Let's talk about the 2025 NFL draft and some of the guys at wide receiver that could help Dak Prescott, CeeDee lamb and this Cowboys offense get back where they need to be. I'm a big fan of quite a few of these guys so I'll hit you with some scouting report on Tet McMillen, Travis Hunter, Luther Burden III, Emeka Egbuka and more. Hit that like and subscribe button or else (that's not a threat.)
The Jeff Cavanaugh Show
Dallas Cowboys NFL Draft chat || Wide Receiver options || Tet McMillen, Luther Burden, Emeka Egbuka
- All right, peeps, what's up? Welcome to studio day, Henry, for another game of is it the hot dog or is it the bun? - Now this is a hot dog bun. I think it's a hot dog too. - I like to use the words, is it the hot dog or is it the bun, to mean pretty much everything on planet Earth. It could mean literally anything. And that's what I like. Yeah, boy has been watching a bunch of receivers today to get ready for the 2025 NFL Draft, which sucks for anybody who's looking for a Cowboys Bengals preview, but you'll get that tonight on the DLLS Sports Channel. We're gonna do the pre and post game show tonight. This stream is actually because I was hanging out in our Discord server for DLLS diehards. Go to alldlls.com, make sure you're following the DLLS Sports YouTube channel. And we were just talking about Cowboys football and some draft stuff. And my guy, 388-747, just going straight up numbers for his name said no show today. And I'm like, well, it's a game day, so we don't have a show, but I could pop the stream on and just do something just for you. So this is for one person. So I hope he's here. Team Tank, Ole Miss wide receiver, 'cause they're always big and catch the balls well. Cat time. My name is Jeff. I need that drop, don't I? I have no idea why my roadcaster is broken. The roadcaster is the piece of equipment that my mic plugs into and you play audio off of. Like when I play the hot dog or the bun, but for some reason, it has garbled my Kavanaugh thing. I can't hear 'cause I'm not wearing headphones, but it's been garbled. And I can assume that that was garbled to you and it didn't come through clean. And it's pissing me off. I'll be honest, but anyway. All right, we're in here now. We got time. We're ready to go. The Roman Wolf gaming, talking about the old Miss wide receiver. I watched him today. Confused me. I'll tell you that. He confused me. Do you have how many receivers? Whoops. So I'll pick. Okay. Do you have how many receivers have you seen so far? So I can comment about one. I have seen one, two, three, four, five parts of six and I just started seven. I just started watching the Oregon guy. I watched some Isaiah Bond, the Texas guy and I've seen five other guys. Travis Hunter, Seth McMillan, Luther Burden. Help me with his name. Emeka Ibuka. Ohio State. Those are the guys that I've seen. What are we talking about today? Just draft talk or pillow talk. Danny, that must be you in there, huh? Yeah, if I don't think the wider receiver draft class is very deep this year. I don't know yet. I haven't watched enough yet 'cause normally I would just now be starting, but because the Cowboys have been bad, I have watched one or three, four, eight, 10, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 24 guys. So I'm well on my way to a 200 year. Pet Cat, Ibuka, the Ohio State guy, it's my pet cat. And it's a weird draft year. I go back to what I heard Dane Bruggler say on with Vatch and Brian brought us and I agree with it very much. We have to start everything we say with in this draft because it is a weird draft. None of the guys that are the tops of their position in this draft would be the top of their position in most drafts. It's a weird draft, very weird. But you go through and you're watching guys and sometimes you're watching a guy and you're like, all right, what is it? Where is it? What am I looking for? Like the Texas A&M defensive ends. Projected potentially to both be first round picks and I'm watching them like, where is it? What, I can actually send you a link to my board so far, here I'll send it, share, copy link. So if you're interested in the chat, I'm about to drop a link to my board. And I have a note on my board that says, A&M guys confuse me. I'll figure it out. And temporarily they're just sitting somewhere. Ah, I got a super chat. Who do you believe coaches us and why is it Gruden? Gruden wouldn't shock me. Wouldn't shock me at all. Anybody who has a track record has won a Super Bowl that Jerry knows their name and thinks he can sell. It wouldn't shock me at all. And Gruden's on his little PR tour doing internet stuff being fun. Wouldn't be surprised. Archie wants Archy to come to Dallas, boy, I'll take it. I think Arch is better than Quinn years already. He should probably be playing right now. But they can't do that to Quinn or maybe they can. Anyway, the wide receivers, Travis Hunter's a stud, right? His