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The Valenti Show

Witherspoon to Lions? "That scares me a little"

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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It appears the Lions will draft a corner at 6 overall. Are you OK with that?

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0:00.0

NFL draft day. And I mean, the odds have just sent us all into a tizzy. It sounds like

0:08.0

Will Anderson is your number two pick based on he has now gone from a big underdog to a big

0:14.0

favorite at minus 200 to go to the Texans. And one of the only other players with minus odds

0:21.7

to be drafted is number six, Devon Witherspoon, cornerback Illinois to you the lines. So we've asked

0:28.4

the question, are you bracing for impact taking a corner at six? And if you like the pick do not

0:36.0

be ashamed, do not feel like you need to apologize. I would just like to hear why because again,

0:41.4

when a Jalen Ramsey gets taken high in a draft, well, I could tell you kids six, two and a half

0:46.2

in a physical freak show. It's basically built like a lineback. What went when certain corners

0:51.6

like sauce Gardner goes, he's got Yannis's wingspan. I never gave up a touchdown at college, not one.

0:59.0

Those are outliers because the rest of the guys who have gone this high are the Justin Gilberts

1:04.2

and the Jeff O'Kudas and the Morris clayborns. And all right, you like Denzel Ward cool. I'll just

1:10.1

tell you, if Denzel Ward so sweet, why does the Browns defense always suck? So I asked you the

1:15.8

question, what is Witherspoon's identifiable trait? Is he tall? Nope. Is he built? Is he

1:23.2

physically built? Nope. He's like 179. Did he play in an air raid conference where you get tested

1:31.2

weekly? Nope. I know good quarterbacks in the big 10. So his calling card is toughness and football

1:39.2

guy. Okay, cool. That scares me a little. Now, maybe he comes in and he fits right in and he plays

1:49.5

really well. That great. We want that. I'm just telling you, I don't take corners in the top 10.

1:56.0

I just don't do it. But I'm bracing for impact. I want to know if you are two, four, eight, five,

2:02.2

three, nine, 97, 97. And by the way, if you ever wanted to know if Mel Kuiper hated the city of

2:07.5

Detroit and all of its people, have you seen Kuiper's final mock? No. At six Devon Witherspoon

2:14.8

at 18, tight end out of Notre Dame, Michael Mayer. If you go corner tight end, people are going to burn

2:22.7

this city to the ground. Very, that would be a very underwhelmed. That would be just a one, two

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