NFL Draft Live Thread | Round 1

[HonkEm]

I never watch the NFL Draft because I don’t need 32 GMs reminding me they also have no idea what they’re doing. That being said, any longhorns drafted yet?

[DiggsTX]

2 first rounders from an 8-5 Arizona state team is interesting (damning?)

[DiggsTX]

So Goosby would have definitely been a first rounder in this draft right? Everyone needs to buy his NIL stuff to thank him for his loyalty 

[NothinButDaHorns34]

37 minutes ago, DiggsTX said:

So Goosby would have definitely been a first rounder in this draft right? Everyone needs to buy his NIL stuff to thank him for his loyalty 

Unless you’re a fortune teller nobody really knows that. A long process between announcing and draft day. 

[Alex Butler]

3 hours ago, Joe Zura said:

Imagine being a cowboys fan 🤢🤮

Worse a Mateer cowboys fan 

[CJ Vogel]

1 hour ago, DiggsTX said:

2 first rounders from an 8-5 Arizona state team is interesting (damning?)

Quarterback…

[CJ Vogel]

22 minutes ago, Alex Butler said:

Worse a Mateer cowboys fan 

Those poor people. 

[ArizonaLonghorn]

3 hours ago, Hank South said:

Can't believe Jeremiyah Love went at 3. 

There are several reasons the Arizona Cardinals have never won a Super Bowl ... puzzling draft picks are high on the list

[ArizonaLonghorn]

1 hour ago, DiggsTX said:

2 first rounders from an 8-5 Arizona state team is interesting (damning?)

Tyson was rated the # 131 WR coming out of high school in Texas by 247 Composite, # 215 WR on 247 - a 3* ranked 920 overall (Composite).  Texas would rarely even look at a guy like that and many on this board would be disgusted with our recruiting if we went after him.  

Our WR class that year consisted of Brenen Thompson and Savion Red (after missing on Evan Stewart lol).

The tackle was a zero star in high school who had just started playing football, went to JUCO and was a middling recruit when ASU grabbed him, as they usually recruit poorly and are desperate for big bodies.  They lucked out on him for sure.

Basically the blue blood programs rarely even look hard at kids like these.  

[HookedOnTF]

6 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

Tyson was rated the # 131 WR coming out of high school in Texas by 247 Composite, # 215 WR on 247 - a 3* ranked 920 overall (Composite).  Texas would rarely even look at a guy like that and many on this board would be disgusted with our recruiting if we went after him.  

Our WR class that year consisted of Brenen Thompson and Savion Red (after missing on Evan Stewart lol).

The tackle was a zero star in high school who had just started playing football, went to JUCO and was a middling recruit when ASU grabbed him, as they usually recruit poorly and are desperate for big bodies.  They lucked out on him for sure.

Basically the blue blood programs rarely even look hard at kids like these.  

And those are Dillingham evals not Herm Edward's, right? Does Carrington share credit?

[ArizonaLonghorn]

16 minutes ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

The tackle was a zero star in high school who had just started playing football, went to JUCO and was a middling recruit when ASU grabbed him, as they usually recruit poorly and are desperate for big bodies.  They lucked out on him for sure.

Basically the blue blood programs rarely even look hard at kids like these.  

I guess the tackle (Max Iheanachor) went to a nerd high school (the King/Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science) that didn't even have a football team, which explains the zero star ranking.  His family emigrated from Nigeria when he was 13, he played soccer (goalie) and AAU basketball and the BB coach suggested he try football at a JUCO.  So far under the radar you'd need sonar to find this one.

[ArizonaLonghorn]

Some nerdy data on the first round - 7 picks were 5* recruits, 13 were 4*, 10 were 3*, Fernando was the only 2* and Iheanachor was unranked in high school (no football team).  These are from the 247 Composite.  Pretty common to see roughly a third-third-third break out of 5-4-3 stars going in the first round (of course there are usually 30 or so 5* compared to thousands of 4 and 3 star guys in each class).

Seven 5* and also seven ranked 920 and lower. Mendoza was the lowest ranked recruit (ranked 2,535) and Jordon Tyson, the # 8 pick, ranked # 920 out of high school.

Edited 16 minutes ago by ArizonaLonghorn

[ArizonaLonghorn]

24 minutes ago, HookedOnTF said:

And those are Dillingham evals not Herm Edward's, right? Does Carrington share credit?

Yep, Kenny was in charge when these guys came in from JUCO and from Colorado. 

BC is doing great, promoted to Assistant Head Coach and still a key recruiter.