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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt. It is mock draft season and we

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Speaker 1: haven't done one yet this week, so this is a

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Speaker 1: good time to do one. Yeah, absolutely combined right around

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Speaker 1: the corner binds just a short time away, so we'll

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Speaker 1: give it a shot. Here. We're using the Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus mock draft simulator. I'm gonna start the draft here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there are trades you are capable of trading in this one.

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Speaker 1: We'd even trade up at all on this one. But

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Speaker 1: we do have six trade offer six trade offers. Wow,

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Speaker 1: how about that? So we're the first nine team picks

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Speaker 1: have happened? Then, right, the first nine team picks up.

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Speaker 1: You want to run through those real quickly or just

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Speaker 1: tell me who's lefter? Yeah, we could run through. They

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Speaker 1: had Aidan Hutchinson going number one to the Jaguars, Evan

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Speaker 1: Neil's to Cavon Thibodeaux three, Derek Stingley for Kyle Hamilton's five,

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Speaker 1: Charles Cross six, George carl Loft to seven the Kobe

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Speaker 1: Dean eight, I can Akeawana nine, M Garner ten, Matt

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Speaker 1: Corral eleven, Garrett Wilson twelve, David and Joebo thirteen, Trent

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Speaker 1: McDuffie fourteen, Chris A. Lava fifteen, Andrew Booth sixteen, Tyler

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Speaker 1: Linderbaum seventeen, Sam how eighteen, Wow Kenyan Green nineteen to

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. We are on the boards. That means we

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Speaker 1: have our choice of Kenny Pickett or Malik Willis if

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Speaker 1: we want that. You want to go that route. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got six trade offers. If this were the way

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Speaker 1: things went, we could probably move back. Yea, at least

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Speaker 1: a little bit. At least would listen, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: with two quarterbacks on the board, sounds like Penning and

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Speaker 1: Raymond are out there. Um, we didn't get hit real

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Speaker 1: hard with the name that went Jordan Davis Stiller. The

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers want to move up from twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: They're probably looking to move up to get a quarterback. Probably.

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Speaker 1: The other teams on the line are the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: at thirty two, the Houston Texas at thirty five, the

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Speaker 1: Falcons at forty, Washington at forty three, in New Orleans

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Speaker 1: at fifty. What's Tampa? Does this software have the offer?

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Speaker 1: Or they just say and they're interested, they just say, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're on the phone. What would you want for that pick?

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Speaker 1: So they have twenty seven, fifty one, nine to fifty three,

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Speaker 1: and of course all their picks next year? Does the

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Speaker 1: bucks one and two get it done for you? So? Well? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fifth what we would get twenty seven and fifty nine

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Speaker 1: for twenty consider it? I would too, given what we

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Speaker 1: just went through. Um, two guards, two tackles, two quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, it depending on all the d linemen,

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Speaker 1: all the tax. So much depends on what we do

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Speaker 1: in free agency, of course. I mean again, these are

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Speaker 1: kind of it was Marcus Riot on the team. Right,

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Speaker 1: let's see if they let's yeah, let's see if they'll

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Speaker 1: get If they give us twenty seven, we go for that,

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Speaker 1: or we need a kicker, we need something else. I

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Speaker 1: tend to think that we're letting him off the hook

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Speaker 1: a little light, you know, considering you're moving up seven

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Speaker 1: spots in the first round. Right, I know it's different going,

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Speaker 1: but I mean I wouldn't mind. You know, they got

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Speaker 1: pick one sight there, it's a that would be like

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Speaker 1: their fifth round pick. We don't have one. Okay, that

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Speaker 1: throwing our seventh so we don't have to make the

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Speaker 1: seventh round. Yeah, that that's interest. So if we get

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Speaker 1: one from them and we throw in two thirty seven

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Speaker 1: for us, so we give up twenty and two thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see if I gets it done. They

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Speaker 1: did not want that. We have another seventh round pick.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if they want that one? All right, sweet

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Speaker 1: and the off for a little bit. They didn't want that.

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Speaker 1: What about our what about our six from Kansas City? No,

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Speaker 1: they didn't want that. What if we just do their

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Speaker 1: one and two? Yeah, they didn't want both sevens round

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Speaker 1: take that off the world. What if we go for

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Speaker 1: a pick next year? I know you'd like to do that, Matt, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: throwing a fifth next year? How about their fifth next year?

