Adam Schefter update latest on NFL QB set to enter free agency, Falcons plan to trade up !!

Adam Schefter update latest on NFL QB set to enter free agency, Falcons plan to trade up !!

Uh there’s one team that Lewis rck thinks must have conversations right now about moving up in this draft to get a QB he will join us shortly from Indianapolis you know who else is in India that’s Chargers new head coach Jim Harbaugh lot to fix in LA and the biggest offseason priority revolves

Around the quarterback Justin Herbert David let’s keep it in LA with an historic comeback for LeBron James and the Lakers over the Clippers perspective today from Stephen A Smith and the next big moment approaching for LeBron all right let’s take a look at who is showing up right now at the com

There’s Caleb Williams the presumptive number one pick the number one quarterback prospect and there’s number two right behind him Jaden Daniels shown up in Mel Kyper Jr’s most recent mock draft he’s slotted second behind Williams and there’s Marvin Harrison Jr projected to be the first wide receiver

Off the board according to Mel and finally let’s see who else is who’s showing up here about there’s Bo Nicks hoping to raise his draft stock this weekend Nicks is scheduled to participate in workout drills on Saturday Sports Center on the road presented by Geico our senior NFL

Insider Adam Sher joins us now from Lucas Oil saves Adam much of the talk over the past week has really been en rightfully focused on the Bears right there at the top of the draft right now let’s look at the team with the number two overall pick the commanders new

Ownership a chance to take a big swing how is the team approaching that pick well David obviously they like other teams are conducting a lot of quarterback interviews with the top quarterback prospects but what’s unique here is that the new Commander’s owner Josh Harris who was part of a group that paid $

6.05 billion do for the team last summer has been sitting in on these interviews with the top quarterback prospects listening gauging his reaction just to hear what the future quarterback of the commanders may say again just listening in as a part of the process with this being his first combine he’s been there

When they’ve talked to Drake May and Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams and bonick and all these top quarterback prospects and it’s just another set of eyes and ears in the room not common for owners to be at the combine no less be in the meetings but Josh harrish has

Been an extra set of eyes and ears in the quarterback interview room here this week at the comine all right while while we’re on quarterbacks I mean you can get a quarterback through the draft you can this year kind of get a quarterback you have a shot at it through free agency a

Couple guys could be free agents and hit in the market let’s start with Kurt Cousins what’s the latest there listen the free agent Market will start in mid-march a couple of weeks from now and the speculation around the league continues to be that obviously Kurt Cousins would like to be back in

Minnesota Minnesota is interested in having him back but the other team that looms out there is the Atlanta Falcons and can the Falcons put together an attractive enough package to get Kurt Cousins to leave Minnesota and it certainly sounds like those teams will be at the Forefront of any Pursuit for

Kurt Cousins then there’s Baker Mayfield the free agent quarterback from the Tampa Buccaneers the Buccaneers want to bring him back the question is how much can they get him for can they work out a deal before he becomes a free agent or do they allow him to even get to free

Agent agency and if he gets the free agency then you have to wonder what other teams might take a look at him would that be Atlanta would that be New England would that be a team with a quarterback opening out there that could express some interest in Baker Mayfield

But the Buccaneers clearly would like to bring him back after the success he had this season the question becomes whether the two sides can work out a deal all right there you go Adam giving us the latest from the combine hey before we let you go by the way today you know is

Leap Day February 29th we couldn’t help but remember a couple of the really famous leaps in in Lambo history the lambo leap there he is Adam shefter that is a famous leap yes very famous leap the yeah the vertical very high watch the vertical I got at least an inch and a

Half off the ground right there and without the help of those fans I would have fallen right back on the top of my head and crashed and burned in Lambo field so thank you to all those great Packers fans for bringing me up into the

Stand uh let me know what it feels like to score a touchdown tip of the C for you to to repre it after the first one in 2019 and go right back and try it again a few years later uh well that wasn’t the plan that wasn’t the plan ad

Living beautifully the the vertical measured in milliliters there from Adam shaer giving us the very latest from Indianapolis thank you Dave I don’t get it when is he actually going to jump I don’t miss I missed that nfo combine workouts beginning today kicking off a weekend full the top prospects starting with defensive

Lineman and linebackers their party gets rolling at IND D about three our Matt Mill is going to join us later to talk about his highest ranked prospects including Alabama Edge rusher Dallas Turner and Texas defensive tackle Byron Murphy tomorrow featuring defensive backs tight ends and even more SEC prospects Alabama Corner terion Arnold

And Georgia tight end Brock Bowers two potential top 10 picks to keep an eye on Saturday we’ll show off the quarterbacks running backs and wide receivers but with several top prospects opting to sit out the combine Michigan QB JJ McCarthy and Washington receiver Rome ad doomday are players to watch and finishing up

The combine on Sunday are the offensive linemen led by noted AES Joe alt and Penn States Olu fashanu though several of our mock drafts on espn.com have as many as seven offensive linemen going in the first round Sports Center on the road in Indianapolis continues with NFL