scouting report is easy. Travis Hunter's a better athlete than everyone else on the football field, the end. So everybody wants Travis Hunter, but then you have to figure out what the hell am I doing with Travis Hunter? Is he a corner who plays receiver? Is he a receiver? Receiver that plays corner seems weird to me. So I think he's gonna be a corner that plays receiver. And I do think he's awesome. Like you just, you can't stay in front of him. You can't cover him and he can cover your best guy, at least in college. We'll see how that plays in the NFL. But he's just, he's such a freaking freaking freak. Excuse me while I sip my spark. I was planning to go for a walk, but again, I was in our DLLS diehard discord server and we wanted to talk Cowboys football. So I jumped in there. What's your opinion of Mason Grant? Okay, let me do the wide receivers. I thought we're super chat. I would tell you about Mason Graham right now. Even if we do get our next year of the year after, what do we do with deck? You could find your way out of the deck thing after a few more years of football. Or you could go full Broncos. Like they got rid of Russ and it just cost them $100 million on the spot. Like it's doable. It just hurts a lot. Hurts a lot. My mock is O T D T T T and I created it first. That's the fun or bad part about the draft for the Cowboys this year. It's the fun or the bad part is, and is that the hot dog or the butt? - Now this is a hot dog, but I think it's a hot dog too. - No matter what you say, you would pick in the first round. People are going to get mad at you. Cause they're maybe, but you didn't pick this. And the answer is they need lots of things or at least could use lots of things. And if you want me to watch a Utah statewide receiver, you're going to have to be a little patient. Okay, I'm working my way through. - Back to what I was talking about. Travis Hunter's a stud. If you could get Travis Hunter, you would take Travis Hunter. They can't have Travis Hunter in the end. Alabama QB, what grounds he going first? Then you go to the rest of the wide receivers. And once upon a time, Brian Broad is referred to me as the wide receiver whisper. I don't know if that title has been yanked for me due to my Skymore mishap. But once Sky gets away from his bad coach and bad quarterback, surely he'll take off. So obviously my home's name reads fault, that he hasn't been good. Suddenly he can't even catch the hell is going on. So I told you my pet cat, since I can't have Travis Hunter, is a bucca, the wide receiver at Ohio State. And everybody's freaking out about their freshman wide receiver, who is absolutely awesome. But I love a bucca. He's amazing. This is one of the things that happens in a draft, is you say, okay, we'd rather have this guy or that guy. And then I am a coward and start telling you, well, ceiling or floor, can I get the most out of this or that? Tech McMillan at Arizona is 6'5". Well, over 200 pounds has big time college production and is wonderful at a lot of things. His catch radius is the equator. He catches everything. He makes everything look easy. He's actually, if you look at the forced mistackles, would tell you he's good after the catch. I don't know. I mean, he's smooth after the catch and navigates it well, but I don't know that he's explosive to catch, whatever. He has all of the good things that tell you, this dude is ready to be an NFLX and be good at it. I just watched him on tape and I'm like, what's your, I noticed things are his things are, he's huge, he catches everything, he catches it easy, he can win a 50/50 ball, he has lots of them. I'm just so scared of the big receiver these days. If you told me I could have him, fine, I'll take him and I'll be happy, but I'm scared of the big receiver. My 2024 NFL rule is separate, separate, separate, separate, separate, separate, get open, get open, get open, I don't want you having to pluck the ball away from somebody. So, Tech McMillan, I'll take him. Arizona receiver, big guy, wonderful player. I'll take him, Luther Burden, Missouri receiver. Opposite of Tech McMillan, he's more like, let me get his measureables, what is he, about 5'11, 5'11, 210, so you can picture that, right? Muscular, strong, after catch, demon. Hell on wheels, you get the ball in his hands and people do not want to tackle him 'cause it either hurts or he makes you miss, Luther Burden is super fun. Production this year, not great, but just blame other people 'cause last year it was wonderful. So, he's had college production. He is hell on wheels after the catch. He can make plays down the field too. So, he's my explosive, raise hell son of a biscuit. Why are you already covering wide receivers? 