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He is a loyal Longhorn and he's freaking awesome at what he does. Give him a call. If he's not your first call, he better be your last call. What is shaking, y'? All? Welcome to EGAT and to another exciting recording. This time we're going to talk a little NFL draft. We're going to have a Texas Longhorn focus and we're going to kind of focus on the NFL draft, not in terms of grading NFL teams or talking about who choked in the draft and who nailed the draft and all the snap reactions that analysts are obligated to offer immediately after the draft. Not knowing anything about any other team's board or actually what's going on. But hey, that's the industry. That's what you got to do. And I have my own snap opinions, but that's not really what this one's going to be about. It's going to be looking at the Longhorns, their draft, their draft this year, their draft over the last few years, what it could look like next year. And then talking a little bit more broadly about what this NFL Draft in 2026 told us about college football, what have been the larger themes, where's the talent going? Where's the talent coming from? And how is it being redistributed in the post nil de facto free agency era of this new chapter of college football that we're all trying to get our heads around. There's been some pretty profound things that have happened. I wrote an article about it inside Texas. I'm going to give you some thoughts from that article, but if you want the whole thing, go join. I'm going to also, of course, talk about Texas, talk about a few other schools and what it kind of all means and some of the broader trends. So that's what we're going to do on this episode. Maybe a little bit shorter than a typical egat, but I just wanted to get my thoughts on it while I had them, while they're fresh in my mind and have a good time chat with you people. So let's talk about the Texas draft. Only six Texas Longhorns were drafted. Y'. All. Can you remember a time when sex I said something else there. Six Texas Longhorns being drafted was like a big deal. Like we were acting like, you know, we were fielding the, like, you know, the 1995 Cowboys. If we had six people drafted now, that's a disappointing draft class in on the heels of the last couple of drafts that we've had. But six, still a good draft, still one of the better drafts in all of college football. If you want to look at it from a 10,000 foot view. Let's talk about the players, where they went, what round and go through it real quick. I'll give you some top line thoughts. Anthony Hill, of course was going to be the guy who's going to get drafted first. A lot of people thought he might sneak into the first round. I didn't ever think that he had some injury issues his last year that he kind of concealed. Also he is a big play linebacker, didn't always do the little things and and I think probably in some ways suffered from the comparison to Arvell Reese and Sonny Styles. I'm not sure if that's fair or not since they both went high in the first round. But that that was kind of my sense of it. In any event, very athletic player. You don't want to be on the other end of one of his hits. And I think he has the opportunity to blossom into a very good NFL player. So he went in the second round to the Tennessee Titans. Titans. And Anthony Hill is exactly what they needed getting him at the 60th pick. They have to feel great about that. I think he's going to go in and play immediately and they're going to let him learn the ropes. And he's an interesting player because as we know from watching him at Texas, he could play traditional Mike linebacker. But you can also stand him up. You can also blitz him. He's. He's that classic Mike combo edge rushing linebacker that is all the rage right now that everybody in the NFL wants. And he's one of the guys that can actually do it. So I think the linebacking, pure linebacking, part of that equation needs to improve, and that's. The NFL can help him with that. So good luck to Mr. Hill in Tennessee. No state income tax in Tennessee. So good, good one on that. Malik Muhammad went in the fourth round to the Chicago Bears. Again, I think they have to be pretty happy with that pick. Muhammad is a good corner and obviously had some high profile moments in his career at Texas where, you know, the spotlight was on him on like certain critical plays that didn't go Texas his way necessarily. That also ignores the fact that this guy's played really well against teams like Ohio State, against teams that are going to be putting even more guys in the first round of the NFL draft. You know, they obviously put Carnell Tate out this year, and I think Jeremiah Smith might