What up, what up, what up, everybody. Welcome back to the Charter podcast presented by St.

Xavier University. I'm Alex Shapiro. With me as always, it's my guy, Clay Harbor, Ruthie

Polinsky, on vacay right now. So you're stuck with the two of us. We got a lot to go through.

First off, 30 days until the NFL draft, so we're going to talk a little bit of draft.

We also have some buyer sell topics for you today. But first, we have some breaking news happened right before we started recording.

The Bears have signed Nick McLeod, a cornerback who is really a special team's ace.

He played a ton of snaps.

He came from the Giants and San Francisco last year, played 75, I think,

75% of the team's special team snaps in 2023, played a bunch of special team snaps last year

as well.

Big time gunner. So Clay, let's just start thoughts on on the Nick McLeod deal.

I think it shows what the Bears are trying to do, Alex, is really dive into the special teams.

They're taking care of the lines, they're taking care of the trenches, but they're also making sure the special teams is a point of emphasis. And obviously, with the proposed rule change that would push the touchbacks back to the up to the 35-yard line. So you're going to see a lot more kick returns. I mean,

special teams is huge. So you're creating a lot more competition on the bottom of the roster.

People always talk about the competition at the top of the roster, but the competition at the bottom of the roster is really what brings the floor up of your team. So I think this

is a good signing. And last year you didn't have a ton of effectiveness as far as your gunner

play. And we were looking up some stats about McLeod and you look at him. He's, McLeod was played more

snaps in special teams, 560 than he has on defense, 537 in his last 32 games going back to the start of the 2023 season.

So he can play defense, but his predominant role is going to be on special teams, and he is good at it.

We also looked at some of the statistics as far as Gunner win rate that pro football focus has.

He's top 15 in the NFL. So this is a guy that can get it done and there's a technique to this.

This isn't just, obviously it's a want to, a mentality, a guy that wants to be a special team or sometimes you get guys that want to play defense

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