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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

I think only on this podcast would we do a two-part show about pre-draft offensive line prospects and the different ways that we can talk about them because we're really catering to the biggest audience possible here. We already did the this year's prospects. You have already listened to that earlier today. Talk about those guys with Dane Bruegler and Brandon Thorne really digging into the 2023 class.

So if you haven't gone to listen to that, please do.

But beyond those specific guys and what their outcomes or what their prospects look like in the NFL,

the other side of this conversation that I wanted to dig into is why guys drafted in the first couple rounds, of which

they're going to be plenty in this year's class, don't work out.

I think most people that even are big fans of football are going to look at guys

drafted 50th overall that didn't end up becoming an offensive line starter and not really

understand why.

You know, offensive line play is kind of a black box for a lot of people.

So I wanted to explore some of that. Why are these guys that are drafted relatively high?

Why haven't some of them worked out? And what does that kind of negative timeline look like for

players with that sort of draft position? To help me do that, I wanted to invite on two

long time NFL offensive linemen who have seen the league and seen those guys at those positions from every single angle during a couple decades combined in the NFL.

First off, friend of the show, long time contributed to what we do here.

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