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Speaker 1: UM, take me through you know when you were drafted,

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Speaker 1: where you were, who you were with, and who called you. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was with my family, uh who was in Florida,

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Speaker 1: like me and mar around the Florida Panhandle. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I was really just thinking like, uh, you know, glad

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Speaker 1: to be a Steeler, but you know, it was all

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Speaker 1: happening so fast, so like he really couldn't think too much.

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Speaker 1: So but it was just a great feeling, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: did you know as coach coming right away? Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was like a certain voice George, what's going on? Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin and Pittsburgh Steels. So I was like yeah, and uh,

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Speaker 1: after that, it was just so it happened so fast,

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Speaker 1: or it's like after you get the call, you kind

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Speaker 1: of you know what I mean, Like it's on from there.

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Speaker 1: So it was pretty a good experience too. Um. How

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Speaker 1: much interest do you feel the Steelers had in you

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Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, meeting different people from the

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Speaker 1: organization in your pro day? Um, I'll probably say I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say a lot, because you know, it's like a

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Speaker 1: lot of other coaches there are too, from another lot

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Speaker 1: of other champs, but like, uh, as far as like

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Speaker 1: just helping me during the workout through a pro day,

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Speaker 1: you can kind of see like those were like the

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Speaker 1: only that was like the only guys that was really

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Speaker 1: trying to help. The other guys are just you know, watching,

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Speaker 1: So you can't really make a judgment off of that,

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Speaker 1: but you know you kind of have a gist of

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Speaker 1: like what's going on. Everybody talks about your pro day,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially coming back from the injury. Take me

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Speaker 1: through what that was like and how you felt you did,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially when you were done with it, you'd

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Speaker 1: be like, all right, happened? It was. It was kind

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Speaker 1: of like a shocking to me because that was my

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Speaker 1: first time like running without a brace or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But I've actually been like preparing myself for that point,

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Speaker 1: so like every route was really like a oh, this's

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Speaker 1: my first time running routes again. But it felt so

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Speaker 1: good and like after the first or second route, I

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Speaker 1: was good to go after that, and I knew I

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Speaker 1: was gonna have like a special day. Did you surprise

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Speaker 1: yourself how fast you were able to come back from

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Speaker 1: that injury? Uh? Not really, But then again yeah, because

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Speaker 1: like it wasn't like it was It wasn't like I

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Speaker 1: was rushing it and I'm not ready. It was actually

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Speaker 1: like it just happened so quick, you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: like it happened quick. I was actually helped and when

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Speaker 1: I got back on the field, I just want to

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Speaker 1: be back to my guys again. So like that's really

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Speaker 1: what it was. Offensive coordinator mat Matt Canada kept saying explosive.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what's so explosive about your game? Really? Everything?

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Speaker 1: I'll probably say my catch radius, I'm tall, my arms alone,

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Speaker 1: like you were just talking about them fast too, so

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Speaker 1: like uh strong, physical, I can block, I can really

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Speaker 1: do everything. And uh, I think when they said explosive,

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Speaker 1: like that's like an overall aspect of my game. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: And do you have a preference where you play? Uh no,

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Speaker 1: not really. Uh just go with the flow. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of like my personality to like just go with the flow.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel comfortable though, Yeah, I played like a practice.

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Speaker 1: I would always play slide and uh instead of just

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Speaker 1: outside because that was like my game. You know, when

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Speaker 1: I get in the game, I'll play that. But like practice,

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Speaker 1: I always play slot cash like jack, sweep screen and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So yeah, I was always comfortable with

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Speaker 1: you know, entice acist I was just always bigger, so

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Speaker 1: it forced me to the outside, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: What do you know about the Steeler's offense and maybe

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Speaker 1: the transitioning it's making with you know, Ben Roethlisberger retiring. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's making it into like a you know,

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Speaker 1: like a modern a modern type of offense and modern

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Speaker 1: type of game style. Uh, like the new quarterbacks coming

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Speaker 1: in such as Kenny got your bisky, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, got a few other guys too. So Ben

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Speaker 1: brought like a really you know, like a I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say old school, but a different style of play to

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Speaker 1: like the Steelers. He was a big body. You don't

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Speaker 1: got to really move around the pocket because he just

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna bring him to the ground, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So like it was a different type

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Speaker 1: of play style. But now I feel like it's a

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Speaker 1: r P oh you know what I mean, Run pass option, uh,

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Speaker 1: play action pass. Everything is gonna be a lot faster

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Speaker 1: for sure. How excited are you to work with people

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Speaker 1: like Ketty pickt Nagi Harris and Pat Fryer moved from

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Speaker 1: last year and just a young group of guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's really like the best way I've you know, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, I like it because, like those are the

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Speaker 1: guys that if anything does go happen or anything good

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Speaker 1: does happen, we were there, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: because we're all you know, we all around the same

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Speaker 1: age group, so like you feel like you're closer Barn.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, thanks for your time. Welcome to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,