Sorting the Boffo 2026 NFL Draft Wide Receiver Class!

29:02Perennial powerhouse, underdog. However the madness unfolds, these deals keep it going all month long. Visit the Uber Eats app for all the latest deals and start saving today. Back on NFL Daily, we're timing up this show with Matt Harmon, big fan of over at Yahoo and Perception Perception. I noticed that he was a big Concepcion fan yesterday, too. I was like, I wish we had already taped this show. I was already on this corner. But I think it's going to be a popular corner, unfortunately, for me. Who wants to just have a special take? Let's talk about the hardest evaluation. And this, I'll let you go first on this one.

29:44Just who is the player, significant player that you maybe just struggled with? Doesn't mean it's like negative or positive, but you just, you think it was the hardest one to kind of come to a final decision on.

29:54Ollie Connolly:Even booking, even setting it to one player is difficult. I think I have Chris Brazile, Chris Bell, and Zachariah Bryant just getting the three finalists. That's good. We can talk about them all here. It doesn't matter. Let's do it. Let's go. Why Brazile? to start out who uh is a long striding receiver from tennessee yeah so he plays in the goofy tennessee offense which already makes things really difficult where it's these really detached receiver sets where he's playing on the sideline there's about three routes in the route tree they run the sleeper routes for half the game where you just don't run a route by design so that you can sleep on your side of the field conserve some energy and then you can run really fast down the field the next snap going at tempo so that makes it pretty difficult to begin with and then just his effort ebbs and flows during the game anyway and if you dig through even more of the detail of it he's tipping plays constantly so he's either sleeping or not playing with urgency or based on what he's doing with his gloves based on what he's doing with his stance he lets you know if it's run pass and whether he's getting the ball or not so that is already difficult to throw into the evaluation then it's just jaw dropping stuff from there the movement skills are absolutely out of control it is size speed fluidity short area twitch he is not to me just a straight line burner in the style they've sent to the league recently right whether it's Jalen Hyatt Dante Thornton on and on they go Cedric Tillman I think he's got more nuance to his game I think he's a bit more subtle than the guys they've sent in recent years so it makes it very tricky to fall in love with a guy again because of just the pure movement skills are different to pretty much anyone the class and the size he's playing at when you have to factor in all the elements of the offense than just how engaged he is in the game as well.

31:39Yeah, he is 6 '5", 200 pounds. And he ran a sub 440, I believe, like a 435 or something like that. The long speed's crazy. A two-lane guy who actually put up some pretty good numbers with Michael Pratt. I went back and looked at some of that tape too because they didn't use him as the same way that Tennessee did. So he gets caught, you know, when you watch him, like sometimes, and again, there's not a ton of press coverage, but it was almost fun. Sometimes like he literally got stuck. Like it would look, it looked like it was Velcro and just the play is over and that's a concern. But if you just flipped on the Georgia game and we saw one of the long touchdowns there and there are a handful of long touchdowns from this last season where, to use your words, it's just a joke.

32:26Like you would have thought, oh, this guy's a top 12 pick. He is just making corner, like cornerbacks are bouncing off of him as he like scores and dances 70 yards down the field and it was like okay well that looks like

32:38Ollie Connolly:an nfl player that looks pretty good it looks pretty i mean val davis was alive he'd be the first pick in the draft that's the kind of like athlete that we're talking about here and he is the full gas off the ball what i think he's got compared to some of the other long striding explosive guys down the field is he can really sink and get out the break when it is a comeback a curl a return to the quarterback type situation he can really sink and get out of there now he's not shown an awful lot of that just because of the route packages they they ask him to play in there's barely anything playing to the middle of field sometimes when it is the middle field he asks out the play he doesn't want to stick his nose in there there's not much in the blocking game there's willingness there's some tenacity the technique is pretty dire um it's just not a key part of their offense they just ask him to take plays off so it's difficult to see how that just fits day one into an nfl system but the talent and just the general athleticism is undeniable I'm checking as you're talking.

33:33I believe he was the guy that Chris Sims. No, he didn't put him first, but he did put him third overall. So that's fair. I mean, look, if it's a choose your flavor type of draft, someone's flavor is going to be Brazil, who on the consensus board is 50. But if you told me he ends up going 31 or something, that wouldn't be surprising at all.

