 It's draft day, it's finally here. We've been picking apart these kids, they've been going up the board, down the board and everywhere. But today is about celebrating the journey. These youngsters, everything they've given, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the commitment to what they love. And we're gonna have a big show today. We have a commander's superstar. He was taken number two in the draft when COVID was happening. So this wasn't it. Roger Cardelzine blew up the nems of this basement. Do you remember that? Chase Young is here along with his super agent, clutch sports mogul, Rich Paul, who is changing the game. He has so much stuff going on. I don't even know what to ask him. Hit us up at Up and Atom Show with your thoughts. Plus the best wide-up prospect in the draft, Jackson Smith and Jigba. And the corner, who could be taken as the first to be off the board? Devin Witherspoon, let's go. It is beautiful Kansas City doing a beautiful job. They just had the Super Bowl parade here. Of course, Travis Kelsey's probably going on no sleep for the next 48 hours as we look behind us as with the fountains. We've got the draft stage. Roger Cardelzine is sure ready and suited and booted to, maybe he'll do some TikTok dances out there or not. But what's cool? What's cool in these streets these days? I don't know. But we're going to get to some amazing guests today. And there's thousands of people that will be here. There's a grasp. No, everybody will be watching all the action on. And we are excited to have some awesome, awesome guests. So I want to get you guys set for all of that. No crazy news today. We know Will Leviss was supposed to join our show. Last minute couldn't make it, but we're wishing him all the best luck tonight. He could go number two to the Texans. Will Leviss could slip to the middle of the first round and go to the Patriots who apparently had some interest in it. So we'll see the music is starting. It's a live show. We're here. Oh, is that how we feel? On live television, this is the Up and Atom Show. This is the draft stage of the Kansas City. And this is the Clutch Empire Clutch Sports Group. We've got Clutch Athletic. It's all in the mix. Everybody knows Super Agent, game-changing superstar. I don't even know. Renaissance man. What do you want to be called, Rich Ball? Just a hard worker. A hard worker. A hard worker. And Mr. Chase Young is here as well. Commander's defensive superstar, taking number two in the draft. How long ago now? Three years ago? I'm going on a year four. Yeah, I'm going on a year four. It's crazy. You guys are both here. We appreciate you. And this is Clutch's Taken Over, the NFL Draft. Talk to us about what's going on. It's a lot happened. I mean, for us today, we launched Clutch Athletics, which is obviously totally separate from the company of representation. But we partnered with New Balance and think we have a pretty disruptive but exciting new sportswear brand that's bringing a voice back to the athlete. So I'm really happy about that. What do you mean by disruptive? Well, I think for a long time now, the athlete has been without his voice. Training, performance training, addicts and crew to that. And so as you'll see when you come by the pop-up today, we're bringing that back. And so I'm really excited about that. I was birthed an athlete, still an athlete in my mind. And this is not just for, obviously, we have Chase Young here who's an amazing athlete. This is, we feel like the world are full of athletes, moms, dads, uncles, cousins, firemen, TV hosts, et cetera. You know, you cover the ground. I just saw you call an audible just now. So you are an athlete. Right, Rich, Paul, talking me up. You partnered with Chase Young on an incredible project. You've got the whole new balance thing. You're in the lab working on a cleat prototype. I am. I am. I'm just really blessed for the opportunity. I feel like, you know, me, like Rich said, having a voice. And I can explain to them what we need on the field in terms of the cleats, in terms of, you know, the bottom plate of a cleat, what we like. In terms of, you know, even time I shoot, my shoelace is always coming tight, you know, having something for that. In terms of, you know, the voice for the athlete, I feel like that's a big part of making the cleat. Now, Clutch Athletics is for everybody. It's not related to Clutch Sports Group or anything you've got going on there. So everybody can get involved. I cannot wait to go by the pop-up shop. You guys are doing incredible things, this entire draft time. But let's talk a little bit about what you've built with your Clutch brand as far as the sports group agency and all of that is concerned. So it's been about what, 10 years now? It's been 10 years, yes. First of all, congratulations. Thank you. Rocketship. What's been the most rewarding part? I think the most rewarding thing is, you know, being in the lives of young men and women and helping them grow. Obviously you want to have success and often competitive, whatever we do. But, you know, for many years, you can have success and people always equate that with finance, but it's not just about the finance aspect of it. It's building great habits, you know, to remain professional with your approach. Helping them understand, like, you know, part of the reason he chose Chase for this initiative was because he's a professional. You know, if we have a meeting at three, he's not showing up at 3.30. We're going to be very selective with that. And it's the same thing. And so these guys and these young women, they can only play the game so long. It didn't have to live. And so I think that's probably the most rewarding thing, helping people be on the other side of that deal and still maintain, not just from a, you know, buy what I want perspective, but really being educated and empowered to, you know, make relationships and things like that that can continue on throughout their