2027 Dynasty Rookie Stock Watch: Biggest Risers, Fallers & Updated Rankings (Ep. 2280)
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Oct 21, 2026
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Jalen MilroeShedeur Sanders
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Jalen Milroe
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Milroe was a top-three pick last year but is now dealing with an injury that raises questions about his availability. Despite the injury concern, the source maintains he won't fall outside the first round even if he doesn't play again this season, though Oregon's season trajectory is now a consideration for his draft stock.
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The source has moved Sanders up in rankings, viewing him as potentially a late day one, early day two pick in dynasty rookie drafts; credits his play breaking in a new group of pass catchers and his pedigree from Lincoln Riley's offense, which has produced many NFL quarterbacks.
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0:08Alright, and welcome into the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Football Podcast, brought to you by League Tycoon, the Dynasty first fantasy football platform.
0:15We're halfway through, it's been an absolutely epic college football season, and we've seen a major shakeup in the upcoming NFL Draft class.
0:22So we've got another 2027 Dynasty Rookie Stock Watch coming your way on this episode.
0:26That's right, we're going to let you know all the biggest mid-season risers and fallers in our updated rankings.
0:32I'm your host, Seth Wilcock, joined by a man who I've been covering the sport with from a gambling perspective over on
0:39the FantasyPros College Football YouTube channel all season long.
0:41All but ready to raise the white flag on the Sark era of the Texas Longhorns football program.
0:47He's Scott Big Time Bogman and Boggs. While it hasn't been the season that either you or I would like from a
0:53fan perspective, it certainly has had a huge impact on some of these outgoing prospects, maybe more than we could have ever imagined.
1:00Yeah, I mean, we were all, everyone was excited about the QB class.
1:04I think there's still reason to be excited about the incoming QB class, but, you know, it has taken a hit.
1:10And we kind of, we did warn about this, like it's still going to be very good and it's still going to
1:17push skill position players in your super flex leagues down the board, right?
1:21Because there's still going to be guys near the top of super flex leagues that are going to get drafted.
1:27And there's time for the guys that have lost a little luster to come back and, you know, put it on.
1:33So there is some there, but boy, this, this quarterback class is very different than what we thought it was going to be.
1:40And luckily we were right in the fact that there are so many that there's still going to be a bunch at
1:46the top, but it is not as clear cut as it was at the beginning of the year.
1:52So we thought it was going to be by the end of this year.
1:56And my guy, Arch completely off my list. I think he's coming back.
2:00And if he doesn't, he's going to have to sit and do the Jordan love treatment for a long time.
2:06So yeah, man, it has been a disappointing year to be a Longhorns fan, but, uh, went out and all is forgiven.
2:12So we'll see. I don't think that happens. I don't think they went this week.
2:17Yeah. And it's always super interesting, right? Because it feels like a lot of these times when these prospects are underclassmen or
2:23even juniors or, you know, seniors before there were super seniors, right?
2:27Like it feels like there's a lot of hope and optimism.
2:30They come back for one more final year. It doesn't always go as planned.
2:35Like, look at just Dante Moore guy. We're not going to talk about, uh, really in totality here, but you know, had
2:41a fine start of the season and just ends up hurt.
2:44Right. And there's nothing you can do about that same situation, which we'll talk about with Ahmad Hardy.
2:50And, you know, speaking of Hardy, the running back position, all of a sudden also looks really weak in this class where,
2:56you know, you have some guys at the top who are really, really intriguing prospects, but they all have a little bit
3:03of warts and whether it's injury, slow starts the season, uh, you know, just failing teams that they're a part of right now.
3:10There's a lot to pick and sift through. So we're going to answer everything you need to know from that dynasty standpoint on this episode.
3:17And as noted, we're going to, uh, go ahead and dive into the biggest risers and followers from across the country.
3:24We also can give you our updated 2027 consensus dynasty rookie rankings, and then we'll round out the program with some rapid
3:30fire takes on some of the most overrated and underrated prospects as well.
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4:00And we'd really appreciate that. But Boggs, let's go ahead and jump right into the mid season, 2027 rookie risers and maybe
4:07no bigger riser in our super flex rankings. Then Charlie Becker, wide receiver out of Indiana here.
4:12You, me and Fitz preseason. We did a consensus rankings.
4:15We had him seven overall. He is now, uh, gone all the way to number two.
4:19Overall. He has passed cam Coleman. He's passed all the quarterbacks in our consensus rankings.
4:24He's coming off a career game against Ohio state nine for one 65, his third game of a hundred plus yards this season.
4:31Currently seventh in the country and receiving yards with a 694 on the season.
4:35Fifth in the season and touchdowns as well with eight.
4:38So Boggs, what caused this move for you? Because for me, it was just, you know, I could no longer deny that
4:45this guy looks like a true alpha wide receiver.
4:47He can do it deep on contested catches, but he's also just brilliant across the middle of the field.
4:53Yeah. I mean, he can run every route, uh, you know, just clamp hands, unbelievable.
4:57And the seventh highest target share in the country so far, right?
5:01Like, uh, 34 and a half percent. And KJ Duff, who we're going to talk about in this episode as well.
5:07I know he's in your rankings. He's just off of mine, like right there.
5:1141% for him. They got nothing else. There's him and Raymond, uh, Jeremiah Smith, number two.
5:16Right. And then he's behind a couple, uh, you know, JJ Buchanan, chance, moral Buffalo, Colin Dixon and Andrew Marsh.
5:22So there's some guys that he's behind here, but, uh, Becker, it has been unbelievable.
5:27And there's just no denying that, you know, we thought it was going to be Cam Coleman.
5:32Cam Coleman has been a disappointment. Now that is partly because of our Manning's performance, of course.
5:37But, um, Cam Coleman hasn't really, he hasn't had that type of separation where he's constantly college open.
5:42So, and Charlie Becker absolutely has. So Becker, yeah, I think the proper spot for him at this point is number two, right behind Jeremiah Smith.
5:50Now there is a canyon of difference between Jeremiah Smith and anybody else, but Becker is, uh, locked up for that number two spot.
5:57Unless there's a major change before the end of the year.
6:00Yeah. And not only is this guy just brilliant with the ball in his hands after the catch, we saw some big
6:07plays against the Buckeyes last week, but, and in contested situations.
6:10But he also just has the athletic profile, right?
6:13Six foot four. So he checks in on the size, 208 pounds.
6:17So definitely has a little bit of bulk to still put on.
6:20Zero drops. Yeah. And also like, he's someone who's been projected to, you know, run somewhere in between like a 4.38 second
6:2740 time and, you know, a 445. That's really what we're expecting to see.
6:31And like, I can kind of see that too.
6:34And the one thing I love about Becker too, is like, he brings in some special team dynamics too, because when Indiana
6:40like is like done with some of their returners, they're like, Charlie, go catch, we need you, right?
6:46Like, we need you to go make a play back there.
6:49We saw it against Ohio State. We saw it against Nebraska.
6:52He's liable to catch a couple of big punts as well.
