# The Insiders Podcast: Christian McCaffrey Joins The Show + The High Risk, High Reward Prospects in The Draft

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 15 Apr 2026, 41 min.

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NFL Network Insiders Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport and Judy Battista report the biggest news stories of the day, beginning with evaluating GMs' comments around the NFL regarding their draft strategy, including the Raiders, Giants, and Eagles. 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey joins the show. Brian Baldinger and Lance Zierlein discuss the high risk, high reward prospects in the upcoming draft. Cam Wolfe reports on the Jets and Panthers approach to the draft, and Adam Rank reveals his Mock Draft 1.0 with a twist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: The countdown to the Fernando Mendoza era in Las Vegas
[0:05] Speaker 1: is on if fin fact, the Raiders do what we
[0:09] Speaker 1: all expect. Here what GM John Spytech said today about
[0:12] Speaker 1: their plans at number one and beyond. In just nine days,
[0:17] Speaker 1: all the top draft prospects.
[0:18] Speaker 2: We'll have a home. Our guy Adam Rank joins us
[0:21] Speaker 2: tonight to.
[0:21] Speaker 1: Break down his new mock draft, which comes with some
[0:25] Speaker 1: unusual twits. We'll also talk with forty nine Ers star
[0:29] Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, who stops by tonight to speak on the
[0:33] Speaker 1: arrival of Mike Evans, this year's top running backs, and
[0:37] Speaker 1: much more. Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappaport
[0:42] Speaker 1: and Judy Battista. I am Tom Pelisero. Nine days now
[0:46] Speaker 1: until the NFL Draft, which means that nine days from
[0:50] Speaker 1: right about now, the Las Vegas Raiders will fish sat
[0:54] Speaker 1: be on the clock. It has been one of the
[0:56] Speaker 1: worst kept secrets in the NFL for quite some time,
[1:00] Speaker 1: and April twenty third should be a momentous stay in
[1:04] Speaker 1: Las Vegas, whether they draft for Nanda Mendoza or somehow
[1:08] Speaker 1: shock the world. Here's what GM John Spytech said today
[1:11] Speaker 1: about his general draft philosophy.
[1:14] Speaker 3: I think it starts with we are we going to
[1:16] Speaker 3: make the pick, and if there's a player that stands
[1:20] Speaker 3: out that we feel it's not worth losing, it's not
[1:23] Speaker 3: worth even picking up the phone, then we'll just make
[1:25] Speaker 3: the pick.
[1:26] Speaker 2: But if it's a.
[1:27] Speaker 3: Player that we're not as excited about, or there's a
[1:29] Speaker 3: group of players that we would love to pick from
[1:32] Speaker 3: and we can get value for that, then we're certainly
[1:35] Speaker 3: open to listening to that. So I think when you
[1:37] Speaker 3: go on the clock, unless you're super convicted that you're
[1:40] Speaker 3: making the pick, you kind of just sit there and
[1:42] Speaker 3: wait for a little bit and see if your phone
[1:44] Speaker 3: will ring. And sometimes you can get really good trade
[1:46] Speaker 3: offers and maybe you didn't expect, and other times your
[1:49] Speaker 3: phone doesn't ring, so then you just pick.
[1:51] Speaker 2: But we try to be open minded.
[1:53] Speaker 3: We try to give ourselves as much time, you know,
[1:55] Speaker 3: as allotted to make the best decision for the Raiders.
[1:58] Speaker 3: And you know, we trade it back twice in the
[2:00] Speaker 3: second round last year and accumulated a bunch of what
[2:02] Speaker 3: we thought was really good draft capital, and we'd be
[2:04] Speaker 3: open to doing that again.
[2:05] Speaker 1: Now the Raiders have had over three months to get
[2:07] Speaker 1: convicted about what they'll do at number one overall since
[2:10] Speaker 1: they clinched that pick late last season. Ian there is
[2:13] Speaker 1: a line there is one player above all else in
[2:15] Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza, who, presuming that he is in fact the selection,
[2:18] Speaker 1: will be just part of a really important draft class
[2:21] Speaker 1: there in Las Vegas.
[2:22] Speaker 4: Really important draftcuss, really important offseason for Las Vegas, and
[2:26] Speaker 4: they really feel, just based on the players they added
[2:28] Speaker 4: in free agency, that this is an atmosphere where a
[2:31] Speaker 4: number one overall pick quarterback can come in and learn
[2:35] Speaker 4: and be successful.
[2:36] Speaker 2: And it might not be right away. There is a
[2:37] Speaker 2: real chance, and John spy.
[2:38] Speaker 4: Tech talked about it at his press conference today as well,
[2:41] Speaker 4: there's a chance that Frenanda Mendoza does not end up
[2:44] Speaker 4: as the starting quarterback of the Raiders immediately. As spy
[2:47] Speaker 4: Tech said, is really hard for a young quarterback to
[2:50] Speaker 4: come in and be successful if he has to learn
[2:52] Speaker 4: at the beginning, if you have to learn all year,
[2:54] Speaker 4: that's fine, because this is about the future, not this year.
[2:58] Speaker 4: I will say that while Tech Judy was right. While
[3:01] Speaker 4: they are going to wait for the phone to ring
[3:03] Speaker 4: and they are going to weigh offers and really see
[3:05] Speaker 4: what is out there, this feels like a player to
[3:08] Speaker 4: me that the Raiders are convicted over his visit went
[3:11] Speaker 4: really well. They left his visit being like, all right,
[3:14] Speaker 4: we know that this is the guy. Really liked the intelligence,
[3:18] Speaker 4: really like the intangibles. I'm sure they'll wait the a
[3:21] Speaker 4: lot of time. Hopefully they do so all of us
[3:23] Speaker 4: can get on camera. But this is expected to be
[3:25] Speaker 4: Fernando mendoz in, which should be a new era.
[3:28] Speaker 2: For the Raiders.
[3:29] Speaker 5: Well, it would shock the NFL world if they don't
[3:31] Speaker 5: have a conviction about Fernando Mendoza at this point to
[3:34] Speaker 5: end by next Thursday, and if he is not the
[3:37] Speaker 5: number one pick. I too was thinking about the setup
[3:40] Speaker 5: for him. This is a much better situation than the
[3:43] Speaker 5: one cam Ward was in at this time last year,
[3:45] Speaker 5: when he was joining a team that simply did not
[3:48] Speaker 5: have much on the roster. He also was joining a
[3:51] Speaker 5: team that had a coach who was already skating on
[3:54] Speaker 5: thin ice. This is a much better setup, much more
[3:57] Speaker 5: favorable for Fernando Mendoza to have success and to grow
[4:02] Speaker 5: in his career. As you mentioned, they have Kirk Cousins,
[4:05] Speaker 5: so it's entirely possible he will not even be the
[4:07] Speaker 5: starting quarterback immediately. But they also did a lot of
[4:11] Speaker 5: work on that roster. This is a better roster than
[4:14] Speaker 5: how the Raiders looked at the end of last season.
[4:17] Speaker 2: A really favorable position. If it's Fernando Mendoza, it's.
[4:21] Speaker 5: Going to be a good situation for him.
[4:23] Speaker 1: Not a lot of drama at number one, plenty of
[4:25] Speaker 1: drama elsewhere in the top ten, including at number five.
[4:28] Speaker 1: That's where we find the New York Giants, who also
[4:31] Speaker 1: has some things to consider potentially in the coming days
[4:34] Speaker 1: regarding their standout defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence recently requested a trade,
[4:39] Speaker 1: wants an upgraded contract.
[4:41] Speaker 2: GM Joe shaens Bok Today.
[4:44] Speaker 6: I know the hot topic will be, you know, some
[4:47] Speaker 6: of the hot topic other than the draft will be Dexter.
[4:50] Speaker 6: Just a quick quick update on that for you guys.
