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The Best Wide Receivers in College Football Not Named Jeremiah Smith

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The Best Wide Receivers in College Football Not Named Jeremiah Smith

Welcome back to The McShay Show! It’s a simple formula today: The guys reveal who their top non-Jeremiah-Smith college receivers are for the 2026 season, and Todd previews his early position rankings for the 2027 NFL draft. (00:00) Welcome to The McShay Show!(03:23) Top Wide Receivers not named Jeremiah Smith(11:08) What makes Malachi Toney so special?(14:18) Evaluating Cam Coleman(19:21) Scouting Charlie Becker(23:44) Dakorien Moore's potential(27:53) KJ Duff vs. Nick Marsh(32:00) Top 10 teams are loaded with WR talent(34:25) Ranking NFL Draft Eligible Prospects Nintendo: Power up your play with Nintendo Switch 2. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines. Host: Todd McShay Guest: Steve Muench Producers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, and Daniel Comer Social: Abou Kamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All the talk about this 2026 college football season and the 2027 NFL draft is about the quarterbacks, right? Quarterbacks need weapons and there's an abundance of them both in college football and as we look ahead to the NFL draft, today we're going to focus on the best weapons, the pass catchers, I'd receiver specifically in college football and like I said, there's a whole lot to get to bench, there's just 251 days until the NFL draft. We can do two different lists and we can get to the draft prospects and what's our preseason grades are, right? And we're coming out late this month, probably very early September. With our top 50 overall prospects, it's going to be the ringer.com/mixie where you got all of our draft content a year ago and we'll keep you posted on exactly when it's going to, that's what we spent the summer doing is watching tape, we started with the quarterbacks and you and I have been grinding ever since when we haven't been unlazy rivers out in Montana. But these wide receipts stop, stop calling the yellowstone river at a lazy river, go ahead. This episode is brought to you by Nintendo, when you've got different ages, different interests and a busy schedule, finding something everyone can enjoy is a win, boy do I know that. The Nintendo Switch 2 system gives you options with games like Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong, Bonanza and EA Sports FC 26. You controllers are included so you can start playing together right away and many existing Nintendo Switch games also work on Nintendo Switch 2. Learn more at nintendo.com/nintendo Switch 2. Games and systems sold separately. Some Nintendo Switch games may not be supported or fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2. It's rated E to E 10 plus, your fear of anything that's not like standing on ground is fascinating to me. And I was glad to see the yellowstone river. Your six-year-old daughter has some courageous young women and family friends around her. Yes. Also, aunts and uncles if you will, extended family. They were pushing her to get over her own, her dad's fears because she's going to need a lot of people, okay. I mean, if the plane's up in the air or a raft is in the water, it's dangerous, dangerous, Stella. I think this thing is a healthy fear. Let's go. It's just receivers. Unhealthy. These guys don't have a lot of fear. They work the middle. They get vertical. You know, and we got a loaded group. The problem when you talk about wide receivers, whether it's college football or the NFL draft is like, we're going to get lost in Jeremiah Smith. And I get news for you. Not all season long to talk about Jeremiah Smith. We got the entire pre-draft process to talk about Jeremiah Smith. And there's a lot to talk about. But today's like everything but Jeremiah Smith. So I want to do a top five wide receiver rankings with you, okay. Excluding Jeremiah Smith. Love it. Who are the five best receivers in college football? Not named Jeremiah Smith, okay. I'm going to throw out the list that I've created for social. You can check it out at McShay 13. McShay 13 on Instagram at McShay 13 is on X. But I want to formulate it with you. Agree or disagree? That list would start with Malachi Tony who's not draft eligible, sophomore, Miami. Forty eight hours ago, I would have maybe had him second on the list watching his tape. He is definitely that guy. Right. Going back and watching it again and digging in, he is definitely number one on the list. How excited are you to see him with Darian Manson? Not the Carson Beck wasn't excited to talk about him today. I can't wait for the season like it's unbelievable. I'm going to go after that, Cam Coleman, Aubrey Trillsford to Texas. Maybe one A1B, maybe not even a one too, I'm with you, okay. And then after that, I think it gets interesting. Agree. And for my liking, the next two, this is my liking. And I want to hear where you would go. And then we can try to formulate a combined effort, right? I would go Charlie Becker, three, Indiana wide receiver and Decorian Moore, Oregon. Also like Tony, second year after a true freshman year, I want to see it a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger, saviour, second