Prospects to Pros: Projecting Will Levis, Jalen Hurts’ development, OT moving inside, drafting RBs in the first round & more NFL Draft mailbag questions
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🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Andy Staples and Dane Brugler open up the NFL Draft mailbag to answer your most pressing questions. They begin by talking about Jalen Hurts the prospect vs. Jalen Hurts today and how his growth could change QB evaluation going forward. They also talk about Will Levis’ projection and when he could be ready to start. Plus, they discuss OT moving inside, traits vs. production at specific positions, drafting a RB in the first round and much more.
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1:05 Jalen Hurts the prospect vs. Jalen Hurts today
11:01 Moving OT inside to guard
17:28 Would Will Levis ready to play early?
26:50 Thoughts on Giants drafting Anthony Richardson?
34:41 Traits vs. production at specific positions
39:36 Ranking the evaluation process
43:07 When does it make sense to draft a 1st round RB?
46:38 Players that can improve their stock on FBS playoff teams
50:27 Top 3 Christmas movies
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, the podcast, where we talk about the guys who were about to get drafted, |
| 0:21.3 | the guys who just got drafted and everything in between. I'm Andy Staples. I'm here with |
| 0:26.4 | Dane Bruegler. We had a little, little IR issue last week, but we're back. Everybody's |
| 0:33.9 | healthy. We're good. And even better, you guys are the star of the show this week, |
| 0:40.1 | because this is listener Q&A, and you guys have some incredible questions. Dane put out the |
| 0:46.3 | call for questions a couple weeks ago, and I have been very impressed, and I actually want to ask |
| 0:51.5 | Dane all of your questions. We can't do that on the show. |
| 0:54.6 | Otherwise, it would be 10 hours long. |
| 0:57.0 | But we're going to try to get to as many as we can. |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm very excited about this first one because it's very topical and really ties |
| 1:06.9 | into a lot of stuff we're talking about this year's draft prospects, even though |
| 1:10.5 | it's about a guy who's been in the league for a few years. So this is from David. A retrospective look |
| 1:15.9 | at Jalen Hertz, the prospect, versus what he's become three years later, the frontrunner for |
| 1:21.1 | NFL MVP. How did he get here and how does the elite athleticism plus intangibles change the |
| 1:26.8 | QB evaluation going forward? |
| 1:30.2 | That's a great question. |
| 1:31.5 | It really is. |
| 1:32.1 | And with the way Jalen Hertz has put himself into the MVP discussion, obviously he's questionable this week against the Cowboys with his shoulder, |
| 1:42.1 | so that'll be interesting how that affects that |
| 1:44.2 | offense moving forward. But looking back at him as a developmental player or as a prospect, |
| 1:49.7 | I graded him as a developmental player, as a backup who could potentially become a starter |
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