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Speaker 1: All right, Kendrick, congratulations once again. Um, I heard a

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Speaker 1: certain center by the number fifty three reached out to

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Speaker 1: you after you were selected by the Steelers. What was

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Speaker 1: kind of the message I guess in general terms of

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Speaker 1: what he was saying to you, somebody who could potentially

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Speaker 1: be replacing him. Um, just years first and foremost, because

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Speaker 1: he was just congratulating me. But um, just really tell him,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's time to time to get to work

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Speaker 1: and you know, and that I'm a professional now and

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Speaker 1: I need to move like a professional. So yeah, alright, Um,

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Speaker 1: who else from the Steelers organization in terms of future

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Speaker 1: teammates have you had a chance to catch up with

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know it's been a blur though.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I know Zack Banner gave me a call

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Speaker 1: last night after the pick was in. But um, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, just a few other guys texted me

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Speaker 1: here and there. But uh, I probably have a lot

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Speaker 1: more my message, so I need to go through them.

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Speaker 1: Take me through what your transformation was like going from

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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball to becoming an offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman and how in any way that helped you. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm from being a young boy and I started playing football,

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Speaker 1: you know, I learned to play play hard, play fast,

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Speaker 1: and play physical and regardless of I was playing defense

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Speaker 1: or offense. That's just kind of something I've carried with

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Speaker 1: me throughout my wholeful A three sport athlete growing up,

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Speaker 1: wrestling being one of them. How does that help in

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Speaker 1: terms of being an aligneman? Um? Really just big on balance, Uh, understanding,

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Speaker 1: leverage and you know, understanding and uh little a lot

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Speaker 1: of tork things as well. So I really just comes

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Speaker 1: come to hand when you come to you know, blocking someone.

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Speaker 1: Knowing that the Steelers made it their top priority this

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Speaker 1: offseason to improve their running game, They've selected with their

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Speaker 1: first three picks offensive players. Uh, does that put a

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Speaker 1: little pressure on you? Knowing going in that this is

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Speaker 1: something they're trying to fix and hopefully adding through the

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Speaker 1: draft and what they already have can hopefully do that

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Speaker 1: for them. I wouldn't say pressure, but you know, just

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Speaker 1: you know, I got expectations. I need people have expectations

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Speaker 1: of me, and I need to exceed them. So that's

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Speaker 1: just kind of how I'm gonna take my approach with it.

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Speaker 1: Your offensive line coach. New offensive line coach Adrian Clem

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Speaker 1: said after you were drafted, just how physical you are,

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Speaker 1: the nastiness that you bring. Um, is that a switch?

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Speaker 1: Does that go on and off? You don't seem like

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Speaker 1: that right now. Is it something that just happens when

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Speaker 1: you get out on the playing field. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like you know, playing office line. You know, off

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Speaker 1: the field, you know you kind of gotta turn that

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Speaker 1: switch off. But you know in between the lines you

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Speaker 1: gotta turn them on. Absolutely,