Rockies,
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also by Dino's Pub and Rens. And how many people
from this group do you think will end up at
Dino's Pub when it's over with?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh my gosh, I would go with for.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Seriously, yeah, because I've never gone over there afterwards because
I usually leave before the last pick is made.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, Oh you've missed out?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Is that right? So there is like a gathering.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Not not formal or anything. It's just that's the closest
bar and everybody's wiped so we all go.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Well, so I like, I haven't had a beer since noons.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, I went over you know they have that little
minimar where you bought your deodorant, and I was like, oh,
I need a six pack for when I get home.
And then I see a couple of people that were
standing outside walking in. They're like, hey, come on over.
There's all sorts of a fun mishmash of the Seattle
by the way, which part what.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Bits of the aroma are you getting more of? Is
it the cucumber or the cactus one?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I think I'm smelling lunch, so I don't really have Yeah,
what a terrible dedant. I have a lunch over here
that I haven't eaten yet, so I would just say
it is neither cucumber, Norman or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
We can maybe sniff your arm pit for the YouTube viewers.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, Jackson, can you be the sniff test over here?
Speed Stick, I have lunch speeds stack.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Wait till speed Stick comes out with a line of like, oh, well,
that's that smells like lavender? What's that one? Smell like lunch?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Oh my gosh, Hey, I'm going to be creamer with
the beach episode on Seinfeld. I just made up a
whole new deudorance sense. Okay, it's called lunch. Get your
woman hungry, lunch of a genius. All right, that's tree
marked nobody do it?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
All right? You six picks away, so we'll get to
it next. It is our coverage of the NFL Draft
on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M.
(28:04):
Very much like Batman for some reason. Here right now, Hey,
good afternoon to you. NFL Draft coverage continues here on
your favorite radio station of your life, Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ R FM. My name is Chuck Powell.
Great to have you with us in our draft coverage.
And when I say us, I'm in the whole damn crew.
Ian Farness was here earlier. Rob Ring's right there in
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the other room. I'm gonna bug him as soon as
the Seahawks make their next pick. We got Jessamine McIntyre,
who's been here for all thousand hours of coverage here
on Camp. Jackson Felts is gonna here for the first time.
It's going to be hosting a draft coverage block. He's
usually got like a Sounders match or something. You got
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that today too.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
He's going straight from here to there then ninety speed.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, very good. So yes, he's a jack of all trades,
a jackson of all trades right here at KJR. So
we have let's see where we are. We are at
pick number one ninety four in round number six, the
thirteenth pick of the sixth round. The Seahawks were supposed
to have already picked this round, but they moved down
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from one eighty eight to one ninety nine. They picked
up an extra seventh rounder for this year, so certainly
going to give Jackson uh something to count down pick
number two forty two once we're past three o'clock. So
that's still coming. So the Seahawks still have three picks
to make one nineteen, two, sixteen, and two forty two. Yes,
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they've made a few trades here during the course of
the three days of the NFL Draft to add some
extra picks. No surprise there, So we'll get you sat.
Pat Cougan just came off the board, the center from
Indiana who won the Rose Bowl MVP, if you can
believe that as a center. Well he's now a Tennessee Titan.
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He went one ninety four, uh there to the Titan.
So we are now just four picks away one two, three, four, five,
five picks away from the favorite. Yeah, five picks away
from the Seahawk. Well, my my screen just kind of
like jumped.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
When a pick comes in it refreshes, Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, it just kind of jumped on me. So I
thought I had the map done and then all of
a sudden, wait a minute, my eyes just played a
trick on me. So we're five picks away from the
Seahawks selection. So certainly we'll get you prepared for that. Again,
we still have not dropped an edge rusher at this point.
Maybe that's on the docket, maybe it's no longer on
the docket. Maybe if John and Mike were entertaining an
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edge rusher that had to come in the first couple
of days, that could they know, con contribute to the
depth of the edge rusher position. We shall see, but
three more selections to add some roster pieces. At this
stage in the game, you're looking for guys that could
certainly help you in special teams as well, which the
certainly give a nod toward. They may have the best
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special teams everything in the National Football League as world champs.
But I do want to take some time at some
point or three hours, and this feels like the best
time to do it, to acknowledge some of the U
dub picks that have been made, because it's been a
busy day on that front. Three players for the Huskies
have been selected here today, but I want to go
back to yesterday first, because the second round selection thirty
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ninth overall was Denzil Boston and he went to the
Cleveland Browns, who again part of that Cleveland Browns draft,
which I think has been fantastic. I mean, these guys
usually don't know anything, and yet they've had an outstanding
draft in my estimation, Boston for pretty much his entire
final season at Washington because, believe me, mock drafts were
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already out at that time. People were projecting him to
be a first round selection. All the way up till Thursday,
they were projecting him as a first round selection. He
ends up going early in Day number two, which could
end up being disappointment for some if they've been prepared
for a year or more to be a first round
selection and to end up number two, that could look
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as a crushing disappointment. I was so relieved because this
is you know, as a fan of the draft, one
of my favorite things about the draft is seeing the
reaction from the players when their dream comes true their families.
I love that about the National Football League drafts, one
of the reasons why it's one of my favorite sporting
events of the entire year. And Denzel and his family
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couldn't have looked more appreciative in the moment. Dad was
so excited, Mom was just so proud, and Denzel was
just happy as could be. I've seen way too many
players who slipped two spots lower than they were projected
to pick be angry about it and so, and I
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think that's nonsense. I mean, I wish in other trades
we had the opportunity to get drafted and and see
our dreams come true. That doesn't happen for anybody else.
Only happens for football players. So I love to see
them just appreciate that the dream has come true, whether
it's a few picks later or not, and then sell.
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Boston did that for me yesterday, and I wanted to
acknowledge it. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, And I like how many That's my favorite thing.
I go home. I obviously get like three hours of
sleep a night during the NFL draft, and I watch
all the draft calls because it's my favorite thing. And
I how many people are at home these days instead
of red carpeting it. I like that too. I think
that there.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Are so many too.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
There are so many more like that at art.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I like those that are there, and I also like
the home ones.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yes, I have no problem with people being there, but
I just feel like a lot more first rounders are
staying home these days with their family and I love,
you know, the players walking their significant others, moms, dads,
families down that red carpet. It's amazing as well. But
seeing them in their home space and having such huge
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amount of people around them, and you hear it on
the draft calls that we get to listen to. When
the Seahawks have the draft picks calling, you just hear
the ruckus in the background and everything, and I love
that it's not quiet. Everyone is just it's a huge celebration.
And this is what all that hard work, time and
effort that not only that young man put in, but
the people around him put into, because that is a
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huge undertaking to get to this point.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
And you can get to invite more people that way.
You can't take thirty five fifty people that is with
go to Pittsburgh and sit in the green room. And
so you get to celebrate with everybody, all your friends
that you grew up with, and your aunts and your
uncles and your cousins and everybody else that you want
there to be a part of that. And so I
love the home celebrations as well. I like the red
carpet celebrations. Well, no, not necessarily the red carpet. I
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think that's a little overdone. But the walkway and the stage,
I love all of that. But I also love seeing
the guys surrounded by all of their love war And
that's what Denzel Boston did. And he obviously throw two
parties because you know that they were there in case.
He was a first round draft pick the night before.
But to see the smile on his face, it was great.
And he ends up going the Cleveland Browns to Carrio
Davis went seventy second yesterday, third round to the Cincinnati Bengals.