go around, also with an awesome quarterback. The two most pure passers, the two purest of passers, if you will. In college football, by my eyes, are Dante Moore and Darian Manson, okay? Right. And they've got, they've got true sophomores coming in who are absolute dynamos at wide receiver. And I'm excited to see in their second year what they can do with those guys throwing to him, obviously, Dante Moore throwing to Decorian Moore. And then Melania Coytoni catching passes from Darian Manson, the Duke transfer. Would you, would you be different on, would Charlie Becker be three for you? Decorian Moore four, where would you go? I would go Charlie Becker three. I do think there's a, there's a significant drop off after the first two. I'm not a drop off, but there's more questions that I would like to have answered. I'm not as, as confident after this. I think there's a conversation to have. I would have Decorian Moore in the mix, but it's, it's a little bit more of a projection. I think guys like KJ Duff from Rutgers, who will probably talk about at some point and Nick Marsh, the transfer of Michigan State to Indiana would definitely be in the conversation. All right. So round it out, who would be your, who would be your fifth receiver? If we, if we stuck with Tony one, Coleman two, Becker three, Decorian Moore four, who would be your fifth wide receiver? Full disclosure, I would have gone Duff, then Marsh, and then Decorian Moore at six. If I, if before we had to talk to Stanford Steve, and Stanford Steve kind of talked me into Marsh, Duff, then more. So it'd be, so you're letting Stanford Steve talk you into what was right. Yes, I know. It's a terrible idea. I know. But I think they're really close. Those are two guys or big body guys that move really well for their size, who I think were, you know, more so with Mars in a tough situation last year, he's a little bit of rejection because Michigan State just didn't, you know, the passing game was a mess last year. So yeah, I think they're very close. And then I think McCord, Decorian Moore is on the outside looking in, although there's a lot I like about his game. Arguably the most talented wide receiver, not listed in those four, is Coleman, Ryan Coleman Williams, who, a great, most people remember him or identify him as Ryan Williams, who came into this class, right, a couple of years back, it was Jeremiah Smith and, and Cam Coleman and Ryan Williams were like, I don't want to say one A, one B, one C, but if it was one with Jeremiah Smith, it was two A and two B with those next two guys. And then you watched the Georgia game and some of the freshman year stuff from Ryan Williams. And it was like, Ryan Williams is the second best receiver, maybe in the country right now, but he's the second best receiver in that class. And then last year happens, it'll 14 drops out of, it was like an 11% of like 100 something to targets. And 11% drop rate. And I went back and I watched every single drop and some of it was, he, he, he wasn't there for the, the business over the middle. Some of it was, I thought he got his eyes around late, you know, and some like speed outs and, and, and in breakers. There was a, a confidence that deteriorated with him catching the football, but the Alabama star is still very much a star, you know, and it seems like he's got a new jersey number. He's got a new last name and we're hoping to see the, the older version, the freshman year version, but a refined, more polished version of him. But I don't have a lot of confidence, even though when you, we'll get to the draft rankings later, he's going to be higher up on the list and maybe some of these other guys. But I think you have to keep Bryant West, West go and T.J. more from Clemson in mind when you, when you create this list, I think you have to have Martian in, in, in mind. Duff is the guy that nobody knows out of Rutgers. And so he's probably not going to crack it a lot of top five wide receiver lists, but I promise you NFL scouts are talking about him. Maybe it's the third, fourth, fifth wide receiver projecting to 2027. And you got Eric Singleton, who's now at Florida, undersized explosive weapon. What's Wingo going to look like similar to Coleman Williams? Wingo's a dude, man, a Texas, but they do get Cam Coleman because they don't rely. They can't rely on Wingo to be the guy, you know? And so, but Wingo, when he gets that ball in his hand and has a little bit of a runway is like a six three receiver, he's a, he's someone you got to deal with. The Amario Craver, who was part of that, that conception on Craver law firm at Texas A&M last year, they were absolutely awesome. I get news for you. Isaiah Satania, when, when the quarterback at Oklahoma couldn't, if John Matier couldn't throw the ball down the field and and Dion Burke's got rendered I don't want to say useless, but kind of for his standards, it was all satania because he was a, he was a uncover quickly explode after the catch guy, right? Right. He's back with Matier. Nick Harbors, a physical freak, he like, he's up right up there with Feldman's freaks list. Like what he can do, but he's still developing as a wide receiver as we go. There's two. There's dudes everywhere. Did you put Coleman with us? You put him in your top five