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Speaker 1: now your host, Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 2: Today is January twenty nine, twenty twenty five, and we
Speaker 2: are officially eighty five days away from the NFL Draft
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Speaker 2: We are back on radio row of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five Reese's Senior Bowl. We're gonna talk to some of
Speaker 2: the greatest prospects in this NFL Draft class, including Jared
Speaker 2: Ivy of Old Miss edge rusher defensive linemen as straordinaire.
Speaker 3: And that's the first question I'm going to ask you, Jared.
Speaker 2: We've got Nick Harris, Tommy Yarish, Kyle Yeomans here with
Speaker 2: the Draft Show. Where do you feel like you fit
Speaker 2: best on that defensive line? You've got some versatility up front?
Speaker 2: What are the teams looking at this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I love rushing the edge, but I'm gonna do it
Speaker 5: all guy. And and I love sliding inside, rushing inside too,
Speaker 5: And and uh yeah, it's kind of it's hard to pick,
Speaker 5: you know, I got I got production from from all spots,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, I just I want to be a
Speaker 5: pluck and play guy anywhere I go.
Speaker 2: You ended up measuring in very well throughout the week,
Speaker 2: and you got off to a great start yesterday and practice.
Speaker 3: How do you feel like that first session went?
Speaker 5: It went really good, got loose and in one on
Speaker 5: ones and and had a nice start to the day.
Speaker 5: Indy was really smooth and and it was good to
Speaker 5: work and compete around some great players with with some
Speaker 5: great coaches. So uh yeah, taking that into the team period,
Speaker 5: it was nice to open up and and get back
Speaker 5: to running to the ball again and making plays and
Speaker 5: in eleven on eleven, So yeah, all around, just a
Speaker 5: really good day.
Speaker 6: A big part of this process is obviously meeting with teams.
Speaker 6: What's going into that for you this week? How's that going?
Speaker 5: And those have been great, you know, after the first couple,
Speaker 5: you know, you start to get the hang of it
Speaker 5: and and get into kind of a flow and and
Speaker 5: and anticipate questions and and you know, have your stuff formulated.
Speaker 5: So it's been nice to get to know some of
Speaker 5: these scouts and coaches. Mike Tomlin was here last night
Speaker 5: and he's an unbelievable guy. So being around uh, just
Speaker 5: some of some great minds and and and it's been
Speaker 5: it's been awesome.
Speaker 6: Have you met with the Cowboys yet?
Speaker 4: I have?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that gore really nice and got to learn a
Speaker 5: lot about you know, where they see me and and
Speaker 5: and the kind of prospect they see me as. And
Speaker 5: it kind of aligns with my views on myself.
Speaker 7: So great conversation and kind of going in more in
Speaker 7: depth on that with the Cowboys? Did they see you
Speaker 7: more as an edge rusher, as a defensive lineman, a
Speaker 7: mixture of both? You mentioned your versatility. Where did they
Speaker 7: see you projecting?
Speaker 5: I think just a mixture of both, you know, I
Speaker 5: think being able to do what I've been doing at
Speaker 5: Old Miss and rushing inside, rushing outside, playing five six eyes,
Speaker 5: nine threes, four eyes, like just you know, being a
Speaker 5: do it all guy, Ben?
Speaker 3: Did they did?
Speaker 7: Was that kind of the same sentiment with all the
Speaker 7: teams that you met with yesterday or were there some
Speaker 7: that maybe had a little bit more of a playing
Speaker 7: one spot versus the other? Things like that more or less?
Speaker 5: But I'm not exactly familiar on who runs what, so
Speaker 5: obviously that definitely plays a part. But as far as
Speaker 5: the conversations went, I think everybody was super jacked and excited.
Speaker 4: About my versatility.
Speaker 5: So yeah, as am I and I want to continue
Speaker 5: to be that type of player going for it.
Speaker 2: Is there anybody at the NFL level that you model
Speaker 2: your game after?
Speaker 3: Because the Cowboys have had some guys that.
Speaker 2: Have gone inside and out and had that success on
Speaker 2: the defensive line doing so.
Speaker 3: But does anybody stick out to you?
Speaker 4: There's a few guys that stick out.
Speaker 5: I mean Cam Jordan, Miles Garrett, guys like Eric Armstead,
Speaker 5: the Forrest Buckner, Guys that you know slide all around
Speaker 5: the yard and and can get production from anywhere.
Speaker 2: You guys have a lot of talent here from Old
Speaker 2: Miss as well. We'll get a chance to catch up
Speaker 2: with Walter Nolan here in a little bit as well.
Speaker 3: I mean talk about how much that group helped.
Speaker 2: You grow throughout your tenure in Old Miss and having
Speaker 2: an opportunity to now come to the senior with us.
Speaker 5: As far as the work at practice, it was second
Speaker 5: and none are some of our indie sessions and one
Speaker 5: on ones versus versus our offensive line is. It's just
Speaker 5: it's cool to be able to compete and and go
Speaker 5: hard with guys that also go hard and make plays.
Speaker 5: And then on top of that, like being on the
Speaker 5: field with them on Saturday, right, it frees up so
Speaker 5: much space. It creates so many more one on ones,
Speaker 5: like you're able to get on so many, so many edges,
Speaker 5: and so much isolation playing with other guys because it's
Speaker 5: hard to double you.
Speaker 4: You really can't double anybody.
Speaker 6: I've heard good notes about your knowledge of the game,
Speaker 6: IQ of the game. How much studying do you put
Speaker 6: into that aspect of what you have in the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love the game.
Speaker 5: I think studying is a double sided question because you know,
Speaker 5: these coaches like they I mean they live, eat, sleep,
Speaker 5: breathe this game, like stay at three in the morning
Speaker 5: creating these game plans. So just learning from them and
Speaker 5: listening and taking notes and meetings, like I've learned so
Speaker 5: much about the game the past few years just being
Speaker 5: around some great coaches and and you know, taking taking
Speaker 5: my nuggets where I can.
Speaker 6: If you had to go back and tell the Jared
Speaker 6: Ivy that was entering Georgia Tech as a young freshman,
Speaker 6: what would you tell him.
Speaker 5: I tell him, just manage to stick the course and
Speaker 5: always bet on yourself. You know it was it was
Speaker 5: tough to make that decision to hit the portal and
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, take that chance. But I would
Speaker 5: never go back and change that. It gave me this
Speaker 5: opportunity to be here today.
Speaker 6: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Off the field?
Speaker 5: Just laid back, relaxed. I like the golf, fish, cook,
Speaker 5: beat the crib.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I got a really small family, so I love to
Speaker 5: just spend time and and and hang out and chill
Speaker 5: with my family.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. You're gonna get a couple of strokes in
Speaker 3: while you're out here.
Speaker 8: I will.
Speaker 5: We're not having too much off time. And it would
Speaker 5: have been nice. We played at gosh, where's it? And
Speaker 5: we played in Jacksonville. What's that TBC?
Speaker 4: So nice?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So if I had stayed another day, I came
Speaker 5: home early and trained. But my buddy that that I'm
Speaker 5: always golfing with it in Oxford, He's stayed next year
Speaker 5: day and and played one of the courses, which I
Speaker 5: would have loved to do. But you know, but you're
Speaker 5: locked in what I had to get to work. I
Speaker 5: had to get to work, and I would have been
Speaker 5: out there probably for a week on one Green.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 2: You've got a couple of people that wear this this
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Speaker 3: What would it mean to be drafted by the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: It'd be awesome.
Speaker 5: You know historic uh program, the great Pants, you know,
Speaker 5: and then you know historic uh Jerry Jones, So obviously
Speaker 5: you know, very well known owner Dak Press got a
Speaker 5: very solid even though he's a bulldog, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: solid bell, really really great player. And uh yeah, Sam's
Speaker 5: up there. I didn't I didn't cross over with him
Speaker 5: at my time at all, miss, but hearing stories about
Speaker 5: him and seeing him on the tape when I had
Speaker 5: first got there, and and uh he's a great player,
Speaker 5: so you know obviously Micah, uh you know, I had
Speaker 5: my little podcast deal and I know he's big into that.
Speaker 5: So that was very and uh yeah, just a great
Speaker 5: group of guys and a good team looking to get
Speaker 5: over the hope.
Speaker 2: Well, you're welcome on our podcast anytime you want along
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you taking some time.
Speaker 2: Good luck this week, and of course keep on rocking
Speaker 2: going into the Senior Bowl of all these practices throughout
Speaker 2: the week.
