and if L draft class is Jackson Smith and jig Bubba.
Yes
man
he is interesting. He really is
he's not the prototypical guy. Chris Simms would usually love
and make the number two guy. You know as you know I'm kind
of a w**** for Speed. I like speed speed speed.
This guy just at the
pro day a few days ago. Oh, at Ohio, State ran for five at
a pro day. It's probably a 46.
Why do you say that? I always
add a tenth
because the combines a laser finish, its laser. So it's more
strict. It's a slower time than
Johnny on the side, just hitting it with his thumb,
right. Yeah, right. So that it is a Michigan guy to,
I wouldn't put it past Ohio, State to make it 35? Yeah. Of
course, you would whatever your
coach Jim Harbaugh. Who knows what you guys do?
The same thing. Yeah. 37. Half. Yeah,
but either way.
So
listen, this speed is not blazing that way but when you
turn on the film, you go,
okay. The speeds good, it's good.
But what's off the charts and Sanity? Good is the guys like
quickness and Route running and wiggle and his
ability to break ankles and all of that is like insanity. It's
Insanity. His ability to
come off the ball and kind of be going like 70 percent and
then almost jump in the air
at like the six yard Mark, and then you go, wait, he's
jumping. And I don't know if he's in about to go in or out.
You can't tell it's like Allen Iverson with an unbelievable
crossover, dribble, right? That's who he is.
So he's got this unbelievable ability to change directions
and then really accelerate in a hurry. Now, like I said, it's
top end speed, isn't that great,
but his ability to accelerate and get to that top end speed,
that happens in like to step. Oops, right. And then you add
on a guy that's got, like, kind of running back legs a little
bit. He's got a thickness to his
legs.
I mean,
he's got an awareness and an instinct about him as far as
route running or sitting in zones, that's you just shows on
film and then his ability after the catch is, it's insane,
it's insane. The first guy, never tackles him,
he breaks arm tackles, he breaks ankles.
And then, as I said, You know,
as a roadrunner there's times where I go I wish he would
separate a little bit but I don't know if I could trust
them on the outside all game long against top-tier corners
and football, right?
I don't, I worry about that. But having said that
here he is if he catches a ball over the middle for 15 yards,
that same guys covered them, he runs away from him,
he's like one of these weird guys and when the balls in his hand
he gets another gear that he doesn't have when he's just
running routes. Like there's so many places where you go, he's
not going to turn. Turn the corner. He can't turn
the corner. Holy cow. Whoa! Oh, he turned the
corner. Oh my gosh. He can't go to the house here. He's not
going to go to the house here. They're going to catch him.
Holy s***, he scored.
Like there's just it's amazing
yet the you know you can see him run a go rat against that.
Same guy five plays earlier and go he didn't run by him, he
couldn't stack them, he couldn't even like pull away,
you know. So that's where it's different.
It's different to have this type of guy
but size strength route, running ability,
you know, Yak ability, yo.
After catch, all that is just like top-notch. And then
there's there's spots for guys like this in the NFL, you don't
have to always be the outside, you know, outside type.
Like just go to receiver that way. Yeah,
you can find a role and make a guy. Go to guy
and the slot and working. That's way too
it's different than 20 years ago and that's where he fits.
You have a current comp to him in the NFL.
He was hard, right? Like
he's I wrote He was he's Jarvis Landry,
that's kind of the guy. He reminded me coming out, we're
Jarvis. Landry was a little that way for me to where I was
like man I wish you would separate a little bit running
routes but damn when he gets the ball in his hands. Watch
out,
right? That's how I feel. But I honestly to a greater version
than Jarvis Landry,
you know, I think he's better than Jarvis was coming out of
college. Now,
the issue is and this is one where like you know, again
I just go off the film.
I know that
but
he didn't play a year because of the hamstring injury, so
that's the thing. And that's scary to me. That is really,
really scary to have a wide receiver. Have a
year-long hamstring issue
and you might draft him. One, top, 15, top 20,
that's scary. Put yourself in the gym shoes, right? Could,
you could you risk that stuff? That's where the interviews
come into play. That's where we're at a little bit of
a disadvantage of
everything. We don't have that information on him. Yeah. Just
played three games in 2022 due to a hamstring injury and who
knows is the year. On.
I mean you would hope that if he was available to play and
able to play because they were in the you know they're playing
Georgia there, they're playing on New Year's Eve. Yeah, you'd
hope that he would want to play in those game.
Sure. At the same time knowing
he's one of the top prospects in the
NFL and the wide receiver class here too but the year he did
play was amazing and he did it in high school to he was
a five-star recruit in Northern Texas had like
two thousand yards, receiving hit 35 touchdowns as a senior
in high school in Texas. I'm
not Rhode Island and nothing against Rhode Island.
Apparently it is against their volleyball. Yeah, says you're
saying and the one here that he did play it was awesome and he
was on the team with with olave and Wilson and he out produced
both of those guys in here, 300, and something yards in
the Rose Bowl game. Yeah,
I know. So it's like that one year. Was basically, it was
didn't, like, come out of nowhere. It was like, this
guy's a stud. He's a five-star recruit and we saw
it. I feel it's almost one year. It was just one year
and then there's an injury concern. You're right. And
there's, there's And you know the cool thing is what you saw
to the. You got to see him in a role that I think is really
what? He's gonna be it.
You know, he had to NFL receivers on the outside and he
got to be the slot. Yeah and that's so there's not a lot of
guessing here. We have his numbers to Kristen if you want
to throw those up on that, yeah. They all did say together
with Wilson and olave and yeah, it was 1,600 yards for Smith
and jig button. It was over 1,000 for Wilson and it was
almost a thousand for Crystal lava. Yeah. They'll, you know,
those guys are good, route Runners obviously but small,
you know.
