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"Patrick Mahomes was an incredibly difficult evaluation who landed in a perfect situation."
"I would only pay a quarterback 30 million dollars or more if they were elite, if they could win with less."
"Reggie Knight, I mean, he's gotta be the best player in the entire draft. This is surely a generational pick."
"Kevin Colbert, when it comes to picking wide receivers, is Steph Curry."
"Victor Wembanyama is the greatest prospect the sport of basketball has ever seen."
"Marvin Harrison Jr. is the best receiving prospect I’ve ever evaluated."
"None of them are good. None of them come close to landing."
"I think this is a top contender for potentially one of the best players."
"A ready-made press corner prospect as you can possibly find."
"Zach Wilson is tremendously talented. He's a guy can make all the throws, and if you squint, you can see Zach Wilson do some of the things that Aaron Rodgers has been able to do in a similar system in Green Bay." - Bucky Brooks
"He upgrades the playmakers on the outside and he is a true number one receiver." - Mike Garafolo
"Just because we haven't heard of him doesn't mean that he's not going to be good."
"Rodman's defensive reputation is proof that you can't measure a player's defensive greatness with stats alone."
"His offensive talent in conjunction with his defensive capability is that of the greatest basketball player that I've seen."
"I feel like a lot of these players generate ridiculous hype."
"I watched him on tape... he reminded me of a combination of Harrison Smith and Eric Weddle."
"I'm gonna take the guy that I think can be exceptional versus the guy that I think can just be good."
"You know, if you sign up to be any type of entertainer and you still want to live a normal life, you put yourself at jeopardy to all these new nuances that are out there."
"Talent is overrated, talent doesn't interest me nearly as much as perseverance."
"Sometimes a wrestler has all the elements required to be a top star: they have the look, they have the skill, and they have the charisma to match as well."
"I'm more excited to watch an eighth place team with new talent than a sixth place team or seventh place team with a bunch of players that we've watched before."
"He looks like he has some potential to be an absolute world beater."
"For many idols, their physical appearance is just as important as, if not more important than, their talent."
"I think she's that good. I think her wrestling game is even with as much as that division has caught up."
"Jeremy Doku... I think he's the best one-on-one winger in World football right now."
"He's just not good. He's just not as good as Amadeus."
"I think anybody that says Drake May's Cheeks is the same people that probably said CJ Stroud you shouldn't draft him."
"Devonte Adams is without question one of the best receivers."
"Max Crosby is one of the best Edge rushers in the league."
"Dalton Redmond might be the best player in the draft."
"I'm keeping Bijan Robinson in state going from Austin to Houston and why would you do that you have Damien Pierce right he's such an awesome awesome option well as great as Damien Pierce is he is no Bijon Robinson."
"It's so tough to find that really, really talented uh slot defender and Brian Branch is that."
"Heineke earned an opportunity. The only question is will another team give it to him?"
"I am going to go for Harlan because of the goals that you scored the hardest skill in the football is the score goals."
"His ceiling is insane... He has the potential to be one of the best midfielders... He's the kind of player you want because he's so young."
"He's just so monstrously good at pretty much everything that not for his injury I probably would have had him as my second overall rated player."
"The arm is Elite, the quickness and his release is Elite."
"He's got a composure which reminds me a little bit of a John Stones; he could be a very good acquisition for a Premier League team." - Dara O'Shea, West Bromwich Albion
"DK Metcalf is a monster...he is a man that everybody passed on at the combine."
"Kate Cunningham is the best prospect in this draft."
"Kate Cunningham, Evan Mobley, and Jalen Suggs: the top three overall on my list."
"Kuiper was perfectly accurate on his assessment on Mahomes."
"Kyle Pitts...considerably ahead of where you would assume."
"Jaylen Waddle...not too far behind Tyreek Hill."
"The linebacker class is incredible, B pluses across the board."
"It's always great to see I love the challenge of drafting against all of our brilliant listeners and readers."
"I just think Harland, for me, would be the overriding priority."
"He's a better player in my opinion." - David Montgomery
"He has elite arm strength, elite accuracy, we feel he has the best deep ball in the NFL."
"It's almost become a trait that's valued as much as talent."
"Erling Haaland is the best goalscorer perhaps ever certainly in the modern era."
"He's not that strong of an actor. There's a reason they run with those two ladies because they're fantastic actresses."
"CJ Stroud should have been the first overall pick."
"I think he's the finest prospect I've ever been around."
"A GM's job is not to analyze superstars, anybody can say that Giannis is a freak, anybody can say that Michael Jordan is amazing."
"Shane Wright 65 medium franchise again uh the best prospects for since McDavid."
"Shane Wright, guaranteed medium elite, second overall in the draft."
"He is absolutely rapid and his quality, well, here we're looking, I feel."
"He's probably the most polished pass rusher poised for an instant impact."
"There's Dalvin Kinney, if we need an edge rusher. That's going to be the best one in the class, I think."
"At least this guy was real. That's the problem with a documentary or a profile on any of the modern talent."
"Overall, it's just about developing him. Javon Holland was exceptional for a rookie. Great pick at 36. Absolutely love Javon Holland."
"All bets are off. We need to stop trying to figure out a way to be successful with certain players that aren't good enough for Manchester United."
"We finally get to go to the squad and what we're assessing are three things: where is the talent, what is the talent, where is the money."
"He's barely a superstar, so I think D is fine."
"There's no sympathy vote on American Idol, it's about talent."
"Quite possibly the best value in the entire draft."
"La Knight, I'm gonna put him into the great category as well..."
"Grayson Waller, I'm gonna grab him and put him into the great category as well..."
