The Detroit Lions select Michigan Wolverine C Graham Glasgow with their third-round pick (95th overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft.

Detroit Lions C Graham Glasgow was available to media via conference call following the team’s third-round selection.

On if he played Call of Duty with his brothers on draft day: “I didn’t. My Mom and my Dad wanted to come out, so we ended up watching the draft instead.”

On his thoughts toward the end of the third round: “I was excited and I was excited basically the whole time for the whole three-and-a-half, four hours I was watching today. I thought that I would get picked somewhere around here, fourth round, third, fourth round. I was just excited and excited to get picked by Detroit and be able to come out just 45 minutes away, 35 minutes away from where I’m at right now and be able to play ball.”

On how much interaction he had with the Lions before the draft: “I would say no more than any other team. I mean, I met with them at the Senior Bowl and I talked with maybe a coach or two at the Combine and besides that, I mean, it really wasn’t much, much more than that. I think I made a good impression on them in those meetings. As I said, those meetings went well, those few meetings went well.”

On his conversation with Lions Executive Vice President and General Manager Bob Quinn: “I mean, when he called me it was just along the lines of like, ‘Hey, we’re calling to make you a Lion’ and I didn’t really know what to say, I was sort of speechless. He didn’t really say much about expectations on the phone, but I’m expecting of myself to come in and work and earn everything that I get there.”

On what he has learned through being a walk-on at Michigan and other obstacles: “I think that the drunk-driving stuff for me is in the past and that’s something I’ve learned from and I take responsibility for. When it comes to being a walk-on, something that has sort of saw me as the person that’s most responsible for your development is yourself and you have to find the motivation to get yourself better. That just comes through working as hard as you can in practice and in the weight room and that’s what I expect to carry over to the Lions.”

On playing both center and guard and if he has a position he enjoys more: “Not really. I’m ready to play whatever the coaches want me to play. If they want be to play corner, I’ll play corner. If they want me to play left tackle, I’ll play left tackle. I’ll play anything.”

On if he has spoken with Michigan Head Coach Jim Harbaugh since being selected: “I haven’t talked to Coach Harbaugh, but I did talk to our offensive coordinator, Tim Drevno, and he was really happy for me and it was a short phone call. I didn’t even know what to say, this was the first time I’ve actually been able to collect my thoughts, I think, over the past like 30 minutes.”

On if he has given any about his journey to the NFL: “Not particularly. I can see that I started out as a walk-on, under scholarship, got in trouble and sort of worked my way back up. I think that I’m now an NFL player and I think that it’s just something that, it’s my dream to play in the NFL. It’s surreal, really. I haven’t really thought about the come-up as much as just this moment right now.”

On what it will be like to join a meeting room with another rookie from Ohio State: “It will be nice. It’s actually funny that it’s Taylor (Decker) and I because we were out at the Combine together and he said, ‘You know, let’s get each other’s numbers,’ like he said that to me and a couple other guys. He was like there’s a good chance maybe some of us will end up playing together. Surely enough, it’s him and I. So, it’s kind of funny how that worked out.”

On what it means to him to be the first Michigan player to be drafted by the Lions since 2001: “I think it’s awesome. I think that they’ve been able to see more games than any other team and find out what type of guy I am and just be around the program. I think that Michigan, especially over these next few years and down the line here, is going to be producing a lot of good players and it won’t just be me getting selected this year. I think there will be more selections from the Lions from Michigan. I mean, there will be more of them over the next few years.”

On if he thinks he was better at center or guard while at Michigan: “I don’t know. I usually would end up grading out somewhere along the same line, so I think that it just was really whatever the team needed me to play, I ended up playing. That’s what I prided myself on, was the versatility to be able to be a good starter, pretty consistent starter at both center and guard.”

On how much he benefitted from playing in two all-star games: “I think it mentally (helped). I think that it was good to go out there and play in the East-West game and I thought I did pretty well that week. Then, being able to show the teams that I am competitive and want to be able to go against the best senior players in the nation and the very next week it was just something I felt was good for me and I thought I also did very well that week, so that helped.”

On how strange it is to see a player like Michigan State QB Connor Cook fall in the draft selection: “I thought he was the best quarterback we played at Michigan. I think he’ll end up fine.”