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And now, move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Look, I appreciate you guys coming and hanging out today and talk about this draft.

I think it's, it feels like it takes forever to get to the draft.

We finally made it. I'm excited to get it going. It feels like there's a there's still a good bit of intrigue here at the top of the draft. You know, it looks like kind of know where things might be headed with the first pick and and then it starts to get fun. So looking forward to it, looking forward to hang with you guys today and fire away.

And when you look at some of the decisions made by the guys, the draft decisions by the guys with college eligibility remaining, and especially the quarterbacks, you know, who decided to enter, who decided not to enter, how much do you think that the new economics of college football affect the draft now and the depth of the draft class, and in particular a quarterback? Yeah, I mean, I think it has a big

impact that I wouldn't, you know, say it's even specific to quarterback. I think other positions

that's had a bigger impact, you know, I think in years past, the easiest sell for an agent was to a

running back, even if he had middling production, which was to say, hey, you've got to start getting paid for these carries you have in your body as soon as possible. So I thought you saw a lot of guys come out when, you know, maybe they weren't quite ready yet. And now those kids are getting paid, you know, either by their school or somebody else. and so they have opportunities and that's, you know, it's kept a lot of those kids are getting paid, uh, you know, either by their school or somebody else.

And so they have opportunities and that's, you know, it's kept a lot of those kids in school. I think for the quarterback situation, again, it's more of guys that are, you know, I think for the most part, it's guys who would have been middle, middle, late round picks, um, that they're easier to sell. you're going to make more money coming back to school,

then you will be in a fifth round pick,

six round pick.

But,

um, round picks that they're easier to sell. You're going to make more money coming back to school, then you will be in a fifth round pick, six round pick. But, you know, I think that's a factor. I don't think like the guy that I think people would look at with this example would be Drew Aller, but I don't think that was really a financial decision. I think that was just more so him feeling like he wanted to, you know,

wanted to go back to Penn State and see if they could, you know, finish off what they got close to

last year. So, you know, I think the, the quarterback class this year where it's not as star studded,

it's just, that's the roller coaster. We had six last year. Like, there's no way you keep up keep up that pace. So there's just going to be big years and there's going to be lean years. And I don't know if that's quite as related to the money aspect of it is just, that's the way it's always been. Thank you. Our next question came from Dave Burkett. Hey, DJ, appreciate your time as always here. Just wanted you to weigh in on two prospects, if you could.

First, on Azaraku, is he a one-trick pony?

Or how do you sort of see him developing as a run defender?

You know, maybe becoming a more complete edge player down the road.

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