How 2024 NFL first-round draft picks stacked up as college football recruits

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Yes, Caleb Williams was always that good. But he wasn’t the top-ranked quarterback in the recruiting class of 2021. (That guy is still in college.) Meanwhile, J.J. McCarthy was as polarizing a college recruit as he is a potential NFL draft pick. (0:00-3:50) Introduction - NFL Draft (3:51-7:52) Charles Power and Cody Bellaire Join, Covid's Impact (7:53-13:29) Caleb Williams, USC (13:30-17:35) Drake Maye, UNC (17:36-19:28) Quinn Ewers Discussion (19:29-24:36) JJ McCarthy, Michigan (24:37-26:49) Jayden Daniels, LSU (26:50-29:25) Overall QB's (29:26-31:31) Jayden Daniels and Innovation in Technology (31:32-34:51) Favorite Prospect - Brock Bowers, Georgia (34:52-36:05) Jonathon Brooks, Texas (36:06-40:36) Can't Miss Recruits: Byron Murphy, Texas (40:37-43:35) Offensive Line Class: Joe Alt, Notre Dame (43:36-46:23) Tyler Guyton, Oklahoma (46:24-49:06) Gary Patterson at TCU (49:07-53:22) Guys Not in the Draft (53:23-56:59) Significance of Age (57:00-1:01:00) Guys Not in the Draft, Re-Visited (1:01:01-1:02:05) Conclusion On3 director of ranking Charles Power and national scout Cody Bellaire join Andy to share stories about the players who will be drafted beginning this Thursday when they were high schoolers trying to choose where they would play their college ball. Cody, who used to work in the personnel department at LSU, offers a plausible alternate history where Williams winds up in Baton Rouge playing for Ed Orgeron. Charles discusses how low-key Jayden Daniels' recruitment to Arizona State was. Charles also explains how the Joe Alt who came out of high school in Minnesota was not nearly as easy to project as the version of Alt who is leaving Notre Dame and heading to anchor some NFL team’s offensive line for the next 10 years. Plus, the guys pay tribute to the Patron Saint of Projection — former TCU coach Gary Patterson. Want to watch the show instead? Head on over to YouTube and join us LIVE, M-F, at 8 am et!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Andy Staples on three.
0:04.3	Happy NFL draft week.
0:06.8	That is going to dominate the conversation pretty much everywhere, but also it's going to dominate a lot of the conversation here as we say goodbye to some of our favorite college football players, wish them well in the NFL and get mad when NFL teams don't value our favorite college
0:23.0	football players as much as we do. But today, we're going to take a trip down memory lane.
0:28.3	We're going to talk about these guys that we are now talking about as potential first rounders.
0:32.9	Like a lot of the guys whose names you're going to hear called on Thursday night, we're to talk about
0:38.5	them as recruits and how they got to their schools, how they, well, in certain cases,
0:46.3	move from one school to another. And it's fascinating. It's fascinating to think about
0:52.4	young Brock Bowers coming out of Napa, California. J.J. McCarthy, who wanted to go to Ohio State, but they took Kyle McCord, and he wound up at Michigan. Jaden Daniels, who started his career at Arizona State, wound up at LSU. So many stories and so many steps on the path to getting
1:18.5	your name called Thursday and going and hugging Roger Goodell. But I thought, let's talk to the
1:26.3	guys whose job it is to evaluate these guys coming out of high school
1:29.5	because they have an even tougher job than the NFL scouts have.
1:34.4	Because the NFL scouts, they're working for much smaller pool.
1:40.1	Yes, they're investing more money, but they've got a little narrower focus.
1:47.8	And so it's a little bit easier.
1:50.7	And you're also dealing with people who are 21, 22, 23 years old.
1:55.1	You don't have to worry about what's going to happen at the end of puberty.
1:59.1	Like, are they going to stop growing?
2:00.9	Are they going to keep growing?
2:02.4	This is something the college football coaches have to worry about all the time.
2:06.5	And so we're going to talk to Charles Power, who's our director of ranking here at On 3,
2:13.0	who's been scouting and ranking recruits for years.
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