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Speaker 1: Ryan count and vice president of player Personnel for the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Hey, Ryan, thanks for joining us. I

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Speaker 1: know it's been a long night for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's okay. It's great. Appreciate you having me. It's

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Speaker 2: good to see you guys. And hello, I guess that

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Speaker 2: some of you haven't actually met in person yet with

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Speaker 2: everything going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's Mike do So, Evan Lazar, Paul Parolo, myself,

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Speaker 1: Fred Kersh. I'll just start it out. When the when

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Speaker 1: this night started out, did you know you were gonna

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Speaker 1: go all offense?

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Speaker 2: I think I think that the great thing about the

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Speaker 2: draft is you can always have a plan, but ultimately

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Speaker 2: the draft creates situations where you have to react. I

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Speaker 2: don't think you ever go in saying, man, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: we're gonna hammer this out on one side of the

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Speaker 2: ball or the other.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The key is following your board, trusting the board, and

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Speaker 2: leading yourself to the picks based off where you've evaluated players.

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Speaker 2: You never think I'm gonna go heavy on this side,

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Speaker 2: so it just sometimes works out.

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Speaker 1: Just turned out that way, yep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ryan, want to ask you just about this running

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Speaker 3: back group. We've been talking to them all spring, everyone

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Speaker 3: talked about how there's going to be good players from

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Speaker 3: you know, top of the draft with genty all the

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Speaker 3: way into tomorrow. How did you guys land on Henderson

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Speaker 3: and make him your guy out of that big, you know,

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Speaker 3: impressive group.

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Speaker 2: Sure it is an impressive group. And you know, I

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Speaker 2: think with Trevion. Trevion has been in a really explosive

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Speaker 2: player his whole career at Ohio State. I know there's

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Speaker 2: been times in his career where he's worked in tandem

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Speaker 2: with other backs, but I think one of the things

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Speaker 2: that jumps out is his ability to flip the field,

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Speaker 2: his ability to create explosives. You know, I think this

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Speaker 2: year he took a really a huge step in his

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Speaker 2: pass protection. You'll find some evidence of him on tape

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Speaker 2: not afraid to deliver a blow to play square. And

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Speaker 2: I think over his career he's grown as a player.

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Speaker 2: He's gone through some adversity in his life. He's dealt

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Speaker 2: with some stuff on the field, off the field just

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Speaker 2: that's hard calloused him. And I think this year he

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Speaker 2: was just a guy that he's a real matchup problem.

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Speaker 2: And I think when he's on the field, defensive have

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Speaker 2: to account for him.

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Speaker 4: Right the next pick, you guys, was Kyle Williams the

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Speaker 4: wide receiver. What specifically attracted you guys to him? What

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Speaker 4: about his skill set did you guys like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So, I think when you take a look at Kyle

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Speaker 2: like there's an explosive, dynamic playmaker element to his game.

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Speaker 2: I think if you look over the last two years,

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Speaker 2: you know, he played with cam Ward last year after

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Speaker 2: transferring over from UNLV to Washington State and played with

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Speaker 2: Cam last year. I think Cam probably heavily tried to

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Speaker 2: recruit him to go to Miami as well, but you know,

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Speaker 2: Kyle stayed and this year he had a great year.

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Speaker 2: I think he ended up somewhere around close to twelve

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Speaker 2: hundred yards and fourteen touchdowns. And I think when you

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Speaker 2: watch what he does in the way he runs routes

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Speaker 2: and there's a suddenness to his game. And I think

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Speaker 2: as receivers one of the biggest things their job to

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Speaker 2: do is is we always say a couple of things right,

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Speaker 2: ones get open and the others catch it. And I

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Speaker 2: think Kyle, when you look at the get open face,

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Speaker 2: Kyle has some unique skills physically to really create windows

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Speaker 2: for the quarterback to him.

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Speaker 4: Do you see a little versatility there in terms of

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Speaker 4: his alignment. Can you go inside outside baby a little bit?

