Ben Johnson

His track record says that.

And so I think Malik is a very sharp young man, and he's going to be able to embrace that coaching style with open arms.

I said it a couple weeks ago, you know, Coach Rochard and Coach Devan, they made some rounds this offseason just making sure we did due diligence on a number of players.

And Logan was one that stood out.

And, you know, my visit with him when he was here was extremely impressed by football knowledge, makeup, performance.

very mature and to me it's not we're getting a rookie, we're getting a guy that's a little bit more of a seasoned player which really is not uncommon for those Iowa linemen.

So I think he's going to fall kind of next in line for a really good program the next guy out.

How quickly can he be ready to play at this level?

Time will tell.

The ball's in his court as far as I'm concerned and he understands that

Just like with everyone else, we're looking to create competition and consistency day after day and building trust, not only with Caleb and the other quarterbacks, but within that offensive line room and then obviously with the coaching staff.

So it's just a matter of time to build trust.

Well, we're certainly going to coach better than what we did a year ago.

And like I said before, it starts there.

We've made a concerted effort in how we're going to get that done.

We were excited about the guys that ended up finishing the season on IR, the trajectory that they were on, both Dio and Shamar.

when you look at it from the start of the season to the point where they both got injured, we saw growth and we saw them turn in the right direction in terms of what we want to see on game day.

I think Sweat had one of his better years in the NFL, whether that shows up in the sack total or not.

He's a very complete player, both run game and pass game.

And I think you saw tremendous growth from Booker when we were finally able to get