Speaker 1: Hi, Brandon, and congratulations, And I just wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you how you felt about sort of the culture fit
Speaker 1: as far as what you do and what you like
Speaker 1: to do and how the forty nine ers run their offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean, first and foremost, I like winning,
Speaker 2: So I mean obviously the Diners do a lot of
Speaker 2: winning and I love doing that. And also, you know,
Speaker 2: the system fits me really well. You know, I think
Speaker 2: I can learn a lot from George Kittle. I think
Speaker 2: I could do a lot in terms of versatility and
Speaker 2: the offense and just the way that they use their
Speaker 2: tight end run game and past game. I just think
Speaker 2: they could do a lot. So I think that it's
Speaker 2: a great fit for me. I think it's the best
Speaker 2: fit for me, and I'm excited to get in and
Speaker 2: go to work.
Speaker 3: Bradon, what was your pre draft contact like with San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean saying the Niners showed their hand the
Speaker 2: whole time. You know, I think that they showed their
Speaker 2: hand out of most people, and I fully expected to
Speaker 2: hear something from them, you know, and I did. And
Speaker 2: I'm just excited to be here, excited to go to work,
Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully I can have a long you know,
Speaker 2: great career here, Brden.
Speaker 3: You're not only known as a tight end, but you've
Speaker 3: done half back work, you've done full back work. Where
Speaker 3: do you think your strengths are and how do you
Speaker 3: think that fits into the FIRS offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think mostly on a tight end. You know,
Speaker 2: I've done a lot of tight end work and that's
Speaker 2: what I'm accustomed to. I'm used to obviously play a
Speaker 2: lot of different positions, and I'm gonna do anything that
Speaker 2: the coaching staff asked you know of me. But like
Speaker 2: I said, I'm coming in as a tight end. I
Speaker 2: want to make a mark as that, and like I said,
Speaker 2: I'll do anything to coach staff asked of me to do,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited to get to work.
Speaker 4: So it was mentioned that you didn't play at least
Speaker 4: line up, I guess on occasion at full back. Is
Speaker 4: that accurate? And how did that come to be? Like
Speaker 4: did a coach say, hey, go over there and see
Speaker 4: like doing that or or what was that process?
Speaker 2: I really haven't played any fullback unless you count me
Speaker 2: being in a wing as a fullback in Oklahoma. You know,
Speaker 2: I've been in the wing. I've been in a snip
Speaker 2: for a little bit just for a specific run plays.
Speaker 2: But I mean, like I said, I could do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a football player, so it's not hard
Speaker 2: to you know, pick up, But I could do it.
Speaker 2: I'm good at it and I'll do whatever they want
Speaker 2: me to do. So it just kind of came by
Speaker 2: me being versatile. You know, I could do a lot
Speaker 2: of different things. You know football players can, and that's
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of how it came about. But
Speaker 2: you know, I'm excited to be able to do a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of different things.
Speaker 5: Be a chess piece, so that could use. So I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Can you tell me how a college tight end views
Speaker 6: George Kittle and just like what the whole persona of
Speaker 6: him and his ability on and off the film.
Speaker 2: I think, I mean at Oklahoma in general, we watch
Speaker 2: a lot of George Kittle. You know, he just does
Speaker 2: so many great things. He does so many things that
Speaker 2: we do as an offense. You know, he blocks so
Speaker 2: many like the same schemes that we do, you know,
Speaker 2: in terms of gap zone, outside zone, inside zone, counters,
Speaker 2: all types of stuff.
Speaker 5: Right, So, uh, we watch a lot.
Speaker 2: Of his film and I mean, like just a willing blocker,
Speaker 2: a great pass catcher, a great athlete, a guy that
Speaker 2: could do it all right. So I just think that,
Speaker 2: like we view him as a chess piece, a guy
Speaker 2: that can move around, do a lot of things and
Speaker 2: make the other team pay. And that's how I view
Speaker 2: myself as well. So I'm excited to get to learn
Speaker 2: from him. He's one of the best in the business obviously,
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't think I can't think of
Speaker 2: a greater mentor for me in my play style than
Speaker 2: you know, George Kittle.