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Speaker 4: Or do you like him just as a slot?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think actually probably Kyle. You know, I

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Speaker 2: don't ever want to try to pigeonhole guys. I think

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing is playing receiver. And I know that

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Speaker 2: sounds like a very generic idea, but I think when

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Speaker 2: you say he's an inside guy, he's an outside guy. Well,

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Speaker 2: formations dictate a lot of different things, and sometimes outside guys,

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Speaker 2: you know, you go inside for a matchup or then

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Speaker 2: you get into saying what do you want certain plays

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Speaker 2: to look like? What are you going to ask from

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Speaker 2: those roles? I think Kyle does not His physical skills shit,

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Speaker 2: don't limit him to either inside, outside any of that

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Speaker 2: stuff in my opinion.

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Speaker 5: So, Ryan, what can you tell us about Jared Wilson?

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Speaker 5: And you know, with Garrett Bradbury obviously on the roster already,

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Speaker 5: how do you kind of envision that center position looking

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Speaker 5: right now?

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Speaker 2: So it falls into Jared. Jared a young player, you know,

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Speaker 2: stepped in this year his first year to start in

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Speaker 2: the SEC, had a good year obviously. You know, everybody

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Speaker 2: can point to some of the testing athletically, what's in

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Speaker 2: his body, what he's capable of, And I think he's

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Speaker 2: a player that it's just kind of scratching the surface.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Speaking to the guys on our team, you know, we

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Speaker 2: have a bunch of guys or a handful of guys

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Speaker 2: that you know will compete at that center position, and

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Speaker 2: I think Jared falls into that mix. I think anytime

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Speaker 2: you're you're trying to do this in the draft, you're

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Speaker 2: all you're always trying to create competition. And I think

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Speaker 2: if we don't do that, then it's a flow on

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Speaker 2: our part to create as much competition as possible across

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Speaker 2: the board. And I think we just see that there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of upside to Jared's game. We have some

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Speaker 2: veteran guys that you know, we just envisioned those guys competing,

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Speaker 2: and as you guys know, with coach ray Wood, I

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Speaker 2: really think the way it should be, competition across the

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Speaker 2: board is what's going to bring out the best of

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Speaker 2: all of us, and I think he'll just add to

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Speaker 2: that room.

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Speaker 5: Does he have it? Do you think he has any

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Speaker 5: flexibility to play some guard or do you guys see

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Speaker 5: him as a center only prospect?

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Speaker 2: He has some experience playing guard. I think again that's

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Speaker 2: one of those kind of similar to the receiver part.

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Speaker 2: Anytime we you know, try to take offensive lineman, you

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Speaker 2: would love the versatility, right, You don't want as many

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Speaker 2: guys being stuck into one spot, whether that's how it

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Speaker 2: factors into your game day stuff, how you can manipulate

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Speaker 2: stuff in practice, how you can work through injuries. Jared

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Speaker 2: has experience playing guard, obviously started this year playing center.

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Speaker 2: So I think we would look at both those things

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Speaker 2: and wind up doing ultimately what's best for the to

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Speaker 2: get the best five and his rotation. How do we

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Speaker 2: see fit?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll let you get back to work.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got to restack the board, get ready

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow. Tomorrow's all defense, right, I'm only well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to just counter that by saying defense, right?

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Speaker 2: You know it is, though, Tomorrow's exciting, you know what.

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Speaker 2: I think everybody does get caught up into, you know,

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Speaker 2: the first round, and rightfully so, and then tonight and

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, fortunate for me, I think this

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Speaker 2: is my twenty sixth draft, and I think the fun

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Speaker 2: part is tomorrow. And not only is it with the

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Speaker 2: draft selections, it's it's what happens after the draft. There's

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Speaker 2: an organic art discounting that happens after the draft, and

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Speaker 2: there's there's there's a lot of work for our staff.

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Speaker 2: I've been impressed with with the College staff, the pro

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Speaker 2: staff over my couple of months here, the time they

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Speaker 2: put in and and just really excited to see them

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Speaker 2: kind of go to work tomorrow through the post draft

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Speaker 2: and that's where you can make a difference and I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to be able to do that tomorrow with this group.

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Speaker 1: Well, Ryan, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night, Okay,