get drafted pretty high. What do you guys think? So Malik's a good player. I think the Bears is a good fit. And man, what a kind of up and coming franchise to go to. The Bears actually have hope. This has been one of the most moribund sort of organizations and they've been drafting well, they've been compiling talent and they're kind of ready for a run. So that's gonna be exciting. Trey Moore went in the fourth round of the Dolphins. One of many Longhorns who went to the Dolphins. We'll talk more about that in a moment. I'm reading draft write ups and this is just lazy, but I saw a couple of people write up the, you know, they draft them as an edge rusher and we had other edge rushers higher on the board. They didn't draft him as an edge rusher. They drafted him as a do everything linebacker. He's going to play off the ball, he's going to rush. He's going to be kind of the outside linebacker version of what they want from Anthony Hill. The thing about Trey Moore that's very appealing is he does everything pretty well. And so that kind of skill set is very valuable in the NFL, particularly to a team like the Dolphins, which is just so devoid of talent. They need guys that can do more than one thing because they've got other big deficiencies. And when you have a player who can plug in a bunch of different gaps, that's very Useful. He is going there as a linebacker. Will he line up and rush the passer sometimes? Absolutely. And he's good at it. But Trey Moore is really good at pursuit. He, I think he really benefited from his one year Texas and I think actually two years at Texas. Correct. Let me correct that. Two years at Texas from utsa. If he had just kept like being a blitzer which we how he was employed UTSA and the giant G5, he would not have been as drafted as high. I don't think he needed to show that linebacker skill set. So he goes to the Dolphins. Next guy that went to the Dolphins, Michael Taft, fifth round. You know, he was always going to go a little lower than I think some of the rosier or more optimistic Texas Longhorn fan projections were for him. You know, he's 190 pounds. He's athletic enough. People downplay his athleticism too much. He's very athletic, but he's not a freak. And usually if you're playing safety at 190 pounds and you're, you know, six feet even, you need some other freaky attributes physically to get into the earlier rounds. And he doesn't have that. So what he does have is a great mind for football and he's got a single minded willingness to be really good. So he is a Dolphin as well. He goes in the fifth round. Again, if you're trying to rebuild a franchise that has just not only been lacking talent, but they sometimes just haven't competed like on the football field. Like they didn't have a competitive will bring in guys like Michael Taft will fix that real fast. So good luck to Michael in Miami. Not a bad place to go. Again, we're continuing this no state income tax theme. Florida, very wise choice. Good job. Next D.J. campbell to the Miami Dolphins. Six round, the 200th pick. D.J. really had a tale of two seasons. Early in the year I was pretty critical of DJ Campbell. His effort level wasn't great. He wasn't sort of going above and beyond. He was very content to tie to sort of, you know, go to a draw no matter who the opponent was. And he needed to be destroying people because he has that potential. He has that potential, that pancaking ability, that ability to drive block. And he's a pretty good pass blocker. I think he's underrated as a pass protector. Actually he had a much better second half of the season. He, he really asserted himself and it was good to see. So he did get drafted in the sixth round. I think they got a little bit of A bargain here. I think he's a. I think his actual physical profile is higher than that, and I think he's got more potential. I think he's going to get an NFL weight program. I think he's going to get singularly dedicated to being great, and I think he's going to play himself into a starting job eventually in Miami. So good deal. So why did three Longhorns go to the Miami Dolphins? Three in succession, interestingly enough, at least from our standpoint, obviously different rounds. But I think the answer is this. NFL teams, particularly with a big need and particularly bad NFL teams who know they need a quarterback, are not just scouting the current class of quarterbacks, they're scouting the next season's class of quarterbacks, particularly because we know the 2027 quarterback class is potentially loaded. So Miami knew they were not going to draft a quarterback in this class because after Fernando Mendoza, every quarterback was pretty debatable. I mean, Ty Simpson is pretty debatable as the second quarterback