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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and it is time for our well a little under

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Speaker 1: two week out mock draft here on a Monday. And uh,

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Speaker 1: well this will be easy one for us, Matt, because

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Speaker 1: uh we're doing this on the NFL mock Draft database

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Speaker 1: and the top nineteen picks are in Evan Neil, Aidan Hutchinson,

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Speaker 1: Cavon Thibodeaux, Imcwanda, Trayvon Walker, Kyle Hamilton, A Mock Garner,

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Speaker 1: Derek Stingley, Jermaine Johnson. Garrett Wilson gets in there as

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Speaker 1: the only offensive player in the top ten. Drake London

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Speaker 1: goes eleven, Jordan Davis twelve, Charles Cross thirteen, George Carl

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Speaker 1: Loftis fourteen, Devon Lloyd fifteen, Jamison Williams sixteen, Christal love

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Speaker 1: A seventeen, Trent mcduffee eight, Trevor Penning nineteen. What did

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Speaker 1: you not hear in that? Uh? Qbs right? No, QB's okay.

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Speaker 1: So there's more. There's Malik Willis staring us in the face.

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Speaker 1: I think you just take it. We just take it.

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Speaker 1: It's boring, but well it's boring, and we'll have more

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Speaker 1: needs late in the draft than we usually do. But

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Speaker 1: we also haven't done it in a while. And you know,

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Speaker 1: our opinions and all this stuff change week the week.

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Speaker 1: You know, show the show a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: one percent per sure, you know the changes here and there. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what we want to start thinking about here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the picks after Us Trail and Burke Stavante, Wyatt,

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Speaker 1: Andre Booth, Tyler Linderbaum, Zion Johnson, Johan Dotson, Kenyan Green,

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Speaker 1: David Jabo, Kyer Elam Daxton Hill goes to the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: at thirty Roger McCreary at thirty one, Kenny pick it

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Speaker 1: at thirty two. Ma Fe goes at thirty three. Lewis

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Speaker 1: Seeing goes at thirty four to the Lions. It's a

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Speaker 1: third safety off the board. Kyler Gordon goes at thirty five,

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Speaker 1: Bernard Raymond goes at thirty six to the Giants. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Peatra goes at thirty seven to the Texans. That's four safeties. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's we wanted. Ebba Katie goes at thirty eight. Tyler

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Speaker 1: Smith thirty nine, Matt Corral at forty, Daniel Filele at

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Speaker 1: forty one. Thank you for forty two is Desmond Rittard

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Speaker 1: to the Colts. Christian Watson goes at forty three, Travis

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Speaker 1: Ravens are up at forty five. If we're looking at

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Speaker 1: if I can get it to load here Brisker, Kirby,

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Speaker 1: Joseph Bryan Cook, Nick Cross, we feel like we need

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, George Pickens, sky More, John Machi,

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Speaker 1: Pickens and More. I don't know there was enough names

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Speaker 1: there that I don't know that I need to move

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Speaker 1: up at this minute. There are one, two, three, four, five,

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Speaker 1: six seven spots between us. There are two receivers that

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Speaker 1: I am interested in A fifty two. There are there's

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Speaker 1: two receivers and two safeties. Yeah in seven seven seven

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver of safety. Again, I mean, I have

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Speaker 1: no problem with they Ken Willis, and I'm happy about it.

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Speaker 1: But now you're drafting for need, which is bad business. Yes,

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Speaker 1: what we pick in seven picks? Did you say we

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Speaker 1: have seven picks between us and there? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think we'd monitor it, but I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: those four is likely to get there. Okay, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: continue here. This thing is going fast. That's when I

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Speaker 1: say it's not the real world, so we could lose out.

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Speaker 1: But okay, so, uh, what are you chuckling about? Well,

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Speaker 1: I didn't dridn't hit pause quickly enough because Logan Hall went,

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Speaker 1: Drake Jackson Chicawon, Brisker goes to Washington, George Pickens goes

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Speaker 1: to Chicago, the Marvin Leal goes to the Saints, and

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Speaker 1: then Skyward to the Chiefs. Ouch. I mean my least

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Speaker 1: favorite of the four is the one that's left. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but I still think we take the safety, and that

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Speaker 1: is the problem. Mat went to pick ahead of us

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Speaker 1: and to the Eagles. Man, I'm not I'm not sold.

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Speaker 1: I met you in the second round. I'm not either. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm but I'm just saying that that was about But

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Speaker 1: it's not the worst pick in the world. So crosses

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Speaker 1: the is the safety is still available? Right? Yeah? Crossing

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Speaker 1: cook are still there, as is Kirby Joseph. Those are

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Speaker 1: the top three safeties available. What if we traded down

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Speaker 1: let us do We're not would we would have to

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Speaker 1: linebackers Christian quarterback linebacker though, No, I don't think so either. No,

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Speaker 1: worried about white out now. Yeah, why don't then becomes

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the you know, that's the rub there.

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Speaker 1: So if you're looking at receiver, it's one Del Robinson,

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Speaker 1: David Bell, Alec Pierce, Calvin Austin, Jalen, Tilbert, Talbert, I

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Speaker 1: would consider there. Talbert and Pierce, I would consider Would

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Speaker 1: you take him over the safety because you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get the safety in the third round, but you can

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Speaker 1: at least call Edmonds. I think we can receiver here.