6:55So maybe that's another place where he just, you know, makes an impact at the next level.
7:01But I think right now, Boggs, like unless something changes, I think Charlie Becker's top 15 pick in this NFL draft.
7:07I really do. And I think that's going to make him a top overall, you know, two or three pick in your
7:13dynasty rookie drafts as well from a super flex standpoint.
7:16Yeah. I mean, I do think that behind Jeremiah Smith, there's going to be a lot of running back desperation, which pushes running backs up constantly.
7:24Yeah. So we see that. So he may not be like a lock number two pick in your fantasy draft.
7:30I'm telling you on all the boards right now, Becker is probably number two on almost every single board.
7:36Okay. I want to talk about a duo of players next that is just sky high now in our ranking is Drew
7:42Mestemaker and Wyatt Young, the quarterback and wide receiver combo out of Oklahoma State.
7:47And man, we thought this duo could be legit last year, right?
7:50Mestemaker leads the nation in passing yards at North Texas.
7:53Also, Wyatt Young goes over 1,200 yards and 10 touchdowns.
7:56And then not only has Eric Morris and company made a great transition into the big 12 at Oklahoma State, but also
8:03at the same time, they are right now a team that has been top 25 for most of the season ranked.
8:09They knocked off the ducks in week two. And we are getting the ceiling case from Mestemaker, who's actually on pace to
8:16have better numbers than a year ago, still leading the country in passing yards.
8:20And Wyatt Young, who's going to go for another 1,200 and 10, it looks like as well.
8:25So Boggs, these are two players that, you know, at the G6 level, we had really, really high confidence in.
8:31It was, could they make the transition? And outside that two lane game, it feels like they have.
8:36Yeah. Tulsa game, excuse me. Yeah. Tulsa at the beginning of the season.
8:40Yeah. I mean, Mestemaker, you know, I think that there's a lot of people that have CJ Carr as your number one quarterback.
8:47And I don't really have a lot of fight against that.
8:50The little bit that I do have is that CJ Carr hasn't really played anybody.
8:55And the one time he did play somebody, he lost, right?
8:58BYU. Looks good in that game, though. You've to admit, Carr looked really, really good.
9:03Yeah, it's not CJ Carr's fault, right? Yeah. And they should have had another second, by the way.
9:08Yeah. I have Carr two in my rankings. You have him three.
9:11You and me have Mestemaker flipped. I have Mestemaker three.
9:14You have Mestemaker two. And then we're both Darian Mensah one overall, just to clear that up.
9:20Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So there's a lot of there's a lot of love for Mestemaker right now.
9:25And I think that, you know, I think Mensah has really shown that he can throw the ball and he could come
9:31in and probably help a franchise immediately. But there's going to be a little hesitation in that because of what we saw
9:38Cam Ward coming out of Miami, right? Yeah. So that may knock Darian Mensah down.
9:42But what Drew Mestemaker has that I feel like not a lot of other guys do is insane pocket presence, right?
9:49Like he he manipulates, moves up, steps up, moves around, steps away from pressure so easily, keeps his eyes downfield.
9:55And that is huge. And he can run when he wants to.
9:58Right. It's not the first thing that he thinks of to do, but he will absolutely take and run with it.
10:04That game against Oregon, that flip into the end zone was pretty incredible.
10:08Helicopter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was pretty awesome. So we know that he is more than willing to run.
10:14And, you know, just he's been in this system for a while and the dude will sling it.
10:19He will throw it downfield. And Wyatt Young has been the beneficiary of that as well.
10:24And he is putting on a nice show this season.
10:27You know, huge year for him. 477 yards and five touchdowns.
10:30Um, you know, ranks very high, uh, eight, 18th and touchdowns ninth in yards per route run is incredible out of over 600 wide receivers graded here.
10:38Um, you know, he does, he will drop it every once in a while, but he'll get yak.
10:44He has, uh, you know, a really good a dot and a 30.4% target share.
10:48So these guys have worked in tandem together. We've seen them work together since North Texas.
10:53We weren't sure if it was going to, you know, translate to moving up to the power four level.
10:59It absolutely has. And these guys have, you know, really boosted their draft stock.
11:03I'll tell you what, man, I think messed a maker in this quarterback class.
11:07Boggs, he is the upside case, right? Like the ceiling for this guy is on tap because he's someone who he did
11:14not start at quarterback in high school. He was a walk on right at North Texas.
11:19This fourth string guy ends up with being the starter here in 2025 has a fantastic season.
11:24And now he's doing it all over again at Oklahoma state.
11:27Like he is kind of like reminiscent. I'm not saying he has the upside of Josh Allen, but like that is the type of player he is.
11:35We has a cannon of an arm. He's more mobile than you think the guys just seem to love playing around him.
11:42Right. So he's a great locker room guy. He's a great locker room guy.
11:46But yeah, I think the upside case for Drew Mestemaker is there.
11:49We're seeing it play out in real time. So it's just been fantastic to watch.
11:54Wyatt Young is someone I currently have moved into 14 overall in my 2027 rookie rankings.
11:59You have him outside your top 20, Scott, but I imagine he's right.
12:02Kind of there as a, you know, late second, early third round pick for you.
12:07Yeah. I mean, not far off, right? Like I have Reed Harris at 20.
12:11I could put Wyatt Young there with no issue.
12:14Uh, that, that would not be a problem. KJ Duff as well.
12:17I don't have on my list. Their wide receiver class is looking nice and deep right now.
12:23So yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yeah. It feels like, you know, there's a top, you know, Jeremiah Smith gap, and
12:29then it's Becker, it's Coleman, maybe a little bit of a gap.
12:33And then it's like Marsh. And then maybe a little bit of a gap after that.
12:37And then it's like Ryan Coleman, Williams, Wyatt Young, dealer's choice at that point.
12:42Yeah, exactly. But there is some depth in your, so if you're in need of wide receivers, which I feel like we
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13:46All right, Boggs, another riser that we have here in our rankings, Isaac Brown running back out of Louisville.
13:52And look, it was a pretty slow start to the season for Isaac Brown, right?
13:56We saw a lot of Lincoln Keen holds early that this team was relying on, but it's turned around quickly for Brown here.
14:03125-yard showing against NC State, followed up by another 235 on the ground against the Seminoles.
14:08And this is a guy who was the ACC Rookie of the Year.
14:12So we've always viewed him as like probably a fringe top five back in this class if he could sustain it.
14:18He was banged up a little bit late last year.
14:21But Boggs, you have him locked back inside your top five at running back here.
14:26I mean, the speed, dude. He has NFL-level speed as a running back, no doubt.
14:30About 83 carries this year, 568 yards and four touchdowns.
14:33Also has 12 catches for 108 and a score as well.
14:3613 explosive runs at 19.2% target share, which is pretty high for running back.
14:41We like that. Especially for Keenholz, who's a bit of a more mobile quarterback and likes to take off with his legs more than most.
14:48Right. And then the last three weeks are really what has pulled me around.
14:52You know, I watched him play a little bit at NC State.