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He was somebody that I had mocked to the Seahawks,
and yet he came off the board before they could
pick at ninety nine, came way early off the board
before they could pick at ninety nine, and then today
Jonah Coleman. He told us on Chuck and Buck that
he had con he two he had the best feeling
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that he had from where he might end up were
from two organizations, the Seahawks being one of them, the
Broncos being the other. And lo and behold who took
him today, fourth round, one hundred and eighth pick. It
was the Denver Broncos. They have Jonah Coleman and then
Carver Willis to the San Francisco forty nine ers and
Ephesians Prisock to the San Francisco forty nine ers in
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the span of twelve picks. Carver went fourth round twenty seventh,
Ephesians went fourth round one and thirty ninth, both to
the San Francisco forty nine ers. So, nice job, Husky
fans loved rooting for you and now they hate you.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, you know, there's always some love.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I mean, I have a little bit, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I have some koops in the system. Luckily Abe Lucas
is here, but there's some others that are elsewhere. I
mean Jalen Watson, who was with the Chiefs now all
of a sudden he is with Rams. And then obviously
we have a couple of local products that are now
within the division. And you can love hate, I think
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you can sports hate. But it's almost like I always say,
it's like a Westman tooth Ron Burgundy thing where it's
like I hate respect you. Yeah, so I say, like
love hate respect kind of thing. It's a it's a
whole quarry of things.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Well, just hate him twice a year, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
That's it. You're allowed. You're allowed sports to you.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
All right, well, let's take a quick break here and
get back so we make sure that we're here for
the Seahawks pick at one nine. It is now just
four away, as the Raiders just took Oregon wide receiver
Malik Benson. So we'll get back in plenty of time
for the pick, and we have Robb Ring already here
at our set ready to evaluate it for you, so
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just keep it right here. NFL Draft coverage on day
number three continues on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Doesn't that make you just want to hear people talk
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about football? Right? It's not just me. That's the type
of music. That's the type of music that you.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Are right there with you.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You're right there with me, Rob, All right, very good.
It's our NFL Draft coverage, Day number three here live
from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, and we are two
picks away from a Seahawks selection here at one ninety nine.
If you follow the draft closely and yet you got
pulled away at some point today, I don't know, maybe
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you had to move a shiffer robe for the wife.
Then maybe you're like, wait a minute, Chuck, you liar,
we have the one eighty eighth pick. What are you
talking about? Nope, we now have the one ninety ninth pick,
a trade down that allowed the Seahawks to add a
seventh round draft selection, and so the Seahawks are now
on the clock. The latest player coming off the board
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demand Claiborne, a running back out of Wake Forest. Rob
rang will be able to tell us in a moment
whether Claiborne is a roller or a flicker. And yet
the Seahawks are on the board and our NFL draft
expert is with us, so before they make the pick,
before we know the pick, who you got in mind
right now?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
A couple of different guys, I think if you want
to look at some of the edge rushers, the Mason
riger from Wisconsin, Keyshawn James Newby been talking about him
for a while from New Mexico. The Dan Tucker from
Western Michigan. The last two James Newby and Tucker from
Western Michigan are two of the twitchiest edge rushers that
are still available. Let's say you want to go to
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the defensive tackle. Then Brendan Cleveland and Ontario Thompson. Talked
about Antario Thompson another University of Washington product would make
some sense. And then a big wide receiver that might
be able to play that Derek Young role. Jeff Colwell
from Cincinnati is another one that makes some sense.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
All right, well, let's see, I think we now know
the selection for the Seahawks and it is Rob Emmanuel Henderson,
junior senior wide receiver out of Kansas. What do we
know about this Jayhawk turned Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yeah, what I do remember is that he is he
has speed, and that he was physical as well, and
so he was an interesting guy that you know, he
just looked at as a player that has some some
raw potential to him that you're looking to develop. Uh,
you know, an interesting player. I mean he is uh,
you know, doesn't have the big frame. If I remember quickly,
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I want to say that he was one hundred and
eighty five hundred and ninety pounds, but at the same time,
he is quick.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
He he does have good hands. And again when any
players playing at Kansas, they run the ball a lot there,
and so you're gonna have to be a run blocker.
You're going to have to be uh you know, productive
in that regard, not just it's not just about catching
the football. It's about being truly committed to the team.
So in a lot of ways, is it kind of
strikes you as a sea hockey type of pick.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Six five is the listing that I'm saying that might
not be official four four four forty time, which is good.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And at this stage, I mean, I don't know if
the Seahawks, I don't know if any of us expect
to the Seahawks to take a wide receiver. So it
adds to the depth of one of your deepest positions.
And yet, as I mentioned earlier, you're looking for guys
that helping special teams, and I think the Seahawks are
doubling down on that now that they've had such success.
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I mean, I'm talking about all around kicker, punter, kick returner,
punt returner, kick coverage, punt coverage. I don't think anybody
did it better than the Seahawks did this past year.
So if they use these last three picks that they
have today on guys that if they just profile as
special teams guys, I think they're going to be happy with.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
That, well exactly. And that's the thing is, obviously, with
the selections that they've made so far, you know, they
are filling some of the holes left from free agency,
and we talked about, you know, the role that Bud
Clark might have as the Kobe Bryant replacements, et cetera,
et cetera. The one position that they are the one
player that they haven't replaced that left in free agency.
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Jerike Young at the wide receiver position. Again, his as
a receiver, as a vertical threat, We've talked about that before,
but also as a gunner on special teams to your point, Chuck,
and that's where I think that this young man might
be able to provide some of that. He was a
special teams performer at Kansas. Does have again that six
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foot one hundred and eighty five pound frame is kind
of a classic type of a frame, you know, so
as far as being a receiver that again has agility
and also plays the physicality necessary not only be a
run blocker, but also be a guy that can help
on special teams.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
A little surprise though, wide receiver of all the things. Well,
at this stage in the game, man, I know we
want them to get edge depth, but are you realistically
in the sixth or seventh round getting an edge rusher
that's going to help this team win this year, you're not.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I mean, I think that you can still find a
guy who has some burst up field, and that's why
I mentioned, you know, James Newby and na Dame Tucker.
Again is guys that are are potentially intriguing. But I
think more what you're looking for is best player available,
and wide receiver is probably the deepest positional group in
this draft class. I would say corner is also consideration
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for that PC. I you know, already checked that box
a corner with their third round selection. So I think
that at this point, again you're going BPA and with
a wide receiver that probably should have selected around earlier.
At this point mixed off law Sex.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What about Kayden Curry. I mentioned it a few minutes ago.
I mean, I watched Ohio State play probably seven football games,
and it felt like, now he's surrounded by ridiculous talent.
So maybe that made him look even better than he is.
I realized there are a few athletic, you know, elements
of him that probably don't suggest that he's going to
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be a monster at the next level. And yet as
a football player, I mean I saw him destroy the Huskies. Yep,
just absolutely destroy the Huskies, and I've seen him do
that to a few other teams during the course of
the year, and he's still out there. Why not Cayden
Curry here? What shortcomings are there that John and Mike
would not be interested in him over an Emmanuel Henderson
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junior here in the sixth round?
Speaker 4 (44:09):
No, I agree with you. I mean, Kaden Curry is
a quality player. I think that he is not and
necessarily the twitchiest of athletes, says you kind of acknowledged here.
But I used to do an article every year that
I called Rang's Gang, basically just talking about guys that
I really like. I like more than the Scouts do necessarily,
as far as just that they just play their hearts out,
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their productive And Kayden Curry, of course, he had to
kind of wait in line at Ohio State before he
got his opportunity. When he did get that opportunity, he flourished,
you know. And to your point, though, I mean, he's
just surrounded by so much talent. You know, it's a
little bit easier to get sacks when you have rbl
recent slaying styles and Caleb Downs and all these other
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guys behind you that are forcing rival quarterbacks to hold
the ball that much longer. But Kayden Curry to me,
he used his hands.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Well.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
He's got enough burst of field to be able to
at least challenge NFL tackles. I don't know if he
can actually beat them around the edge, but he counters
back inside, he holds up the point of attack. He
just doesn't have those that elite burst. He doesn't have
the elite length. He's just a quality all around guy.
