Prospects to Pros: Hendon Hooker suffers torn ACL & top college players to watch during rivalry week
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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Andy Staples and Dane Brugler discuss Hendon Hooker’s ACL injury and how it impacts the QB class in 2023. Plus, rivalry week is here! They discuss all of the top prospects in Michigan-Ohio State, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, Florida-Florida State, USC-Notre Dame and more. They close out the show by talking about the TE class and their favorite Thanksgiving food.
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0:54 Hendon Hooker ACL injury & how it impacts the QB class
11:12 What NFL teams will be in the market for a QB in the 2023 draft?
18:10 Michigan-Ohio State
27:09 Ole Miss- Mississippi State
31:06 Florida-Florida State
36:29 USC-Notre Dame
39:03 TE Class
45:18 Thanksgiving food
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| 0:48.3 | Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, where we talk about the guys who are still in college, but they're headed to the draft, |
| 0:54.4 | the guys who just got drafted and everything in between. I'm Andy Staples. I'm here with the |
| 0:59.1 | athletics draft guru, Dane Bruegler, and we have a lot to get into, Dane, because we got |
| 1:03.9 | rivalry week coming, we got Thanksgiving. We have food takes. We got to get off. But more |
| 1:10.1 | importantly, we got to talk about a game |
| 1:12.3 | that probably affects the quarterback draft in 2023. Maybe not in the way that everybody thinks. |
| 1:22.2 | There's an obvious piece of it, but there's a less obvious piece of it too. And I talk about, |
| 1:26.7 | of course, the Tennessee |
| 1:27.7 | South Carolina game, which was the shocker of the weekend. South Carolina clobbers Tennessee. Nobody |
| 1:33.1 | saw it coming. The saddest part of that game is Hendon Hooker, the Tennessee quarterback, tearing his ACL. |
| 1:39.1 | He's done for the season. Magical run for him after transferring from Virginia Tech, where he really helped turn around Tennessee's program and put them in a really great place going forward. |
| 1:51.1 | But he's done in college football. |
| 1:53.3 | The next time we see him will be in the NFL. |
| 1:56.2 | What do we think happens with that day? |
| 1:58.8 | You know, obviously ACL injuries are not what they used to be, you know, 30 years ago. |
| 2:03.5 | They were a career ender. |
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