[4:53] Speaker 6: We've had good conversations with his representatives throughout the last
[4:58] Speaker 6: five or six days. Coach Dawn, myself, we've all been
[5:01] Speaker 6: a communication, you know, trying to find some resolution. I
[5:05] Speaker 6: echo what Coach said last week. You know, we'd like
[5:07] Speaker 6: for Dexter to be here, and at some point we'll
[5:10] Speaker 6: come to a resolution here. I would always like more picks,
[5:12] Speaker 6: but it would be situational. We're not going to walk
[5:14] Speaker 6: away from an impact player or a good player that
[5:18] Speaker 6: we're convicted on that we like, you know, to pick up,
[5:20] Speaker 6: you know, an extra pick or a couple of extra picks.
[5:23] Speaker 6: So case by case basis, if there's you know, if
[5:26] Speaker 6: you move back three or four spots and there's five
[5:28] Speaker 6: five guys, you like you an extra pick.
[5:29] Speaker 7: Absolutely.
[5:30] Speaker 6: If it's if it's a guy you're convicted on, and
[5:32] Speaker 6: you know, maybe there's a big drop off from let's
[5:34] Speaker 6: say it's a it's called corner and there's a big
[5:36] Speaker 6: drop off maybe two rounds to the next corner, you
[5:40] Speaker 6: maybe don't roll the dice in those situations. You just
[5:42] Speaker 6: take the player, you know, so you don't miss out.
[5:43] Speaker 6: So certainly would like more picks, but you know, don't
[5:47] Speaker 6: want to walk away from good players either.
[5:49] Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Brian Baldinger to the conversation here. Judy,
[5:52] Speaker 1: you were at that media conference today. What were your takeaways?
[5:56] Speaker 5: Well, my first takeaway is he opened the press conference.
[5:58] Speaker 5: Joe Shane opened the press conference saying they have had good,
[6:01] Speaker 5: productive recent conversations with Dexter Lawrence's representatives and they still
[6:06] Speaker 5: want him on the team. He was asked about the
[6:08] Speaker 5: possibility of a trade. First of all, he said, there's
[6:11] Speaker 5: no deadline. He's under contract for two years. So the
[6:13] Speaker 5: idea that they would have to make a trade right
[6:16] Speaker 5: now in the next week before the draft, no, he
[6:19] Speaker 5: projected that idea. He did say it's his responsibility to
[6:22] Speaker 5: listen to phone calls. That's his job, so he didn't
[6:26] Speaker 5: slam the door entirely on trading him. But again he
[6:28] Speaker 5: started out by saying they've had really good conversations and
[6:31] Speaker 5: they hope to keep Dexter Lawrence on the team. As
[6:35] Speaker 5: for the draft itself, Joe Shane said they've already received
[6:38] Speaker 5: not surprisingly, they have received calls from some teams that
[6:41] Speaker 5: might be looking to move up. He said they would
[6:44] Speaker 5: not make a trade before they are on the clock
[6:47] Speaker 5: on Thursday, and that certainly indicates that there are a
[6:50] Speaker 5: handful of players that they would not move out of
[6:52] Speaker 5: the number five pick if those players are still on
[6:55] Speaker 5: the board, players that they would take, and otherwise they
[6:58] Speaker 5: would be open to business if those players are off
[7:01] Speaker 5: the board.
[7:02] Speaker 8: Balding Judy, the John Harbaugh era is new, and for
[7:07] Speaker 8: the players it might be shockingly new. John has always
[7:12] Speaker 8: had some of the hardest training camps. He's going to
[7:14] Speaker 8: challenge these players mentally, He's going to challenge them physically.
[7:18] Speaker 8: So whoever walks through that door should they keep the
[7:20] Speaker 8: fifth pick.
[7:22] Speaker 2: They've got to be a leader. They have had to
[7:24] Speaker 2: have a.
[7:25] Speaker 8: Hard upbringing, whatever college they went to, they've had to
[7:29] Speaker 8: be have all kinds of ability. When I think of
[7:33] Speaker 8: a guy like Caleb Downs, who started for Nick Saban
[7:37] Speaker 8: at Alabama as an eighteen year old freshman and led
[7:39] Speaker 8: the team in tackles that year, won a national championship
[7:42] Speaker 8: in Ohio State the next year, I can't help but
[7:45] Speaker 8: think Caleb Downs in a Giants uniform is.
[7:48] Speaker 2: What the Giants need.
[7:49] Speaker 8: They need a leader, a tough guy, a captain. That's
[7:52] Speaker 8: what they have to start building here for this defense
[7:55] Speaker 8: of Denard Wilson and what John Harball has to start
[7:58] Speaker 8: establishing ian if they want to turn things around here
[8:02] Speaker 8: immediately up in New York.
[8:03] Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, it's a number of five pick
[8:06] Speaker 4: and you know, usually Baldy, these are reserved for premium positions.
[8:09] Speaker 4: This is just a weird year where you have some excellent,
[8:12] Speaker 4: excellent football players who do not play premium positions. You
[8:15] Speaker 4: mentioned one Downs is one you know, what do the
[8:18] Speaker 4: Giants do that I want to go to what Joe
[8:20] Speaker 4: Shane talked about the possibility of them trading out with
[8:23] Speaker 4: This seems to be a draft where let's say there
[8:25] Speaker 4: are sixteen seventeen maybe true first rounders by grade. Most
[8:29] Speaker 4: of the teams I speak with think there's probably five
[8:32] Speaker 4: or so elite, elite players that maybe it drops off
[8:35] Speaker 4: a little bit. The Giants are at five. So if
[8:37] Speaker 4: there's one player that other teams around ten, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
[8:42] Speaker 4: right up to the Cowboys, if they think they can
[8:44] Speaker 4: get one of those elite players, we may in fact.
[8:47] Speaker 2: See a big trade.
[8:48] Speaker 4: Whether that's r bel Reese, whether that's Bane, I mean,
[8:51] Speaker 4: whether that's Sunny Styles down There's plenty of options here
[8:54] Speaker 4: about who teams could fall in love with. But it
[8:57] Speaker 4: does seem like the Giants are going to have the
[8:59] Speaker 4: opportunity to trade out for some premium draft pick compensation,
[9:03] Speaker 4: if that is in the end what they want to do.
[9:06] Speaker 1: Baldy Dudemot move where you're back in a little bit
[9:08] Speaker 1: to talk about some high risk, high reward players in
[9:11] Speaker 1: this draft. Right now, let's stay in the NFC East
[9:14] Speaker 1: head over to Philadelphia, where yes, they've got some draft picks,
[9:17] Speaker 1: but all anybody really wants to know about is AJ Brown.
[9:21] Speaker 1: He remains a member of the football team that likely
[9:24] Speaker 1: will not change if it changes until after June one.
[9:28] Speaker 1: Give the Philadelphia media credit, they don't stop asking.
[9:31] Speaker 9: You mentioned the depth at wide receiver, you know, after
[9:34] Speaker 9: trading for Giggs and signing Hollywood and hospitalizing more, what
[9:39] Speaker 9: does that mean for a J Brown? Like do you
[9:42] Speaker 9: feel like if he is traded you have depth there
[9:45] Speaker 9: at wide receiver?
[9:47] Speaker 4: The odds are that I'm answering this question any different
[9:51] Speaker 4: than I answered anywhere else, Like really, like, do you
[9:53] Speaker 4: think that's like fifty percent?
[9:55] Speaker 2: Do you think that's seventy five percent?
[9:57] Speaker 7: I need.
[10:00] Speaker 1: Solid sense I already there from how we say, what
[10:02] Speaker 1: are the odds? I answer this differently while at the
[10:04] Speaker 1: same time answering it is a little bit differently. Still
[10:07] Speaker 1: nothing definitive ian because of the contractual and salary cap
[10:11] Speaker 1: implications of trading AJ Brown prior to June one, Where
[10:14] Speaker 1: do we stand here? Knowing that the draft is normally
[10:17] Speaker 1: a pivot point for teams to begin to put together
[10:20] Speaker 1: their rosters and maybe fill some of the very holes
[10:22] Speaker 1: they otherwise might be filling with a guy like AJ Brown.
