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like a professional. Post your free job on LinkedIn.com slash agree today. Welcome to First Bite, our Detroit Lions Midweek podcast, where we're in the middle of one of the best series of the year, where we break down the Detroit Lions' 2020 draft class with a special guest that specializes in the draft pick that we're talking about this week.

My name is Jeremy Reisman.

I'm the editor-in-chief over at Pride of Detroit.

You can find me at Detroit online with me as my co-host, as always for First Bite,chief over at Pride of Detroit. You can find me at Detroit online with me as my

co-host, as always for First Bite, senior editor of Pride of Detroit at underscore, I'm sorry,

at Ryan underscore P-O-D. Ryan Matthews is with us. How are we doing, Ryan? How dare you

underscore me in the wrong spot? How are you doing, Jeremy? You doing good? I'm doing great. We had OTAs today. I feel like we're back in the swing of things. And I'm really excited about this show tonight because we're talking about a draft pick that I feel like is still kind of the unwrapped gift under the Christmas tree here because we haven't seen this player in OTAs. We haven't seen them in

working minicamp. We barely saw him on the field in 2021. And that's fifth round pick,

tight end, James Mitchell from Virginia Tech. So to help us break down James Mitchell and what the

lines may have in him, we have Andy Bitter, the Virginia Tech beat writer for the athletic. Andy,

thanks for joining us tonight. Well, thanks for joining us tonight.

Well, thanks for having me, guys.

Let's jump right into it because, again, like, I feel like James Mitchell is just kind of the guy that we don't know too much about.

So let's start from the beginning, which is what I like to do with this college career.

So, and that's, that's with recruiting.

So James Mitchell, a local guy, four-star recruit, somewhat, you know, sought after, I believe

he had a scholarship offer from, from Georgia. So what was the reaction like on campus around the

team when the, when Virginia Tech Hokies nailed him as a as a recruit?

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