The Draft Rankings - 2027 SEC Early Football Preview | Who is on the Hot Seat?
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0:47Welcome back to the Draft Ranking Show. I'm Cody Carpenter.
0:50It's been a couple of weeks. It's been about a month since we last did a show.
0:562027 Top 500 Big Board kind of preview watch list situation.
1:00So as we go into the summer, it's been a little watch, some film on some of these players.
1:06And now we're going to be talking about some early previews before media days kick off.
1:12We're three weeks away today from SEC media days kicking off.
1:15ACC media days will be right before that. I think Big Ten is right after that.
1:21They're all around each other, and they're all just a couple of weeks away.
1:25So we're going to be doing some early preview shows to get this thing started back up, to get the engine cranking,
1:33to get the oil flowing through all the gears.
1:36And today it's going to be SEC to kick things off.
1:39First and foremost, if you do look at the SEC schedule in comparison to everybody else, I know people are going to say SEC, SEC.
1:48But the College Football Strength of Schedule rankings from College Football News that was released a couple of weeks ago had seven
1:55of the ten toughest schedules in 2026 coming from the SEC.
1:59Arkansas with the toughest schedule in the sport, Oklahoma, Texas, Purdue at four, Florida at five, Alabama at eight, Mississippi State nine, and Kentucky at ten.
2:07Those are seven of the ten toughest schedules in college football in 2026 according to collegefootballnews.com.
2:13So we're going to jump into it and why, the what, everything like this, talking about each team here for about the next 30 minutes or so.
2:22I do want to just say, please click that like button.
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2:31The schedule plan, the schedule plan for the next, I would say, six to seven weeks until the season officially kicks off in late August.
2:39Six to seven weeks. We're going to be doing two shows a week.
2:44So we'll be doing Tuesday and Thursday. The podcast will be up at noon on Tuesday and Thursday.
2:50And then the video will be up at 6 p.m.
2:53on YouTube on Tuesday and Thursday. And then once we get to the season, I'm going to try and go to three shows a week.
3:02That's going to be the plan. We'll have more concise shows.
3:05But for the next six weeks, I'm planning on between 20 and 30 minute shows to get us ready for the season,
3:13to get us previewed for all these players that we need to know going into the season, to know what we need
3:20to know about these conferences, the G5 teams, the Power 4 teams, everything alike.
3:25Here on the channel for the draft rankings as we head into what could potentially be the greatest draft class in the history of the sport.
3:33All right. I appreciate you guys. Love you guys for locking in.
3:37Let's start the quarterback position. Let's just I mean, I want to jump team by team, but I just want to say the quarterback position.
3:46When you look at this thing, it's really hard to look back and say, what does this quarterback you know?
3:52What is this group of quarterbacks compared to his story?
3:56Historically, what can you go back to and say, yep, this is comparable to blank year?
4:01Because top to bottom right now, if you look at the consensus big boards in for the 2027 draft, right?
4:08These are the quarterbacks at the top of the conversation.
4:11Arch Manning, Lenoris Sellers, Trinidad Chambliss, John Mateer, Sam Leavitt.
4:14That's five dudes right off the rip, off the rip that are in like top 50 conversations right now.
4:21Then you have underrated guys like Austin Simmons, who was supposed to be starting for Ole Miss last year.
4:27He's currently the quarterback at Missouri. A lot of people like Marcel Reed from Texas A&M.
4:32I'm not one of those guys. George McIntyre is a sleeper quarterback at Tennessee.
4:37Six foot six, 215 pounds, delivers the ball high, looks like a vintage Tennessee quarterback, like the Hendon hookers.
4:43He looks like Nico, like he fits that exact mold of what Tennessee quarterbacks need to be.
4:49Gunnar Stockton at Georgia, really just good quarterback. Saw him down at the Manny Passing Academy a couple weeks ago, just a really good quarterback.
4:58He's not going to wow you in really any setting, but he's just a really good quarterback.
