MATSKO:
“We are excited about having Claude join our team, he is about 6’2 and 341 lbs, and I think he is a little less than that now.  John and I both were looking at our notes upstairs, the guy is big and strong, has power and brut force.  Just going down my list, he is nasty as an anchor, he can pull and run and hit a guy in spaces.  He is going to be a good fit to our football team.  He has great determination, and he is a very unselfish guy in the fact that he has played guard for two or three years to start out at New Mexico, and his senior year, they asked him to play tackle.  He played the strong tackle for them.  They do a lot of tackle traps and a lot of tackle pulling over there.  You are going to like this kid, he is going
to be a good fit for us.“

BENTON:
“He is just big wide body, a stout guy, real powerful blocker, and he pulls well. I think he will be a great fit for us.”

ON NEW MEXICO’S OFFENSIVE LINE STYLE:
“They run a lot of zone scheme stuff, and they run some option out there quite a bit.  They did run some power, I remember him pulling on the power, and doing some tackle pulls, those types of things.
Pretty diverse.”

MATSKO ON NEW MEXICO’S OFFENSIVE LINE STYLE:
“They are wide open in that league.  They are running that in Florida and they have a lot of different pass protections, so that is a thing that is attractive also with this young man.  Wilbert Montgomery went out there to the work out and he fell in love with this kid.  John and I did a lot of research on his tapes, as did the scouts.  We are very high on him, especially at the guard position.  We think a lot of
this kid.”

MATSKO ON NEW OFFENISIVE LINE PLAYERS:
“We are always in the process of developing guys, you always have develop young guys.  We meet with our guys at 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and we take them out to practice 20 minutes early.  We still have some young guys, Andy McCollum and Adam
Timmerman are young guys.  In their minds they are young guys.”

MATSKO ON MAKING OFFENSIVE LINE PICKS EARLY IN THE DRAFT:
“It is very exciting, and we are excited about the guys that we have with Barron, Incognito, and Claude
Terrell.”

MATSKO ON LINEMEN PLAYING DOUBLE DUTY:
“We dress seven linemen, which seems to be the trend in the National Football League.  When I first started in the league we were dressing eight guys, which was a luxury.  Now we are down to seven because they want to dress more defensive backs for all the wide receivers we see on offense.  Your two backup guys have to be a tackle and a guard, and a guys has got to be a guard and a center, they
have to be able to play both sides.”