33:59Ollie Connolly:no I mean you can't teach the height and speed and he is the ultimate gas off the ball guy in an actual sizable package rather than just being one of the pocket rocket guys so you said Zachariah Branch was is in your this group of hardest evaluations which is which is interesting spent time at USC and then he was at Georgia last year I find that interesting that you find him hard to evaluate because he's certainly a type but like what about him gives you trouble so he for the audience he's the 5 '8 177 178 something like that pounds i think he's built like a running back he's got this kind of he's short guy he's completely stacked he looks more like a back i feel than a receiver and just the way he was used both the usc where it's pure gadget then at georgia where all they're trying to do is create pump return right pump return left it's just pure screen screen screen the odd crossing route not being able to see him run a more diverse tree i think just makes it difficult to try and figure out where he is in the nfl is he does mccall hartman jimmy horn trayvon austin is there any more to the game than just can he be more in the wandale robinson bucket where he has real serious speed off the snap and you can be a vertical threat from the slot and that is a valuable commodity to have if you can get out on the field or is he just a package player you're going to take in the second round and in three years you're going to look up and say we should have just took a less exciting less explosive a player and I'd say had a professional in the offense.

35:26Snuck into Daniel Jeremiah's top 50. He's a little lower than that on the consensus board. Look, he's exciting. Steve Smith had him as the number five receiver. I started to look around the day of the R taping at other evaluations, which I felt like I was done with these guys because, I mean, he has track speed there and the way he runs. It is interesting. You say like as a running back, like I know he's small and he's not running over guys, but just his footwork is is violent like his change of direction is violent he is someone you could I mean I guess he's much more athletic than a Khalil Shakir but like he in a perfect world he could he could do that you can find a couple little slot fades on the tape but I guess you're right it's not it's not a ton of them it's not like a ton of volume it's not a ton

36:14Ollie Connolly:of volume and I do I think sometimes when we get into draft season you get the really electric guys you do get caught up in the design touch world and it's a really small part of an nfl actual offensive game plan where you're just washing out reps washing out reps and once you start sending in the design package guy the the defensive coordinator has eyes as well they have alerts as well they know he's coming in they can prepare for what they believe the package is going to be everyone's on high alert so i think he has to have a real vertical presence to his game as well he's got to be able to blow the top off a defense or at least rip the coverage apart in two deep shells to create big voids of space underneath for everyone else to go cook.

36:50Ollie Connolly:And because he just wasn't used in that role at either spot, it's hard to get a real feel for what is necessary in that. Yeah, I think he had five. I just did him last, so I remember. I think he had five downfield throws that he caught. I guess that doesn't sound like a lot, like 20-plus, but there was a little bit of that. Definitely some juice. If it's a player like this who's fitting into a very specific bucket and you're comparing him to Mwandale, which is an interesting one. It's like, man, he better have that juice. He better have that extra stuff that is a difference-making quality. And I do think he has that.

37:28So I think he's going to be a fun player to watch. And then your third player in your hardest evaluation was?

37:35Ollie Connolly:Chris Bell out of Louisville. Yes. I don't know if it's that hard. Just give me some Chris Bell. I mean, that's an NFL player. It might not work at all, but that's a player I can imagine on an NFL field. I mean, he is big, strong, and fast. He's coming off a torn ACL, which is part of the hardest evaluation I would imagine. But what is it more about the way that he plays that you find tough? Because, man, he is intriguing. He's incredible. The upside is completely through the roof. The upside is A.J. Brown, a bully ball receiver who is incredibly explosive after the catch. And explosive over the second and third step, kind of meanders into routes.

38:12Ollie Connolly:sometimes doesn't seem to be that interested completely hates his own quarterback i get it i understand what chris bell is thinking but snap by snap he is losing his mind at how wait what do you know that he hates his because he is leaping up and down in the middle of plays that the ball was not thrown in his direction you see that normally every couple of plays kind of premium look maybe two three times over the course of a season with a receiver the heads will go to the guy the heads will drop he is leaping up and down in the end mid-route frustrated the ball didn't arrive then well I I happen to watch branch right after Chris Bell and they had that frustration with their quarterback in common because Miller Moss was the USC quarterback it is very confusing watching college tape now when you're not like that big of a fan like me and I'm like oh wait that's the same guy who was kind of ruining the Zachariah branch tape a second ago is now starting to ruin the Chris Bell tape.