And that was interesting to me when Mike McDonald's talking
about some of the things that they're looking for, and
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he wanted kind of you want to be sure that
they don't get a player who is one of those
jack of all trades, master of none type. I think
that he is a little bit of a jack of
all trades, but master of none type. McDonald wants guys
who are a master of several different roles. And that's
the thing is Kaden Curry to me, is kind of
that base defensive end. I don't know that he is
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athletic enough to be able to be kind of that
drop in space kind of a linebacker, and so he
would be playing just one role. And I think the Seahawks
already have some guys on their practice squad or their
their active roster from a year ago that they feel
can already check that Bux.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I love that topic line, and I don't know, I mean,
probably have a lot of things to discuss here today
with you. But since we're talking about it, Ohio State,
like rvel Reas ended up going fifth instead of second,
and they went with David Bailey. We always hear about
quarterbacks being products of the system at the college level,
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and buyer beware that once he doesn't, he's not surrounded
with the most talent. He's not going to have that
advantage at the National Football League. He's not going to
man for man, have a nine of my guys are
better than nine of your guys kind of thing. But
we don't talk about that defensively much. It's why I
thought that they should go with David Bailey at number
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two over rvel Resa number five, because how do we know,
like individually, if they don't aren't on a defense man
for man that's better than every single guy on the
offensive side of the ball, how do we know that
there is exceptional as they look on college tape where
I saw David Bailey is just a pure pass rusher.
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Keep Texas teching the game against Oregon by himself, and
I'm thinking to myself, I'd go with David Bailey because
I know he's not dependent upon the guys around him
to be successful. And I think those Ohio State players
are outstanding, don't get me wrong, but man, it's to
me a little bit hard to evaluate. You know. We'll
get back to that topic later. Maybe that was just
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an opportunity for me to vent, but apparently they do.
We do have Emmanuel Henderson Junior on the line. Time
invaluable that We'll be back with you in just a minute,
all right, So yes, Emmanuel Henderson Junior, the most recent
selection by the Seahawks at one ninety nine. We're going
to hear from him here in a moment. Six foot one,
one hundred and eighty five pound wide receiver out of Kansas,
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and so we're just waiting to hear from him on
the line. The Seattle media hoarde is gathered about. John
Boyle is yawning, I don't know why. This is an
exciting time. An exciting time. We get to meet Emmanuel
Henderson here for the first time, so they're going to
pepper him with questions. That's a very nosy group up there.
(48:11):
They're always trying to ask invasive questions.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
And so we wait to hear from Emmanuel Henderson Jr.
And here he comes. That's loud. Non Are you there
(48:36):
all right? Still waiting for him? Dead air is terrible.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
It might be some connectivity issues, you know what he's
probably say. I'm just hoping he is at a family
backyard with no service. E.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Maybe when he got the news, he when jumped in
the pool.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
I mean, my gosh, yeah, just throw that thing in
a bowl of rice and call us back.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
No, It's always touching in these mores, especially when it
comes to this point. These kids have been waiting for,
you know, three days, and you don't know if your
name is going to get called. And he's clearly trying
to call. But maybe he's getting mobbed by happy people
around him. And that's the world I choose to live in.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, okay, fine, fine, Uh.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
You know, yeah, sorry for those listening right now. Is
that is a little drawing of noise, but it does
give the media quite a heads up that the call
is coming in.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
I have the media here.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
They're gonna oh perfect, all right, Emmanuel, are you.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
I mean I gots right now Alabama whelebrating with all
my family, you know, my little cousins, my brothers and sister,
family friends.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
You have contact with.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
The Seahawks the free draft process?
Speaker 5 (49:59):
Oh yes, I you know, I met with him and
talked when a couple of times talking this process, you know,
and I felt like they had a very interest in me.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Did they talk to you about special teams or any
possible role?
Speaker 5 (50:12):
Almost? Definitely know such team big A big part of
my game, you know, but I with my wide receiver abilities,
you know, so that's a great come up for them
as you.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Take the background as a running back as well as
the Seahawks talk to you all about that role.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
Oh yes, sir, most definitely, you know, running back. I
don't play multiple positions, you know, I don't this past
season like Kansas. You know, I would play in the
backfield something, so you know, wherever I get the ball
in my hands. You know, I feel like, you know,
they would be a good job doing.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Did the Seahawks talk to you about a running back
potential role?
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Not really? Man.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
How did you kind of describe your game as a player, Uh?
Definitely fast.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Uh you started your career in Alabama and up can
kind of what's what win?
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Did that decision?
Speaker 5 (51:04):
You know, there's more opportunities. You know, I took advantage
of the opportunities I got out of about but getting
a candidate, you know, I felt like it was an
open door, you know, and you know you gave me
the opportunity showcase what I can do.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Have you been to Seattle before? I have in Bible?
Speaker 3 (51:21):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I have lived by.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
A I'm a great teammate. You know, somebody you want
you will want to have your room. You know, I'm
a bite in each and every day, even on them
down days.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
You go, Thank you, Manuel, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
There you go, Manuel Henderson Junior. Your first taste of him.
The sixth round selection for the Seahawks one hundred and
ninety ninth overall. The day started with them having the
one hundred and eighty eighth pick, but they got to
the sixth round decided let's pick up a seventh rounder
by moving down eleven spots, and with that selection, Emmanuel
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Henderson Junior is your pick. Jay Hawk turned Seahawk right
before our eyes.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I love it, and I also know you know exactly
what I predicted. He is celebrating with family, you know,
and enjoying that time. What I like is his versatility,
and even though the Seahawks haven't talked about him in
a running back role, I always love a wide receiver
who can move like a running back when tossed, like
if you're just talking about you know, you know, lateral
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like in the you know, toss of the flat in
the slot. Someone who can move upfield like a running back.
I think that can add a lot of value, and
especially that versatility adds a lot to special teams.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Seven hundred and sixty six receiving yards this past year,
five touchdowns for Kansas. All right, So that selections in
the books. We're not out of the sixth round, and
the Seahawks still have another pick in the sixth round,
but it's still going to be eleven picks away. It's
the last pick of the sixth round. Of course, there's
some compics thrown in there as well well. And then
they now have a seventh rounder as well, which Jackson
(53:04):
Feltz will Settle will celebrate with unbridled enthusiasm in the
next couple of hours. So our draft coverage will continue.
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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all right, sure, well, good afternoon everyone. This is Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM, Day three
NFL Draft coverage twenty twenty six. We've been providing it
for you since the Mallar Melon Mock Draft on Wednesday afternoon,
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the twenty twenty six NFL Draft and still bringing it
to you pick by pick right here on the radio program.
And so welcome board. My name is Chuck Powell I've
got you till three o'clock. Then Jackson Felts takes over.
Felts and Company takeover at three o'clock. We've got Travis
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Smoger running things back at the studio. Man, he's smooth,
He's smooth operator.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
They Travis is the backbone of everything that's happening today.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Thanks you, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I am dead serious.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Jessimon's here. This is like her thirty eighth hour of
draft coverage. Yeah, have you been a part the entire process? Oh? Wow,
look at you?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know what. Don't look at me because it wears
on my face. I'm just kidding. I love the draft
and I like being here for it. I like supporting
every one of you. Who are I mean? You do
the morning show? You're here today. It's a Saturday. Jackson's here,
all right, he's hosting at three. Everybody chips and everybody contributes.
I love it during this week and I'm all for it. Yeah,
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so I'm gonna be here for it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I love it. I love the events like this
as a radio station and of course as father draft,
miss the inventor of the draft, Miss Holiday. Of course,
I'm excited to be here and by some sort of
role during our actual NFL draft coverage.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, I know you don't have like the bowl full
of jelly thing going on because you're a little too slim.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For that's a little different role. Yeah, Like, just to
explain it a little bit to you, Jessemin, like, I
don't consider myself the Jesus of draft coverage.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, I wasn't referencing Jesus. I was referencing Santo.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, hear me out. So it's not that, okay, not
the reason that the draft exists.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, Oh I see, I see, I see.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Nor am I the draft miss clause of the holiday either? No,
that's Rob Rain, that's Jolly Sat Piccolas, right there, Rob Rang,
who's there to, you know, keep our lives filled with joy?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Exactly and at least knowledge.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm not that I'm I'm not mel Kuiper. Mel Kuiper
Junior kind of is the godfather of the draft. He's
the one that made us realize how cool this event
could be. So I'm not putting myself in that category.