life. Now, he's a visionary, as you know. I just met him today. You've been knowing him for a long time now, but I heard that you're a bit of an art collector. You like... Oh, big one. Is he telling you about that? Is he really? Man, pain, this is crazy pain. Crazy paintings. Man. So paint me the picture of the clutch brand in 10 years. What does that look like? Wow. Oh, for the first time. Yeah, that's... Look, I think... You told me to do my thing. As a sport? No, seriously. As a sportswear brand, I really believe we'll have a firm footing in this space. We'll be distinct. Very genuine. As an entrepreneur, from a representation perspective, you know, just continue to grow to tentacles. You know, we'll be in other sports. We'll be international sports, obviously. Content is a big thing that we're focused on today. You know, we really don't have any limits, per se. But just continuing to have that success as a company, I think, we try to get better every day. We gotta come back better every summer, too. We can't just expect the guys to work on their game. We don't work on ours. And so, but we have an unbelievable staff. That's the thing I'm really excited about, too, watching our staff grow and getting more and more responsibility and expectations is high. You know, we're expecting to do well. And so, it's good. I mean, you know, 10 years from now, I don't know. Who would have said 10 years ago I would be in this position I'm in now? I bet you would have said that. I would definitely would have said I would be winning, but I wouldn't know in what capacity. But as far as art, I love art. That's something I'm really passionate about and educating the youth. I wish I knew more. In my art class, we played Tunk and used it as a study hall. But like, to now I believe that, you know, in art you should, I wish I learned more. I wish I knew about art then. I grew up knowing about it. It's something I really fell in love with. I'm on the board of LACLA, which is great. I'm on the Educational Committee. How many boards do you want? Too many boards. There's like a live nation and you get a partnership. Like you got two more stuff going on. Yeah, but it's good. But you mentioned your staff. You just said a lot of things about Clutch. And you said it's about the staff, having a good staff. And you didn't see Chase's head. He went, absolutely. Talk to me about the support that Clutch has shown you. The first time I met Rich, he wasn't gonna hire an agent, by the way. Yeah. Well, we can talk about that. He wasn't, but I changed his mind. Yeah, he did. And you know, this was, I'm in college. I didn't know, I didn't know Rich. I didn't know the wizard, you know. The wizard. That's what I call him. I didn't know anything about him. And I had one call. They said, man, just come out L.A. Just, you know, let me, let me get together with you. I went out L.A. And that was my first time going out there. When like I didn't, you know, with no Rose Bowl or anything like that, went out there, sat down with Rich. He basically showed me, he kind of reminded me of my recruiting business in college. Coach Johnson, he showed me. Wait, where did he take you? To the office. Okay. I don't know. I mean, you know. It's a business trip. Okay, good. And so he sat you down. It was kind of like a recruiting trip. He showed me, he showed me, you know, what he can do for me and what he has already done. Same like Coach Johnson. A lot of coaching and recruiting process just showed me, they tell me what they can do for Coach Johnson. He broke it down and showed me how he can do it. The proof he already, you know, already has done so. Because my thing was, he was saying to me, oh, I'm gonna get drafted. I know where I'm going, et cetera. I said, but hot. People confuse the word agent with representation. You can't tell me a successful business person, company that don't have infrastructure. So hiring an agent is the first step of building infrastructure out to have a successful business. People try to get around it because they don't want to pay a fee or, you know, I think if it plays on the ego of the athlete, because most athletes want to show you that I'm smarter than just being a football player, et cetera, but that's not the point. If you're doing business at a high level, you want to focus on infrastructure. So whether you call it agent, representation, legal, whatever you call it, if we call Coca-Cola today, or we call it New Balance and say, how many people in your legal department? It's probably two floors. Why? Because they've built something that they have to protect every day, all day. And so when you think about it from an athlete's perspective, you wouldn't take shortcuts and anything else. You're not going to urgent care to get heart surgery. So why would you take a shortcut in your infrastructure? As an athlete, it just doesn't make sense. And so that's the conversation we had and he came out of there understanding that, you know what? I'm not going to take shortcuts. I'm not going to try to get you to pay a shorter, cheaper fee and all that type of stuff. Like just do business at a high level because it sets bad habits for them going forward. Okay, well it begs the question. I wasn't going to bring it up, but Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent. We just saw Jalen Hertz, an incredible deal done by Cleft Sports and Nicole and an incredible group of women taking care of that deal. We'll get to that, but Lamar Jackson, what would you advise them? I would advise them to focus on infrastructure and not worry about who's doing it per se. They have to obviously, who's getting the credit, right? Now, I think a lot of guys who come out and say, well, I didn't have an agent, that's not true. If you want the credit, somebody's doing it behind the scenes because you're not talking to the teams, you're not talking to, you know, but don't focus on that. Just if you have infrastructure and you believe in yourself after