[10:25] Speaker 4: It feels sound like every off season there's something that
[10:27] Speaker 4: comes up where you're like, wow, this is actually not
[10:30] Speaker 4: really happened before in the NFL world, an almost unprecedented situation,
[10:34] Speaker 4: and that's where we are with AJ Brown. This is
[10:36] Speaker 4: not a situation of teams saying, all right, the draft
[10:38] Speaker 4: is coming, I gotta get my trade because I gotta
[10:40] Speaker 4: get the picks, or Okay, well it's not going to
[10:42] Speaker 4: be this draft, so I'm going to wait until right
[10:44] Speaker 4: before the season because it's going to be next year's
[10:46] Speaker 4: draft picks that we're going to be trading.
[10:47] Speaker 2: No, this is one.
[10:49] Speaker 4: Where a trade, if it is going to happen, and
[10:51] Speaker 4: certainly there's a lot of evidence that eventually it is,
[10:54] Speaker 4: would have to happen after June first, because of the
[10:57] Speaker 4: salary cap ramifications for the egos that cuts the dead
[10:59] Speaker 4: cap money in half, and the fact that the picks
[11:02] Speaker 4: that you would be looking for would be twenty twenty
[11:05] Speaker 4: seven draft picks, which is considered by most people to
[11:08] Speaker 4: be a better draft, a deeper draft, and that probably.
[11:11] Speaker 2: Is what the Eagles would want anyway.
[11:13] Speaker 4: So really, what has happened is we're all just kind
[11:16] Speaker 4: of standing around looking at each other and waiting for
[11:18] Speaker 4: this trade that in the end probably will happen. At
[11:21] Speaker 4: least that's what most people that I speak to believe.
[11:24] Speaker 4: It just can't happen yet, so you're left having to
[11:26] Speaker 4: awkwardly ask the GM, hey, you know this thing that
[11:29] Speaker 4: we all know may or may not have, but can
[11:31] Speaker 4: I ask you about it in a different way? And
[11:32] Speaker 4: he's got to go no. But that answers it in
[11:35] Speaker 4: a different way anyway, Genny.
[11:36] Speaker 2: Which brings us to the draft. A few things.
[11:39] Speaker 5: On the draft, Howie said they as always go best
[11:43] Speaker 5: player available. He also specifically was asked about could you
[11:46] Speaker 5: draft a wide receiver given all the circumstances, and he
[11:49] Speaker 5: didn't shoot that idea down. He also said that they
[11:53] Speaker 5: do not have thirty two first round grades on this group.
[11:56] Speaker 5: That is certainly not unusual, and it is especially not
[12:00] Speaker 5: usual in.
[12:01] Speaker 2: This draft class.
[12:02] Speaker 5: We know that Howie Roseman is traditionally an aggressive general manager.
[12:07] Speaker 5: Does that mean that he could go up the board?
[12:09] Speaker 5: Could he go back if by the time they pick
[12:11] Speaker 5: at twenty three they don't like what they have available
[12:14] Speaker 5: to them and accumulate more picks. Certainly we know how
[12:17] Speaker 5: he is a wheeler and dealer. They are rarely boring.
[12:21] Speaker 5: During the draft. We will see what they do. But
[12:24] Speaker 5: at that spot twenty three, that's sort of a gray
[12:29] Speaker 5: area in the first round. I think, as you were
[12:32] Speaker 5: mentioning before, Ian, there's premium level players at the very top,
[12:37] Speaker 5: and then there's a middle level that I think the
[12:39] Speaker 5: league is like, you could get any one of these
[12:41] Speaker 5: guys and maybe move back and pick up some picks
[12:43] Speaker 5: at the same time.
[12:44] Speaker 1: Nine more days until we have answers at least in
[12:47] Speaker 1: Round one next Thursday night. Round one right here on
[12:50] Speaker 1: NFL Network.
[12:51] Speaker 4: So many big plays, so much to talk about with
[12:54] Speaker 4: our guest here on the inside is joining me.
[12:56] Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport.
[12:57] Speaker 4: That is Christian McCaffery, star running back for the San
[13:00] Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers. Christin, thank you so much for
[13:03] Speaker 4: joining us on the inside. We've got a lot to
[13:05] Speaker 4: get to, a lot of the football stuff, a lot
[13:07] Speaker 4: of draft stuff. But first you're sitting in front of
[13:09] Speaker 4: a US Bank locker. Tell us what you are doing
[13:13] Speaker 4: with US Bank?
[13:14] Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, this was an easy partnership for me.
[13:17] Speaker 10: You know, we have such busy lives as NFL players,
[13:19] Speaker 10: and you know you want to work with people who
[13:21] Speaker 10: make banking easier, not just for us as athletes, but
[13:24] Speaker 10: for the consumers of the world, from the small business
[13:27] Speaker 10: owners of the world, and you know, being a business
[13:29] Speaker 10: owner myself, it kind of fit perfectly because US bank
[13:32] Speaker 10: Smarty program, you know, it really makes it easy for
[13:35] Speaker 10: everybody to do so.
[13:36] Speaker 7: So it was an easy partnership for me and excited
[13:40] Speaker 7: to continue it.
[13:41] Speaker 4: You always have wide ranging things you do in life,
[13:44] Speaker 4: not just football, even though obviously what you do on
[13:46] Speaker 4: the football field is what people know you for. I
[13:49] Speaker 4: got some forty nine ers questions in a second, but
[13:51] Speaker 4: I want to start with the draft, obviously about a.
[13:54] Speaker 2: Little more than a week away.
[13:56] Speaker 4: There's a very real possibility that a running back gets
[13:58] Speaker 4: taken in the top five, could even be in the
[14:01] Speaker 4: top three. Jeremiah Love the Notre Dame star. Have you
[14:05] Speaker 4: seen much of him? Have you taken a look?
[14:07] Speaker 2: And if you have, what do you think?
[14:09] Speaker 7: Yeah, I've seen a bunch of them, you know.
[14:11] Speaker 10: I think when you watch him move, just at the
[14:13] Speaker 10: combine and all the different things, you can tell why
[14:16] Speaker 10: he's such a great player. But I think when you
[14:19] Speaker 10: watch his tape you find out that he kind of
[14:21] Speaker 10: has that extra juice, that stuff that you can't really coach,
[14:26] Speaker 10: and that's that's the vision, that's the contact balance, you know.
[14:30] Speaker 7: And you can tell the way his teammates talk about
[14:32] Speaker 7: him as well, which is cool.
[14:33] Speaker 10: I actually know his strength coach Notre Dame really well,
[14:37] Speaker 10: and he just raves about him. So you know, he's
[14:40] Speaker 10: a guy that I'm sure is going to have continued
[14:42] Speaker 10: success for however long he wants to play.
[14:44] Speaker 4: You know what's interesting when I talk to general managers
[14:47] Speaker 4: about him and I say, give me a comp you know,
[14:49] Speaker 4: it's not exactly it's Christian McCaffrey, But what people talk
[14:53] Speaker 4: about is the way that they envision using him is
[14:56] Speaker 4: similar to how the forty nine ers use you, which
[14:59] Speaker 4: is you. I think it's fair to say you are
[15:01] Speaker 4: as much a running back as you are a receiver.
[15:04] Speaker 4: You touch the ball a ton, You've never shied away
[15:06] Speaker 4: from just touches during a game. Do you see him
[15:09] Speaker 4: being capable of doing that, just catching the ball as
[15:13] Speaker 4: much as running it.
[15:14] Speaker 7: Well, I think he has the capability to do so.
[15:16] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[15:16] Speaker 10: I mean, I've been so lucky and blessed to have
[15:18] Speaker 10: great coaches who have been able to use me in
[15:20] Speaker 10: a bunch of different ways, and you know, he's a
[15:22] Speaker 10: guy that can so I think, you know, when you
[15:24] Speaker 10: have the ability and you pose that threat on defenses,
[15:29] Speaker 10: it can really open up a lot, and he's somebody
[15:31] Speaker 10: that can absolutely do that.
