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Chris Simms Unbuttoned

2021 Draft CB & Safety Rankings

Chris Simms Unbuttoned

Chris Simms

Football, Sports

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Simms laments his busted March Madness bracket before he and Paul hit the top cornerbacks and safeties in the 2021 Draft. (5:05) WR Rankings reactions - Chris takes a couple of questions about Rashod Bateman and Rondale Moore (8:20) CB scouting process: Chris reflects on what he learned from his 2020 ranks and what he's looking for when he watches CBs. (13:50) CB #6 Marco Wilson (Florida) - "Smooth, good hips, but a little lack of burst breaking on the ball." (16:20) CB #5 Paulson Adebo (Stanford) - "A kamikaze missile. He will hit you." (21:20) CB #4 Aaron Robinson (UCF) - "He got put in tough positions, but the pure ability is amazing." (27:00) CB #3 Patrick Surtain II (Alabama) - "He's a Top 15 pick, but I worry about him against the elite speed receivers" (33:50) CB #2 Tyson Campbell (Georgia) - "A true shutdown elite corner" (40:00) CB #1 Caleb Farley (Virginia Tech) - "I don't know if I've ever evaluated a corner like this. He's worthy of being drafted in the Top 3" (48:45) Safety scouting process: Chris is glad he had Antoine Winfield Jr. at the top of his 2020 rankings. (51:30) S #5 Shawn Davis (Florida) - "He's your traditional safety, a violent tackler" (54:10) S #4 Ar'Darius Washington (TCU) - "He is THE safety at TCU. I watched him and thought 'Honey Badger'" (1:02:50) S #3 Jevon Holland (Oregon) - "He can be a free safety, strong safety, big nickel; he's versatile." (1:07:30) S #2 Elijah Molden (Washington) - "This guy is Jessie Bates. Probably the best open-field tackler in the whole draft." (1:12:20) #1 Andre Cisco (Syracuse) - "His range at free safety was the best of anybody, which at his size is saying something." (1:19:00) Honorable mentions & missed the cut: Chris gives his thoughts on Asante Samuel Jr, Jaycee Horn, Kary Vincent, Trevon Moehrig, Paris Ford, Richie Grant, and Ifeatu Melifonwu

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0:00.0

So like I I'm gonna watch this weekend. Yeah, I did not fill out a bracket. Okay. Um

0:09.9

Is that rare for you? It is rare tomorrow. Oh, it's tomorrow. Wow. So they changed it. Okay. So I can I still might do it.

0:17.8

Okay. Yeah. That's right. It's a football podcast. But we talk sport as we talk. Be ball. All right. And I wish I didn't do my bracket because I did it and it looks real shitty.

0:29.0

Hello, this is Chris Sins on button. And this is Paul Burmister. What's up, man? How you doing? Yeah, it's a bracket. You made me realize. Yeah. Yes. It wasn't that night. Right. So I did do it the very next morning.

0:42.3

Yes. The Ampatrick show was they were blowing me up. Oh, you got an hour to send it in. Hurry up. How bad is it?

0:47.9

I like it's horrible. I think I had Virginia in the final four. I think I also had been Illinois in the final four. Did you have my hot guys there?

0:56.6

I had your hot guys making it like a maybe a sweet 16. I think a final eight. Yeah. Right. I mean big 10 basketball. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. No. I mean, I'd like to that to be a job. I'd like to have.

1:09.6

How can I see the NCAA tournament? I could have seen it just as well as they did. I mean, do they feel good after that weekend going wait. All the teams we thought there were one, two and three seeds got beat by a bunch of, you know, seven, eight and 12 seeds and things like that. Yeah.

1:24.7

That's why it's, that's why it's impossible. My youngest son threw something at me. He said, did you know that you have a better chance? Pick every beach in the world of, of locating one pebble. Like you're going to pick one pebble that you selected before.

