1:59

right? And then our guy, I have

2:02

to bring up his name. I'm gonna look his name up real quick, man.

2:04

He hit us up. He said, Hey, he said, are y'all gonna

2:06

talk about offensive tackles? Cause my San

2:08

Francisco 49ers need some

2:10

offensive tackle help. And I said, you know what? We're

2:13

gonna do that, man. We have some really

2:15

talented offensive tackles, but DP,

2:17

there's a, there's a, there's a clear group

2:19

right at the top. Like I feel as though there's a

2:21

clear group at the top, man. So let's

2:24

kick it off. Who's the first name you want to throw out

2:26

for these? Cause this potentially like, we

2:28

talking about perennial Pro Bowl as tight

2:30

talent at the top of this offensive tackle class.

2:32

Who do you want to kick it off with?

2:34

I got to start with the guy that I gave

2:36

the, you know, a high first round grade

2:38

to Keith. And that's Joe Alt from Notre Dame

2:40

six, eight listed by the, we all

2:42

know the websites on the schools are always

2:45

accurate, but I'm pretty sure he's around six,

2:47

seven to six, eight, you know what I mean?

2:49

Six foot eight, 315 pounds.

2:51

This young man is a former tight end and he played basketball

2:54

in high school and very similar. If you remember the

2:56

narrative guys around the Juan Jones from

2:58

Ohio state, the right tackle people love,

3:00

even though when you typically see a guy that size Keith,

3:03

I remember two years ago, it was

3:04

a, I forget the big guys,

3:06

the big right tackles name. He's, he's in Baltimore

3:09

now. But we saw him down the senior

3:11

bowl in 2021. Yes. Yes. If I lay Lee

3:12

fought,

3:17

what I have, but yes, him, you

3:19

know what I mean? He was a, another big guy, but he didn't

3:21

move like a Dwan Jones, right? Like

3:23

he didn't have the lateral agility

3:25

and the nimble feet. When I watched Joe

3:28

Alt, and this is a guy that, you

3:30

know, this, the, everybody tell me on Twitter, he has 34

3:33

inch arms. And when

3:35

he uses them correctly, guys, you

3:37

can tell, but he's, he can, when he locks

3:39

out, when he punches with good timing and

3:41

uses the right hand carriage, not have

3:43

his hands low or wide. You

3:46

know, you see a tackle that could

3:48

be a perennial all pro. I'm

3:50

talking about franchise cornerstone

3:53

type of tackle, good movement, lateral

3:55

agility to mirror and mass rushers

3:57

passes off, twists and stunts. Incredible.

3:59

well. But what I love is

4:02

not just a physical stature and tools guys,

4:04

but I love his IQ

4:06

to see things kind of happening

4:09

before they happen, right? To as

4:11

he's dropping off and if he's uncovered, it's

4:13

because he knows there's a rusher coming

4:16

from opposite angle because they're throwing

4:18

those twists and those defensive line

4:21

games at him. And he just picks them up

4:23

so well. He's a great tandem and dual

4:25

blocker in the run game. I think he's more

4:28

of a zone fit, which we talked about in the

4:30

mock draft Monday episode on Tuesday,

4:32

because we did it on Tuesday. We

4:34

did our mock draft way too early mock draft.

4:37

We had him going to the Titans and I'm like, this is a perfect fit.

4:40

And I think it really would be a perfect fit. This

4:42

guy, man, I was thoroughly impressed,

4:44

Keith, you know, family, I was still impressed with this

4:47

young man and I'm excited to see him because he still

4:49

got some technical and mechanical

4:51

things that he has to work on, but those things are

4:53

coachable.

4:54

Yeah, yeah. And I haven't got eyes on

4:56

Joe yet. You did a great job of,

4:58

you know, breaking down, giving a synopsis,

5:00

giving our listeners a perspective. But man, I'm

5:02

going to go with the guy that

5:05

would have been offensive tackle in this

5:07

year's class for me. And that's Penn State's

5:09

offensive tackle, Olu for Shannu,

5:12

man. I really like

5:14

everything about this guy. You give me big,

5:16

you give me athletic, you give me smooth, you

5:18

give me a finishing temperament, right?

5:20

And then he's young too. That's the thing, man.

5:23

He's growing. He's still developing as

5:25

a pass rusher, but also his body is still developing.

5:28

So I'm expecting him to get even stronger.

5:30

So when you talk about the top of this class, I

5:32

think there's going to be a Joe O, right?

5:35

To offensive tag from Notre Dame you just talked about.

5:37

And I think it's going to be a Penn State,

5:40

Olu, you know, Olu for Shannu, right? As offensive

5:42

tackle, but DP, man, clip this up,

5:44

man. Because I have another name that I want

5:46

to introduce into this conversation. We've

5:49

talked about Olu for Shannu. We've talked about

5:51

Joe O.

