Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings.

I am Brian M. Hauser.

You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Blue Sky, YouTube, everywhere at HockBlogger.

And I've got a very special show.

After arriving late last night from the NFL annual meeting over in West Palm Beach, Florida, today's double pod Wednesday.

And we get to start with one of the future stars of the NFL.

You may not know his name yet, but you will know his name very soon.

He is Jalen Knoll, a wide receiver at

Iowa State, one of two receivers out of Iowa State that are getting a lot of acclaim in this

pre-draft process, someone that I got to watch at the Senior Bowl up close and also at the

Combine, and he stole the show. show and without further ado let me bring aboard the

man of the hour jalen knoll how are you doing this morning jalen i'm doing great thank you for

having me on the show man it's great to have you where are you coming to us from during this busy

pre-draft process yeah i'm I'm still at Iowa State right now,

just staying in shape and just enjoying the process so far. Well, tell us a little bit about,

you know, how you got into football. Like when did you start? What was the first position you played?

Yeah. So I got into football early, second grade, straight into tackle football. My mom really

introduced me to it or just got me in to a little league team, the Wyandotte County Panthers.

And I actually played quarterback when I started football. I was actually taller than everybody

when I was younger. And then everybody surpassed me by like middle school, beginning of high school. So yeah, I was quarterback when I

was younger and really just grew up and learned to love the game and enjoyed it a lot and

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