[15:32] Speaker 7: So I'm excited to see his future.
[15:34] Speaker 4: You are going on about a decade in the NFL,
[15:36] Speaker 4: which is a very long time, still going as strong
[15:39] Speaker 4: as you were when you came into the league as
[15:41] Speaker 4: a rookie. It is now April fourteenth, which is right
[15:44] Speaker 4: in the middle of the offseason. Have not started, you know,
[15:47] Speaker 4: teams have not really started conditioning. But you are someone
[15:50] Speaker 4: who always keeps yourself in shape basically, no matter what
[15:53] Speaker 4: we say on your social media, some of the various
[15:55] Speaker 4: workouts you do take us through this time of year.
[15:59] Speaker 4: What is it like for Christian McCaffrey. I mean, how
[16:02] Speaker 4: how active are you are? You literally working out as
[16:04] Speaker 4: if it's you know, August fifth, kind of what's it
[16:07] Speaker 4: like for you?
[16:08] Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think, well, you know, when you're
[16:10] Speaker 10: asked to do a lot, you know, you have to
[16:12] Speaker 10: do a lot in the off season, and it really
[16:13] Speaker 10: starts as soon as the season's over.
[16:15] Speaker 7: You kind of have to flush everything out that happened
[16:17] Speaker 7: over the last.
[16:18] Speaker 10: Season and and get back to building that base so
[16:20] Speaker 10: that you can withstand the storm that comes with playing
[16:24] Speaker 10: playing in the NFL. And so yeah, we're training really
[16:26] Speaker 10: hard right now. You know, there's there's really no day
[16:28] Speaker 10: where you're not doing something. It's you know, six seven
[16:31] Speaker 10: days a week. You know you're not you know, full
[16:33] Speaker 10: speed sprinting, cutting every day, but you know you're doing something,
[16:38] Speaker 10: and you're getting ready for OTAs. You're kind of respecting
[16:40] Speaker 10: that it's you know, it's not August yet. So there
[16:43] Speaker 10: are things that if they need to be tapered back on,
[16:46] Speaker 10: your tapering back on.
[16:47] Speaker 7: But I got really lucky. I have great.
[16:49] Speaker 10: Trainers and so I kind of just show up when
[16:51] Speaker 10: they tell me to show up, and whatever plan they
[16:53] Speaker 10: have me do for the day, I just listen. So
[16:56] Speaker 10: I'm excited about that because it takes a lot off
[16:58] Speaker 10: my plate.
[16:58] Speaker 4: So when they ask you to's all really really close
[17:01] Speaker 4: to the ground, are you like, well, this might hurt
[17:03] Speaker 4: and put me in kind of but I trust you guys,
[17:05] Speaker 4: I'll just walk in whatever, like give us a little
[17:07] Speaker 4: insight into what this is right here.
[17:09] Speaker 10: Those are called animal movements, So it's uh, I actually
[17:13] Speaker 10: got these from a bunch of UFC fighters way back
[17:15] Speaker 10: in the day. And it's a cool way to you know,
[17:18] Speaker 10: do a lot of strength through full range of motion
[17:20] Speaker 10: and flexibility exercises to kind of prep your joints and
[17:24] Speaker 10: weird angles that you're not used to doing, and so
[17:27] Speaker 10: those are those are really challenging, really fun, and it's
[17:31] Speaker 10: kind of taken the linear strength and conditioning aspect of
[17:35] Speaker 10: training and putting it into more of a global athletic movement,
[17:39] Speaker 10: learning how to fall, learning how to roll, using your
[17:43] Speaker 10: body at different angles, and they get really challenging and
[17:45] Speaker 10: really fun. There's a lot of people who have learned
[17:48] Speaker 10: them from who do them a lot better than me.
[17:50] Speaker 10: But I have a lot of fun doing it. So yeah,
[17:53] Speaker 10: that was that was part of it.
[17:54] Speaker 2: I love that you get hit from all angles.
[17:56] Speaker 4: You never know what strange position your body's going to
[17:58] Speaker 4: be and got to be ready for anything.
[17:59] Speaker 2: I like it.
[18:00] Speaker 4: The forty nine Ers, as always, we're active this offseason.
[18:04] Speaker 4: Mike Evans the biggest name free agent that the forty
[18:07] Speaker 4: nine er signed, actually one of the biggest free agents
[18:09] Speaker 4: to change teams in the NFL this year.
[18:12] Speaker 2: First of all, have you chatted with him?
[18:14] Speaker 4: And second of all, when you heard this was happening,
[18:17] Speaker 4: hopefully for my tweet, what was your reaction?
[18:19] Speaker 7: I was so fired up, man.
[18:20] Speaker 10: I think he's somebody that if you're a fan of football,
[18:25] Speaker 10: you've watched.
[18:26] Speaker 7: His entire career and it's hard not to like the guy.
[18:30] Speaker 7: He's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
[18:31] Speaker 10: He's somebody that, in my opinion, has never gotten enough credit.
[18:34] Speaker 7: And I think he plays that way. He plays with
[18:36] Speaker 7: a chip on his shoulder.
[18:38] Speaker 10: He's one of the best go ball runners in the
[18:40] Speaker 10: history of the NFL. He blocks his butt off, he's mean,
[18:46] Speaker 10: and he's the perfect fit for our offense.
[18:48] Speaker 8: Man.
[18:48] Speaker 10: I've just been such a fan of his from Afar
[18:50] Speaker 10: and the way he plays football, and so now to
[18:52] Speaker 10: get to play with him, to pick his brain on
[18:54] Speaker 10: a lot of stuff, you know. I think that's what
[18:56] Speaker 10: I'm excited about, is to learn from him and kind
[18:58] Speaker 10: of see what stuff he can bring to our team that,
[19:02] Speaker 10: you know, maybe we need. And to have a guy
[19:04] Speaker 10: like that who's experienced the NFL at every level is
[19:08] Speaker 10: super exciting.
[19:08] Speaker 7: So we're so fired up to have them.
[19:11] Speaker 2: A bit more. For you.
[19:12] Speaker 4: You know, the season you guys had last year was
[19:15] Speaker 4: actually really, really impressive. Just considering the sheer volume of
[19:19] Speaker 4: injuries you had obviously this year.
[19:21] Speaker 2: The hope is that everyone comes back healthy whenever.
[19:23] Speaker 4: We'll see when Kittle comes back, but you know he's
[19:25] Speaker 4: going to come back with a vengeance when he does.
[19:27] Speaker 2: What do you envision for the forty nine ers next season?
[19:30] Speaker 10: I think right now, man, we're just focused on the
[19:32] Speaker 10: time period that we're in. I think that's one team
[19:35] Speaker 10: are You know? One thing our team has done a
[19:37] Speaker 10: great job at is staying present. We have a team
[19:40] Speaker 10: of a lot of veterans, and a lot of people
[19:42] Speaker 10: might say that's a bad thing. I actually love it
[19:44] Speaker 10: because there's so much experience and there's so many guys
[19:47] Speaker 10: who have not just had a lot of success, but
[19:49] Speaker 10: it failed as well. And I think one of the
[19:51] Speaker 10: things we can all agree on is that each year
[19:54] Speaker 10: is a new year, and you have to start from scratch, and.
[19:57] Speaker 7: You know that starts early in the offseason.
[19:59] Speaker 10: And the you do that is you build your team,
[20:01] Speaker 10: the team that you're on now as best as you
[20:03] Speaker 10: can from from square one, as much as last season
[20:06] Speaker 10: or the season before.
[20:07] Speaker 7: That might have a little bit of an.