39:08But yeah, the Louisville prospect, and he got the ACL injury towards the end of the regular college season, got surgery early December. It's an ACL, and there just aren't many guys built like him that can catch the ball in stride. There was a couple of the slants that he caught and went, and that's where you think A.J. Brown or D.K. Metcalf or something, you're just like, holy cow. If he had not torn the ACL, Like where, where is he in this mix? Cause I just feel like the NFL would fall in love with them.

39:41Ollie Connolly:Yeah. It's more to do with the consistency. If you just put in the Miami game and I said, I think that that's the best, most athletic kind of pro development. So to watch it and say, what was it like on Sundays? I think you've got to watch these guys against Miami. He put the team on the back in that game. He was fully engaged for a full game. And you mentioned some of the, the burst with the ball in his hands. I mean, he rips through two linebackers come to crush him, rips through both of them. the safeties have no shot he's completely gone doing that that size with the the bully ball physique with the power that he has it's just not normal i mean so if he was if he wasn't fully healthy i do think over the course of the draft processes he tested he would have been right up there i do think there's an element of he's the i can fix him boyfriend that there's an awful lot he's so ill disciplined he's got so many penalties season after season every game every drive every of the play it's just a different prospect from snap to snap both the effort the technique no route ever looks the same so the talent is just so off the table good it's unbelievable but the consistency and trying to understand how engaged is he was how was that the situation why did louisville have this unbelievable aj brown dk metcalf type athlete and they never thought to design their offense around him jeff brom is an unbelievable football coach he never thought that I'm going to game plan around having this really special athlete.

41:04Ollie Connolly:We're just going to have him on drags and sits and just kind of have him return to the quarterback as a big body kind of power forward type player. Well, that's why you have scouts to go figure that out. That's why we have analysts like Ali to help me out. Cause I'm, I'm grading the flashes here. I would be the ones falling in love because you know, there are a lot of back shoulder catches. Like he, he doesn't look like he has, I would say good hands. It's a plot. Like, he looks like a football player. And then, yeah, you think about A.G. Brown and Dickey Matkamp. It's a silly thing to compare.

41:37They didn't really plan their offense around them in college either. I don't know what was happening back then. How did those guys go so late, by the way, Ali? What was up with that?

41:46Ollie Connolly:If you remember DK, people thought he couldn't turn. He had no flexibility. I mean, yeah. I mean, he's not the complete player at the NFL level. I love that. All right. My hardest evaluation, and you can take me off of it, is Jordan Tyson. I did want a little more out of the prospect who is expected to go pretty early. Arizona State, his quarterback, I think complicated his evaluation a little bit, certainly in his last season. I was getting frustrated when the backup's in. He's on the consensus board at number 14. Daniel Jeremiah, I believe, has him in his top, what, 15? Where did you have him kind of in your pecking order with the other receivers?

42:32Ollie Connolly:Yeah, I had him lower than consensus. He's still in the starter tier for me, but he's behind Concepcion. He's behind Omar Cooper. He's behind Makai Lemon. Okay. Well, then, yeah, that makes sense to me. DJ, by the way, had him 17th, which is very strong. He does have him behind Omar Cooper, but solidly in the mix. I like him but I just wanted him to be like a little a little more for the profile in terms of the athleticism and like I saw a comparison this is probably unfair but it was from Ben Fennell who does good stuff at NFL Films and he was like he reminds me so much of Tyler Boyd coming out of college and I'm like yeah I kind of see that it's like I want a little more than that from a high-level prospect that has these injury concerns where the hamstring got him at the end of his last year in college.

43:30He had a complete torn knee ligaments earlier. He broke his collarbone at one point. That does add up a little bit more. So what do you think I'm missing? Because you still have him very solidly ranked. And he is very good, but I felt like I wanted a little more.

