Running back rankings time, three weeks away from the NFL
draft. There's the Chris Simms top five. He's got Kenneth walk
with the third from Michigan State at number 1. Over briefs
Hall from Iowa State. Many have Hall at number one. Chris. What
did you see to
distinguish Walker
from home? Well, I think they're bulk. They're both
really good. Right? And they're both guys. You can justify in
my opinion at taking at the end of the first round.
Certainly top of the second guys that I look at to go
somewhere between 25 and In the NFL draft a little bit,
but both are game Breakers.
Now, both ran for
Walker. Ran for 38 briefs ran for 39. They both have the type
of speed that can go 70 yards to the house. That's awesome.
You always loved that in football, but it's the other
stuff that Kenneth Walker.
Does that has a clear advantage. In my opinion, first
off the quicker running back. I mean, makes more people missing
space. The first guy, almost never gets can
Kenneth Walker went in space.
Like can jump. Cut, Mike as far as jump into another hole.
Or it can just be running and stick his foot in the ground
and cut another way. And outrun everybody for a 60-yard
touchdown. He has that ability Halls really good but does not
have the ability to break ankles and make people miss
that way. Let alone
definitely doesn't break as many taught tackles as Kenneth
Walker. Kenneth Walker. Is
he runs people over? He breaks arm tackles
people, bounce off them
and I'll yesterday I was,
as I was going through this whole process and doing this on
on my podcast, as far as the rankings and Down Pete's,
always good to look up things as I talk about them.
I think Kenneth Walker was one of the leaders in college
football for broken tackles this year. So, wait a leader in
broken tackles and then a leader in 50 and 60 yard runs
and highlight. Type runs. I'll take them. He's
clearly the number one, running back for me.
Are any of these guys first-rounders sir? There's
it's so I think these two are debatable. I do. I mean this
is, you know,
I look at like Kenneth Walker and go, I mean, he's Joe Mixon.
He's a superstar that way. He's just a smaller version but
maybe a little more explosive as far as the speed goes
and briefs hall. There's some Jonathan Taylor
comparisons there. I think Jonathan Taylor is a little bit
better. But you know, I would not be mad as what I'm saying.
If one of the
one of these are both of these guys, One at the end of
the first, I wouldn't sit there and go. Oh, that's so stupid. That
really is. These are guys that can be, you know, superstars in
the league for the next four or five years.
You posted a couple of polls on your Twitter account yesterday,
as it relates to drafting running backs. First question.
Would you want your team to draft a running back in round
one? Overwhelmingly. The answer is no. And look, unless it's
a clear-cut
superstar about whom I have. No concerns regarding durability.
No concerns regarding ability to
Touch the ball, 25 to 30 times per game. I'm not doing it. So
I agree with the eighty, five point, three percent. That
would not want. See it's team. Yeah, draft a running back in
round one.
I'm with you there. You've been saying that for a long time.
Well, yeah that it was it'll be. We asked another question
too. But hey, the the,
the current facts
will hit you in the face all together. Here.
We know some of the first round running backs and those guys SE
Kwang, Berkeley, Leonard. Fournette, Ezekiel Elliott, of
course, had the Great Here's the, the Twitter poll about
everybody wants to take their
running back in the second round. And that's where I'm
going with this. Because, hello, Jonathan Taylor when
I was he drafted. Oh, that's right. The second round. How
the second leading rusher and football? Nick Chubb. Give him
as he drives a tow. That's right. The second
round Joe Mixon. Third leading rusher in football. When was he
drafted? Do the second round. Dalvin cook for the Minnesota.
Vikings, the fifth rated. Our fifth rushing running back and
football.
Second round. I mean,
Derrick Henry, the best running back. We've seen in football.
The last five years second round. So there is something to
that and I don't think we're going to see either one of
these guys go in the top, 20 or 25. I don't expect that.
Here's the one exception and it hasn't worked out for
the Chiefs but they draft the Clyde Edwards of layer 2 years ago
with pick number 32, if you get a guy at the bottom of round
one,
you get five years. Yeah. That's right. Yep,
and what you can do
if you want to do this.
You get in for five years,
tag him once
at six years in. Yeah, how much Treads really left? Yeah. Tires
at probably coming to an end. Yeah, that's right. Tag him
twice. If you really want to, unless he's Le'Veon Bell. He's
going to be happy to take that 20 percent raise and show up.
And then after that you disengage,
the problem with running backs. It's very simple. It's more
political than football. You're right. And this, this first
started know some stuff about this in Playmakers. It started
with shot, Alexander after he was the MVP.
He of the NFL in 2005. The Seahawks had to give him
a huge contract. They had to why
he was the MVP of the NFL, right? People are showing up
in Sean, Alexander jerseys,
the fanbase W, Shaun Alexander on the team. So they give him
a gigantic contract and by the middle of the next season, they
regretted giving him that gigantic contract, but we see
it time and again,
running backs who make big money relative to the position.
It's not big money relative to other. Positions, they get that
money from the team that they started with because that team
feels compelled to keep that guy is very real.