[20:10] Speaker 10: Effect, you know, we I think we all understand that
[20:13] Speaker 10: it takes a lot of work to get to where
[20:15] Speaker 10: you want to be, and that starts, really, you know,
[20:17] Speaker 10: when the season ends. And so I'm excited just to
[20:20] Speaker 10: be where we're at with this team, to find out
[20:22] Speaker 10: what we're made up, to go through some stuff during
[20:24] Speaker 10: OTAs and training camp, and then when the season hits,
[20:26] Speaker 10: you know, get the ball rolling.
[20:28] Speaker 2: We're excited to see all of it too.
[20:29] Speaker 4: Know you guys are going to put yourself in position
[20:31] Speaker 4: to be there at the end as you always do. Christian,
[20:34] Speaker 4: thank you very much for hanging out with us on
[20:36] Speaker 4: the Insiders.
[20:37] Speaker 2: Enjoy the rest of the offseason. Really appreciate you.
[20:39] Speaker 11: Man.
[20:40] Speaker 7: Appreciate it. Man, thanks for having me on.
[20:42] Speaker 4: Before I take these next couple of blocks off, I'm
[20:44] Speaker 4: gonna go do some crawls outside in the art just
[20:47] Speaker 4: to kind of put my body in weird positions.
[20:49] Speaker 2: Thanks Christian McCaffrey, Gino Smith, and the Jets. Let's talk Jets.
[20:54] Speaker 4: Our buddy Campbell was going to tell us exactly who
[20:57] Speaker 4: they are drafting.
[20:58] Speaker 2: Coming up next.
[21:02] Speaker 5: Aaron Glenn is heading into his second season as the
[21:04] Speaker 5: Jets head coach, and the Jets have a ton of
[21:07] Speaker 5: draft capital to support him. Two picks in the first round,
[21:10] Speaker 5: including number two overall. Let's bring in our Cam Wolf,
[21:14] Speaker 5: who is going to be with the Jets during the draft,
[21:17] Speaker 5: and let's bring back on Baldy to talk about the
[21:20] Speaker 5: Jets draft. All right, Cam, we saw number two overall.
[21:23] Speaker 5: This team still has a whole lot of roster needs.
[21:26] Speaker 5: What direction are they going to look?
[21:27] Speaker 2: Judy?
[21:28] Speaker 11: The draft starts at number two with the Jets with
[21:30] Speaker 11: the belief that Fernando Mendoza goes to the Raiders and
[21:32] Speaker 11: it stays there throughout the draft. Pick at two, pick
[21:35] Speaker 11: at sixteen four in the top forty five picks, and
[21:38] Speaker 11: talking to people around the league, the belief is at
[21:40] Speaker 11: number two they're going to choose between Texas Techs David
[21:44] Speaker 11: Bailey and Ohio State's Rvel Reese. And I talked to
[21:47] Speaker 11: people around the league to get a little bit of
[21:48] Speaker 11: insight on these two guys. What it fit is there?
[21:52] Speaker 11: Both seem worthy of the number two overall pick. They're
[21:55] Speaker 11: just different styles of player. One NFL exec from a
[21:58] Speaker 11: different team told me it's really a judge of.
[22:01] Speaker 2: Do you value production or potential more.
[22:04] Speaker 11: Rvel Rees is the versatile playmaker, the guy who won
[22:07] Speaker 11: his zex said he could be the best player in
[22:10] Speaker 11: the draft three years from now.
[22:11] Speaker 2: But he's a one year starter.
[22:12] Speaker 11: Who you're projecting from off ball linebacker to edge rusher.
[22:16] Speaker 11: Can you do that? Do you have a plan for him?
[22:18] Speaker 11: If you do, you can hit it special. He said
[22:20] Speaker 11: on Hey Rookie that he wants to play outside linebacker.
[22:23] Speaker 11: That's where people think his potential can lie. He can
[22:25] Speaker 11: be an elite sack guy, but again you have to
[22:28] Speaker 11: have a plan there. David Bailey a pure pass rusher,
[22:31] Speaker 11: a speed guy. He's done it fourteen and a half
[22:33] Speaker 11: sacks last year at Texas Tech. But can he prove
[22:36] Speaker 11: that he can stay on the field for three downs
[22:38] Speaker 11: and play run defense. Either way, the Jets are going
[22:40] Speaker 11: to get a really good defensive player at number two,
[22:43] Speaker 11: most likely, and then the question comes do they draft
[22:46] Speaker 11: a quarterback? Look Ty Simpson, Drew Aler, Garrett nuss Meyer,
[22:51] Speaker 11: Carson Back all available options. But remember they have three
[22:54] Speaker 11: first round picks in twenty twenty seven, so they did
[22:57] Speaker 11: not need to force a quarterback. And maybe it's more
[22:59] Speaker 11: likely they go get a receiver for Gino Smith in
[23:02] Speaker 11: twenty twenty six and potentially wait till twenty twenty seven
[23:06] Speaker 11: to get that signal caller Cam.
[23:07] Speaker 8: The Jets spent a large part of free agency just
[23:11] Speaker 8: addressing real needs with veteran players, you know, guys in
[23:14] Speaker 8: the middle like David Anyamada, the Mario Davis maka Fitzpatrick
[23:19] Speaker 8: traded for Tofandre Sweat, went out and got Nayseean, Right.
[23:22] Speaker 8: I mean, they got six new starters on defense. But
[23:25] Speaker 8: to your point, the one glaring need right now is
[23:28] Speaker 8: edge rusher. No matter what Aaron Glenn plays, and it's
[23:31] Speaker 8: going to be a multiple front. But you think about
[23:34] Speaker 8: how they turned things around in Detroit. Aiden Hutchinson was
[23:37] Speaker 8: a big part of it. Once they got Aiden Hutchinson,
[23:39] Speaker 8: that got that heat off the edge. I feel like,
[23:43] Speaker 8: you know, whether it is David Bailey or RVL Reese.
[23:46] Speaker 8: I mean, Bailey is the best edge rusher in my
[23:48] Speaker 8: mind in this draft. I feel like that's the direction
[23:51] Speaker 8: they're going to go with the second pick, the sixteenth pick.
[23:54] Speaker 8: They've got some freedom there. There's the receivers that certainly
[23:57] Speaker 8: could be needed at that pick right there, that could
[23:59] Speaker 8: help Smith right now. But I think nailing that number
[24:02] Speaker 8: two pick is is a paramount for the Jets, and
[24:05] Speaker 8: it seems like that's the glaring need when you look
[24:08] Speaker 8: at the roster right now.
[24:09] Speaker 5: Well, again, the Jets have a lot of roster needs.
[24:12] Speaker 5: Just in talking to folks around the Jets, I would
[24:14] Speaker 5: be surprised if they pick up a quarterback early in
[24:17] Speaker 5: this draft. I think they are focused on filling a
[24:20] Speaker 5: whole lot of other holes. Maybe a developmental guy much
[24:23] Speaker 5: later in the draft. But as Cam you pointed out,
[24:25] Speaker 5: they have three first round picks next year, so they
[24:28] Speaker 5: will be in control of the board. All right, let's
[24:30] Speaker 5: switch gears to the Carolina Panthers. Let's hear from their
[24:34] Speaker 5: general manager Dan Morgan on his philosophy of drafting wide receivers.
[24:38] Speaker 12: No, I think, you know, with anything, we're going to
[24:41] Speaker 12: take the best player. So if the best player we
[24:44] Speaker 12: feel is that at nineteen, I wouldn't hesitate to draft
[24:48] Speaker 12: another wide out. You know, I don't think there's a
[24:50] Speaker 12: role that says you can't draft a wide receiver three
[24:53] Speaker 12: years in a row. So I'm not really gonna you know,
[24:57] Speaker 12: I'm not going to box us in and say we're
[24:59] Speaker 12: not a draft one.
[25:01] Speaker 2: I mean, sure, why not?
[25:02] Speaker 5: All I Cam, the Panthers picked nineteenth overall in the
[25:05] Speaker 5: first round.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Here, what are they going to do? Yeah?