14:56He had nine carries only, but 125 yards and got in the end zone.
15:00And then that Florida State game, dude. He went nuclear in that one.
15:04He had a 97-yard rushing touchdown where he just torched the entire FSU defense.
15:08He had 17 carries for 235 yards and two scores.
15:11He was held in check against Syracuse last week.
15:14They did a really good job against him. Nine carries for only 11 yards.
15:18But he had two receptions and he took one to the house, 60 yards and a score.
15:23And he had big kick returns in that NC State game and in that FSU game as well.
15:28So what we're really seeing from here is a back that has, you know, taken a decent size workload.
15:34I don't ever think he's going to be a workhorse type of a guy, but a dude with legit NFL speed.
15:40And he will make guys miss. He has 29 missed tackles for us, which is 35th out of 426 graded backs.
15:47So lots and lots of missed tackles. Forrest, a little undersized at 5'9", 190, but, you know, put on 10 to 15 pounds of muscle.
15:54And you got yourself a little rock that rolls downhill and has absolute explosive speed.
15:59So really love watching Isaac Brown. And I think we're just on the tip of the iceberg as far as his potential goes.
16:05Yeah, this running back class will be super interesting to see how it shakes out.
16:10I feel like for most people now, there's still kind of a top two in this tier of Jane Baugh and Kawan Lacey.
16:17But outside of that, now you have this conversation opening up with really Isaac Brown could get all the way up to RB3.
16:24You know, Nate Frazier has been banged up a lot of this season.
16:28He's kind of in that mix. LJ Martin now hurt.
16:31He's going to be out at least until November.
16:33Hardy hasn't played. Yeah. Out of BYU. Hardy hasn't played.
16:36I like Justice Haynes, but he hasn't been anything special this season.
16:40And he's also been banged up. The Longhorns guys are eating into each other.
16:44Yeah. Yeah. So, like, there's not a ton. Like, I'll tell you what, 2028, though, that's going to be a really, really
16:51fun class, I think, for the running back position, man.
16:54There's going to be, and again, we say this every year, but just hype casting.
16:58If Robert's going to continue to do what he's doing, if Hawkins can go out there and continue to sledge, right?
17:04That's going to be a fun one. But I am a little bit down on this class as a whole, but Isaac
17:11Brown's certainly someone who's, you know, starting to come up to level water, if not higher.
17:16Let's go back to quarterbacks, though, where, you know, everyone remembers Austin Simmons a year ago as the four-star recruit.
17:22He waited his turn behind Jackson Dart to get his start in the Lane Kiffin system, only to lose his job a
17:28few weeks into the season after getting injured when Trinidad Shambliss comes in and just rocks the entire country.
17:34But then he comes out that year, gets rejuvenated both with this Mizzou team and, you know, not only helps the team, but also his NFL draft stock.
17:42This is a guy who's 6'4", 220, pretty mobile as well.
17:46So I think we knew the good school would always potentially be there, but I did not expect this kind of success
17:52where he ranks second in the SEC in passing yards at 253 per game, third in touchdowns as well with 14 of them.
17:59And he's limited himself to only two turnovers through the air.
18:02So he's turned Caden Lee into a stud at wide receiver.
18:06Jamal Roberts, we just mentioned, leading the SEC and rushing alongside him in that backfield.
18:10So, Bogman, do you think this is more just like a blip on the radar, a little of a hot streak for Austin Simmons?
18:17Or could this actually be him putting his stock, you know, very much in the hands of the NFL draft community?
18:24Yeah, I don't think it's a blip, right? And I think it would be a mistake to label it as a blip
18:30because this is a dude that was, you know, a massive recruit and based on traits, right?
18:35And I think that is what we're seeing right now is, you know, now that he has playing time, we're seeing some of those traits come to fruition.
18:44I mean, mainly the arm strength is just there.
18:46He has an NFL caliber arm already. It's really good.
18:49So that has been great, but he has been very inconsistent in his performance and his accuracy wanes, right?
18:55Like it hasn't week. Yeah, it hasn't led to too many bad plays.
18:59He only has, I think, two picks. But, you know, 111 yards against Troy on 11 completions.
19:04He only had 14 completions against Texas A&M, which was weird.
19:07But those are sandwiched with, you know, 23 for 296 and three against Mississippi State against Florida.
19:12Carved him up 23 of 30 for 340 and two scores.
19:16Yeah, best game. Ole Miss, 339, didn't throw a touchdown, but had that pick, right?
19:20And had a couple big time throws in some of those games.
19:24So we're seeing a little bit of hit and miss from Austin Simmons.
19:28I don't know that he's ready right now, but based on the traits that we've seen, he's probably getting drafted.
19:34Like if he decides to come out now, he's going to get drafted.
19:37So I don't think he should quite yet. We'll see what the rest of the season has for him and then, you know, the postseason.
19:45But definitely showing up on a lot of radars when we really didn't know what to think of him.
19:51And he wasn't, you know, he was down the list.
19:54But before, my God, he was behind all the guys that we've mentioned.
19:57And then, oh, I had him buried, man. I had him buried.
20:01Yeah. And now he's come to, he's at least in the top 10 right now of the quarterback.
20:06So, yeah, I think this is absolutely a riser and somebody we need to pay attention to.
20:12It's interesting because the one concern I have about Simmons, it's a little bit RPO based, right?
20:17Where if they don't get the run game going early like they did against Ole Miss, he does seem to struggle where
20:23it's just a lot of three and outs. It's not picking up the third down conversion when we need to rely on your arm.
20:30That's the one thing I want to see. Like if Roberts does get shut down and we don't see Hardy, you know,
20:37moving forward and Roberts has a down game or two, can Austin Simmons be someone who carries the team to victory?
20:43Because we have yet to see that, right? But it's still a loaded schedule.
20:47He's going to have plenty of opportunities to still keep on shining.
20:51And so I'm looking forward to the opportunity, but Austin Simmons kind of reminds me right now.
20:56He's in like this mid season, you know, Ty Simpson era of last year, right?
21:01Where one year starters, we don't have a lot of film on him.
21:04He's looked good at times, but he's also looked inconsistent at times.
21:08So we will see, you know, Ty Simpson finished the year on a decent note that got him, you know, taken inside
21:15the top 15 picks of the NFL draft, got him into the Sean McVay system.
21:19So looking good for him, but we shall see if Austin Simmons continues that trajectory or ultimately falls down the board moving forward.
21:26Only nine starts. So remember the whole Bill Parcells thing where he wants 40 starts or 35 starts or whatever it is.
21:33We're not even halfway there. So lots of room for growth.
21:36And also, you know, you give yourself enough rope to end your career as well with that many starts.
21:41But I trust that Austin Simmons, I trust in his traits, and I think he'll come around and be a very draftable player.
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25:08Okay, let's go to our biggest followers, Scott Bogman.
25:11This is a player, Stern at the top, who has had more starts than Austin Simmons, and he was our preseason number two ranked player.