I'm more of the Charles Dickens.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The master of ceremonies, the Charles Dickens of the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Because they say that Charles Dickens is the person that
really did invent the holiday that is Christmas, all the
stuff that leads up to the actual meaningful things that
Jesus provided h and all of the wonderful, miraculous things
that Santa provided. So he invented the holiday. Many people
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give him credit. So what all I've done, Ashley, in
a very humble way, is be the Charles Dickens of
the draft.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, I accept that. I accept that. I am not
sure if you said actually or you called me Ashley.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I don't think I called you Ashley.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What did you say, Travis? Did he say actually or
did he say Ashley? Okay, because I was debating either way,
I do think that that is an appropriate metaphor or
yeah or likeness. Now I'll accept that one. See, I
could see that happening because if if Ashley was working
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on a show, I could see him calling her Jess
as well. But no, either way, I just like it
because you guys bring more fun to it. I know
that by by this time, in our years of covering
what we cover, the draft has become automatic. You know
it is, Oh, We're already a big thing. You guys
just put a very special, fun spin on it, and
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you bring joy to it because everybody gets so into
the internet and so overly analytical, and they read all
these different things and they think that they know more
than this person, and it becomes a YouTube fight and
all this stuff. You guys make it fun.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We try and I that's the idea behind it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I am here and that's why I am here for
all eleventy thousand hours that I'm going to be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So here we go into our one o'clock hour and
also into the sixth round. So the fifth round has
just ended. The first pick in the sixth round has
just been made. The Cleveland Browns have drafted a quarterback
named Taylan Green, who's a bit of a freakish athlete.
I mean, his combine numbers were fantastic and everyone was
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expecting them to be fantastic, and then he still blew
people's minds at six foot six and two hundred and
twenty ish pounds running a four three five forty for
goodness sake. So Taylor Green comes off the board. A
lot of people believe that even if he doesn't make
it as a quarterback, he's that candidate that well, he's
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such an athlete, and he sold long that maybe he
develops into a wide receiver if he doesn't become a quarterback.
So another interesting pick from the Cleveland Browns, who believe
it or not, have had, by many people's estimation, a
great draft to this point. This is the Cleveland Browns.
They've bumbled more drafts than just about anybody in NFL history,
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and yet they've had a very interesting draft to this point.
So we just came off the board. So at one
eighty two, that means the Seahawks at one eighty eight
are just one, two, three, four, five, six picks away
from their selection, their fifth selection in this process.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And then the Cardinals, another one we were talking about
who has not been extremely successful of late. They're on
the clock right now at one eighty three, so it'll
be interesting to see what they do. After you had
admitted they have had a pretty successful draft so far.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I mean, maybe the best one in the division
to this point. Like I said, I think the Seahawks
draft has been very sound. Where Arizona, just where they were,
had a chance to have a spectacular, shiny object pick
that the Seahawks were never going to be able to
get to and Jeremiah Love. So, I mean, Seahawks really
didn't have a chance to kind of create that kind
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of electricity with their draft this year. They just had
a really sound draft at this point, and the Cardinals
have just made their pick, a linebacker out of Iowa
named Carson Sharrar. So we are five selections away from
the Seahawks, and so we'll get there very quickly. And
then once we hear the pick, Rob Wrang will be
here to evaluate it for us, because this is Rob's
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opportunity to shine, and when I say shine, he'll be
able to provide information I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So do you get to ask him? What was the
name of the flea on the quarterback from North Dakota
State in nineteen seventy the flea on that guy's dog?
What was its name?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Everybody knows that? Oh okay, sorry, that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Was common knowledge. Yeah, he is unbelievable. Even you tried
to test him yesterday and was like, I'm gonna try.
I'm going to test him, and he goes, he look
down his notes, he was all mad at it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right, So yeah, we'll have Rob to evaluate it
for us immediately coming up here in a little bit.
So let me tell you, because part of this afternoon
role of covering the draft for you is to keep
you up to date with everything that's going on while
you've got your headsets on and you're mowing in your
front lawn. The thirty second pick in round number one,
of course, Jedarian Price, going all the way back to
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Thursday out of Notre Dame, the backup to Jeremiah Love,
and yet the consensus, if not unanimous, second best running
back according to analysts in this draft. And the Seahawks
just did an old sticking pick. They were trying to
move down, but they just sat there at thirty two
and decided, hey, let's get the running back we like.
Let's not get cute about this, and Jadarian Price is
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now a Seahawk. Yesterday they had two picks in rounds
two and three, one in each round sixty fourth overall,
another stay and play, and they grabbed Bud Clark, a
safety out of TCU, six years worth of experience at
the college level. Bud Clark so a lot of games
under his belt at the college level, developed into quite
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a very good college football player. But he's got the
athleticism as well. For four to six foot one inches tall,
one hundred and eighty eight pounds believe to sort of.
I mean, if you're thinking, is he a Kobe Bryant type,
my answer to that is yes. I mean, this is
somebody who played Kobe played cornerback in college and then
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showed safety abilities. Clark played safety at TCU, who's shown
cornerback abilities. But I think at the National Football League level,
their scouting reports sort of read the same way. Experience smart,
you know, fiercely avid about the sport of football, good teammates,
and a Sea Hawk type guy the way that Mike
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and John have been drafting here the last three years.
He definitely reads like a Sea Hawk type player. So
that was the selection yesterday at the end of round
number two. Then in round number three, a slight little
trade was made in which they added a pick from
the Pittsburgh Steelers, which we'll have a little bit later
on this hour, and they moved down from ninety six
(10:15):
to ninety ninth in the draft and grabbed Arkansas cornerback
Julian Neil. So, for those that were worried about, hey,
Rake Wolan leaves, where's that long rangey corner that we
might need in the future to match up with long
rangey wide receivers that we're gonna have to face. Well,
I suppose that's the theory behind adding Julian Neil six
(10:38):
foot two inches tall, two hundred and three pounds, with
the near thirty three inch arms ran a four four nine.
He ran a four nine forty. We got a really
slow corner four four with a forty inch vertical leap.
He won over the Seattle media hoard with his interview
Friday and very charismatic character and apparently went out earlier
(11:02):
that day jess and bought a Seahawk hat because when
they sent him the shipment of hats, the Seahawks weren't
in it. And he said, well, I.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Think this anty went out and bought it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, go get me a seahawk hat. So I have
a Seahawk cat to put on. And so Ant goes out,
gets the Seahawk hat, brings it in and the end
he's got it. And he felt that it was like
he had a premonition about it. Yea, And so now
he's a sea hawk and again reads like a Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What I like about it is you get thirty one hats.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He was specifically looking for to make sure, like, would
you notice of any of the teams? I have to
look right, you'd have to be looking for it. And
he noticed that Seattle was missing and it's like, yeah,
I need that hat. Yeah, which I just loved. And
hopefully later on we'll get to listen to a little
bit more from yesterday for those who might have missed
(11:50):
his entire draft call here with the media, not the
one that you can watch online, but actually the one
that we heard. It's about seven plus minutes and it is.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Phenomenal personality and Mike and John laughed last night about yeah,
we picked the really confident guy. Yeah. So that was
the third round selection yesterday, and then an overnight to
think about the fact that we're not picking again until
the sixth round. As Ian pointed out. Ian's been doing
the shift before me on Saturdays for a number of
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years and they've never not had a pick to break down.
When he arrived, there was no pick, Not in the
fourth round, not in the fifth round, not until the
sixth round, which we're closing in on. And then sure
enough John either John just has got board doing activities
around the Virginia Mason Athletic Center or boast evens with
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somebody that he had his eye on and felt was
worth getting into the draft in the round number five
and grabbing because a little surprise move earlier today, a
move they took a fourth round pick from next year
where they have eleven picks and they're now down to ten,
traded it to clar Evel for their fifth selection, one
forty eighth overall, and grabbed Bo Stevens, a guard out
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of Iowa. I don't know a ton about Bo Stevens
six five, three fifteen. I can tell you that, but
what you really do need to know is this is
an Iowa guard and they're always well coached, they're always
fundamentally sound, and last year they were recognized as the
best offensive line in college football. They were awarded as such,
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and he was a part of that group.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know what, the one thing that I always say,
when offensive linemen speak like offensive lineman, I know they're
going to be good. And I say that with all
the respect in the world for them, But Ian Sun
offensive lineman. Right, So I held up this note to him.