off the board. They weren't going to reach and grab a quarterback. Now. Why fill up on bread when you've got the steak buffet in a year? So they are going to pick from that steak buffet, and make no mistake, they're going to pick one of the better quarterbacks because Miami is going to be back right down, picking early in this draft. They might have the number one pick again, they might be three, they might be two, whatever, who knows? Point is, they're picking early and they're getting a quarterback. Fact. So what did they do? They've been scouting Arch Manning. They've been scouting Darien Mensah, who's now going to be at Miami. They've been scouting, of course, DJ Moore. Sorry, not DJ Moore. Good heavens. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore. What the heck? Dante Moore at Oregon. All those guys, obviously they looked at Julian saying, et cetera, et cetera. If I had to guess, though, for what the Dolphins are trying to do, it's the 3Ms, it's. It's banning more and Mensah. And who they can get is really dependent on what someone might offer them in a very loaded draft in 2027, move down slightly and maybe get some real compensation out of that. Or they might have a surprisingly decent year and they might not have the number one pick. So whatever happens, the point is they've been scouting Arch Manning. And if you're scouting a lot of Arch Manning, you're going to be seeing some other stuff. You're going to be seeing some other tape. And that's how you see some of the defensive players like Moore and Taft, that's how you see DJ Campbell. So I don't think they drafted these Longhorns to make Arch Manning feel comfortable or any of that kind of thing. I think it's more that because you're doing a lot of quarterback work and you know what an important part of that in 2027 is going to be to your franchise, like the future of your franchise for the next five years, 10 years. Then probably you saw a lot of Texas tape and you probably saw a lot of Texas players and familiarity in that instance, you start to see some of the good features of some of these, these players in the later rounds and makes sense to me. All right, final draft pick, seventh round, Jack Endries. Congratulations to him. Good guy. He came out in the draft. I know he was an edge case where it wasn't clear, you know, should he come out, should he come back with some nil and get a and play in a better offense. You know, injuries. Just wasn't used to his full utilization last year. Not really his fault. We couldn't block people. We had to keep him in more to block more than we wanted. We had to do 12 personnel more than we wanted. You guys know the drill. I've explained it all in other episodes, but he was really an edge case. Do you come back for another year and maybe see if you can improve your stock, get some nil or do you go pro and just get your career started? He chose to go pro. 7th round goes to the Bengals. You know, he's an interesting player. He has amazing hands. He runs good routes and he runs and he works hard and that often is can be just enough. Good luck to him in Cincinnati. He doesn't get the tax benefits of the Miami and Tennessee guys, but hey, not bad to go play in the NFL. Six Longhorns go in all obviously we had 12 go in 2025, 11 in 2024. So a little bit of a drop off there. But remember what it was like before that. So pre Sarkeesian, you know the 10 years before he arrived, 2012 to 2021, Sarkeesian, we had six. So he's had six draft picks, first round picks and five drafts in the years 2012 to 2021. Texas had two, so twice the span, three times as less first rounders, 27 total picks over 10 years between 2012 and 2021. Let that sink in your mind. The University of freaking Texas had 27 total draft picks between 2012 and 2021. That's 10 years, 2.7 a year. That is repulsive. ARC has had 34 in five drafts. So worth knowing that Sark has got this turned around from a talent standpoint. And next year promises to be a pretty exciting Texas draft. Good chance we have as many as three, maybe even four guys go in the first round. It's possible. Probably at least two. That's probably the floor. And then three seems likely. Four, you know, could happen. Let's see what else over the last three years, average them all together. Texas has 29 picks. Georgia's got 29, Ohio State's got 29, Bama 27, Michigan 27, Oregon 25. Those are your top six schools for draft picks over the last three years. Probably not surprised by any of those names, but Texas is right there tied at the top with Georgia and Ohio State last four years. If you want to include another year of Sark here at Texas, we've had 34 picks and that would place us fifth. Of all the schools over the last four years, Georgia's at