There's two things that are most likely to happen in the NFL draft, and Jesse Newell's here to tell us about him.

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Welcome back, everybody. This is going to be a fun what jesse newel joins us from the athletic timely timely piece here because as we go through all

the machinations of this NFL draft scenario just to kind of laid it out for us and i very much

appreciate you we're going to cover two of them in depth because i think they're the most likely in the things that I've been brainstorming the most about. You've got a couple of the emergency situations as I call them. So I like that you cover that. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. Just for you, Ryan, just the perfect timing so we could set up the podcast.

But yeah, I labeled those appropriately, I think, on some of them, like the Yolo route or the oh no, ripcord route. So maybe not as likely, but I don't think we can completely rule them out either. No. And at this point, honestly, I don't know if anybody knows what they're going to do in the top eight. So I think they're all viable.

But the one that I think with the recent recent news i think is probably leaning now i had already heard about room being kind of maybe

moving down or being more accurately pegged around 10 uh with the chiefs obviously having interest

now that looks like even more of a certainty and and i i think if he's there they grab him

do you do you do you do any reason where they wouldn't? Yeah, I do. But I see reasons why they would. And I think,

you know, that's sort of the topic of this year's draft, isn't it? That this year in the top

10 picks, usually you're thinking, okay, what pro bowl or what perfect tape am I going to throw on?

And this year, it's like, well, this is a good player, but this is wrong with him or this doesn't quite fit. And so I go back to a piece I wrote last year about Brett Veach and the Chiefs and how they have this collaborative nature when it comes to their scouts, when it comes to their coaching staff, when it comes to him. and he talked about one of his first weeks in the office as GM of the chiefs.

He went down to Spaggola's office and spag said hey here's what i like on my defensive linemen here's what i like from my linebackers and you have the measurements and you have the size and we know over time that steve stagnola has sort of followed along with what that is you know the long arm length he loves length up front. And so there are things with Ruben Bain where you say the arm length, you know, the length overall, it's like this doesn't fit with a Steve Spagnolo defense. It doesn't fit with potentially what his perfect fit is. Having said that, the things you like about Ruben Bain is he's stout against the run. He shows production on film, and then he said it at the combine when I was there in Indianapolis. He said he thought he killed the chief's interview. You know, you get 12 to 15 minutes with those guys in person, and he seems like a highly intelligent player. We know Spaggs loves to drop those guys in coverage, have those guys know other people's positions. So I think there's enough there that you can talk yourself into the pick, even if it's not the perfect top 10 pick. I mean, maybe Steve Magnolo isn't banging down the door to get Ruben Bain, but I think you look at this and say for the team need that the chiefs have and potentially what he can bring to them, I think you could definitely say justification-wise, hey, this is a player to bring in. this is a player that could thrive in the Chiefs defense. Yeah, I think so, too. And we'll talk about the flip side in a little bit.

But the second pairing there, as we look at, if that happens first, you've crossed off a

significant need. And I think that's smart. When you get down to it, I know you had, you had identified

what I think Dane did in his

overall seven-rounder mock with going next at wide receiver with Denzel Boston, who's a fit that

that I think could work out, but I don't think that that's a great combination. Were you, did you

have trepidation about that or is there anybody else at that position or otherwise that you personally think might be a better fit?

So what I did with the specific mock draft was I kind of pushed into the first mock draft what that would have happened or just had one go out and then got to 29 and saw what was left, basically.

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