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Well, hello, hello, hello. I am Matt Williamson. This is the Locked on NFL podcast.

Happy Draft Week, everyone. It is Monday. And a lot of changed since we've really

gotten together and done our usual shows. All last week, if you missed it, shame on you for six

weeks. But more importantly, welcome to many, many new listeners. All last week, we did a entire

locked on NFL mock draft with many, many participants from all over

the network really showed what the locked-on network is capable of. And I was lucky enough to have a

lot of you join my show. And thank you, first of all, and welcome new listeners. And we haven't

talked like this with some of you,

and many of you have been here a long time, and thank you, and back to my ESPN days and all those

things. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself, first of all, and I'm going to get

into a show that's a very popular one every year. I do it once a year. I'm Matt Williamson.

I started my career, basically basically as the recruiting assistant at the

University of Pittsburgh. That was, wow, like 18, 19 years ago, something like that. Help recruit

guy was there for Antonio Bryant's last season at Pitt and both the Larry Fitzgerald's year.

So I helped recruit guys like Revis, Flacco, Larry. I mean,

we went to three bowl games. Things were really good. I'm from Pittsburgh. I live in Pittsburgh now,

so that's home. I grew up somewhat of a pit fan, too, the Marino years, those type of things when I was a kid.

I'm 45 years old. I then went to Akron as the director of football operations.

J.D. Brookard, our receivers coach, was the head coach there.

I was there for like eight or nine months with Charlie Frye was a notable Akron Zip when I was there.

And quickly found out that the Browns were looking for a scouting position, which was right

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