the top. Alabama's next, then Michigan, then Ohio State. So not bad. Hey everybody, it's Paul and I want to talk to you about David McLellan. He's a fiduciary financial adviser and partner with Forum Financial. He works broadly and deeply with his clients as a financial life coach, a former multinational championship swimmer at the University of Texas and he specializes in financial planning. He's contributed numerous articles to places like Kiplinger Magazine on the topic of retirement tax bonds and he is an absolute expert and master within his subject area. Contact David today at 312-933-8823. Schedule a free one hour consult. Assess your financial situation. See if there's an opportunity to move forward. If you are in the process of accumulating wealth or you already have some and you're looking to preserve it and invest it judiciously. David is your man. Give him a call. 312-933-8823. Not a bad little run and I think we're going to have a bunch. We're going to have double digits next year. That I can guarantee. Pretty exciting stuff for the University of Texas. The NFL draft, even in a so called off year, the bigger picture looks pretty damn good and I think next year sets up very nicely. What about this year? Let's dig into the draft specifically. What schools dominated? Ohio State led everybody with 11 draft picks. Alabama had 10. A&M had 10. Historic draft year for A and M. I think they're going to take a little step Back next year and I'll maybe explain why in a future podcast they're not going to the seal the seller or anything. That's not happening. Elko is too good a coach and they have too much talent now. But they lost some key guys and I'm not totally enamored of all the replacements. Here's where it gets weird and interesting. Three schools tied at nine. Clemson, Miami and Texas Tech. Wow. Talk about three very different models. Talk about three very different season results. Miami plays for the national title despite not winning the ACC. The freaking ACC. Texas Tech steamrolls the Big 12 and then gets basically unmasked in the playoff. As you know, big fish in a tiny pond. Clemson, nine guys drafted. They went seven and six in the acc, y'. All. They didn't even play Miami in the regular season. They didn't play Virginia, which was probably the second best team in the ACC. Duke was probably the third. They didn't play the top two teams in the ACC, and they went 7 and 6. Unbelievable. Georgia had eight draft picks. Indiana had eight draft picks. Penn State had eight draft picks. Again, three very different seasons there. Georgia had a successful season, but ultimately didn't get to the prize. The greatest Cinderella story in college football history. Oh, just that, that. That's all they did. And then Penn State, huge underachiever, just like Clemson. But at least they played in the Big Ten and underachieved. Clemson did it in the acc. Next line, seven pick picked up. Iowa, very good developmental program. Always up there in the NFL draft, surprisingly. Why? They really develop the lines of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. And defensive backs. Now, they're not going to have a bunch of first rounders. That's. That's a fact. They don't have the skill, talent to ever do that. But boy, you know, count up the number of positions on the field and then say, what would I like to develop if I'm a mid tier program that has trouble getting elite access to recruits? Well, Iowa tells you, develop your O line, develop your D line, develop your DBs. Those are the most players on the football field at those prospective positions. LSU at 7. Very similar disappointing season to Penn State and Clemson. Oregon had seven, Washington had seven. That is one you need to pay attention to. I think Washington takes a big step back this year. I don't think people understand how poor they are on the lines of scrimmage and how many elite sort of skill players they lost. I like some of their skill guys a lot of. And I know Demon Williams is back after Washington enforced their contract on him. But I don't know if he's going to have the supporting guys around him. So we'll see. Florida, Evan. Guys drafted. I told you guys in the preview, right? The pamphlet. The 2025 Thinking Texas Football book, Not a pamphlet. I told you Florida was really talented and they had a lot of upside. And they were really talented and they realized none of their upside. Seven guys drafted off a very disappointing team. Oh, you had seven drafted? Probably not surprising. Michigan had six, Missouri had six. Notre Dame had six. Of course Texas had six. Auburn, five. Tennessee had five. Auburn, another underachiever. If you look at their draft picks and you look at their portal class, specifically