Speaker 4: All Right, I appreciate you guys having me.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to radio here in Mobile, Alabama. Alongside Nick Harris,
Speaker 2: Tom Yars, I'm Kyle Yeomens. We now have the running
Speaker 2: back from Kansas. You know his name already, Devin Neil,
Speaker 2: and I just told you off air we have a
Speaker 2: lot of film buffs that love what you've brought to
Speaker 2: the table from a film element. What is this week
Speaker 2: going to do for you to help elevate that draft call?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 19: I think for me it's really important to prove that
Speaker 19: can be every downback and you know, route running and
Speaker 19: winning my one on ones is big, and then obviously
Speaker 19: past pro two and then you know, I think just
Speaker 19: showing continue strivesing getting better in the run game. I mean,
Speaker 19: there's some dudes out here on D line, so not
Speaker 19: everything's going to clear up, and we have some guys
Speaker 19: on O line too, So just running consistently and knowing
Speaker 19: my job and my landmarks and play calling SA NFL
Speaker 19: pro stoyn offense. So just getting used to that and
Speaker 19: because this is my process now, and so just showing
Speaker 19: that I can do that and be consistent aspect too well.
Speaker 2: And you're very vertuatile as well. You bring a vast
Speaker 2: skill set to the table. You mentioned a couple elements there.
Speaker 2: One that I've been very impressed with is the ability
Speaker 2: to receive out of the backfield and catch out of
Speaker 2: the backfield. How much of a growth did you see
Speaker 2: during your time in Lawrence and taking a step forward
Speaker 2: in that element and how are you going to bring
Speaker 2: that to the NFL?
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean just you know, honestly, just having those
Speaker 19: conversations couch, it's like, hey, I need to get involved more,
Speaker 19: and you know, I don't have to always just run
Speaker 19: the ball.
Speaker 8: And we went a lot of two back stuff.
Speaker 19: You can see it on film and there was times
Speaker 19: where our other running back will be back there and
Speaker 19: I'll split out a little bit and motion out.
Speaker 8: And go do some things too.
Speaker 19: So just being able to be versatile, like you said,
Speaker 19: I think it's importing me every downe back. I think
Speaker 19: it's a trait that I bring and not everyone can
Speaker 19: bring that, so, you know, and then I think just
Speaker 19: sohoing strides of being good in the past game, you know,
Speaker 19: I think early on in my career I sucked that passport,
Speaker 19: to be quite honest with you, because I just wasn't
Speaker 19: heavy enough. And then you know, growing into it, you know,
Speaker 19: especially this past year, like I was really consistent that
Speaker 19: aspect and I was really good, and the just unknowing
Speaker 19: my ID and then taking guys at the line of
Speaker 19: scrimmage and you know, just keeping them there and not
Speaker 19: getting the lap of the quarterback.
Speaker 6: I'd be curious to know your perspective because obviously this
Speaker 6: is a great running back class, one of the best
Speaker 6: and probably the last decade. And I know a lot
Speaker 6: of players can suffer from comparison during this process and
Speaker 6: trying to bury yourself to other guys. How do you
Speaker 6: kind of stay and who you are and trying to
Speaker 6: get what you have to get done at the end
Speaker 6: of the day to be the best possible draft pick.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, for me, I just believe that comparison
Speaker 19: is a deep of joy, you know. I try not
Speaker 19: to get into you know, who's this and what are
Speaker 19: they doing. You know, I just go out there and
Speaker 19: put my best foot forward, and you know, go prove
Speaker 19: what I do and show my versatility on tape. Just
Speaker 19: play and be effective in everything I do. And you know,
Speaker 19: I think coaches, at least the coaches I've talked to,
Speaker 19: understand my perspective of my mindset to dominate anything I
Speaker 19: do and you know, not getting to you know, I
Speaker 19: think I'm better than this guy, or I think it's
Speaker 19: better than this guy, because honestly, it doesn't matter. As
Speaker 19: long as you end up in the right place, in
Speaker 19: the right fit, everything can go right for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the two biggest boxes for me you have to
Speaker 6: check the running back position is reliability and consistency. You
Speaker 6: have both of that. I think you owned this one
Speaker 6: game in your career and the freshman year and then
Speaker 6: three straight thousand yard seasons kind of kind of speak
Speaker 6: to those two things. And being you know, keeping your
Speaker 6: body in shape, but also being ready on game day.
Speaker 19: I mean, their ability is the best ability you have,
Speaker 19: you know, being available on the field, and it just
Speaker 19: it's a lot of working taking care of your body.
Speaker 19: You know, I spend about three to four hours every
Speaker 19: day working on my body and just because I play
Speaker 19: a grueling position. You have to stay right, you have
Speaker 19: to be fresh for game day and consistency. I just
Speaker 19: think that's a product of my work. You know, each
Speaker 19: off season, I'm finding new ways to get better. You know,
Speaker 19: I'll never get satisfied in my work just because I
Speaker 19: know I can get better on certain things. And that's
Speaker 19: what's helped me, you know, because guys have known my
Speaker 19: name in the Big twelve five places my freshman year,
Speaker 19: so you know, it makes that even harder. You can't
Speaker 19: sneak up on anybody, and can't, especially with us growing
Speaker 19: as a team. You have to always find a way
Speaker 19: to get better, and I think I found ways to
Speaker 19: get better each and every season.
Speaker 7: So much of the senior Boat process is not just
Speaker 7: going on the field and showing NFL scouts that you
Speaker 7: can do, but going in those interview rooms too and
Speaker 7: talking to teams. Have you met with the Dallas Cowboys yet?
Speaker 4: Briefly?
Speaker 8: I did, you know?
Speaker 19: I actually juked with mister Vaughan just because I'm good
Speaker 19: friends with Deuce.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, So it was funny just talk with them a
Speaker 19: little bit. There was more background information. We talked a
Speaker 19: little bit of ball, but I have met with them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch of k you guys on
Speaker 6: this staff, luckily enough, so I love it.
Speaker 7: But I got some backing. What was that conversation, Like, mean,
Speaker 7: you mentioned background, but some of the ball stuff. What
Speaker 7: did they tell you? They give you any feedback, what
Speaker 7: they liked about you, things like that.
Speaker 19: No, it was more of just you know, understand, like
Speaker 19: they want to see how much I know football?
Speaker 8: And you know, I think a lot.
Speaker 19: Of this process is they want to see it can
Speaker 19: a guy adapt to a scheme?
Speaker 8: Does he know scheme? Does he know defenses? You know?
Speaker 8: And those are all traits I bring.
Speaker 19: I think off the field, people don't understand like I
Speaker 19: bring a really smart perspective of the game. Like I
Speaker 19: understand the game and understand you know, coverages, I understand
Speaker 19: backer line, now, I understand d line front. So I
Speaker 19: just understand so much. And it's so smart when it
Speaker 19: comes to that. And it's an underrated theme because it
Speaker 19: just helps you play faster.
Speaker 3: And you continue to take those steps forward. I thought
Speaker 3: one thing that you.
Speaker 2: Said there was interesting. How quickly you remember the one
Speaker 2: game that you missed your freshman year. Does that eat
Speaker 2: at you a little? Bit if you were to miss
Speaker 2: time in the NFL, because, like you said, it's a
Speaker 2: grueling sport and a grueling position.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Man, I want to be on the field. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm a competitor.
Speaker 19: I love playing this game, and you know, I'm really
Speaker 19: detail oriented, so I know a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 19: especially in my past, is understand and like a, I
Speaker 19: did miss that game because of injury, but I truly
Speaker 19: believe it's because I was too small, and you know,
Speaker 19: I just kind of got thrown into fire my last
Speaker 19: year or my freshman year, and you know, it is
Speaker 19: what it is. Though you know, I enjoyed I learned
Speaker 19: so much from that season and it helped propel me
Speaker 19: into my career, so.
Speaker 2: It certainly did. You also mentioned that you spend four
Speaker 2: to five hours a day or three to four hours
Speaker 2: a day working on your body. Just give us an example,
Speaker 2: what is a normal day in the life.
Speaker 19: Of Devin Neil leading up to this draft process, Like, ooh,
Speaker 19: right now, or when I'm in the facility, in the facility,
Speaker 19: let's let's talk about it. Yeah man, I mean I'll
Speaker 19: just spend like a lot of time stretching, rolling out,
Speaker 19: and then you know, there's a little less at the
Speaker 19: facility I'm working at, you know, in fort Lerdale, but
Speaker 19: you know at KU. You know, we have a cryo chamber,
Speaker 19: we have cold toes, we have hotels, we have normal texts,
Speaker 19: we have accupunt we have so much stuff. And you know,
Speaker 19: whatever they allowed me to do, I'm gonna do just
Speaker 19: to make sure, hey, this body parts was good. Let's
Speaker 19: move on the next one and just make sure you know,
Speaker 19: everything's feeling good so I can go into the practice
Speaker 19: feeling fresh. And you know one thing I love about
Speaker 19: coach Leipol, He's all about, you know, guys feeling fresh
Speaker 19: for the next day. He didn't want to beat guys
Speaker 19: up too much and have us be there till nine pm.
Speaker 19: And we have we practiced in the morning, so we're
Speaker 19: working up at five. So we wanted a good a
Speaker 19: good turnaround of just rest and recovery. And so I'll
Speaker 19: spend a lot of time doing a lot of different
Speaker 19: things just to make sure you, like I said, to
Speaker 19: feel good.