I think I have it still here, but I said,
speaks like an offensive lineman, and I love it. And
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that's what you want, right, because I think that we
all know that if you're an offensive lineman, if you're
being talked about, it's never good. Right For the most part,
you know, they're you know, seen, not you know, not
heard kind of situation. But if anybody in the media
is talking about them, that's bad. They only talk about
him if you go fourteen games without a sack or something, right,
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you know that, then you're like, oh, that's when you're
talked about in a good way. But he talked about
he actually he has a fiance and you know, they're
getting married on July fourth, and he he opened up
a little bit about that met at Iowa like he
has just like a home and home like Iowa guy,
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and just only wanted to he did not want to
divulge any sort of details about his style of game.
Just I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. And yeah,
he was great. He was great. But he just sounded
exactly like every single offensive life and I've ever talked to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, well, we just had a trade. So Greg Bell's
notifying me that the Seahawks trading down from one eighty eight.
So here I was building you up, perfect timing to
pick one eighty eight and then they make a move,
so they're gonna move down to one ninety nine. No
details as to what else they got for doing that,
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probably a seventh rounder, Okay, thank you, Greg. It is
for pick two forty two. So they got one ninety
nine and two forty two. So just like that, we're
now eleven picks away, twelve picks away from the Seahawks
instead of two picks away, as they've made a trade
with the New York Jets, and now the Jets are
going on the clock. And now the commanders have just
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taken Kate tron Allen out of Penn State, which is
a name that I mentioned about twenty minutes ago as
a really accomplished collegiate running back that had not been
taken yet in this process. So he's now with the
Washington commander. So instead of the Seahawks being on the
clock here at one eighty eight, it's the New York Jets.
A trade made in which the Hawks take their sixth rounder,
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moved down eleven spots to one ninety nine and at
a seventh rounder at two forty two. As John just
cannot help himself, he just like I need more picks.
I know it's a down year for picks, but I
just need more of them because I'm bored.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I think it's exactly what I'm back in the ward
run too.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I'm whittling. I whittled the flute out of a one
piece of wood for Mike McDonald to play a song
for us, and he's already mastered it because he's a genius.
And now I need something else to do. Let's make
a trade with the Jets.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well, they're the ones to make a trade with because
they typically make awful moves, so and that is coming
from a fan's perspective. What I like about this, though,
is because I think the more players that they have,
the more new players that they have, the more they
have to work with. Because I personally think that it
is not exactly what happens in the draft. It's what
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happens on those fields that we're overlooking right here, those
practice fields. That's when they truly find out what kind
of competitors they have, what kind of teammates they're going
to have, and who is gonna work the best in
what positions, and they find gold. But I don't think
it's I think, yes, it obviously comes from the draft,
but the more chances you have at that gold the better.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, again, they should be on the clock right now,
but the trade puts the Jets on the clock, so
it give us a little bit of time. And we
were talking about Bo Stevens before this move was made,
the fifth round selection out of Iowa, and yeah, and
Jessman was talking about how he sounds like an offensive lineman,
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and it's I just want to point out that how
refreshing it has been. I mean, I've been here for
this is my eleventh year here in the Seattle market,
and I think for ten straight years Seahawk fans have
been angry that offensive line was not more aggressively addressed
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in the draft for ten straight year. And then maybe
the Gray's Abel, not just the pick of Gray's Abel,
but the success that Gray had last year, just hitting
the ground running and then winning a Super Bowl. I mean,
we've hardly heard any We've got to get an offensive lineman.
I also want to use the opportunity to talk about
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Anthony Bradford because for the first half of last season
at right guard, Corbyn Smith and I were talking about
this before I popped on the airwaves. The first half
of last season was spent just Anthony Bradford just got
clowned by everybody in town, and there was video evidence
of him appearing lost at times. But I don't know
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if I don't necessarily hum milling it when I you know,
I don't spend hours watching the All twenty two and
trying to figure out exactly, you know, all the nitty
gritty details. I'm not sure I would recognize them if
I saw them about being a great offensive lineman or
whatever the position might be. I'll base it off of
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this when I watch a game, if I haven't started
yelling at an offensive lineman, Odds are they played a
pretty good game that day. Yeah, they didn't do anything
like turno or a turnover a penalty that that cost
a drive, or they didn't get whooped by some defensive tackle.
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And I don't know, we acknowledged it enough at the
tail end of the second half of last season that
we weren't bashing Anthony Bradford hardly at all in the
second half of last year. And by the time the
playoffs rolled around and your steam roll in your way
pasted opponent after opponent, Anthony Bradford's name just was not
coming up and obviously he didn't stand out as oh,
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the key to that game was Anthony Bradford. But him
not standing out as somebody that cost you on a
play or two was certainly a shift in how Anthony
was being evaluated and on obviously how he was actually performing.
So to go into this draft process and really not
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have felt this feeling of not having any need to
draft offensive lineman. Sure, if you want to add a
Bo Stevens and give you some depth and that maybe
he develops into a starter eventually, but that's not why
you're drafting him here. This was just an opportunity to
get a really smart, really sound offensive lineman from a
really sound program known for developing offensive lineman. And if
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nothing else, he's going to profile as a backup. Probably
he's gonna toy around playing a little bit of center
when he gets here.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Probably gonna yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Probably gonna play some right guard. And so to me,
what's that pick suggests, Jess, is that Bo Stevens gives
you one of those This is a nice off the
bench player to have on your offensive line here. Uh.
And it's nice to be in a situation if you're
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a Seahawks fan to feel like we don't have to
draft an offensive lineman to fill some big giant crater
on our offense this year. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I was just gonna say, I think I had like
a PTSD blind spot about that because I remember that
always being the issue, always being the issue.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And I mean, I mean the year we drafted Jermaine Effetti,
and by the way, Jackson Feltz predicted that the year
we drafted Jermaine Effetti, it was still like, yeah, but
we still need an offense.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, wow, that's going back. But
I mean you look at that, You look at Christian Heines,
you know, they they went there, and then uh, you know,
you look at Abe Lucas, Mike kug Mike Cougu who
we have and now that he's completely healthy and everything,
we're seeing the most of his potential. And but yeah,
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that that need I haven't. Like we were kind of like, yeah, okay, tackle,
we got tackles, all right, let's go, and then it
was like, well, what are we going to do with
guard and enter Gray's Abel. But that hasn't I can't
remember the last time.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That it hasn't happened. Since I've been here, it's been
over a decade that, Yeah, we haven't gone into a
draft with Sea Hawk fans a lot of I'm not
saying all.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Were we doing it last year for sure? For it
was guard right, we were looking at interior.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, I mean the relief the I mean it was
like a person climbing across the desert, a Seahawk fan
climbing across the desert looking for water oasis, and Gray's
Abel's name got announced and it was like a Sparklet's
truck just drove right up. You know. It's like some
oasis in the desert appeared before Seahawk fans and they drank.
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They drank from the bountiful fly of water that'spilled from
the truck. But that I mean, this again, eleventh draft
that I've covered, and this is the first year where
Seahawk fans have not been banging the table. We have
to get an office lineman, and I am so relieved
not to be having that conversation. It's because we gotta
we gotta find young, still very young offensive line right now.
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That's it's a great thing. And to me, I've always
believed that great offensive linemen aren't born necessarily out of
the draft. But out of finding the right guys and
then letting them establish continuity. You know, a fist. I mean,
you're gonna have five fingers up front, or you're gonna
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have a fist. And you know a lot of the
times if you keep mixing and matching, now you're trying
to get all the fingers to form into a fist.