Coleman Engleton, they had a really good corner that transferred out. They had a really good defensive tackle that transferred out. Man, that was a. They probably had top 12 roster talent. And they went, I mean, just absolutely crap the bed every week. So they needed a new coach. You may notice a trend. Clemson, bunch of draft picks. Penn State, bunch of draft picks. Florida, bunch of draft picks. Lsu, bunch of draft picks. Auburn, bunch of draft picks. What do all these schools have in common? Well, they're all looking for new coaches. They all got new coaches. They all fired all their coaches. The one outlier is Clemson. I guess if you win a couple of national titles and are kind of the dominant or second most dominant program of the 2000, you get a lot of leash and a lot of leeway. But we'll see how long that leash extends. For Dabo, probably quite a while. I mean, he created Clemson football being relevant. And I don't want to hear about their national title bullshit. National title in 1981 or whatever that was. That driving him out, if he continues to underachieve, is going to be tough. And Texas fans know a little bit about that with a certain coach who overstayed his welcome after some really, really good years. So that is the big lay of the land. Probably none of those schools surprise you. Indiana with eight picks, by the way, I wanted to comment on. Yes, they're a Cinderella. Yes, what they did is the greatest achievement in college football pretty much ever. But the achievement was that Signetti put together a pretty talented team. It's not that they sucked and then upset a bunch of people. That's not how that went down. Indiana created, transferred and developed a bunch of talent and basically identified talent in players that other teams just didn't think were that good. And of course, they gave a really interesting perspective, which is, if you can't be super, super elite, talented, get Old. Get old. Have a bunch of 23 year olds. Have a bunch of 22 year olds. Miami did that too. People don't realize they had, I know they had the star freshman wide receiver that gave the perception or the image that they were a young team. They were not. They were a very old team. And that, that includes guys like of course their quarterback, Carson Beck, but Ruben Bane Mazador. These were very old players. Fifth six year players that. And it paid off. Absolutely. One thing that is interesting, fifth year in the row the SEC had the most total players drafted. Not surprising. SEC had 87. Big Ten had 68. ACC 38, Big 1238. Group of Six. The entirety of the Group of Six had 15 players drafted. That's a much lower number than historical data. The FCS had only four. So you might think, well, I mean the fcs, have they, have they ever had draft. I mean those, it's like Montana State. They've never had a bunch of draft picks. Yeah, they used to have a bunch of draft picks. But let me put a little context. They had four players drafted last year. There were 15 from the FCS in 2022. That number was 24. In 2017 they had 20. So the FCS has always put out NFL players. Some very famous NFL players, Gary Rice, Terrell Owens, etc IL and free agency have destroyed that. If a guy can play at the FCS level, he is going to be promoted. And the guys that stay at their FCS schools, there's usually a story like there's something going on or this guy was like the craziest late bloomer ever and literally just came out of nowhere and had the one great season. Okay, that's, that's those guys that stayed. It's wild. So all that talent is going up. The arrow is going up. Same thing for the The Group of Six now used to be the Group of Five. In 2022 there were 70 draftees from non power conferences. Now that total is 19. Now a couple of schools did go up into the P4. True. But most of that happened before 2022. So to keep that in mind, the bigger issue of course is that we've had a little bit of a delay. It didn't happen instantaneously with nil and free agency, but it took scouting departments a couple of years to build out their acumen in evaluating group of six and FCS rosters because they knew they could go get those players. You know, back in 2021, 2022, 2023 even they were hesitant to do so because they weren't sure they could level up. But what happened was enough of those guys did level up and actually became stars, some of them that now everyone had to have an internal scouting apparatus for college football. Not high school recruits, but college football, other schools. And they had to include not just the P4. Like I don't want the guy who's a former five star, but he's busted at three different schools and I'm supposed to go give him a scholarship and pay him money because I think finally he's going to