2026 NFL Draft - Day 3 Hour 6 Coverage

Chuck and Jessamyn wrap up Hour 6 from Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft and are joined by Gregg Bell.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, presented
by Frost Brood Cors Luck Cold is the Rookies and
brought to you by Dino's Pulvin. Written on Sports Radio
ninety three point three kjr FM.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh, good afternoons to you, my final hour of draft
coverage coming your way. My name is Seth Chuck Powell.
Welcome aboard. Of course, it's been three fantastic days of
NFL Draft coverage right here at Sports Radio ninety three
point three kjr FM, and we still have some we
wee's to go. We get another round and a half

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to get to here, including two more Seahawks selections. If
you are just joining us, I promise I do a
lot of recapping during this three hour show on Saturday
that I do every year, and so it's good to
have you aboard. If you've been busy, maybe you were
playing some volleyball in the backyard with family members, and

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now you just decided to get yourself a cool drink,
sit down in your lawn chair, click on the radio
your favorite radio station in the world, and find out
what the Seahawks have done today in the NFL Draft. Well,
we are here for you and will be throughout the
course of the rest of the afternoon, as Jackson Feltz
will take the baton from me at three o'clock and

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take you the rest of the way. So great to
have you a board. And there has been some activity
here today. Let's go ahead and get you up today
where we are first and foremost in the draft. We
are picked two oh seven, so in the middle of
the sixth round right now, we just had an Oregon product,
Alex Harkey, who Rob Ring actually had mocked to the
Seahawks in his Seahawk mock. Well, he's now a Charger.

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He was taken at two oh six in the sixth round,
the offensive lineman out of Oregon. So the Eagles are
on the clock at two o seven. The Seahawks will
again be on the clock at two sixteen. So we
are nine selections away from the Seahawks making their next pick.
They have made two picks today. There have been a
couple of trades made by John Schneider here today to

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kind of move up and down the board. And so
let's start our recap by just telling you what happened
from Thursday on Jdarian Price running back out of Notre Dame.
He was never more than a backup at Notre Dame,
but looks like he'll be the RB one for the
Seattle Seahawks here at the professional level. Of course, he
was backing up arguably the best football player in America

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at Notre Dame, and Marcus Freeman, his head coach, has said,
he's just looking for the opportunity to show everything that
he can do. So Jedarian Price, the consensus, if not unanimous,
number two ranked running back in this process, ends up
being a Seahawk. At the end of Day one, a
day that John Schneider was trying, according to him, to

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move out of the first round and maybe pick up
a couple of extra picks. There was a flurry of
trades that happened before that, six of them. As a
matter of fact, in the span of six picks, two
teams traded twice to maneuver around. I mean, the beehive
was buzzing, and John Schneider just thought it was going
to be safe to just stick and pick at thirty two,
and so he crabs Chadarian Price, the running back out

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of Notre Dame. Then, on Day number two, Friday, with
the last selection of the second round again stick and
pick sixty fourth overall. TCU safety Bud Clark is now
a Sea Hawk. Six years of experience as a horn frog,
six foot one inches tall, one hundred and eighty eight pounds,
had plenty of starts there, four four one forty. Kind

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of reads like a Kobe Bryant. Not necessarily replacement, he'll
have to earn that, certainly, but kind of brings that
same skill set and maybe also personal set of skills
to a football team. Certainly has some experience, Certainly has
some tenacity, certainly has some love for the football game,

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has safety experience, has coverage skills of a cornerback. So
reads very much like a Kobe Bryant proto type there,
and maybe he will feel fill that valuable role. Since
Kobe's left us for the Chicago Bears. In the third round,
Seahawks manipulated the draft a little bit. Added an extra

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sixth rounder, which is the one that's coming up for
the next to move down just three spots. Pittsburgh Steelers
came up to ninety six, Seahawks dropped to ninety nine.
They took Julian Neil out of Arkansas. Nothing new here
for the Seahawks. To get a longer cornerback, and that
hasn't changed. Even though Pete's no longer here, They still

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you still have to add that cornerback that can match
up against the longer receivers that you're gonna have to
be facing during the year. Julian neil As already made
an impression on the Seattle media hoard here by showing
off his personality in an interview in the in the
immediate aftermath of his being selected, and also has that

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length six foot two, two hundred and three pounds, thirty
three inch arms four four nine forty inch vertical leap
and no shortage of confidence either, as he expressed yesterday,
and it's Mike McDonald and John Schnider both acknowledged last
night as well. This guy really believes in himself. Jess. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
And he had an amazing exchange with our own Humo
and yesterday who And he was asking him specifically, if
you're in, you know, fourth quarter, what kind of coverage
do you want to be in in an important situation?
And he answered one thing. I think he misunderstood the
question and he goes, wait, we're the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh, I'm a man, I'm impressed.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm gonna be up there, and he talked about everything
and that said, if if I see that ball, I'm
going to get it, I'm going to go get that
and yeah, yeah, like right off the bat. And I
think there were a lot of you know, strings tied
to Richard Sherman, but Richard didn't show that right away.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, and Neil did. Yeah, he went right for it.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And I just think he was also, we're getting the
amped up draft call version of someone, and so I
don't think we're gonna see it down version though he.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Probably just had a mountain dew to celebrate, been a
little jacked up.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh my gosh, mountains, it's not good for you.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, I just.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
He was. He was just so amped up.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
But I I don't think that usually when I hear
these calls, the person comes across exactly the way that
they are, and you know, when you see him in person,
maybe they're a little more tamped down in the media
because obviously they have to learn to control themselves in
front of a mic and everything.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
But it's not like he did anything wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Now, I wouldn't worry about it. I mean, you kind
of want your cornerbacks and your wide receivers to have
an attitude about they have to play with confidence, they
have to kind of carry a swagger with him, and
Neil kind of showed that off last night. So that
was the end of day number two, and then today
an interesting day of moving up and moving down. That