43:45Ollie Connolly:I think he's really smooth for the size. I think he tempos the route really well. I think when he's fully locked in and engaged, and he's another guy where when he's the primary target, there is a different level of urgency than when he's just kind of a part of the offense. He can really explode out the break and he can hang in the air like nobody. I think he's a true acrobat and there are in the style that he runs and the way he attacks the ball in the air, there are kind of just like flashes, just glimpses of Odell that's truly in there. That kind of special player exists in Tyson it's just to me far too infrequent which is where I have a hard time having him as high up the board as most people do I think the flashes are really exciting but the flashes are offset by me for the by the durability concerns it's not like Concepcion where he's open time after time after time you're just hoping that the ball will find its way to him I think he does get locked down more often than you would want I think his technique comes and goes I think is he gets disengaged in the game from drive to drive if things aren't going well and then when you stack on top of that the concerns about the durability and more the soft tissue stuff I think you mentioned with the hamstrings then the knee and the collarbone I think there's there's real reasons to be worried here if you're a GM going to try and draft him and you've got to sort through all both the effort and the injury concerns I think that'd be a tough call yeah I wondered watching some of the tapes that I'm really glad you pointed that first of all that his tough grat like his great catches are incredible.

45:11He does have some really high level, outstanding contested catch grabs and just acrobatic body, all that stuff. It's awesome. There were some games you write where it just didn't look the same. And you're like, is he playing through an injury? Was what I thought. And then there's reporting that he still hasn't worked out. I mean, it's public knowledge. He still hasn't been able to work out from a hamstring injury that was back at the end of the season. And he played most of this season after that collarbone in the ACL, which was now, I think, what, four years ago, almost three and a half years ago now.

45:48And that it's still preventing him from working out from teams. And that is unfortunate timing, but it's definitely a red flag.

45:55Ollie Connolly:Yeah, like I said, the collarbone one was freakish. The ACL one, well, he recovered from that. We got to see the athlete. And he's like an extraordinarily athlete when he's fully revved up. um the hamstring stuff i mean during games that you really do watch like where is jordan tyson oh that's him that's the number why is he not moving at the speed to expect him an elite prospect his hamstring goes in game regularly you can see him pull it you can see him tweak it then he comes back into the game so he's trying to tough it out but it will just go on him on a random go route where they're trying to clear out the coverage and he really tries to get after it it will just go then he comes back into the game and keeps trying it's really hard to get a feel for where he's at health-wise, just even in the season, let alone where he's at now.

46:34Right. So that's why I think for me, I struggled a little bit because I guess if I'm going to deal with all that, I just want the great stuff to pop next level. And I don't know if he did that for me personally. All right, let's go to another evaluation or a superlative here. Let's go to the player most likely to get his GM fired, Ali. This is rough. would that not just be tyson i mean it could have been it could have been depending on the injury i don't know if you have it to me this is sort of like a boomer bust a boomer bust type of

47:14Ollie Connolly:pick but i think tyson is boomer bust and says not just the injuries i think his 10 best plays you just put the compilation together the 10 best plays you can squint your eyes hard enough to convince yourself you're gonna get odell beckham jr i just think if you put on the other 250 plays you start saying why is this guy so erratic why is he so loosey-goosey in the routes the balance doesn't seem there all the time it's just hard to get a sense of him down by down on who he's going to be as a prospect but where he's going to go in the draft is going to be a valuable enough pick that you will be in trouble if there's durability questions and then even when he's playing you don't get the cop out of the durability if he actually just plays and it was a bad eval and you don't get the the the the soft tissue injuries and him being ruled out that is when i think it starts to cost you your job that's why that's why because this class is so deep it just wouldn't wouldn't surprise me like if he went where everyone expects it you know 13 14 whatever it is or if he's just false and ends up being the sixth seventh receiver and it's at the end of the first round which is a totally fine uh outcome for him i think if i had a choice here and this might be my own bias it would probably be denzel boston and maybe it's because it's a type that i he is a contested catch guy, but maybe it's unfair to just group him as that guy.

48:33He hasn't run the 40. His speed doesn't... He is not necessarily open that much, and I think he was a little sloppy when I watched some time, but some also incredible contested catches. Am I just getting, am I overcorrecting to the Nikhil Harry's of draft times and thinking that this guy could be kind of in that mold where it might not totally work at the next level?