Lamar Jackson, he's the MVP, right? He won the MVP. We know what his talent is. Everyone wants to see him get paid. Everyone wants to see him get paid. How much that costs him and who he has to pay to do the work, et cetera. I want to pay more. I don't take a shortcut and nothing in my life. A dinner, a piece of art, a piece of clothing, travel, hotels. Why am I here? I'm not doing that. And so I believe implementing the proper infrastructure for him. Now, that's his choice. I can't tell somebody what not to do it. If I want your call. And I don't want to be biased because I'm in the representation space. Totally. But I'm not taking a shortcut on my business ever. And if you talk to anybody in business at a high level, they'll tell you the same thing. Do you think because he doesn't have an agent or representation or infrastructure, that's why the deal hasn't been done yet? I just think he's in a very difficult place in terms. And I'm not educated on his situation. So I don't want to speak on it. But since you're asking me a question, taking Lamar Jackson out of it, just putting myself into space. Everybody's situation is different. And I know in sports, we like to compare a lot. You hear the goat talk, comparisons. We like to give, everyone's going to get a different deal based upon performance, based upon situation, team. We don't know what the team is thinking. We don't know what Lamar's thinking. And obviously they're at a standstill. And I've been there before. I've had guys miss training camp, miss media day. As an agent, I don't really care about any of that stuff. I just care about doing the best deal for the client. I don't know what his infrastructure is like to speak on why his deal isn't done. It's really well done. But I'm hoping Harry up and give him a hand. I know, good. Listen. I think Lamar's, you know, he's special. He's special. And he's a great, great added value to the league. Like NFL Sundays, you look forward to seeing Lamar Jackson highlights. And when he's out there in the field healthy, he gives us that. He's a game breaker. And clutch does have some incredible prospects in this draft. I've met who are going to, these guys are going to go on the stage behind us and talk to Roger Godel, Bichon Robinson, hopefully top 10. We've had a top 10 running back in a long time. Bichon to the Eagles, time yet. I always hear that thing about them. They got to face him. Ford Chase is like. Why are you tripping? Yeah. They always say that the value of the, you know, running bag, you can't take him early. I get all that. But if you have everything else and you need a running back and he can change, he can add value. Why not take him? He'll be right back in the Super Bowl if they get him. Will Anderson, who I think should go number two to come out. I mean, I'm to the Texans. Would you like him there? Oh yeah. I mean, you know, I want him to go the highest he can. You know, defensive player, the best one in the draft. Yeah. You don't want to see no quarterback go. And he's a pro. One thing about Will, again. He's a pro. I mean, he and his family came in. We had great meetings, obviously. Kelton and Nicole are his, you know, his agents. They are Jay. And they, that family was just amazing. You know, when they met, I had a chance to spend some time with them and, you know, we're evaluating the family just as much as they're evaluating us as a company. Wow. It's very important to work, you know, in that capacity. And so Will and Brian Branch as well, you know, the guys that's here, we're lucky. We're lucky to be able to work with great people. I would love to see Brian Branch to the Steelers. I mean, I interviewed a lot of these guys and those are my favorites. I'm not kidding. My favorite guys, part of the Clutch family, we'll see where they go. What advice would you give them? Now you, I'm looking at this stage chase and I'm thinking you didn't get this. It was during COVID. You were sort of robbed of the experience. What would you tell some of these young cats that are gonna be drafted tonight? Man, just enjoy it. Be present in the moment. Just take it all in. Just know, you know, we don't have to be here. It's a blessing and it's a big opportunity. Man, we can't take it for granted. But yeah, that's what I'm telling. You got a big year coming your way. I wanna know how you're feeling. I wanna know what your mindset is. I really, you know, be at my feet at, you know, after I leave here on Friday, I'm gonna go back to work out two a day and just grind. And you know, when the lights come on this year, I'm gonna be ready. And then some is gonna have to negotiate a 100 something, something, something deal for you. Hopefully, I'm hoping. Lead that on him. You look to keep doing it. I'll be on the team of our, listen, we have a great between Nicole and Kelton, Chris Shaw and Demarius and VJ. We have a great team and we try to do things collaborative, right? And we have a thing in the house where it's not your client, it's our client. You know, and we really believe in that and we really try to be as, not as interchangeable because there's relationships, but we wanna be as community as we possibly can be. And in our clutch athletics, community is a mentality. And we take that everywhere we go. And so I think it's important for us to continue to build and add stars on the representation side that go along with the stars that we have on the field and on the court. And the guy in your division just got the biggest contract in NFL history in Jalen Hertz. Yeah, Nicole crushed it. Nicole had the entire team. She really did. What does that say to you? It says I have a good eye. Ha ha ha ha ha. Look at this group, look at that group right there. Getting that done. And look, and with that, there's also some men involved in that group. But we have to give, you know, from BJ, obviously Joe D'Amelio who works with Jalen as well. And we didn't see a couple of other people mentioned on there, but