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we did not have a fifth round selection coming into
the day, but John Schneider rectified that he moved a
fourth round piece from next year to get into the
fifth round, one eight overall, to grab Bo Stevens, a
guard out of Iowa, six foot five inches tall, three
hundred and fifteen pounds. Can't tell you a lot about
Bo Stevens. I will tell you that Iowa was known

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for their development of offensive linemen, so we're probably getting
a really sound tactician at guard, probably could even move
the center, and certainly somebody that was part of what
was considered the best offensive line in college football one
year ago. So he is now a Seahawk. And then

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we were supposed to have the one hundred eighty eighth pick,
but John decided to trade down from that spot just
moments ago, from one eighty eight to one ninety nine.
He picked up a seventh rounder, the two hundred and
forty second overall pick, so we still have two picks
to go. And then with that one hundred ninety nine selection,
Emmanuel Henderson Junior, a six foot one inch, one and

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eighty five pound receiver out of Kansas or in a
four to four forty at Kansas, also admitted in his
first experience with our media force here that yeah, he
is perfectly willing and able to play some special teams.
And so Emmanuel Henderson Junior goes from Jayhawk to Seahawk

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in an instant, right here in front of our eyes.
So two picks remaining as long as John Schneider doesn't
do anything more to manipulate the draft board, the two
hundred and sixteenth selection, which will come up in seven
picks from now, and then the two hundred and forty
second selection, which will happen in round number seven. We
just had another Husky come off the board at two
to oh eight, and Tarryo Thompson, defensive tackle is now

(09:17):
a member of the Atlanta Falcons, who've had a really
interesting draft themselves. So Atario Thompson is now with the
Washington Huskies at two eight, and so another Husky. That's
the fourth Husky that has been drafted today, and the
sixth overall in the NFL Draft to this point was
still one round and changed to go in this process.

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So we just sit to seven picks away and the
Seahawks will look to add something more here in the
next two more picks before we were said and done.
I don't even know Jesse at this stage. I mean,
I think needs kind of fly out the window at
this point. Yeah, I mean, if you end up hitting here,
if you strike lightning here with a sixth and seventh

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round selections, I mean, we've seen undrafted guys become Hall
of Famers for goodness sake. But I don't know if
you're even thinking need here at this position. You're pretty
much just getting a guy that you like, maybe probably
like more than anybody else, and you probably are leaning
a little bit toward do they look like they can
perform in special teams? That's kind of what you're evaluating

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at this process. If you're thinking edge rusher, because that
was something that was discussed a lot in the months
leading up to the NFL Draft, I don't rule it out,
but I don't know if you drafting an edge at
this point. Is somebody that's going to you can count
on that it was going to contribute to the upcoming stam.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, we never find out if those guys are going
to be something until like halfway to the end of
the season, right, We never find out if these guys
are going to be those guys. So at this point,
I would be looking for depth at the positions where
you need it, you know, just here, and the versatility
of certain players obviously, like we see an Emmanuel Henderson, right,

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He's versatile, he can play on several different levels, and
he was very open to being on special teams, like
we heard from his draft call, his conference call with
the media here. But I'd be looking for depth. Yeah,
but yeah, but that I think that at this point
it's not like huge judgment. It's yeah, sure you could

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strike lightning, and you don't know that at this point.
So whoever they pick, we are just gonna hope for
the best.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, you can throw a couple of grenades here. You
never know, like you know, somebody that you see with
upside that if they get under the tutelage of Mike
McDonald or of John Benton, and maybe you strike it
rich here. I mean pretty much here, this is really
where it just comes down to what flavors do you
like at Baskin Robbins. Hi, you know, yeah, you know

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what I got?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Are you good? Locker room guy?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
I got the bubble gum and mutton. I like those
that combination of flavors like really weird to me. Whatever, yeah,
whatever it is, you know, Yeah, yeah, you're right. I
got the peppermint and hagis. You know, I wanted to
try it.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh, that reminds me of my grandpa.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Actually, So you just go with what flavors that you like.
It's like you're in the process exactly. You want to
go with cucumber and cactus water and a pinch, you
go with cucumber and cactus water.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
I think that we will find some good characters at
this point in the draft too. I think that they
will look for guys that fit their tenor like what
their mantra is, and this is the time to get it.
But I I that does not discount where they can play.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, I mean Chris Carson. This is where you're getting
Chris Carson exactly. You know. So it's not out of
the question that you get a really significant piece here,
but it's probably not what you are counting on, So, uh,
seven picks away from two sixteen, and we'll certainly lead
you up to that. Probably a good time in the
proceedings to kind of just talk about the draft class

(13:07):
to this point. I thought, going into this, you're playing
with house money. In my estimation, if you're the Seahawks,
you had the third youngest team in the National Football League.
You probably maybe not by your view, maybe you did
think going into last year that this is a super
Bowl year, But for most of us, you know, the
expectation was a significant leap forward, a division title contention,

(13:34):
a deep run in the playoffs, but maybe not a
super Bowl team. And believe me, here in Seattle, we
had a lot better view and a lot bigger view
of what Mike McDonald and John Schneider were building than
the national guys who were giving them eight and a
half wins at the beginning of the years. So we
were certainly we saw what was special coming together at KJR.