5:52

J.C. Latham, offensive

5:55

tackle from Alabama will be in

5:58

this discussion for offensive tackle And I

6:00

just finished it up and guess what? He has everything

6:02

that you want in an offensive tackle. Man, the guy

6:04

is big, he's strong, he's powerful.

6:07

He has nimble feet. This guy is

6:09

quick out of his past that he can get depth. He

6:11

plays with good tempo. He plays with physical

6:13

temperament. He plays right tackle, but we're

6:15

gonna see if he does the traditional Alabama

6:18

offensive line move where he goes from right tackle

6:20

to left tackle. And if he does that, he would

6:23

definitely be in a conversation for offensive tackle

6:25

again. So once again, invoke the

6:27

name JC Latham into this offensive

6:29

tackle one conversation because

6:31

he has all the physical tools necessary and he's

6:34

gonna push Olu Fushano and Joe out

6:36

for offensive tackle one.

6:39

Keith, I love that. I love it. I love

6:42

it. I absolutely love it because as

6:44

I said in the opening of this, the 2024

6:48

class in my opinion Keith has

6:50

the potential

6:51

to almost blow 2023 out of the water. Yeah,

6:54

I see it already. So this class

6:57

and I hope people hear the excitement in

6:59

our voice right through this podcast and be like,

7:01

okay, this must be the real deal. I think

7:03

this is the real deal. Like this class

7:06

will rival more of the 2022 NFL

7:08

Draft class where we had, we

7:10

had Icky, we had Icky and Kwanu.

7:13

Neil. We had Evan Neil, we had

7:16

Trevor Penn and went in the first round. We had,

7:18

I think it was- Oh, Brandon went to Seattle. Yeah,

7:21

Charles Cross. Yeah, I think

7:23

it was five offensive tackles and maybe even six

7:25

went in the first round. So it's this class

7:28

is gonna be similar to that and we'll

7:30

see if it's even better because we know there's

7:32

always names that pop up and to my JC

7:34

Latham point, right? I couldn't help but think of Darnell

7:37

Wright. Darnell Wright played Wright tackle Wright and

7:39

this was a guy that he went majority of

7:41

the draft process as what?

7:43

Maybe a second round

7:45

or a third rounder. Then as they got

7:47

closer to the draft, people just started appreciating

7:50

his ability to just play offensive tackle. There

7:53

wasn't enough of Zeke that was like, oh man, this guy

7:55

looks like a Greek guy. Greek

7:58

guy or anything like that, right? Or it wasn't-

11:59

but a big guy that's powerful that can move, that's

12:02

athletic, that's nimble. He's another guy that

12:04

you know what you need to do, put him on your radar,

12:06

put him on your radar because he checks all

12:08

of the boxes when it comes down to athletic profile

12:10

standpoint. So if he hits, and then when I

12:12

mean hit, I'm talking about just gets everything

12:15

together on the field, then you're

12:17

talking about another round one guy because you can't

12:19

teach 6'6", 330 pounds that can move, and

12:23

that's a good athlete.

12:24

And you talk about that, Kietha, and I'm

12:27

glad you brought him up because I was gonna bring him up, you know

12:29

what I mean? In terms of memes, but one

12:31

of my favorite guys is Jordan Morgan

12:33

over at Arizona, 6'6", 320, good

12:36

mover, great instincts in character.

12:38

I haven't seen, I've literally

12:41

haven't seen any film on him. And I'm talking

12:43

about like not even an ESPN highlight.

12:45

I haven't seen that one. Of course not, he's at Arizona.

12:47

He's at Arizona, of course not. I'm gonna have to check him up. And

12:51

I think, if I remember correctly, I think he got hurt this

12:53

year. So like he, if he didn't, yeah,

12:56

if he didn't get hurt this year, if I remember correctly,

12:59

I think it was like back towards the back end of the season, I

13:02

think he probably would have came out. But, you know, like

13:04

I said, excellent awareness, be able to like, we talked,

13:06

like I talked about with Joe, being able to handle those

13:08

stunts, blintzes, being great

13:10

in combo blocks. I saw a guy

13:12

with power, be able to overwhelm

13:15

guys at the point of attacking and really

13:17

drive guys off the football, right? Like, and

13:20

then as well as being able to use a variety

13:22

of sets, diagonal sets, quick

13:24

and jump sets to be able to meet guys and

13:27

not just meet them at the apex, don't even allow them to get

13:29

to the apex by quick setting them and getting

13:31

right to them so they can't build them any momentum,

13:33

right? So I have to believe, I don't know what's

13:36

arm length because, you know, like I said, like they don't really have a lot

13:38

of that stuff available until we get to

13:40

the draft cycle. But, you know, like that mean

13:42

streak, the aggressive and physicality

13:45

he plays when in the run game. And typically, you

13:47

know, I think they run more of a, if I remember correctly, they run more

13:49

of a kind of spread offense at Arizona,

13:52

you know, over there on the West Coast. So I'm excited

13:54

to watch him fully healthy, play

13:56

a full season again, and really showcases

13:59

his skills.

