What's going on guys welcome back into the fantasy pro's football podcast. I'm your host Mike Tanglier back with the next

installment of NFL draft coverage last episode we gave you a general overview of the offensive skill positions

highlighting some of the names that you need to know as we go through this draft process today we'll be talking about a few more of those players as well as a few others who have something to prove over the next week. Of course I'm talking about the NFL combine which is taking place this week in Indianapolis in order to get you ready for that we brought in one of the most knowledgeable football minds I've ever had the privilege to talk to he is the creator of rookie scouting portfolio or also known as the RSP he's a film watcher through and through and he'll let you know through his YouTube boiler room series.

His name is Matt Waldman and you can find him on Twitter at Matt Waldman at it's been a long while since we've talked but I'm really glad to have you on this time of the year and I'm sure you're kind of feeling like it's Christmas right now right.

Yeah Mike it's a great time of year and certainly you know it's an exciting time for anybody who you know is interested in the NFL draft and it's always a pleasure to get a chance to talk ball with you.

Yeah no absolutely alright guys we're going to get into the combine coverage right now we're going to talk about some of those things you want to look for in the combine some players who have some things to prove some things that we're going to be watching ourselves as that takes place but first a word from our sponsor pristine auction dot com how many times have you seen a neat item at a friends house and immediately became like a conversation starter well let's get a few of those items in your house I mean for instance I went on pristine auction dot com earlier I saw a Michael Jordan autograph jersey on there that's not interesting right but

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kind of odd it's not like you know when when God creates natural athletes it's not like hey I'm going to create this year a little bit weaker than the rest or you know coaches are like I'm going to coach this class up more now I think there are strengths and weaknesses to obviously every class you're going to find that

in every one but you in general what do you feel about this class you know do you feel like there's certain positions that have strengths to them you feel like some people are overlooking some positions like what's your general overview of this draft class you know I mean I think it's a good class and I try I

kind of laugh about all the hype that goes on because generally what happens is that the buzz and reputation for each class tends to start you know the day after the the previous NFL draft when all the

people in big media really haven't watched enough but they're asked to provide their take anyway and then that that builds upon itself until it's this you there's all this momentum generated for

players that people really haven't studied in depth or enough in depth to really see what's going on and then things change by this time a year so it's it's fascinating how that works and then at the same time too I think part of what happens

Mike is that there's certain positions that need to be really strong for people to say it's a good class and that's not really fair but that's just how it's driven and I think quarterback is one of them if you

don't have three to four really top tier signal callers in terms of how the media thinks of them then this is not going to be a great draft class if you don't have great defensive

ends it's not going to be a great draft class you know there that tends to be you know it's same thing with certain top linemen so in this particular class for you know the

purposes of why we're doing this show I mean wide receiver is very strong this year in terms of people who enjoy the big tall fast athlete and there's also some diversity in that class so that's in terms of

athlete types and skill types because wide receiver really is three different positions nowadays and so you know there's there's a little bit of there's a lot actually there's more than a little bit of

everything in that class the tight end class I also think is very strong this year and it's been strong it's stronger than it's been and it's also one of the most difficult

positions for a college player to transition to the pros so what ends up happening with that is that you know we had a good class two years

ago really good class two years ago and it usually takes two to three years for that position to really bloom and we saw evidence of some of

those players kind of rising last year you know and in guys like Kittle and Howard and and alike but I think this class could be may not have the fire power at the top like an OJ

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