5:03And he knows how to win football games. That's what matters.
5:07Byron Brown transferred up from South Florida to Auburn with his coach, Alex Golish, to Auburn.
5:12Kenny Minchie transferred away from Notre Dame. He was sitting behind CJ Carr, who was competing to be QB1 this year.
5:19Kenny Minchie's now at Kentucky. He transferred into Kentucky.
5:22You have Arch Manning, I brought up before, with Texas.
5:26Your biggest ones, though, it's Arch, it's Trinidad right now.
5:29Arch, Trinidad, and Sellers are kind of your big pointing at them being first-round conversation guys around the Dante Moore, the Julian Sands from the Big Ten.
5:38We'll talk about it on another show. The Jade Maiavas, et cetera.
5:42The sleepiest player, I think, in this whole conversation at the quarterback position is Kamario Taylor, the quarterback from Mississippi State.
5:49You're talking about a guy that's 6'4", 6'5". Pretty good build.
5:53Could gain a little bit of weight. But he's going to run the RPO strong at Mississippi State.
5:59Mississippi State's not expected to do much. They're expected to finish 15th in the SEC right now.
6:04If you look at the FanDuel odds, Arkansas is dead last, 16 with a new head coach.
6:10Mississippi State's at 15. If that happens, I think Lebby might be out at Mississippi State at the end of the year.
6:17Kentucky's at 14 with a new head coach. Vanderbilt projected to finish 13th, according to FanDuel.
6:23So that's where the big drop-off happens. So Arkansas's plus 25,000.
6:26Mississippi State's plus 20,000. Kentucky's plus 12,500. Vanderbilt's plus 10,000.
6:30And this is all to win the conference, to win the SEC.
6:34Then it's a big jump from plus 10,000 Vanderbilt to plus 4,500 South Carolina with Lenoris Sellers.
6:40That means they are currently projected to finish, what is that, that would be 10th.
6:45Auburn's plus 4,000. Missouri's plus 3,500. Another big jump up to Florida at plus 2,200 with a quarterback situation that we don't
6:52know quite what the answer is yet. Is it Aaron Filo who transfers into from Georgia Tech with his offensive coordinator?
6:59Or is it Trammell Jones, the young boy that is a stud, that just is the opportunity enough quite yet.
7:06He's got the weaponry at Florida. Can he surpass Filo during fall camp?
7:10We'll wait and see on that. Tennessee plus 2,000.
7:13Then you start getting into the guys that are actually favored to win this conference.
7:18Texas plus 300. Georgia plus 3,10. A&M plus 8,50.
7:21Alabama plus 8,50. LSU plus 8,50. Ole Miss plus 9,50.
7:24And then you have Oklahoma and John Mateer plus 1,100 projected to finish right around 7th.
7:30In the SEC. Do I think that that's how the whole thing shakes out?
7:34It kind of makes a lot of sense right now as far as Texas and Georgia go.
7:40If you look at the last couple of years in draft picks, these have been the two teams that have led the conference in draft picks.
7:49Drafted. A&M did jump into this conversation last year.
7:52They had 10 guys drafted. Bama had 10 guys drafted.
7:55They did both beat out Georgia and Texas. Georgia had eight guys drafted in 2026.
8:00Texas had a little bit of a down year, but they're still, because the last two previous years before that were so
8:07loaded, they still are sitting near the top of this conversation with Georgia as far as total players drafted.
8:14Sorry. Words tough to use this morning. When I look at the SEC schedule going into 2026, early season schedule is never going to be the strongest.
8:23There's a couple of matchups that when September 5th rolls around, you might look at that Baylor-Auburn game that we got to watch last year.
8:31That thing's going to have DJ Legway facing off against Byron Brown.
8:35DJ Legway is now at Baylor. That was an SEC matchup quarterback-wise a year ago.
8:40Baylor, Auburn, Legway, and Byron Brown. That's going to be a fun one to watch.