[25:07] Speaker 11: The reason the Panthers could potentially take a receiver for
[25:10] Speaker 11: the thursd eight years because Dan Morgan and the Panthers
[25:12] Speaker 11: did a great job in free agency filling their needs.
[25:15] Speaker 11: Jalen Phillips the best edge rusher they get, Devin Lloyd
[25:19] Speaker 11: potentially the best linebacker they get. So now they can
[25:21] Speaker 11: choose whoever the best guy is. So let's say they
[25:24] Speaker 11: do go receiver to pet pair with Ted Rowe McMillan.
[25:27] Speaker 11: They have been looking, from what I understand, for a
[25:30] Speaker 11: speed guy, a guy that can run after the catch
[25:32] Speaker 11: that can potentially help Bryce Young, a playmaker, a guy
[25:35] Speaker 11: that can turn ten yard catch into eighty yard catch.
[25:38] Speaker 11: And so you look at a few different guys Casey
[25:40] Speaker 11: Conception on, Omar Cooper, Mackay Lemon, Chris Brazel, all guys
[25:46] Speaker 11: that they have had interest in that they have brought
[25:47] Speaker 11: in for visits, from what I understand, could potentially be
[25:50] Speaker 11: options for them at number nineteen. Kenyan Sadik, another player
[25:55] Speaker 11: who could be the best tight end on the board,
[25:56] Speaker 11: could be available for them at nineteen. Remember great Golson
[26:00] Speaker 11: with the Panthers for so many years, being that reliable target.
[26:04] Speaker 2: Maybe Sadik is that.
[26:05] Speaker 11: Guy that they bring in to help Bryce Young that
[26:08] Speaker 11: big athletic target over the middle. The Panthers can do
[26:11] Speaker 11: whatever they want when the draft d to free agency,
[26:13] Speaker 11: and they're a team that believes they are not only
[26:15] Speaker 11: contending for the NFC South, but they can potentially make
[26:18] Speaker 11: more noise with a strong draft body.
[26:20] Speaker 8: You know, cam Bryce Young has quietly improved each year
[26:23] Speaker 8: and hell out of it is what Dan Morgan has done.
[26:25] Speaker 8: They addressed the offensive line a couple of years ago,
[26:27] Speaker 8: two big guards in there. He's better in the middle
[26:30] Speaker 8: right now. They got Ted McMillan, which was the offensive
[26:33] Speaker 8: rookie of the Year last year. Jalen Jalen Coker has
[26:38] Speaker 8: really developed. But I just think they should continue to
[26:42] Speaker 8: build around him. And when you mentioned Kenadik, I lit
[26:45] Speaker 8: up like they're picking nineteen. That's kind of where the
[26:49] Speaker 8: sweet spot for him might be. Maybe they got to move,
[26:52] Speaker 8: but you know, if you're talking about getting a speed
[26:54] Speaker 8: guy that can really take the top off a defense,
[26:57] Speaker 8: that's what Kenyon Side can do. Vision of me, They've
[27:01] Speaker 8: got flexibility with them. I feel like that might be
[27:04] Speaker 8: a real landing spot as they continue to build around
[27:07] Speaker 8: Bryce Young.
[27:08] Speaker 1: Right now, final days of pre draft visits being allowed.
[27:12] Speaker 2: Couple notable names.
[27:12] Speaker 1: Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers was on a visit with
[27:16] Speaker 1: the Broncos. Meanwhile, former Penn State quarterback and Drew Aller
[27:20] Speaker 1: continued his pre draft tour with a visit to the
[27:24] Speaker 1: Cardinals nine days away April twenty third, that is next
[27:27] Speaker 1: Thursday night, It All kicks off in Pittsburgh live eight
[27:31] Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time with first round coverage right here on
[27:34] Speaker 1: NFL Network and across the ESPN family of networks. Welcome
[27:38] Speaker 1: back to the Insiders, Tom Pellisero, now joined once again
[27:41] Speaker 1: by Brian Baldinger as well as land Zerline.
[27:44] Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of.
[27:45] Speaker 1: The high risk, high reward prospects in this draft, and
[27:49] Speaker 1: Lands you can take your pick of a few guys
[27:52] Speaker 1: at quarterback.
[27:52] Speaker 2: Where do you want to begin, Yeah, let's take.
[27:54] Speaker 13: A look at a Let's start off with ty Simpson. Okay,
[27:57] Speaker 13: I mean, there's actually a lot of these guys that
[27:59] Speaker 13: would that would hit this mark, but I think ty
[28:01] Speaker 13: Simpson is the one really that has the highest reward,
[28:05] Speaker 13: so I wanted to spotlight him. Look, the risk is
[28:07] Speaker 13: that he's a one year starter. We know historically those
[28:10] Speaker 13: guys don't pan out. Most of the time. It's tough
[28:13] Speaker 13: to get what you need on the fly when you
[28:16] Speaker 13: are trying to learn against NFL defenses. It's just very
[28:18] Speaker 13: difficult when you had it when you haven't had those reps.
[28:21] Speaker 13: But when you watch him in some of the games,
[28:23] Speaker 13: especially that Missouri game, you see some special stuff. So
[28:27] Speaker 13: I think the risk is there because anytime you draft
[28:29] Speaker 13: a quarterback, especially in the first round early second there's
[28:32] Speaker 13: a lot of pressure on the front office to develop.
[28:34] Speaker 13: The problem is, or rather the reward side of that is,
[28:37] Speaker 13: if you hit Man, the reward is huge.
[28:40] Speaker 2: Baldy, it can be Lance.
[28:41] Speaker 8: There's not a great you know, sample size of guys
[28:44] Speaker 8: that have fifteen starts in college one year like you
[28:47] Speaker 8: had at Alabama, and we ought to be great players
[28:49] Speaker 8: no matter where they got drafted.
[28:51] Speaker 2: Just not enough sample size.
[28:52] Speaker 8: And then he did get banged up, and he didn't
[28:54] Speaker 8: finish strong, and he did fumble the ball six times.
[28:57] Speaker 8: So ball security was a little bit of a problem.
[29:00] Speaker 8: But you see the special skills. You see the ability
[29:03] Speaker 8: to just go through progressions, you know, the athletic ability
[29:06] Speaker 8: to finish plays like this like you did against the Bulldogs.
[29:10] Speaker 8: But that risk of only fifteen starts, to me, I
[29:14] Speaker 8: just I just want to see another year of playing.
[29:17] Speaker 8: The people that say, oh, just drap them and let
[29:19] Speaker 8: him sit, well, quarterbacks only get better when they get
[29:22] Speaker 8: a chance to play.
[29:22] Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about cornerbacks here, Lance, who would
[29:26] Speaker 1: you go to here in terms of a high risk,
[29:28] Speaker 1: high reward prospect.
[29:29] Speaker 13: Yeah, I'd say Avian Terrell from Clemson. But I mean, look,
[29:32] Speaker 13: I'm going to err on the side or a high reward.
[29:35] Speaker 13: His tape is fantastic. And the problem that you have,
[29:38] Speaker 13: why is it high risk? Well, you know, he's been
[29:40] Speaker 13: a little banged up during the process, the draft process.
[29:43] Speaker 13: He thought he was ready to run, so he ran,
[29:45] Speaker 13: and he ran into four sixes and it was a
[29:47] Speaker 13: slow time and it was a big red flag I
[29:49] Speaker 13: think for a lot of teams. But you know, my
[29:53] Speaker 13: sources tell me that the concern that they have was
[29:56] Speaker 13: not it's not really as bad in terms of the
[29:59] Speaker 13: speed because the training sessions he was running in the
[30:02] Speaker 13: fourth force. He just ran a bad time for whatever reason.
[30:05] Speaker 13: So I don't think most teams look at him as
[30:08] Speaker 13: a slower cornerback. But when you have that time on
[30:10] Speaker 13: the board and he doesn't have any other workouts to
[30:13] Speaker 13: go on, there is an athletic component that you weren't
[30:16] Speaker 13: able to check. There was a box that went unchecked.
