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Howie Roseman on Brandon Graham returning: "Before the season started and before we went down any path, I called BG -- I'm fortunate really to have special relationships with a bunch of guys here and BG was my first pick. I just reached out and said, ‘Hey, we're in the market for an edge rusher, how are you feeling?’ At the time, he just felt like that wasn't the right timing for him. [Graham] hadn’t really contemplated, was doing a bunch of other things, but apparently got his mind started moving a little bit and he started working out a little bit harder. "When [ Za’Darius Smith] retired, [I] picked up the phone again and just said, ‘Hey, I'm just reaching out again. I had heard a little bit through the grapevine; you're working out a little bit harder.’ I got that little BG cackle, and that kind of gave me a sense that he wanted to come back. "I don't know, maybe he was trying to have our team prove that we were any good and when he saw that we had a chance here, he wanted to take the opportunity. But love having him back. I said to him when he came back, ‘I guess there's going to be a day where we're not going to have you to rely on. I'm just glad that day's not today.’"