your number five, number wide receiver. I Gotta Give it that
presentation your number 5 wide receiver in the 2023 draft
classes, Jalen Hyatt from Tennessee.
And if you like speed, then you like Jalen Hyatt because this
mofo can run, all right. He ran for four flat
at the combine,
it looks faster that to me on film. I don't know you know and
I know he was disappointed with his 40 time.
The combine he told me he was, he thought he could meet, he
could go for three flat.
You know, maybe four to nine.
He's got that kind of speed when you watch him on film
you go, he might run for 3/1 or 429, you know. So I'm sure he
was a little disappointed here but this is a
this is a track star
straight liner. DeSean Jackson
will flourish type of receiver, right? All right, so there's
going to be things about him that you There's going to be
some things about them that
you know, I'm not crazy about,
he's not a great ride Runner,
he's not shown that ability,
no one, not only does he not do it in like they don't have
a lot of great route tree there at Tennessee or as far as a lot
of differences.
But to I truly question whether he can do it. Unlike the other
guys were, I try to piece things together, right?
Jalen hyah, you can watch a bunch of caches and he never
makes anybody miss never. That's not his game. It's never
break somebody's ankles or he shook that guy out of his
cleats.
And then got extra
Birds. Now if there's a seam straight away
watch out because it's three rockets up his ass and he's
gonna run by it. And that's where he's really, really
valuable, but he's not going to catch a 10 yard in cut and
break tackles and then break somebody's ankles,
and then re-accelerate and run for a 50-yard touchdown. That's
not his game, but he gets a free release or gets off
the line of scrimmage the right way. And you got to safety that
doesn't get back instantly,
see you. He is going to run over the top
and it's going to be a 60-yard.
For a touchdown.
So that's where he's special.
And again, it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea. Like we
talked about this is going to be for the team that goes way.
We got a route Runner, we got a size guy.
I need a guy that can now,
you know, be a dangerous home, run hitter type of guy
a Marquez, Valdez scantling type of guy that way too, right
and that's where
Jalen Hyatt comes into play. He did have his injury concerns
but it was mostly in 2021 just started one game because of leg
injuries there but played last year and boy did he ever
Against Alabama home, what might have
been the, the game of the year in college football. I feel
like we were all watching that in all watching the goalposts.
Go into the river of wherever they end up there. Yeah,
in Knoxville and I think we have a photo Kristen of
that day for him because he had a career-high 207 receiving
yards, five touchdowns in the upset of Alabama crate and then
after the game, he shared a cigar with the one
and only Joe burning, no,
I thought not only Joe burrow smoke cigar. I know he's like,
what someone smoking a cigar off. Hi there immediately.
I know Peyton Manning in the locker room with Jaylin.
That's awesome. Yeah, Paola. So Jalen smokes though. That's not
good. That's not good. For the long. He's outside of the, in
the long. As the cigar, I just left it in the mouth and he
blows it out.
So judge them, get a verified. All right, all right, actually
funny thing about cigars, my grandfather.
Here to stop. Smoking cigars, right? Not not mine. This is my
father-in-law, Shin said my grandfather, okay? My talking
about
his stuff smoking cigars, and I was like, oh, that's sting
somebody. Tell my wife. That's think she goes. Yeah. Did you
know, he was inhaling them and I was like,
what should I get? He inhales cigars. I didn't really know
that. I was like, I didn't either like, who the f******
hell cigars. You're not supposed to inhale them.
No. No, no. I don't you first off, most people would puke and
be a green. Yeah. It's tobacco it. It's not like meant to be
inhaled that he was doing so he could have continued. Just stop
inhaling. Yeah, everybody. Well yeah. I
think I hope we'll see. I don't know.
Yeah. But the sorry to change the subject there but I just
I don't know. This guy just learned about that next time.
I have a cigar I'd only done it a couple times in my life, you
know me. Don't only have energy drinks but just don't inhale
for
all the homies out there. Don't inhale
Fred Biletnikoff Award winners, we transition back to jail and
Hyatt, so sorry this past year.