Slider or a frame
and more, you know, speed guys,
this guy is
really about as high level of a route Runner, you're going to
see in college football. You know, the things I talked about
was a flowers like, he has, you know, all of that.
But even he's even Slicker or craftier with it, you know, his
ability to attack leverages I already talked about the route
running
but the changing of speeds all that,
that's where he's really special and then
even though he's not real real,
Fast his his suddenness, right? And and I, you know, again,
I hope I'm explaining. This is a day where I probably need to
stand up to
show some of this stuff. No, but I'm not gonna, but his
suddenness is just, again it goes into the the changing of
the speeds were he can.
Hey, it's kind of running,
but all the sudden, that's just
how many just do breaks down so fast, and he puts his foot in
the ground. And then can just come out of that break
because of the strength, he has, in his legs and creates
separation there, even though in the The straight part of
the route, he didn't separate. That's where, you know, he
becomes special
and then like I said, with the ball in his hands, he's pretty
amazing. But releases are phenomenal. He's strong as
hell. You know, he really is, he's got incredible. Play
strength is another guy, just like Zay flowers where
the bumping the pushing, he's not affected by that. When you
see him down the field, wearing a post route or a deep Cross or
any of that. And that's going to be necessary in the NFL is
a bigger dude. 26 1196, right?
Maybe you don't need to stand up because we do have Video of
his pro day. Oh well. So maybe this will show what you're
talking about with Jackson Smith in jig ba you can see pro
day he's got a lower cut waste,
right? Like doesn't have real long legs, you got more of
a torso then you would see for more most receivers but that's
probably the reason why he's also great at changing
directions. Right.
So that that's where he is and that's this is where he's gonna
live right down the middle. You see that ball by CJ Stroud?
That was nice.
Yeah, but but
you know, again, it's going to be B. Hey, 10 yard in cut, you
know, five-year-old, option route, you know, oh,
he's looks like he's running the middle of the post middle
post from the slot Rado, boom. He's he turned on the brakes
and ran the slot 20-yard out route
that's where he's going to be really good. Let alone like
I said he's is going to be the king of. We threw a ball 7
yards over the middle and he made two guys miss and we got
14 yards. That's where he's also going to be great.
Yeah bubble screens, all of that type of stuff he blocks in
the Run game. So My only concern is this hamstring thing
that we talked about and lack of overall top end speed,
you know. But at the same time I think this is a guy that's
primarily going to be in the slot, you know, and be that guy
that comes behind the line of scrimmage and catches the ball
on a bootleg option, routes bubble screens,
you know, other wide receiver screens.
And then he can be a weapon guy because of his size and
strength and ability to make people Miss sauce. A Eenie
says, do you take someone like jsn in the first round, if he
doesn't have Elite Speed? Read and to add that hamstring
injury
from last year. Yeah, well,
the first round guy, like if your end of the first round. Yeah,
and you're a team.
Yeah, I think he's got, he's really going to be viewed as
higher than that. It's just going to be about the medical.
He's a man. And it's just defined role in the NFL that we
know is a real thing now.
So it's no longer like, oh, well, he can't play outside. So
we lose has died. It's just like, no, he's a f******
awesome slot. It doesn't change anything for us. Just like,
Jaylen waddle did for the most of the year for the
Fincen with the number six picks of the draft
but you know, that makes sense. It's almost like a pass/fail.
If you're a team that you're convinced that the medical
issue is not an issue,
he could be maybe a top-10 guy.
Hey, I think so. I think he could be top 15 ish there.
I think he's gonna, you know, NFL's gonna love his strength
and his route running and it's just like, I talked about his
craftiness, he's a safe bet
from that angle other than it's a hamstring injury, and
Runnings kind of important for a receiver. Yeah, you know but
you know and To who asked that question? Was that Saucy knee?
Or that was a me?
Yeah. Jeannie well you know the other question he asks here,
what about had two questions though? The 40 times are
the three cone drill. Okay okay, yeah, he did have a two-parter
in here.
Do you want to get into that?
Because I don't know what his three cone drill why I got it.
So do you have it? I do I write these things down as I start to
watch the film because these three columns is a one that's
Army that is very relevant to the wide receiver conversation.
So was his, did you have a good three-cone
number off the chart? It was very good like you would expect
Acted.
You know, you would watch film on him and go man. The way his
hips and the way he can plan his foot in the ground, he's
got to have the greasiest
three cone drill. Did he
ever? I mean I he bet you didn't have to break stride.
This guy knowing him and yeah, he ran a 657 that's like
insanity.
Yeah. You know. So
yes. That was, it lasered timed though. Well,
but that and is his 20-yard shuttle are insane. His 20-yard
shuttles 393. Yeah. So that shows incredible ability to
stop restart. It accelerated on both of those
three cones as a little bit more of the hip element
and his hips are
awesome. Like I'm so for the kind of receiver that he would
be in the NFL the probably wondering exactly right.
Exactly right. If you were, you know,
if it was more like Christian Watson
last year, I don't really give a s*** about his three
controlled that much when you can run like that. And you have
that size,
you don't have to worry about being the sharpest cutter in
the world because everybody's so scared of you run a buy
them, they're going to back off anyways. And then when you Top.
If you got an extra step or two in there, you're still going to
be open
this guy can't afford that,
you know, because there's not that speed. So he's got to be
able to stop and be sharp and concise. And if we accelerate
and all that and he's got it, I like him. It's just, it's going
to be interesting to see where he goes and where he falls in
this process.