get it. No, I'm going to go get the guy who was ignored in high school. He added 30 pounds in one off season of muscle and he is a FCS All American and turns out he runs a 4440 and he's 6 foot 2 and he can catch. All right, all right, we have to go get that guy because he might be an NFL player. And that's what's happening. That's why there's this big drain of talent at the group of 6 and FCS level. And then all of that talent is that arrow is heading up. But then once it hits a certain level, it's now being distributed, which is how you get Indiana. And if you want a less dramatic example, tell you get Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was every bit the drag of the SEC that Indiana was in the Big Ten. Granted the vander Vanderbilt did not win the national title, go to the playoffs twice. I get that. But you have to admit what they did was very impressive with a bunch of older players, bunch of them G5 guys, bunch of them FCs, you know, guys. And they basically just built a team through the portal and won a bunch of games in the sec. Very impressive. And I think, you know, there's a lot of lessons to be learned there and those lessons are being learned. So the Big Ten in SEC accounted for 60% of the entire NFL draft. That is massive. So when I say there's two conferences that matter and people try to say well actually, well actually, no, there's no. Well actually there's two conferences that matter. The Big Ten in the SEC and then there's a few one offs. Notre Dame, you know, Texas Tech maybe. And it required finding a billionaire who decided it has made his his life goal to fund Texas Tech football. So yeah, I'll agree there's other one offs if you can find a billionaire who makes it his life goal to fund your program, cool, I'll, I'll add them to the club. Until then it's the Big Ten in the SEC and Then that handful of one offs, Notre Dame, Florida State, if they ever get the ship righted. I. I mean, Texas Tech is the closest thing in the Big 12, and we saw what the result was in the playoff, right? So we'll see. You know, getting in the playoff is half the battle, so Texas Tech will have legs. They probably need to get their gambling under control and find a quarterback. If you know anything about the Sorsby story, we'll talk about that some other time. But yeah, I mean, here's some famous FCS players. I just looked it up. Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Joe Flacco, Tony Romo, Darius Leonard, Cooper Cup, Carson Wentz, and there's a bunch more. But those are all names that you should know if you're a football fan. All FCS players, I can tell you not a single one of those guys would have finished their career at an FCF school in the modern environment. They would have finished their careers at a P4 school, probably a P2 school, if we're being honest. So, interesting thing, the arrow only goes one way. At the lower levels, up to the higher levels, and then at the higher levels, NIL can then have a flattening effect, which is, you know, look, Texas still in good shape. No one's crying for us. That's fine. But it does make Indiana possible. It does make Vanderbilt possible, and we'll see who that next one is. And I don't think it's a coincidence the two teams that broke out immediately with nil, with the, with the Portal, were both power. With the two conferences that matter, Power to the Big Ten in the sec. I don't think that's a coincidence. It was not likely to be Wake Forest, right? It was not likely to be Oklahoma State. It probably needed to be one of those two conferences that matter because they have the innate resources to actually build out a roster. And I understand Indiana didn't have the most expensive roster in college football. Far from it. But anyone, if you buy their pleas of poverty, it's just not true. Like, it's not truthful. Indiana probably had a 20 top 20 budget, maybe top 15. Vanderbilt probably top 25. So you really need that to at least get enough guys, right? Really hard to do that if you're at NC State. I just don't see that happening. But hey, all you got to do is find a billionaire and anything's possible. So those are some big top line draft thoughts. As far as the NFL draft, it's taking way too long. They need to stop all the hugs and the Guest. The guest draft readers who say hi to grandma and all that. I get it. But I think I watched eight minutes of it live and I just, I was like, no, I'm not doing this. And I just kept a little blurb of ESPN telling me what happened. But as far as next year, I mean, God, Texas is just going to have a ton of guys get drafted. I'm just going to look at our depth chart. Go quickly off the top of my head. Cam Coleman getting drafted. Wingo getting drafted. Emmett Mosley could