hey guys wanna do it. sports bet maker which we've talked a lot about the
quarterbacks taken in the NFL Draft nature the quarterback position
we'll talk a little bit about wide receivers taken a
in the NFL Draft over the weekend we're gonna focus on those first three rounds
anybody got no idea how many wider shippers want those first three rounds
thankfully I will tell you 15 wideouts what
in those first three rounds here they are: Sammy Watkins the big trade
that debt the bills made with the Browns to trade up from 94 to get watkins he
went first
three pics later Mike Evans who a lot of people had rated ahead
watkins he is a more traditional wide receiver in the NFL today given that
watkins is smaller
an event at this freakish wingspan we'll get to that in a moment
Odell Beckham junior who has
side who has the second only the second best name
have any player taken in the draft because nobody beats
hot clinton decks so the guys who went early when the top 12 X 47 12 back above
course at LSU the Giants
are branded Cox to the Saints in the first round Kelvin Benjamin from
Carolina
also go into the pathogen the first round use the rest to the guys taken
Marqise Lee from SC the Jaguars Jordan Matthews Vanderbilt to the Eagles Paul
Richardson from Colorado to Seattle
divide day Adams from Fresno State to the Packers
Cody Latimer from my Indiana to the Broncos
the Jaguars had a Penn State took Alan Robinson Jarvis Landry the data from
from LSU to the Dolphins then toward the end to the third round
Josh Huff dante Moncrief and and
John Brown to philadelphia Indianapolis in Arizona respectively at Oregon Ole
Miss
and %uh Pittsburg state's ok let's talk a little bit about my Gavin's cuz I
think Mike Evans is the most interesting
a above the group first of all he's a the third tallest receiver
in the combines at sneer Leigh 656
four and three-quarters I like it here these described as a 6-4
6 eights when he's
64 912 but
so that it turns out and this is what is significant about a man should make
fantasy owners take interest because as we know now and you know it used to be
much tragen fancy for by would never take first year wide G because they
never
almost never work themselves significantly into the rotation
that's certainly no longer the case on
he has 35 and eighth
inch arms only a handful of its alignment have bigger wingspans that my
gallant
but Brandon Marshall but thirty two and five eighths Calvin Johnson 33 and three
eighths
Vincent Jackson 32 this guy three-inches'
up to 3 inches more than those guys almost two inches more than Calvin
Johnson
this is a guy who will go up and get the ball and if you look at some I like to
Mike Evans at Texas Tech
he just at Texas A&M he just wins battles for football's again and again
and again
so in a sense what I read this stuff about Mike Evans and I had not read this
prior to the draft
I don't know I I can see how the the the bills
trade-up from nine to four to get a receiver
but that the receiver they shoulda got my Gavin's but
that not Sammy Watkins whose little and who may be a dynamic she's not little
he's just not that prototypical receiver so
I don't know but I'm all a sudden with
either Josh back down or a
Josh McCown make down you know what
I never know and you're not sure either and that's okay
on so with either him or Mike Glennon
as the quarterback in the Buccaneers Buccaneers just became
pretty interesting because both those guys control the ball downfield
I and all the sudden with Vincent Jackson
and this guy I think that's a significant and I think
you don't know what I think in 12 years maybe longer maybe it's more like
it it's at least 12 years has repeated
as the champion that division so
good Buccaneers make the move there and on
on paper you instinctively think the Falcons with fewer injuries are likely
to have a bounce-back year
%uh the Saints other states and the Panthers won the division
but nobody repeat as division champions I feel like Panthers were lucky
I still feel that way and until they do it again still gonna feel like they were
locking
up I am already ready to bet the over
on the Buccaneers this year who
had after that dismal start played a little better
straightened out the coaching situation by and I like the Buccaneers and and and
I
and I liked the idea that they went got this kid I think they still have it
seven
because now to go back real quick and talk about Sammy Watkins was incredibly
fast but is not a great polished route runner is not quite completely
still have stuff to learn to give up your pick in nineteen the move up five
spots in the draft
and give up before and a number one next year
but to get this guy I
look I hope is great because the bills believe in EJ Manuel
and they believe so much in Sammy Watkins after megan's they got you when
they give up by
nearly what the Redskins gave up a Robert Griffin rated give up a second
number one pick
but that that huge move to Macon they felt confident enough to trade Stevie
Johnson to the Niners
they believe in manual and they think this guy a man you're going to form a
great team but
the understandably the idea in the NFL is to get bigger and backs wide
receivers they just got back with Sammy Watkins they didn't get big
and a pass on a guy Mike Evans who looks to me like
is potentially ready to be the next great big receiver in the NFL
obviously the thing I swore that I would never say
when I started in broadcasting a in 1991
only time will tell
ok