8:45Clemson-LSU. We're going to get the Death Valley rematch again.
8:49No kid. Club Nick on the Clemson side. I think the quarterback at Clemson, his first name escapes me, but the last name is Visinia.
8:57He's been there for a minute. LSU, of course, will have Sam Levitt back behind the helm for the Tigers on September 5th.
9:05That's a 7.30 p.m. kickoff as far as that game is concerned.
9:09The other big one will be the next weekend, Oklahoma-Michigan.
9:12Oklahoma is currently looking like they're going to be ranked number six in America versus Michigan.
9:17This was a big game last year, right? The Underwood game.
9:21He looked good. Didn't look great. McTeer looked great.
9:24Then he got banged up in the following week, this September 12th, for that big one.
9:29The next real big one is the official start of SEC play.
9:33The first official SEC game of the year will be Alabama and Kentucky.
9:38Alabama and Kentucky. That'll be the big first SEC kickoff of the year, so it'll be potentially Keelan Russell.
9:44Keelan Russell, a quarterback out of Duncanville High School in Texas, currently competing with Austin Mack, who's been in this DeBoer system
9:51for three years, was back at Washington with him for a year.
9:55Massive quarterback, 6'5", 6'6". But Keelan Russell, 6'1", 6'2", 210 pounds, was the number one quarterback coming out of high school over about a year ago now.
10:04I think Russell's got the gas to take this job.
10:08And I think his fluidity, his rushing upside, his consistency as a passer as far as accuracy goes, I think leads me
10:15to believe that Russell can win this job out.
10:18That'll take him into a game against Kentucky where Kentucky's going to have Kenny Minchie at the helm.
10:24They've got some weapons. They've got some new weapons at Kentucky that, I'll be honest, I'm kind of a fan of, and
10:32I've been paying a little bit of attention as far as the offseason goes, following over there on the on-three side.
10:39I think the on-three side is like LS, so I want to get that right.
10:44KSR, KSR Plus, shout out to KSR Plus. They've been kind of keeping us up to date with some of the, I
10:51don't know, it's the information coming out of spring practice, summer workouts.
10:55Nick Anderson, who was at Oklahoma, went to LSU, hasn't really done a lot since his freshman year at Oklahoma.
11:02He's now at Kentucky. Shane Carr transferred in. DJ Miller's there.
11:05I think they've got another burner on the outside.
11:08His name escapes me. But as far as their offensive line, they completely overhauled the offensive line.
11:14They bring in Lance Hurd, who was at Tennessee, a big spend at the left tackle position.
11:20Tegra Tishibola, who was a guard on the National Championship Ohio State team.
11:24He's now on the Kentucky Wildcats. CJ Baxter, the starting running back for Texas, the number one ranked recruit, the running back
11:31position a couple of years ago out of Florida, is now the running back for Kentucky.
11:37Javante Barnes, another high-ranking running back from Oklahoma, went to Kentucky.
11:40Then you have Kenny Minchie on top at the quarterback position.
11:44So a lot of new faces in Kentucky, along with their head coach, Will Stein, who was the offensive coordinator up at
11:51Oregon for the last couple of years. A little bit of movement on the defensive side of the ball.
11:58They got themselves a new middle linebacker, new nose tackle.
12:01Middle linebacker came from Texas, a nose tackle. I think Jamarian Harkless.
12:05I think he came by way, maybe like Illinois, if my memory stands straight.
12:10I like where Kentucky's at. It's a good matchup for Kentucky early.
12:14If you get that freshman, you know, redshirt freshman quarterback in Keelan Russell.
12:18Alabama's got enough weaponry. But, you know, they're getting a lot of hate, I guess you'd say, nowadays because of the lack
12:26of recruiting in state in the 2027 class. But that does not mean that the 2026 roster is that bad.
12:32It's just not the old school Alabama that everyone is used to.
12:36That same weekend, September 12th, you do have the out-of-conference game between Texas and Ohio State.
