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The Adam Schefter Podcast

Football & Fatherhood

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.4753 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Adam starts off this week's episode with some news and notes around the league: including an update on the leagues rookie quarterbacks. Then, ESPN's lead college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit joins the show to discuss his new book, why he moved back to Ohio, and which breakout college QB can we expect to see in next year's NFL draft. After that, ESPN's fantasy expert Mike Clay joins the show to give us his list of players to go after and players to avoid during your fantasy football draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast.

0:12.0

We are in the heart of the preseason, getting closer to fantasy football drafts.

0:18.1

And on this week's podcast, we will be joined by the ESPN lead college football

0:24.0

analyst Kirk Herb Street, who has a new book coming out, out of the pocket, football,

0:30.4

fatherhood, and college game day Saturdays. And he'll be here to talk about his book,

0:35.7

his life, and the state of college football today.

0:38.0

And then we'll be joined by ESPN's fantasy football rankings expert, Mike Clay,

0:45.1

as he offers up fantasy football advice on players that you should and shouldn't be drafting

0:51.3

in your upcoming fantasy football drafts.

0:55.5

As we sit here in the middle of the preseason, the story undoubtedly is of the rookie

1:01.4

quarterbacks and how soon they will be able to ascend to starting jobs.

1:06.9

Already this past weekend, we saw Mack Jones play well in New England. We saw Justin Fields play well in

1:13.1

Chicago. Trey Lance play well in Chicago. We know that Trevor Lawrence is starting, even though

1:18.5

Urban Meyer has not anointed him the starter yet. Jack Wilson will be the starter in New York. And of course,

1:24.8

Sam Ellinger has a chance to even be the Colts opening day starting

1:28.2

quarterback, despite the fact that he was the last of the rookie quarterbacks drafted this

1:34.1

past spring. So there are a number of rookie quarterbacks buying for starting jobs,

1:39.6

and it's interesting to hear each week the coaches on the good competitive teams like

1:45.8

Bill Belichick in New England and Matt Nagy in Chicago and Kyle Shannon in San Francisco

1:50.7

try to keep the question, speculation to a minimum about when the young rookie quarterbacks

1:57.0

might start. And I think Kyle Shanahan said it pretty well on Sunday when he said

2:03.8

there's no exact time, it'll be a feel thing. He'll know when it's right. None of them appear to be in

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