Speaker 7: Last year at Kansas, you go from an andy cold,
Speaker 7: nicky offense to coach Sebrowski's scheme. What was that transition
Speaker 7: like for you and what did you learn from those
Speaker 7: two to kind of make you that versatile all round back.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean going from coach K and it was
Speaker 19: actually coach Grimes.
Speaker 8: Coach Z just got hired as.
Speaker 7: A oh okay, my fault Coach Grimes.
Speaker 8: But you know, it was hard for us.
Speaker 19: And I think you can kind of see that early
Speaker 19: on in film on the transition because you know, you
Speaker 19: see what Penn State's doing. Coach K, that's a lot
Speaker 19: of what we did, you know, and just the two back.
Speaker 8: Stuff being really versatile commentary football.
Speaker 19: And you know, you just had to get used to
Speaker 19: more of a wide zone attack and more downhill attack
Speaker 19: with him, and I just didn't think we found our
Speaker 19: identity till late, you know, And it was hard. But
Speaker 19: you know, he taught me a lot of things. He's
Speaker 19: coached a lot of good running backs coach out of
Speaker 19: this year, and you know it just helped propel me
Speaker 19: understand blocking assignment's gap scheme and different things like that.
Speaker 19: So he really helped me and you know, gave me
Speaker 19: a different outlook and looking at how to run the football.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the winde zone downhill stuff, I feel like it
Speaker 6: is kind of taking an increase in importance, especially if
Speaker 6: you look back at this last year in the NFL,
Speaker 6: just because Saquon, Derrick Henry, all these guys being able
Speaker 6: to kind of, uh, you know, erupt in this past season,
Speaker 6: which kind of year evaluation. As far as the run
Speaker 6: game in the NFL and where it's at right now.
Speaker 19: I love where it's at. Honestly, I feel like it's
Speaker 19: still undervalued. It's so undervalued. You know, what a running
Speaker 19: back can bring to a team, you know, Like you said,
Speaker 19: you can see what's sake one. You see goose eyes
Speaker 19: like Derrick Henry. You can also see early on with
Speaker 19: you know, forty nine ers running backs, you know, and.
Speaker 8: It's just so in vital we do everything.
Speaker 19: We're the only other position in the field has to
Speaker 19: know what the quarterback knows, you know, And I think
Speaker 19: it's so vital to your team and it can bring
Speaker 19: so much value and help you win games.
Speaker 8: So I just love where it's at.
Speaker 19: I love where it's going, and you know, I hope
Speaker 19: we keep finding more ways to value the running back well.
Speaker 2: And there's of course a lot of value in the
Speaker 2: running back in Dallas to a team that's on the
Speaker 2: clock looking for a running back throughout this draft class.
Speaker 3: Emittt Smith.
Speaker 2: You've got Tony dor Sat, Yeah, the greats that have
Speaker 2: run the ball in Dallas.
Speaker 3: What would it mean to be a part of that Liney.
Speaker 19: And yeah, I mean it would be special for me,
Speaker 19: and not only that, you know, specially just to play
Speaker 19: for you know, such a remarkable, you know, organization that's
Speaker 19: known everywhere, you know, and you know, I've always watched
Speaker 19: the Cowboys and just understand, you know, I was a
Speaker 19: big Ezekiel Elliott fan growing up, and you know, just
Speaker 19: everything like that.
Speaker 8: And yeah, it would be special to play for them,
Speaker 8: for sure.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Devin, Thanks so much for taking some time. Good luck
Speaker 2: for the rest of the week, you sir. Thank you
Speaker 2: running back from Kansas joining us on the Draft Show.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more right after this.
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Speaker 2: of Reese's Senior Bowl Week. We've got our j Harvey
Speaker 2: running back from uc F Central Florida. You were born
Speaker 2: and raised in Orlando, got to play there with UCF
Speaker 2: and the Knights. I mean, what was that whole process like,
Speaker 2: getting to play in your hometown and how cool was that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was great.
Speaker 22: It was a blessing for me. You know, all my family.
Speaker 22: They were able to come out to the games.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 22: I used to have like over twenty people come out
Speaker 22: every game, every home game.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: It was big for them.
Speaker 22: You know, my mom and dad, they never missed a game,
Speaker 22: so I had a great support system.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was.
Speaker 22: It was convenient for like forty minutes from my house
Speaker 22: growing up, and I could go back and forth. I
Speaker 22: used to go back and forth probably like every every Sunday,
Speaker 22: spend time with them, And yeah, it was just a blessing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 22: Every A lot of guys don't get that opportunity, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about that.
Speaker 2: But you have an opportunity here to go up against
Speaker 2: some of the best of the draft class and take
Speaker 2: your game to the next level. What made you ready
Speaker 2: for this moment during your time at.
Speaker 22: UC, Yeah, just hard work and dedication, you know. You
Speaker 22: know I tore my ACL on the twenty twenty one
Speaker 22: and but.
Speaker 4: That was before I even.
Speaker 3: Touched the field.
Speaker 22: You know, I've been in college since twenty nineteen, but
Speaker 22: I didn't touch the field. I didn't touch the field
Speaker 22: playing running back until twenty twenty two. That was really
Speaker 22: my first year, like actually playing against another opponent.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it was.
Speaker 22: It was a tough transition, but you know, just I
Speaker 22: put my head down and just learned from all my
Speaker 22: coaches and my the vets that were in the in
Speaker 22: the running back room. They were great guys, and they
Speaker 22: taught me a lot, taught me what they did to
Speaker 22: get better. I just took all that information in and
Speaker 22: continue to stack days and eventually I got to where
Speaker 22: I am now.
Speaker 6: Whenever you did touch the field, production came with it.
Speaker 6: Over fourteen hundred yards last year, we're fifteen hundred this
Speaker 6: past season. Where would you say your production is a
Speaker 6: credit to?
Speaker 22: Uh, just a lot of a lot of studying, a
Speaker 22: lot of film film work, getting one of the ones
Speaker 22: with my position coach, and getting extra work in with
Speaker 22: the other running backs and quarterbacks, and uh, just yeah,
Speaker 22: just putting in a lot of work on my own training,
Speaker 22: doing a lot of agility drills, trying to work with
Speaker 22: my junk cuts, getting better at my jump cuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just trying to get faster.
Speaker 8: Just just a whole lot lot.
Speaker 6: We were talking with Devin Neil about this a little
Speaker 6: bit earlier. This is such a good running back class,
Speaker 6: and uh, there's guys that could go six seventh round
Speaker 6: that maybe in any other draft they'd probably be fourth fifth. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I know you can kind of suffer from comparison and
Speaker 6: comparing yourself to other guys. How can you kind of
Speaker 6: stay locked into what you have going on to be
Speaker 6: the best version of R. J. Harvey at the end
Speaker 6: of the day.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I just I don't. I don't really try to
Speaker 22: worry about anybody else. You know, all these guys, you know,
Speaker 22: we all got the same dream and aspiration and go
Speaker 22: to the NFL, and uh, I never hate them.
Speaker 4: Those guys.
Speaker 22: You know, all these running backs that I've met here,
Speaker 22: they all cool, Ali, Devin, who else, Trevor Uh, all
Speaker 22: the guys that I'm with, Marcus uh, quiz, every every
Speaker 22: running back.
Speaker 3: Just naming off these guys like this. That's pretty impassive.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 22: And me and Risha Smith we real roommates, so we
Speaker 22: were getting a lot. We're both type right now. So
Speaker 22: and you know, he's a Florida boyd too, so I can,
Speaker 22: I can I can relate to him.
Speaker 4: So Yeah.
Speaker 7: A lot of this process too, is you know, not
Speaker 7: always showing ounce what you can do on the field
Speaker 7: at these practices in the game, setting but going in
Speaker 7: meeting with NFL teams and NFL front offices and management,
Speaker 7: what have those meetings been like? And have you met
Speaker 7: with the Dallas Cowboys yet? Is that somebody had a
Speaker 7: conversation with and if you did have that conversation, go.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I pretty much met with pretty much every team honestly,
Speaker 22: but yeah, definitely Dallas. I feel like that that interview
Speaker 22: it really went will you know they it smiles on
Speaker 22: their faces, So I'm pretty serial and will Yeah.
Speaker 7: That's always a good first step in those interview settings.
Speaker 7: And if you can remember with Dallas, what were some
Speaker 7: of the things that you know, front offices or general
Speaker 7: managers or scouts have said to you in terms of
Speaker 7: your game, maybe what you can do better? Things like that.
Speaker 22: Yeah, they they told me they liked me a lot.
Speaker 22: They love my film, you know, they like the fact
Speaker 22: that I can make something out of nothing. They they
Speaker 22: know I'm fast, I can I can run somebody over.
Speaker 22: But yeah, definitely I told them and they they already
Speaker 22: knew that.
Speaker 8: I definitely got to work on.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 22: Past protection is something that uh uh, I'm focusing on.
