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empire media that's a mp iare with the draft almost finally here i want to bring on two of my

beat reporting colleagues who cover the commanders to have one last

full discussion about the draft, the direction of the franchise, et cetera. So I have on

Nikki Javala from The Washington Post. You can read a work on, of course, the Washington Post.com

and Ben Standig from The Athletic, Reader's work with the the athletic, but also his podcast,

Standing Room Only. I'll get to them in a minute. We're going to go over all sorts of topics.

You know, some of the stuff we've covered a lot, but I want to bring you different opinions,

even if it's similar topics. We do talk about Chase Young's fifth year option. We talk a lot about

a lot of things, mostly about the draft, where they could go, where they

should go, et cetera. Before I get to them, just one more minute on a couple things, just a few

things, some housekeeping items, I guess. I have a story up now on Sam Howell. And what it's

about, I wanted, because Washington is not aggressively pursuing a quarterback in this draft.

Now, they still could take one.

Hendon Hooker is a guy to watch.

They had him in.

We know when you bring him in like that, there is certainly an element that there's something they like about him.

So that's a guy to watch.

But they're not aggressively pursuing one like they have the last

couple years. Well, I asked some NFL draft analysts what they thought of how coming out and how they

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