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Welcome to 40s and Free Agents, your favorite podcast leading up to the start of the season,

talking about the biggest additions all over the league.

My name is Greg Rosenthal.

I am with Daniel Jeremiah, Mr. Move the Sticks, stunting on us, wearing his shirt that he bought at a very fancy resort in Hawaii.

Well, that would mean something if you didn't just tell me you were just literally over in Hawaii.

So that doesn't really fly.

But I feel like with this show, Greg, it's like the, you're going to get a visit from people during the holidays. And then I'm looking forward to seeing them again, you know, next holiday season. And all of a sudden it's like, why are they here in the summer? I thought they weren't coming until next year. That's not true. We had our first week of shows back last week and it was great to hear from everyone.

And the numbers say it. Everyone's listening. Everyone's enjoying. And yes, we're going to be going twice a week leading into the regular season. And then we'll get a little quieter and we'll be

back during draft season in full force. But yeah, let's go over what happened this off season and kind of push it forward about the guys who join these rosters that are going to make the biggest impact. You do the rookies. I do the veterans. We'll start with a rookie. Yeah, let's, we're going to rip through the NFC North here. So five guys and we get the, what do we call the sixth one? Your little bonus baby here.

It's like a wild card. Wild card. That's it. Wild card. So I'll start with the first one and let's keep it, let's keep it sexy. And I'm talking about the hair of Tate Ratlidge with the Detroit Lions. Who's going to, who's going to plug in, start at right guard. They were to toying with the idea of having him play center with glass with, uh, what's

Ragnow who retired.

So like, okay, well, we play there.

And then they ended up, man, we're not going to, we're not going to do that.

Let's put him at right guard. And you say, why would you have an offensive lineman as one of these, you know, key rookies to watch? well, that's the identity of a Dan Campbell team,

is their physicality in the way this offensive line can move people.

So I think it's going to be big for him.

He was not totally healthy his last year at Georgia. If he was, I think he probably goes a little bit higher. But he is massive. You think about how some of the sides that they have up there. I'll give you the numbers on him. He is 6.6.5. 308 pounds.

He ended up running a 4.97 as he got healthy at the combine.

But big athletic, physical, felt like this is kind of a Detroit Lion player.

Did he go a little earlier than people expected?

He was 57th overall.

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