Analyst Lewis rck joining us now on Sports Center Lewis we’re going to keep the leap day theme going which players do you expect to make the biggest leap up draft boards after working out at the combine this week yeah there’s two that really come to mind originally and it’s going to start

With chop Robins or rather let’s start with Xavier Legette from South Carolina the wide receiver who averaged over 17 yards per reception this year well we’re going to go with chop Robinson first all right well let’s just go with the Penn State Edge rusher look this is a guy

Who’s going to probably weigh in somewhere around 250 lbs maybe tip this you know go over 63 in terms of his height and look I think there there’s some speculation that he could run in the low 44 maybe even crack 43 which would be just as fast as what michah

Parsons’s ran when he came here to the combine but chop is even bigger and he’s a guy whose draft stock right now is all over the place some people have him in the first some people have him slip into the second I can tell you this at 250

Lbs plus if he runs 4-3 he ain’t getting out of the first round this is one of my favorite guys on the screen now Xavier legat the wide receiver from South Carolina got to see him in person down against Texas A&M when South Carolina visited College Station this year got to

See him down at the senior B he is put together now think AJ Brown like he’s about 61 62 probably going to tip the scales at around 218 220 he’s a guy who I expect to run in the 43s cuz on tape he is absolutely flying and I never saw

Anyone be able to make up ground on him he’s one of those guys as a wide receiver that if he comes out here and just rips it up in the Sprints and the jumps in the way in which he can catch the B had very minimal drops this year

He’s another guy that in a strong wide receiver draft class is going to see his stock rise heading into April agree 100% Lewis today marks exactly eight days until day one of the uh draft which team do you think most needs to make a leap and trade

Up yeah I think it’s all going to depend on what Atlanta gets done here before free agency starts or once free agency starts in terms of addressing their quarterback position their new head coach Rahim mahs said look if had they addressed the quarterback position or had quarterback not been a sticking

Point for them last year maybe he wouldn’t have been hired cuz maybe they wouldn’t have been looking for a new head coach so I think a lot of this is going to depend upon what does Chicago actually do in terms of Justin Fields do they keep him do they trade him do they

Go ahead and trade away that number one pick Ian what’s going to be the situation there and can Atlanta go ahead and acquire him if they are in fact interested in acquiring him I think the longer this goes in terms of them not addressing their quarterback position at

The beginning of free agency the more likelihood there is of them looking to see if maybe they can wheel deal and move up in the draft to get in position to draft one of the quarterbacks that we right now consider to be the top three if in fact they consider one of those

Guys to be worthy of moving up to that position so keep an eye on what the Atlanta Falcons do here at the beginning of free agency and onward and the Falcons currently hold the eighth overall pick much more from Lewis ahead on the biggest offseason priority for

Jim harau and the Chargers see you then my friend after an abysmal 2023 season that resulted in only five wins this Los Angeles Chargers off season season could be make or break waiting in the not so distant future are big decisions on key veteran players then free agency then

The draft Lindsay Theory takes a closer look at the franchise and what the Chargers need to focus on to become real Championship contenders this team is super dangerous touchdown Chargers I think their roster is just as good as anybody’s in football behind quarterback Justin Herbert and a star driven roster the

Chargers in Ed to run a playoff season back then run it deeper than ever before with eyes set on winning a first Lombardi trophy that’s the only reason we come back to start a new season to try to go get the Super Bowl but a Super Bowl run under Brandon Staley never

Materialized and following an embarrassing week 15 loss to the Raiders in Prime Time Staley and general manager Tom Tesco found themselves fired while ownership vowed to identify a new Direction the re imagining resulted in their biggest hire to date Jim Harbaugh who fresh off a national championship at

Michigan made clear the only goal that remains for him is to win a Lombardi trophy it needs to be multiple multiple championships we’re going to be humble and hungry but that’s our goal I want to go play free I want to go play fast and fearless and to be the

Best quarterback that I can be Herbert takes a shot downfield brought Mike Williams Herbert to Keenan Allen Captain clutch harbon Harris Herbert whose right arm set all-time NFL records through a players first three seasons for completions passing yards and combined passing and rushing touchdowns before experiencing a dip in production this

Season marred by injuries however harba also inherits a salary cap conundrum with the bolts projected to be well over the cap difficult decisions Loom will they unload aging stars like Keenan Allen and khil Mack or is it time to say goodbye to injury riddled standouts like Mike

Williams and Joey Bosa who have missed a combined 39 games the past two seasons and with seven Selections in the NFL draft including the fifth overall pick will they pursue Playmakers for Herbert like Georgia Tien Brock Bowers with harbon mentioning a need to beef up the Run game will they address that need

On day one or two regardless of who is and perhaps who’s not on the roster Harbaugh’s expectations for his first season are clear we’re going to earn our winning as a tough team resilient team Relentless team a physical team don’t let the powder blues fool

You AFC West could be all sorts of fun this year uh L R now rejoining us from the combine in Indie uh any team that wins just five games Lewis obviously they’re going to have some holes on the roster what should Jim Harbaugh’s number one priority be this off