Coleman Williams. Yeah, sorry. What am I talking about? Coleman Williams. Did you have him in your top five? If I'm going to be honest, you want me to just be honest, true serum. The fifth best wide receiver entering the year, even though he's not as talented as Coleman Williams, he's doesn't have the size of his teammate, Wesco or Marsh. He doesn't have maybe the explosiveness of a singleton or satania. The fifth best wide receiver in college football coming into this year's TJ Moore. I really believe it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. That's good. So let's go back. Let's start the beginning. Tony's our number one wide receiver, not named Jeremiah Smith. What makes him so special? I think it starts with the competitiveness. I mean, this dude is going to block. He's going to go over the middle. He's going to make plays after the catch. Now it's hard. It gets tricky when we talk about what makes him special. It's not one thing. I think there is a play that Miami runs that is unstoppable because of Malachi, Tony. He lines up the slot as he often does and he either runs a whip route, a shallow cross, or if he recognizes his own, just sits over the middle. I don't know how you defend this play because his ability to stop and start on a whip route is devastating versus band-a-man. And to stay with that dude getting in and out of breaks, good luck. Now when you add that shallow cross into it, you're going to get on your horse anytime you seem to start to break over the middle. So when he breaks back outside of that whip route, it's even harder to defend. Then you add just the intelligence level on a third of three. You need a first down and he recognizes that those linebackers are just sitting there and he can sit over the middle and make a catch from third and three. I mean, I just don't know how you defend that play. If I were Miami, I'd run it all day. I'd just run the same god damn play every time because how you stop him like I told you after that on that play. And then after that, he's going to make something happen after the catch. And what I love after the catch for small guys, there's not a lot of dancing man. He's instinctive. He's explosive. He has good contact balance. He can split defenders and take it to distance. He can break tackles like you did on a third and seven playing as Ole Miss in the playoffs where he looks like he's going to be stopped. Dead to rights. Well sure to the first down marker breaks the tackle and gets there. And then you add the element of this that he's, it's not like he's a one trick pony. He can only run that player, only make that kind of a play. He can run downfield routes too. He tracks the ball well. He can, you know, he's not going to win a lot of 50, 50 balls downfield, but not for a lack of trying or lack of competitiveness. So like when you put all of these things together, the explosiveness, the intelligence, the competitiveness, I don't love little receivers, or smaller receivers. I shouldn't call him little. He's not little, but I like the bigger guys on the outside, they're going to make plays. Some of the other guys we're going to talk about in a minute here. I love Malachite Tony's game. Yeah. What's not to love? And the fact that he came in and was so polished and so like and such a leader ready to go. Ready to go. It was remarkable, you know, absolutely remarkable. And I just like I said, I can't wait to watch Mensa now, you know, come in and see the instant rapport between those two. Because he's the type of guy that just makes your life easy. Whether it's the short, you know, the quick, the quick game, the screens, being where you need to be, zone beat or sure, no problem. He's going to be there. Over the middle, I'm about to get hit and I might lay you out. I might put you in a bad spot. Yeah, I'll go get it. You know, like he's like, he's a dream. He's a dream to block my ass off from my teammate. I'll go do that too. I'll go at my size, he's a better blocker than Cam Coleman is at this point. Let's go to Cam Coleman, all right, and I recently did his evaluation six, three, 210 pounds runs a four, four, five estimated by by National Blasto, you know, he's faster. He's faster. I tend to agree. He's entering into his first year at Texas, third college season, okay. He's got just 93 catches the last two years, 1,300 receiving yards. I want to give it a comparison. Michael Lemmon last year at 76 catches for 1156, Skylar Bell at Yukon had almost 1,300 last year, Jeremiah Smith, who we talked about is everybody but had 1,243 receiving yards last year. That's a two year span with quarterbacks that could not get him the football. And it was hard at times watching. So I can't imagine what it was like for him. And I hear a lot of stuff about Cam Coleman, like, you know, there's like attitude and there's frustration. And is he going to become a pro this year and all that, like, okay, fine. But I don't know that there was a receiver that I, there wasn't a receiver I watched on tape this year or even last year, where I remember like, okay, a drop happened, a mistake happened, something negative, a negative play occurred early in the game. And you talk about amnesia. In fact, for Cam Coleman, it was, it's the weirdest thing, it was almost like, not only was it not