Speaker 22: That's going to be a focus today when we go
Speaker 22: against the linebackers and uh uh yeah, pretty much path
Speaker 22: protection and make sure ball security is keep it high
Speaker 22: and tight.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: So one of the things that NFL teams covered about
Speaker 2: this week is also the.
Speaker 3: NFL style of practice that they do run during these
Speaker 3: Senior Bowl practices.
Speaker 2: How does that compare to some of the practices and
Speaker 2: sessions that you had during your time at UCF and
Speaker 2: and the way that you trained in Orlando.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I feel like the way that we practice at UCF,
Speaker 22: it pretty much prepared us for how we're practicing now.
Speaker 4: You know, here, we.
Speaker 22: Didn't get at UCF, we got a couple of breaks
Speaker 22: in between practices. You know, we were in Florida, you
Speaker 22: know is hot every practice, but here we didn't get
Speaker 22: any breaks. But I feel I feel great. I feel
Speaker 22: yesterday I was out there feeling good for sure.
Speaker 6: The state of the run game in the NFL, what's
Speaker 6: kind of your perspective of it and how do you
Speaker 6: think you fit into it at the next level.
Speaker 22: I feel like Quan there him, I feel like they
Speaker 22: really like you know, running back, running back. Everybody. A
Speaker 22: lot of people they overlook the running back position, and
Speaker 22: I feel like what ta Quan and Derrick Henry did
Speaker 22: this year. They really made people realize like, oh yeah,
Speaker 22: to make an offense run like, to be successful, you
Speaker 22: need to have a great running game. And yeah, I
Speaker 22: feel like there's gonna be a lot of running backs
Speaker 22: drafted this year.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a lot even younger, smaller guys like
Speaker 6: Bucky Irving coming out last year obviously in Florida. Uh
Speaker 6: did you grow up a Bucketeers fan?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 3: Me and my family with Dolphins fans.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I was just curious about but Bucky Irving
Speaker 6: being a younger, smaller guy, I mean, how much influence
Speaker 6: do you take off that? Do you kind of see
Speaker 6: yourself in a similar role with the next levels Bucky?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely. I love his game.
Speaker 4: You know, me and him we pretty much similar.
Speaker 3: You know, he wore he's wearing.
Speaker 22: Number seven, so he kind of looks like me back there,
Speaker 22: I feel like, but I love his game. Uh, you know,
Speaker 22: he went in as Ricky just made an impact quick
Speaker 22: and I love that about him.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins have their own identity too in the backfield
Speaker 2: because they've gotten guys like.
Speaker 3: Eight Chan and they've got most of it, which is
Speaker 3: just pure speed.
Speaker 2: Where do you feel like your your speed compares to
Speaker 2: the NFL level.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I feel like I have pretty much pretty good,
Speaker 22: pretty good speed.
Speaker 8: I know I'm tess well in the forty.
Speaker 3: What it's testing well for you? What are you trying
Speaker 3: to hit?
Speaker 4: I want to hit. I want to hit.
Speaker 22: My goal is to hit a four to three. But
Speaker 22: I know for sure I hit a four four. Okay, yep,
Speaker 22: that's good.
Speaker 7: We're wrapping up the first day of practice yesterday. You
Speaker 7: get to go up against some pretty good defensive tackles too.
Speaker 7: It's a good defensive tackle group here. How do you
Speaker 7: feel like you played against them? And if you're you know,
Speaker 7: thinking back on practice yesterday, where do you feel like
Speaker 7: you did and didn't do well?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That defensive line, that defer line group, they had some dogs.
Speaker 4: But just.
Speaker 22: Getting used to this pro style offense, you know, we
Speaker 22: you see if we never did any type of under center,
Speaker 22: any type of under the center formasons or plays and
Speaker 22: just you know that that footwork that you need to
Speaker 22: that you need at the running back position. It is
Speaker 22: different getting the ball than getting it out of gun.
Speaker 22: So I just got to get used to that and
Speaker 22: today should be a way better day for.
Speaker 2: Sir all right, well, RJ, we're gonna let you go.
Speaker 2: We know it's a busy day of practice ahead of you.
Speaker 2: Good luck for the rest of the week, and of
Speaker 2: course we'll hear your name coming up on in April.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to do so.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you. R J.
Speaker 2: Harvey from UCF joining us here on the Draft Show.
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Speaker 2: Things continue to roll on here from Mobile, Alabama in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Reese's Senior Bowl as we've got
Speaker 2: our next guest here on the Draft Show, presented by
Speaker 2: Miller lite Ole Miss defensive lineman Walter joining us here
Speaker 2: on the Draft Show. Walter, First off, your presence is
Speaker 2: felt whether you're walking in the room or whether you're
Speaker 2: on the grid iron. We saw you from Afar yesterday,
Speaker 2: even wrote about you on the website a little bit
Speaker 2: yesterday as well.
Speaker 3: How do you feel like that first day went?
Speaker 23: You know, I feel like it was a pretty good foundation.
Speaker 23: You know, I came here to show my consistent gross
Speaker 23: and I just want to show people that my consistent
Speaker 23: like just building up every day.
Speaker 2: And you were talking about the before we got on
Speaker 2: air here about being tired of double teams. You saw
Speaker 2: some double teams yesterday. I mean you worked through a
Speaker 2: couple of them. I mean, what's this competition level been
Speaker 2: like for you?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 23: I mean, now it's just quote unquote the best of
Speaker 23: the best. So it's probably a little harder double team,
Speaker 23: but it ain't Dohne there, I ain't scared of the Yeah.
Speaker 6: As far as having a target on your back, I
Speaker 6: mean you've had that since you were in high school
Speaker 6: number one overall recruit coming out going into Texas A
Speaker 6: and M having an early presence there. How have you
Speaker 6: kind of adjusted to being the guy and being the
Speaker 6: number on the field that people look at?
Speaker 23: And I love it, you know, I feel like they
Speaker 23: kind of bring more out of me, Like I want
Speaker 23: the eggs on my back, honesty, and I feel like
Speaker 23: because if I got somebody coming after me, it's gonna
Speaker 23: make me go hard and honesty.
Speaker 6: So as far as speed of power, how much have
Speaker 6: you influenced that within your game over the course of
Speaker 6: your college career and being able to maximize that because
Speaker 6: I think when it comes to a short area quickness
Speaker 6: and turning that into hand power and upper body leverage,
Speaker 6: I think you're one of the best in this class
Speaker 6: at it. How would you say you've grown in that department?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 23: Really, just you know, at first I win the best
Speaker 23: to speed the power, but they're really just trying to
Speaker 23: make people feel my get off so I can set
Speaker 23: that up, you know. You know, just it been. I
Speaker 23: feel like I done got better at it ever since
Speaker 23: I started.
Speaker 7: So when you look at this defensive tackle class, a
Speaker 7: lot of people talk about Mason Graham and yourself and
Speaker 7: Dion Walker. What separates you from the rest of them
Speaker 7: and what makes you the special defensive tackle in this
Speaker 7: class in your opinion?
Speaker 23: I mean, just turn the tape on. Honestly, I feel
Speaker 23: like I'm smaller than both of them, and I get
Speaker 23: mold double and trivia team in both of them, So
Speaker 23: I feel like they kind of speak for itself. You know,
Speaker 23: I ain't here to talk down to nobody. They both
Speaker 23: great players. I just feel like I'm better, Honestly, that's.
Speaker 2: The elite competitor side though, right, You just you're always
Speaker 2: gonna think you're you're you're better, but you have certainly
Speaker 2: put it on tape and put it on film. As
Speaker 2: I said, there's a lot of buffs that watch here
Speaker 2: on the Draft show and the film and they.
Speaker 3: Love what you do. When you talk about that defensive.
Speaker 2: Line at Old Miss, you guys had so much success
Speaker 2: and even the Cowboys have dipped into that with Sam
Speaker 2: Williams over the last couple of years. I mean, what's
Speaker 2: it been like being a part of that program and
Speaker 2: the guys around you that have helped elevate your game.
Speaker 4: Really just the culture that they got over there.
Speaker 23: You know, there's really a player led team and out
Speaker 23: one that was kind of a first for me. You know,
Speaker 23: it was fun, you know, they try make everything fun.
Speaker 23: It was really like it really you could really feel
Speaker 23: the love and the family in the area for the
Speaker 23: most part.
Speaker 6: That's what the Texas A and M signing class that
Speaker 6: you were a part of. Obviously, there was a lot
Speaker 6: of big expectations, big hopes for that and all those
Speaker 6: guys that that you entered with, I know, y'all were
Speaker 6: all super close. You know, not everything works out in
Speaker 6: this game obviously, What would you say about the time
Speaker 6: at Texas A and M kind of shaped your experience
Speaker 6: as a football player, not only on the field, but
Speaker 6: off the field, and just kind of learning how the
Speaker 6: business works at the end of the day too.
