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Chris Simms Unbuttoned

2021 Draft Linebacker Rankings

Chris Simms Unbuttoned

Chris Simms

Sports, Football

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Chris reveals his draft LB rankings, and then he and Ahmed reach into the mailbag. (3:15) LB Scouting Process - Would you rather have a coverage LB or a run thumper? What happened to Isaiah Simmons and Patrick Queen last year? And Chris predicts some 2nd year leaps for the 2020 LB class. (15:30) LB #5 Nick Bolton (Missouri) - How does he compare to Steelers LB Devin Bush? (20:30) LB #4 Jabril Cox (LSU) - How does he compare to other recently drafted LSU LBs? (27:45) LB #3 Zaven Collins (Tulsa) - "The best between-the-tackles LB in the draft" (36:00) LB #2 Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah (Notre Dame) - "Arguably my favorite watch in the whole draft" (44:40) LB #1 Micah Parsons (Penn State) - How high could he go? Giants #11? Broncos #9? (55:15) Honorable mentions - Jamin Davis (Kentucky), Chazz Surratt (North Carolina), Baron Browning (Ohio State), Derrick Barnes (Purdue)  (1:04:40) #AskMeAnything - What did Chris learn from his interview with a chippy Kellen Mond? Would he have traded up to #3 if he was the 49ers GM? What did he take from Justin Fields 2nd Pro Day? And what do we make of Trevor Lawrence's comments on motivation?

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm an I'm a big fan of the pot which by the way we got a lot of those thanks

0:06.4

That's good. We said if you say that at the top of your message you get on the show

0:10.2

Yes, we're getting a lot of those. Yeah, so people caught on so we might need to

0:14.0

Big fan of the show you guys suck by the way

0:19.4

Yeah, that's right Chris Simms on button Ahmed Farid here send us nice kind comments and we will read them on the

0:28.4

Podcast that's right. That's a threat or I don't know what that is a threat

0:33.0

We will read your comment if you're nice to us if you're nice to us. That is a threat. What's up everybody?

0:38.2

We got a good one today got some news and notes to hit on around the NFL

0:42.7

Definitely, but it's gonna be dominated really this podcast by more draft talk

0:46.3

We got some ask me anything

0:48.4

Towards the end of the pod. I think we're gonna hit on rankings first right off the bat

0:52.2

And that will be linebackers today

0:54.4

LBs baby special special, you know human being to play NFL and you know NFL linebacker

1:02.4

There's no doubt about that pretty good class not gonna say great, okay, but I think there's some top-end guys

1:08.9

That could really be great the rest of it you know solid, but I'm not gonna sit here and tell you

1:13.2

I think it's super deep or special so we'll get through all the linebacker rankings

1:16.6

We'll take a look at how you did last year like you mentioned will get through the ask me anything because this has become a

1:22.3

Every podcast thing now. Yeah, it's just like normally we talk about the quarterbacks and it's like all right

1:26.2

We move on but this group of quarterbacks is so interesting and I find myself on Twitter

1:31.9

Defending your view on Mac Jones, right every day now. I've become obsessed. Yeah, I have become obsessed and there are some people to say

1:39.8

I'm it you should be more of like a like adversary on the podcast like battle Chris

1:44.3

I'm going you know what? No, I'm a Christmas stand at this point for whatever you say

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