get drafted. Trevor Goosby getting drafted. He's a first rounder. Might be the most sure first rounder of any of our players. Not kidding. Because, hey, remember back when Carson Beck was a sure first round pick? Or sure, like 1 1. Remember when Garrett Nussmeier was a sure first round pick? 1 1. Remember all that? I remember all that. Stuff happens to quarterbacks. Stuff's not going to happen to Trevor Goosby. Those, those traits aren't going to go away or he's not going to have a bad year. Lawrence Seymour, could he be drafted in tbd? See, he's a little short for the NFL and he hasn't even won his starting job yet at Texas. And he really needs to show he can level up in the sec. Potential draft point draft pick Connor Robertson? No. Brandon Baker Yes. Potential. I don't think he should go early. Remember, he's a junior. I think he should come back. Melvin Cianni. He could go pro early. Hiro Canoe Absolutely. Getting drafted. Colin Simmons. Lol. Yeah. Getting drafted. Alex January could be drafted if he wanted to go that route. I don't think he should go that route. He should come back and fully play out his developmental cycle at Texas and then really see if he can have a breakout year that final year. Zeno Umio Zulu. I feel the same way. He could go pro. I think if he went pro, he'd get drafted purely off of traits like even if he's not a starter at Texas, he should play out his full development cycle. I think that would be good for him. Rasheed Biles getting drafted. Probably lower than you would think based on his college production. He's an example of a better college player than a future pro, but he'll get drafted. Brad Spence could be drafted. Unlikely. Bo Masco getting drafted. Probably higher than people think. Jelani McDonald getting drafted. A bunch of other guys are young. Derrick Williams probably needs to play this out and come back another year. If he had a really breakout year and just killed it, which would be awesome, then, yeah, Go get drafted. Awesome. I wasn't counting how many people I said there, but I said a lot of names. We're going to have a bunch of dudes get drafted. That is going to happen and it's going to be pretty fun. It's going to be a talented football team. Could be a lot of fun to watch. Could we have some surprise draft picks? Interesting question. Jaden Chapman, like if he had a phenomenal year, could he get drafted? Very unlikely. Yeah. And that kind of. That, that's, that's it. That's the ones I see. And then of these, who could be first rounders? Colin Simmons, Duh. Cam Coleman, Arch Manning. Oh, I didn't mention Arch Manning getting drafted. Yeah, Arch Manning is getting drafted. Arch Manning is a potential first rounder. Cam Coleman, obviously. Colin Simmons. Trevor Goofy's going in the first round. That's guaranteed. Absolutely going in the first round. He might be the first tackle picked. If he's not first, he's second. I mean that's four right there. High potential. Could Wingo work his way into the first round? I mean anything's possible. Who could go in the first round? Sneak in? I mean there's a world where Jelani McDonald, Bomisco and Hero Canoe could do it. It's possible. I mean, not probable, but I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't say it. It's a zero chance. That ain't it ain't zero. I can tell you that Any one of those guys could have a huge breakout year and earn their way in. That said, the ability to earn your way into next year's first round is going to be very difficult. It is a loaded draft and the top of the draft is particularly loaded. You've got some all timer dudes. You got the Notre Dame corner, Leonard Moore, you've got Dylan Stewart, the pass rusher from South Carolina. Going to be a lot of long horns on it and I think that bodes well for this football team. That said, we'd probably like to see it get it on the done on the field and not just the draft stage, but always good, always healthy. That Texas is getting a lot of people drafted this year was a little bit of a setback and we know why. Hey, we didn't do a good job on the O line. We didn't do a good job at running back. We did a good job at wide receiver. We didn't go. And then we had a little bit of just a cycle thing where certain guys could have gone pro. I mean Goosby could have gone pro very easily and made it into the first round late first probably he chose to come back. He wants to be a top 10 pick and he's got unfinished business at Texas, so we're glad to have him. Cam Coleman obviously is a guy that is going to be drafted no matter where he played. Just off traits. He came to Texas because he wants to play with Arch Manning, he wants to play with a talented football team. 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