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FOOTBALL
Last week’s prospects:
Iowa St. QB Brock Purdy
Florida St. DEF
Clemson LT Jackson Carman/Wake Forest EDGE Carlos Basham, Jr.
Here’s three for today:
Oklahoma St. QB Spencer Sanders
(Tulsa @ #11 Oklahoma St., ESPN, 12pm ET/9am PT)
The Big XII season gets underway in Stillwater with the Cowboys likely to put up a bunch of points today.
Leading that will be Sanders, a dual-threat redshirt sophomore who took things over last year to a funky year that nonetheless garnered Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year honors. He has some physical limitations, but as Kyler Murray continues to develop at the NFL level there will be plenty of cover at the top to examine whether or not talents like these merit early appreciation; I’m not saying Sanders is a Kyler clone, but the skill set limitations are similar and the evaluations will require a similar set of questions.
Sanders had the same surgery on his thumb that New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees did last year after being hit by Los Angeles Rams DT Aaron Donald. He’s back and good to go, and it will be interesting to see how he develops over the course of the season. A lot of his development will have more to do with his Monday to Friday work and less on Saturdays. If he’s processing things faster and operating OSU HC Mike Gundy’s offense with more aplomb (especially over the middle), he could be a riser on board over the year.
Notre Dame uh…DEF Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah
(South Florida @ #7 Notre Dame, USA, 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT)
The last few years have seen college football produce a bunch of players in this spot. Former Clemson Tigers and now Arizona Cardinals DEF Isaiah Simmons. Former Michigan Wolverines and now New York Giants (formerly Cleveland Browns) DEF Jabrill Peppers.
Are they safeties? Linebackers? I dunno. I also kind of don’t care, because they’re talented enough to merit inclusion somewhere on your defense.
JOK made sure that scouts took notice of his debut leading the Fighting Irish with nine tackles, a sack and two tackles for a loss. He’s not a downhill thumper (think Micah Kiser), but he does a bit of everything else from the middle of the field out.
Miami EDGE Quincy Roche
(#17 Miami @ #18 Louisville, ABC, 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT)
The Hurricanes were set to offer the best edge rushing tandem in the country with Roche and Gregory Rousseau, but the latter (all but assured of an early selection in the 2021 NFL Draft) opted to sit the season out. That will allow Roche to grab the headlines this year as he did last week with the Hurricanes’ only sack in their 31-14 win over UAB. While Rousseau is sitting out his redshirt sophomore year, Roche is two years senior as a redshirt senior.
That likely puts him on the Rams’ radar on Day 2 of the 2021 draft. At just 235 lbs., he’s likely limited to 3-4 OLB fits and not a 4-3 DE role.
This might be someone to tab for Rams-specific attention.
FOOD
It’s around now that as the temperatures start dropping off of the summer peak that I realize that grilling is operating on limited time. There’s an evening ahead in which it will be too cool to enjoy grilling, and that evening is fast approaching. I’m squeezing in as much grill time as I can at this point.
There are few things that are easier to build a simple meal around than grilled boneless, skinless chicken thighs. And there are so many ways to take them.
Mediterranean. Asian. Hawaiian.
The level of difficulty here is very low while the rate of return is extremely high at a very, very, very low cost.
And should you have some leftover, those juicy pucks make for perfect slabs to put in a sandwich or “burger”.
Good living.
FUCKERY
RIP.