We have a fist up front, and we already have
a fist upfront, and we were ready to punch people
in the mouth going forward, and we did it all
last year. So it's a it's a not just a
good to great position to be in if you're the Seahawks,
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but it is such a relief because we didn't spend
a lot of our draft miss holiday talking about offensive
line needs for the first time in over a decade,
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
And also there wasn't I mean, I know that we
were talking about corner with the absence of prequeling, and
obviously they address that, and Kenneth Walker that one was
just obvious. So I don't feel like people were screaming
from the rooftops about it because it was so obvious
that you want to replace the position of your Super
Bowl MVP. And I just don't feel like people were
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screeching for anything in particular. This year. It was like
calm and I'm like, yeah, you guys are basketing. Can
you continue to bask in a Super Bowl glory like
it just happened two months ago? Can we just chill out?
And everybody is so I didn't even have to. I
got defensive before I had to, because everybody's just like,
all right, let's see what happens.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, they picked eight was made by the Jets and
as Cooper, so we could have had an As Cooper,
an offensive guard out of Miami. And we've had a
couple of other picks get ticked off as well. They
are sitting on the draft board at pick number one
ninety one. The Jaguars are on the clock at one
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ninety one, and so now the Seahawks sit at one
ninety nine, eight picks away from their next selection, as
John continues to duke and jive his way through another
National Football League draft. So we've got we had time
to entertain a few other subjects before that selection is made,
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including where some U dub players have gone here today
and over the last couple of days. And so we
will come back on the other side with more draft
coverage for you. Jessmine McIntyre Chuck Powell with you here
from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Our coverage brought to
you by Frost Brewed Corps Light Cold as the Rockies,
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also by Dino's Pub and Rens. And how many people
from this group do you think will end up at
Dino's Pub when it's over with?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh my gosh, I would go with for.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Seriously, yeah, because I've never gone over there afterwards because
I usually leave before the last pick is made.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, Oh you've missed out?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Is that right? So there is like a gathering.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Not not formal or anything. It's just that's the closest
bar and everybody's wiped so we all go.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Well, so I like, I haven't had a beer since noons.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, I went over you know they have that little
minimar where you bought your deodorant, and I was like, oh,
I need a six pack for when I get home.
And then I see a couple of people that were
standing outside walking in. They're like, hey, come on over.
There's all sorts of a fun mishmash of the Seattle
by the way, which part what.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Bits of the aroma are you getting more of? Is
it the cucumber or the cactus one?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I think I'm smelling lunch, so I don't really have Yeah,
what a terrible dedant. I have a lunch over here
that I haven't eaten yet, so I would just say
it is neither cucumber, Norman or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
We can maybe sniff your arm pit for the YouTube viewers.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, Jackson, can you be the sniff test over here?
Speed Stick, I have lunch speeds stack.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Wait till speed Stick comes out with a line of like, oh, well,
that's that smells like lavender? What's that one? Smell like lunch?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Oh my gosh, Hey, I'm going to be creamer with
the beach episode on Seinfeld. I just made up a
whole new deudorance sense. Okay, it's called lunch. Get your
woman hungry, lunch of a genius. All right, that's tree
marked nobody do it?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
All right? You six picks away, so we'll get to
it next. It is our coverage of the NFL Draft
on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M.
(28:04):
Very much like Batman for some reason. Here right now, Hey,
good afternoon to you. NFL Draft coverage continues here on
your favorite radio station of your life, Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ R FM. My name is Chuck Powell.
Great to have you with us in our draft coverage.
And when I say us, I'm in the whole damn crew.
Ian Farness was here earlier. Rob Ring's right there in
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the other room. I'm gonna bug him as soon as
the Seahawks make their next pick. We got Jessamine McIntyre,
who's been here for all thousand hours of coverage here
on Camp. Jackson Felts is gonna here for the first time.
It's going to be hosting a draft coverage block. He's
usually got like a Sounders match or something. You got
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that today too.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
He's going straight from here to there then ninety speed.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, very good. So yes, he's a jack of all trades,
a jackson of all trades right here at KJR. So
we have let's see where we are. We are at
pick number one ninety four in round number six, the
thirteenth pick of the sixth round. The Seahawks were supposed
to have already picked this round, but they moved down
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from one eighty eight to one ninety nine. They picked
up an extra seventh rounder for this year, so certainly
going to give Jackson uh something to count down pick
number two forty two once we're past three o'clock. So
that's still coming. So the Seahawks still have three picks
to make one nineteen, two, sixteen, and two forty two. Yes,
(29:36):
they've made a few trades here during the course of
the three days of the NFL Draft to add some
extra picks. No surprise there, So we'll get you sat.
Pat Cougan just came off the board, the center from
Indiana who won the Rose Bowl MVP, if you can
believe that as a center. Well he's now a Tennessee Titan.
(29:57):
He went one ninety four, uh there to the Titan.
So we are now just four picks away one two, three, four, five,
five picks away from the favorite. Yeah, five picks away
from the Seahawk. Well, my my screen just kind of
like jumped.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
When a pick comes in it refreshes, Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, it just kind of jumped on me. So I
thought I had the map done and then all of
a sudden, wait a minute, my eyes just played a
trick on me. So we're five picks away from the
Seahawks selection. So certainly we'll get you prepared for that. Again,
we still have not dropped an edge rusher at this point.
Maybe that's on the docket, maybe it's no longer on
the docket. Maybe if John and Mike were entertaining an
(30:39):
edge rusher that had to come in the first couple
of days, that could they know, con contribute to the
depth of the edge rusher position. We shall see, but
three more selections to add some roster pieces. At this
stage in the game, you're looking for guys that could
certainly help you in special teams as well, which the
certainly give a nod toward. They may have the best
(31:03):
special teams everything in the National Football League as world champs.
But I do want to take some time at some
point or three hours, and this feels like the best
time to do it, to acknowledge some of the U
dub picks that have been made, because it's been a
busy day on that front. Three players for the Huskies
have been selected here today, but I want to go
back to yesterday first, because the second round selection thirty
(31:25):
ninth overall was Denzil Boston and he went to the
Cleveland Browns, who again part of that Cleveland Browns draft,
which I think has been fantastic. I mean, these guys
usually don't know anything, and yet they've had an outstanding
draft in my estimation, Boston for pretty much his entire
final season at Washington because, believe me, mock drafts were
(31:46):
already out at that time. People were projecting him to
be a first round selection. All the way up till Thursday,
they were projecting him as a first round selection. He
ends up going early in Day number two, which could
end up being disappointment for some if they've been prepared
for a year or more to be a first round
selection and to end up number two, that could look
(32:08):
as a crushing disappointment. I was so relieved because this
is you know, as a fan of the draft, one
of my favorite things about the draft is seeing the
reaction from the players when their dream comes true their families.
I love that about the National Football League drafts, one
of the reasons why it's one of my favorite sporting
events of the entire year. And Denzel and his family
(32:31):
couldn't have looked more appreciative in the moment. Dad was
so excited, Mom was just so proud, and Denzel was
just happy as could be. I've seen way too many
players who slipped two spots lower than they were projected
to pick be angry about it and so, and I
(32:51):
think that's nonsense. I mean, I wish in other trades
we had the opportunity to get drafted and and see
our dreams come true. That doesn't happen for anybody else.
Only happens for football players. So I love to see
them just appreciate that the dream has come true, whether
it's a few picks later or not, and then sell.
(33:14):
Boston did that for me yesterday, and I wanted to
acknowledge it. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, And I like how many That's my favorite thing.
I go home. I obviously get like three hours of
sleep a night during the NFL draft, and I watch
all the draft calls because it's my favorite thing. And
I how many people are at home these days instead
of red carpeting it. I like that too. I think
that there.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Are so many too.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
There are so many more like that at art.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I like those that are there, and I also like
the home ones.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yes, I have no problem with people being there, but
I just feel like a lot more first rounders are
staying home these days with their family and I love,
you know, the players walking their significant others, moms, dads,
families down that red carpet. It's amazing as well. But
seeing them in their home space and having such huge
(34:05):
amount of people around them, and you hear it on
the draft calls that we get to listen to. When
the Seahawks have the draft picks calling, you just hear
the ruckus in the background and everything, and I love
that it's not quiet. Everyone is just it's a huge celebration.
