{"id":605365,"date":"2026-04-25T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:47:12","slug":"takeaways-from-john-spytek-and-brian-starks-day-2-post-draft-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605365\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways from John Spytek and Brian Stark&#8217;s Day 2 post-draft press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another common trend between these draftees is leadership. Stukes and Zuhn were both multi-time team captains for their respective programs.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing his sentiment from drafting <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/team\/players-roster\/fernando-mendoza\/\" title=\"Fernando Mendoza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a> with the No. 1 overall pick, Spytek said character traits are just as quintessential as the athletic traits on the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[S]ince the day I got here, and really Starky too, we&#8217;ve just tried to load this roster up with guys that love it,&#8221; Spytek said, &#8220;that have leadership traits, that are great teammates, that will do the right thing, that will do the extra thing, and I think we all really felt like the four guys that we have so far in the 2026 Draft, they fill those buckets up pretty well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another common trend between these draftees is leadership. Stukes and Zuhn were both multi-time team captains for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[222326,8305,23481,23482,189764,222327,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-605365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-draft","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-john-spytek","13":"tag-news-draft","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}