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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Charles McDonald is joined by Derrik Klassen of Bleacher Report and Reception Perception to give their final thoughts ahead of the 2024 NFL Draft on storylines to watch and this fascinating quarterback class. The duo start off with the news that Zach Wilson has been traded to the Denver Broncos. Both agree this doesn't mean a lot for anyone except Ben DiNucci, but Charles asks if the New York Jets should consider drafting Aaron Rodgers' replacement at tenth overall (or later in the draft). There are 4-5 first round picks at quarterback this year, and Derrik has charted all of them. Charles and Derrik do a final deep dive on each of the top QBs, breaking down the strengths and weaknesses of Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels, Michael Penix Jr. and J.J. McCarthy. Later, Charles presents his four storylines to watch this Thursday as the 2024 NFL Draft kicks off. Charles thinks the ideal landing spot for Drake Maye is the Minnesota Vikings, and that Denver trading up is irresponsible. Meanwhile, the Jacksonville Jaguars are an ideal candidate to make a move and trade up for a wide receiver or cornerback. Finally Charles presents his take that this defensive tackle class is underrated, which sparks a conversation around how college linebackers are letting the NFL down.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the exempt list. It's draft week. Today we are talking about
0:05.0	quarterbacks from Zach Wilson through Caleb Williams and Drake May and all of the
0:11.0	young guys that are going to be entering this year's draft.
0:13.6	I'm going to join by Derek Classin from Bleacher Report,
0:16.8	and we'll be right back with a show in a second. Welcome to the exact list part of Zero Blitz Podcast Family. I'm your host Charles McDonald and today I am joined by a very good friend of mine.
0:41.6	Dair Classin from Bleach Report in Reception
0:45.0	we are going to go over his quarterback charting
0:50.0	leading up into the draft this week.
0:52.0	That's on Thursday, a little over 48 hours from now. I just want to intro you Derek. How are you doing today?
0:58.5	I'm doing good man. You sound like you're ready for the draft season to be over, a little
1:02.8	exhausted, ready for the week to be over. Just a little bit. Yeah, this is like
1:10.6	the one of my least favorite parts of the draft of really the entire NFL calendar not the draft itself but like the six weeks from the first day of free agency where everyone's
1:22.3	evigorated again through the start of the draft.
1:26.1	And I feel like people, you have all this excitement because something about the transaction
1:31.9	is really exciting to people where you have guys in new places and money being thrown around and especially this year with, you know, a whole new level of cap space that NFL teams have access to. And then you have to do
1:46.4	something with that energy for the next six weeks. And we were just talking
1:50.4	about before the show we were going over like what news we wanted to talk about.
1:54.0	Nothing really happens from like mid-March
1:57.6	through the first week of April.
1:58.9	We've gotten the Step on Dix Strait.
2:01.8	We got Rashi Rice being a menace with you know whatever fast car he was driving. I don't remember
2:09.1	precisely and now we have the Zach Wilson trade.
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