49:02Ollie Connolly:No, I agree with you. And I share the same bias. That archetype of receiver just isn't for me. The guys who are purely vertical elevation type receivers who are the contested catch darlings, it just doesn't translate to league. We've been through Laquan Treadwell. We've been through JJ Arcega-Whiteside. There's just a long history now. If you can't separate in college, you're not going to have hope of separating in the NFL. The contested catch rates almost inevitably drop in the NFL. If anything, the guys who aren't contested catch darlings who do separate at a high clip wind up being good contested catch guys in the NFL.

49:33So like T Higgins was a guy I loved coming out of Clemson. It's convenient that I remember all my correct evaluations. But because I even though he he sort of could have got be put in that in that bucket. I just thought you saw more fluidity and that his and his like verticality was just special in a way that, yeah, there's like a lot of like one on one and one handed catches. And it is it is cool to watch. He's going to be a red zone guy for sure. But yeah, I just don't know if the ball winning stuff is going to is going to translate as well. What are the things you liked about Boston, though?

50:10Ollie Connolly:It is the ball tracking. I mean, he dunks on people. I think he is special in the air. he really has an ability to just hold himself in the air for like three seconds look around check out what's going on adjust the ball in flight and then just slam it on the head of the corner like that is where he wins and it reminds me a little bit of kenny golladay where you maybe will get the one season spike and that's a certain brand of receiver that i think works for some offenses it's not really how teams are playing anymore with all the condensed and congested stuff i just think you gotta be way more nimble and i just don't think he's truly an nfl athlete in short area.

50:41Ollie Connolly:I think that he cannot sink his hips. He struggles to decelerate and get out of breaks. And even if you are that vertical stretch guy, and we're going to try and play back shoulder fade game, and then we're going to try and play go shot game. You really have to be able to snap back to the quarterback out of the top of the step. You've got to be able to be in the curls and the comebacks that you can get the, the, the breaks that you need on the fade routes. He just can't really sink and get out of it. And if you watch him against the better athletes against Michigan and Oregon, it really starts to show up that he just cannot separate snapping back to the quarterback and breaking out the route.

51:12There was another game, maybe versus Rutgers. I don't remember who it was, but you're right. The short area of quickness, and that is maybe a type that I like, but that's why I think there will be a little more surprise in terms of where these guys go, because I just don't know if it's that huge of a gap between the Tyson and Denzel Boston, who have pretty high things, and the Brazil and even Chris Bell, who teams could just look at as these high ceiling guys. I don't know. I don't know if it's like a huge gap. Different teams, I think, could see it very, very differently.

51:48Ollie Connolly:I think it depends on what you need in the room, one, and what the draft philosophy is. Some teams just gather the receivers. We'll figure the room out afterwards. I think some teams are kind of more pinpointed on we're lacking this kind of skill set. Let's go get it. Boston is a guy who I think if you put him with a veteran, if he was just catching passes from Dak Prescott or Aaron Rodgers or Jordan Love, someone who's willing to just rip it. If someone is even, they are open. I'll just put it on the inside number. That's open enough for me. Guys who are willing to thread that kind of needle, his ability to kind of just play late off the snap, play late out of press and just twist ever so slightly to create a throwing lane.

52:24Ollie Connolly:I think that will work and vet quarterbacks will love playing with him. I just wouldn't want to use the draft capital in the area he's going at to be like a foundational piece of an offense. I think he's more of a package-based player for a skill. So that's actually pretty limited in the league. Yeah, I should have mentioned the product of Washington. And just thinking about like quarterback wide receiver combos going back to Chris Bell. Let's bring back the Tyler Shuck Chris Bell combo. I would be in for that as like a second round pick. I think that would be fun. Let's get let's get positive.

52:54Let's let's make it time for charging into the offseason presented by Apple Card for all your game day purchases. Let's give some flowers. A guy you think is way better than his consensus board ranking. and we've hit most of the top guys so far, although not all of them.