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A lot of our hosts, if not all of them,
but I don't know if any of us were predicting
a Super Bowl championship. So to have won it this
year with your third you with your youngest basically youngest
roster in the National Football League puts you in a
position to kind of play with house money in this draft.
And so I think that the idea, and maybe it

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wasn't even the plan that you kind of were in
a stick and pick mode at the beginning of it.
I don't think it's the worst idea. And look, you
get a running back that seemed to be a need.
You know, Kobe Bryant left, Okay, that was a really
good player and you really liked what he did for
your football team. A guy that was a corner that

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you turned to, a safety that still had cornerback cover skills,
and Bud Clark kind of feels like he fits that
description out of TCU. So stick and pick your guy.
And then you lost Reek Wooland and what did you do.
You went and got a guy of length and Julian Neal.
It doesn't mean that you were trying to replace necessarily
req Land the football player, but you do need because

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teams are going to come at you with some long receivers.
It's not a bad idea to even if you don't
replace Requillan's athleticism, to replace his length. So you're a
little better prepared to face those teams that can throw
a long wide receiver at you, and maybe Julian Neil
is a good matchup. So I don't know if they
I mean, they're not gonna get A pluses. They're not

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gonna get a's from the draft graders out there.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Uh are because they filled more holes.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well and they had more picks. Yes, exactly, you're not
gonna get B pluses. But if people do sort of
acknowledge this is a team that didn't have a lot
of needs, they pretty much filled what little needs that
they had, and they are more than well equipped to
make another run at the super Bowl. If you come

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away with this when you started the process with four
draft picks and you're going to finish with seven draft picks,
and you've build the holes, what little holes that you
had on the roster, then I think most people are
going to acknowledge just a really solid draft. Maybe nothing
spectacular out of Seattle, but we didn't need to do

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anything spectacular exactly. Maybe next year you do something spectacular.
You know, when you think about guys that might be
leaving this team after this year, when you think about
DeMarcus Lawrence, who's already was kicking around retirement. He may
be gone next year. Cooper Cup probably gonna be gone
after next season. You probably are going to have to
replace some stallwarts on this roster next year, and you're

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gonna be able to do that aggressively with ten picks
in next year's draft that you still hold on to.
So for them to come away with having filled holes
and gotten Seahawk type guys, it's not gonna be viewed
as some spectacular draft out of Seattle. But as I said,
we didn't need to do anything spectacular. We needed to
do something solid. And I think that we're well equipped

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to make another run at the super Bowl this year.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
And I'm glad that they didn't go crazy when it
came to trading up, trading down. It wasn't you know.
I mean, clearly they wanted to trade out at number
thirty two. We were all expecting that. But they didn't
sacrifice in the places where they could have. You know,
John is a mastermind when it comes to playing chess
in this draft process. He has great relationships with and

(17:21):
I'm talking about John Schneider the GM. He has great
relationships across the league. And I said this to Ian
the other day, is that going you know, you kind
of go from being the hunter to being the hunted
and nobody wants to play with your toys anymore. I'm sorry,
but you're the big kid. You're the king of the
castle right now, So I do understand that. And also

(17:43):
just that's just the way it works. I mean, I
have it written here on my draftsheet. If you look
at the trades that happened right before there, they were
all trading with each other, and.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
It muddled the waters.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
It muddied the waters. But also they got the guy
they wanted. They had him on their board. He was
the guy that they wanted and that they wanted him later.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, and they might have been able to manipulate the
board down and got an extra pick out of it.
Then you're run with it. But then you run the
risk of not getting your guys. And you know, San
Francisco had moved down twice and was behind you now
in the draft. And you know what if all of
a sudden you start getting cute with the process you

(18:24):
moved down and suddenly the guy that you wanted is
now a forty nine er because they ended up taking him.
So I'm fine with sticking and picking. Fine was satisfying
the need, and so I think this has just been
a solid draft by the Seattle Seahawks. Well, we are
three picks away from the selection at two sixteen, so

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let's take our quick little break. We have mastered the
quick little break here today during our cover. Yeah, and
then we will come back on the other side. We'll
have the selection. Rob Ring will be back to evaluate
it for us, and we will add to this heap
of prospects that the Seahawks are accumulating here on day
number three of the trap. So keep it here. It