1:38.7

Better chance of doing that and having a perfect bracket in the NCAA. I would imagine so. And this is, hey, I ended up watching a lot this weekend. I didn't expect to. I did. You know, I just live sport. I didn't see any of it. The finality of it. You know, the desperation. I did go. Okay.

1:53.0

This is like, this is better than I was expecting, even though there's no fans and bands and all right. It was cool. My Texas team is done. I mean, we suck at sports of Texas. I don't know what else to say. Maybe it's karma for our messed up school fight song, which also bothers me.

2:07.0

Just going to throw that out there. We have that in common. Both of our schools went down to the tournament. Yeah. And we're both wearing Navy today. Maybe some similarities. Right.

2:14.8

Running through. Right. But you don't have a fight song that's got some weird racial undertones. Do you know? No, you don't know. But we do. We do. And I don't like that aspect of my school right now. I'm not happy with them from that angle or our sports. I mean, football basketball. We're just we're irrelevant. So that's that. But we got a good one today. Yeah. Talk about football. Yeah. I've been watching a ton of football.

2:35.8

You have to. I mean, safeties and corners. I was thinking about what a massive challenge it is to rate this group. Yeah. I love comparisons. Yeah. So let's say the NFL season full swing. Right.

2:46.8

We have like 14 games to get ready for if we're here on a Monday. Yeah. Compare that workload and that prep to watching all the safeties in corner. Yeah.

2:54.8

Yeah. This is probably more of an intense work. Right. And it's a weird year this year too. You know, again, I'm not like I call my friends in the NFL and go, give me your rankings. You're giving your time. I don't do that. I don't do any of that. I release my rankings. And then I tell my friends after most of my friends are like that. Anyways, they want to see my rankings first before we have a discussion about. Right. So.

3:20.8

But this year's weird and the fact of I like to have a list of guys or I just a reference point not to say that I'm going to agree with how they're listed or anything like that. But the lists are all over the place this year.

3:33.8

I think they're all over the place. And that has made it even worse for me because now I don't trust it. So I'm going to let me watch five more guys. Let me watch 10 more guys.

3:44.8

Because I've seen guys that are I'm going this guy's not in the top 20. He's top three. Like there's no question. You know, I saw like I told you before we started. Deami Brown from North Carolina. I looked at one list. He wasn't on the first page of why receiver seems impossible. Yeah, it isn't possible because I could tell you since I released that rankings. I've had a lot of themes already feedback to me and go. He's pretty damn good. You're right. He's the first rounder. So that's that. But I that's where I got stressed out. So it just is a never ending thing right now.

4:13.8

I'm getting thing right now to where I'm going. You know, whoa, OK, I want to watch a few more. Oh, man, this guy was 17th on here. He's damn good. I don't know what's 25 look like. And it's just gone. Never ending, rabbit. Never ending. And I got more notebooks and crap here. And I'm all over the place. But I'm excited about it. And it's a good group. As far as I like the the safeties a lot. There's a lot of good safeties in the street corners. I think the top end group is pretty damn good.

4:42.8

I'm not blown away by the top end group. But but it I think there's a drop off after the top end group significantly with the safeties. I went down the line and went. I mean, man, this guy is my number eight or nine safety. But I mean, if I talked to a coach and he told me he was number five safety for them. I wouldn't go. Oh, you're just so stupid. That's crazy. It's a it's a good group of safeties before we get into the corners. Of course, as you kind of alluded to a lot of reactions to what you did with the wide receivers. Sure. And how you had him ranked. I want to hit

5:12.8

a couple of questions there. Cool. Cool. So for your 2021 draft rankings, let's begin with the real Josh Kang. Rashad Bateman isn't a great athlete six to two 10 ran a four three nine. Sounds all right to me. Yeah, route running on par with Devonte Smith. I don't know about that. I respect Sims a lot. But I really disagree here. Where'd you have him ranked? Well, I like him. He's be one somewhere in that seven to 10 range. There's just not enough pure physical ability there. I mean, hey, that's a good question.

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