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Speaker 4: Hey, everyone. Jeff Rosen here with your daily DLP. It is 772026. Still smarting from last night's US soccer loss. It was awful. Rough game. Congrats to Belgium, I guess. But, disappointing end to the interest in the World Cup for the vast majority of us. See how that plays out. I don't know. It's interesting to me that all of the host teams, Mexico, Canada, and The US all lost in the same round, as they advance forward. But, you're here for American football, not what the rest of the world calls football, and we are going to do today's show on Ennis Rake's draw. Yesterday, we focused on Giovanni Manu, who is part of the 2024 draft class that, has soured a lot of people on Brad Holmes and the lions in general, just beyond the draft. But I think there's a lot of people who think that that draft is I get this feedback a lot. That draft is what's holding this team back from being a true contender. I don't necessarily agree with that. I think the lions are a real contender, but the point is taken. And I think in this rake straw is kind of the, focal point for where the lions erred on the side of risk versus reward because that's what Raikstra is all about. The cornerback, bring him up here. Second round pick, he was number 61 overall. Don't have the actual draft in front of me. He was my number 56 player, and we'll get into that in a second. But it's been about injuries. And one of the frustrating things with Enes Rijkstra is we are now in year three, and we still don't know if he can play. Talked about that with Manu in yesterday's show. By the way, that got delayed because of some technical issues that were, unfortunately, out of my control that did get resolved last night. So, apologize for the late, publication on that. It was actually recorded, almost sixteen hours before it went live. So, hopefully, we don't have that problem today with, the the MS Rake Straw episode here. Rake Straw, it's it's crazy that we still have to refer back to his scouting reports because we'd he's been hurt so much. Missed all of last year with a shoulder, peck injury that happened in practice, unfortunately, not far away from from where I was standing in practice. And you knew it was bad right away. But and this is this is oh, god. This is this is the rub with Rick Straw is we didn't know we collectively, as Alliance Media watching, didn't know if it was truly serious because he's been hurt so much that we're like, okay. Is he like Ifiatu Malifano and doesn't know the difference between being injured and being hurt? Because if he clearly did not, and it greatly cost the lions. Raich's role was legitimately injured and has had a lot of legitimate injuries going back to time. And I'll go back to the piece that I wrote for Lion's Wire back in the day, and I will bring it up here. Let me find it here. Alright. Hopefully, the font's big enough that I don't have to use my readers on it. But let's go back to this. Vienna's rake straw selection forces a complicated reaction by me where I used to work. I wrote that on 04/27/2024. It was updated. On the 2025, it was updated for ad code. I can tell you that because I did it. Now here we go. This is what I wrote about Raekstra right after they drafted him. Raekstra was the number 56 player on my big board, which inherently makes the pick a solid value from my perspective. He's a player who should rank higher for the lions because of his style of play. Raixborough is an aggressive straight, pressed man quarterback on the outside, not a zone coverage guy and not a slot. He's a smart player on and off the field, and he relishes the challenge of going up against the opponent's top weapon. He's got that kind of grit. Oh, yeah. But then there's the but. There's always the but.

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Speaker 4: I do have concerns with Raekstra. It starts with his durability. He missed most of the 2021 season with a torn ACL, then missed four games last year. This would have been the 2023 college season with a groin injury. He had core muscle surgery this all season for a separate injury, which kept him out of the senior bowl. Raikstra weighs in at just one hundred and eighty three pounds on a lanky five foot eleven frame that really does look taller in person. That that remains true. And the other concern is with his recovery speed, as I noted in this prospect breakdown. Top end speed isn't great, and he lacks a chase gear when beaten. The 4.544 time at the combine shows on tape. Unfortunately, we still kinda have to go off of that because we just haven't seen him on the field. Injuries. Injuries. Injuries. And that's that's where his future in Detroit is complicated. If ever there was a direct fill in for Terryon Arnold, who, by the way, was my number 11 player in that draft. Quinion Mitchell was number eight for those of you wondering. Loved Quinion. Loved Terryon too. Unfortunately, that hasn't worked out at all. As a tangential aside, The Athletic posted a thing today, about Terryon and revealed a lot of the details of the case. It is stuff that we as Lions people probably already knew or knew most of, and this is presented to the broader picture now that Terryon is out there as a free agent. He went unclaimed. No surprise there. His lawyers are trying to get it to where he excuse me. He has a a hearing on Friday about bond, I guess. I don't know. I'm I'm sort of honestly trying to tune it out, but, he his lawyer claimed that he's had at least three teams reach out to him. That could be nothing more than, hey. If you're free, we might have a spot for you. But don't read