Nate Tice revisits the 2011 NFL Draft: How Cam Newton, J.J. Watt, and Richard Sherman changed the NFL forever | 04.21

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It’s TIME MACHINE TUESDAY on The Right Time with Bomani Jones – we’re going back 15 years to the 2011 NFL Draft, a class that might be the best of all time.They break down Why this was THE Cam Newton draft – and why you’d still take Cam No. 1 overall in a redraft How Cam single-handedly dragged the Panthers’ franchise to relevance and changed how the NFL thinks about QBs Von Miller vs. JJ Watt and what “game-wrecking” really looks like Julio Jones vs. A.J. Green – who had the more Hall of Fame–worthy career, Tyron Smith and Jonathan Ogden as “alien” offensive tackle athletes Patrick Peterson vs. Richard Sherman, Revis Island, and why corner is a young man’s job Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:02.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.
0:13.0	My name is Beaumani Jones.
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0:23.1	I'm inclined to believe you are a hater.
0:25.5	It is Time Machine Tuesday.
0:28.0	We are looking back on the 2011 NFL draft 15 years out from it,
0:33.2	joining us from Yahoo Sports.
0:34.7	You got my man Nate Tice.
0:35.8	What's going on, sir?
0:37.1	This might be a little too late for our usual discussions. We usually like to end about 2000. When the NFL still had sub 32 teams. This is correct. Is our usual discussions. 31, 30, 29, 28. That's our comfort zone. No, happy to be here. Great to see it, dude. Yeah, no, man, this time we're going to talk about some dudes who are actually still in the league.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:56.8	But we are talking about the 2011 draft, and there's an argument to be made. The 2011 draft is maybe the best one ever. We'll talk about that a little bit later in the show. but I want to start with, and I don't know if you remember it this way, because as I
1:12.3	recalled, I think you were still in college when this draft went down.
1:16.6	But for me, this is as many great players as are on this draft.
1:22.0	And I think that they may end with somewhere around seven or eight guys who end up in the Hall of Fame.
1:29.1	And that is not including the guy that I think this draft is really about, which is
1:33.6	Cam Newton.
1:34.2	This was the Cam Newton draft.
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