[30:19] Speaker 13: So there's the risk. The reward is this guy is
[30:21] Speaker 13: one of the stickiest, most aggressive cover corners that you're
[30:24] Speaker 13: going to find, and a really competitive guy. I love
[30:28] Speaker 13: the tape, but there's not an athletic check in that box.
[30:31] Speaker 13: So that's a little bit of the risk that you
[30:33] Speaker 13: have here. I do think he'll go in the second.
[30:35] Speaker 8: I think Avion Terrell is a better prospect coming out
[30:39] Speaker 8: of Clemson than his brother was coming out of college
[30:42] Speaker 8: who starts for the Atlanta Falcons six years older. I
[30:44] Speaker 8: mean he turned on that first game Lance, I mean
[30:46] Speaker 8: the first hit of the game, he's knocking to ball
[30:49] Speaker 8: out eight force fumbles there at Clemson. He can play inside,
[30:52] Speaker 8: he can play outside. He's an aggressive tackler. He doesn't
[30:57] Speaker 8: turn his nose down to anybody in college football.
[31:00] Speaker 2: I like him.
[31:01] Speaker 8: I understand the hamstring was an issue and it kind
[31:03] Speaker 8: of slowed him down a little bit, but I feel
[31:05] Speaker 8: like his game speed was where it needs to be,
[31:08] Speaker 8: and his size and ball skills are all there. I'm
[31:11] Speaker 8: a big fan of avan Terrell.
[31:13] Speaker 1: How about a high risk, high reward safety lens.
[31:17] Speaker 13: Well, we're not talking enough about some of these safeties.
[31:19] Speaker 13: This is a good safety draft. And one of the
[31:20] Speaker 13: guys that needs a little bit more of a spotlight
[31:22] Speaker 13: is Bud Clark. I mean, this is a natural born ballhawk.
[31:25] Speaker 13: He is all over the field at all times taking
[31:29] Speaker 13: the ball away. So where's the risk, you ask, Well,
[31:32] Speaker 13: he's missed multiple games in three different seasons. So anytime
[31:36] Speaker 13: you have a safety who is a little bit undersized
[31:38] Speaker 13: and has missed multiple games in three different seasons, you've
[31:41] Speaker 13: got a durability concern. That's the risk. And he is
[31:45] Speaker 13: a day two talent without question. When you take a
[31:47] Speaker 13: day two talent, you're expecting him to come in and start.
[31:50] Speaker 13: But boy, that risk is mitigated Baldy by unbelievable reward
[31:55] Speaker 13: because he flips the field on teams on a regular
[31:58] Speaker 13: basis really talented in that regard.
[32:00] Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a six year player for the horn Frogs
[32:03] Speaker 8: TCU there, but those fifteen interceptions are real lambs. I
[32:06] Speaker 8: mean they're not. They didn't just give him a ball,
[32:09] Speaker 8: He went and took it away. He's got a real
[32:11] Speaker 8: knack for it. I think those skills everybody's looking for
[32:13] Speaker 8: their safety to take the ball away. Kevin Byer this
[32:17] Speaker 8: year in Chicago, I mean he led the league in interceptions. Again,
[32:20] Speaker 8: I want my safety in the back end to really
[32:22] Speaker 8: challenge quarterbacks and receivers. He's got a flair for it,
[32:26] Speaker 8: and so while the injury history is real and you
[32:29] Speaker 8: can't deny it, the upside of the ball skills that
[32:31] Speaker 8: he has and the way that he plays the game,
[32:34] Speaker 8: I think it might be very well worth the risk.
[32:36] Speaker 1: One more lance, high risk, high reward offensive lineman.
[32:39] Speaker 2: What do you got.
[32:40] Speaker 13: I'm excited to hear Baldi's take on this Maxahona chore
[32:42] Speaker 13: from Arizona State.
[32:44] Speaker 2: The right tackle.
[32:44] Speaker 13: Look, there's a little bit of tightness in his lower
[32:47] Speaker 13: half with some of his movements, and then you see
[32:49] Speaker 13: him moving forward in other you know, in other movements
[32:52] Speaker 13: he looks fluid. So it's a little bit of a concern.
[32:55] Speaker 13: You don't have that consistent fluid fluidity on the field.
[32:58] Speaker 13: In terms of his pass pro what you do see
[33:01] Speaker 13: is you have a guy with a great body composure,
[33:04] Speaker 13: you have great traits.
[33:05] Speaker 2: He's got really good lengths and when.
[33:07] Speaker 13: You watch that pass tape, you watch his hands when
[33:09] Speaker 13: his hands are right, that's high level potential at the
[33:12] Speaker 13: right tackle spot. It's hard to find longtime starters, and
[33:16] Speaker 13: so yeah, the risk is there. He's a little bit
[33:18] Speaker 13: raw and you end up taking him in the first round,
[33:20] Speaker 13: which makes the risk even higher. But the reward of
[33:23] Speaker 13: finding a long time starter at one of the tackle
[33:25] Speaker 13: spots what makes it worth the makes it worth the
[33:28] Speaker 13: potential risk. I think Baldy as early as maybe late
[33:31] Speaker 13: round one.
[33:32] Speaker 8: Well, he's born in Nigeria, didn't start playing football till
[33:35] Speaker 8: late okay, I mean he's new to the game.
[33:38] Speaker 2: He wears fifty eight.
[33:39] Speaker 8: He plays right tackle at Arizona State, and there's plays
[33:42] Speaker 8: out there right lands where you go, is that the
[33:44] Speaker 8: next penna? Sool like he's got that kind of a
[33:47] Speaker 8: billion ohire. He'll also stink up a play too where
[33:51] Speaker 8: he just like just way out of position. But you
[33:54] Speaker 8: see great feet, you see length, you see tremendous athletic
[33:58] Speaker 8: ability ran in the four ns. You know in his
[34:01] Speaker 8: forty yard time. There is a real upside here to
[34:05] Speaker 8: max And I agree with you. I think very well
[34:07] Speaker 8: he could go at the bottom of the first round,
[34:10] Speaker 8: and if he's well coached, with a good group around him,
[34:13] Speaker 8: he might really ascend in the next couple of years
[34:16] Speaker 8: at the NFL level right now.
[34:18] Speaker 1: Baldy Lance, thank you both very much. Great stuff. The
[34:22] Speaker 1: draft might.
[34:22] Speaker 4: Be nine days away, but I'm going to be there
[34:25] Speaker 4: much sooner, as will Tom Pelisarah has for everyone else
[34:28] Speaker 4: from NFN ever, descend Niabon Pittsburgh and Acker Shores. We
[34:32] Speaker 4: get closer to the NFL Draft. It is going to
[34:34] Speaker 4: be an awesome, awesome scene. Hopefully not as cold as
[34:38] Speaker 4: it usually is this time of year. But I digress.
[34:40] Speaker 4: Not as important to you, Adam, rank, mostly important to me.
[34:43] Speaker 4: Here's what's important to you. Rank your mock draft with
[34:46] Speaker 4: a twist. Tell me what you are you know telling
[34:50] Speaker 4: me about?
[34:50] Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
[34:51] Speaker 14: It feels like everybody's got a bock draft these days,
[34:53] Speaker 14: whether it's Bucky Brooks, Ret Kleinschmidt, Justin bieber Head. Okay,
[34:58] Speaker 14: not Justin bieber although what was he I'm doing at Coachella?
[35:00] Speaker 14: Just showing YouTube videos getting paid millions of dollars. But whatever,
[35:04] Speaker 14: here's my thing. It is time for my mock draft
[35:06] Speaker 14: with a twist. The twist, I realize that I don't
[35:09] Speaker 14: know anything. So instead of sitting here trying to predict
[35:12] Speaker 14: what every team is going to do and get it wrong.
