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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lolling. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. And man, I wanted to ask you. We

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Speaker 1: started to see some some pro days start to happen

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Speaker 1: across the college landscape here, and so you know, Georgia

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Speaker 1: their their pro days. At this point, we've seen the Combine,

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Speaker 1: We've seen the Senior Bowl. Have you at all started

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Speaker 1: to adjust how you look at the guys in this

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Speaker 1: draft of how many guys are first round? Are sure

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Speaker 1: fire first round picks? Sort of? Now, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: comment on Jalen Carter's current situation. You know, some information

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Speaker 1: came out on him pleading guilty and he's gonna do

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Speaker 1: some s No contest, actually, no contest. Okay, you're right.

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Speaker 1: I guess there's a distinction there, without question, and he's phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I think he's the best player in the Soul Draft.

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Speaker 1: People are going nuts because, well, Jalen Carter was nine

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Speaker 1: pounds heavier than than he was at the combine. No kidding,

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Speaker 1: everybody's combines guy. Yeah, a three hundred pound guy nine pounds.

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Speaker 1: It's like it is like, yeah, it's like a two

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Speaker 1: hundred pound guy gaining four pounds. Yeah right, right, that's

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Speaker 1: one meal, you know or whatever. Yeah, and these guys

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Speaker 1: there in their underwear, and he planned on working out

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Speaker 1: in full to combine, but it didn't work out that

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Speaker 1: way for him. So you know, that doesn't bother me

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Speaker 1: at all. I mean, his tape so good, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the Jalen Carter segment. I mean, I think Will Anderson, Bijeon,

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Speaker 1: several others maybe that's it with blue chips. To be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, quarterbacks aside, we know those four are

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Speaker 1: going to go early. I'm warming up to the quarterback

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Speaker 1: class a little more than I did a month ago.

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Speaker 1: I had more concerns than excitement. Now that's swaying a little.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think it's a great quarterback class. Besides

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Speaker 1: those three Anderson, Bijeon and Carter, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: there's anyone that's a blue chip. Now. I probably could

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Speaker 1: give you ten names which is less than usual that

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Speaker 1: basically any year or first rounders. But I don't love

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Speaker 1: the first half of the draft, you know, like if

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are picking ten verse seventeen, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it would be that advantageous. But I do like thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I like Day two a lot. And if I was

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Speaker 1: get a pretty quality player at the end of the

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Speaker 1: first round. Yeah. If I'm looking at the guys that

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Speaker 1: I think go in the first round any year, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to include the quarterbacks either, because the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are they're a different ya. But Anderson, I think

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Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson's the first round pick any year. Yeah. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think Skronski's a first round pick any year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even if he's at twenty four instead of you know,

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Speaker 1: third or whatever, he's going in earlier in this draft

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Speaker 1: than other some others. Yeah, he's a first rounder all

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Speaker 1: day long. You mentioned Jean Robinson, Um, I think Christi

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Speaker 1: I think Christian Gonzales is a first round pick any year. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that Gonzalez trades. I mean he's going early every Yeah,

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Speaker 1: any year. He's no worse than the third cornerback on

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Speaker 1: getting a little excited about him that you would take

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Speaker 1: the people he's competing with, if you know, to refresh everyone,

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Speaker 1: either eight or nine, I can't remember. They went right

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Speaker 1: Jamison Williams transferred to Alabama because of Jackson, Smith and

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Speaker 1: Jigba right right right exactly. And Williams was my favorite

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Speaker 1: Jigba would have been the first receiver off the board.

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Speaker 1: they I mean they signed mike Yasicki and Juju Smith

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Speaker 1: Schuster the last the last two days. But you're really

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Speaker 1: two slotters, so they might be out of the Smiths.

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Speaker 1: like LSU, he was a slot because Jamar Chase was

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Speaker 1: I think to me, Matt, when when you've got a

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Speaker 1: And so I look at him, I say, he's shown

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Speaker 1: This should both be a first round pick next year too.

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Speaker 1: So why would they have pulled him out of the

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Speaker 1: Pitt has mentioned next guy. But if Smith and Jigbo

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Speaker 1: have been better, all right? Yeah, So why are we

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Speaker 1: They need an receiver early, absolutely not, they don't. I

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Speaker 1: I think slot is their weakest receiver spot at this moment.

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Speaker 1: do it every year. Who are your top seventeen players?

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Speaker 1: If you're looking through the Steeler's eyes, I have a

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Speaker 1: feeling he's gonna be like fifth for me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there aren't many of them. So I think he fills

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Speaker 1: It's not a need for a slot receiver. Here's my

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Speaker 1: You know, think of this through the opponent's eyes. If

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Speaker 1: you're any defensive player or defensive coordinator, Boy, did this

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Speaker 1: offense just get so much harder to play against? And

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Speaker 1: your quarterback, who's the most important asset in the whole place,

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Speaker 1: I think, I think you become really hard to play

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Speaker 1: But Smith and Jigba was a better player, and the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's quote just a slot doesn't bother me

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