13:59

because like I said, with Zion Nelson,

14:02

Jordan Morgan, Mims that

14:04

you mentioned, man, this offensive

14:06

tackle class, and there's even more names that we'll get

14:08

into as well, but just you

14:11

get excited

14:12

about guys that look the part. I got, like

14:14

I said, I'm big on, I'm not

14:17

one of those people that like harp on size and

14:19

height and weight, but when guys hop off, when they

14:21

hop off the buses and they look like football

14:24

players and then they play like it, you

14:26

get excited. There's probably nothing

14:28

better in the world, right? When you have a guy that

14:30

looks like, when you're watching film and

14:32

you have a guy that looks like a dude,

14:34

and then he plays like a dude, it's like,

14:36

oh man, this is heaven, man. I found out what heaven

14:38

looks like. It's a game changer, baby. It's

14:41

a game changer. No, man, but

14:43

hey, we could continue to go with this and we

14:45

look at these guys, we're talking about hopping

14:47

off the bus. I'm hearing a lot of noise

14:51

about Wisconsin offensive tackle

14:53

Jack Nelson. I'm here in the

14:55

sense of the fact of he's cut from that

14:57

Wisconsin cloth, right? One of

15:00

our scouts were able to get some

15:02

eyes on him. They're like, hey, this guy has potential

15:04

to be a real

15:04

dude. Like he's physical, he's a good

15:07

athlete. He can play out in space and he

15:09

checks the measurable box. Right? He's six, six, 300 pounds.

15:12

And we keep saying that, right? Because that's usually the threshold

15:14

somewhere around there, the six, five, six, five

15:16

and a half to six, six, 300 pounds to

15:19

be able to take on that kind of bull rush. And when

15:21

those defenders want to play with power, you

15:23

can anchor down. So Wisconsin has

15:25

an offensive tackle also. I mean, we already,

15:27

I think eight people deep when it

15:29

comes to the offensive tackle class. And we have

15:32

even more men in these names that we're going to bring

15:34

up next

15:34

DP. These are names that I want

15:36

to bring up because I'm familiar with and in some

15:38

sense, and they

15:41

may have transferred to different situations

15:43

or they just have different situations overall.

15:45

So I want to talk about these names and these are real

15:47

deep name pools. But like we said, there's

15:50

always offensive tackles that emerge out

15:52

of nowhere. Trevor Penning, first round pick, he

15:54

was relatively a quote unquote nobody until

15:57

we got halfway into that season. So these

15:59

names that we've...

17:59

off to you, you know, watching the

18:02

film, watching Joe O.

18:03

Yes, 100 percent. Listen, Sam Hartman, the

18:07

transfer quarterback from Wake Forest, that's a happy man

18:09

going into the 2023 season. Keith,

18:11

no more deep mesh and he got two bookend

18:14

tackles to make sure he is upright because

18:16

when I watched as I'm watching Joe O, I

18:18

remember somebody bringing up Blake Fisher to

18:20

me and told me to keep my eyes on him. And he popped,

18:23

athletic, got out of his blocks with real

18:25

good quickness and kind of explosiveness

18:27

to that, that when he gets vertical

18:29

in his pass sets, and what

18:31

I mean, vertical guys who don't know, is that straight

18:34

drop, not diagonal, where he's dropping at

18:36

an angle, but that straight drop back, he

18:38

can cover ground and he

18:40

has good, you know, arm length look good, physical,

18:43

just athletically gifted from what I saw. I

18:46

can't wait to do a full deep dive on just him

18:48

because, you know, of course, you got to pay attention to

18:51

the moneymaker, which is Joe O on that offensive

18:53

line. But Blake Fisher absent, Lulee

18:55

popped to me and it's just a young

18:58

man that I think, like you said, it's

19:00

no more, hey,

19:02

left tackle, right tackle as

19:04

much as we saw with Darnell, right? It's just,

19:07

can you play tackle and Blake Fisher

19:09

can play tackle?

19:10

Okay, cool. That's what we need to know, right? That's what

19:12

the people want to know. So when we're watching Notre Dame,

19:14

we're watching the left side and we're watching the right

19:16

side for not only Joe O, but Joe O, but

19:19

we're watching for Blake Fisher. Man, so I'm gonna go back

19:21

and I'm real off a couple of names to talk

19:23

about Wisconsin already. I have to talk about another

19:25

guy that's on that Wisconsin offensive line that

19:28

is Nolan Ruchi listed at 6'8", 300 pounds,

19:31

right? Like a big guy that can drive, drive

19:33

block people off of the line of scrimmage,

19:35

man, is gonna be really fun to watch. Definitely a

19:37

name to note. I remember him from my time recruiting.