Season well he already told you Dave right he said don’t let the powder blues fool you we’re going to be a physical football team well you become a physical football team by becoming physical in the trenches on the offensive and defensive line and when you’re talking about you know him taking this job

Primarily because he wanted to work with Justin Herbert well he needs to protect Justin Herbert and how do you protect Justin Herbert you beef up this offensive line and this is an offensive line heavy draft particularly at tackle and I think that’s where they are going to start there are some absolute

Monsters that are going to be available to him at that fifth overall pick and Justin Herbert will thank him for it and then they will move on to the Back Field and make sure that they get a running back that can take over football games and take some of the pressure off of

Justin Herbert and allow them to utilize play action pass at a rate that Justin will definitely thank them for and then you know the last piece of this is remember this remember who he hired as his offensive coordinator it’s his old pal Greg Roman that was with him out in

San Francisco Greg Roman that of the Baltimore Ravens recently he specializes in being able to cut defenses apart with the Run game and the only way you can do that is if you make sure you have the horses up front this is a football team

That last year was in the bottom half of the league in run block win rate and pass block win rate you’re not going to be able to win the way Jim Harbaugh wants to win if you’re only you know in that kind of ranking in that kind of

Category they will take an offensive lineman they will make this team much more physical and Justin Herbert will be better because of it all right at offensive lineman we saw Mel Kyper uh in his mock draft this week say they’re going to Alabama is JC leam with the

Number five pick your thoughts on that I love it JC leam if you watch him on tape Dave I’m telling you this when he puts his hand on hands on you it’s over it’s a rep you might as well just go ahead and unbuckle your chin strap

And wait for the next snap cuz you’re not going anywhere with him he’s about 65 330 lbs he’s got good feet for a right or left tackle because quite honestly they’re interchangeable at this point in time and he’s the kind of guy who will establish that kind of

Physicality the other guy you see on your screen right now is TSU fuaga from Oregon state who’s probably the nastiest offensive lineman in this draft in the way he in which he tries to hit you and tries to bur you and then there’s joal from Notre Dame who goes about 67 330

Lbs a guy who plays with good strength has good feet for someone so big look he’ll have his pick of which guy he wants up there when their time comes to pick any one of those guys you can’t go wrong with chargers have Rashad Slater at left tackle you pair him with another

Young impact guy over on the right side some nice bookend protection there for Justin Herbert if it goes that way Le giving us his thoughts from Indie NFL combine workouts begin today with defensive lineman and linebackers and our Matt Miller has you covered with his top prospects to watch Alabama Edge

Rusher Dallas Turner leading the way as Miller’s ninth overall Prospect and looks to join last year’s third overall pick Will Anderson junor as the only Alabama Edge rushers to go in the first round under Nick Sabin the top defensive tackle to watch is Texas’s Byron Murphy Miller’s 13th overall Prospect in the

Longhorns final season in the Big 12 Murphy LED all defensive tackles in the conference with 32 pressures and five sacks Miller’s next ranked Prospect at 14th overall also in action today Florida Edge rusher Jared ver the junior finishing his 2023 campaign with 17 tackles for loss and 50

Pressures an NFL draft analyst Matt Miller joins us now from Lucas Oil Stadium Matt which defensive lineman will you be watching closely today yeah Jay we’re going to see some shows put on today and the guy you mentioned there Byron Murphy the defensive tackle from Texas a little bit

Under heralded at Texas because of his teammate tandre s but Murphy we should probably charge a ticket admission price because he’s going to put on a show 6’1 297 lbs he’s explosive he’s strong you see it on tape with his ability to just manhandle offensive lineman whether that

Be in the Big 12 or as we saw in the college football playoff we also saw him against Alabama this year so he’s going against NFL caliber offensive lineman and consistently getting into the back field with that first step quickness and power that’s going to make him one of

The risers from this year’s combine and probably a top 15 pick now someone I heard Lewis rck hyping up is chop Robinson and for very good reason because chop is one of the most explosive athletes in this entire draft class he actually weighed in today at

254 lbs which is a great weight for him when you see that quickness and burst that he has on tape so when we see him 40 yard dash three cone time short shuttle those are all measurables NFL teams want to look at to see just how explosive you are chop Robinson has a

Chance to set some records for his weight class and for his position at defensive end all right which linebackers will you be keeping a close eye on today yeah Jay let’s go go to Texas A&M where edrian Cooper was a three down playmaker for them he’s also one of the

Most athletic and explosive all-around players in this draft class we saw him do it a big week for him to prove his status as a top 32 Prospect then Junior Coulson one of the 18 Michigan Wolverines who will be working out here this week for him it’s really a question

Of quickness and speed we knew he was a downhill violent tackler in the Run game but what can he do getting out like he did here playing on the hashes that’s going to be huge for his draft stock maybe his the top 50 Prospect he needs to show that quickness and that ability

To control his agility in space he going to be huge for Coulson who one of my favorite football players in the draft but the athletic testing is going to be a huge part of determining ultimately where he’s going to be selected yeah cson LED Michigan in tackles last season with 95 met Miller

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