pick in the 20s on Nagi Harris and it was obvious. He was
going to get plugged in right away. You take a running back
in round 1. Yes. Any spot in round one. You had a man, you
know, he's a
starter and that was an area of clear need for them. They let
James Conner walk away and free agency. They were obviously
pivoting to a running back to the point. Where was so
obvious. They were onto Nagi Harris. I'm surprised with
the same reasons.
I'm surprised. They weren't jumped for Kenny pick at this
year. I'm surprised they weren't jumped for nausea
Harris last year.
Report emerged yesterday that Nagi Harris has had a 12 pound
weight gain from 232. 2244.
Naughty Harris reacted
to that pointedly and
frustrated lie on social media. He claims you weighed 240
last year denies that he has gained weight reporters. Really
don't be knowing nothing just between eating
as blank blank t-shirt. Look
he doesn't think she'll be there. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, in case anybody.
It's not stuff.
Alright, so here's a point. Here's a point because I see
Jerome Bettis weighed 243 pounds when he arrived in.
Pittsburgh in 1996.
Naughty Harris is not a guy that you look at and say he's
thick, he's not built that way. Know if he wants to add 12
pounds to his frame, to be a little more, you know, a little
more durable this year
and not sacrifice any speed. Plenty of guys gain weight and
they don't sacrifice speed just because you're 12 pounds.
Heavier doesn't mean That you're out of shape. Maybe
you're in better shape. Maybe you're better equipped exactly
wear and tear over your more explosive. And I
felt no, not, he's not a guy that you would look at and say,
hey, maybe he should cut out the Twinkies. I'm right. He's
like, no doubt, very athletic and
in great shape. And that's true for T right there. He looks
good to me and I don't care what he weighs if he looks like
that. Exactly, right? I don't care either. And, you know,
again sometimes what we'll what
happens, I think. And this can happen to anybody. I'm not just
blaming the meteor, whatever. They just see, you know, what's
he in the book for as far as his weight and NFL teams, you
know, they don't care that much about
that stuff all the time. It's just it's not like high school
and college where we're trying to make our guys look a little
bit bigger. Or we want to make this guy, look a little
different. It's like
he came in during OTAs as a rookie last year. They wait on
that day. And there we go. He weighs 230 today. He might have
not been training or doing anything at that point. And
I'll but then by the time, okay, now it's starting to
run, sprints, and get in shape and I'm lifting weights, you At
the training camp and he was 240 and I think your points
real. He's a sledgehammer running back. He's a car crash
running back.
He carried the ball 309 times last year
for three point, nine yards per carry.
So he's got to be able to hit some people
and I'm with you. I don't have any problem with a little
weight gain, even if he does just a few pounds as long as he
looks right at his feet are moving quick like that. He's
fine.
Yeah, I it's just look. I,
I typically
will not shout down any stories that fall into our laps,
because we're here to traffic in those stories and explain
them in address them. But sometimes there's a story where
we have to say. It really shouldn't have been a story. It
really
isn't a story. Look at the guy. He's in shape. I don't care
what the scale says. The guy is ready to go for his second NFL.
See, right. There's a chance. He's he's going to be
spectacular
this year. Well, the Can you hear more confidence? Yeah,
I mean this guy this guy could end up becoming our next.
Derrick Henry in the NFL. It took Derrick Henry a while to
get going.
You give him some blocking. You diversify the offense a little
bit where you have to actually worry about the downfield
passing game and it's all just not Duncan dunk and you have
guys who stretched the field and a quarterback who's willing
and able to throw the
ball down. The field.
All of a sudden it opens up those running lanes and 3.9
becomes 4.9 per carry Chris. No doubt. No doubt about it, you
know. Yes, he could be that kind of power element that
Derrick Henry has a He doesn't have the long speed,
right? That's it. Be the only difference. I mean, I think
logy Harris as I looked it up and it goes longest run of
the year was 37 yards and that's pretty status quo for him.
That's not what he is. He's going to be a lot of great 5
and 10 and 12 and 15 yard runs. Like like you're talking about
is, you know, where people out with his size. He's got
incredible feat for his size.
That's really special in between the tackles and everything
and you know, again back to the weight thing to,
this is just one thing. I think, the general public needs
to realize Times. And again, I'm not holding myself out of
this, because sometimes I got a remind myself to
guys like, this are freaks of nature.
This is a freak of nature that a most of the public cannot
relate to the human. What we're talking about here. We're
talking about a guy that can go into a rate room and bench
press,
you know, once a week and squat heavy once a week and put on
five pounds of muscle like it's nothing like he's been like
training every day for the rest of his
like that's the kind of person we're talking about here too.
So that's where he like, you know, all we put on 468 pounds
and if it doesn't look sloppy
than I definitely wouldn't worry about it because it's
just, it's an NFL running back and they have muscles growing
out of their ears.
Yeah. I think he'll be fine. And I think he'll be great this
year Health permitting. And that's the one thing with
Ronnie Bastin all trying to
jinx him. That's the thing with running backs. You always have
to be concerned about Christian McCaffrey, Derrick Henry,
whoever it is a demanding position, car crashes, one
after the other, your body needs to
Hold up, you need to be durable and sometimes you don't find
out that your durable until you prove that you are durable.