53:10Ollie Connolly:Yeah, I really like Elijah Surratt. Omar Cooper's running mate at Indiana. Fernando Mendoza's go-to target in must-have situations on most key third downs. And he, I think, will fall into the bucket of Malachi Fields, of Denzel Boston we just talked about, where people will view him as more of this vertical presence, contested catch, jump ball type guy. I just think he's more of a professional, well-rounded receiver in terms of getting off press, in terms of winning early in the route. I think he's got a little bit more short area fluidity than he's given credit for. Just a pure vertical guy. And I think he can step in.

53:44Ollie Connolly:If you're saying to me tomorrow, we're playing a playoff game, who's going to be the third receiver in the lineup? And I'm the Rams. I'm a team who really has a must get it game. He's the guy who'd have the most confidence in, in this kind of second bucket that we're talking about, where from the real top part of the class to this real meat section, where there's like eight, nine guys and you're picking different flavors of who you prefer. The guy I would trust the most is Elijah Surratt. I like that. He's right now 77th on the consensus board. And yeah, there is a cluster of guys late second and then into the third round, whether it's Jeremy Bernard, the kind of solid receiver from Alabama.

54:21We mentioned Brant Malachi Fields, a receiver from Notre Dame, Antonio Williams, who I know Daniel Jeremiah, likes from Clemson. Bryce Lance, Trey Lance's brother from North Dakota State's in the mix there as like a third round pick. Danny Kelly from The Ringer likes him a lot. And so, okay, I like that you're planting your flag on Surat right there. And look, that was charging into the offseason. Presented by Apple Card. Apply for the Apple Card in the wallet app today. Start earning daily cash back on all your game day purchases from tickets to tailgate munchies to merch subject to credit approval.

54:58I was going to ask you for like a favorite comp complimentary. This could be anyone. We haven't hit Omar Cooper yet if you've got one, but it could just be a favorite comp that you've got in the entire class, and we can save Cooper if he's not the perfect one.

55:12Ollie Connolly:I can give you a Cooper one. I would say Concepcion to Zay Flowers is probably, I think, the most crystal clear one in my mind. My Sarat one is Keenan Allen, which I think that he's not going to quite be that caliber of player, but it's in that Mike Williams, Keenan Allen type mold. I think Omar Cooper is slightly lesser Brandon Ayuk. Ayuk at the peak of his powers. Okay. It's funny because I feel like, yeah, Ayuk is always like a popular comp in general. Cooper is a guy that I look at and I just think that's going to work. I could be wrong, but he just looks like an NFL player. Now, what that means production-wise is going to depend on what system he's going to land in.

56:02He's not like a number one type of receiver. I like Danny Kelly's comp, which was Josh Downs with the power-up mushroom boost, which sounds like my favorite player ever. I just feel like he he is going to figure it out at the next level that he's versatile. And like there's that famous, you know, touchdown, obviously, that that he had to to kind of save Indiana's undefeated season that gave us Gus Johnson's greatest call of all time. but what what i remember about that too is like he got that separation from the little wiggle that he had at the start of the route which just froze the defender and you see that all over his tape and so he he's just a fun player to watch like if my team took him in the late first round or wherever it's going to be i'm i really like omar cooper too yeah i agree with you i mean he is

56:57Ollie Connolly:fearless he is tough he attacks the middle of the field like few other people in the class i think he's probably slippery rather than truly explosive and fast and he is unbelievable after the catch i mean the missed tackle rate the toughness the creativity the balance he's not a high flyer who's going to be a true vertical threat outside the numbers even from the slot i think it's more of the the deep overs and the crosses and can you do some damage for us in space but that is a that is a type that works in the league that is what everyone is chasing over and over again if you cannot find Justin Jefferson and it's a once in a franchise uh situation where you get Justin Jefferson the next rung down is trying to find the maximum type of this player and I think Omar Cooper fits in that bucket yeah and you know shout out to uh our guy Daniel Jeremiah who had him very high right off the bat when he was just not uh too high in the overall consensus he has him in the top 20 he's 26th right now on the consensus board and I see that it just seemed it just no players are safe exactly coming into the nfl but but to me he is a a safe player and i like that comp who do you think is just like the best route runner if that's just like a big bucket i think that's carnell if you're talking about the all around do they win in all three parts can they win quick off the snap can they can they kind of shake someone out of their cleats with a little shimmy shake or by revving up and tempoing down that's him and then can they just kind of get the push off and the dirty work in the late hands to separate late in the route I always go back to Mike Lovins saying you're winning the NFL by winning late.

