James Gladstone

Walk away with signing them and you know that's a collaborative effort that brings that to life and obviously our coaches and support staff to be able to get those guys in a place to be able to play and those two individually to be able to prepare in the right ways as rookies by end of season to really have real roles and

Obviously, beyond that, a couple different guys who started on our practice squad and were either elevated at different points or ultimately brought to the 53-man roster through our undrafted college free agency is a really good sign for the future and really our process as a whole.

But obviously, when it involves

a few different players with injuries.

It's something that has to be thought through a little bit differently.

But nonetheless, at this point, there's plenty of room for optimism.

And that's a cool question because

Sacks in particular are never a true indicator.

Pressures are probably a better indicator of whether or not you're impacting the QB.

I think the way in which our scheme will evolve will have a role in how we address it from a personnel standpoint.

But clearly, I think we saw by season's end that there was an uptick,

not necessarily been a superpower of our defense on the front end of the season, became more impactful by season's end.

And I think we saw evolution of usage, and I do expect that our scheme itself will evolve and not necessarily be the exact same.

But yeah, there's going to be some preliminary discussions that take place over the course of the latter weeks in January.

Our coaching staff won't return until mid-February, at which point we'll dive into that stuff in greater detail.

Back to Hunter for both you guys.

How is his rehab doing and what is the plan for him moving forward?

Yeah, I think very fair to say that his rehab process is going as expected and he's hitting it hard.

And obviously the joy that he brings to just the everyday operation is still something that permeates throughout the space that he enters.

And beyond that and the role that he'll play, we still expect him to play on both sides of the ball.