more into it than that because that could be all that it is. But back to Rake Straw. Rake Straw would be a great fill in. And, oh my god, how nice would it be if the Lions didn't have to go outside the organization to replace Tarion? If they had a ready made guy, a second a recent second round pick with legit, like, schematic advantage, understands the coaches, coaches like him, it's all there for him. He's just gotta get on the field and show that he can play. There are now he has worked a little bit in the slot when he's been healthy in training camp. I would still maintain very strongly that he is much better suited to be outside. He's gonna be competing with Keith Ebony, with Roger McCreery, with I mean, honestly, Avante Maddox fits into that bill. Rocky has seen as sort of outside only, but he can maybe challenge Rock, again, if he's healthy because the game does I meant it when I said it back when they drafted him. He's a great fit for the Lions defense of what they want to do in coverage, and he will come up and tackle people. And I will bring this picture up because this picture this is from mini camp. He is the player on the left without the jersey on, holding the helmet. You will notice he's got more muscle definition. It show it it was very noticeable in person. He has gained weight. I'm gonna guess that he's probably one ninety now. Like, looked sturdier, and that's what he needs. By the way, Amaris Brown is is one of the other guys there. We're gonna talk about him as an undrafted rookie who has a real chance to, make an impact, but that'll be a a future show when we get to the UDFAs. But can't count him out either. But Raekstra is a guy that, man, I'd love to see him get through an entire summer healthy and see if he can really do and properly evaluate him with NFL eyes and not just based on what he did at Missouri. Because we really haven't seen that yet.

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Speaker 4: I hope he trusts his body. One of the issues that's gonna come up is if he is cornerback four, cornerback five, Where do those guys play? They play on special teams. I'm gonna say with his extensive injury history, I don't wanna waste a guy who's valuable on defense or could be valuable on defense, I should say, on special teams. I'd and that's a roster spot that normally does go to somebody who contributes as much on special that that's Khalil Dorsey's spot. Go back inside. That was Kendall Vildor's spot. Dorsey is another guy who's in that competition to, replace Tarion. Got the first team reps ahead of everybody else in mini camp. Don't wanna read too much into that, but he's he's a very easy player to project making the team right now. Whereas, Rake Straw, we don't know. And, again, special teams, this team has made a lot of roster decisions based on special teams over offense, defense. It's the only reason Sione Vaki is still on the team because he's shown very little as a running back. Hopefully, that will change this year. That might be might be a later show this week. Spoiler alert. But, if Raikstra can can be the guy that the lions envisioned him to be, and I will say, as somebody who's been hard on him, he still got that potential if he's healthy. Do I trust him being healthy? Absolutely not. Show me, don't tell me. Great Rush song. In a rush to judgment. I'm gonna say he makes the team, but it's not a lock. This is one of those, again, kinda like with Manu, and I talked about this in Monday's show. I find it easier now to root for Anis Raekstra now that it feels like because when when the Lions drafted him, it was joy and exaltation in Detroit. Remember that was a draft that was in Detroit. People talking about how I I remember, Dane Bergler from the athletic, one of the most respected, draft analysts with good reason, had projected and as as the Lions' first round pick not long before the draft. So everybody was sort of tuned in like, oh, Brugler loves him. And then Dane certainly wasn't alone. And, again, the the scheme and style of he he really does fit. Now he doesn't have speed. Those of you who thought Tarion was slow, a, you're wrong. But, b, he's a lot faster than Ennis Rake's straw. And it will require some safety help over the top against speedier receivers. He is not a guy who can carry Jameson Williams down the field. I don't know, to be frank, if he's a guy who can carry Isaac to slaw up the seam or trace his hip on a post. I don't I don't know that he has that long speed. He's much better in short area burst. And staying with the guy and he does have decent agility, which which does help. But so there are drawbacks to his game as well. I just hope that we get to see it, and we can evaluate Ennis Raik Strauss' merits of making the Detroit Lions or not on the field instead of talking about his exhaustive medical history. That's where I'm at with Ennis Rake Straw. Where are you at? Leave them in the comments. Go to Facebook, Jeff Risen, Lions NFL. It's, a good spot to leave some comments. You can put them here. And if you're watching this on YouTube, thank you for liking and subscribing. Put them in the comments down there. Where do you think Ennis Rake Straw fits, if at all, in Detroit in 2026 and perhaps beyond? I wanna know because I I think this is he's a fascinating study, honestly. He really is. Because, man, like I said, if you were looking for a direct replacement for Terryon Arnold, you're not gonna find anybody better than him as far as skill and football ability. But, again, there's always a but. Yeah. That's where we are. That is today's daily. I am Jeff Risen. Thank you for watching. Be good to one another, everybody.