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Speaker 1: market is bad. Yeah, you're not gonna trade next year's

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Speaker 1: first round pick for DK Metcalf. Nope, you like Pierce?

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Speaker 1: Are Tolbert better? I slightly like Piers better. I think

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Speaker 1: and it'll take We'll take Pierce. Okay, Pierce is the pick.

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Speaker 1: I think his athleticism is really strong and deep, speed

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Speaker 1: and go up and get it volleyball stylet you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: take a look here. We we have to take a safety.

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Speaker 1: All the safeties are still there, are they? Really? How

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Speaker 1: to say? I was about to ask you what you

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Speaker 1: consider a Joseph here? You know, I don't think we've

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Speaker 1: ever drafted him in a mom not just like him

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Speaker 1: but so cool? I mean, so all three of those

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Speaker 1: safeties are available. All three are available. Cross Joseph. Well, again,

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Speaker 1: I think I don't think you and I know that answer.

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Speaker 1: I think Cook is more of the pure strong safety

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Speaker 1: Cross is very athletic, crosses super athletic, but he's more

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Speaker 1: a true strong safety for you? Maybe not? Maybe not,

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Speaker 1: this is a little different conversation than we had in

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Speaker 1: segment one because we were talking about like Petri or Hill.

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Speaker 1: But I think I'm drafting one of those two, and

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Speaker 1: Colin Edmonds agent as soon as I do, and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: and that's no knock about these guys were about to draft.

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Speaker 1: But I'll take another and I mean big Nickels a

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Speaker 1: big package in the NFL. Absolutely, so you once they crosser, yeah, yeah, alright, Nick,

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Speaker 1: thought round three was immense value. We're cruising down here

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Speaker 1: to the fourth round pick, which stinks that it's at

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Speaker 1: the end of the fourth round. If they had gotten

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Speaker 1: that third round compensatory pick instead for Bud, would have

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Speaker 1: really good way looking at it. Yeah, okay, so we're

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Speaker 1: up at one thirty eight. The top players available are

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Speaker 1: Kade Doton, We're shod White, Tyler Algiere, a lot of

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Speaker 1: running backs and tight ends here, and Williams samere White.

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Speaker 1: I like those hourst two names, but I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know you can go tight end and running back

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Speaker 1: Missouri another one of those interesting good size cornerbacks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't know that you can do that you can afford to.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can take a corner um

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Speaker 1: you can take a tackle, you can take a nose.

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Speaker 1: The top corners available are Caleb Evans Tree Castro Fields

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Speaker 1: to Mari Mathis, Mike l Right, I would probably go

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Speaker 1: Mathis or Castro Fields, but I'm not gonna stand on.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pound the table for either. Yeah. That though,

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Speaker 1: I mean those two safety the safety at corner and

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Speaker 1: Edmonds if you can bring him back, that's a loaded

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Speaker 1: deep safety. People might say that they well, they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: take a cornerback. Here's the thing, Cam Cam Sutton signed

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Speaker 1: the fourth round. To get right, Rex and Jones is

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Speaker 1: still available, Rosenthal d rosen Thal out of Kentucky Mountain, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go out of North Dakota. Spencer Burford still available

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Speaker 1: offensive tackles there that, Yeah, thats a spot on the

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Speaker 1: roster for developmental offensive tackle. Yeah, and we don't pick

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna pick again until around six. That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it comes down to a developmental corner

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Speaker 1: a lot this year. Yes, but they're high, you know,

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Speaker 1: high important positions that costs a lot of money. I

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Speaker 1: will say this, the corner. The corner will probably at

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Speaker 1: least play on special teams or at least have was

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Speaker 1: a chance, right right, right right. Either's fine, But I

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Speaker 1: think Castro Fields is probably the best prospect of any

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Speaker 1: mathis not by leaves of bounds. But yeah, okay, three

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Speaker 1: Castro Fields is to pick. Mathis went right after that,

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Speaker 1: so so we're doing it right ya. Mathis a good

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Speaker 1: probably the way with that good. So now we waited

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Speaker 1: a long way. Then we're up here at two eight um.

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Speaker 1: There was actually a couple of development corners still available

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Speaker 1: here that we might have liked. Cordell Flott, Jalen Watson,

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Speaker 1: Vincent Gray Da Kobe Durant. That's a nice area to

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Speaker 1: grab one of those two. Like if we would have

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Speaker 1: up Cordelle Wolsen being an ease a uh, Nick lad

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. It's not the same. Late developmental tackles is

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Speaker 1: an oxymoron that doesn't exist. If you're looking at edge,

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Speaker 1: it's Christopher Allen is Easy Odawo, Trey Williams, Tyree Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and Anderson Jeremiah Moon, Ali fi Odd. I'm about a

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Speaker 1: running back. Linebacker would be of interest. De Marco Jackson

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Speaker 1: How about another wide receiver, a little guy maybe, yeah,

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Speaker 1: McKay polk available, Kevin Austin, Javon Haley from Coastal Carolina,

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