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He is joined by Joey Olsen, who praised McRee for his veteran leadership.

“I just really take a lot of the stuff he does and learn from him — just how to be a professional, how he runs routes, how he blocks, his physicality,” Olsen said.

Olsen is doing his part to separate himself by doing extra work and film study, giving extra effort during practice and doing extra reps outside of practice.

Times feature writer Mark Olsen, Fast Break reporter Summer Lin and former De Los staff writer Alejandra Molina contributed to this report.

Taking that “what if” premise of state-mandated parental suitability to a dystopian extreme is the elegantly oddball if undercooked “The Assessment,” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel as a seemingly perfect couple in a decidedly imperfect future, who find their dream of parenthood a possible reality if they can survive a week of testing.