'Cause I love wide receivers. I started watching offensive lineman and then running backs, I was like, what am I doing? Let me go watch the guys I love. So, that's Luther Burden, right? We have a gigantic receiver who's gonna play X and maybe he's T Higgins. You have Luther Burden who maybe he's fake Tyree Kill. I don't think he has the same Tyree Kill as a unicorn because he is also faster than everyone and can legitimately go get the ball in the air. So, I shouldn't use that name, but whatever. I'm just trying to draw a picture of the players, right? Ibuka at Ohio State is neither of those guys 'cause he's not giant and he's not hell on wheels after the catch, he's just solid at it. But boy, you just talk about I can't find a weakness and professional, ready to go, do whatever the hell you ask dude. Do you ask dude? I look at everybody's top two receivers if we don't count Travis Hunter. Ted McMillan and Luther Burden as wonderful prospects that I'd love to have on my team. But if you had to say, what is the percentage you hit and what is the percentage that you bust? The bust percentage is not zero. Ohio State dude, it's around zero. They put him every six, one, two, oh five, he was a five star recruit. And they put him everywhere. Like I'm watching him against Oregon just a little while ago. Arnold takes a sophomore, isn't he? 'Cause I watched him run one route for Ohio State. And I was like, whoa, I haven't heard of this guy and I looked him up and I think he's a sophomore. So I don't think he could come out unless he breadshirted. Anyway, they're playing Oregon and what they do, it's number two on Ohio State, Ibuka. And unlike the first four plays, one of them they line him up as like an inline tight end. He's standing up attached to the line like he's playing tight end. And I'm like, what the hell are they doing? They motion him out, throw a screen to the guy behind him because he's a hellified blocker. So they're setting it up to get him out front to lead for somebody else. Then they didn't throw him this slant route but he is a hellified route runner at setting people up, at having the acceleration in the quickness. Destroys a dude on a slant, doesn't get the ball. I'm just drawing the picture of how many things he does. A player two later, they've got a running back, they're in shotgun, they got the running back off to the quarterback's right and they got my guy Ibuka off to his left playing in the backfield and the running back lead blocks for him to run a sweep and he does it quite well. He's everywhere doing everything and he is so ready to play NFL football right this second and play every snap and play all over the place and block his ass off and separate and catch, did I say, catches everything? It's just so polished, so polished. Will be a better version of Olave. See, Olave, I think is different. This is the hard part about King Parrisons and thank you Marcus for being the Super Chat. I think he's more like Jackson Smith and Jigba than Chris Olave. Like Olave was a little smaller and more elusive when it comes to route running and this guy's more full size and like, he's not gonna make people fall down after the catch, probably not gonna run through a bunch of dudes either. Although if you have to ask tackle, he will run through it, he's a strong dude. But Ibuka is my pet cat because he does everything. If you're throwing a screen to somebody else, cool. He's a dog. He's gonna block for that dude. If you're throwing to him, he's gonna navigate it well. He's got good acceleration. He's gonna absolutely catch it. If you're going to have him run whatever route you want and he's getting open, he could have huge numbers. I'm watching him win on routes and they're throwing to other people and I'm mad at them for him. Throwing to my red shoe guy, he was wearing red shoes. So anyway, he's my guy. So now I get to drop my dream scenarios on how this is all gonna work out. If I could have him in the second round, I'm doing back flips. If I could trade down from 10 to 12 to 18 to 20 and pick him and have another pick, wait, because in this draft, it's weird. And so that's how the draft works, basically. Did I already talk about Ted McMillan? I did. I'm a little bit scared of the big receiver, but he has so many things you love. He has proven college production. He has a catch radius that is massive. He's very smooth mover, especially if we're being six foot five. I don't know who my comp is for him. Maybe it's T Higgins. I don't know. I'll figure it out. But he has a lot of things you like that there's a part of me that just screams. Yeah, if you don't like to pick receivers, you want guys to get open. And so that's why I love me some Ibuka. I'm considering putting him as my wide receiver one. I'm considering it. But you love the ceiling of what if Ted is a dominant NFL X? That's a rarity. And what if Luther Burden can be a high volume explosive dude then that's party. Come on, Jeff, you know, you'd rather have the receiver than a safe-tier middle linebacker. I always want, I always want receivers. McMillan is an Evans clone. I don't