And this is what all that hard work, time and
effort that not only that young man put in, but
the people around him put into, because that is a
(34:28):
huge undertaking to get to this point.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
And you can get to invite more people that way.
You can't take thirty five fifty people that is with
go to Pittsburgh and sit in the green room. And
so you get to celebrate with everybody, all your friends
that you grew up with, and your aunts and your
uncles and your cousins and everybody else that you want
there to be a part of that. And so I
love the home celebrations as well. I like the red
carpet celebrations. Well, no, not necessarily the red carpet. I
(34:52):
think that's a little overdone. But the walkway and the stage,
I love all of that. But I also love seeing
the guys surrounded by all of their love war And
that's what Denzel Boston did. And he obviously throw two
parties because you know that they were there in case.
He was a first round draft pick the night before.
But to see the smile on his face, it was great.
And he ends up going the Cleveland Browns to Carrio
Davis went seventy second yesterday, third round to the Cincinnati Bengals.
(35:17):
He was somebody that I had mocked to the Seahawks,
and yet he came off the board before they could
pick at ninety nine, came way early off the board
before they could pick at ninety nine, and then today
Jonah Coleman. He told us on Chuck and Buck that
he had con he two he had the best feeling
(35:37):
that he had from where he might end up were
from two organizations, the Seahawks being one of them, the
Broncos being the other. And lo and behold who took
him today, fourth round, one hundred and eighth pick. It
was the Denver Broncos. They have Jonah Coleman and then
Carver Willis to the San Francisco forty nine ers and
Ephesians Prisock to the San Francisco forty nine ers in
(35:59):
the span of twelve picks. Carver went fourth round twenty seventh,
Ephesians went fourth round one and thirty ninth, both to
the San Francisco forty nine ers. So, nice job, Husky
fans loved rooting for you and now they hate you.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, you know, there's always some love.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I mean, I have a little bit, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I have some koops in the system. Luckily Abe Lucas
is here, but there's some others that are elsewhere. I
mean Jalen Watson, who was with the Chiefs now all
of a sudden he is with Rams. And then obviously
we have a couple of local products that are now
within the division. And you can love hate, I think
(36:44):
you can sports hate. But it's almost like I always say,
it's like a Westman tooth Ron Burgundy thing where it's
like I hate respect you. Yeah, so I say, like
love hate respect kind of thing. It's a it's a
whole quarry of things.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Well, just hate him twice a year, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
That's it. You're allowed. You're allowed sports to you.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
All right, well, let's take a quick break here and
get back so we make sure that we're here for
the Seahawks pick at one nine. It is now just
four away, as the Raiders just took Oregon wide receiver
Malik Benson. So we'll get back in plenty of time
for the pick, and we have Robb Ring already here
at our set ready to evaluate it for you, so
(37:25):
just keep it right here. NFL Draft coverage on day
number three continues on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Doesn't that make you just want to hear people talk
(37:46):
about football? Right? It's not just me. That's the type
of music. That's the type of music that you.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Are right there with you.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You're right there with me, Rob, All right, very good.
It's our NFL Draft coverage, Day number three here live
from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, and we are two
picks away from a Seahawks selection here at one ninety nine.
If you follow the draft closely and yet you got
pulled away at some point today, I don't know, maybe
(38:19):
you had to move a shiffer robe for the wife.
Then maybe you're like, wait a minute, Chuck, you liar,
we have the one eighty eighth pick. What are you
talking about? Nope, we now have the one ninety ninth pick,
a trade down that allowed the Seahawks to add a
seventh round draft selection, and so the Seahawks are now
on the clock. The latest player coming off the board
(38:40):
demand Claiborne, a running back out of Wake Forest. Rob
rang will be able to tell us in a moment
whether Claiborne is a roller or a flicker. And yet
the Seahawks are on the board and our NFL draft
expert is with us, so before they make the pick,
before we know the pick, who you got in mind
right now?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
A couple of different guys, I think if you want
to look at some of the edge rushers, the Mason
riger from Wisconsin, Keyshawn James Newby been talking about him
for a while from New Mexico. The Dan Tucker from
Western Michigan. The last two James Newby and Tucker from
Western Michigan are two of the twitchiest edge rushers that
are still available. Let's say you want to go to
(39:21):
the defensive tackle. Then Brendan Cleveland and Ontario Thompson. Talked
about Antario Thompson another University of Washington product would make
some sense. And then a big wide receiver that might
be able to play that Derek Young role. Jeff Colwell
from Cincinnati is another one that makes some sense.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
All right, well, let's see, I think we now know
the selection for the Seahawks and it is Rob Emmanuel Henderson,
junior senior wide receiver out of Kansas. What do we
know about this Jayhawk turned Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yeah, what I do remember is that he is he
has speed, and that he was physical as well, and
so he was an interesting guy that you know, he
just looked at as a player that has some some
raw potential to him that you're looking to develop. Uh,
you know, an interesting player. I mean he is uh,
you know, doesn't have the big frame. If I remember quickly,
(40:17):
I want to say that he was one hundred and
eighty five hundred and ninety pounds, but at the same time,
he is quick.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
He he does have good hands. And again when any
players playing at Kansas, they run the ball a lot there,
and so you're gonna have to be a run blocker.
You're going to have to be uh you know, productive
in that regard, not just it's not just about catching
the football. It's about being truly committed to the team.
So in a lot of ways, is it kind of
strikes you as a sea hockey type of pick.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Six five is the listing that I'm saying that might
not be official four four four forty time, which is good.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And at this stage, I mean, I don't know if
the Seahawks, I don't know if any of us expect
to the Seahawks to take a wide receiver. So it
adds to the depth of one of your deepest positions.
And yet, as I mentioned earlier, you're looking for guys
that helping special teams, and I think the Seahawks are
doubling down on that now that they've had such success.
(41:15):
I mean, I'm talking about all around kicker, punter, kick returner,
punt returner, kick coverage, punt coverage. I don't think anybody
did it better than the Seahawks did this past year.
So if they use these last three picks that they
have today on guys that if they just profile as
special teams guys, I think they're going to be happy with.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
That, well exactly. And that's the thing is, obviously, with
the selections that they've made so far, you know, they
are filling some of the holes left from free agency,
and we talked about, you know, the role that Bud
Clark might have as the Kobe Bryant replacements, et cetera,
et cetera. The one position that they are the one
player that they haven't replaced that left in free agency.
(41:55):
Jerike Young at the wide receiver position. Again, his as
a receiver, as a vertical threat, We've talked about that before,
but also as a gunner on special teams to your point, Chuck,
and that's where I think that this young man might
be able to provide some of that. He was a
special teams performer at Kansas. Does have again that six
(42:16):
foot one hundred and eighty five pound frame is kind
of a classic type of a frame, you know, so
as far as being a receiver that again has agility
and also plays the physicality necessary not only be a
run blocker, but also be a guy that can help
on special teams.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
A little surprise though, wide receiver of all the things. Well,
at this stage in the game, man, I know we
want them to get edge depth, but are you realistically
in the sixth or seventh round getting an edge rusher
that's going to help this team win this year, you're not.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
I mean, I think that you can still find a
guy who has some burst up field, and that's why
I mentioned, you know, James Newby and na Dame Tucker.
Again is guys that are are potentially intriguing. But I
think more what you're looking for is best player available,
and wide receiver is probably the deepest positional group in
this draft class. I would say corner is also consideration
(43:07):
for that PC. I you know, already checked that box
a corner with their third round selection. So I think
that at this point, again you're going BPA and with
a wide receiver that probably should have selected around earlier.
At this point mixed off law Sex.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What about Kayden Curry. I mentioned it a few minutes ago.
I mean, I watched Ohio State play probably seven football games,
and it felt like, now he's surrounded by ridiculous talent.
So maybe that made him look even better than he is.