Speaker 23: You know it, I kind of got a little taste
Speaker 23: of it early, and we ain't had a season that
Speaker 23: we wanted a lot of players live and as you
Speaker 23: kind of you kind of see that in the league
Speaker 23: all the time after the season and you could see
Speaker 23: a complete different team. I feel like the transfer portal
Speaker 23: kind of open it up for all the college athletes
Speaker 23: to kind of get an early taste of what was
Speaker 23: going on in the league. You know I kind of
Speaker 23: I kind of felt like we were gonna go get
Speaker 23: it all. But like I said, I feel like we
Speaker 23: just couldn't really get like a steady culture going on.
Speaker 23: I feel like I don't regret it, but I just
Speaker 23: feel like we could have got there going a little
Speaker 23: bit better.
Speaker 6: But you still tapping with guys like samar here right,
Speaker 6: and and guys you were a part of.
Speaker 23: Yea, I talk everybody, only people don't talk through probably
Speaker 23: the coding.
Speaker 4: Is that about it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so much of the senior boat process, not just
Speaker 7: you know, going out on the field and showing scouts
Speaker 7: that you can do there, but going in those meeting
Speaker 7: rooms and interviewing with teams to start. Have you talked
Speaker 7: with the Dallas Cowboys at all? And if you have,
Speaker 7: what have those conversations been like?
Speaker 4: No, actually I haven't.
Speaker 23: I might talk to them today, you never know, you know,
Speaker 23: I'm just I'm just blessed to be here. If they
Speaker 23: want to talk to me, I'm thankful, you know, Jesus.
Speaker 4: Let me know.
Speaker 7: With the teams, with the teams that you have spoken to,
Speaker 7: what have those conversations been like, And what are some
Speaker 7: of the things that they've told you, whether it be
Speaker 7: how to improve your game, what they like about you,
Speaker 7: how they how you fit into their scheme, things like that.
Speaker 23: Honestly, it's just been a kind of get I really
Speaker 23: just it meant to kind of like just get to
Speaker 23: know Walt. You know, waltch you knowa honestly, you know,
Speaker 23: I don't really get on a lot of interviews or
Speaker 23: do a lot of media stuff. So really just giving
Speaker 23: people a chance to actually get to know me as
Speaker 23: a person instead of just having the helmet on.
Speaker 7: So pull the curtain back for us a little bit.
Speaker 7: What's Walter Nolan like off the field? Who is Walter Nolan?
Speaker 4: I'm just a laid back guy. You know. I'd be
Speaker 4: out the way, I'll be killing chill.
Speaker 3: What's your what's your big hobby outside of football?
Speaker 4: Oh? I've been on the video game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you playing?
Speaker 23: I'd be playing College Duty, n C double a Man,
Speaker 23: all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 2: Do you always play as old miss whenever you're playing
Speaker 2: college football?
Speaker 4: Yes? And no.
Speaker 23: It just be like sometimes our old line will pissed
Speaker 23: me off and right.
Speaker 4: No, I ain't never. I ain't playing with Tennessee on
Speaker 4: that ever.
Speaker 2: Who are some of the better players you've gone up
Speaker 2: against throughout your career, because, like you said, you've been
Speaker 2: a part of two great programs, two great defensive UH units.
Speaker 2: Who are some of the offensive guys you've gone up
Speaker 2: against in the past.
Speaker 23: Really, I won't got to guard him, but Evan Stewart
Speaker 23: he nicely.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 23: I feel like he a technician with them feet out
Speaker 23: there on the out there on the island. Tyler Booker,
Speaker 23: you know we've been having battles since high school. Like
Speaker 23: you said, Will Campbell, Emery Jones. I mean, the list
Speaker 23: can go on forever. But like I was saying, I
Speaker 23: feel like every player, especially in their own way. You know,
Speaker 23: every time you go against somebody is you're gonna always
Speaker 23: get it like a different It's something different every time.
Speaker 2: If you had one game to point out and say,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna watch my film, this is the game
Speaker 2: that I'm most proud of, what would that game be.
Speaker 23: I really just say watch the watch the L s
Speaker 23: U game, or just really just just pick a game.
Speaker 23: For the most part, I just feel like you can
Speaker 23: see my competitiveness and my eager to win in all
Speaker 23: my games, and you know, I just say, hey, there's you,
Speaker 23: just because I played through a lot of double teams
Speaker 23: and triple teams, and you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's crazy.
Speaker 23: At the end of the season, I'm just starting to
Speaker 23: see all the pictures of triple team just popping up
Speaker 23: on Twitter.
Speaker 4: So it's been kind of fun to see that too.
Speaker 2: No doubt, this is a defensive front in Dallas that
Speaker 2: has some talent on and of course Michael Parsons leading
Speaker 2: the way in that category.
Speaker 3: I mean, what would mean or what would it mean
Speaker 3: to you to be a part.
Speaker 2: Of that unit and to play alongside along a lot
Speaker 2: of those guys.
Speaker 23: You know, I feel like me and Michael Parson probably
Speaker 23: got the same mindset going into the going into the football,
Speaker 23: going into football, and I feel like if they were
Speaker 23: to put us together, who knows what happened with me
Speaker 23: on the inside of him on the outside, you wouldn't
Speaker 23: be able to come that way.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 6: You got anybody in the league that you model your
Speaker 6: game after.
Speaker 4: Well he not in the league no more, but Aaron Donald.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's a good one for sure. Walter Nolan
Speaker 2: joining us here from Old Miss, the defensive lineman here
Speaker 2: a part of Senior Bowl weekend Mobile. Walter, thanks for
Speaker 2: taking some time. We really appreciated. Good luck along the way.
Speaker 2: We're cheering for you, and good luck however things land
Speaker 2: in the NFL draft.
Speaker 4: And thank you. Thanks, I appreciate you. I've having all right.
Speaker 2: We've got more of the Draft show coming up right
Speaker 2: after this radio row here at the Reese's Senior Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Is The Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft Show.
Speaker 2: All right back here on radio row Reese's Senior Bowl
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five in Mobile, Alabama. Nick Harris, Tommy Yarish,
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yeoman's uh great catching up again.
Speaker 3: With these prospects.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of our viewership wants to hear
Speaker 2: about the breakdown of the Senior Bowl and the film
Speaker 2: and all this stuff. But it is an opportunity, just
Speaker 2: like the teams that are in Mobile this week, to
Speaker 2: get to know these guys at a different level. So
Speaker 2: I always appreciate getting to talk to them and kind
Speaker 2: of hear their side of the story.
Speaker 6: I like both of the backs. Both were fun. I
Speaker 6: have both the old miss guys too, But I mean,
Speaker 6: this is this running back class. I know we've talked
Speaker 6: about it at nauseum, where you are going to continue
Speaker 6: to talk about it ad nauseum. It's a good year
Speaker 6: to need a running back. I'll say that. And I
Speaker 6: was actually obviously here in Mobile at Senior Bowl. There's
Speaker 6: a lot that, you know, a lot of conversations you
Speaker 6: find yourself in at night, and there's a lot of
Speaker 6: conversations about Rico Daddle's free agent market and what exactly
Speaker 6: that will look like. Does it get to a point
Speaker 6: to where, since this free agent class is not as
Speaker 6: strong at the running back position, even not even just
Speaker 6: last year, because last year was super special, but even
Speaker 6: going back for probably like the past half decade, there's
Speaker 6: not a lot of guys that are hitting free agency
Speaker 6: right now. So does Rico Daddle have an inflated market
Speaker 6: as a result of that, and does he kind of
Speaker 6: out out, you know, shoot his coverage as far as
Speaker 6: the Cowboys trying to get him back on the payroll.
Speaker 6: So if that's the case, then you can make the
Speaker 6: case for double divving at the running back position in
Speaker 6: this draft. You know, go get one in the first
Speaker 6: two three rounds and then get another one on Day three,
Speaker 6: or get a really talented undrafted guy. There are going
Speaker 6: to be a very talented undrafted guys at the running
Speaker 6: back position in this class. So you know, talking to
Speaker 6: two of these guys today, two guys that have a
Speaker 6: ton of production.
Speaker 22: R J.
Speaker 6: Harvey the only one of those two that had any
Speaker 6: sort of injury in his in his career, but he's
Speaker 6: bounced back in a severe way since then. It's gonna
Speaker 6: be fun tracking this running back position. It was good
Speaker 6: to speak to both of those guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was, and I really liked to I love
Speaker 7: Walter Nolan. I think I stood on the table for
Speaker 7: him a little while ago on the Draft show, and
Speaker 7: talking to him today made me feel a lot better
Speaker 7: about it too. I love the competitive fire that he's
Speaker 7: got and he's played like what I impressed what impressed
Speaker 7: me the most was how Nick you brought it up.
Speaker 7: He was the number one player in his high school class.
Speaker 7: When he entered the transfer portal, he was the number
Speaker 7: one player in the transfer portal. He talked about how
Speaker 7: he's kind of had that X on his back his
Speaker 7: entire career, and he's been double team, triple team. I
Speaker 7: asked him when he came up to us before we started,
Speaker 7: I was like, how tired are you are?
Speaker 3: Double teams?