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is Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Now back to the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, presented
by Frost Brood Cors lit Cold is the Rockies and
brought to you by Dino's Pub and written on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh, we're operating this thing smoothly here today. I tell
you what, we are just a couple of picks away.
I mean, we got this operation down pat right now.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
That is due to Travis Moger back at the studio.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh, it's a team effort. Don't sell yourself short there, Jessuman.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
We are all in it together.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, exactly. But this thing, this thing is down pad.
It's smoother than Curtis Crabtree's t shot. That's how's Yeah,
that's that's how smooth this operation is. It's smoother than
ushers dance moves. That's how we got this down. I'll
tell you something's that's.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
A high high bar.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah. Uh. And Cayden Curry, by the way, just came
off the clock. So the Seahawks will not be taking
Cayden Curry at two hundred and sixteen overall because he
just went as the two hundred and fourteenth overall selection.
The defensive end out of Ohio State. Caden Curry is
your selection. He goes to the Indianapolis Colts. I brought
him up a couple of times. I don't know if

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the Seahawks are going to take him, but we are
two picks away from their selection, with the Atlanta Falcons
having just made their selection. So that means that the
Seahawks are on the clock as we speak. See I'm
talking about as smooth as it gets.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, I mean, kuikn't have timed that better.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, kayd And Curry though, that was an interesting one
for being a later round pick. I mean a rusher
out of Ohio State always looks attracted. But yeah, we'll
see what they do.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh wait, hold on, we have a trade.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh we have a tred yah And once again they're
not picking folks. It looks as though the Seahawks have
traded with the Packers, who are now on the clock
right now at the two hundred and sixteenth pick. We'll
get the details for you in a movie.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well, now, you're just being difficult, Schneider.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
He's doing it to mess with us because obviously we're
the most important people.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
What is the point of that? So all right, the
Green Bay Packers at two sixteen are like, we have
to have this guy. Uh, so they move up with
the Seahawks. We'll get the details on that. I really
thought that we were going to have a pick to
evaluate with Rob ring here in this segment. So we

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smoothly operated to put ourselves in the perfect position to
get this pick, evaluate this pick, and John Schneider decided, Nope,
I want to make another tree.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
He heard things. We're doing really really well here.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
I just can't help myself. I just he's like Chris
Farley in the restaurant with the you know, with the
with the.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Roll, pretty little pet.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, I'm got doing a pat might pick and I'm
gonna tag my pick and that.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I kill it. I kill my sale.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Don't make me recite that movie. I know if I
heard anyway. So let's see if we can.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Find so that one hurt. Yeah, that was there. Not
so much here or here, but right her.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah, So they're picking a two thirty six.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh that big Yeah, But that's.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
All the information I can find out.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Due to let me guess, they picked up next year's uh.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
And two fifty five, which is that what they already had,
So two thirty six and two fifty five is now
where their schedules picked. Oh and then they're at two
forty two as well.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
The two new picks were cooking all right.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
So from two sixteen to two thirty six with the
Green Bay Packers and then they added to fifty five. Well,
it's interesting from this standpoint because and this does give
me a little chance to talk about this as well.
Everybody was talking about throughout the entire industry that this
was a year where the draft talent was down, and

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pretty much the narrative was it's not as strong upfront,
and then after rounds five, It really really falls apart,
like you don't even want picks in the sixth and
seventh rounds, And here's John Schneider now has manipulated the
board in order to get four of them. Now, so
one man's trash, I suppose, is another man's treasure. John

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obviously feels like there's more talent here at the end
of the draft than what all of the experts have
been saying throughout the entire process. Otherwise, you're not trying
to manipulate the board to end up with four guys
from the sixth round on.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well, guess what Green Bay just did with that pick.
They picked a kicker out of Florida, Trace Smack. That's
a great name, ye know. Trace Mack is now where
the Seahawks would have been picking.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
And I would.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Say if that was the pick that we were going
to get, we would not be exactly excited about that.
So Green Bay apparently wanted to trade up for a kicker.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, apparently we didn't need a kicker to six to
forty two and two fifty five. So those are the
picks that are remaining, and who knows, maybe John will
manipulated a little bit further.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Pretty good at it. We're officially in the seventh round.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, we are in the seventh round as well. But
maybe we we get back and maybe he recoops. Who knows,
he might even end up recooping that pick that he
gave up earlier in the day to get the eleventh
selection back for next year. But that's it. And I
want to say this, this is the thing that I
was trying to lead to, was, Look, I don't really care.

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As somebody that loves the NFL Draft, it doesn't matter
to me if people say that it's weak, it's a
down year. It's not strong at the top, it's not
strong down at the it's not strong at the bottom.
I don't really care. It's still the same process. It's
the process that I like. It's two hundred and what

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sixty young men having the dream of all that hard work,
two hundred and fifty seven young men having the dream
of all that hard work coming true in the span
of one weekend. That opportunity, certainly on day number one,
to watch thirty two guys, whether they're celebrating at home
with family or they've put on the best suit that

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they could imagine, and their brains and their favorite two
to ten people that they wanted to take with them
to Pittsburgh to celebrate this moment. We still get that
every single year, whether it's a down year for talent
or not, we still get those general managers who are
constantly making get interesting for us by trading up or

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trading down. We still get those surprises and round number one,
whether it's somebody being overdrafted in our minds or underdrafted
that continues to slip down the board, it doesn't really matter.
The draft just always comes through. It's always interesting. So
whether this year was loaded with talent or it was

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a down year in talent, doesn't matter. It was a
fun ride through the last three days. Once again, the
NFL draft always delivers.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
You know, our good buddy Corbyn Smith who just walked
by Emerald City spectrum just kind of he didn't know.
He's super busy so he couldn't sit down. But in
his opinion, the Seahawks probably have a lot of priority
free agents that they don't think that they would be
able to sign after the fact, undrafted free agents, so
they're trading back to.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Gather them up in the seventh round.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
So okay, that makes a lot of sense and he's
super smart. I'm not as smart as him.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I think he called something earlier in the process
as well. So yeah, we we got that. You want
to jump on you can, Greg if you got nothing
to do.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
We got room for Greg Bell all the time.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, jump on a board. Our insider Greg Bell is
with us. I think you're five if I know, okay,
you're not four. I know you're not four. Maybe it's two.
Have there we go?

