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Yeah, I see some people, you know, commenting on his rate, his rankings drop.

Yeah, it's very conspicuous the timing of his drop.

I can't deny that, that, you know, his drop seemingly coinciding with his decommissionment from Alabama.

It does.

Um, It does Listening to the ranking to the rankings guys I guess his rankings drop had been on the table for some time, apparently.

What I would say is his athletic profile, regardless of what you may think about his senior

film or how he performed in an All-Star game, his athletic profile has not changed.

Six-five, two hundred eighty-five pounds, super long arms, tremendous athleticism.

You just can't teach.

And I think that you put him in Michigan's program with its track record for development

and the offensive line and the offensive line tutelage, the combination of, you know, of course you got Grant Newsom, but I'm an offensive line coach, Grant Newsom, but when you look at, you combine that with, of course, Sharon Moore, Juan Castillo's in the building now, Brett Inglis in the building.

I mean, you got offensive line acumen up the wazoo with that tremendous athletic.

He is a pile driver of an offensive lineman with the disposition to match.

I just think, man, the skill set, you can't teach.

The stuff that they're talking about, you can teach.

You can, you can teach pad level.

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