Welcome to the From the Podium podcast, where we feature all of our daily press conferences rolled into one podcast to help you get ready for the 2025 regular season.

I'm Brock Danny He and on today's episode,

you'll hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski, linebackers coach Jason Tarver, tight ends coach

Christian Jones, defensive tackle Malik Collins, and linebacker Mahmoud Diabate. First up, head coach

Kevin Stefanski provides some injury updates. Okay, excited to be back

out here. Took a little day yesterday, as you saw, got a bunch of rain and cooled down a little bit,

but good couple practices coming up today and tomorrow, and then we'll take another break

before we get ready to head down to Carolina. Injury front, Kenny Pickett, will be back out there in a limited role today. He continues to progress. And then, you know, I think the guys are doing a nice job understanding all the work that needs to get done. They're focused. Meetings have been excellent. So looking forward to another good day. And I'd be remissed if I didn't mention Mary Kay, who's not here, right? She's down in Canton or on her way to Canton. Unbelievable honor for Mary Kaye, well deserved. So congratulations again to her. But with that, I'll take any questions. Do you saw DeWan leave practice Wednesday on that? He's fine, yeah. When you say limited for Kenny will you not be doing

team stuff correct yeah Kenny Kevin with the him coming back is there a possibility that

he would be full go by joint team workouts yeah I'm not gonna I don't know I need to see how it looks

today we're not going to get too far past today.

Kevin, I'm like, he's still fully in the quarterback competition, then in your guy's eyes and then competing for this? For sure, yeah. That's kind of mentioned to you guys before. I mean, obviously, disappointed that he's not full go, but he's very much involved in everything we're doing. Is that a little easier for a guy who's been in the elite?

I mean, you feel a little that a little easier for a guy who's been in the league?

I mean, do you feel a little more comfortable with that?

With a guy who has been in the league before and gone through the process and

getting ready for?

Yeah, I think so, Chris.

I think he's a player that's had a good amount of NFL game exposure.

He's had a lot of reps going back through the spring and what we've gotten

accomplished so far through training camp. So yeah, of course, you don't want anybody to be missing

action due to any injury or that type of thing, but he's done a nice job of staying very much engaged.

Kevin, can you explain why you went to live tackling this year and will we see it again?

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