closing in on the one o'clock hour as we continue rolling through day three coverage of the

2021 NFL draft on 1053 the fan and dallas cowboys.com from inside the star in friscoe.

We are three picks in to the fifth round and with the final selection of the fourth round

for the Dallas Cowboys at 138. They selected offensive tackle.

Josh Ball out of Marshall. He's on the line. Josh, congratulations. A big day for you coming from

Huntington all the way to Frisco. What's going through your mind right now? Wow. What an amazing

opportunity. I can't wait to be down there Frisco and just be a part of the Dallas Cowboys organization.

And it's just a blessing, and I'm ready to get to work.

Hey, Josh, you're sitting here watching your name come off. The scouting report on you is, you know, the natural talent to have maybe gone yesterday higher in the draft

and maybe it's more issues with your time at Florida State that led to you falling today.

I'm just curious what this draft process has been like for you and what your conversations

have been like with NFL teams and with the Cowboys to help teams get a handle on all that.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, the past of the past, it's over with and done with.

Everybody's moved on.

And I don't really have a comment about that.

It's just a lot, you know, about getting to know me as a person and getting to know my

mental side on the ball stuff and just seeing how my mind

works with protections, run game and stuff like that and just kind of running that through

my head and seeing how I work and put things together. So, you know, that's how most of these

calls went, especially with the Cowboys. And yeah, that's...

What, and you know, you mentioned calls with the Cowboys.

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