great team, Shakima and Nicole and Chantel and Jenna, like they spent a lot of time with Jalen. And Jalen's a pro. And I can tell you right now that Nicole walked me through every step, every step of the way. She was so great in her approach and how she was approaching it. And it meant so much to her because, you know, she was asking me like, you know, what do you think about this and think about that? Not because she needed to do that, but just because she wanted to make sure that she didn't miss a detail. And you know, you care about these guys. So it's not just about the money. Like you actually, Jalen Hertz was, look at, he was a champion before the money. Right. The way he handled being taken out that game. I was watching that game. Crazy. Just crazy. To transfer, meeting his family, knowing how important it is for him to lead the troops. And here's the thing. I know Brandon Graham on that team. We got Devonte Smith on that team. If you talk to those guys about Jalen, they light up. And we all know in locker rooms, it's not always like that. And that's a game changer. Yeah. And I can tell you that money's not gonna change him. He's gonna have the same approach. He's gonna have the same, the same, what I would say, motivation to come out and to win, to win every game. So extremely happy for Nicole and the team. And so. And him. And him, yeah. When they get Bijan, because you see all the connections that Clutch has. Yeah. With the O'Hally Roseman on line one. I'd like to see the call logs over the first couple of days. What do you think of Jalen? I know, I mean. Oh yeah, so. You love him. He's family, but he's kind of not a part of the family. Yeah, nah, that's what I got. You know, on and off the field, we rapped. I played him so many times. Even when we were both in college watching him. Even that moment when he did get pulled. Just, you know, I don't even know if I could have handled myself like that. You know, it just, it showed me who he really was. And I'm just happy to see everything, all his blessings come back to the court. Because, you know, a lot of guys in that moment right there, they could have just quit. They not quit, but they could have just lost their mojo, their spark. You know, Jalen, you know. That's why he's a great quarterback. He kept his composure. He transferred, he stayed, he stayed down, kept his head down and high as pay to play up. Yeah. We'll see what they can do. Now, I know you guys are really busy today. We've got lots going on with Clutch Athletics. Tell us about what you have over the next couple of days. Pop-up shop. The good thing about the NFL Draft, I'm really here supporting the team. So, listen. You are. You brought 19 people with you. I've never seen anything like it. There's literally a stand full of people just hanging up. It's the pop-up we have, which is great. We have a community event with Clutch Athletics with the Boys and Girls Club. What is that? It's the Boys and Girls Club event. We have, you know, Chase is going to be out there. Amazing. So I love Chase. You're just, you're the best. We're going to have some, some, some conversations, some, some clutch conversations happening here. And then I'm going to head over to the green room, sit there and support the, the agents and their team. And hopefully our, I tell the family, there's no bad day today. Like there's no, this is just great time. That's how I feel. Just sell them out today. No matter where you go, you got to get there and the work starts over. And so get drafted, enjoy the night, and then tomorrow we're back to work. One last question for you. I have a book out. I would like to hear a little bit about that or we're coming out soon. The book is coming. Yes. Lucky me. I'm really, it was, it was therapy for me. I think a lot of people think they know me. They really don't, which is fine. But I think you'll learn a lot in terms of. Why are you laughing? Why is that funny? The wizard. You'll learn a lot. And it's, it's not a puff piece. It's not, look what I did. What I'm hoping it is, I hope is a, it's a hope read for a lot of kids that went through the struggle that's currently struggling. I went through a, I didn't grow up with my mom. I had a lot of, I had a lot of things happen in my life early on where like Chase said, and we see this happen a lot in our environment. You could just give up. You do not care. You could just say, forget it. Don't care about school. Don't care about living. Don't even care about living. And so I think when you read this book, you'll tend to understand some of the things that helped build me to be the way I am. What's the name of the book? Lucky me. I mean, the name, the name isn't a puff. The name is literally self deprecating as if like you weren't, like lucky me. Yeah, but when you read it, I wasn't so lucky. You know what I'm saying? Like lucky me is like. It's a lot of, it's a lot of. I like that title. It's how it takes it off. Because you know, you get the average, you see these people on the internet. It's like, oh, if you wasn't with LeBron, you would like, but if you talked to LeBron, he would say. Oh, shut up everybody. But I'm saying you get that. So that, you play on that stupidity. But at the same time, that's the same time, you know, my mom wasn't in my life as a kid. So how lucky was I just, you know, that's no kid should grow up like that. And so just being able to persevere, you know, it teaches you about resilience and all those things. I can't wait to read it. To be successful, not even successful, but just to be present. I mean, but don't you owe your entire career to Warren Moon? I won't say my entire career. I think, I think I owe. Do you know the story, Chase? I think I owe the relate, the Warren Moon jersey. You know, you know what really happened, right? No, I don't. I just heard that you rolled into an airport, you were wearing some sick Warren Moon jersey and a young teenage LeBron James said that's a sick jersey. But