amnesia, it was like something, it was a motivation, it was like a fire was lit under him. If he made a mistake, he wound up going on to have like one of his best games of his career. And there's something about that attitude and the belief that he has. Also my dude and list, let's be honest, arch is an awesome athlete, arch is big, arch is strong, arch is fast, arch can make all the throws. But he'll make your, he'll make his receivers work, even in his best games. He was making receivers go work to get the football. Do you think there's a more outside of, you could say Jeremiah Smith, but this is the, besides Jeremiah Smith show, do you think there's a receiver in the country who's more equipped to go and take a, a ball thrown behind him or have to go up and get it or track it down than Cam Coleman? No. No. He's the guy because he's got that six three frame. He's got this acrobatic, acrobatic athleticism to him. His ability to attack and adjust to the football and the air is just, it's remarkable. Yeah, there's some inconsistencies on tape. Few too many focus drops last year, like the Missouri game. He had a bad one with seven on one first quarter, right down the left rail. He had another one and two in that game. Yeah. Yeah. The Oklahoma, the double, double move down the right seam really stands out. But the mental toughness and the ability to not let anything fester, I, like growing up it was a, uh, uh, Frank T. Felicia told you four fingers. Do I, boy, compound, compound mistakes, compound, yeah, he doesn't have compound mistakes. One mistake isn't going to lead to two or three, okay? So that's going to be awesome to watch. Third receiver on the list. Hold on one second. Yeah, yeah. Got one second. I knew all those things about Cam Coleman. He's a little better route runner than I expected on him. Yes. For guy, that tall, he's silky. He's, he is silky and I couldn't get a, it's early for comp season. It's early for comp season. I kept seeing AJ Green, man, same frame, same way moves out of bricks. You know what's fascinating? Tell me that. I wrote, I wrote this, this class is very interesting because one of my favorite wide receiver classes ever was the competition between green and Julio Jones. And I'm telling you, I mean, I have a higher grade. Interesting. Jeremiah Smith, then even Julio Jones, who I think had like a 96 grade coming out. But the higher grade I had that year and, and call me wrong if you want was, was one number higher than he was a 97 with AJ Green. I remember Julio Jones have, he had a, like a broken bone in his foot and he came and ran at the combine because like those two were head to head battle, right? And I'm not saying it's going to be what Jeremiah Smith and, and Cam Coleman, but I'm not saying it might not. It's interesting. It's interesting. And one of them reminds me like Jeremiah Smith game, game, if you're trying to find the, like the, the closest NFL comp past or present, it's Julio Jones. Yeah. And I see a lot of AJ Green and Cam Coleman. That's, that's a great point made by you, Mitch. Let's go. Yeah, char, yeah, just to go back to your point to glides up. This is what from my notes. Scattered report. Glides up field, obvious second gear, but also this impressive suddenness and stop start ability for his height. He shows the full ability to run an NFL route tree. He wasn't just a two or three trick pony as some other guys are and maybe I think what the perception is with Cam Coleman. Charlie Becker, talk to me, what do you got? I'm a little concerned about the lack of production until the Penn State game. That's why I hesitate with Charlie Becker a little bit and why he's not maybe in the conversation with the other two is he's not quite as twitchy, but man, this might be the best vertical threat in the country. He is, we just talked about Coleman and I agree with you, but Becker's up there, man. In terms of his ability to track and adjust strong hands in the air. We saw time and time again, I'm back shoulder, but he's just a guy that can go up and get the ball. I also for a guy who's not overly twitchy, I like the way he gets off the line. He knows how to get off the line, get into those routes and get down field, man. That that's stood out to me as someone who go in at the line of scrimmage at his size. And then if you're not going to be overly twitchy as that, that runner, I think the two things that really help him are one that he's physical. He can separate with his strength and his size. And then so like when you're looking at that, that there's that ability and then guys fear him, his ability to take the top off keeps defenders on their heels, which gives them a little bit more margin of error, a little more space to operate underneath. Again, I hesitated a little bit because it was such a good run and Ohio State fans are going to have nightmares of this guy. Penn State fans have nightmares of this guy. I just believe he's going to build on that momentum, continue to develop and he's going to end up being a top five receiver in the country this year. Yeah, and I think he's going to wind up being the third or fourth receiver drafted. I really do. I believe. I believe in this guy. He is a hard charging physical, strong wide receiver who also like if the national and bustle headed like 445 