Speaker 4 (27:24):
There, we go out?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Hi, Greg, Hi. So they made their third trade already today.
Well what's going on? It surprised me because this is a.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Weaker draft and it didn't look like he would stockpile
this draft. But now he's gonna have eight total picks.
He's got two in the seventh round, traded out of
the sixth with green Bay. Green Bay just took that
spot to sixteen and traded to get that one, So
they'll end up with as of now, a total of
eight picks after starting with the league low of four.

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It's obvious that that the back end you're looking for.
Nietzsch rolls like Henderson of the Emmanuel Henderson the Kansas
a wide receiver by name, but he's a special teams
prospect and someone you could put in a gunner roll
that Derek Young just signed with the Las Vegas Raiders
was their gunner last year. Specified roles like that is
what these kind of picks are for.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
The Other thing it does is it.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Protects them from signing who they thought were going to
be undrafted free agents that they may have inklings that
other teams might outbid them for. And the way you
ensure that the undrafted free agent, rookie free agent guys
you were about to get the way you can sure
you get them is the draft them.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Right.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
But they didn't have a lot of draft picks at
the beginning the day, the late and seventh round. Now
they've just added two. That tells me they were two
priority undrafted free agents that they thought maybe another team
might end up getting.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well for a guy that started the day looking bored
and had nothing to do, you know, John wander around
and he'd like a lost dog. Yeah, Hey, is anybody
want to chat? Hey? Does anybody need their car wash? Yeah?
I got a little idle time right now. Yeah. He
ended up once he left us and got back into
the draft room, he ended up going to work.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Did he not he did, and of course it's a
matter of some team other teams wanting to deal with you.
He could want all he wants to trade back, but
it takes another team to return his calls or get
the offer that he wants or and that's what he
was running into on Thursday night. He wanted to trade
back from thirty two. We've talked about this a couple
of times. He wanted to draft. They wanted to draft

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Jederarium Price in the second round while adding a fourth
round pick by trading back, and they just didn't have
any suitors because of the sixth trades right in front
of him. So fewer trades and more teams with more
picks late in rounds that are willing to give him up.
There's a lot fewer teams willing to give up second
round picks as there are six and seventh round picks.
So he's having success today. Of course, you don't get

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the value of player a quality of player that you do.
But hey, they found Chris Carson with multiple seventh round
picks a few years ago that worked out pretty well
for him. These are specialized they you would say, well,
they haven't taken an edge rusher yet for instance, if
you take an edge rusher in the seventh round, it's
unlikely if he's still on the board, that he's going
to be able to have an immediate impact in your defense.

(30:09):
He would be a special teams type player that perhaps
could roll in to an edge rushing.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Role and maybe he strike lightning, and he does, but
that's probably not likely. Probably not the guy.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
So that would suggest that they will continue to look
in free agency and then cuts in the summer and
training camp for veteran free agents that might be cheaper
than they would be otherwise.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Right, Yeah, there's another whole I mean, a lot of
the offseason remains process. To mention, you got training camp
and there will be cuts made then, and then you
can add to your edge rusher, you know, stockpile at
that point. Here's the other thing. Chuck all the money.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Everyone says, why aren't you going to get this guy
or why don't you spend on this guy?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
They have thirty two million dollars in cap space.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
He's Snyder purposely reserves some money so he can make
the Leonard Williams, Carlos Dunlap, Rashid Shaheed type trade in
the middle of the season. He assesses what the Seahawks
look like through the first half, first seven eight games,
right up to the deadline and the end of October.
If you don't have any cap space, you can't add
players of impact Leonard Williams, pro Bowl type player.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
But when you save that money, you can. And I
think that's part of what's going on too. Yeah, yeah,
and so and then well yeah why reach then? So
what do you think out of this group is left
that didn't get done? Let's put it that way. Ye yeah,
Edge resher By.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Primarily they got the depth guard to potentially compete with
Anthony Bradford today. The reason they traded in the fifth
round is they did not expect an IOWA All American
guard to be available that they were. He was in
the fifth round. A lot of people thought he'd go
in the third round last night. So when he was
available in the fifth, that's the time they tapped in,
which I didn't think they do. They tapped into their