25:18He's now dropped outside the top 25 after just two disaster performance, ultimately costing the Texas Longhorns back-to-back games against Oklahoma and Florida.
25:25It's Arch Manning right now, and he is surrounded by some of the most talent we have seen in the country right now.
25:32But there are a lot of questions around Arch's Texas tenure and whether or not he even declares for the NFL draft
25:39after, you know, really kind of a disaster of a stretch here.
25:42And Boggs, you can't really look at the numbers and, you know, at least on the surface and say that Arch has been terrible.
25:50But anyone who's watched Arch this year knows that he has a lot left to be desired out there on the field.
25:56This is a player with the legitimate name value.
25:59He's got the ideal size athletic profile to excel the next level.
26:02It's just, can you look past at some of these, you know, boneheaded mistakes he's made late in games that has costed
26:09the Sooners their perfect record, their number one ranking in the AP ranks as well.
26:13So what do you think? The Longhorns, you said the Sooners.
26:17Oh, sorry. Yeah, my bad. My bad. Mixing those guys up.
26:20I think we're not in the same room, Seth.
26:23Yeah, right. I just got one of the dome here.
26:26Boggs, what do you think is to come for Arch, though, the rest of 2026 and 2027, really?
26:31You know, the thing that sparked Arch to really, like, show his full self last year was when the Longhorns almost lost to Mississippi State, right?
26:39And in the second half of that game, when they're down, Arch knew, I just have to rip it.
26:45I have to go out and I have to sling this.
26:48We have to catch up. We have to play fast, right?
26:51Right now. I've watched every step that Arch Manning has taken in his career.
26:55So right now he is so holy and completely indecisive.
26:58He's holding onto the ball too long. He's double guessing himself.
27:02He's trying to come off the first read and go to the second one.
27:06Or he's getting the ball out too fast when he sees pressure and teams know it.
27:11That's why he got picked that second time against Oklahoma.
27:14The first one was just a terrible decision. Just an absolutely boneheaded, dumbass decision.
27:18The second one was they knew he's got happy feet now.
27:21He's going to sling this up for grabs. And they put the pressure on him and he did it.
27:27Currently, 26.9% pressure to sack rate is 223rd out of 264 graded quarterbacks.
27:31That is miserable. His turnover worthy play percentage, 4.2% is 196 out of 264.
27:35Wow. So really, it's the happy feet, man. And it's in his own head.
27:39The traits are all still there. He still has the arm to make every throw.
27:43He has great, amazing speed for a quarterback. It's there.
27:46They haven't been letting him use it as much.
27:49I think because he was banged up a little bit last season.
27:53They didn't want to go through the season with him at 70%.
27:56So they have been running him less. You got to let Arch be Arch.
28:01You got to let him rip it. You got to let him run it.
28:05And that is not what Sark is doing. I think he's hindering the production and maturity of Arch here.
28:10And it is just really bad because like you said, he has NFL level offensive line.
28:15He has NFL level playmakers surrounded by them. So why is this not working?
28:19It's not working because he's double clutching. He's holding the ball too long and he's in his own head.
28:25So he needs to just go out and sling it, do what comes instinctually and not overthink everything.
28:30And I think he can get back on the right track.
28:34But as it stands right now, there's no way he comes out.
28:37He's not a first round pick if he comes out.
28:40So he can rebuild it back up and he can still be the number one overall pick if the rest of the season he does it.
28:48But the Longhorns are giving Lacey behind him a lot of first team reps this week in case they need to replace him.
28:55So that's where we're at. We're at where he might get benched this week against Ole Miss.
29:00So there's no way he can be in my top 20.
29:03I just can't have him there. Yeah, I completely understand.
29:06Do you think it's something that if he does decide to play another year of college football, do you think he has to go elsewhere?
29:14Because, I mean, we got a lot of high-level recruits sitting behind him at Texas.
29:18He's one of them. I'm not 100% sure on that.
29:21And I wonder if they do can Sark, if he would follow Sark, right?
29:25I don't think he should. I don't think that's good for his development.
29:29Hasn't worked for him yet, right? Right, exactly. So I don't know about that.
29:33My gut says no, but I want to see Diabelle.
29:36So I'm not real sure. I don't know that he needs to go, but it's one or the other.
29:42I think if the Longhorns don't make the playoff, it's either Arch goes or Sark goes, and I think it's more likely the coach goes.
29:50Okay, all right. Well, we'll keep you updated here as much as we can, especially over there on the Betting Pros College
29:56football side of things and let you know what is the latest down there in Austin and what the future does look like for Arch Bannon.
30:04But right now, from a fantasy perspective, we're not expecting him to come out in this class, so we can't have him ranked inside the top 24.
30:12And if he does, I still don't know if you can have him ranked ahead of these other quarterbacks that we've kind of touched on today.
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31:09Another follower here at the quarterback position, Scott Bogman, is Julian Sand right now out of Ohio State.
31:15And it hasn't been a bad season at all for Sand.
31:18In fact, he's actually third in the country in passing yards and touchdowns.
31:22However, he has proven that he has been getting absolutely rattled under pressure and he's thrown up some stinkers against high-level competition.
31:29Your Texas Longhorn, 17 for 32, 53% completion percentage, 278 yards, one touchdown, one interception.
31:33And then last week against Indiana in Bloomington, he completed 15 of 29 passes, a 51.7% completion rate for 235 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions.
31:41He was just missing throws in that one. And now we actually have a new shoulder injury form as well that has flared up.
31:48And now he will be missing at least a couple weeks here.
31:52So he has dropped from 11 to 19 in our consensus rankings.
31:55Is that your read on the situation as well, Boggs, is just not playing good against high-level competition or pressure, really?
32:01Yeah, I think that's really the big part of it is, you know, it's the combination of we have a limited amount of starts for this guy.
32:10He's been great, right? Been really good in what we've seen from him.
32:13He looks like he's regressed a little bit this season.
32:16And now I don't know if we see him again this season after the shoulder injury or UCL or whatever we're calling it.
32:23So I think they've called it a shoulder injury.
32:26Dr. Chow looked at it and said it's probably UCL.
32:29So, you know, they don't have to tell us and they won't.
32:33So it's just it'll be a shoulder injury until we know exactly what it is.
32:37So I don't know that we see him again this season.
32:40And if we're not going to see him build upon this season, I don't know that he is going to decide to come out.
32:47Now, that's a difficult thing all in itself, because if you don't come out next year, you are not going to have
32:54the benefit of Jeremiah Smith catching the ball. I hope Chris Henry Jr.
32:58can be the next one up, right? He looks great.
33:01But Jeremiah Smith might be the best wide receiver in the history of college football.
33:05Right. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to be top 10 regardless and probably already is top 10 right now.
33:11So, yeah. Jeremiah Smith looks incredible. You won't have the benefit of him next year.
33:15And there's a big question of what are you going to look like without this Heisman level, you know, all pro worthy
33:22player right now that, you know, a lot of us are putting as the number one overall wide receiver right now in
33:28fantasy rankings moving forward, which is crazy. The dude hasn't played.
