Welcome to First By our midweek Detroit Lions podcast.

We are in the middle of our Detroit Lions draft review series where we are getting a special guest to talk about one of the Lions draft picks.

Before we get into all that, my name is Jeremy Reisman.

I am the co-host of First Bite.

With me is Chris Perfet. Chris,

how are you doing today, buddy? I have power, so I'm actually doing better.

Good. For those who don't know, I spent Wednesday 14 hours without power. I recorded a

podcast from a broom closet, but I am now back among the first world countries with the global

north or whatever the new word is for that. I am among the civilized, the connected. I am once again

connected to the internet. On the grid again. I'm on the grid again and I kind of wish I wasn't.

Well, we're happy to have you.

As I, as I mentioned, we are in the middle of our draft review series. We are up to lines third

round pick, second third round pick, I should say, Ifatu Melifanu cornerback out of Syracuse.

So to help get to know Ifatumel he will, we have a very special guest,

John Casillo, the managing editor over at Noon is The Magician, the SB Nation blog for Syracuse.

John, how you doing, buddy?

Doing well, guys.

Glad to be here.

Very, very happy to have you.

Let's just kind of get started with, I want to talk about the recruiting process for

Efatu because I thought it was a little bit interesting. There's a little bit of a local tie in there as well.

Wasn't really that highly regarded. It didn't have a ton of offers, three star recruit out of there.

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