that's because at that time, the height of those jerseys was, it was fashion. It was the leader in fashion. You were selling a lot of your car or something? I was trunking my car and I was traveling back and forth to Atlanta. But I just asked him, why did you even say something to me? 20 years later, I asked this question just kind of hanging out. He had just watched fabulous video and the last thing he saw was fabulous video on his way out the door to the airport. So then when he seen me in it, it's what caused him. That's like the energetic. Yes. That's what caused him to, yeah. And I just told fabulous that not too long ago, during Super Bowl, and he was like, what? I was like, yeah. It meant to be. It was meant to be. And so that started the relationship. And I think that, you know, God puts people together for different reasons and obviously you're thankful for all the opportunity which I am. And we developed an unbreakable bond at this point and he's also another pro who doesn't cut corners. And I think the best thing is we respect each other so much that we're able to separate friendship and business. And that was also something that people couldn't understand. You know, they thought that, oh, well he got to own a piece of his company. No, he's a client that pays 4%. Upfront. So, you know, it's like that respect. People don't expect you to respect each other in a manner. It's not easy to do that when you're friends with someone. It's really impossible. Yeah, but it should be. Yeah. It should be. And in our community, it's even worse. It's even worse, so, you know. But that will be here for two hours. That's a whole other thing. Could LeBron play in the NFL? Without a doubt. Without a doubt? What would it be? Are you glad? Today I don't think I'm glad. He's not in the NFL. He's a little older now, but when he was young, 18, he definitely could be type. What are you saying? I'm just saying, you know, it's a different sport. Different sport. Could he score a touchdown on you? No. That's going to be a headline right there. You said no. Well, good luck to the late, late guys. They're still on top, but they got a lot of work to do. Hey, listen. Lots of new lakers. I think the NBA, I like the parody in the NBA. I really do. I think it's a lot of young stars and, you know, obviously you still got the older stars. No, no, no. We love you in the NFL. We love Klatch and Rich Paul in the NFL. Yes. And what you're doing with Klatch Athletics and New Balance, the first of, I imagine, many collabs and many game disruptions. Whoa, whoa, here's the thing. This is not a collab. It's not a collab. Rich Paul, say bye. Chase, time to say bye. Thanks for having us. Chase, let's go on the stage and just relive what you didn't get to have. Let's go all week, Adele. You can pick me up. We'll be right back. It's time for these college studs to take the next step and level up to the NFL. I wake up feeling fast every day. That's the same thing, but definitely it's funny. Yes, ma'am. I was talking to myself and I said, it's time to make this money for it. This is goofy. This is, I got him from a shelter and this is his name. So I just kinda kept his name. I miss my daddy so much. And, you know, Nala's got a mind of her own. She handles the room social. I'm the best little brother because I always looked out for them. And I never snitched on any of them. Favorite Nick Havens saying. Get your head on your ass. You know, when you're racing somebody, you've got to get a different gear, especially when you're chasing somebody. But I can dance. So whenever they call me to the spot, I got to accept the challenge that they're going showing what I can do. Is there a TV show or a show that you're streaming right now that you love? Sanford and Son. It's like so old. Oh, no. Stop the talk. You're just casually watching episodes that you're binge watching Sanford and Son. What? It is. That's all I do. Like Sanford and Son and Martin. That's all I watch. I mean, Tajey Spears is so amazing. And then you have Brian Branch. Will he go to the Steelers? He mentioned the Steelers like 19 million times. Tried to get that info out of Rich Paul. That's what I would think is going to happen. We'll see. Bijan, 10 maybe, to the Eagles. It's so exciting, a day of celebration here at the Draft in Kansas City. We will have Devon Witherspoon on the program. Will he be the first DB off the board? I hope so. And a very special guest joining us. I'm not even going to tell you who. But I think he's the first wide receiver off the board tonight. He'll tell you why. Garrel Wilson says he's better than him and Chris Olavi put together on the best day. We'll be back on up at Adams. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little nervous because we are sitting next to one of the biggest superstars in this NFL Draft ready to take the journey from college to the Bigs from the Ohio State, which is already the big stage. When you got the big stage behind you, Jackson Smith and Jigbo, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. How are you feeling? I feel great. I feel great. Bless. Today's the big day. So we'll see what happens. How are you handling it? What's your mentality when you woke up this morning? Yeah, I was going through it a little bit last night. Just it all like kind of suck in on me last night. But I'm handling as best as I can. I'm just happy to be here. Excited for the opportunity. Excited to walk across that stage tonight. It was really cool to watch you walk up the stairs because you just did the first time you saw this spectacle and an amazing host city in Kansas City. The fountain, this, what are your feelings looking at this? It's beautiful. It's beautiful. We got beautiful weather, beautiful stage. I mean, they really done it up here in Kansas City. So I'm happy to be a part of it. Garrett Wilson, let's just get right into it. Friend of the show. We love him. You obviously played with him, Chris Olave. He