33:32He hasn't even finished his last college season and we're putting him there.
33:36So and he might deserve it. So Julian saying just the the tiny bit of regression this year plus the injury makes me think that he comes back.
33:44So I'm going to lower him in my rankings just because I don't think he's going to be out.
33:50We'll readjust if he does decide to go out.
33:52But I think because of the fallback and because of the injury, he's probably staying put at Ohio State another year.
33:59Yeah. And, you know, this was already a prospect that compared to these other quarterbacks we've talked about, he's undersized, right?
34:05And he's not the most mobile. So he's already kind of playing at a deficit and now he's not doing well under pressure.
34:12Well, if you get drafted to the NFL, especially if you're, you know, a top eight to 10 pick, you're going to
34:18be behind probably a bad offensive line, right? You're going to have to, you know, have these pass rushers in your face.
34:25Yeah. So I just do worry that, you know, maybe the ceiling is not there for Julian saying at the next level that we may be initially thought.
34:33But we'll keep you updated on that one. Another quarterback here that is just free fall right now is Sam Levitt at LSU.
34:40And keep in mind, Levitt was number nine overall in our preseason rankings.
34:44Albeit my fifth overall ranking did do some of that heavy lifting for him.
34:48But he's now outside both of our top 20s consensually also outside the top 25 as well.
34:53And, you know, he still does lead the SEC in passing yards.
34:57He's throwing an all-time high completion rate, which you would expect in a lean Kiffin offense.
35:02And also on pace for career-high rushing numbers. So it's not all bad.
35:06But the issue, Boggs, is when you watch Sam Levitt play for long stretches, he is drifting a lot to the right.
35:12He's also getting happy feet. And it feels like he's just kind of overly relying on his arm strength and his legs, right?
35:19He has a nation-high eight interceptions right now. So, Boggan, what have you seen out of Sam Levitt this season with also
35:26one of the all-star cast of all all-star cast in the country around him?
35:30A great offensive line. You know, running back situation isn't great.
35:33But he has, you know, six, seven, eight deep at wide receiver.
35:37Trader's green healthy when he's out there as well.
35:39You know, Sam Levitt has all of the upside to be the best quarterback in this class.
35:44And I understand why you ranked him high coming in, right?
35:48Like, and we're seeing a lot of that this season of why he would be one of the best.
35:53When he is moving in the pocket and he is ducking out of pressure.
35:58Twitchy as heck, yeah. Slinging the ball on a play that just no one can really make.
36:03You see the upside. It's there. And the numbers are proving it, too, right?
36:07He, like you said, really good stats this season.
36:10But my God, does he make a big mistake.
36:12Like a massive mistake in a critical part of the game.
36:16That game against Tulsa at home, right? Where, you know, he just did not look right.
36:20He had those picks in the first half. I think that was Law Tech.
36:24You're right. It was Law Tech. Yeah, yeah. I did the same thing.
36:28So, yeah, Law Tech. You're right. So, that game, I mean, just massive boneheaded mistake.
36:33And he has eight picks, 14 touchdowns, eight interceptions.
36:36And he throws them in bunches. Those lose you whole games in the NFL and frustrate coaches and get you benched.
36:42So, there's so much upside there. But I think you could put him, you know, he is performing way better.
36:48And I would have him ranked ahead of Arch right now because I do think that he would.
36:53He's more likely to leave school at this point and go to the NFL.
36:57But I think they're in the same bucket. I think you could put the three of these guys in the same bucket.
37:04Like, Zan has been the best. But he has size concerns and he's hurt and a little bit of regression.
37:10Arch is in his head. All the tools in the world to be the best quarterback should be the best quarterback isn't the best quarterback.
37:17So, in his head, he needs to straighten that stuff out.
37:21Maybe a sports psychologist. I don't know. And Sam Levitt, Tom Fernelli described him as getting the quarterback zoomies at some point in the game.
37:28Where he just, like, you know, almost Josh Allen-like as well.
37:31Where he just will not give up on a play that he should just chuck it out of bounds, move on to the next play.
37:39And he tries too hard to fit it into a window that is not there and throws the ball to the other team.
37:46So, he really needs to cut down on those turnover-worthy plays.
37:49Because everything else is there for him to fly up this board specifically with the rest of these quarterbacks kind of trending down for the most part.
37:57So, I think Levitt has the most upside to come up this board.
38:01But right now, I would say he's probably slipped from where we had him at the beginning of the season.
38:07We just need the playing timing, right? It's the same stuff we were kind of, you know, going on and on about
38:14with Kayla Williams coming in the NFL. That he's so good off script that we just need you to play on script a little bit more, right?
38:22And not have to rely on your athleticism and your cannon of an arm to, you know, make those throws.
38:28Use that when the play breaks down. But don't use it just because nothing's there.
38:32Use it when the play breaks down. Move out of the pocket.
38:36And I know you want to make a big play on every play, but not every play is a big play.
38:42You know, sometimes you need to throw it out of bounds.
38:45Not take the stupid hit, too. Because when you're moving like that, you're going to get crushed at some point, specifically playing in the SEC.
38:53So, yeah. Just need to make better decisions overall.
38:55And I think he is more viable to come out this year just because you have Landon Clark behind him.
39:01A guy who comes from Elon who, you know, if Sam Levitt comes back, he's in danger of losing that job, right?
39:08To Landon Clark. And also, you've, who's on Longstreet behind him who, you know, redshirt freshman, has not seen the field.
39:14But he is a former five-star, right? Really, really high recruited guy who transferred from USC to come and play under Lane Kiffin.
39:21So, I just think with those guys under center, it's going to be dicey if Levitt does try to come back and stay at LSU here.
39:29So, yeah. I think he has seven, eight weeks here if we see LSU make a postseason run where he's really going to have to up his stock.
39:37But SEC play has not been kind to him so far.
39:41We shall see how it plays out the rest of the way for Sammy Levitt.
39:45The final biggest faller for us so far this season at the midpoint is Ahmaud Hardy running back out of Missouri.
39:51And this is a guy who's yet to play this season.
39:55We have no update on his timetable to return from Eli Drinkowitz right now after suffering a gunshot wound on May 10th at a concert in Kentucky.
40:03And Jamal Roberts, in his absence, has been great, currently leading the country in rushing yards.
40:07So, I don't know if this means that maybe Hardy comes back to Mizzou in 2027 and splits this backfield with Roberts.
40:14Maybe he transfers entirely. Maybe he does enter the NFL draft anyway.
40:18Or maybe he just retires. Like, this is a bad injury, Boggs.
40:21It seems like to his leg that, like, I just don't know what to expect for Hardy.
40:26We know he's super talented, but it just doesn't seem to be going his way here in 2026.
40:32Yeah, we're not trying to blame the victim here, right?
40:35But this is looking more and more like it's just going to be a whole medical redshirt year.
40:40So, what are we going to get from him when he comes back?
40:44What does he look like? Drinkowitz has said, what we want from Hardy.
