Hello, I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going? I am back from Wednesday's OTA practice, real hot one,

very spirited practice. This was definitely the most fast-paced, aggressive practice I've seen yet yet with the team drills, things like that,

of course, not blocking, tackling, et cetera.

But a really good one.

But unfortunately, the news since we talked last was the Donald Parham season-ending injury,

which you hate to see in OTAs.

I mean, brutal.

I guess the good thing for him is,

gives him a longer time to recover for next year.

But what are the Steelers losing in Parham?

First off, I don't know that he was even a short or roster spot.

I don't know that they had huge plans for him or were counting on him to be a major

part of anything. You know, see what he does. But I did kind of give him the front runner to be the

third tight end. He's unusually tall, but he's very lean. He's not a blocker at all. Just because

he's tall, he's nothing like Darnell Washington. Washington's

probably 70 pounds heavier and a way better physicality player blocker. Parham's got a real

long stride, kind of a giraffe look about him, high center of gravity. But he can get down the field. You know,

he's a build-up speed guy. He certainly can pluck the ball in the red zone. His height

works his advantage with long arms and can grab the football well outside his frame and red zone,

as I mentioned. But what this brings

me to is I think that tight end room, they're all very different, you know, somewhat by design,

I'm sure. Even, you know, Friermouth versus Washington versus Hayward, all couldn't be any more

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