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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Come back, Matt Williamson and this is

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Speaker 1: the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt, there's an

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Speaker 1: interesting story here on ESPN dot com. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't typically talk a ton of draft stuffs relevant.

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Speaker 1: We got all the bull games coming up and stuff too.

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Speaker 1: People can look. And there's also you know, we talk

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Speaker 1: every year about how there's a line of delineation on

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Speaker 1: the true first rounders. Yes, it's very true. Every year.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's ten players, sometimes it's twelve, sometimes it's fifteen, others,

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Speaker 1: you know, as many as eighteen to twenty. It's never

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Speaker 1: thirty two. It's never thirty two, and it's never twenty

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Speaker 1: four ish where Kevin Colbert's had his average pick. It's

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Speaker 1: it's always much less than that. So the ESPN put

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Speaker 1: out a story to nay Matt Miller wrote it and

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Speaker 1: looking ahead this year's draft, and this could obviously change. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They're saying that this year's draft, there are seventeen first rounders,

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Speaker 1: guys who will have a first round grade on everybody's board. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no matter what year they come out with their first

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Speaker 1: round picks, you know, give or take, and that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean they're blue chips like Taylan Carter's could be a

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Speaker 1: top five pick any year, but they're they're legit first

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Speaker 1: round pick. They're probably the way ESPN grades and they're

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Speaker 1: probably ninety and above or eighty eight and above something

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Speaker 1: along those. Yeah. Okay, well let's get to know those.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a very good chance to deals will

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Speaker 1: get one of them. So there are three quarterbacks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Brce Young, who they have ranked number two overall. I

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Speaker 1: think he goes one to Houston. Their comp on him

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Speaker 1: is to a tago tago vloa. Okay. I think he's twitchy,

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Speaker 1: yeer than two. He's certainly small, size, size, wiser, similar, right,

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Speaker 1: but I get it. I don't know who is compould be.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a little, yeah, he's that's a that's

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Speaker 1: five eleven and buck. It's gonna be like the Kyler draft,

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Speaker 1: like waiting with bated breath to see what he measures

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Speaker 1: in a stand exactly exactly. Take him up for a

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Speaker 1: big dinner and uh st elmos the night before then feed,

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Speaker 1: feed him six steaks before somewhere. Yeah, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: run today. Everybody says this every year, but the homework

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Speaker 1: I've done, it looks like it's true. Clearly, this quarterback

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Speaker 1: class is better than last year's quarterback class. But that's

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Speaker 1: where we're going with this. It looks like next year's

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Speaker 1: quarterback class is much better than this one too, And

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Speaker 1: we're right. Yeah, but everyone does say this every year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the USC kid in the n

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Speaker 1: C kid are first overall type guys. Yeah, And from

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Speaker 1: what I understand, so if you're Seattle or Detroit, like,

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Speaker 1: can we live another year with Gino or golf? Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll dip next year. We'll see, But are you gonna

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Speaker 1: be up high enough to get him any games? Right? Uh?

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Speaker 1: C J. Stroud comes in at number six overall. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For his comparison, I hadn't thought about this one for him.

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Okay, I can see that very accurate with

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Speaker 1: um a little more size six three, a little more

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Speaker 1: prototypical that way, UM, good runner. The question with him,

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Speaker 1: which is the Ohio? Every year since the dawn of

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Speaker 1: things aren't great, then your players aren't a ton better

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Speaker 1: than everybody else. And justin fields aside maybe I mean,

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Speaker 1: my son's a big Ohio State fan for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Like that is bucket has ever had a good NFL quarterback?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I mean, I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: it up in the draft room. And that's not c. J.

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Speaker 1: of good quarterbacks considered. Joe Burrow and a high state quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know it's just everybody says the Oklahoma quarterbacks all

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Speaker 1: I mean everyone's different, of course, but it's forty years

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Speaker 1: So if you're a Steeler fan, you want those four guys, gone,

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Speaker 1: of those guys wide receiver. There are three again, I

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Speaker 1: don't know this is this is not a position to steal. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, of course, everybody around here is very familiar

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Speaker 1: with him. Compon him is Keenan Allen. I don't see that.

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Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is a big dude, and Keenan Allen ran

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Speaker 1: of you. That's now seven different players that are going

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Speaker 1: tight end one. Michael Mayor from Notre Dame number eight

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Speaker 1: ranking on this his comps T. J. Hawkinson, Okay, he

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Speaker 1: had a better college career than Howkinson. Yeah, he is

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Speaker 1: They've been saying that for two or three years. Now

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Speaker 1: He has thirty two inch arms. That's shorter than any

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Speaker 1: the stuff that he is the best blocker in the country.

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Speaker 1: But arm length is a problem, and it's only gonna

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Speaker 1: get more of a problem sitting here in December. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I would trade the stealer first round

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Speaker 1: pick for him, because if he's not a left tackle,

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Speaker 1: it's for this line. You're not Are you taking a guard?

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Speaker 1: I hear you say. Let's say the pick is twelve

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Speaker 1: on this team? Maybe if I'm Houston or I need

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Speaker 1: almost a Linder bamb argument. We'll get the fine, we'll

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Speaker 1: finally get to see Tyler Linder ball this year. Well,

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Speaker 1: a tough year. But if you look at the Pro

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Speaker 1: not setting stone yet. I guess he had a lot

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Speaker 1: mean basically there's five that you would look at, the offensive,

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