58:27Ollie Connolly:There's no recovery time. You do whatever you got to do to win late in the rep. And I think Carnell Tate in terms of efficiency doing it in all three phases, I think it's him. We had a couple others that you suggested. I don't know if this has already been ticked off. You had a superlative that you would be quitting as the coach if the GM did not get him on your team. I don't know if Surratt already filled that bucket or you got another one. Surratt for, if I was the Raiders, I would not break up the Fernando Mendoza Surratt chemistry. Maybe it's not as viable for other teams, but they have such unbelievable wink-wink chemistry, and he's going to go in the 70s.

59:02Ollie Connolly:It's not going to be, you could go maybe early in the second round if a really good guy falls to you. But other than that, I would just wait it out, and I would make sure that you don't break up the Mendoza Surratt, and you would talk yourselves into, hey, he's not Jamar Chase. No one's Jamar Chase, but that Jamar Chase Joe Burrow thing, translating it from college to the NFL, well, let's make life as comfortable as possible for the first overall pick. Okay. I think we did it. Is there like a player that we have not mentioned? I think we've hit the consensus first and second round picks. I mentioned Jeremy Bernard and Malachi Fields certainly could be in that mix.

59:37I don't know if there's any other deep, deep, deep day three guy that you love. There was some guy last year I had never heard of that you wrote a 30-minute love song to. I don't know whatever happened to him. that was not on anyone's. Who was it?

59:50Ollie Connolly:Efton Chisholm. Was it Efton Chisholm? It was Efton Chisholm, yeah. That was his origin story. You made it happen. Maybe the Patriots were listening. You know, some NFL teams are listening to the read optional. Check out Ollie's podcast with John Ledger. They do great stuff. But yeah, give me your day three guy if you got one. Day three guy would be Eric Rivers from Georgia Tech, who is an absolute speedster. He is tiny. I think we would both tower over him, and that may be a problem playing football on Sundays. I would not. I would not be towering over him. It's possible for Eric. I'm 5 '6 if you round up.

1:00:25It was like I always overcorrected. It was like 5 '5 and three quarters, but I listed 5 '5 because I was like, I'm standing up for the short guys. I'm not trying to look taller on my license. You know, let's equality, you know. I don't know. That's all I got to say.

1:00:43Ollie Connolly:He can fly. he moves at a different speed to pretty much anyone else whether he can actually get on the field or it's just special teams or something like that i think is a bit of an open question um the other guy that we haven't hit on i think is ted hurst out of georgia state who is gonna go probably early in the second round i would guess based on the physical profile the thing that is wild about watching ted hurst when you just kind of block out all the noise it's georgia state they got the field whatever the style of running just the pure style and he's not the body type and he's not the size and he doesn't have the same level change of direction and i'm going to compromise to one of the greatest players to ever play the position but just the running pure speed maintaining the speed running like a sprinter as opposed to a wide receiver he has a little bit of julio jones in just the pure style of running and i just cannot imagine the league will watch that a guy of his size exploding down the field, ripping apart four deep coverage and not decide we're going for that early.

1:01:43Ollie Connolly:If Brazil goes and kind of the height, weight, speed guys go earlier than maybe they're expected by the consensus board, I imagine Ted Hurst will be pushed further up the draft. I love that. One of the categories we skipped here just for time was the type of player the NFL can't quit, and he would absolutely fit that. I got to put him on my watch list because I can just see Julio running through the secondary. I don't know how to describe it, but it was a thing of beauty. And so is this show. As I mentioned, check out the read optional with Ali. Thank you, Ali. As I mentioned, we're going to be going through the entire draft with Ali, helping us out on these shows.

1:02:22And yes, he's going to be joining me and Daniel Jeremiah for an upcoming show. I think that's going to drop next month. But I'm really looking forward to that as well. Also looking forward to getting back in the studio. Me, Jordan, Colleen, Patrick, Full House, bringing back our NFL First Date show from a year ago. We'll see you on Thursday.

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