(31:52):
reserve of twelve up to twelve picks, counting a compick
next year and they'll stronger draft of twenty twenty seven.
But that's how much they thought of getting the IOWA
All American bo Stevens.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Stevens said that he's played right.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
And left guard, most recently left guard right guard. Of
courses of the interest of Seahawks fans with Anthony Bradford
and Anthony Bradford's contract ending this year, but he said
that Seahawks did not specify, at least to yet what
side he'll play on. That's one of my first questions
when Snyder and McDonald walk in here is what side
of the well.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
My guess is this is because he's so well schooled
at Iowa. They didn't play either one of them off
the bench. If you need him, I wouldn't even be
surprised if he has center skills because they're so well
coached at Iowa. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Kirk Frentz, a former offensive line coach, make sure Iowa
Hawkeys block and have NFL quality, blue collar offensive lineman.
The Seahawks got Mason Richmond last year from Iowa. Yeah,
you can bet that he is able to play both sides.
It will be interesting to see where they start him
out at. They've tried Christian Haynes there, they tried over

(32:55):
with Timmy there. They had Bryce Cable do with times
at right guard and practices last year it's obvious by
drafting an Iall American and trading into the fifth round
to do it, that they're not satisfied with anyone else
they've had behind Bradford.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, it's not going to be viewed as anything spectacular
this draft, but probably where they are world champs with
going into this process just four picks, I think this
is just solid. I think it has just taken care
of business.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Well, it was a very turnkey draft in that their
Super Bowl MVP lead running back left. They drafted a
running back, their safety, starting safety left. They drafted safety,
their cornerback, rotational third corner left.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
They've drafted a.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Top corner, not a top top corner, but they drafted
one that they think could play soon. So and now
you have a competition at guard because you're starting right
guards contract ends after this year.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
So it is a very turnkey need pick, need pick.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
They haven't always done that a lot of times they
don't do that, But when you're a Super Bowl champion
with twenty one of twenty two starters coming back, this
is what you do.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Let the Rams have all the drama. Let the forty
nine ers have all yeah drama.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yeah, that was that was a thirteenth hour pr spin
by the coach yesterday.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
What did you think of that react? What do you
think of the reaction he had? And then the explanation
I followed. The reaction was more authentic than the explanation.
I will take you that right, Yeah, I mean, of course,
I mean it seemed to Bud Greg It seems to
me that insane. The less neat at this part in
the process is not consulting on the exact lockstep as

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they said, Oh it wouln't seem it seemed crazy to
all of us. And yet it felt like it really
felt like Sean McVay was like, no way, am I
on board for this?

Speaker 5 (34:37):
Well, he obviously consulted, he didn't lock him out of
the building before they draft him, but he just didn't
listen to him. He just said, no, we're going to
take our quarterback here. The thing about it, it probably
made upset is I'm never drafting thirteenth, the Rams NFC
title game participant. The draft in thirteenth, that's really high
for a winning team. Yeah, let's reload with one of

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these top wide receivers or a stud offensive lineman to
protect Stafford's last year or two and let's go win
the Super Bowl. Will Stafford still here and they get
a lay away quarterback for down the road.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
You don't do that at thirteenth. You do that thirty
first or second, third round. But that's what.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
I if you really got Big Bay to tell the truth. No, yeah,
he's friends with Stafford, but that's probably the bigger reason
he's up.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
San Francisco media did ask Lynch and Shannan what they
thought of that pick, and of course they answered it
with words well, but there was even Lynch almost started laughing.
Did you guys ask the question of John and Mike
last night what they thought of that pick? No, we
knew better. They would have not even they wouldn't even
have They would have been smart enough to not even
have an expression on their faces because they knew we

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would have read into that and written about it. So no,
we didn't ask that, but yeah you can. They were
probably smiling about that. But what they did do it
made it harder for Schneider to trade now. And because
Simpson the quarterback was now gone at thirteen instead of
being on the board at thirty two when the Seahawks
were picking, and it was at thirty two, perhaps a
team would have jumped up in Arizona or someone else

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and made it easier for the Seahawks to drive down.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
But because so many trades happened right before Seattle, right,
that's really why they didn't move down. Do you think though,
just you think do you think that they interior right, Oh, yeah,
we're happy that we don't have the trade down possibility
versus the Rams didn't add anything at thirteen to help beat.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Us this year. We'll take that trade off. Absolute. Yeah, absolutely,
they were like, oh, they could have had.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Tyson the wide receiver from Arizona State, or they could
have had a few dudes. They could have had Lemon
in his our own backyard. Yeah, Kyle Lemon from USC.
Tyson's already gone, but yes, they could have had Lemon.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, they could have had Lemon. They could have had
a few others. They could have had the guard out
of Penn State that would have absolutely helped protect the
bad back of Matthew Stafford. So they could have had
Reuben Bain. Right.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
When the Seahawks do their NFL draft board, they didn't
have ty Simpson thirteen to the Rams. They had Rams
picking some stud that would help them right away huh huh.
You having a fun day until I look out behind
you and see this beautiful picture. This is uncanny that
every time your head to playing that correct, I'd rather.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Look in the white wall.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
This is uncanny, Chuck. You've been out here with me
a lot third days.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Every third day of a draft.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
I've been doing twenty one drafts, eighteen of them here
and nineteen of them, seventeen of them here in Seattle.
Every best day of the spring is the third day
of the draft. It's sixty five and no no clouds.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Chuck was saying that earlier. He's like, I don't know
what it is.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I don't know either. The boats are out. I'm like
washing like it's June or July or something.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Since this morning, I've been looking at fishermen at bald Eagles.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Why can't we have ah, there's one right there, there's another.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, why can't we have a ceiling of about fifty
feet and rain so hard you can't see across the world. Never,
it's never, that's always.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
The way, teasing you, just teasing you. Only the real
ones are here on a day like this. That's off you.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm gonna go jump in the lake actually come out.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Well, thanks for stopping by. I would imagine Jackson and
Kid are gonna bug you as well a little bit
later on. Yeah, that's a team effort today effort. All right, Well,
thanks for stopping by for a few minutes. Happy date everybody.
Thank you. There is our Seahawks insider Greg Bell here

