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Speaker 1: What's up? This is a Racer and Jenkins and you're

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Speaker 1: listening to the Charges podcast network. All right, guys, we're

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Speaker 1: doing this every week on Chargers Weekly leading up to

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Speaker 1: the Draft. Get you in anamalst On to talk all

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Speaker 1: things twenty twenty NFL Draft Today. Luke Easterling of USA

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Speaker 1: Today's Draft Wire joins me. Luke, it's always a pleasure, man.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Hey doing great, man. It's it's a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. You know,

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Speaker 1: we did this last year, had a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: some different circumstances this year. How has it changed your preparation, Luke?

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Speaker 1: Knowing that that pro days canceled a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: actual teams and the players. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: those players who are who are on the bubble, who

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Speaker 1: either you know, were not invited to the combine or

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Speaker 1: make this obviously the most unique draft that I've ever

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna look like on Draft Day with these

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Speaker 1: it wrong to think that? I'm afraid it'll look like

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Speaker 1: if you're seeing not only guys like Jordan Brooks that

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, but another you know, smaller school guy Appleation

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Speaker 1: Gaither is a really athletic, undersized a bit different of

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Speaker 1: but a really athletic linebacker that if he's there that late.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know if it's a perfect draft one

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Speaker 1: were supposed to do here in the twenty twenty NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1: Luke Easterling, USA Today's Draft Wire. What can we do

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Speaker 1: to follow you over the next couple of weeks. I

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna be a busy man. Yeah, I try

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Speaker 1: to keep it simple on social media. It's just my

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Speaker 1: name on Twitter at Luke Easterling. Follow us at the

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Speaker 1: Draft Wire. Also, we've got mock drafts. We've got like

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Speaker 1: I said, we've done exclusive interviews with almost one hundred

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Speaker 1: top prospects. We just posted one today with Tristan Worf's,

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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle from Iowa. We're gonna have Calevan Chason

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Speaker 1: I said, almost one hundred guys that we've talked to already.

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Speaker 1: We have over one hundred and fifty scouting reports on

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Speaker 1: the top one fifty prospects in this class. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got all the news, all the rankings. I'm finishing

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Speaker 1: up my rankings now, so my overall board, the top

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Speaker 1: three hundred will be out within the next week or so.

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Speaker 1: So really, you know, no matter what you need, we've

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Speaker 1: got you covered at the draft wire. And again, come

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Speaker 1: find us on social media and let's talk some football. Luke,

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Speaker 1: I love it man, It's always great. Catch it up

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Speaker 1: this time of year, and wish you the best over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. It's gonna be fun. Hey,

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Speaker 1: same to you, Chris, Thanks so much.