19:40

He was a

19:40

highly talented football player. Um,

19:43

and you know, going to Wisconsin, I'm on

19:45

the show, right? They develop offensive lineman. He's

19:47

going to be of the elk, right? Like we're, this is a

19:49

name we're going to hear. And who doesn't like name Nolan

19:52

Ruchi, right? It's just something about it. You

19:54

should be just a high caliber level, a

19:56

D1 athlete in some sport. Next

19:58

up DP, man. I'm talking about time.

19:59

Tommy Brockhamire, this guy, he actually has

20:02

a twin brother named James Brockhamire.

20:04

They both went to Alabama.

20:06

They actually Texas football legacy,

20:09

meaning I think the grandpa

20:11

and the father both played at University

20:13

of Texas, the Longhorns, and

20:15

they were twins on the same team,

20:18

on the same high school team, and they both decided

20:20

to commit and go to Alabama. So

20:23

you know, people say to SEC, we recruit, you know,

20:25

we kind of recruit, man. I'm more than sure Texas wanted

20:27

both of those boys. So but

20:30

man, he's transferred. He's left Alabama.

20:33

He's at TCU. Now, the reason I'm bringing him up because

20:35

he played a tackle position, an athletic guy.

20:38

I remember he had all of the tools, right? The requisite

20:40

tools to be a good football player.

20:42

And I want to see him right. Would it be minimal

20:44

competition? He transferred for a reason, probably

20:46

so he can get on the field immediately. I'm

20:49

more than sure TCU is not loaded with five stars,

20:51

how Alabama is right. So we will

20:53

see this guy on a football field. It is definitely

20:56

a name to note to like, hey, he's off the radar

20:58

because we haven't seen him play much at Bama, but

21:00

him in a starting position, if he plays well,

21:03

definitely stock up on this guy. And there's one other

21:05

name I want to throw out there. And that is Florida

21:07

State's offensive tag. When the last time we talked

21:10

about Florida State having this much talent,

21:12

right? Every time we do a position kind

21:15

of introduction, yeah,

21:17

they have one player. And that's Robert

21:19

Scott. I got it. I think I gave a third or fourth

21:22

round grade two last year when I watched him.

21:25

Big guy, athletic, I think he

21:27

had positional versus titty could play tackle, could

21:29

play guard, but I'm expecting

21:30

him, like I said, another guy to make some noise

21:33

deep into this, you know, NFL draft

21:35

cycle, this draft process. And

21:37

guess what? He's going to be in prime time games. He's

21:39

going to have some really good matchups. We know they're going to play Clemson,

21:42

right? And they're going to play some of these other highly talented

21:44

team with these egg rushers that he's going

21:46

to get his test, right? He's going to get tested and

21:49

he'll have every opportunity to show up.

21:51

Keith, listen, that deep

21:54

name polls in this class, it just keeps, it's

21:56

just continues to go because now you got me excited

21:58

to go back and watch because what's.

23:24

We

24:00

appreciate y'all family. You know nothing but love

24:02

here from us on the Lockdown NFL

24:04

Draft show. Happy Friday to y'all,

24:07

man. As always, go subscribe and follow for

24:09

free on YouTube, wherever you listen to podcasts,

24:11

get the latest episodes as soon as it's available. Thank

24:13

y'all for making Lockdown NFL Draft your first

24:16

listen today and every day Monday

24:18

through Friday. You guys are family, but you

24:20

also are every dayers. Understand

24:22

and take that proudly. We're gonna come

24:25

back on Monday with linebackers.

24:27

We're finishing up with these linebackers. I

24:30

think we got safety's last to really

24:32

get into the introduction to the summer scouting

24:34

and let you know names to get ready for the 2024 NFL

24:36

Draft. In terms

24:38

of Twitter, you can find Keith Sanchez

24:41

at the talent code. I'm Damian Parson,

24:43

DP underscore NFL on

24:45

Twitter. Come and join the conversation again on

24:47

Monday on the Lockdown podcast network.

24:50

Your team every day.

25:00

There's no off season for true

25:03

NFL fans. Listen every

25:05

day to the Lockdown NFL podcast.

25:07

Our expert hosts keep you up to date daily

25:10

in 30 minutes or less on the latest breaking

25:13

news, training camp battles and player

25:15

moves that will affect your favorite NFL

25:17

team. Available now on YouTube

25:20

and wherever you listen to podcasts. Part

25:22

of the Lockdown podcast network, your

25:25

team every

25:26

day.