I realized there are a few athletic, you know, elements
of him that probably don't suggest that he's going to
(43:45):
be a monster at the next level. And yet as
a football player, I mean I saw him destroy the Huskies. Yep,
just absolutely destroy the Huskies, and I've seen him do
that to a few other teams during the course of
the year, and he's still out there. Why not Cayden
Curry here? What shortcomings are there that John and Mike
would not be interested in him over an Emmanuel Henderson
(44:07):
junior here in the sixth round?
Speaker 4 (44:09):
No, I agree with you. I mean, Kaden Curry is
a quality player. I think that he is not and
necessarily the twitchiest of athletes, says you kind of acknowledged here.
But I used to do an article every year that
I called Rang's Gang, basically just talking about guys that
I really like. I like more than the Scouts do necessarily,
as far as just that they just play their hearts out,
(44:32):
their productive And Kayden Curry, of course, he had to
kind of wait in line at Ohio State before he
got his opportunity. When he did get that opportunity, he flourished,
you know. And to your point, though, I mean, he's
just surrounded by so much talent. You know, it's a
little bit easier to get sacks when you have rbl
recent slaying styles and Caleb Downs and all these other
(44:53):
guys behind you that are forcing rival quarterbacks to hold
the ball that much longer. But Kayden Curry to me,
he used his hands.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Well.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
He's got enough burst of field to be able to
at least challenge NFL tackles. I don't know if he
can actually beat them around the edge, but he counters
back inside, he holds up the point of attack. He
just doesn't have those that elite burst. He doesn't have
the elite length. He's just a quality all around guy.
And that was interesting to me when Mike McDonald's talking
about some of the things that they're looking for, and
(45:23):
he wanted kind of you want to be sure that
they don't get a player who is one of those
jack of all trades, master of none type. I think
that he is a little bit of a jack of
all trades, but master of none type. McDonald wants guys
who are a master of several different roles. And that's
the thing is Kaden Curry to me, is kind of
that base defensive end. I don't know that he is
(45:44):
athletic enough to be able to be kind of that
drop in space kind of a linebacker, and so he
would be playing just one role. And I think the Seahawks
already have some guys on their practice squad or their
their active roster from a year ago that they feel
can already check that Bux.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
I love that topic line, and I don't know, I mean,
probably have a lot of things to discuss here today
with you. But since we're talking about it, Ohio State,
like rvel Reas ended up going fifth instead of second,
and they went with David Bailey. We always hear about
quarterbacks being products of the system at the college level,
(46:22):
and buyer beware that once he doesn't, he's not surrounded
with the most talent. He's not going to have that
advantage at the National Football League. He's not going to
man for man, have a nine of my guys are
better than nine of your guys kind of thing. But
we don't talk about that defensively much. It's why I
thought that they should go with David Bailey at number
(46:44):
two over rvel Resa number five, because how do we know,
like individually, if they don't aren't on a defense man
for man that's better than every single guy on the
offensive side of the ball, how do we know that
there is exceptional as they look on college tape where
I saw David Bailey is just a pure pass rusher.
(47:05):
Keep Texas teching the game against Oregon by himself, and
I'm thinking to myself, I'd go with David Bailey because
I know he's not dependent upon the guys around him
to be successful. And I think those Ohio State players
are outstanding, don't get me wrong, but man, it's to
me a little bit hard to evaluate. You know. We'll
get back to that topic later. Maybe that was just
(47:26):
an opportunity for me to vent, but apparently they do.
We do have Emmanuel Henderson Junior on the line. Time
invaluable that We'll be back with you in just a minute,
all right, So yes, Emmanuel Henderson Junior, the most recent
selection by the Seahawks at one ninety nine. We're going
to hear from him here in a moment. Six foot one,
one hundred and eighty five pound wide receiver out of Kansas,
(47:50):
and so we're just waiting to hear from him on
the line. The Seattle media hoarde is gathered about. John
Boyle is yawning, I don't know why. This is an
exciting time. An exciting time. We get to meet Emmanuel
Henderson here for the first time, so they're going to
pepper him with questions. That's a very nosy group up there.
(48:11):
They're always trying to ask invasive questions.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
And so we wait to hear from Emmanuel Henderson Jr.
And here he comes. That's loud. Non Are you there
(48:36):
all right? Still waiting for him? Dead air is terrible.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
It might be some connectivity issues, you know what he's
probably say. I'm just hoping he is at a family
backyard with no service. E.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Maybe when he got the news, he when jumped in
the pool.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
I mean, my gosh, yeah, just throw that thing in
a bowl of rice and call us back.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
No, It's always touching in these mores, especially when it
comes to this point. These kids have been waiting for,
you know, three days, and you don't know if your
name is going to get called. And he's clearly trying
to call. But maybe he's getting mobbed by happy people
around him. And that's the world I choose to live in.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, okay, fine, fine, Uh.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
You know, yeah, sorry for those listening right now. Is
that is a little drawing of noise, but it does
give the media quite a heads up that the call
is coming in.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
I have the media here.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
They're gonna oh perfect, all right, Emmanuel, are you.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
I mean I gots right now Alabama whelebrating with all
my family, you know, my little cousins, my brothers and sister,
family friends.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
You have contact with.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
The Seahawks the free draft process?
Speaker 5 (49:59):
Oh yes, I you know, I met with him and
talked when a couple of times talking this process, you know,
and I felt like they had a very interest in me.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Did they talk to you about special teams or any
possible role?
Speaker 5 (50:12):
Almost? Definitely know such team big A big part of
my game, you know, but I with my wide receiver abilities,
you know, so that's a great come up for them
as you.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Take the background as a running back as well as
the Seahawks talk to you all about that role.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
Oh yes, sir, most definitely, you know, running back. I
don't play multiple positions, you know, I don't this past
season like Kansas. You know, I would play in the
backfield something, so you know, wherever I get the ball
in my hands. You know, I feel like, you know,
they would be a good job doing.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Did the Seahawks talk to you about a running back
potential role?
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Not really? Man.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
How did you kind of describe your game as a player, Uh?
Definitely fast.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Uh you started your career in Alabama and up can
kind of what's what win?
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Did that decision?
Speaker 5 (51:04):
You know, there's more opportunities. You know, I took advantage
of the opportunities I got out of about but getting
a candidate, you know, I felt like it was an
open door, you know, and you know you gave me
the opportunity showcase what I can do.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Have you been to Seattle before? I have in Bible?
Speaker 3 (51:21):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I have lived by.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
A I'm a great teammate. You know, somebody you want
you will want to have your room. You know, I'm
a bite in each and every day, even on them
down days.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
You go, Thank you, Manuel, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
There you go, Manuel Henderson Junior. Your first taste of him.
The sixth round selection for the Seahawks one hundred and
ninety ninth overall. The day started with them having the
one hundred and eighty eighth pick, but they got to
the sixth round decided let's pick up a seventh rounder
by moving down eleven spots, and with that selection, Emmanuel
(52:03):
Henderson Junior is your pick. Jay Hawk turned Seahawk right
before our eyes.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I love it, and I also know you know exactly
what I predicted. He is celebrating with family, you know,
and enjoying that time. What I like is his versatility,
and even though the Seahawks haven't talked about him in
a running back role, I always love a wide receiver
who can move like a running back when tossed, like
if you're just talking about you know, you know, lateral
(52:31):
like in the you know, toss of the flat in
the slot. Someone who can move upfield like a running back.
I think that can add a lot of value, and
especially that versatility adds a lot to special teams.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Seven hundred and sixty six receiving yards this past year,
five touchdowns for Kansas. All right, So that selections in
the books. We're not out of the sixth round, and
the Seahawks still have another pick in the sixth round,
but it's still going to be eleven picks away. It's
the last pick of the sixth round. Of course, there's
some compics thrown in there as well well. And then
they now have a seventh rounder as well, which Jackson
(53:04):
Feltz will Settle will celebrate with unbridled enthusiasm in the
next couple of hours. So our draft coverage will continue.
On the other side, Just keep it here. We are
live from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Our coverage brought
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Speaker 3 (53:39):
So we need some masters music for that kind.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
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