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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

BEST BITE: J.J. McCarthy & Michael Penix Jr in Klatt’s Top 25 players of 2024 draft

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Joel Klatt reveals players 25-11 of his Top 50 players in the 2024 NFL Draft. He analyzes why Washington Huskies QB Michael Penix Jr. is an elite talent and should be drafted in the first round. He reveals why Michigan Wolverines QB J.J. McCarthy is a Top 10 pick and explains McCarthy’s progression throughout his years at Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At number 25, here we go, top half of half of my top 50.

0:04.0

Latu, Lattu, Edge from UCLA.

0:07.0

Now listen, the neck injury thing is interesting.

0:12.0

Remember, he starts at Washington, he has a neck injury, they say you can't play anymore. It's a career ending neck injury. He gets a second opinion and a second lease on life in terms of his football career finds a home at UCLA and played amazing.

0:27.2

I mean the guy is productive. You put him on the field and he's and this is all my teammates are going to roll their eyes because our coaches used to say this when I was playing he's just a football playing Jesse put him on the field in a uniform given a helmet and a defensive scheme and he's going to go produce.

0:43.4

That's what I think about Latsu.

0:45.2

I think he's a heck of a player and I really love his story.

0:48.4

At number 24 is Cooper Dejeune.

0:50.8

The corner from Iowa.

0:57.0

Cooper is a, I think,

1:02.0

more valuable player than anybody's going to give him credit for because of what he can do all around.

1:04.4

Listen, he's dangerous with the football in his hands.

1:06.8

It's not going to surprise me at all if he's in the return game early in his career.

1:12.4

He can cover in the slot, He can cover on the outside.

1:15.6

If you put him into a defense that plays primarily zone, and there are those defenses out.

1:20.7

And now he can play man, but he's better in zone. He's got such a good feel for

1:25.2

route structure and route combinations, which is one of the reasons why he's so productive

1:29.2

in terms of getting interceptions. So DeGine from Iowa, he's at 24.

1:34.0

Amarius, Mims at 23, the tackle from Georgia, and this is when we start getting into

1:39.2

kind of this offensive tackle rotation. So Mims from Georgia is 23. Tyler Guyton is 22, the offensive

1:47.0

tackle from Oklahoma. I like Guyton's game a lot. I like Mims' game a lot and again we've got I think a great depth at this position in the draft

1:59.4

Wide receiver is deep offensive tackle is deep quarterback is deep, offensive tackle is deep, quarterback is deep, and that's reflected in these

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