Nate Tice revisits the 2011 NFL Draft: How Cam Newton, J.J. Watt, and Richard Sherman changed the NFL forever | 04.21

April 21
58 mins

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It’s TIME MACHINE TUESDAY on The Right Time with Bomani Jones – we’re going back 15 years to the 2011 NFL Draft, a class that might be the best of all time.
They break down

  • Why this was THE Cam Newton draft – and why you’d still take Cam No. 1 overall in a redraft
  • How Cam single-handedly dragged the Panthers’ franchise to relevance and changed how the NFL thinks about QBs
  • Von Miller vs. JJ Watt and what “game-wrecking” really looks like
  • Julio Jones vs. A.J. Green – who had the more Hall of Fame–worthy career, 
  • Tyron Smith and Jonathan Ogden as “alien” offensive tackle athletes
  • Patrick Peterson vs. Richard Sherman, Revis Island, and why corner is a young man’s job

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