Jamari Johnson

Ashley is listed at 6'4", 225 pounds, so the projection to the next level is going to be pretty tricky, but with this production, just someone to keep an eye on at this point as someone who could potentially have a little bit of intrigue for fantasy.

While the player that he did pass for number one in receiving yards is Luke Reynolds, and Luke Reynolds has even played an extra game, I would still put Luke Reynolds alongside Jamari Johnson and Trey Dennis Green as a clear top three at the tight end position, and no one is really close to breaking that top three yet.

But when it comes to making up the next tier, Kari Ashley is another prospect that we can put into that conversation alongside players like like Jelani Thurman.

So I've been doing a lot of injury fallers recently on this show, but I figured let's flip that coin to the other side when we have an opportunity to do so.

Green's yards per outrun at 2.21 is the highest among the top three tight ends.

And so this week, for the first time, returning from his injury, having a good week, showing the consistency throughout the season, All this put together, Trades Green is still someone who is very close to the other tight ends on my personal big board.

But for this mock draft, for the first time, I have a little bit of separation between Trades Green and Jamari Johnson, with Trades Green being the number one tight end.

And so that concludes this section for the Risers of the Week.

If there was not an edge rusher that I would take this early left.

I, again, tight end, but like, and I do love Jamari Johnson.

I do love Jamari Johnson.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess if you're kind of stuck with Baker Mayfield, you should probably just continue to build around him and make that work a little bit more.

Again, I don't love this pick for the value, and they have needs at some pretty crucial positions on the defensive side of the ball, but I'm going to go Jamari Johnson to the Buccaneers here.

Interesting.

All right.

And they have nothing behind him.

So could this be a trade as Green or Jamari Johnson? Actually, I really like Jamari Johnson to them as a guy who could play in line.

You know, the Lions are going to, you know, run the ball a lot.

So I think I'm going to go with Jamari Johnson.

Just one, because I think it makes sense because of Sam Porter being gone.

And two, just to give Lions fans a different look rather than another corner.

yeah no I'm with you and I'm kind of team Jamari Johnson from the get I do like trade his green a lot and frankly I think Trevor's got his the right board here where they're they're pretty close and really just comes down to little minutiae detailed differences that maybe you like one guy more than the other but like specifically and this is a the reason you draft a guy but it could be the tiebreaker like specifically if this team wanted to use like a fullback like Jamari Johnson would be such a fun wrinkle in this offense just kind of hide him it's like a lined up fullback or something like that and you just can't do that with six seven trade as green like he sticks out like it's like the reason jacob lordy can't be bond he's six five you can't be a secret spy you know secretive and sleuth around when you're six five so i kind of like jamari johnson because i think that would be there's a lot they could do with him and honestly that drew petzing i was bullish on him as the oc i felt like he was a little hamstrung with some of the pieces there in arizona but he was such a good fit for what detroit was going to try to do uh so i i love that that offense is finding its stride right now all right now cleveland browns we went quarterback was that 14 right uh yeah with austin simmons kind of got bailed out there here all of a sudden like the value of some of these guys looks a whole lot better and frankly i'm kind of i might just go gooseby here i've never been a big titus howard guy and frequently i think his better place for my guard if anything so do you just draft and stash gooseby and just wait for a year um Deuce Alexander could be a lot of fun.

KJ Duff, frankly.

You've got Evan Stewart getting, I think it was a DUI.

Was it Jamari Johnson, I think, got the speeding ticket.

Speeding.

Those guys weren't playing.

I mean, he fits the exact mold that we're looking for, right? And in a tight end premium mock draft in today's NFL landscape where the tight end position is emphasized, We no longer have to bank on waiting two, three years for a tight end breakout.

Like these guys are super valuable and it wouldn't shock me if, if we had trade as green or Jamari Johnson going even higher than one awake in actual ADP come next May, next April.

Yeah, I think that it's going to be him or Jamari Johnson.

I don't know which one I'm going to prefer more.

I am a little bit...

This guy feels more like a 208 kind of player.

So I don't know...

So where ultimately like how these players are going to end up stacking come April for me, I think as of right now, I'm just going to go towards Jamari Johnson considering the fact that it is a tight end premium.

Because I think this is one thing that people forget about in this is like your football team may not be winning games, but their entire family, it gets disrupted and it gets disjointed.

And yeah, for all of the frustration that fans can have over the way that the games have been called, he also did a whole hell of a lot of good in his time at Oregon, from Terrence Ferguson to Kenyon Sadiq to Jamari Johnson in that tight end room and how many guys he has grown, developed in that tight end room to be not just good, but great football players and great Oregon Ducks.

You know, he did a really good job.

And we also forget, like, A lot of what went into the decision to have Drew as the OC this year, it was continuity and the reliance that Will Stein had on Drew Marringer last year.

They are.

It was the fact that the inability to distribute the ball to those guys.

And we saw it late in the game on that two-minute drill drive where Ryola forces it into Jamari Johnson twice right off the get-go in the seam.

It's like, sometimes you do have to just do that to get your offense going.

But let's assume that the guys you expect to leave are gone.

What about the guys that are not going to the draft and have a real decision to make? Is DeCorey Moore coming back? Jamari Johnson's probably gone to the NFL.

But are you getting...

Nasir Wyabak, Brandon Finney, like all of these guys, are they still bought in? And can you sell them on what you need to in order to keep them around? And I can't give you an answer on that right now.