"Best player in the league right now, whatever trade you do, you're looking for a young player plus a ton of draft capital."
"Darnell Washington will end up being a first round pick. Incredible athlete tight end he is listed at six foot seven 270 pounds in some ways he's basically an extension of your offensive line."
"Bro look at those stats, what are those stats? He is so good rounded."
"All-time rankings is a mixture of both the talent of the player as well as what they accomplish throughout their career."
"She is the most complete package that I see at this point."
"I think he's the best receiver in this draft class."
"I personally think he's a better talent than Marcus Rashford just at this moment in time."
"Especially if you just go top 10 and don't include miles turner there but thankfully number 13 is devin booker."
"This could be one of the best strikers in the game this year."
"Here's the thing we all agree on bro at 20 years old LeBron was better he was finishing second in League MVP voting Jordan was getting bounced in the sweet 16."
"Nate Wiggins could wind up being a really good cornerback."
"I think he's the highest ceiling out of all the offensive tackles, prototype offensive tackle size."
"Even with my disagreement on number one overall, this is a really, really good class."
"Neighbors is incredible I um in terms of like my grading scale he is the highest graded receiver I've had since I've been doing this."
"I would get Madison over Aouar, I think he's a better player."
"Garrett Wilson checks every single box that you look for."
"Number one, Kade Cunningham. Number two, Moses Moody. Number 11, Scott Barnes."
"I think Karl-Anthony Towns can be absolutely... I mean, Karl-Anthony Towns is just an absolutely brilliant offensive player." - Kevin O'Connor
"It's fair to ask though, why when your team is so talent-poor, why would you trade away your best overall player?"
"Do you put him in a Ferrari car next year at Manchester United or do you put him in one of the lower cars in Formula One?"
"Caleb Williams is one of the greatest quarterback talents that I've ever evaluated coming out in the draft."
"He's definitely the greatest or one of the greatest scrambling quarterbacks I've ever seen come out at this point in college football."
"She gets a score of 5 out of 5 in skills and talent."
"Demandred gets a 4 out of 5 with skills and talents."
"I love Bryce Young because he's got the most Pro-ready tape."
"This is a talent-over-situation pick here and I think that Shanet may end up being one of the best values in drafts."
"Draft capital is the king of signal to what will a player actually be good or not."
"This was an opportunity to get them on House shows and get them in front of a paying audience, see how the audience responds, see how the agents and talent respond to them as well, and then you make your decisions."
"Here's Robinson hitting the hole, and Bijan Robinson, one of the top recruits in the country."
"He is going to be a heck of a player, well, he already is, certainly."
"Bijan Robinson, a yards-after-contact waiting to happen, Quadzilla comes to mind."
"...boyin was a scorer through and through."
"I'm more inclined to look at that next class of guys down a level than I would be at Luca right now."
"I think Bon was a more skilled player, but Zaki can... get drafted."
"He's the most complete prospect in this draft."
"Thirty NBA scouts here tonight and they are seeing a lot of players on both sides with the size and the ability to play at the next level."
"You have to have an eye for a player, understand data, scouting reports, and have a feel for whether a player can develop at the right level."
"I think the person that's going to draft JJ McCarthy is going to do so not because they looking for a star but because they looking for a quarterback."
"The rookie coming out here to run that belir Academy offense you're damn right. I mean you should everybody should that's that guy."
"I think Kool-Aid is the best corner in this year's draft will be a star in the NFL and will make everybody wonder why they passed on him."
"Too is a good shot. I definitely think Too will end up in the Prem."
"I think this is the best receiver on this draft. I think this is an A+."
"This is a pretty strong overall draft."
"This guy's he's got the makeup and the stuff that we want."
"I think Phil Jones and, you know, I remember that statement by Ferguson saying about the next Duncan Edwards and all that, which is over the top."
"He's the best guy, he's the number one guy, he's the guy the Bears are going to pick."
"Skill-wise, based off film, Jermaine Burton is a first-round player for me."
"Malik Neighbors slips to nine, oh you're taking him, that would be tough to pass up, he does everything you want, he's incredible."
"ABAS candidates are evaluated on the basis of their exceptional achievements, talents, in addition to the academic results."
"That's as good a draft as I've seen."
"Ryan Dunn is one of the best defensive prospects I've ever evaluated."
"I did think Will Anderson was an elite overall prospect."
"He's the best player available, how this mock is constructed."
"There's a reason why I think this guy is worthy of a top five pick."
"He's the second best corner in this draft."
"The best ones tend to be less attractive and the more attractive ones tend to be less skilled."
"There's a lot of people that got drafted in front of me that shouldn't have been."
"I think this guy was the best guy in the whole draft."
"This draft class is insane, it's deep, it's impactful right at the very top and all throughout the first round."
"He's definitely on the rarer side of prospects, opinions are completely split on him."
"I think that they are passing up on, they passed two guys, it's one maybe three that we could be looking back as Hall of Fame caliber centers."
"How much better is player X than the second-best option while drafting an all-time Asian XI?"
"We're trying to figure out more the grit of the prospect, the mentality, the drivers, what motivates these guys, how do they see themselves, do they have emotional intelligence, are they self-aware."
"I still don't think you can go wrong with Byfield, you draft an enormous center number two."
"There's a lot of guys in this list that have a lot of value."
"It's a good pick, damn that is phenomenal."
"If you believe Marvin Harrison Jr is above and beyond the best receiver by far in this draft, then sure, you stand in there and take him."
"Would you pay Trevor Lawrence? There's no doubt in my mind he's one of the 10 best quarterbacks in football."
"If you created a quarterback in the lab, he's close to checking every box that you would want checked."