This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, it's our old friend Deontay Lee. DeAte, how are you, man? I'm doing well, man. We have to finally be a part of the intro again. We'll be back on the show, period. I'm looking forward to doing this. Making sure we keep this tradition alive with talking ball, really talking defense prospects each offseason now for what's been the past three, four years just about. I'm excited to talk this show in defensive prospects and also just defensive football throughout the spring. Hopefully you'll be back to do some more of that. We have some fun ideas that we've done in the past that I'm looking forward to trotting out again when we get to the May and June part of the calendar, which honestly is one of my favorite parts of the calendar. I love the offseason just because it's like a playground. We can do whatever we want, explore some of the bigger picture ideas that we love talking about. So very much looking forward to that. Today, we are focusing on the prospects, though. We're doing a defensive player mailbag. Here's the situation. I was too lazy to come up

with the framing for defensive players. So I put it on the listeners. We had throughout the,

threw it out there, ask for your questions. What do you guys want to know about the defensive

players in this class? And we got some good questions. So we're going to be able to tread a lot of territory

here with the 2024 defensive player class, which I think is a notably interesting one.

Lack of guys at the top, you know, some of the positions that we're going to dig into.

Let's start with the question from Evan Donovan, who said, hey, Robert and Deontay, curious

to know how many first round difference makers Deontay thinks are in this

defensive class and how far they'll make it in the draft. So I want to focus on the first part

of that question because I think it gets to the meat of the conversation about the defensive class

in general. Dane doesn't have a defensive player in his top 10. Almost every single box draft doesn't have a defensive player in the top 10.

So as you're considering this,

and you're thinking about difference makers who could be available in the first round,

how many would you count?

I'm really on the fringe with this.

I would say four is where I'm at right now.

Four. And I probably waxen Wayne with whether or not it's actually three. I think a lot of that is like my debate on what I think of Quinion Mitchell. And I would say he's probably the only corner in this class, pure corner in this class, that I would put in that kind of difference maker category,

Cooper DeGine kind of being a hybrid.

But I would say there's four that I would say solidly are guys I expect to be big time difference makers.

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