Speaker 5: So Hight Brandon.
Speaker 7: Speaking of George, he has almost like he gets this
Speaker 7: maniacal joy from from blocking, from moving a man from
Speaker 7: point A to point.
Speaker 5: B on tape.
Speaker 7: You're you're a really good blocker as well. How would
Speaker 7: you kind of characterize your your passion for that that
Speaker 7: part of the game, that physical part of the game.
Speaker 5: I really think you just said it.
Speaker 2: Moving another man from point A to point B, you know,
Speaker 2: under you know, without him wanting to be moved. I
Speaker 2: think that's the best feeling in the world. It's just
Speaker 2: as good as scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 5: You know, when you're.
Speaker 2: Able to move someone you know under their will, it's
Speaker 2: the best feeling. So I think that's, you know, the
Speaker 2: joy he gets from it, that's the same joy I
Speaker 2: get from it.
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's the violent nature of the game.
Speaker 2: And I think that if you're a fan of the
Speaker 2: violent nature of the game, the physicality and everything, I
Speaker 2: think that, uh, you.
Speaker 5: You get a joy out of that too.
Speaker 2: So, like I said, I think we're both the fans
Speaker 2: of the violent, physical nature of the game and that
Speaker 2: that's why we'd love to do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So looking at your stat line, your your seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: jumps out. I'm just wondering whether there's a theme with
Speaker 1: those seven tds, whether it was you know, you're there,
Speaker 1: teams are expecting the run and then it allows you
Speaker 1: to kind of slip out and catch a touchdown. What
Speaker 1: were what were those those seven touchdowns?
Speaker 2: Like not a lot of those touchdowns, you know, a
Speaker 2: couple of them came, a lot of them came in
Speaker 2: the red zone. But there are more passing situations. I mean,
Speaker 2: there are some situations where you know you're expecting to
Speaker 2: run and we do something, you know, a little pop
Speaker 2: pass or something like that.
Speaker 5: There's one of those.
Speaker 2: But uh, like I said, I mean, it's just a
Speaker 2: lot of matchup things, right, So you get in the
Speaker 2: ability to be in a matchup, you know, situation where
Speaker 2: you got a guy that you like it to match
Speaker 2: up and the coaches liked me, and a lot of
Speaker 2: these matchups they're out the year, and so I was
Speaker 2: able to capitalize on that. And so you know, just
Speaker 2: shout out to my coaching staff at Oklahoma. They put
Speaker 2: me in great positions, allowed me to, you know, be myself,
Speaker 2: be the.
Speaker 5: Best football player that I could be, and allow me
Speaker 5: to capitalize on that.
Speaker 2: So I think that's more so what it was, all right, Jane,
Speaker 2: go ahead, last.
Speaker 3: One, Bradon, you had seven point two yards after catch
Speaker 3: as an average. How excited are you to go to
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers and be with George Kittle, not
Speaker 3: only just him, but Deebo Samael, Christian McCaffrey even and
Speaker 3: I who are known for the yards after catch.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think it's one of those things where
Speaker 2: you have to I mean, as my career has gone
Speaker 2: to Oklahoma, learned do the yards after catch things, practiced
Speaker 2: it caught the ball and practice and practice my moves
Speaker 2: after the catch and everything. And I'm excited to learn
Speaker 2: from all those guys because they're really all of those
Speaker 2: guys that are great, you know, in yards after the catch,
Speaker 2: the area. So I'm excited to learn from all those guys,
Speaker 2: pick up some tips and tricks that they have that
Speaker 2: made them so success fall in college and in the league,
Speaker 2: and you know, just make me a better player.
Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing I want to learn.
Speaker 2: I want to be a better player, and I want
Speaker 2: to be able to contribute on a bigger scale. So
Speaker 2: that's that's just the biggest thing I'm excited for.