Yeah, so the production met the what we saw on film there, too,
which is, which is good to see. And you figure
of all conferences, right? You're going to do that against
Alabama, who has never been anybody's is all these DB and
is like recruit high level. And so yeah, you feel more
confident in the competition. Obviously that he faced
definitely, that's the good
thing is, you know, you're getting here with this guy.
You know there's some work that has to be done with you know
some route running and things like that, you know. There's
also
you know how you heard me talk about some of these other guys
their ability to play, you know, their place strength if
people are bumping. Them when they're down the field of
people are bumping them by the balls in the air. Do they get
thrown off their route?
You know, can they not adjust to the ball now? That
somebody's nudge them a little bit right? He's got some issues
there.
He's not like the other four guys, we talked about who have
no issues in that department, you know? So that's the other
thing, you got a piece together
releases again, he's in a spot, a lot of the times where he
gets to be not challenged coming off the line of
scrimmage. So you don't get to see that. Uh, neither,
you know. So there's
Are some things there that worry me. But at the end of the day,
you know, you can't teach speed
and you know, he does have quick feet and he can stick his
foot in the ground. He's just not going to be able to do this
stuff and wiggle and
and like make you think always about to go, right? Oh, but he
planned his foot in the ground and went and left, right? It's
a little bit more of this. Like, I don't know, that's
straight chop, my feet, turn to the left. Now I go straight
again right now you can do a quick
and fast. But, you know, it's not to the level of has
a flowers or Smith And jig bow or are man Wilson from Stanford,
where you just go
man, it's unbelievable. Body movement body language, playing
with the dbe's mind, and all that his playing. With the mind
is, just like you better back pedal or I'm running by. Yeah,
hurry.
Jake Scanlon says to you.
Is it a concern that Jalen Hyatt has barely had any career
snaps versus press coverage? Yeah, I get that offenses have
evolved and there's different ways of utilizing players, but
High, it is getting first round hype. And first one
ride receivers should be able to beat Press
especially on third and fourth Downs. He's, are you heard me?
Just say it?
That's it. Is you don't get to see it and it does worry me
a little. There's no doubt 87% of his routes from the slot last
season had just one catch versus press. Yeah,
it just he's always got a free release.
Now he's going to be putting those positions in the NFL that
that's, you know. Again, that's what he's gonna be used for.
You're right. That mean, it's a great question and a great
observation by you, Jake Scanlon. All of it is.
But you said it right to the NFL, they know how to hide
these guys now and not let them be in those situations too many
times, right?
And yeah, there are some things that, you know, I'm a little
concerned about or wish I was better at but again, it's isn't
a trait and an elite trade that like you talked about to you
get to see it against other guys that are covering who also
have Elite trace and you go.
Damn, he runs by them at an elite level
and that's where
you go. Well, alright, I'll take. I'll take that and
realize that there's some issues in the other department,
but we'll try to work on them and get better but
we know what he is. And that's that's what he is. And that's
where, you know, like I said will Fuller Darius Slayton,
the Giants
that type of guy, right?
Frail frame,
you know, frailer than a Lobby and Garrett Wilson from last
year and certainly not the hip right? I mean not the route
Runner. Those guys was. Yeah. So that's where yet he'll have
to be protected a little bit in that department.
When he first gets in the league. Yeah, we'll end with the
heptagon. The heptagon will end with the heptagon with him
because he a six-foot 176 and wow, what a strange-looking
heptagon. Right? I've never seen one like this before.
Broad jump. Awesome, vertical, jump. Awesome
40-yard dash really good
ten-yard. Split really good. But then you have him in
the fifth percentile in weight. Yet just 176 wingspans average arm
length. Average height 35th percentile
hand size foot and size. Small tubes. Yeah, that's very
Riyadh. Yeah, it is it is in the so you know, that's what
you're getting there.
This is the guy that's going to be drafted by a team that goes
wait, we need to speed guy. Yeah, we need a guy that can
run an 80-yard post and bomb somebody and and,
and
that's what he is. And we got the other guys to do the other
stuff, but there is Great Value in that. And yeah, that's what
I expected to see. See him be doing at least next, year, on
Sundays.