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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to the Fantasy Bros. Football Podcast. I'm your host,
Derek Brown of today's show. We're going to talk about
NFL Combine, risers and ballers from testing from the QB,
running back and wide receivers from Saturday. All right, Erickson.
Before we get to all these players, we are going
to be doing also a show recapping the combine on
Monday with Joey p So getting that out there for everybody.
(00:24):
Let's kick this off, dude, into the risers. This is
your guy, your loveless guy. I'm gonna let you have
all the avenue to talk about. Bay Shall Tutin, your man,
your man crush ericson the floor, is yours.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bea Shall Tuton, running back from Virginia Tech. He blew
all the expectations I had coming into the combine. I
knew that he was exposed a he exposed it on tape.
He was exposive at Virginia Tech. Yards after the catch,
our yards after contact, forcing missed tackles, but two in
just me. He ran the fast forty time among the
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running backs, four three two four yard dash. He originally
his first run was fourth th tote eight and that
had caught my attention as one of the fastest time
for the running backs, and then his second run of
four to three to two. You combine that with his
jumps both in the ninety fifth percent out or higher
in both the vert and broad broad jump. I mean,
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Pishal Tuton, he has to be the number one winner.
I think we're just looking at expectations going in. I
mean at this guy. When we looked at this guy
at the podiums, there wasn't a lot of people around.
He wasn't, you know, creating a crowd because we weren't.
The consensus was not excited about Bushell Tuton, but a
lot of the sharp fantasy gamers were on Tuton, and
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he was someone that I talked about a couple of
weeks ago. So I'm super excited to see that he
hit the ground running here, blazed the forty yard dash time,
and he did this at above two hundred pounds. So
this isn't a sub smaller running back. I mean, his
four yard dash time was the same as Devon h
chen Hn was weighed significantly less than Mishal Tuton. So
super excited for him, and and he's he's going way
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up on the rookie running back rankings. I think it's
gonna be tough to keep him outside the top six,
maybe even crack some top fives. So sell tooton big
winner from today in the NFL scouting Combine.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I absolutely agree with everything he'd laid out there, Eric sent,
and that's gonna lead me into a guy that was
already inside my top five wide receivers, my wide receiver
four entering the combine. You just took a victory leapt
and stretched the hamstrings on Beashall too, and I'm gonna
do it again for Jalen Knowle. And look, Jalen Nole
went out on social media before the combine and had
to tell people on social media how to properly pronounce
(02:35):
his name. I will own this. I messed it up
before going to Senior Bowl, but I'm here to tell everybody.
If you didn't know how to spell Jalen Nole's name
perfectly before the Combine, I promise you after the NFL
Combine you better put respect on his name and say
it right. Jalen Knowle crushed the combine. He went out
there and ran a four three nine, jumped out the gym.
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The burt was amazing. This guy is going round too
in the NFL Draft. I'm here to tell you that's
the evaluation that I had on him coming into the
combine that is not changed after he crushed the combine
on Saturday. Love this guy. I'm gonna be drafting him
in every single Dynasty Rookie Draft, best Ball, all the places,
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as much as I possibly can. I love him. I
love him, And I consider and talk about Jalen Nole
for another fifteen minutes ericson, and before I do that,
I'm going to just go in and kick it right
back to you for Matthew Golden, who in his own
right ran even faster than Jalen Nole.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yes, Matthew Golden ran pretty fast four to nine official
forty yard dash time the Texas wide receiver. Mean, he
did it all when it comes to stealing the show.
