I want to see how he runs. Seems like he's moving too slow, but he's definitely got some wiggle and is making some plays against some really good UT defenders. So I'm open to being wrong.
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Added a handful of RBs for you guys... I'll get to more eventually.
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Like them! Kaleb is an Iowa product, not Mizzou, though.

Bhayshul Tuten (Va Tech) is interesting to me. I think he’s going to run really fast at the combine. Good receiving skills. And has nice size.
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I agree with this.

He seemed to take more of his long runs the distance as a junior. Makes me wonder if he had a lingering injury or something as a senior.

The rumor is that KU’s WRs hated Kotelnicki. I also speculate that Coach K was much better about making his WRs block downfield, which may explain why Neal took more to the house before he left.

His ability to make guys miss within the hole and then put his foot in the ground and get what’s there is big time though. I’ll be surprised if he isn’t at least what Khalil Herbert was for the Bears his first few seasons.
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Seeing reports that O'Rourke played the season with an ACL injury he suffered in AUGUST.
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How do you guys feel about these smaller school, smallish stature, pass rushers like Mike Green and David Walker? I know we took FAU, but these types are always tempting.

Mike Green
Marshall
6-4 & 250 lbs
~4.6 40-yrd
91 Pass Rush Rating
90 Run Stop Rating
17 Sacks & 4 FF

"Twitched-up edge rusher with explosive get-off and natural bend through contact to flatten to the quarterback around the arc. Advanced pass rush arsenal featuring violent hand swipes, swim moves, and counter spin moves executed with plus coordination”

David Walker
Central Arkansas
6-2 & 260 lbs
~4.65 40-yrd
100 Pass Rush Rating
100 Run Stop Rating
10.5 Sacks & 4 FF

"Super athletic - Made Bruce Feldman's Freak's List at #76. He Wrote: "Walker had 66 tackles, 21 TFLs, and 12 sacks in 2022. The 6-2, 260-pound Atlantic Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Year runs the 40 in 4.65, vertical-jumped 36 inches and power-cleaned 374. He’s also squatted 615 pounds this offseason and benched 225 pounds for 24 reps.”

- DraftBuzz
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Tyler Warren TE Penn State, Kaleb Johnson RB Iowa, Savion Williams WR TCU, Xavier Watts S Notre Dame,
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Crow needs to check out Walter Nolan from Ole Miss. He would be an awesome pick
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I have, I haven't wrote up much on a lot of guys yet but he'll be on the list.
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Warren is a BEAST. Expect him to be gone long before the Chiefs' pick.
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Yeah, he looks like the clear TE1 this year and on par with Bowers as a prospect (I might like him more than Bowers).

Historically trading up for TEs has a spotty success rate but if he manages to fall into the late teens somehow, I'm making calls.

That's a turnkey Kelce replacement, IMO. Or more accurately, the next in the line of HoF Chief TEs.

He's legit. I see a mock from CBS that has him falling to Denver at 22 -- I just don't see a way in the world I let that happen.

You need my 2nd and some change to move up to 19 and grab him? Done.
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Seriously fellas -- look at Warren. Crow and Duncan are dead on.

I mean down to the converted QB shit.

What might help us (a lot) is that there are two other good TEs with genuine first round grades, IMO. Fannin will get the guys looking for the "Next Bowers" all hot and bothered. Loveland is a guy who the guys looking for projectability will love because his QB play was dogshit this year and he actually looked better last season.

But I'll take the biggest one with the most production and that weird converted QB mojo that seems to put Kelce ahead of his peers out there.
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I don’t see any way Warren falls out of the top 15. Everyone knows how good that guy is. I’m not excited about the fact that the Chargers and Broncos both need a TE badly bc I could totally see one of them go after him. And yeah after the combine he’s gonna be a riser.

I could see a team like the Colts, Cowboys or Dolphins take him. In fact I think that’s exactly what will happen.

But goddamn is this a good TE class. We need to take another one
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It helps that he happens to be 6-6 and 260 and super fast, too.

He doesn't have crazy feet and quickness to run routes like a slot WR like Bowers, but he's huge and fast and is a matchup problem down the seam while ALSO being a clever route runner with great hands...
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Yeah, he's not Bowers.

Like I said, Fannin appears to be that 'mold' of TE out of this year's draft. The glorified H-Back sort like Bowers and McBride. Maybe calling him Bowers isn't fair, but maybe Kincaid?

Loveland maybe more a of Hockenson type?

And if a trade can't get made to get to Warren, I'd be fine staying put and seeing if Loveland fell. He'd be a really intriguing consolation prize.

I don't love Fannin though. Don't like the type of player, REALLY don't like the quality of competition.
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