12:42That is looking to potentially be a 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, whatever the matchup's going to be.
12:47September 12th looks like that's going to be the big one.
12:51Arch Manning versus Julian Sayan. We'll talk about Texas after a bit here.
12:55And then the next weekend we'll get into a little bit more SEC play as we'll get Arkansas and Georgia.
13:02We'll get A&M, Kentucky. We'll get South Carolina, Mississippi State, Auburn, Florida.
13:06And we're into the swing of things. Ole Miss, LSU.
13:09Ole Miss, LSU, anybody? Anybody want to see the Lane Kiffin Bowl?
13:13I think that one's scheduled for about 7.30 p.m.
13:16Eastern time when that game does kick off. I think that's September 19th is what's on the schedule there.
13:22So the SEC, where it stands, how it stands.
13:25Teams that are in the race for the national championship.
13:29Right now Texas is third in national championship odds.
13:32Georgia is fifth. LSU is eighth. A&M is ninth.
13:35Ole Miss is tied for tenth with Texas Tech, followed by Alabama.
13:39They're tied with the same spot with Tech at Ole Miss.
13:42And then Oklahoma's just on the outside looking in.
13:45You go down a little bit further, you've got Tennessee, Florida, Missouri after USC and Michigan.
13:51So as far as the top 12 teams go, if you just look at it from that perspective, as far as playoffs
13:58go, in the SEC, in the top 12 spots, you'd have Texas, you'd have Georgia, you'd have LSU, you'd have A&M, you'd
14:05have Ole Miss, and you'd have Bama, it looks like.
14:092-4-6-8-10-12. Yeah. So you'd have Ole Miss, Bama, A&M, LSU, Georgia, Texas.
14:13Six teams. I don't think that's going to happen.
14:16Six SEC teams in the college football playoff. But that is where the odds are sitting right now over on FanDuel.
14:23A couple other things I think we should mention here is, well, I have two angles I want to hit on.
14:30I want to hit on specific prospects and guys I want to continue to look into.
14:35So this is the early preview where I just want to go through the basics, the baseline of each of these conferences.
14:43And then once we get to media days, I'm going to hit back again, and we're going to do a real preview to get a little bit deeper.
14:52Because at SEC media days in three weeks, I'll be down there in Tampa.
14:57I think it's a waterfront hotel. We'll be down there, and we'll be listening to all 16 of these coaches talk about
15:04what they've learned from their teams from the last three months.
15:08And that's where I pick up a lot of notes.
15:11I mean, last year, I think my notes that I wrote, I think I had like 45 to 50 notes specifically from
15:18that event of just things you learned that maybe you didn't know and nobody really knew coming into the whole situation.
15:25So that's where we're going to learn some more stuff is down there at SEC media days in Tampa.
15:32But the players I did have listed in the 2027 Summer Scouting Top 500 watch list that I did put up at
15:39RosterWatch.com here on, what was that, May 13th? So I guess that's about a month and a half ago was teams that lead this whole group.
15:48Texas had 23 players in the top 500. A&M had 18.
15:51LSU had 17. Georgia 16. This has generally been a great trend line.
15:56The last 10 years, I want to say like eight of the champions.
16:00I want to say it's eight of the champions have had the most players drafted in the upcoming draft.
16:06And the last two years, I want to say it was Michigan and Indiana were like the two that kind of like went awry.
16:15Like they were the ones that were like, nah, it didn't make a lot of sense because as far as overall players
16:22drafted, Indiana and Michigan didn't lead that group. But you go look at the Ohio States, the Alabamas, the Georgias, every year
16:29that they won, it was with the most talent, you know, in quotes in the draft in that upcoming class.
16:36So as far as the SEC goes, I want to talk about maybe we don't have to jump into the schedules this time.
16:44We could have just we could just I mean, I'm kind of pivoting here live in that potentially talking about some new faces.
16:51I kind of want to talk about some new faces in the SEC as far as the transfer portal goes.