Speaker 7: He's just like man, And you see him, he's like, man,
Speaker 7: you know we we thought we would have had more
Speaker 7: one on ones, and I faced more doubles yesterday than anything.
Speaker 7: So he's a guy who draws the attention and with
Speaker 7: that it opens things up. So when you look at
Speaker 7: how he could fit in Dallas, Man, if you've got
Speaker 7: a double Walter Nolan, then if you bring Olso Dicky
Speaker 7: Zua back, that's one less guy he's got to worry about.
Speaker 7: It's one less guy that Michael Parsons has to worry
Speaker 7: about on the outside. So when you combine those guys together,
Speaker 7: I mean, it's gonna be hard for opposing defenses. And
Speaker 7: Walter talked about it at the end of our interview.
Speaker 7: He was like, that could be pretty special.
Speaker 6: I'm with you, Tommy. I think he's gonna be a
Speaker 6: really good pro. It's not only the size, but we're
Speaker 6: gonna we'll dive into practice notes from yesterday, but yesterday,
Speaker 6: the speed to power stuff is so impressive. Yeah, And
Speaker 6: it's a short area of quickness, like he'll give a
Speaker 6: little bit of room, he'll give up a little bit
Speaker 6: of room on the line of scrimmage to his opposition,
Speaker 6: but he turns that into that short area of quickness
Speaker 6: and he just leverages it into that upper body power
Speaker 6: and it's so impressive. And you saw him use that
Speaker 6: to get around and through guys yesterday. You see him
Speaker 6: do it at Texas A and m All miss in
Speaker 6: high school back in Tennessee. He's a really impressive player.
Speaker 6: I think he's gonna be a great pro.
Speaker 2: Not comparing them as players, even though they do play
Speaker 2: on the defensive line. But the first thing when he
Speaker 2: started speaking on the headset today, it threw me back
Speaker 2: to when we were talking to Micah Parsons during the
Speaker 2: draft process. Same kind of cadence and same kind of
Speaker 2: competitive nature and the way that he was looking ahead
Speaker 2: and looking at his film and the guys around him
Speaker 2: in the confidence level too.
Speaker 3: I mean, he just exudes confidence.
Speaker 2: And that's what it threw me back to whenever we
Speaker 2: would sit down for these thirty visits and have an
Speaker 2: interview with these prospects.
Speaker 3: Micah was one of those guys.
Speaker 2: Wasn't the best on a headset, but you could tell
Speaker 2: that there was just something there. Same kind of thing
Speaker 2: with Walter Nolan that that we talked about a little
Speaker 2: bit earlier, and he had that competitive edge. Like you said,
Speaker 2: let's dive into practice. National team was up first on
Speaker 2: the week. They started yesterday Hancock Whitney Stadium on the
Speaker 2: campus of South Alabama. Some of your initial thoughts, I'll
Speaker 2: start with you, Tommy, on what you saw in that
Speaker 2: first practice and who stood out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my favorite player yesterday was Oregon linebacker Jeffrey Bassa.
Speaker 7: I thought he was pretty phenomenal just athletically. He was
Speaker 7: the fastest guy there yesterday from the linebackers and tight
Speaker 7: ends group. He ran over twenty miles an hour and
Speaker 7: that closing speed to me and the one on ones
Speaker 7: the rep that I saw I put it on Twitter.
Speaker 7: He went up against Donovan Edwards, and Donovan Edwards known
Speaker 7: for his speed at every level, one of the faster
Speaker 7: running backs in this class, and he tracked him down
Speaker 7: down the sideline and Brooklyn pass. It wasn't there's a
Speaker 7: late throw. Edward still beat him. But the fact that
Speaker 7: he was able to make up three or four ground
Speaker 7: three or four yards of ground to be able to
Speaker 7: be in the vicinity to make that play was impressive
Speaker 7: to me. And then you watched him in the eleven
Speaker 7: on eleven period. I thought he filled his gaps well,
Speaker 7: played good against the run, and they sent him out.
Speaker 7: He looked like a corner in some of these reps
Speaker 7: when he's going out and covering these tight ends and
Speaker 7: these running backs in that full team practice period. So
Speaker 7: listed at six one and twenty six pounds seventy eight
Speaker 7: inch wingspan, I thought he was fantastic. And then flipping
Speaker 7: it out of the offensive side. Ariante Orsire one of
Speaker 7: the guys we talked about extensively on the Draft show
Speaker 7: already from Minnesota, the offensive tackle. I know, Walchuk and
Speaker 7: Broadest we're talking about, how you know, maybe those feed
Speaker 7: are a little bit slow, and I don't think that
Speaker 7: that concern is nullified completely. I think that's a very
Speaker 7: valid concern. You've got to keep an eye on that.
Speaker 7: But his just pure strength yesterday, and that's what we
Speaker 7: talked about on the Draft show too, how he's just
Speaker 7: able to keep guys in front of him, extend those
Speaker 7: arms and keep him out of the backfield. I thought
Speaker 7: he was phenomenal. And we talked to him a little
Speaker 7: bit too after practice and he and he was great
Speaker 7: just as a just as a person and a great character.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you asked him how to say his name, how.
Speaker 7: To pronounce the name. He was like, it is like Ariante,
Speaker 7: like the air we bre it. He had the hand
Speaker 7: motion too. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: He was great.
Speaker 4: He was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Good dude.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so you just just overpowered guys is what
Speaker 7: stood out to me for Mercenary. One of the better
Speaker 7: tackles we saw in one on one. So again, not
Speaker 7: to say that the slow feet aren't a concern. I
Speaker 7: think brought us in. Wolf Chick have a point there,
Speaker 7: but the power stood out to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think for me yesterday, I'll back up what
Speaker 6: you had on bossa man. He looks like a million bucks.
Speaker 6: Talk about his physical stature. If you're talking about an
Speaker 6: all lobby team, you know you see the guys walk
Speaker 6: through the lobby, Who's the most impressive. I think Bossa
Speaker 6: had probably the most impressive build of anyone I saw,
Speaker 6: just for what he is pound for pound. My overall
Speaker 6: MVP yesterday on Day one. Another Oregon Duck was Josh Connery,
Speaker 6: the offensive tackle for the Ducks. He I think coming
Speaker 6: into this process you probably would have seen him go
Speaker 6: late first round, made the early second round dog. I'm
Speaker 6: starting to start the OT one agenda. This is he
Speaker 6: had an incredible day yesterday. I've had I've had experience
Speaker 6: evaluating Connory going back to his high school days at
Speaker 6: Seattle O Day, and I think what he does best
Speaker 6: is the upper the upper body power and strength, and
Speaker 6: he's marrying that so well now here later in his
Speaker 6: career with his movement at the tackle position. He didn't
Speaker 6: have one loss yesterday and one on ones and whenever
Speaker 6: they put the guys in the middle of the field
Speaker 6: that have been dominating for most of the day at
Speaker 6: the end of practice, he continued to do that.
Speaker 2: U C.
Speaker 6: L A Edge Olowa femi Oha Dajo he probably had
Speaker 6: the better day of the edges for the national team
Speaker 6: yesterday and he went up against Connory and Connory just
Speaker 6: stonewalled him. What the notes that I had yesterday? Dominated
Speaker 6: one on one reps against both speed and power guys.
Speaker 6: He was getting sought out by guys on a hot
Speaker 6: streak and he stopped them in their track. Super impressive day.
Speaker 6: And I'm cooking up the OT one agenda for for
Speaker 6: Josh Connery. But looking at some other guys.
Speaker 2: Is that OT one of gen Day's That's something that
Speaker 2: is possible in a draft like this because I think
Speaker 2: so We had already talked about the offensive tackles on
Speaker 2: this show previously, and the general consensus is that there's
Speaker 2: not a far and away number one. I know, Kelvin
Speaker 2: Banks is probably the favorite in that clubhouse from Texas
Speaker 2: to maybe be that first offensive tackle taken, maybe Will
Speaker 2: Campbell from LSU. But it's not like it's a foregone
Speaker 2: conclusion that those guys are the top of the top.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's not a foregone conclusion that those guys
Speaker 6: are tackles too. I think I think there's a conversation
Speaker 6: to be had there. I think Connorly went from that
Speaker 6: late first round, early second round to a cemented top fifteen,
Speaker 6: top eighteen pick yesterday day. I think so and we
Speaker 6: saw a similar type of rise for Quanyon Mitchell last year,
Speaker 6: which was a guy that I think on the defensive
Speaker 6: side of all that had a very similar day to
Speaker 6: Quanyon yesterday. We'll get that here in a bit, but
Speaker 6: we saw that with Kuanyon Mitchell last year where it
Speaker 6: was like, Okay, this guy comes from a small school,
Speaker 6: we're taking early second round. And then he dominated both
Speaker 6: days and it was really actually the second day for
Speaker 6: Quanyon that really kind of stamped it for him. He
Speaker 6: would be one of the first defensive backs taken, and
Speaker 6: he ended up being the first defensive back taken. So
Speaker 6: I think Josh Connelly had a very similar day. I mean,
Speaker 6: he looks great. I don't think he has any bad weight.