[35:14] Speaker 14: I'm going to tell them what they should do, much
[35:17] Speaker 14: like I do on NFL Fantasy Live every afternoon in
[35:19] Speaker 14: the fall. And you might ask yourself, why should these
[35:22] Speaker 14: teams listen to you? Which is a good point, like
[35:24] Speaker 14: why should the Jets listen to me? What's the worst
[35:27] Speaker 14: that could happen? Jets, you finish in last place and
[35:30] Speaker 14: get the second pick of the draft. Spoiler alert, you're
[35:33] Speaker 14: already there. But let's start with the Jets. Because I
[35:36] Speaker 14: sit out here minding my own business listening to Cameron
[35:39] Speaker 14: Wolf and Baldy talking about the Jets should draft a
[35:41] Speaker 14: defensive player, Like stop doing that. That's like an anytime
[35:45] Speaker 14: one of my friends is like I'm gonna go to
[35:46] Speaker 14: New York, I'm like, what are you gonna see the
[35:47] Speaker 14: Statue of Liberty? Like, don't do that? Do something different,
[35:51] Speaker 14: do something bold. You know what, why not draft Cardneal Tate,
[35:55] Speaker 14: go out there and be awesome, Jets, listen. I love
[35:57] Speaker 14: Garrett Wilson, I love Breeshall, but Gino Smith needs a
[36:01] Speaker 14: lot of help. And much like in golf, if you're
[36:03] Speaker 14: not going to play good, at least play fast.
[36:05] Speaker 2: If you're not going to be a good football team.
[36:07] Speaker 2: At least score a lot of points.
[36:09] Speaker 14: Maybe then Jets fans will actually want to go watch
[36:12] Speaker 14: those games for a change. But let's let's stay on
[36:14] Speaker 14: the offensive side of things. Cause, uh, I've got some
[36:17] Speaker 14: words for you, Washington Commanders. And I know it's not you.
[36:21] Speaker 14: It's a lot of the mock drafts that I'm seeing.
[36:22] Speaker 14: They're like, hey, they should, they should go for Sonny Styles.
[36:25] Speaker 14: They I'm like, stop, what are you talking about? You
[36:28] Speaker 14: have Jayden Daniels. Why are you trying to roll Jaden
[36:32] Speaker 14: Daniels out there with the other McCaffrey, the guy who
[36:36] Speaker 14: couldn't play for the Titan League. Why are you doing
[36:38] Speaker 14: this to one of the budding young superstars in the NFL.
[36:41] Speaker 14: That's like if you hired Bruce Springsteen to play your
[36:44] Speaker 14: birthday party. But you're like, you know what, we don't
[36:46] Speaker 14: want the East Street Band. Give me a bunch of
[36:48] Speaker 14: elementary kids playing recorders, because.
[36:51] Speaker 2: I'm sure it's just it's not.
[36:53] Speaker 14: Make sure you surround Jaden Daniels with a lot of talent,
[36:56] Speaker 14: whether it's whether it's Tate, If the Jets all listen
[36:58] Speaker 14: to me, Malachi Lemon, Jeremiah Love, these are all options
[37:03] Speaker 14: a lot. I will say this about Jeremiah Love and
[37:05] Speaker 14: I'm looking at you, Tennessee Titans. I know a couple
[37:07] Speaker 14: of years ago you had a bad breakup with Derrick Henry.
[37:10] Speaker 14: And sometimes when you have a breakup, you either go
[37:13] Speaker 14: one way or the other.
[37:14] Speaker 2: You either date.
[37:15] Speaker 14: Somebody who looks just like your ex or go with
[37:18] Speaker 14: the exact opposite. And you went with the exact opposite
[37:21] Speaker 14: with Tony Pollard, in no disrespect to him not getting
[37:24] Speaker 14: it done. Go out there and draft Jeremiah Love. This
[37:27] Speaker 14: is the player that you need. And if you're not
[37:29] Speaker 14: going to do it for me, do it for cam Ward.
[37:32] Speaker 14: He deserves it. And finally, I want to close on
[37:35] Speaker 14: the Kansas City Chiefs. Why are the Kansas City Chiefs
[37:38] Speaker 14: drafting in the top ten? Where is Adam Silver? If
[37:41] Speaker 14: Adam Silver was in charge of this league, oh, there'd
[37:44] Speaker 14: be a lot of changes to the draft because the
[37:47] Speaker 14: Chiefs should not.
[37:48] Speaker 2: Be drafting in the top ten.
[37:49] Speaker 14: As a matter of fact, the last time they picked
[37:51] Speaker 14: in the top ten, they drafted some guy what was
[37:53] Speaker 14: it named are Patrick Mahomes?
[37:55] Speaker 2: Good?
[37:55] Speaker 14: Luck less rest of the league. But here's my thing.
[37:58] Speaker 14: I've got a I've got a call for the Chiefs.
[38:02] Speaker 14: That's so outlandish I cannot do it here. You have
[38:05] Speaker 14: to go to NFL dot com slash rank check out
[38:07] Speaker 14: my mock draft with a twist.
[38:09] Speaker 2: It's NFL dot com slash lud. Could I get a
[38:12] Speaker 2: plug in? Ian?
[38:13] Speaker 14: Does that fine? This is the first time Ian hasn't
[38:15] Speaker 14: stopped all over my plug. Could I plug NFL dot com?
[38:19] Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sorry I blacked out when you talked about
[38:22] Speaker 4: rigging the draft for the Chiefs and then having a
[38:24] Speaker 4: great pick and then going to your personal website to.
[38:28] Speaker 2: For us to cut. There was a lot of stuff there, Rank,
[38:32] Speaker 2: but I was really I was out on that.
[38:34] Speaker 4: You could have told us about some weird basketball team
[38:36] Speaker 4: that we really don't care about.
[38:37] Speaker 2: Either.
[38:38] Speaker 4: Anyway, maybe next time, although I should have seasons over,
[38:41] Speaker 4: Adam Rank, Thank you very much for joining us on
[38:43] Speaker 4: the Insiders. I guess speaking of the Insiders, every single weekday,
[38:49] Speaker 4: seven pm Eastern, there is all of us.
[38:52] Speaker 2: We will be smiling in clothes that are uh not
[38:54] Speaker 2: as nice as the ones are wearing in that promo.
[38:56] Speaker 2: But you should still.
[38:57] Speaker 1: Watch so news around the NFL. Nauzier Adderley is back
[39:03] Speaker 1: after three years away. The first cousin twice removed to
[39:06] Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Herb Adderley, signing a one year deal
[39:10] Speaker 1: come back with the Indianapolis Colts. Pre draft visits wrap
[39:13] Speaker 1: up on Wednesday. Today, Georgia, Ted and Oscar Delp finish
[39:17] Speaker 1: out a long list of visits, seeing the Bucks and
[39:20] Speaker 1: the Chargers this week. I have Reguard bo Stevens also
[39:24] Speaker 1: has been a busy man, visits to the Cowboys, Seahawks,
[39:29] Speaker 1: and Falcons among a tour of a half dozen teams.
[39:32] Speaker 1: Aburt offensive lineman Jeremiah Wright feels like we talk about
[39:35] Speaker 1: him somewhere new every single day, visiting the Saints after
[39:39] Speaker 1: previously visiting the Patriots. Judy, I come to you for
[39:44] Speaker 1: your analysis of Jeremiah Wright and his tour. I'm kidding
[39:50] Speaker 1: anything else you want to talk about here.
[39:52] Speaker 4: Yes, Tomorrow is a big day because tomorrow is the
[39:55] Speaker 4: final day for prospects to do top thirty visits, which
[39:57] Speaker 4: means if you like to those visits, boy, do I
[40:01] Speaker 4: have more for you coming up? Tomorrow is going to
[40:03] Speaker 4: be filled with top prospects and other prospects visiting places
[40:09] Speaker 4: that are among the thirty two that are going to
[40:11] Speaker 4: be picking a week plus two days from now, did
[40:15] Speaker 4: I fill out the time?
[40:16] Speaker 2: Did I nail it, I don't know.
[40:18] Speaker 4: Come back tomorrow from Insiders, see you ring on the Draft.

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