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After more than a year away with a neck injury, how did Nnamdi Madubuike fare in his return to the field. Ken McKusick joins Rob Long, Jeremy Conn, and Ed Norris to discuss how he played and the surprisingly high snap count.

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00:00Okay, now the Matabike story is a huge one, because Matabike came back and he played 47 snaps.
00:05And I don't really honestly think he played as well as PFF did.
00:08PFF gave him a great grade.
00:10He graded out as the top interior defensive lineman?
00:13Yeah, so they gave him credit for the forced fumble as the main reason for that, instead of Travis Jones.
00:17I'm not sure who got it, but they both were involved in the play, and we'll call it a half
00:21each if you want to.
00:23Matabike got some pressure otherwise, but he also had a rough in the passer, which has been a Matabike bugaboo
00:28over the years.
00:29But to start the season, I had three questions about Matabike.
00:32Number one, is he going to play at all?
00:33Number two, is he going to play as much?
00:35And number three, is he going to play as well?
00:37We had an answer to the first one when he basically was coming back and practicing, when he knew he
00:42was going to return.
00:42But this game answered question two as well.
00:45Is he going to play as much?
00:46He played 47 snaps in his first freaking game back.
00:49That's just an unbelievable signal to us.
00:52And I think because of that, I think it will probably follow that he'll be very effective this year at
00:57some point.

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