think he's Evans because Evans is, first of all, I think Evans is a more explosive athlete. Like what did Evans run in the 40? I feel like Evans is like a four, four guy. I bet Ted's a four, five guy. And I bet his vertical isn't even that big, but he's so in control of it all that it plays really, really well. Whereas Evans, I feel like is more of a whip your ass after the catch and run faster. Evans ran a four, five, oh, whatever. He plays fast as hell. Sucker runs. How about T Higgins and free agency and drafty Buka? Let's dance. Let's dance. Anyway, so I want one other wide receiver who's another one that I'm struggling with, which is Trey Harris. Honestly, I'm gonna, even if you have my board pulled up, I'm gonna move him right now down just to make more room for other guys. And I'll revisit. But Ole Miss is Trey Harris is very confusing. Here's why he's very confusing. Let me get him pulled up. Trey Harris has wonderful numbers in just eight games this year. If you're looking for like an analytical profile, he basically breaks the chart. Over five yards per route run, not target, not catch. If he's on the field and he runs a route, he averages over five yards on that play. His like, his numbers profile, when you make nice little charts, he's up here by himself and no one's near him. You should make a new chart that doesn't have him on it to get everybody closer together. But I can't see what is his theme. Like he's a full size dude. I don't think he's a burner. Hands are just okay. That tradious is just okay. I don't think he's really a separator. The Ole Miss offense is weird. And so I have no idea what to do with him. He'll break your analytical chart. His numbers are great. And I'm like, I don't know, fourth round. In eight games, he has over 1,000 yards and seven touchdowns. He's getting 130 yards a game. And on tape, I'm just like, eh, I don't really see it. And that happens. The exact opposite of that in that draft is Isaiah Bond, Texas. Everybody I find has him ranked as a top 50 player in this draft. Isaiah Bond in his career. Few years at Bama, one at Texas. Last year, Bama had almost 700 yards and four touchdowns. This year, Texas in 12 games, he has 33 catches for 500 yards. I'm trying to figure out which games to watch to study Isaiah Bond. And you ain't going to find one where he catches five balls. He's not the leading receiver on his team. He's the third leading receiver on his team. And he's projected to be a top 50 pick. Trey Harris has all the production in the world in the SEC. Breaks my graphs. And I wouldn't take him in the top 50. Because Isaiah Bond is kind of in the Luther-Burden vein. Not as thick, so not as strong, but just a hyper-athletic run jump. Acceleration, quickness, agility, speed. You see all of those things. And that's why people will tell you that the NFL draft is very much a traits thing. Not necessarily a production thing. I forget the Florida State defensive tackle. People got so mad at me. Florida State fans only. But they had a defensive tackle. Maybe Walker was his last name. And he had like 20 sacks on the season. And I was like, I don't even think I'd draft him. Because you're watching for what does this guy do that's going to work in the league. And for Isaiah Bond, the answer is he runs faster and quicker than everybody changes directions and all that. And he's going to be held to deal with. But I'm like, how are you the third option on your college team? I don't love that. But what I want is things that translate be the number one option on your college team. And if you could do it immediately as a youngster, that's very encouraging. Tech McMillan had success early. Luther Burden had success early. Ibuka had success early, success early. And I can point to their things very easily on why they're a problem. So I love those guys. But I'm just getting started. I got lots of other guys to watch. But I've done what? Six running backs, six-ish receivers. Three or four offensive linemen, few detacles. I need to jump back into detacles and linebackers. You watch Taj Brooks from Texas Tech. I have not. Not yet. I have watched at running back. I give them to you in my order. Ashton Jeantee. Omarion Hampton, North Carolina. Caleb Johnson, Iowa. Quincheon Judkins, Ohio State. Dylan Sampson is Humson? Is that right? I think so. And Trevion Henderson, Ohio State. Those are the guys that I've watched. All fine players. I'll take any one of them to be one of my two running backs. Maybe Bond would have more production if Archer was a starting quarterback. But yeah, but here's the thing. What is number two at Texas? Way more catches, way more yards. And no one's talking about him as an NFL player. Everybody's really excited about Isaiah Bond, who doesn't even get the ball. And this guy, I think his name's Golden, right? Is that right, Matthew Golden? That's Texas Gary. And it's just like, huh. And that's the fun of the draft stuff. You're watching and then you'll see other guys and be like, how come that guy gets the ball all the time? Is that the one I should be watching? 