40:48And he said, and I'm not going to, if he's back at practice, I'm tweeting it.
40:53You won't hear it from Pete Thamel. You won't hear it from anybody else.
40:57It'll be from me. So, he's ready for Hardy to come back.
41:00Hardy isn't ready. And there were reports that this bullet hit the bone, which is really bad, right?
41:06So, I just, I don't know what we're getting when we get him back, if we get him back.
41:11So, like we said, we're not trying to blame the guy that got shot.
41:16It sucks. And if he comes back and plays and looks like he did last year, he's my number one running back.
41:22And it wouldn't be particularly close with Lacey being so banged up already.
41:26Hardy. So, I really want to see him play, but do we get him back this season and do we get him back at all?
41:34I just think these are questions that we have to have before we keep him on our list, right?
41:39He was definitely on our list. We thought we were going to miss a big chunk of the season, but maybe he's going to come back.
41:47We'd have some news by now. We just have no news.
41:50We don't know anything that's happening, whether he's close, whether he's far away, whether he's thinking about retiring or staying or transferring or whatever.
41:57We've heard absolutely nothing. So, yeah, I think that's really it is.
42:01We just need to get some type of real update from Ahmad Hardy, right?
42:05Is he going to is he trying to play?
42:08Is it clear he's not going to be able to play this year, but next year is on the table and what's happening moving forward?
42:15I think that's just what we need to know the plan and we need to see him.
42:20And I don't know if we get either one of those this year.
42:24Yeah, he was six overall coming into our preseason consensus 2027 rookie rankings.
42:28And this is just one of those situations that if you and I are drafting rookies today, I can't put Hardy inside
42:35my top 24 because there's no way with the risk of him maybe never playing football again.
42:40We don't know. Again, that's speculative. We're, you know, T's and P's up to the guy.
42:45We hope he can come back because what a terrible circumstance, right?
42:48Just and I think this was one of those situations like he's back in his home area, right?
42:54And this happens and it's just like so tragic, dude.
42:57It just it just stinks. You know, so, you know, thoughts out to him, man.
43:01We hope to see Ahmad Hardy back on the football field very soon.
43:05And if not, you know, it's one that we'll have to continue to monitor and maybe we see him again in 2027.
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44:00And let's go ahead and get to our consensus update.
44:03Superflex rookie big board. Scott and I both put together our top 20 rankings and then we average that out to an
44:10ECR that gave us a top 25. And at number one, it is Jeremiah Smith still at 1.0 of an ECR ranking.
44:16Number two, consensus lead Charlie Becker moving up. Cam Coleman at number three.
44:20Darian Mensah, your first quarterback off the board at four.
44:23Kawan Lacey at five. Drew Mestemaker, six. CJ Carr, seven.
44:26Dante Moore, eight. Eight. Nine is trade as green.
44:29Nick Marsh follows him at 10. Jane Baugh, Jamari Johnson.
44:32That rounds out your first round. And then into the second round, Trinidad Shambliss, who we haven't talked about, but this guy's been absolutely awesome too.
44:39There's no longer denying it. He's an older prospect.
44:42He's one of those guys you do wonder if he is just a great college football quarterback or if he's the real deal at the next level.
44:50Well, he's at 13 right now for us. Ryan Coleman Williams currently banged up.
44:54Hope to see him back out on the field soon at 14.
44:58Wyatt Young, as we mentioned, at 15. Jane Maeva, another great quarterback that we haven't talked about, at 16.
45:04Austin Simmons at 17. Nate Frazier, 18. Jolene Sane, LJ Martin, Isaac Brown, KJ Duff, Ryan Wingo, Reed Harris, and Justice Haynes to round out your top 25.
45:12Boggs, let's talk about the top of this board here.
45:15It still feels like it's Jeremiah Smith and it's everyone else, but I think then there's a nice tier between Charlie Becker
45:22down to, you know, really the CJ Carr, Dante Moore.
45:25Where would you kind of group that second tier together?
45:28Yeah, I think you're right. I think it is Smith and then Becker and Coleman together.
45:32And then it's the three quarterbacks with Lacey, right?
45:35Like Lacey is just, he's the most complete back, I think, in this class.
45:39Got to get him healthy though, right? Been banged up.
45:42That's a big, that's the big knock on him.
45:45Thought thrown injury last week, which was good to see against Missouri.
45:49But now they also have this other young stud running back there in Oxford that he's kind of splitting time with.
45:55So we just need to see him really kind of, he doesn't even need to be a workhorse, but just flash that
46:01brilliance that we saw a year ago. Right, exactly.
46:04So I still think he's that same guy. So I still have him pretty high.
46:09But I do think our quarterbacks are correct here between Mensa, Mestamaker, Carr.
46:12You know, we both have Mensa up there. We know that probably the ceiling is the most limited for him.
46:18Yeah. You know, maybe put Dante Moore right in that group as well, because he's really out because of this injury.
46:25But how much is that going to take off?
46:27He was still going to be a top three pick last year.
46:31Like he's not getting outside the first round, no matter if, even if we don't see him again this year, which is
46:38a possibility now that we have to keep in mind with where Oregon season is.
46:42Oh man. Yeah. That's, it's been brutal for Oregon, but Mestamaker just so much upside.
46:47I want to see Carr in the tournament. Like, you know, Mestamaker, I don't know if they make it.
46:52Oregon's not making it. Yeah. CJ Carr, I want to see against this top competition because I could easily move him over Darian Mensa.
46:59That wouldn't be a big issue. I don't think Darian Mensa is special, special.
47:04I just think he's the best quarterback in his class currently.
47:07Very complete. Yes. So, and then, you know, there's a lot of skill position talent here.
47:12Jayden Ball, we've seen flashes of brilliance from him.
47:14You know, a couple of weeks ago, he's probably firmly in the Heisman running.
47:19I don't think he is at this point. Texas did a pretty good job against him as well.
47:24Trade has green has been hurt, but tons of upside at the tight end position.
47:28So yeah, there's a lot of really good pieces on this board.
47:32So yeah, at 12 specifically, I kind of wanted to spotlight Jamari Johnson.
47:36He was someone you have a good bit higher than I do in my own rankings.
47:41I'm 15 overall. You have all the way up at seven.
47:44He was also banged up for part of this season.
47:47Is it just that you've liked what you've seen when he's been healthy?
47:51Because he has been an absolute stud. And you think with some of the, you know, stuff happening right now at the
47:57wide receiver position with Evan Stewart potentially missing the rest of the year after that DUI, we'll see alleged DUI.
48:03That is what we'll see what, you know, his ultimate punishment is from Dan Lanning.
48:08But is that like, is this also like, Hey, I like what I've seen from Johnson and also kind of a projection through the rest of the year.
48:16Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of, you know, the stat lines have not been good the last few weeks, but also no Dante Moore.
48:24Right. So, uh, 119 yards in that game at USC when he came back with Dante Moore.
48:29And then of course, Dante Moore left that game.
48:32So, but just from what we saw last year, like he looked better than Sadiq last year and Sadiq was great, right?
