At 10.25 a.m. later, today, your football team is going to take the field as a.

Formally for the first time. Good morning to you. Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kovach of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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There are three OTA sessions this week,

today, tomorrow, and Thursday. If you're new to football, OTA stands for organized team activity,

and it's voluntary. That point can't be made strenuously or often enough.

Because if and when big name veteran players don't show up today and you see here or read about it,

it is not to be a big deal.

It's just how it goes.

The NFL Players Union isn't all that effective at a lot of things,

but they have drawn a hard line between what's voluntary and what's not. They've earned this

right in the agreement, and as least as I see it, it should be respected. But you're also going to have a ton of

them there, like way more than not. And you're going to see for the first time again, this is

formally an interaction between the veterans on the scene, the rookies, draft picks, the undrafted types, the new external

acquisitions, D.K. Metcalfe, notably, the players, and this is actually a much bigger part of it

than anything I just described, getting to know and deal with in the grass, their positional

coaches, their coordinators, and how it is that they go

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