NFL Draft Spotlight: Ja'Marr Chase's Year Away
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The NFL Draft is fast approaching and LSU's Ja'Marr Chase is widely expected to be the first receiver to come off the board. Chase burst onto the national scene during the Tigers undefeated championship run in 2019, but he raised some eyebrows by choosing to opt out of the 2020 season over COVID-19 concerns. Today, we're joined by The Athletic's Larry Holder to talk about how Ja'Marr and his family decided to forgo his junior season of college football and whether this might be a model for prospects in the future.
Read Larry Holder's story about Ja'Marr Chase here: https://theathletic.com/2504321/2021/04/13/lsu-jamarr-chase-is-so-good-that-defenders-and-his-dad-agree-the-nfl-draft-has-a-clear-wr1-but-chase-wont-hear-it/
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| 0:46.0 | So Joan, the 2021 NFL draft is next week, which means it's been almost a year since we were welcomed into the wood-paneled basement of our favourite NFL Commissioner, Roger Gidell, and got to see into the homes and yachts of NFL decision makers. |
| 1:08.0 | What from last year's draft has been permanently burned into your brain? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, it's like the opposite of a basement, I would say. It's Cliff Kingsbury's living room with his floor-to-sealing windows looking out on the perfect lawn. |
| 1:20.0 | It's beautiful. It's sunny. These windows, his furniture is gorgeous. It's very minimalist space. |
| 1:25.0 | And I'm sitting in my apartment in Chicago and it's probably snowing. And I'm like, how do I get there? |
| 1:30.0 | And you may or may not have done a little internet research to discover more. |
| 1:34.0 | I love interior design. I love nice houses. And I swear I have looked up links to like that house. |
| 1:41.0 | Some new site did like talk to the architect or the interior designer. I read the whole story. We'll never forget it. |
| 1:47.0 | Nice. Well, unfortunately, this year's draft won't have the intrigue of discovering how all of these NFL millionaires live. |
| 1:54.0 | But there will be a lot of suspense around who gets picked when as usual. |
| 1:58.0 | So today, we're looking at the guy who is widely expected to be the first wide receiver taken in the draft. And let's get to the story. |
| 2:05.0 | Let's do it. |
| 2:06.0 | Jamar Chase had a record-setting season during LSU's undefeated national championship run in 2019. |
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