Speaker 6: He has great movement, he has great power, he's a
Speaker 6: great punch. This is a really talented player, comes from
Speaker 6: a talented pedigree from where he came from in Seattle.
Speaker 6: This is a dude. You would want to buy stock
Speaker 6: on it. The stock might already be high, but I
Speaker 6: say continue to buy stock. Looking at some other guys
Speaker 6: really quick, Mike Green, I think he does indeed have
Speaker 6: those length limitations. Whenever you see that on the field,
Speaker 6: it certainly does show up, but his explosiveness is craftiness
Speaker 6: switch it really makes up for it. We talked to
Speaker 6: him yesterday in the Draft show too. Yeah, absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 6: Ben Elijah Royo the Miami tight end. He's a Frisco native, and.
Speaker 3: I'll talk about absolutely.
Speaker 2: He met my MVP yesterday and what he brought to
Speaker 2: the table from a receiving element was a little bit
Speaker 2: of a surprise for me. I knew he was a
Speaker 2: great blocker. That was what I kind of went into
Speaker 2: it knowing. Of course, he's a Frisco product to call
Speaker 2: his games in high school with Frisco independence, and he
Speaker 2: was a great receiver.
Speaker 1: In high school.
Speaker 2: Had some trouble putting production up early in Miami, but
Speaker 2: got better as his career went along. Yesterday he was
Speaker 2: torching people. Yeah, he was absolutely torching linebackers. They switched
Speaker 2: to nickel on him a couple times, didn't matter. He
Speaker 2: was still able to find separation. There was one play
Speaker 2: in team drills. After just dominating the one on one session,
Speaker 2: there was one playing team drills.
Speaker 3: He leaked out as like a late release.
Speaker 2: He kind of worked up the sideline on an out
Speaker 2: and up and then as he did so, he had
Speaker 2: maybe five yards of separation. Dylan Gabriel, quarterback for the
Speaker 2: national team, hesitated, kind of kept it in the pocket,
Speaker 2: was staring him down the whole time. If he put
Speaker 2: that ball on the money and timed it up perfectly,
Speaker 2: it would have been.
Speaker 3: Six all day every day. And it was from about the.
Speaker 2: Forty five yard line in so Arroyo had the best
Speaker 2: day out of any pass catcher that I saw in
Speaker 2: both practices.
Speaker 3: From my opinion.
Speaker 2: And it was a tight end and I think that
Speaker 2: goes a long way, especially when you pair it with
Speaker 2: what he can do as a blocker, and his sizes
Speaker 2: is soliditudes, got some great length, got some good good
Speaker 2: arm strength as well. I like what Elijah Royo did
Speaker 2: yesterday from the tight end position.
Speaker 3: Not that I know.
Speaker 2: We've talked about are the Cowboys interested in a tight end?
Speaker 3: Are they not?
Speaker 2: We'll decide that really moving forward. He was really impressive
Speaker 2: on day one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think another pass catcher that really shined yesterday, another
Speaker 6: Oregon Duck. We're just gonna continue to talking about him, TEDS. Johnson. Yeah,
Speaker 6: out of the slot man. You talk about his shiftness,
Speaker 6: his ability to create separation, it was certainly there. I'm
Speaker 6: just gonna run through some quick notes really quick. Donovan
Speaker 6: Zi Ruaku the Boston College Edge really loved his LinkedIn size.
Speaker 6: I kind of had some questions coming into mobile about
Speaker 6: his siyes. I think I talked about it on the
Speaker 6: show a little bit yesterday. He's plenty long, He's just fine.
Speaker 6: He's physical and explosive in his pass rush. He's a
Speaker 6: depth at seeking out the off script stunts, like when
Speaker 6: he misses on his first guy, and he will find
Speaker 6: a way to kind of get that off script stunt
Speaker 6: going a nice peoples. I know this is one that
Speaker 6: Tommy shouted out on Twitter yesterday. Had a great day
Speaker 6: in the run game from the three tech spot. I think,
Speaker 6: you know, I think he specializes in the pass rush,
Speaker 6: but seeing him take that step in the run game
Speaker 6: was really awesome. Yesterday I talked about oh the day
Speaker 6: ho the UCLA edge man, he flashed multiple times, talk
Speaker 6: about speed, talk about length. He's got both of those things.
Speaker 6: I think for him, it was really impressive. And then
Speaker 6: the later afternoon practice for the American team, my MVP
Speaker 6: was corner Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Harriston. Nothing out in the
Speaker 6: way of him. He matched up against speed and physical receivers.
Speaker 6: He dominated both quick out of his breaks, patient but decisive.
Speaker 6: Really love his hands of the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 6: think he could play both press and zone schemes. I
Speaker 6: think he's going to be a guy that can be
Speaker 6: versatile at the next level. I like him as an
Speaker 6: outside corner, but I think you have versatility with a
Speaker 6: guy like Harriston talked to his trainer that's been working
Speaker 6: with him during the draft process after practice and what's
Speaker 6: been going in to his evaluation process and his draft
Speaker 6: process here early on. There's some really big excitement about him.
Speaker 6: It actually reminds me of another Kentucky corner last year,
Speaker 6: and Andrew Phillips. Whenever he was like, you know about
Speaker 6: a third fourth round mentioned around this time, and then
Speaker 6: eventually found himself to be a number thirty nine overall pick.
Speaker 6: I mean this is a special, special corner. I think
Speaker 6: T J. Sanders out of South Carolina as advertized, I mean,
Speaker 6: you talk about marrying power with Finesse out of the interior.
Speaker 2: Him and Walter on the offense or the defensive line together,
Speaker 2: it was awesome.
Speaker 6: We need to have a conversation about dian Walker. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I think you know, you see the size, that's
Speaker 6: what is six seven, three fifty one and he's certainly
Speaker 6: got it. I mean this, I can I can verify,
Speaker 6: sources can verify this. Dude is very in fact, very large.
Speaker 6: He needs to get lower at the point of attack.
Speaker 6: And I think, I think if if he's able to
Speaker 6: do that, he's going to be impossible to defend. And
Speaker 6: I don't I don't think it's something that's unteachable at
Speaker 6: the next level. And I've seen a lot of criticism
Speaker 6: around Dion Walker for his pad level coming into the process,
Speaker 6: and yesterday was a really bad day for him in
Speaker 6: that category. Uh, he went up against the North Carolina Center. Gosh,
Speaker 6: I'm blanket Willie Lampkin five eleven then two seventy, so
Speaker 6: definitely a size difference, and he was stonewalling him. He
Speaker 6: was keeping Dion Walker in his place. There's no reason
Speaker 6: a guy eighty pounds lighter and almost eight inches shorter
Speaker 6: than him should be able to have that kind of
Speaker 6: strength advantage against him. And that's why if Dion Walker
Speaker 6: can figure out how to get off the line of
Speaker 6: scrimmage and get a lower up into his guys rather
Speaker 6: than kind of towering down, then I think he's going
Speaker 6: to be a really talented pro. If I were a team,
Speaker 6: I would take the chance on him, and I would
Speaker 6: take the chance on my coaching staff to be able
Speaker 6: to teach him to do that. You know, like, how
Speaker 6: confident are you in you or into your defensive line
Speaker 6: coaching to be able to say, Okay, can we teach
Speaker 6: this guy to do that? No, okay, we're not gonna
Speaker 6: draft him. Yes, let's do it. I'll take that risk.
Speaker 6: In the seconds.
Speaker 2: That's all the puzzle pieces, but they're all spread out
Speaker 2: on the table.
Speaker 3: Absolutely got to have somebody, the right person to come
Speaker 3: in and put it all together.
Speaker 6: I don't think this team has the luxury to do that.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about Cowboys. I don't think they have a
Speaker 6: luxury to do that right now. But if they did
Speaker 6: select him and maybe the third round, you wouldn't get
Speaker 6: a complain for me, kif no.
Speaker 7: I completely agree. I mean, I mean, I like TJ.
Speaker 7: Sanders more than Walker coming into this weekend. I'm in
Speaker 7: This is a guy that I know I talked about
Speaker 7: a little bit on the Draft show too. Just so
Speaker 7: smart and strong, you know, such a good job of
Speaker 7: diagnosing what the play is going to be really identifying
Speaker 7: where the ball carriers are getting into pursuit in the
Speaker 7: run game. At times that kind of bites him in
Speaker 7: the back, he gets taken out of the play. But
Speaker 7: yesterday it didn't I mean, and maybe that has to
Speaker 7: do partly with pleavn Walter Nolan. Next one, we mentioned
Speaker 7: the double and triple teams, but even regardless, I mean,
Speaker 7: in one on ones, you did a good job of
Speaker 7: shitting blocks getting into the backfield. Just so much power,
Speaker 7: so much quickness to explode into the backfield. And he
Speaker 7: weighed in and measured in pretty well. H So we'll
Speaker 7: move to the American team now that more national team notes. Okay,
Speaker 7: uh second American.