says, you're better than him. You're better than Olave. This is the defending offensive rookie of the year. No, let's not pretend you're not confident. Don't be humble all of a sudden. No, I definitely appreciate those words. But those guys are in the league doing it right now. And I'm just trying to chase those guys. I always appreciate Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave and the guys before me that have done it. So I wouldn't be here without them. So I mean, that means a lot for them to say that. What have they told you about the NFL? What advice have they given you on handling yourself even tonight? Right. I mean, they just told me to be myself. And they know I'm a hard worker and I want to be great. So just if I keep my head on straight and stay present, then good thing can happen. I think you're the first wide receiver off the board tonight. And it's well deserved. Now there was some talk about your availability. What do you want to say about that? I'm available now. Hey! Hey! I'm available tonight. And yeah, but I'm excited for the opportunity. Happy to be here. Thanks for everything. How are you able to sort of stay present in this moment today? Is this something? I got family around me. So, you know. Who's here tonight? We got brother, mom, dad, grandparents, everybody. You know, we got the whole family here. We're just having a good time. Just trying to enjoy it. Had some dinner last night and definitely gonna have some fun today. So, yeah. What are you wearing? Ooh, you're gonna have to wait and see. Did you get styled? Did you pick it yourself? Give me some details. Oh man. Hugo Boss took me up with the nice little suit. So yeah, we're gonna come in fresh today. Amazing. I asked you how you would talk to the commissioner. You said you would potentially pick him up? Oh yeah, yeah, I mean. I told you he's a big boy. Now you just met him. He is a big boy. I didn't know how big you was, I mean. But now we're gonna get our little handshake in and a big bear hug. Has anything been surprising about this experience? Not even just coming to Kansas City, just the whole draft process, the ups, the downs? Yeah, most definitely. Definitely a lot of ups and downs, a lot of traveling, a lot of flights in early mornings. But, you know, it's a part of the process. You know, it's something I've been dreaming and waiting on. And I'm just happiest here. And the happiest almost over. Let's talk about CJ Stroud, because we're trying with lots of ups and downs. This poor CJ Stroud, right? He's gonna go high as two, and now he's just slipping down, drop or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Talk to, it takes this much to maybe move a guy up or down. Talk to everybody out there and tell them about CJ Stroud and what kind of quarterback he'll be in the NFL. CJ Stroud's gonna be a great, I mean, besides the arm talent, besides, you know, all that, you know, he's always the smartest guy on the field. And, you know, playing with him and his leadership and, you know, he knows how to lead a team and he knows how to get things done. And, you know, it was an awesome plan with him at the Ohio State University. And hopefully, you know, one day, you know, we'll link back up. What are you making of these people saying things, these rumors? It's like, it's funny. We laugh at it. Really? Yeah, we laugh at it, because we all know CJ and he's a smart kid. He's a good kid and he just loves to play ball and he's good at it. So whatever team picks him, you know, it's gonna be lucky to have him. He'll be doing it on the NFL level. We love this. Now, here's what I found out. Your brother got called up. To the bigs, right? So give him a shout out. This is Kanan Smith and Jigba, right? Yes, sir. You two are, yes, sir. I'd rather be called sir or the man, trust me. Oh, Pisa, talk to me about that. What was it like? Cause he's playing like today after the show. Yeah, he is. It's been awesome. I mean. He can't be here though, huh? No, he actually, he's gonna fly in today. Oh, really? Yeah, he'll be on stage with me, so. After the game, he's gonna fly. Where is he? He's. L.A., maybe? Yeah, no. Yeah, I don't know where he's at. Okay. He's everywhere. Yeah, just super excited for him. Grew up with him, obviously, and for us to be living out our dreams, it's truly great. And I've seen all the hard work he put in and my whole family, and for that to carry on for me, and for me to be at the highest level in my sport now, it's just awesome and a dream between the both of us. You're the little brother. What's something you're better than him at? Cause I can imagine you two are, you're two insanely athletic kids. What are you better at? What can you get him at? I would say I'm the more athletic one. You could say that. Ooh. You could say I could, I would say that. Listen, we're full of, the NFL's got the Kelsey's, they've got the, you know, the Gronk family, they've got, this is like the new thing, the Smith and Jigba boys are taking over, this sports world. Taking over, taking over, taking over. One step at a time. We'd love to see it. Okay, I'm trying to think of what else people, anything else you want to talk about? I'm just excited. You're just chilling. I'm chilling, I'm excited. How are you so like this is my question? I just try to stay even kill. I don't like to get up and down. Paul was more nervous than you. You were just like this. Yeah, got to. I'm just, I'm just ready for the night. Even kill. Yeah. Yeah. So that's on potentially joining Crystal Lave in New Orleans or Garrett Wilson in New York. I mean, I would be great. Garrett Wilson in New York, that'd be pretty cool if they're a new quarterback. Yeah, man. Aaron Rodgers, swinging it around Derek Carr too, out in New Orleans. I mean, wherever I go, I'm, you know, I'll be happy with and, you know. Is that true? Is there, I'm not gonna tell, don't tell me, but is there a team that you're like, oh God, don't take me. Don't tell me