Welcome back. It's the big blue banter New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier,

joined as always my co-host, Nick Falado. It's almost here. The draft is now just over a month away at this

point, I think, or maybe a little bit less. I'm losing track of days here. We're near in April,

and that means it's time to start ramping up our draft profiles and draft coverage. I think the draft profiles are fun, but I think what I really love is when we start to do like our top five wide receiver list, our top five by position, our sleepers breakouts bust at each position. And quite frankly, even more than that is get on our draft guests because we get on some really talented draft analysts who are doing this year round. Nick and I are really only doing this for a few months of every year. These guys are doing this year round. And so I really respect their opinions on the players because they have so much more data and so much more time spent doing it. And so we can't wait to get on all those people we've had on last year. I expect to get everyone back, hopefully. But we're going to expand it this year and get even more draft analysts on.

But for today, it's just a draft profile.

And it's a player that both Nick and I are very excited about, I would say.

It's a player that I know, spoiler, spoiler, but he's there at 25.

I would be pretty happy with the Giants drafting him.

It's wide receivers day flowers out of Boston College, a receiver who some people believe could be the next Tavon Austin. Other people believe he could be the next Antonio Brown. It's a very wide range of outcomes. I personally don't believe that he has that big of a ceiling floor situation. I don't think his ceiling is quite Antonio Brown, but I don't think his floor is anywhere near Tavon Austin from watching his film. Now, that could be wrong. I didn't watch Tavon Austin film, Nick. I don't know if Tavon Austin was also looking like this on tape at West Virginia. Something tells me he wasn't, though, because of the system they ran at West Virginia, where there's a lot of just throws around the line of scrimmage, screens and things like that this is not a guy who's just catching screens all days a

flowers this is a system they ran at West Virginia, where there's a lot of just throws around the line of scrimmage, screens and things like that.

This is not a guy who's just catching screens all days, Aflowers. This is a guy who, in my opinion, out of the entire class, Nick, did the most consistent job of winning on all three levels. That I'm curious to get your take on. And if you think there's anyone you've seen so far who did a better, just that specific thing, a consistent job of winning on all three levels underneath, intermediate, and then vertical routes. So maybe let's start there. Is there a receiver that you've seen on film right now who's done a consistent job, a better consistent job on tape of winning at all three levels than Zayflowers? That's a good question. And I would have to go back into my archives of all the guys I've looked at. But honestly, man, just thinking off the top of my head, I would say no. I think Zay Flowers has a real legitimate chance to be a threat in the NFL level at all three levels. And that's what Boston College tried to do. They tried to get the football in this guy's hand. Not only on those screen passes, he ran a lot of screens, not only on the motion, Fast 3, all that kind of stuff. They would line them in the backfield sometimes. But on those double moves, man, you want to talk about route nuance and ability to manipulate defenders. There's really no wide receiver in this class is better than Zave Flowers in terms of setting up his routes, selling his vertical stem to run an in route or an out route or curl or, you know, stemming inside a little bit off the line of scrimmage, getting that defender open his hips and then crossing his face and going back towards the sideline to just be completely free of coverage.

In terms of creating separation on the vertical plane and the horizontal claim, but just talking about the vertical one at first, Zay Flowers probably does the best of any of the wide receivers that I've seen. Now, there's a couple wide receivers I want to watch still who could challenge him in that area. But man, I came away very impressed by Zay Flowers. I'll tell you another player, though, and not to dovetail into something else, but another player who does a really good job doing what I just said is Tank Dell, the Houston kid. And he's about 5,8, 160 pounds, a small dude, but he's another one who sells his routes very, very exceptionally. Yeah, and I think part of that is just their natural athleticism and their ankle

flexion and from that standpoint, their ability, like to be able to sell those routes, you have to be

a nuanced route run. You have to know what you're doing. But you also have to have the ability to

change directions fast. And like I said, have that ankle flexion. And the stats back it up, by the way,

Flowers had 500 of his 1,077 yards last season on passes that travel at least 20

yards in the air. He recorded five or more receptions on targets of 20 plus yards on the field

in all four of his college seasons. And that includes 12 during the 2022 season, which was

incredibly high. Also, as somebody who I hope to have on our podcast soon, Ray Q, who breaks down film, put out when he posted a couple clips, he goes, he shows a clip of Xavier Flowers, Nick, running exactly what you just said, a double move on a vertical route to create like an insane amount of separation.

The deback is stumbling.

And the Boston college quarterback gets sacked.

And he goes, and I agree with him when

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