Speaker 3: Was the one that wanted us to go in chronological.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he did well. We're going off script.
Speaker 8: That's fine.
Speaker 7: Sticking on the defensive line. Two edge guys that stood
Speaker 7: out to me yesterday and we wrote about that. We're
Speaker 7: we're gonna put a pie us up on this on
Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys dot com. We look at the notebook from
Speaker 7: yesterday Long Star showdown guys in Texas A and M
Speaker 7: Shamar Stewart and Texas's Baron Surrell. I'll start with Stewart
Speaker 7: He had the longest wingspan out of any edge rusher
Speaker 7: here in Mobile and the second was your guy from
Speaker 7: Boston College. So you talked about his length and that
Speaker 7: and what you're able to do. Stuart's one of those
Speaker 7: guys that at Texas A and M, I felt like
Speaker 7: the production wasn't necessarily there and you didn't get to
Speaker 7: see what he was at his best. Now, whether that's
Speaker 7: a Texas A and M issue or whether that's a
Speaker 7: Shamar Stewart issue, we'll see. But he had the rep
Speaker 7: of the day yesterday and he went up against a
Speaker 7: tackle from Forgive me for trying to figure out this
Speaker 7: Kansas Logan Brown, the tackle from Kansas, sixty six three
Speaker 7: hundred and twelve pound tackle from Kansas, and Shamar Stewart
Speaker 7: coming in at six five eighty one pounds. He just
Speaker 7: bull rushed him and picked him off the ground with
Speaker 7: his left hand I think it was, and just threw
Speaker 7: him back and just like kind of stood over him.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh boy, both oohs, and As was
Speaker 2: probably the quietest out of any and we were on
Speaker 2: the scouting side, so right that tells you something.
Speaker 3: Everybody on the scouting side was like, oh my gosh, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: He was just so powerful, so quick and just quick
Speaker 7: to get up there and get that bull rush started,
Speaker 7: and Brown didn't stand a chance, and so that that
Speaker 7: really impressed me. And then Baron Sorell from Texas. This
Speaker 7: is a guy that I watched for three years when
Speaker 7: I covered Texas, and I wasn't really wild at any point. Like, sure,
Speaker 7: he made his plays, but it wasn't a guy that
Speaker 7: I thought at the NFL level would necessarily be an
Speaker 7: attractive prospect. I thought he was better against the run
Speaker 7: in college and setting the edge for Texas, but he
Speaker 7: did really good in one on ones yesterday. I was
Speaker 7: very impressed and still showed a good job setting the edge.
Speaker 7: I think the play that I posted on Twitter, he
Speaker 7: gets past his guy and immediately just sticks his hand
Speaker 7: out to set the edge and make sure that he's
Speaker 7: in the right spot. So in one on one drills
Speaker 7: he impressed me too, So that both the edges from
Speaker 7: the state of Texas I thought, I thought did a
Speaker 7: pretty good job.
Speaker 2: That's a credit to Jim Nady and what he builds
Speaker 2: in terms of the staff here. Absolutely to scout these guys, because,
Speaker 2: like you said, the production may not have been there
Speaker 2: during his time in Texas.
Speaker 3: But the strength and the quickness that we saw off.
Speaker 2: The edge yesterday shows okay, he should be here because
Speaker 2: he stood out on day one as one of.
Speaker 3: The guys to really look forward to.
Speaker 2: Now, Nick, you kind of teased it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Quin Yon Mitchell had the meteoric rise. I guess, yep
Speaker 2: in last year's Senior Bowl week you had a similar prospect.
Speaker 3: Can I take a guess as to who it is
Speaker 3: or do you think I would get it?
Speaker 6: I said who it was already?
Speaker 4: You did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Connor, Oh, I was gonna say Upton stop from Western, No.
Speaker 6: So I would maybe maybe you misheard me, my bad.
Speaker 6: It was more so like Quinnon Mitchell whenever he came
Speaker 6: here last year, he already had high expectations, but like
Speaker 6: he's cemented them. That's what I'm meaning about, Josh No.
Speaker 6: But I see what you're saying about Upton Stout, Please
Speaker 6: please Upton Spout Stout.
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was a rough day for the secondary.
Speaker 2: I thought across the board, outside of guys like Harston,
Speaker 2: and outside of guys like Upton Stout, who I thought
Speaker 2: had a great day yesterday, A couple of past breakups
Speaker 2: he was sticky in coverage. He was able to run
Speaker 2: the route almost for a couple of guys. Uh in
Speaker 2: that that one on one period, which.
Speaker 3: Is so tough on corners, especially at the collegiate level.
Speaker 3: You don't do that a whole lot in college practices.
Speaker 2: If anything, it's the high school showcase, and then you
Speaker 2: do it at the college showcase like we have this week,
Speaker 2: and then you barely get to do it in training
Speaker 2: camp as well throughout the NFL tenure. But that's a
Speaker 2: competition level too. He comes in here and he he
Speaker 2: had plenty of pass breakups along the way. I think
Speaker 2: he had to yesterday that I counted during the team period,
Speaker 2: and he had a couple of others where he just
Speaker 2: at least altered the pass or had a quarterback go
Speaker 2: away from it through the progression.
Speaker 3: Really good solid fluidity. I like the way his hips turn.
Speaker 2: He stays square to the ball, he stays square to
Speaker 2: the receiver and able to make some plays in that case.
Speaker 2: What did you see from Stout yesterday that impressed you
Speaker 2: out of Western Kentucky, by the way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this is if you're talking about versatility
Speaker 6: pieces in the secondary and inside out, well we'll figure
Speaker 6: out what the Matt ever Flews defensive scheme exactly. You
Speaker 6: know prioritizes when it comes to defensive personnel. But if
Speaker 6: we look back to you know this, what this team
Speaker 6: has been over the course of the last five years,
Speaker 6: it's finding those versatile pieces. We talked about it yesterday
Speaker 6: on the show, and I think if if up In
Speaker 6: stouts a guy that's there for you on day three,
Speaker 6: I think he should be a Day two type guy.
Speaker 6: I will put probably a fourth round, third or fourth
Speaker 6: round great on him, just kind of to kind of
Speaker 6: where it had him as a fourth He's he's a
Speaker 6: guy that can play corner, he can play nickel, he
Speaker 6: can play safety. He's got experience at all three spots,
Speaker 6: and he has played big competition. Western Kentucky does load
Speaker 6: up in the non con and he has. They played
Speaker 6: Alabama in Tuscaloosa this past.
Speaker 2: Covered so Williams, who of course was the fab freshman
Speaker 2: for Alabama who had a great year. He covered Williams
Speaker 2: in that game multiple times.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Houston North Shore Products and started his career at North
Speaker 6: Texas goming green right here right here, but it's going
Speaker 6: to Western Kentucky. He really shined and he had an
Speaker 6: opportunity to hit the transfer portal this time last year
Speaker 6: and had some big time offers. I know those two
Speaker 6: big ten schools off off the top of my head
Speaker 6: that we're trying to get his services. He decided to
Speaker 6: stay home with the Hilltoppers and had a good year
Speaker 6: and now it's going to turn into a really good
Speaker 6: draft process for him. But if he can stack another
Speaker 6: day here, it's going to be big time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did not want to put the first round grade
Speaker 2: on it, like a Quinnon Mitchell last year because that's
Speaker 2: not where he's at. He's more so just a rise
Speaker 2: in the mid rounds. Yeah, But I was thinking you
Speaker 2: were talking small school corners.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's where I was at.
Speaker 3: So I was waiting.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to bring it up, and
Speaker 2: you ended up doing it with Harston from Kentucky. So
Speaker 2: that makes a lot of sense in its own right.
Speaker 2: But lots more to come throughout the week. We've got
Speaker 2: more practice today, We're going to head over to the
Speaker 2: to Hancock Whitney Stadium very shortly watch both the national
Speaker 2: team and the American team get after it again.
Speaker 3: And then we've got more coverage.
Speaker 2: Coming to you on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, Nick Harris
Speaker 2: with the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Be sure to follow
Speaker 2: Tommy Yarish as well, Rising Star right two coins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if we're talking about evaluating, we got a first
Speaker 6: round pick right here.
Speaker 2: Tommy Underscore, Yarish on Twitter, first year the senior Bolly's
Speaker 2: already doing a great job. And of course we had
Speaker 2: Will McClay yesterday talking to the media up there in Mobile.
Speaker 2: We expect to have somebody else from the front office today.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say who because we don't know
Speaker 2: who yet, but we expect to have somebody else speaking
Speaker 2: to the media today. Lots more to come from Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 2: Want to thank Scott Purcell, Chris Beam forgetting us on
Speaker 2: the air, for Tommy Yarish, Nick Harris, and our entire
Speaker 2: group of guests that we had today, Walter Nolan from
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, Jared from Ole Miss as well, RJ. Harvey
Speaker 2: from UCF and Devin Neil from Kansas.
Speaker 3: Want to sign off. I'm Kyle Yeomans.
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