This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

Welcome to 40s and free agents.

I am Greg Rosenthal.

I am joined by the best draft analyst in the business, but that's not all he does.

I saw him on Monday night walking out of the drunkest NFL game of the season, Chargers Eagles. He's already been taping podcasts, move the sticks today. And now he's here for the only job that really means anything to him, 40s and free agents, where we talk a little free agency and we talk some rookie class in this show. Every time that music hits, 40s and free agents, the hair on my arm stands up a little bit, Greg. It's just, it's hard to describe. I'll put it that way. You don't have to wait as long this time around. I guess we got one month to go. So if you've been listening, we're checking in during the season. On today's show, we're going to do some rookie class check-in. who's been getting better throughout the course of the season?

I might hit some guys who maybe have been disappointing in terms of the rookie class.

And then when we reconvening, you hear that song again, DJ, after the end of the regular

season, we'll be going weekly through the draft talking about the 2026 draft.

I'm going to start building my big board. I'm going to get inspired by you, get my free agency board, get all the positions ready. But that's for next time. For this time, we're going to do one last look back at this rookie class. One thing I love about it, it's a lot of times by this point in the season, you know this week 15. Like, they look like players than they were in week six. So we'll go through each position. Why don't we start at quarterback and we're just going to kind of pick out a guy that we think is getting better. As the season goes on, I might throw out some guys a little disappointing. Why don't you get us going? Sure. I mean, I'm actually going to start with Tyler Shuck because nobody talks about him. It's the Saints. They're not really, haven't been really a watchable product, but they've got a couple wins as of late. And Tyler Shuck, you use the phrase like, who are the guys that are getting better, who's ascending? And it's a, I can't underscore it. It's just a massive development. if he is able to prove over these last few games

and continue doing what he's doing making some plays with his legs showing the athleticism

still inconsistent you know some of the decision making some of the accuracy can kind of

ebb and flow a little bit but you've got the size you've got the athleticism he's got a big

arm sounds like by all counts, you know, good,

you know, good in the room, smart, leadership, all the intangible stuff is there. And you're seeing the performance tick up. If that takes them out of the quarterback market, it really frees this team up, it solves a lot of issues for them. And they're going to have, they'll have then eventually, once they get the cap all lined up, they're going to have some money to be able to fortify a very cheap quarterback.

And they're going to have draft capital to be able to help him instead of replace him.

That would be a massive development for this program.

Month is a long time in the NFL.

But if he continues to play just how he's playing, I'd be stunned if they drafted a quarterback.

Yeah, I'm with you. It's a huge development. I didn't expect it. I had my doubts coming into

this season. His athleticism really shows up where he is making second reaction plays. They had some

design runs for him last week where he is making that Bucks defense

...