We had a bunch of Texas players come out before
testing saying that they were gonna break Xavier Worthy's forty
yard dash time, they were gonna be the fastest there
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on Saturday running. But it was Matthew Golden, you know,
one of the players that seemed the most modest during
his press conferences. During his podium interviews, where he was
just really excited to be there taking the moment. And
that's all Matthew Golden has done. So this goes beyond
what he ran in the forty yard dashtime because his
profile is really strong. He had another great year at
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Texas after first two years playing at Houston. Actually was
with Tank Dell as a freshman at Houston, and he's
always showed up with the biggest moments, even the same
to be said for him at Texas. In some of
the Texas big games during the College Football Playoff, Matthew
Golden was the one delivering, and he delivered once again
when the shine was on some of these other players
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from Texas. And now he's the one that stepped up
at the NFL scouting combine. Again. I thought he was fast,
I thought he was explosive, but to the extent of
four two nine, I was blown away. And I think
that he's definitely cemented himself as a top four wide
receiver in this draft class. So Matthew Golden, hats off
to you, man. I will say too, I'm going back
to Nola real quick. Jayden Higgins, the other receiver from
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Iowa State, I think, also looked pretty impressive as a
bigger body X wide receiver, someone I think that is
maybe going to be a Round two selection. I think
that both Iowa State receivers did really well in the drills,
and I think they have analytical profiles that back it up.
So excited to see where he ends up going as well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, I think he kept all that perfectly man. And
this kind of leads us. We're talking a lot about
Texas players here. We talked about one that crushed the combine,
backed up everything he didn't have to tell everybody at
the combine. Let's transition this over to the followers and
the guy that couldn't apparently back up anything he said
coming into the NFL combine. Ericson telling you about all
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the pain and the slowness of Isaiah Bond.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Isaiah Bond, Man, he is consistently letting everybody down. Like
that is really the case here with Isaia Bon. We
actually got the opportunity to talk to some people that
were following Bond throughout his college career, going back from
Alabama to Texas, and he is the one player that seemingly,
no matter what, is going to let you down in
the biggest moment. So he sets the bar very very high,
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lofty expectation. He just doesn't deliver. And it was the
exact same thing we saw play out at the scouting combine.
He said, I'm going to break the forty yard dash record.
I'm going to run four two. Not the case. And
it sucks because running a four to four or I
think four to three nine was his official time. That's
not a bad time. That's fast for a wide receiver.
That's a really good time. But the fact that this
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was married with, oh, well, all the other expectations, well,
that's where it becomes a disappointment. That's where he becomes
a follower, because it's all about weighing in expectation versus reality. Well,
Isaiah Bond, you sick the expectation you're going to be
blazing fast. Well you weren't. You were slower than your
teammate Matthew Golden. So Isaiah Bond for me, is someone
that I'm looking far away from in fantasy football drafts.
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He's falling very far in my in my my rookie ranking,
especially at the wide receiver position, because I just don't
want any part of this guy. Man, Like he's going
to be a flash in the pan even if he
hits uh, I just I don't want a piece of them,
d bro.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I don't disagree with anything he said there, man, I mean,
like to me, these guys know they're testing numbers before
they come in. It's not like you're just putting on
cleats and it's the first time you ever run a forty,
So you're just kinda shooting in the dark with the
time that you're gonna run. So to go in do
the combine and to run your mouth and say you're
gonna break the record and go out and run a
(07:24):
four four one, I'm sorry, Like, you're not even in
the stratosphere of breaking the combine record. So next time,
speak softly, carry a big stick bond because it didn't
work out for you this time. So I'm gonna lead
into my guy coming into the combine. I was expecting
him to run in the four fours low four fours
did not happen, owning ganel here ericson and this is
(07:47):
this is painful for me. Caleb Johnson running in the
four fives, four five, seven. Look, I don't think this
is a coffin nail for Caleb Johnson. I don't think
that this is what's going to And I know we're
bringing up darned followers, and I sound like I'm just capitulating,
and I'm trying to make up for loving this guy
so much my RB two coming into the combine, But
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I want to be real about this. Yes, can this
push him down boards? I do not think this makes
him fall out of the second round of the NFL draft.
Can this be the determinating factor between h whether he
goes round one or round two? Possibly? But you look
at the other analytics about it, miles per hour, max bead,
all these types of things. None of this was bad.