for Cam Coleman, they got back at 440, also 630, 207 pounds. So this guy like it's, you see it on tape. I don't know what the 40 is going to be, but I know it's going to be fast and I know on tape, he plays fast also like absolutely natural catching the football. These guys like from the focus to the body adjustment, contested catches 67 or 69% 13 of 19 opportunities and contested targets last year. Yeah, the sample size not as big as some of these other guys. Yeah, and we talk about to his route running too like he, yeah, he's not sudden, but he's everything else and when you know how to run routes, it all works out. You talk about him now stepping up to elevating to that role and with Nick Marsh coming in and get an opportunity to play with a quarterback in a system, Josh Hoover is entering that situation. It's like this combination, it's like the devil in the angel on Josh Hoover's shoulders, right? Because Josh Hoover is an absolute Texas gunslinger. Josh Hoover don't care. Right. I love watching Josh Hoover's tape because it's like, but now he goes in that same assembly line that Mendoza entered into last year where it's like, you know, mesh eyes and he's very comfortable with those sorts of things and all, but also he's got this inner demon, if you will. And I only speak from experience because I promise you, there's this thing where it's like, I want that. I want that. Yeah. It's got to know when you're allowed to take it, right? And so now, but I got now, I got, but coach coach, I get, I get marsh, I get backer. They're case him all the time, work the mesh, read the corner, you know, like so it's going to be fascinating to watch that develop and how it, you know, there could be some all time ass chewings early in the season for, there could be so it was a classic Mendoza was a fire. He fell in the line, like, you know, I got this sense Hoover's going to do all the right and wants to, right? Right. Yes. I agree. I think there's going to be some like, it could be some mixed Sabin link. Yes. Level. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I think it's going to be awesome. All right. And then, and then Decorian more. I, I, I struggled with them a little bit, but I see what he can be. And if you believe in that he's going to get where he can go, it's really imperative. This guy I could separate. He has the ability to separate another guy that wins at the line of the scrim at line of scrimmage. You see him get to the top of routes and the change of speed, the change of direction. He's quick. He's not the biggest guy, but he is so quick, getting in out of breaks. He is a natural hands catcher. I think I wanted to ask you about this with him. He's a young kid. I think he was, he was asked to play a bigger role than he was expected last year with Evan Stewart. An injured in the season with Evan Stewart getting hurt in the preseason and, and you thought Kennedy maybe would play like a much bigger role at times early, especially I felt like there's some not finishing as a route runner at times. There were a couple times on tape that I felt like he could have accelerated through. I know you're quicker than that, man. I've seen you. I know you were sprinting high school. I know you can run. I know you can take the top off. I know you can threaten after the catch. So there was a couple times where he got out of his breaks and it felt like the ball wasn't coming his way. Maybe not a lot. I'm not. I don't want to like turn us into something. I think I think it's a young player learning that you have a quarterback that will find you who's not necessarily going to go one, two and then run and maybe you play with that in the past. I thought there are a couple times you just, you know, like there's over the North in the Northwestern game going over the middle one time. If he runs through, he's going to clear those linebackers and I think be the safety and make a play there. And it looks like a bad play by not don't they more. So there's a little bit of that him missing four games, not being the biggest guy. I hesitated a little bit, but man, talent for days in the right quarterback in the right system to get it out of them. I don't think there's a big difference in the player between De Coran, Moore and Ryan Coleman Williams. In fact, I think there's a lot of similarities to their game. I think they're both undersized. I think they're both lean. I think there's a physicality that I'd like to see. Now, I'm talking specifically like that freshman year from Ryan Williams, who is named Ryan Williams at that time versus freshman year De Coran, Moore where it's like, I'm cool with excusing some stuff. He just got out of high school ball like his mind is spinning. He doesn't know what he doesn't know yet, but but he, but he'll produce some big play. We're not relying on him, even though Oregon kind of had to like, I'm not relying on him as an evaluator. I'm excusing away some things that I'm not going to excuse away in year two. Correct. So, does he have a Ryan Coleman Williams year or does he come out and he takes that next step, right? That's what I want to see. You would like to think, although Ryan Coleman Williams had Ty Simpson, who looks like the best quarterback, rookie quarterback in the NFL after one preseason game, he had