This is a guide to about taking the top off the defense.

Don't once in a while, right? You're pretty good. He did it six of the last seven games.

He's got it! Touchdown tied!

He explodes through the quarterback and he might knock a few loose in the NFL as a rookie.

This kid is right up there with the most tough and most gritty competitors at that position.

Well, this is new and exciting.

Welcome into the first draft podcast, which that part of it, not new.

The surroundings, they are new. Thanks everybody who is joining us live right now on YouTube or Twitter or any of the other social media outlets that we know Mel Kuiper Jr.

The man standing or sitting right behind me spends most of his day on when he is not grinding the tape getting ready for the 2022 NFL draft as welcome into sort of the official kickoff of the 2022 season of the first draft podcast.

I am Field Yates. The man you see right behind me is really the man who needs no introduction when it comes to draft talk.

He is Mel Kuiper Jr. He has been doing this since 1984. The man has been associated with the NFL draft since he was literally in high school.

Mel, so good to be back with you. How are you doing, my friend? We are so ready for the 2020 NFL pre-draft process to begin.

1.0 getting ready to go and be up on Wednesday, doing a lot of TV Wednesday.

But in terms of the mock draft, we will kind of not tease it. We will give you some ideas about what I am thinking.

I haven't finalized it yet, so there is a lot of debate going on in my mind as to who I want to put to some of these teams and obviously the quarterbacks being front and center.

They always get forced up field as you know. We are not to the Senior Bowl week yet and Senior Bowl game, which is very important for quarterbacks.

But for right now, I will give you a little bit of an idea as to what you are going to see in that mock 1.0.

I cannot wait for the mock 1.0, which drops on Wednesdays. We have a couple of days for you to finalize your decisions.

Mel, a couple of housekeeping notes for those that are new or catching us right now on the live stream.

We are going to be live streaming every Monday, 2pm Eastern time on Twitter, on Facebook, on YouTube.

You name it, you find a platform will probably be available to watch. Of course, you still have our audio podcast, which is the heart and soul of this show.

It has been for the many years this show has been around several of which included me not being the host, the great Chris Sprout, handling that Paton for many, many years.

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