'Cause you have to base who you're watching off of something. So I'll go gather up anybody who does this year round and go through rankings and bounce around to other lists. 'Cause I don't, you know, whatever. And yeah, and you gotta try to figure out what the hell is happening. Golden's gotta be draft eligible, right? I'm pretty sure I looked at this earlier, but I wasn't watching tape to watch him. I was just like, well, Bond doesn't get the ball. Who does? And the answer's Golden and their tight end. Helm, Helm, is that right? Yeah, Golden's been in college for three years. I think he was a transfer too. Have you Houston? Have you Houston two years and then Texas? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so now I'm like, do I need to watch Golden? 'Cause nobody's ranking him as a prospect, but he's catching way more than Bond. Anyway, that's some stuff. That's some wide receiver stuff. I don't think I have anything else I need to do today. We will have, well, I know he's head thrown. I'm just saying. That's a two pretty good guys to have thrown in the ball. That's a couple of NFL guys. So I don't know if you're saying that give him a break. Is a joke? Did you get our super chats? Did I miss one from you, Roman? Let me check. Yeah, I got your burden thingy. Talked about that one and that one. Amanda, have you watched any DN specifically James Pierce? No, James Pierce is probably the highest ranked prospect by most people that I have not watched yet. So let me go do it now. Let me go do it now. How about that? The end of my episode, this is my super chat. There we got it. No, I haven't watched Pierce yet. And I'll tell you, it is wide open for Pierce or somebody else to be ranked pretty high among these pass rusher guys because I like Abdul Carter 'cause he's a freaky athlete. Mike L. Williams, same thing. And I'm liking him more and more as I continue watching him, the Georgia guy. But it's a weird year. Mason Graham, once he got like three sacks this year and it's like top 10 pick, top five pick. And I'm like, I see the things that he's good at and I like Mason Graham, but in most drafts that is not a top six to 10 pick. And with pass reshers, normally you're looking for more production. And I think Pierce might be the guy who actually has some production. So I'm excited to watch him. I'm gonna check him out. I said, "Tez Johnson and Evern Stewart II." Do I have super chat problems going on? Oh, here we go. Ooh, "Tez Johnson and Evern Stewart." That's who I'm watching right now. So I'm actually, 'cause I was, whose list was I going off of to have Evern Stewart? I think it was Dane Rugler. And I didn't see "Tez Johnson" in his top 50, but I saw Evern Stewart but you're telling me there's another guy I need to watch there. We have another more productive guy who's gonna be drafted after the less productive guy. "Tez Johnson, 510, 165, senior, fifth year. "It looks like, big numbers for four years. "That's pretty good. "We like production." All right, well, let's go watch some organ receivers. Liz Dewey. Liz Dewey. Jeff, I started thinking this weekend, Drew Aller getting the Jordan love treatment. Dallas, so it sounds... I didn't even watch the quarterbacks. I need to watch some Kodabags. Yo, give me Burden, just watched all three. He's the better athlete, smoother, we'll separate. He's the more explosive athlete out of the receivers, I would say. Ibuka is a smooth son of a month. He show is. All right, hey, tonight, I think it'll be on my channel too, but please like, subscribe, do all those things, and also follow the DLLS Sports YouTube, because I'm on there four days a week, five days a week at the camp pre and post game. And when they follow there, when you follow there and our numbers are good, they give me more money, maybe. Okay, I like this trick. That's a good trick. Is this a deep draft? We're gonna strike out in the third. I bet it's a deep draft. It's not great at the top. And I don't mind that. That just means we gotta work hard. We gotta go find our guys, and we gotta not be afraid to take good players at the spots where you're swinging for the fences, hoping for great players, just take a good one. Like somebody take Ibuka at 15, 18, instead of drafting a guy who's like a good athlete with long arms and hoping for the best, because that's what you're looking for in prospects. Just take the player, take the kick ass player. All right, I'm gonna go. I love you guys. I'll see you at Cowboys pre and post game tonight. Cowboys buy a million, but if they lose, that's good too. So we really can't lose tonight. How about that? I appreciate all of you, I really do. Remember you have no idea what anybody's going through, so be cool to everyone. I love you. Be easy.