16:58But then I also I also want to just hit on the top 500 guys, the ones that I'm keeping an eye on from each team.
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17:48This is where this is. This is where siphoning it out.
17:52The siphoning out the content across the shows is probably a better idea than just having a list of topics that you
17:59want to hit on and then waiting till you're in the show to pivot off of said idea.
18:06Let's just do this. I'm going to go through my top 500.
18:10We'll talk about the transfer guys in a couple of weeks when I come back and I want to talk about the
18:17schedules and we'll talk about the new guys. And then I want to talk about the notes from SEC media days.
18:24So I want to go through my top 500 list and I want to highlight a couple of names from each team.
18:31So I'll start out here with Alabama. I think everybody knows the note knows the name Ryan Coleman, Ryan Coleman Williams.
18:38Right. They know Ryan Williams. They don't know Ryan Coleman Williams.
18:42It's the same guy. And statistically, his year in 2025 was down.
18:46It wasn't good. He had numerous drops and his name has kind of fallen out of this.
18:52Top wide receiver conversation that once was him, Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State, Cam Coleman from Auburn.
18:57And he didn't have that poor of a year.
19:00It was just a lot of drops, right? He still had 700 yards.
19:05He still had four touchdowns. It just Alabama overall just wasn't great.
19:09The offensive line stunk and the explosive plays that he had the year before just weren't quite there.
19:15He dropped. I think he dropped down 17 yards per game year over year from 2025 to 2026.
19:21But that's the wide receiver side of the conversation.
19:24On defense, where I think there's going to be a lot of hay made for Alabama this year, I think you look
19:31at Yonsei Pierre, an edge rusher, 6'3", 253. He's going to be taking on this bigger, you know, think of like your
19:38Will Anderson, your Dallas Turner type of just the big dog on defense coming off the edge.
19:44That's going to be Yonsei Pierre this year. On the back end, I like Bray Hubbard.
19:49I like Keon Saab. Zabian Brown is interesting. Six-foot-tall, 194-pound cornerback.
19:53I look at Arkansas. Arkansas doesn't have a lot of guys, but one guy that I did see who was at the
20:012026 NFL Combine, not in the 2026 NFL Draft, but they do this every year where teams will send guys a year in advance.
20:09So like Texas had, Texas had sent Hero Canoe and Brennan Baker.
20:13Arkansas sent Quincy Rhodes, 6'6", 277-pound defensive end. He'll be entering his fourth year.
20:172025, he had 15.5 TFLs, eight sacks. Quincy Rhodes was at the NFL Combine this year.
20:23This is something we've seen year over year that there is, you know, some of these teams, specifically SEC Big Ten type
20:30teams will send a couple of guys to go and just kind of like check it out.
20:36Just kind of watch the process, learn, have dinner with an agent, do things like this to get a grasp on what
20:43Indianapolis is like, to get a grasp on what the players are going through.
20:48Usually they'll go and they'll kind of shadow a current teammate that is maybe at the Combine.
20:53But I look at Arkansas, the one guy that I circle is Quincy Rhodes.
20:58Quincy Rhodes is a certified baller. You know, there's another one that's interesting.
21:02He's a little bit too big to be a true, for me, he's a little bit like too big to be a true target.
21:10You think back to Rocket Sanders at Arkansas as a running back talent.
21:15And like Braylon Russell, to me, he just seems like he's like 250 pounds.
21:19And I thought he was at one point. I want to see what he's listed at right now.
21:25He's listed at 227. ESPN has him at 238.
21:28I want to say he was like north of 245 at one point.
21:33Sports reference has him at 252. So I'm not quite sure what he weighs exactly right now.
21:38But I've seen some flashes from Braylon Russell. We don't have a lot on wax.
21:43He's got 640 career yards through two seasons, eight rushing touchdowns.
21:47Probably a guy that returns in 2027. But Braylon Russell, nonetheless, another name from Arkansas that I just kind of keep my
21:55eye on as far as that running back room goes in 2026.