(38:24):
covering day number three and all three days of the
NFL Draft from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. He's picturing
himself out on a pontoon boat with his lovely wife,
you know, enjoying some rays and a nice float.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Sounds like my kindest Saturday.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Along the lake. And instead he's waiting for John to
stop tinkering with the draft order.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
How quickly this is? This is my question to you.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
How quickly do you think that they will actually come
out after this draft? This the draft, it's a whole
draft is ending, so probably be.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Probably gonna be a long time today, Yeah, because you're
talking about like figuring figuring out three more picks.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Well, and then you got the undrafted and.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Then you have the undrafted guys as well, so it
might be here for a little while. H And by
the time Greg Bell leaves the most beautiful sunset of
the year. It will be occurring.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Oh my gosh, these poor guys.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I mean, we only have until five pm on the air,
so it hopefully, hopefully we will be able to bring
you John Schneider and Mike McDonald by that point. Because
this you know, there's only four minutes between four minute
clock between picks, I should say, sometimes they pick faster
than that, and we are at two twenty four out

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of two fifty seven. I think we will probably be
able to bring you that press conference as soon as
they come out, and we'll get a full recap from them.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
All right, we're twelve picks away from a Seahawk pick
as well, which I don't know if we're going to
get to before three o'clock, which is when I sign off.
So we'll just come back with some final thoughts, some
of my final thoughts before handing things over to Jackson
and Christopher Kidd to take you the rest of the way.
So keep it here. Our coverage of the NFL Draft

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Speaker 4 (40:24):
You never know who you will run into there.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
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Speaker 1 (40:38):
Now back to the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, presented
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Speaker 2 (41:04):
HI Draft coverage shell rolls on right here at Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM. And yes,
we are in the last round of the draft, seventh round.
Here we are at pick two twenty five, so the
Tennessee Titans are on the clock and the Seahawks have
they traded out again? No? There there are three two
thirty six all right, two thirty six, two forty two

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and two fifty five, so they still have three more
picks to make before our broadcast day comes to a close,
for the draft comes to a close. Uh, And so
we'll carry for you right here at Sports Radio ninety
three point three kjr FM. But this is my final
segment of our draft coverage. So three things that I
kind of wanted to hit on just to kind of

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wrap up my feelings about this entire process, which I
invest a lot of time and effort and heart and
love into. To me, the NFC West was liked. You
ever see the movie Summer Rental with John Candy where
I want to where they end up. He ends up
in a sailboat contest at the end of it, and
you know, that's sort of the gist of it. That's

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kind of how I feel like the NFC West was.
It's just some sort of like sailboat race that took place.
And to me, the Rams are sitting there bailing water
and pitching and trying to figure out what little extra
advantage that they needed to try to catch up with
the smooth sailing Seahawks ship, and they're just making their
tiny little adjustments. Meanwhile, the Rams might be throwing things

(42:32):
overboard they might need later, and the forty nine ers
kind of feel like they're doing the same right now.
And the Seahawks this draft, they're just kind of like, no,
we're just gonna keep it right here, and just we've
got the wind right now, slow and steady. We're in
the lead, and even though you're close to us, we're
just gonna trust we don't need major repairs on this thing,

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and we're just gonna keep on going. And the Cardinals,
even though they're doing good things to fix their boat,
they're so far behind that it's gonna take a while
for them to catch up. So I think it was
that kind of draft for the NFC West, where we
got the best shift right now, and our guys just
decided just a little patchwork here, just a little bit

(43:14):
of you know, you know, maybe buff buff out taking
off a few barnacles here and there. But we got
the wind right now, we got a good ship, and
we're just gonna keep on sailing it, and we're gonna
make you make the adjustments, and you look like you
might have screwed a couple of things up. You might
have made a slower ship this year. So that's kind
of the way I feel, uh in the NFC West.

(43:36):
As far as like who's gonna end up with the
best grades in this draft, I don't think the Seahawks
are gonna get a great trade grade out of this draft.
If you want to open up your newspaper or read
your favorite website tomorrow, I think you're gonna see a
lot of bees. I think you're gonna see a lot
of bees from the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
They didn't do anything, specially do anything though, you know,
they didn't mess up.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
There's no like, what the heck was that?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Because I mean we look at their grades, you know,
going back to the Bobby Wagner's draft, and they were terrible, right,
And it's like, you just don't know now because there
isn't that They they filled the most obvious need and
they're you know, replacing a running back, you know, RB one.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
They they did that. They got it. So where's the
criticism because what Glaring needs? Yeah, okay, they didn't take
an a dresser.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
But let's see what they do in the seventh round
and let's see what they do an undrafted free agency.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I think they'll end up with solid grades, nothing spectacular,
and I think what's gonna be weird. B A is
a good call for all of us. Is so when
we look at those grades that people make tomorrow, I
think that the teams that are going to be at
the top are the ones that usually blow this thing
a year in and year out. I think you're gonna
get the best grades for the Cleveland Browns, the Las