a pretty good quarterback throwing to him. But now you got Dante Moore and second, a second, I'm obviously playing, second year with him. So you would, there's an ex, like you started this whole thing, there's an expectation of growth. I want to see a little more physicality. I want to see a little bit more consistency. I want to see being on the same page a little bit more. Last year was just about raw talent being going out and being the dude. Now it's about, I've got to, I've got to be a better version of that, right? I'm more excited than concerned. I would say that. Way more. Way more. Right. But when we're comparing him to other guys and he was more productive, I think maybe, I think he's more productive than Charlie Becker, but Becker was a third-wide receiver. De Corrie, and despite the four games miss, was kind of the guy. But if he makes the leap, we think he will. It's going to be pretty awesome to watch, right? Yeah. Yes. I'm here. What is it about Nick Marsh outside of Stanford Steve that makes you think he could be? Well, it's him and Jeff on the same. I think Marsh is more, more of a fluid route runner, although I'll say this about Duff and I want, I'm interested to see what kind of grade you gave him, because I know you evaluated from the draft. We're having a college football conversation, but sorry, I'm going to muddy the waters. Just a little bit. I really want to see what you thought about Duff. I think they're, I mean, look, this is one of those situations where it's hard to evaluate a guy when they're in that situation. So if he comes over now to Indiana where I think they're going to be a more efficient passing attack and he gets more chances to make a play, I think he's going to be more productive. And there are times where Nick Marsh is a, he's not as big as KJ Duff, but he's a big body guy. If he's 50 plays, I think he does a good job of getting, you know, leverage as a route runner. You see some flashes of how tough he can be to tackle after the catch. And I prefer these bigger body guys. So that's kind of why I'd have a little bit higher. D'Corey Moore is probably 51195, where is Nick Marsh is, I think around 6205, 210, something like that. I should probably look that up and be more accurate with it, but he's a bigger guy. And that's kind of what I value. Yeah, I again, I just go back to TJ Moore in my, in my evaluation and maybe it's just because I want to scream from the mountain top and be like, Hey, guys, he's one of them too. I'm not saying he's better than Marsh. I'm not saying he's better than Ryan Coleman Williams and what Coleman Williams can be. And hopefully this year where it feels like he's turning over a new leaf. As I mentioned before, Jersey number change, Coleman Williams from, from Williams, it just feels like he's ready to reinvent himself and go back to what he was as a true freshman. And everyone's ranking, West Go higher than TJ Moore. And I get that because West Go's 262.5, 184.4 and can absolutely fly, right? TJ Moore at Clemson, and let's see how the quarterback situation is. Gabbo typically has, you know, does a lot better when the expectations. are not like last year and we saw how that thing played out, but TJ Moore also is 6032, verified with NFL scouts, 63 and a quarter. He's 194 but his teammate Westgoes 180. He's a 445, right? Yeah, and I'm watching him and he is a big play generator, right? 33 explosive on 97 career catches so far. He Westgoes like get vertical down the field, go make acrobatic. Wingo, I mean more, TJ Moore is after the catch. He is so like he's got this vision about him, he's just, there's this unusual naturalness about he catches the ball and that's like an afterthought on the run, you know, like it's and a lot of times you're like don't don't try to do B before A, like he doesn't need to worry about A. He's got he's got catch the ball and pluck transition. He's on to B, and like 300, I looked at like three basically 400 of his 837 receiving yards were with the ball in his hands last year, half of his basically half of his receiving yards. So he's one of the most natural pluckers on the run, explodes up the field. I love his vision. He's got the shiftynessness to him, but also silkyness to him. I just think he's a great player. And I only, like I actually think he challenged Mansour Delane as much if not more than any other receiver. And he didn't like to have a lot of big, but he actually he forced Mansour Delane to pay attention and to have to like give everything he had. He got his attention. