Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downing, and we are thrilled to sit down with Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta.

And Eric, one thing we hate to do on this podcast is Tudor Earnhorn.

Just we loathe doing that.

But in full transparency, I do have to let you know that Malachi

Starks was my mock draft pick. And you're probably thinking a lot of guys pick Malachi. You know,

this wasn't exactly a giraffe, stick your neck out kind of thing. But I planted my flag on February

13th. I have the receipts. A few days out of the Super Bowl, I said, Malachi's my guy, right?

So my question to you is,

how early was Malachi the Ravens guy?

Like, when did he first peak your interest?

Yeah, I mean, I think, Ryan, first of all,

they don't become our guy until they become our guy.

Literally, we're on the clock, and that become our guy until they become our guy. Literally we're on the clock and that's our guy.

We have a lot of guys that are our guys.

But I think that's a player that the scouts really like throughout the process.

Joey Cleary, Andrew, Raphael, Kevin Wattle, those guys went in there to Georgia early

and just came back with rave reviews, professionalism, coachability, ball skills,

toughness, tackling, instincts, just, you know, kind of ran the gamut of every box to check

off was Malachi. And he became a guy that throughout the process. We just said, you know what,

if this guy's there, this guy would be a great pick. Yeah. Is there a process, you know,

Malachi had a fantastic interception in, like, his fourth play.

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