48:38In six, five to 55, he has a type of physical tools that you cannot teach.
48:43So between him and trade as green, he's healthier at this point.
48:47So it's kind of a coin flip between those two tight ends for me.
48:51But I think that he has all the skill to be a top tier tight end moving forward to the next level.
48:57Just, he doesn't have the quarterback play currently on this team to get the ball and make his move.
49:03So I'm still kind of going based off of what I saw a lot last year from Jermaine Johnson.
49:09What are your thoughts on Jane Maeva? Because he's someone that I have firmly inside my top 14.
49:14He was outside your top 20 to me. Like I'm kind of done messing around.
49:19Like I've consistently this whole year, I feel like been flipping him and Julian saying, and like, I just think Maeva is
49:25the next level type of passer where he's bigger.
49:28He seems like he plays a little bit more in rhythm, even under pressure.
49:32Um, that I, I just think coaches are going to love and he's coming from a Lincoln Riley offense that has produced many, many NFL quarterbacks as well.
49:40So he's someone that I have moved up my rankings.
49:43I think he is, you know, maybe he's still not a first round pick, but I think he could be late day
49:50one, early day two right now with how he's playing, especially, you know, really breaking in a new group of pass catchers.
49:57Yeah. Yeah. And he's been great. Like, I don't have any knocks on Jane Maeva here.
50:01I probably, you know, I could flip him and Austin Simmons.
50:05No problem. I think maybe Simmons just has better raw tools than Jane Maeva.
50:09So, um, but I think they're both really good.
50:12So, um, he's definitely one of those guys. I just think Shambliss, like, I think Shambliss is too overlooked at this point.
50:18And maybe I'm doing the same to Maeva at this point, but you know, people look at Shambliss and see his size and think, no, no, thanks.
50:26What? We did this with Brock Purdy and now he's one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
50:32Right. So like, I just, I don't like the dismissiveness of, uh, Shambliss.
50:35So him and Maeva probably interchangeable and I probably need to have him on this list.
50:40So a good call out by you for sure.
50:43I would, you know what? I'm just going to make the move now.
50:47I'm going to put him in where I have Simmons and take Simmons off this list.
50:52Okay. So, okay. Um, quick question for you as well at the running back position is, we have guys like LJ Martin,
50:58like Nate Frazier that are banged up right now.
51:01Does that, because I have them, um, right outside my, my top 20.
51:05So they did not make my, my consensus list here.
51:08I do like the upside for both of them.
51:10Nate Frazier is the one that I specifically kind of a little bit worry about just because when he has come back, he's getting limited touches.
51:18We're seeing all of a sudden the third string running back, you know, go for nearly 200 yards against Alabama.
51:24I worry that Frazier doesn't come back to like an elite workload at any time.
51:29And like, that was always kind of the question with his frame, right?
51:33Is, is, can he hold up at the next level?
51:36So I don't worry about the athleticism from Frazier, but I, I do think that this was not the season that you
51:42wanted to go out and put that on tape.
51:45No. And I, I honestly, I would have Martin and Frazier probably just behind Nick Marsh, uh, if they were healthy, right?
51:51Like I, I believe in these guys. So that's kind of why I haven't completely had them fall off my list.
51:58I think Nate Frazier can be a great almost, you know, maybe I'm helmet scouting here, but it reminds me a little bit of Deandre Swift, right?
52:06Yeah. Who undersized, but can do everything. So I really do like watching him play.
52:10And LJ Martin is a workhorse, right? I don't know.
52:13Do you remember watching Jamal Williams at BYU? I know that was a long time ago.
52:18Like reminds me a little bit of that feel, right?
52:21Just a guy that can carry the full workload, but he got hurt.
52:25So can he carry the full workload? Right. I think, um, I think his injury was in, I think it was in one of those weather games.
52:33So I'm not going to put it all on him, but yeah, these guys had moved down my board, but I just
52:40can't take them off because I do think they have very high end potential.
52:44Last couple of players to talk about here. KJ Duff, Ryan Wingo, Reed Harris, kind of this next group of wide receivers who are up here.
52:51I think Duff is just brilliant dude. I think with not only his athletic profile, but what type of dominator rating he
52:58is commanding right now for a really bad Rutgers team has just been overly impressive.
53:03So I've loved to see that. Ryan Wingo, we know like, you know, the tools, but he, he still always feels like
53:09a little of a gadget player at the next level.
53:12Like I just haven't seen him really take off and maybe we never will, but what's your thoughts here on Duff, uh,
53:19Wingo and Reed Harris, a guy who, you know, you've continued to have in your top 20 now for, uh, you know, really last six or so weeks.
53:27Yeah. And you can throw a Marian Miller in there from ASU as well.
53:31Right? Like I think this next tier of wide receivers, it's Duff, it's Wingo, it's Deuce Robinson.
53:36You put Wesco in there, right? Deuce Alexander, TJ Moore.
53:39There are so many Satania. There are so many good wide receivers.
53:43Yeah. Wyatt Young, uh, we didn't mention, um, you know, if Mario Craver can stay on the field for A&M, he's pretty good as well.
53:50So there are so many good wide receivers. It's hard to narrow them.
53:54Uh, I watch Wingo. I know he's way more than a gadget player.
53:58It's just the dumb way that Sark, like every, it feels like every second half starts with a screen to Wingo or
54:05it's a fake screen to Wingo because they do it so often.
54:08Every team is used to it. So, um, but you could see he takes those, he gets one block and he's gone in a blink.
54:16He gets downfield and college open and goes up to make those, you know, off kilter passes that Arch Manning, uh, has been throwing.
54:23He comes down with them. So he's going to make a quarterback look good and he has crazy bursts.
54:29So I'm, uh, I'm very confident Ryan Wingo is going to be a good player in the NFL.
54:34And then it's like your pick of the big men, right?
54:37Who of these big guys do you like? You like KJ Duff.
54:41I like Reed Harris. I also like KJ Duff.
54:44I could easily move KJ Duff ahead of, of Reed Harris.
54:47They're both there. Deuce Robinson is in that group as well.
54:50Like these guys have things that you cannot teach.
54:53You cannot teach six, five with, uh, you know, vice grip hands and, uh, you know, decent enough speed to beat guys.
54:59Um, you know, we, we've seen a lot of that.
55:02So, and even a guy like Brian Wesco, he isn't that big, but he's six, two and super fast, a four, four type guy.
55:10So, and Ryan Coleman Williams is just like, looked so much better outside of obviously getting hurt again.
55:15But yeah, a lot of these guys, whether it's like a one, two, like we saw Deuce Alexander just smoke Louisville twice, right?
55:22Like, um, you could throw him in there with that speed.
55:25So, uh, there, there's a massive group of that, like second to third tier wide receivers that I think could all be on this list.
55:33Okay. Well, let's go ahead and get out of here with a little rapid fire and Scott, let's start out here at
55:39the top where I want to ask you, which prospect are you most excited to watch over the next month?
