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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

BEST BITE: Atlanta pulls off a top-10 surprise and selects Michael Penix Jr. with 8th pick

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Joel Klatt discusses the Atlanta Falcons using their top-10 pick to draft former Washington Huskies QB Michael Penix Jr. He analyzes this pick and shares about his surprise in the moment. Joel questions if the team will regret spending a top-10 pick on a QB after signing Kirk Cousins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's talk about one of those quarterbacks, because I don't think you can even start talking about this draft without talking about the Falcons taking Michael Pinnix at number eight.

0:39.5

And before I go into everything that I'm going to say here about this draft pick, I want to say Michael

0:45.3

Pinnix is absolutely a top 10 pick.

0:49.8

Nothing about his game suggests that you should not take Michael Pinnix. He's an awesome quarterback.

0:55.2

If you've been listening to this show for any amount of time, you will know that I've been a giant

1:00.8

fan of Pinnix for a long time, all the way back to his days at Indiana really but even

1:05.2

before this last season when he blew up with Washington really the last two but really

1:09.0

before the last one I said back in September that Washington's not only a top five team but he's a dark horse

1:15.0

Heisman candidate because of the way that he can throw the ball. It's beautiful. The ball comes

1:19.7

out of his

1:24.0

well as anybody in this draft, he throws it down the field so well,

1:25.0

you've heard me talk constantly about his ability to pass the football

1:28.0

with leverage down the field.

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