21:59On to Auburn. I brought it up before. I think the number one thing would be Byron Brown.
22:05Byron Brown is the name. Like he's going to be the face of this Auburn football team in 2026.
22:11He came by way of South Florida. He's entering his fifth season.
22:15Last year, 28 touchdowns, seven picks, 3100 passing yards.
22:18But then on the ground, he added a thousand yards rushing, a thousand yards rushing in college with 14 touchdowns.
22:25Byron Brown is a big dude. Now, he's not he's not going to be he's not going to be Cam Newton.
22:32He's just he's 6'3", 235. But he's not quite the athlete that Cam Newton was.
22:37He isn't even really, to me, as good of a passer as Cam.
22:41I think Cam was a fine passer. I don't think Byron Brown's quite as good as Cam was as a passer.
22:48But this guy's going to change the dynamic of this football team because he's going to be the center of it.
22:55The quarterback position has been a big struggle for Auburn the last couple of years.
23:00I think Byron Brown's going to be a reason that, you know, there's a little bit more gas on this roster.
23:07On the defensive side of the ball, their addressers are going to be Deshaun Womack and Xavier Atkins.
23:13Those are kind of the two names. Atkins, more of a linebacker.
23:17Deshaun Womack, more coming off the edge. Think more towards the Keldrick Falk roll from last year as far as Deshaun Womack goes.
23:25After Auburn, we'll go down to Florida. This is a team I'm really excited to watch.
23:30We talked about the quarterback position earlier with Aaron Filo transferring from Georgia Tech.
23:35Trammell Jones, the quarterback battle that's going to happen this fall and has happened all spring.
23:40Jaden Baugh, though, should be the center of this offense.
23:43Jaden Baugh, 6'1", 228 pounds. He's going to be competing to be, you know, the top running back in this 2027 NFL draft class.
23:52He's a guy that's, you know, it's Kewan Lacy.
23:55It's Ahmad Hardy. It's Jaden Baugh. Like, those are some of the big, there's a couple more.
24:00But last year, he hit 1,100 yards on the ground, eight touchdowns and 33 receptions to join to it.
24:07After a freshman season, I saw him go north of 700 yards from scrimmage.
24:11I like Baugh quite a bit. He's a big back that just bounces off tacklers left and right.
24:17But he should be the main focal point of this offense.
24:21After that, you got Eric Singleton who transferred from Georgia Tech to Auburn last year.
24:26Didn't do quite much alongside Cam Coleman. He transfers to Florida.
24:30He's now going to be, you know, one of the leaders in that wide receiver room alongside Micah Mays, who had a great spring.
24:38Micah Mays had a great spring transferring in there.
24:41And then the guy that has been banged up still in that wide receiver room.
24:46So I'm not going to mention him here because he's only a sophomore and not draft eligible is Dallas Wilson.
24:52This is a very good wide receiver room that can make Florida scary.
24:57And one thing we do know about Florida, especially under John Summerall, is going to get more intense.
25:03The last couple of years, they've been big. They've been fast.
25:06They've been strong. They're able to get you. They're able to, you know, they're able to push Georgia to the finish line.
25:14They're able to beat Texas. Like they have a roster that's never going to be undersized, slow, not good.
25:20Like the talent's going to be there at Florida.
25:23And they're going to still have that, you know, coming off the edge.
25:27They're still going to have that on the interior.
25:30I trust that in Florida in 2026. Georgia is the same kind of conversation.
25:35Georgia just year after year. I mean, this thing's going to be loaded top to bottom.
25:40I think their star-studded players this year, Ellis Robinson, the cornerback, six foot, 180 pounds.
25:46Their leader is going to be Gunnar Stockton, the quarterback.
25:49He's undersized. He's not flashy, but he's good enough.
25:52And he's a bona fide winner. Other names I'm looking forward to take steps forward in 2026.
25:58Lawson Lucky should be the leader in this tight end room.
