Podcast: Previewing the NFL Draft for the Florida Gators

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview the NFL Draft that starts on Thursday as several Florida Gators’ are expected to be drafted this week.
Andrew Spivey, Bailiegh Carlton, and Ethan Hughes breakdown where we see the Gators being drafted this week and just how many guys could be drafted this week.
Andrew, Baileigh, and Ethan also recap how the Gators did on the diamond this past week, plus we look ahead to this coming weekend.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Ethan and Baileigh. I was going to say Baileigh and Ethan, but we’ve been on a roll, and we’ve been going with Ethan and Baileigh, so got to keep that way. Guys, we’re back. We’ll have NFL Draft on Thursday and should be a good night or three nights for the Gators.
Baileigh:                Yeah. There’s a few that we’re not really sure exactly where they’re going to go, but I think it’s going to be a really good night. Some are speculating that Florida could even tie or possibly break its current school record for players drafted in a single Draft. I guess we’ll see what happens there.
Ethan:                     When you list guys, I think there’s probably eight guys you could feel very confident about getting drafted, and another two or three that are on the fence. What is the record? 11?
Baileigh:                No. I think it’s only nine.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I think it’s nine.
Ethan:                     I think they definitely tie that then.
Andrew:                 Do I think three will be drafted in the first round? No. I don’t. But I also think that there’s an opportunity for three. I think Pitts obviously is probably going to go in the four spot. Who that will be to, we’ll see. Right now it’s the Falcons. I’m cool with it, if Justin Fields isn’t there. We’ll talk about that later, as a Falcons fan. Kadarius is at 15-25 range right there, another guy kind of depending. Then Kyle Trask is an up in the air guy.
My thing for Trask is this. I don’t know that he has got the first round grades, and I don’t know that he is a for sure first rounder as far as talent or whatever goes, whatever the Draft people put on the boards, but I think it becomes a situation where when you look at this it could come down to, let’s just say the first four picks all go quarterbacks, and it goes Lance and Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, and Trevor Lawrence, all four of those guys are gone in the first four picks. I think you could see some team trade up. Mac Jones will be fifth coming off the board, probably. Then you’ll have Kyle as the sixth guy. I could see a team get very anxious and eager later in the first round and maybe try to trade up into the late first round and pick Trask.
Ethan:                     I could definitely see that happening. Trask is maybe one of the weirder prospects I can remember in recent years from the Gators, because I’ve seen projections that have him in the first round all the way to like the fourth. There’s just a huge range in opinion on him. I think he’s a first round talent. I don’t think a lot of people have him evaluated as a first rounder, which is going to make him fall, because why would you draft somebody higher than what you have to, when you can fill other needs in the meantime? I think it’ll just come down to which team is willing to pull the trigger first, whether that’s first round. I don’t think he makes it past the second. I think that’s about the floor for him.
Andrew:                 I think the thing here, Ethan, and we see this every year, guys that should not be taken in the first round are taken up because teams get nervous that they’re not going to be able to check off a need. I said this. I was doing another podcast last week. When you look at the quarterback class, the top six quarterbacks in this Draft are really good. After that, it’s not very good.