So and running a four five seven is not bad either,
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especially when you're hulked up. You're a bigger running back.
It's not like he was five eight and one ninety
and he goes out there and runs like in the
four fives and lets down expectations. So, KITTLEB. Johnson, we're
putting him in the followers only because, yes, does this
possibly ding his NFL draft stock a little bit? Maybe
(08:50):
maybe the determining factor whether he goes round one or
round two. But I don't think that this is anywhere
close to Okay, he's RB three and you're pushing him
to RB six, RB seven, RB five whatever in your
rookie rankings. But for a guy that we're about to
get to here, staying with another Johnson here, but a
smaller one. We're gonna talk about Tes Johnson Ericson. I'm
(09:13):
just going to tee you up here and just lead
this off and say, at one hundred and fifty five pounds,
considering the forty he ran, he is undraftable in every
single fantasy format. Tell the people what you think about
Tes Johnson? And am I wrong that he should be
off of everybody's draft boards for fantasy?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah? Tes from Oregon. He clocked a four I believe
it was a four or five to one official forty
yard dash time, So it was actually slower than Tanked Dell.
And that's kind of like the main comparison you're looking
at when it comes to Tes Johnson. Can he be
success at the NFL level? Well, Tank Dell was a
success at the NFL level, depending on how your your
perspective on it. Obviously success is a rookie. But you know,
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he's slower than Tanked del by a little bit. He's
smaller than Tank Dell by a little bit, and that's
just like the biggest concern. Man. I just don't think
that this archetype of player is one that you want
to bet on hitting. I would I feel very strongly
saying that Tank Dell is an outlier, so just betting on, oh, well,
he's gonna be the next Tank Dell. I feel like
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that that's being very aggressive, and I think that, you know,
we try to be process oriented here again. You know,
they're going to be outliers every single or I don't
even really know, maybe not every single draft, but outliers exist.
You know, have to acknowledge them, and you can gain
a big advantage by hitting on the right outliers. But
betting on this guy to be the next Tank Dell,
who's also dealing with his own injury issues at the moment,
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I think is kind of like a false practice. So
for me, Tess Johnson, again, I get the analytical profile,
very strong numbers at Oregon and the fact that he's
a you know, he's a really good rout run like,
he does have speed, he is a route runner. He
can get open, but how long is that going to
last at his weight in size, at the NFL level,
It's a big concern. So again, not all these guys
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are gonna hit. You know, there's a reason there's risers,
are the reason there's followers, and it's just because of
his forty yard dash. I mean he had issues even
if he had run a four, three five, right, There's
still be potential holes in his game that you could
poke at. But now you're adding another layer into that analysis.
So for me, yes, Test Johnson is someone that you know,
I'm not looking. I'm definitely not circling on my rookie draft,
so I got to get Test Johnson. I'm definitely not
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the case.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
No, I agree with you, and like I just for
all the great things that people want to talk about
with Tesz Johnson, there are so many differences between him
and Tank Dell playing the slot versus playing the perimeter,
having a ten pound difference, having a speed difference, all
these parts or pieces. I mean, I think this all
just again leads us back to you cannot draft tes Johnson.
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You cannot bet on outliers of outliers of outliers every
single time, or you're going to hate the roster that
you build, whether it's redraft or dynasty or any type
of fantasy format. So look, we talked about risers, talked
about followers. That's it for us people. The NFL Combine
has been fantastic and we got a ton of content
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both on the site at Fantasypros dot com and coming soon.
We're gonna go through all of this again and more
with joeyp on YouTube on Monday on the podcast again,
Seth and I gonna be back for the NFL Draft
Show or on the Dynasty Feed talking more prospects, all
the things taking you all the way up to the
NFL Draft fre ericson and I signing off from Indy.
(12:32):
Has been a wonderful week at the NFL Combine, but
guess what we're out of here.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
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