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Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show.

I am Bill Barnwell.

We are continuing a redraft month series today.

Joining us to do that, you know it's a big show.

You know it's a big moment.

This man is, I would say the busiest man of the ESPN this time of year.

One of the hardest working people at the entire company, a beloved man all around Bristol

and around the planet.

It's our friend, Fieldy-Aids, Field.

How are you?

Bill, I'm great.

It's always better when I get to talk to you.

And it's kind of a nice reprieve we have right now is, I would say, 99% of my brain has

been wrapping or trying to wrap itself around

the 2026 NFL draft. And then your great producer, Dan Stansick, said, do you want to redraft the

2024 draft? And I said, it's easier because to do that, you already have a two-year

samples on some players. So sign me up. That is why I redraft instead of pre-draft. I already know the answers. But I will say, this is a really fun class to look back on a lot of guys who, frankly, even falling out of the first round in my redraft, I was like, man, these are good players. I can't believe they're here at the very end of round one. I'm not even taking some of these guys. And then, of course, at the top, we have some very interesting players, some debates to have. I want to get right into it. And of course, since you're the guest, I have to give you the first overall pick. We're starting with the Chicago Bears. In the real draft, they took Caleb Williams field in our 2024 redraft, the Chicago Bears select. Caleb William Still, Bill. And I want to start by, I want to establish something off the gate, right out of the gates, is that I do think, teams with players that have been successful, I think are probably predisposed to want to keep that pick, right? There's a pride that is, is tethered to that pick that I think is worth noting here. I also don't think it's that crazy of a thought in general, right? You can, I would say, of the three quarterbacks to go one, two, three, the only players that I considered, the best individual season through six collective seasons of these three quarterbacks was either Drake May this year or Jaden Daniels as a rookie. I leaned towards Drake May this most successful team run was also Drake May this past season with Jaden Daniels, not far behind him, going to the NFC championship game a year ago. So Caleb Williams has neither had the most successful individual season or team season, and yet I still think it's the pick because I think that the best version of Caleb Williams still has a very compelling case to be the best of these three, which is to take nothing away from Jade and Daniels or Drake May because I think the bigger takeaway bill, and we could do an entire pod just debating the first three picks.

We have three players that I think all have MVP caliber upside within them. Drake Mayne

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