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't do that, guys, you wouldn't have that. Even

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Speaker 1: do one and two. It's not allowing me to take

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, it's not allowing me to make any kind

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Speaker 1: of trade right now. Okay, maybe we just gotta draft

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Speaker 1: a player. I think I'm very fine taking Willis to

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Speaker 1: They have him as a number twenty two ranked player

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Speaker 1: on the on their board, so yes, I mean they've

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Speaker 1: they've moved they've moved him up. But he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be for everybody. No, he's talking to be for everyone.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little shocked that they must have how ahead

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Speaker 1: So we took it. Okay, so we got that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if fifty two were back up again, some of the

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Speaker 1: players that were right ahead of us, uh my my,

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Speaker 1: Ji Sanders went to the Chargers. Logan Hall to the

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Speaker 1: out of Houston went to the Saints, and Darien Kendrick,

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Speaker 1: a cornerback at Georgia, went to the Eagles. Were in

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Speaker 1: the clock here. Top players available for US Jalen Petree, Oh,

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Speaker 1: addition to the defense. Yeah, sky I'm more. I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: a sky More fan. Yeah, Brian a Slma Rossamoa. I

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Speaker 1: should say. Oh the linebacker from Oklahoma. Yeah. Uh Leosh

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Speaker 1: name that has not been talked about a lot, but

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Speaker 1: was told he is going to go crazy at the Combine. Awesome. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Later though he's a later smaller, Yeah, Leo Chanel from Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: The linebacker Travis Jones, the defensive tackle from Connecticut still available.

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Speaker 1: at A South Alabama. Another big, fast wide receiverield good

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl week. We also have a couple of trade

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Speaker 1: offers here. You didn't mention the offensive lineman. I can

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Speaker 1: available on the offensive line. Let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: tackles first, and Abraham Lucas available. Um Max Mitchell out

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Speaker 1: him ranked eight d third, which to me is more

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Speaker 1: where he should be at real neighbor. Yeah, Luke get

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Speaker 1: Key out of Central Michigan, Sean Ryan out of U. C.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad group of alignment. Yeah. None of

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Speaker 1: them are jumping off the page cold strangers there. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking cold strange in the second round. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not either. The trade on the team, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: We get the Bears and the Dolphins. The problem is

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Speaker 1: the Bears don't pick again until sevente The Dolphins don't

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Speaker 1: go quarterback in the first round. I need to get

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Speaker 1: something around the guy, even if it's on defense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: pick um. I hate not taking an offensive lignement with

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Speaker 1: the first two picks, but Muma as Samoa or the

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Speaker 1: nose tackle from Yukon Jones are the ones that stood

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Speaker 1: out to me. I think in this draft, I go

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Speaker 1: for the big guy. I think I would too, And

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Speaker 1: and I want to Lulu and Cam to get ahold

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Speaker 1: take him. Travis Jones is the pick out of Yukon.

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Speaker 1: We took a football player out of Yukon. After takeing

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Speaker 1: one from Liberty, we are back up at eighty four.

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna hate this because Jalen Patre and sky

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Speaker 1: More are both still available. I think you gotta go

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Speaker 1: with one of them. Then it's tough that we got.

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Speaker 1: We got three are offers right now to trade. One

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Speaker 1: is one is with the Cowboys who are picking at

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Speaker 1: eight and what number is this? We're at eight four

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Speaker 1: the built the Bills are on the phone with pick

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Speaker 1: eighty nine, and then the Texas at one thirty four.

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Speaker 1: So we can move back a little bit here. It

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Speaker 1: a look at the offensive lineman who are available and

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Speaker 1: see if if any of those interests is still so.

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Speaker 1: Parum is still available to guard out of memph Us

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Speaker 1: Kellen Kellen Deech out of Arizona State, Tyler Smith out

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Speaker 1: Get Key, Well, let's go Ulsida Smith the guard out

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Speaker 1: of Virginia Tech. Cole Strange still available. So there's some

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Speaker 1: I don't know that we're hey. I like Hayes out

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Speaker 1: of Oklahoma fair amount too, brought them up very often.

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Speaker 1: down a few spots. Let's see what the Cowboys will

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Speaker 1: give us if we move back to eighty eight. So

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Speaker 1: we give up eighty four, they get eighty eight. Can

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Speaker 1: we get can we get one six from them if

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Speaker 1: we throw in our seventh round pick. Let's try. That's

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Speaker 1: what I was gonna suggest to something like that. The

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Speaker 1: eight eight, one six, which is great for us. We

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Speaker 1: gave up eight four and two thirty seven. Let's see

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Speaker 1: where this goes. Perfect. Perfect. They moved up to go

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Speaker 1: get Jalen Petrie. Yeah, he's a good player and not

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Speaker 1: exactly on the need list, but he's been a nice

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Speaker 1: addition to the secondary. The next picks where Kieren Williams,

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Speaker 1: the U running back, running back out of There Dame.

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Speaker 1: He made my top five list on the triple take

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Speaker 1: Max Mitchell the tackle on to Louisiana went to the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Romeo Daubs, the wide receiver out of the Pada sky

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Speaker 1: More still available, so is Troy Anderson. Who and so's heyes?

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Speaker 1: The guard right right? Right? Um? Top Guysson? Would you? Yeah? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I I think he'll be an awesome special team or

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Speaker 1: could be really good. Okay, So Troy Anderson out of Montana, Wyoming,

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Speaker 1: back up again here at one. This is the pick

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Speaker 1: we got from the Cowboys. How about that word? I

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