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First Draft

Best Safeties & Potential Draft Day Trades

First Draft

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4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr. talk how the Chiefs & 49ers should approach the draft after the Super Bowl before talking the best safeties in the 2024 draft class. Plus, some potential draft day trades to watch out for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to first draft, the only show dedicated exclusively to the NFL draft because Mel Kuiper

0:08.6

Jr. created this industry. Mel, good morning, my friend.

0:12.0

Good morning, Phil. We got a super bowl bowl coming up but we got a lot of draft talk today. That's all you're real that's what people want to hear about so we haven't covered a couple positions and I thought this week

0:20.4

it into maybe a little bit of that some things that we we haven't touched on much during these

0:24.7

podcasts got a lot of work to do between now and late April but and you have your mock 1.0 coming out

0:29.7

Wednesday which we're all looking forward to feel now you're fine tuning that as we speak while you're in

0:34.1

Vegas you know check with all your contacts all your buddies out there to try to get that

0:38.0

late information on Mach 1.0 field. Yeah I'm doing my best here Mel you said that we're all looking forward to Mock 1.0.

0:45.0

Maybe everybody but me, everybody but me, right?

0:48.0

Because there's a lot of pressure here, you know, I've been, I've only rewritten my top 10 19 times so uh seems reasonable right I mean it's only my first

0:56.4

mock draft for ESPN in professional capacity so no pressure here but I do feel like there is well obviously there's plenty of attention being paid to the Super Bowl and we're going to talk about the chiefs and the 49ers and potential needs of picks 31 and 32 in just a moment now. It is cool to see like radio row as you know is filled with people not just

1:14.9

from San Francisco in Kansas City but there are markets all across the country they're here right now in

1:19.9

Vegas and a lot of people want to talk draft because the fan bases of the other 30

1:24.7

teams are already focused on the off season which of course is underway in full

1:29.8

just about four days from right now for when you and I are talking but you mentioned

1:33.7

other positions we're going to dive into safeties today interesting safety class here

1:38.6

Mel maybe a first rounder maybe not we'll dive into that in just a little bit. But let's start to

1:44.4

top with the Chiefs and the 49ers. They have a game to play on Sunday. We're not trying to

1:48.7

look past the Super Bowl, but we can do a little bit of a future forecast.

1:52.6

Let's begin with a flip a coin, land on San Francisco.

1:55.5

As you examine the possibilities of pick 31 and 32,

1:58.2

what kind of areas stand out that San Francisco

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