Ryan Poles

I think we're getting closer and closer to clarity on that side of things, which helps us start to build those models to make sure that, again, we're doing the right thing for us moving forward and we're not putting ourselves in a situation where we've got to make really tough or bad decisions down the road that hurt us.

Yeah, philosophically, I feel the same.

It's going to be the best player available.

I know that may not be the most popular thing because people see kind of like on my board have yellow tags where we need to fill in.

But at the same time, I do believe, especially in early rounds like one, you really got to stick to best player available.

We saw that last year.

I know there's a lot of questions like, yeah, Cole, why would you take Colston?

I think we found out that it helped us along the way.

So we'll continue to lean in that philosophy.

Yeah, it's really difficult.

We spent a lot of time working through that process.

There's some unknowns there.

There's some projections just in terms of return time.

And then you want to know, is that athlete going to return to be the same player he was before?

Could they go downhill?

So there's a lot of projections, and that makes it a little bit difficult.

But I think that's when you lean into versatility, flexibility, and making sure that you get the right person in the room to make sure that that group can be filled out the best they can.

And it sounds really simple, but you want to take a good football player that meets the criteria that you're looking for in terms of culture fits.

play style, intelligence, all of those things.

You really want to lean into that.