55:45The next four weeks are going to tell us a lot from a college football playoff standpoint, but also here from a dynasty perspective as well.
55:53I want to see if Deshaun Bishop can keep doing what he's been doing with the quarterback issues that Tennessee is at, right?
56:00Okay. Uh, five, 10, two Oh eight. Uh, he's has 10 touchdowns already.
56:04583 yak. That's six in the country. Wow. He's at 36 miss tackles force.
56:08That's 12th in the country. 21 explosive runs is 11th.
56:11He's not much of a receiver. Eight catches for 54 yards, but this last three games against Auburn, 34 carriers for two
56:1720 and three Arkansas 19 for one 38 and one.
56:20And I don't know why they didn't give him the ball way more in that game.
56:25It didn't make a lot of sense. And then against Alabama in the wind 32 carries for 159 and two scores.
56:32This is Ken Walker type numbers from college, right?
56:34Where he's just the workhorse. You know, it's coming because a quarterback play has been spotty and he makes it happen anyway.
56:41So I'm really excited to see it's a Sean Bishop can push his stock up.
56:45Yeah. I mean, all of a sudden the Vols have life, right?
56:49They're kind of on their last, last breath going into the third day, uh, third Saturday in October, they came out with
56:55the big win and it hasn't been because McIntyre's looked great under center based on Brandon, apparently riding the pine right now, and he's healthy.
57:03So just like not great. And what's crazy about this is like, there's always been like these running backs at Tennessee, whether
57:09it was the Jalen rights of the world and, uh, like, like that are always exciting and they're quick backs and they're
57:16twitchy, but we've never seen like a true workhorse, right?
57:19Because this has always been an air raid type of offense and they haven't been able to win that way this season.
57:26It's been ground and pound win with a stout defense right there.
57:29Right. So, um, I'm also excited to see if Bishop can continue to carry this, uh, Tennessee Vols team into the CFP.
57:36Which prospect are you most worried about rest of season bogs?
57:39I mean, you have to ask me this question.
57:42It's arch, of course, you know, uh, I think cause arch really, like we said, this next game I'm worried about for
57:48him because there is a chance that he comes out of this game and you know, Texas beats Ole Miss at home looks way better.
57:56Uh, both the wide receivers put up huge numbers and everyone's, ah, arch is fine.
58:00I don't know what we were worried about. It's only two losses guys.
58:04What were you talking about? Or they look terrible and arch gets benched and we don't see him at Texas anymore.
58:10There is such a wide chasm of possibilities for arch moving forward.
58:14So he has to be the guy that I'm the most worried about.
58:18And that's, you know, take my fandom out of it just for a prospect in this class.
58:23It's, it's a major, are you going to be Fernando Mendoza?
58:26Are you going to be Will Levis? That's like the question that I have for arch right now.
58:32And that is a, uh, world of difference. Who is the dynasty community too high on collectively?
58:37Do you think Scott, someone that maybe, you know, whether that's consensus or whether that's just group think has not really caught up to this prospect in particularly.
58:45Oh man. I, I don't know if I have a good answer to that.
58:49Is there one that stands out to you? Wayne Knight.
58:52Wayne Knight is the one because of his size.
58:55He's tiny. It's just, it's just like, I've seen him, you know, push.
58:59I've seen him push up as high as RB three in this class.
59:03And look, nobody loves the G six more than me.
59:06And where Wayne Knight come. No one loves JMU like I do, but, and it's been impressive to see what he's been able to do at UCLA.
59:14But I just think when you're five, seven, five, eight, maybe like, we don't know the true size of this guy.
59:20You're really punching upwards. Um, right. And I just do worry about it.
59:24I do think he has speed, but I don't know if he has like high end speed.
59:29That's going to get him like to, to be that, you know, that small and have a role at the next level.
59:36You have to have under four, four speed. And I just don't know if Wayne Knight has that.
59:41So Wayne Knight is the one prospect that I just think we're getting a little too, you know, head over heels here.
59:48And you know, I, I like the player. I'm excited to see what he can do rest of season with UCLA in
59:54a position to not only make the big 10 championship, but maybe make a CFP birth as well.
60:00I just think maybe we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here on there, you know, just brilliant running back.
60:06Yeah. You know, I'm not a threshold guy, right?
60:08Like I don't really enjoy when teams say, well, if quarterbacks hands aren't this big, we're not taking them.
60:14If a player's at this tall, we're not taking like, I think that stuff is dumb, uh, because it is led to miss opportunities.
60:21So often we just talked about Brock party. Right.
60:24And I think people are doing that to shambles a little bit right now, but for the running back position in size, uh, you gotta be five nine.
60:32I think that's like five, nine is the minimum of what I want.
60:36Maybe was MJD might've been five, eight. So maybe five, eight is the threshold, but you can't be five, seven.
60:42You know, we've seen it from got Darren Sproles, unbelievable college player and adds some good years in the NFL.
60:48Sure. Never the same guy. Donald Pumphrey, right? Donald Pumphrey was amazing at San Diego state.
60:53So we've had enough of these lessons in the past of look, this guy's just too small to play at the NFL level at that position.
61:01You know what I mean? So we'll see what puns can do at corner, but as far as running back goes, you
61:07gotta be able to handle at least a little bit of a workload.
61:11And, uh, I, I think you're right. I think Wayne nights probably just a little bit too small for that, unless we're not measuring him.
61:18Right. If he comes in at five, eight and a half at the combine, I'll be way more, uh, you know, I'll
61:25be way more impressed, but I think he's going to come in at like five, six and a half.
61:31So, okay. And I got to work. Yeah. I agree with you there.
61:35Last one for us before we get out of here, who is the dicey community not talking about enough right now as November approaches?
61:42I mean, you mentioned one of them, Isaiah Satania from, uh, Oklahoma five, 10, one, eight, five.
61:47He's been playing with a bad quarterback and Johnny material here at 33.
61:51For 442 yards and two touchdowns, but a 26.2 target share.
61:54And he's been doing it, uh, recently, right against Georgia, nine targets, eight catches, 81 yards.
61:59He had another nine for five and 64 yards only against Texas, but he had those huge two first downs at the
62:05end to seal the game for the Sooners and got his foot in like incredible balance, incredible, uh, ball skills as well.
62:12And against Kentucky, 14 targets, eight catches and 83 yards.
62:15So a guy that is finally healthy and moving forward to Tanya is one of them.
62:20And then I think Anthony Evans, the third, the wide receiver from Mississippi state five 11, 180, another undersized guy, but 63,
62:26uh, targets 47 catches, 614 yards, five scores, a 31.2% target share working with Camario Taylor and his last three games.
62:33I mean, against LSU, he did catch seven balls, but only for 40 yards because, uh, you know, no Camario in that game.
62:39But the two before that against Missouri, 12 targets, eight catches, 114.
62:43He put 15 targets, 12 catches, 166 yards and two scores on Bama.
62:47And Bama has some of the best secondary players in the country.
62:51So, uh, Anthony Evans, I think is very underrated along with Isaiah Satania.
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