what it is. You'd be happy with any of the 32. Any of the 32, whoever calls me, you know, the earliest, you know, I'll be happy, whoever that is. What is your superpower on the field? Like, what are you known for? What is the one thing that you want? NFL fans who maybe don't, didn't watch you ball out in college. I would say my route running, my creativity, you know, my spatial awareness and, and just being a reliable target, you know, CJ knows, you know, I'm working, I'm trying to get open, you know, I'm gonna catch the ball, you know, a chain mover, I would like to say. A chain mover, hopefully on an NFL team near you. Who's, who's with you today? Give a shout out to all your, your own team. We got my, we got my Excel team. Hi guys, I think your Excel team is here. We got Parker, Kelly, and Mike. We got amazing, I'm always taking care of me. Amazing, we love it. Are you gonna cry tonight? What kind of a, are you a crier? I don't know what's gonna happen. You don't? I don't know what's gonna happen. I wouldn't say I'm a crier though, but I've never been drafted. You've never been drafted. Okay, if there was one person that would get you to be emotional, is it more your brother, mom? Yeah, my brother. Your brother would make you cry? Maybe. Canan, don't do it, and good luck to him at playing today. In a little bit, we will let you go. You're so excited for you. Do not forget me when you take that trophy from Garrett Wilson as the offensive rookie of the year. I'm expecting good things. Thank you so much. Okay, enjoy every minute. Appreciate it. We'll be back on up in Adams. Devon Witherspoon is joining the show. Rich Paul, Chase Young, Will Leviss, Mayo Coffee, what's happening? We'll be back after this. And CJ Stroud is laughing at your stupid rumors. The reason I love the draft is the stories. It's the guys who pop on the scene, who take over, and I'm sitting next to someone who was a zero-star recruit, and he went from that to the superstar on Illinois. Devon Witherspoon is here. How are you? I'm good. Glad to be here. Glad to be here. We're glad to have you. You were in your NFL PA debut sweatshirt. You better hold on to that for your whole life, because this is a memorable, unforgettable thing. If you're looking at this draft stage, you just saw it. Tell me what's going through your head. I mean, I'm just really thankful about tonight. When I get a chance to hear my name, I'm just feeling out of emotion that I'm probably gonna feel. Just being here with my family, just how are we gonna celebrate that moment? How are you gonna celebrate that moment? I don't even know yet. You don't know? Yeah. Are you an emotional guy? Not for real. Yeah. You're a good guy. I've watched a lot of interviews. You are even keel. And then you get on the field. Yeah, when it's about business, it's about business. But Devin, you hit people. Like, you really hit people. You've got viral moments. What is the switch that flips? That hit against Indiana. Take me into that play. Now, really, we've seen the play on film and I just really trusted what I seen on film and I believed it. And I just went and made a play. So that's really about it. But what happens to you? It's like you change into a superhero or a villain again. No, I ain't nothing like that. It's just I'm passing about what I do. I wanna express my emotions when I'm out there on the field. I just love to have fun, so. You love to have fun. Now, you didn't start playing football until when? Well, I actually played part one of football. Got it. But I hadn't restart playing football until my junior high school, so. How did you get this good this quick? It doesn't make any sense to me. It's crazy. Now, I was always in my DNA for real. I'm always pretty good at football, but I just continued to believe in me. My mom continued to believe in me. I just continued to work on my crowd. I'm here today, so. Did basketball help you in football, and how? Yeah, probably I say lateral quickness and the way I defend on the court. That really kind of transferred over into the corner position. Guard of Receivers really kind of a similarity in there. So yeah, basketball helped me for real. Shout out to your, I don't know who it was, your defensive coordinator. Oh, Coach Walton? Yeah, so here's what he said about you. Quote, you were as confident as Dion Sanders was and talk as much trash as he did. Now you do hit, that's something Dion didn't do very much, but what do you make of the trash talk on the NFL level? Is that going to continue? Oh yeah, that's just who I am for real, but I don't want to get too many time calls, so I don't want to do nothing to make the rules mad about that, but yeah, that's just who I am. I just love to express the way I feel and express my passion and emotions for the game. What are you saying out there? Are you talking records? I can't even really say that on TV, I can't say that on camera. Well, they might pick it up on camera when you're out there. Yeah, get it in. Who's your trash talk up there with? I'm trying to think of, I mean, Jalen Ramsey, he's a big one. I don't know, I don't really compare trash out for real. I just do it. Sauce Gardner? I just do it. Like when you do it and you go back it up, like, I mean, really can't nobody tell you nothing for real. I would love to know what the source of your confidence is. Like what? Cause you're very confident and it's really impressive. Where does that come from? I don't know, I just, I guess that's just me, in general, like anything that I do when I feel like I'm good at it, I'm just confident in it. So I just go out there and have fun for real. When you envision yourself on the field next year on some team, what's the one-on-one matchup you want the most? I mean, it's not really a specific one. It's like whoever I got for that week, that's my dude. But if you could pick one, who would you pick? I really ain't got no answer for that. Come on, which wide receiver do you want to give