26:01It's always been a great tight end room, but he should be the leader in that room for me.
26:08Nate Frazier at the running back position playing with Dante Dowdell, who transferred in from Kentucky.
26:13I like both these dudes. KJ Bolden on the back end is a stud.
26:18But the guy that I've circled, and I'm leaving off a bunch of guys on this Georgia team that are, you know,
26:25Xavier McCloud, Raylan Wilson, Jordan Hall, Gabe Harris. I'm leaving off a bunch of dudes.
26:30The name that I want to circle and the name that I want you to know going into the 2026 season, the one name is Chris Cole.
26:39Chris Cole is a, this is when I think of Georgia defense in the last seven, eight years, I think of the
26:466'3", 6'4", 230 to 250 pound, maniacal alien-like length at the edge position coming out the linebacker, coming out the edge.
26:53I think of that and that guy this year for me is Chris Cole.
26:58He had seven TFLs, four and a half sacks, 60 tackles last year with a couple of past deflections as a sophomore, as a true sophomore.
27:07He got on the field in 14 games as a freshman in 2024.
27:11This is your new alien for me at Georgia.
27:14It's Chris Cole. Chris Cole. Know the name, Chris Cole, because if he has the season I think he could have, you
27:21know, you're pushing 15 TFLs, he maybe gets eight, nine sacks.
27:25He's going to be a guy that's going to be flying up boards.
27:29Remember how fast Michael Williams flew up boards? Maybe how fast Trevon Walker flew up boards?
27:35Like you can be having that same conversation with Chris Cole when that 2027 class comes around.
27:41All right, we got to hurry up this thing, get it moving a little bit faster.
27:46We talked about Kentucky earlier. Some of those names, Lance Hurd, left tackle is going to be my main name here for Kentucky.
27:54Also like Kenny Minchie. I haven't heard enough positive from Kenny Minchie as far as the spring goes, but again, it's his
28:01first couple of weeks on campus connecting with two new receivers.
28:05But I do like Minchie at Kentucky at the quarterback position.
28:08As far as LSU goes, Sam Levitt still dealing with a foot injury after his transfer from Arizona State to LSU.
28:15His wide receiver room is going to be fun this year.
28:19Got Jace Brown from Kansas State. I'm a big Jace Brown fan at Kansas State.
28:24Now he's going to be at LSU with a new offense, new situation.
28:28Eugene Wilson as well transferring in. It should be a fun team.
28:32But the running back position, you know, Caden Durham.
28:35He's like a third year running back from Duncanville.
28:38You get Harlem Berry. He was a 4'3 running back.
28:42Was the top running back two years ago in the high school class.
28:46The name that Lane Kiffin has told us to watch for is Dylan Jones.
28:51Dylan Jones is a 5'11", 210-pound back from Wisconsin who transferred in.
28:55And it's to be competing with Durham and to be competing with Harlem Berry.
28:59That's your running back room. That's a studly running back.
29:03If he's putting Dylan Jones in that conversation and what we know a healthy Caden Durham, a healthy Harlem Berry look like,
29:10that's a scary, scary thing to be looking at.
29:13They also brought in Jordan Seaton, the left tackle from Colorado.
29:17He's going to be there getting that work in.
29:20Prince Will, you men a million at the edge with Jordan Ross who transferred.
29:24This is a team top to bottom. P.J. Woodland at cornerback.
29:28Trey Des Green, an alien at the tight end position.
29:32This LSU team is going to be elite. All right.
29:35I want to do some more teams and I want to talk through more players, but I need to get out.
29:42I need to go. I'll be back on Thursday.
29:45We'll talk more about probably the ACC or the Big Ten.
29:49I haven't quite decided yet which one of those is going to drop on Thursday and then we're going to do the next one on the following Tuesday.
29:58Missouri, Mississippi State, Mississippi. Lots of talent on these teams, even if they aren't going to be projected to finish in the
30:05top five in the SEC or make the college football playoff.
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