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm excited to see and I don't know what it's going to look like for Clemson. We'll see how this year plays out. And Davos sometimes will shock the world, right? And in that conference, there's some there's some room to shock the world. But what I do love about this group is I transition here a little bit. This AP poll we just covered extensively on Wednesday with with Stanford Steve, right? Almost every one of them has an absolute guy, like a real one at wide wrestling sense. Yeah. Ohio State sitting in number one in the AP poll, you got Jeremiah Smith. Oregon, Decorian Moore, we just talked about. Georgia never does, Notre Dame never does, they're three and four. I got it. I shouldn't say never. They rarely that's not what they major in. They major in defense, offensive lines, running the football tight ends. And they and they'll have a George Pickens roll through. They'll have, you know, but but even a Malachi fields with all his ability was never going to be like a high producing wide receiver. It's just not what they do. This year could be interesting though. They got a couple Ohio State transfers. Notre Dame did, but that that will be interesting. But then you get to Texas with Cam Coleman. And then also can wait. I'm interested to see now, Wingo. Hey, you're supposed to be the guy we had to go out and get another guy. What do you have to say? Coleman Williams, Ryan Wingo and Brian West Coast should all be on this list. They should talent wise all beyond this top five list. And the fact that they aren't correct. That's it. That is a that's a, but sometimes it's the great, it's the great motivator, right? Yep. Indiana, Sydney, it's six in the AP poll, which talked, they get two, two dudes. Miami Malachi receiver factory Indiana now. That's what that's what they're doing now. They're going to have four and two years. It's like Alabama with like the, the four, the jury, Judy, rugs, Devonte Smith and Ohio State Alabama and Indiana. Yep. Miami Malachi, Cytoni, right? Texas A&M, I at least mentioned Craver coming back. All miss. Let's see. Yeah. That one's interesting, right? Yep. And already the results out of San Francisco is Shand, Desjandro Sierbling is, is the next book in Nukuah. Right. And then Oklahoma sitting at number 10 with Satanya. So as much as we're talking about these quarterbacks and how awesome they are, and we could go down the top 15, you know, top 15 AP and they're littered with awesome quarterbacks. This year's wide receiver grouping college football is pretty awesome too. I do want to mention what would the rankings look like at wide receiver and I just finished up the receivers. You're doing some other positions. I'll just give you a sneak peek into what you're going to find on the the ringer.com/mixye. I'm not going to give you the grades. I'm going to make you go there. But we've got Smith at number one, Jeremiah Smith at number one. I've got Coleman at number two, Kim Coleman, Charlie Becker number three. Those are guys that all have legitimate, not like late first, like mid to very, very early first round grades for me coming into the season. Then you've got this, this kind of group of late first early second fringes and we saw last year, by the way. Coming into the year last year, we're like, I don't know if any of these guys are true, legitimate, you know, first rounders. We gave some 91s, some 90s, some 89s, right? Yeah. There are five receivers taken in round one, seven in the top 40. So if we have typically what happens is there's wide receivers because underclassmen leave and younger guys start to grow opportunities change, especially with the transfer portal and NIL. This year's class could have seven wide receivers in the first round. So when I mentioned that there's kind of fringe later going into the year, Coleman Williams goes and has the year that he's capable of he's going to be a mid first round pick maybe earlier. Bryant Westgo goes and stays healthy for this full year coming out of Clemson. He's going to be a top 20, top 25 pick and has a good year staying healthy. TJ Moore, I just told you all about him, the other Clemson wide receiver, KJ Duff's a guy big. KJ Duff is the guy that nobody knows nationally that's going to wind up being a first round wide receiver coming out of Rutgers. And I'm excited as the season progresses. We're not going to talk a ton about him, but as we get into that pre draft process, you better believe that he's going to be in that discussion as a top five wide receiver. So those would be my one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, top seven wide receivers coming into the year, looking forward to the NFL draft. Good girl. Man loaded loaded. Duff is productive too, man. I think like it's yeah, he was interesting. That up. Yeah, go ahead. He's over a thousand yards. I think seven touchdowns. I can bring it up right now. Duff was in the country with and receiving yards per game is 90.3. He had seven receiving touchdowns average 18. He averaged more than any other receiver above in the top six in terms of receiving yards per game. Average 18.07. Thousand eighty four yards and all did it all in just 60 catches. Crazy. And I want to see him do it. Now some of that's the thing one of my hesitations with Duff is that he blates numbers against maybe a lower level of competition. He can just go off and have monster games. Whereas when he gets against maybe the the the better teams, but that's tough, man. When you're at six, he's listed at six, I think in the like national, he's like six, six, six, so five, something 225 pounds. Yeah. He looks every bit of it too on tape. I mean, he looks every bit of it. It's going to be fun to watch him this year. Yeah. All right. This is a good Friday show. Let's get in. Let's get out. Everyone enjoy your weekend. We are just we're steamrolling towards the college football season and we're we're pumped. We're back with three shows again next week. Talk to you on Monday. 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