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Vegas Raiders, the New York Jets. I think those are
the teams, the New York Giants that are gonna end
up getting the best gripes aids out of this process.
The mass I think the Arizona Cardinals should get. I'm
not so sure that they will, but I think that
they because so many people are criticized seeing them taking
a running back with a third overall pick.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Oh come on, but it's that running back.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I think it was a I think it was a
great pick for the Arizona Cardinals. So Cleveland, Vegas, the Jets,
I mean, just to give you an idea of Vegas.
Earlier today, as part of their draft, traded away Tyree
Wilson uh to the New Orleans Saints now in twenty
twenty three, which is going to go down as one
of the great drafts in NFL history, at least one

(45:37):
of the great first rounds. The Raiders took Tyree Wilson
ahead of Jalen Carter, Bijon Robinson, Jamier Gibbs, JSN, Christian
Gonzales like some of the best players in the National
Football League. So if this doesn't indicate then maybe the
Raiders are figuring things out that they have bungled this

(45:59):
thing so many times in the past, and this year
I kind of feel like they're having one of the
best drafts out there. So kind of strange to be
saying positive things about those organizations drafts, but I don't
think there's any doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I think the most intriguing thing to me about this
entire draft is the Ty Simpson. That that one I
hope haunts the Rams like I just want it to happen.
But I mean just because that's like hate respect, right,
I hate respect you, but I don't root against Ty Simpson.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
But whoa, yeah, whoa.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Okay, we'll just see how that works out. And I mean,
Matt Safford's a stand up guy. I don't think he's
gonna be some you know Aaron Rodgers about it. I
think you'll welcome him in and usher him in. He's
thirty eight years old. I mean, he kind of gets
the deal. But I just remember when Jordan Love got

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drafted to the Packers. Aaron Rodgers obviously did not handle
that well. I don't see Matt Stafford doing the same
exact thing with Simpson. I think he'll be a wonderful
mentor for him, but it also takes the pressure off
of them them seeing him as the next quarterback for
la an experiment to be watched.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
And then, finally, the last thing I want to talk
about because I really do. I've always loved the NFL
draft process. I love the puzzle make It's the ultimate
puzzle making aspect of sports, which is my favorite thing
about sports. But the reason why the NFL Draft is
to me special is being able to see all of
these young men's dreams come true and the way that

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they react to it. Their family, their loved ones, their
coaches all react to it. And I had Three of
my favorite moments of the entire draft had nothing to
do with the Seattle Seahawks. The Peter Woods family, the
first round draft pick out of the Kansas City Chiefs
from Clemson, seeing his family go so far as we're
going to have our party at home, We're not going

(47:59):
to go to the draft, and we're really going to
turn it into a party. The entire family was dressed
in either white tuxedos or white dresses. All the female
was wearing white dresses or pantsuits or something like that.
The way they looked spectacular. And then Peter was in
this emerald green awesome suit, and so he stood out

(48:20):
like out from everything. But it was amazing. Their celebration
was amazing. I loved seeing it. Seeing reactions like that,
to see how much the families are getting into it
was awesome. Secondly, Kayden McDonald out of Ohio State, he
was the guy that was in the green room that
did not get chosen on Thursday. So that's hard. You know,

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you've dressed up, you've brought your favorite people to Pittsburgh,
You're ready to hear your name announced, and you had
to go the entire night without hearing your name. You
had to go to bed knowing that you didn't get picked.
And there were a couple of others that went through
the exact same process, Roger Goodell and by them all
to come back for day number two. He was the
only one that accepted that invitation, and yet he had

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one of the most heartfelt, outstanding responses to getting drafted.
He welled up with tears. He only had his mom
and dad still there. He got to be able to
share that with him. He walked across that stage cried
in the Commissioner's arms. It was awesome to see how
moved he was where he had every reason to be

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Brady Quinn and poudy about it and angry about it,
and instead he was Caden MacDonald was so appreciative and
grateful that he didn't care that he didn't get it
happening on Thursday. And then the third thing, and maybe
the best thing, was the Terrell brothers. Who Aj Terrell
of the Atlanta Falcons, who got to see who was

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at the party with his brother Avion at home, and
Avion got drafted to AJ's team, the Atlanta Falcons. And
to see those brothers and to see their love and
to see that exchange, I's always the best thing. So
things like that, that's why I love the NFL Draft.
That's why I make such a big deal out of
it on our airwaves every year, because it's an event

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like nothing else, and not just in a sports world,
but in our lives. I would have loved to have
had a draft coming out of college and been told
where I was going to go start my broadcasting career.
That would have been awesome. But nobody else gets this
and so be able to see.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
This, we have a little bit of choice. So let's
guess we can say.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
That, Yeah, so I mean, I just love it. And
it was another successful year. So it was great. Great
to be a part of it, and great to be
a part of this As Saturday. I want to thank
Travis back in the studios, want to thank Jessemon for
making it easy here, and all of our experts from
Rob rang to Greg Bell and so on for jumping
on board with us. Our coverage is not over. Just

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my part and it is over. I'm gonna hand it
off to Jackson Felts and to Christopher Kid. They'll take
you the rest of the way. We got three more
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