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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: SNR Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Ally,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson, and well this is the Drive

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt you reference to Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah's top fifty list. He put out a new one

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com, So I thought we'd go over

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Speaker 1: that one. The nice thing to remember about this for

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Speaker 1: Steeler fans is that you're gonna have a chance to

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Speaker 1: draft three of these guys. Yeah right, go away looking

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Speaker 1: at it, you know. So we never fifty's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the same, but three of these guys will be at

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Speaker 1: your disposal if you so choose. Yes. So one, he

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Speaker 1: has Bryce Young, okay. At two he has will Anderson.

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Speaker 1: So Parabama guys at the top of the board, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it. At three is Bijean Robinson and Bama

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Speaker 1: had a down year this year. They were yea, Bama

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Speaker 1: had a couple of losses this year. And still at four,

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Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson Okay. At five, Jalen Carter. So back to

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Speaker 1: our conversation from last segment. If you're gonna put Carter

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Speaker 1: at five or six like Miller and DJ did, what's

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Speaker 1: to stop him from being one? And if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: put Bijeon at three, what's to stop him from being one? Right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I hear you. That's what they're asked to do in

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Speaker 1: the strata without a diet. At six, he has Devin Witherspoon, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I like him a lot. At seventy s c. J. Stroud.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough. I mean it's not a terrible ranking, you know.

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Speaker 1: R Eight is Pete Peter Sconski. Yes, but not for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers to me anymore. Right. At nine is Dalton Kincaid.

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Speaker 1: That's up two spots, by the way. Oh okay, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know he put this list out today last

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Speaker 1: segment when I said this, But yeah, I knew he

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Speaker 1: high I'm Kincaid. At ten is Anthony Richardson. I think

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Speaker 1: i'd have him higher. I see. I think maybe he's

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Speaker 1: put it ranking these guys where they can't fall out

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Speaker 1: of the spots, that they can't fall below. Well, I know,

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Speaker 1: not the kind of how I'm viewing this. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know DJ claims and anyone's built a list, realize

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Speaker 1: there's outside influences. I mean, you can't pretend like you

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Speaker 1: live under a rock and don't know anything. But he

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Speaker 1: supposedly does these lists with his eyes, mock drafts with

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Speaker 1: his ears. Okay, you know, so he thinks Richardson's the

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Speaker 1: tenth best player in this draft. At eleven is Christian Gonzealus.

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Speaker 1: That's up two spots. Okay. Not the most physical guy

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Speaker 1: me in terms of things, but boy, he like this

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Speaker 1: of reminds me of Rod Woodson and just the way

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Speaker 1: but the way he moves and runs kind of like

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Speaker 1: At twelve, vas will love us, not for me. At thirteen,

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Speaker 1: he has Jordan Addison. That's down four spots. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think Addison's more like twenty five on my list

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Speaker 1: if I would do it, you know, like, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: exercise we need to do sooner than later. Is our

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Speaker 1: top seventeen. Yeah, I don't think Addison will be in

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Speaker 1: that as we get closer to the draft. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: something we'll do week of the draft. Yeah. Yeah, at fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Lucas van Ness, I get it. I mean I see

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Speaker 1: his hieros took him in seventeen though. Yeah, at fifteen,

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Speaker 1: fifteenth best player in this draft for a generic team.

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Speaker 1: You know, this isn't for the Chargers or the Bears

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Speaker 1: fifteenth best player. But if he's unwilling or unable to

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Speaker 1: he's probably hit it both. See here's here's the thing

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Speaker 1: Smith is an undersized edge rusher with elite change of

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Speaker 1: to defeat blocks against a run. He's at his best

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Speaker 1: His lack of ball shows up at times. He'll get

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Speaker 1: missed a big chunk of blah blah blah. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: if he's a guy who can slip blocks and penetrate,

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Speaker 1: It's a different way of seeing the game game though, too.

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Speaker 1: Smith at seventeen? Probably? Yeah, I mean it's a tie

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Speaker 1: At twenty two up two spots is Za Flowers seems

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Speaker 1: At twenty six down a spot, Will McDonald, I moved

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Speaker 1: him up my edge racks. I like him more and more.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not as massive as Wilson and Murphy

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Speaker 1: he'll go top forty at twenty nine up a spot.

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Speaker 1: Jamir Gibbs amost brought him up when we did the

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Speaker 1: Matt Miller twenty first round picks. I mean, these is

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Speaker 1: More often than not, Gibbs would be the running back one,

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Speaker 1: he's just never been the Bell cow right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: which is trouble at little worrisome? Yeah, I mean we

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Speaker 1: with Gibbs is Zalvin Kamara. I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 1: thirty one is Brian Branch. Thank for this argument, he'd

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Speaker 1: four point zero. I would assume he'll do one more

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