that smoke to? I would love them. There's not many good wide receivers, isn't it? So pick one, Justin Jefferson. That would be a really fun one for you. Who's the wide receiver that talks a lot? Stiffon, Diggs, they all talk. All those wide receivers. Who would be a good one, Hamilton? Oh, you on, DK always loves getting, you and DK in a trash talk thing would be fun to watch. We had to play football. We had to trash off each other. I love it. So you're just embracing the moment. You're excited. And we're really happy for you. We're gonna have a little fun here to wrap it up here. Oh, do we have the, are we doing the, what are we doing here? We're doing the game? Sure, I'm gonna, do we have the pass or drafting? Where are they? The paddles? We don't know where they are. Marissa's going to get it. I'm going to play a little game and have a little fun with you. And I'm gonna have you hold up these paddles and you're gonna, if I, there's draft and pass. So like yes or no. On these following statements that I'm gonna make, we don't know where they are. So we're gonna just do it like this. Picking up Commissioner Roger Goodell on stage. Is that a draft or a pass? Picking him up? Yeah. We're passing on that one. Okay, here's pass and here's draft. Okay, so you're gonna pass on that? Why? What are you doing all that? What are you doing? We're here by business, man. We're here to make a statement. I saw you just say hi to Jackson Smith and Jigba and you were like, it was so smooth and so cool. And I felt, I felt so stupid because I'm like, hi, I'm king and like shaking your hands and stuff. Okay, crying on draft tonight. No. That's a pass? Yeah, it pass. Why? I ain't really, I ain't really an emotional guy for real. Like, my mom and I are probably gonna cry. I think Devon's crying tonight. We're gonna see. Druski is the funniest creator in the game right now. Funny. Oh no. You like a lot of Druski's tweets. Druski's funny though, oh god. Oh god. We creeped on your Twitter. Oh no, I don't know. But who's the funniest creator in the game right now? If it's not Druski. It's out of him. Probably him or Daisy Banks. Oh yeah, Tessie's good too. All right, it's a tie. It's a tie. Rocking Crocs. How do you feel about Crocs? I mean, I ain't really a Croc guy. You're not. Gaita tried getting me to understand that I should wear Crocs every day. So you're not into it. I ain't really a Croc. I'm some Slides though. Yeah, you like some Slides. Nike Slides. Nike Slides, okay. Big 10 football better than SEC football. Yo, oh this one. Why? Tell me, give me this thing over here. I don't know. I'm biased. I'm saying it's biased. It's biased. That's why I say that. Aliens are real. Yeah. They are? Why? How do you know? There's a lot of honest money things that have been in the world, man. I don't know. Yeah, how you started playing football late and all of a sudden you're being drafted in the top 10? Probably didn't know that. Aliens are real. Anime is better than live action. Yeah. Why? Because the way they put that, put like animations together for it, like that's done really hard. I watch anime so it's like that though. Yeah? It's like that. All right, it's like that. You will be the first defensive backtaken in the draft tonight. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Devon Witherspoon, enjoy tonight. Now don't get caught crying if you said that you're passing on crying. I'm gonna say. Nah, I don't cry overnight. Yeah, yeah, what do you want tonight? You'll see later. Can I have a little hint? You came all this way. Later on? No, nothing? No. What color? Nothing? You'll see. Wow, tight lift over here. Devon Witherspoon, he's saving it for the field. He's coming to an NFL team near you. He'll be drafted very highly and he'll be robbing me of all of my fantasy football points for the next 10 years in the NFL. We appreciate you. Enjoy. Every moment will be back on Uppin' Adams Epidraft. And we'll talk to Uppin' Adams. Can we get Matt Hamilton a microphone, please? I think we were gonna do some of our notes from the top of the show but they're not anywhere. So we're gonna talk to Matt Hamilton when he gets a mic. Come over here, Matt. This is an incredible day. Devon Witherspoon was on the program. Where am I looking? Here? Here? Anyone? I don't know what that is. Right here? All right. Oh, here we go. Matt, come here. Come here to have a seat. Let me have a fix this. Let's go on this shot if I can ask for it. This is amazing. We've done lots of drafts together but this one is probably going to be the craziest of all time. And I would just like to say that our show called that a very long time ago. That there was gonna be all sorts of people. We still don't know what's going on at shoe but Rich Paul made me think Anderson's going it too. He really did. Well, Anderson made me think that we were going it too. Yeah, with the way you talked about that coaching staff and how they want to use them, he definitely made it seem like it's happening. Okay, let's call our bold shots here. Brian Branch is going to the Steelers. Bijon is going to the Eagles. Will Anderson Jr. is going to the Texans at 2. And I say, just let us slide. Let us slide because he didn't show up today. There might be there. There might be that. No, but yeah, I mean but then what would what would Devin McCordy say? Because that was, you know, Matt Jones is hype guy. He had to come on my show. Can I tell you guys the funniest thing going on today? Matt literally can't look at me because his neck has some sort of like old man Jones issue going on. And he's doing this. He's like, okay. I can't even do it. Who do we have tomorrow? We have Kareed Humphrey and Trey Smith coming on. Oh, dream team. What game do we love it? Big thanks to Clark Sports. We're going to the brunch right now. We're going to have the best time ever. You really can't move your neck, can you? I don't know. Five seconds. Big phone prediction. Uh, Trey Lance becomes a Texan.