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Speaker 1: understand who I am are, Like why I act the
Speaker 1: way I act? But I see like through the bad things.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy, so like to see the better and things.
Speaker 1: Quinn should never be an option at all. Hey, I
Speaker 1: am the director. Thank you very much so with this
Speaker 1: what are you doing right now to stand shape? Why
Speaker 1: would you ask me that question? Welcome back to Drafted.
Speaker 1: We're eight elite college football players take us on their
Speaker 1: own personal journeys as they enter the NFL. In the
Speaker 1: week leading up to the draft. They'll mike themselves up,
Speaker 1: Mike Check, Mike Check, my chick without producers, directors, or cameras,
Speaker 1: offering an honest, authentic look at who these athletes are
Speaker 1: beneath the pads and when it takes to go of
Speaker 1: a childhood dream to hearing their name called on draft day?
Speaker 1: Is this whole like draft thing been kind of feeling
Speaker 1: unreal because of Corona? You know? I mean, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure everyone is thinking the same thing. In this episode,
Speaker 1: we have one last athlete to introduce, La Visca Chinault,
Speaker 1: a special player officially deemed a wide receiver, but in
Speaker 1: actuality a positionless offensive weapon who destroys opposing defenses all
Speaker 1: over the field. He's a prospect on the edge of
Speaker 1: incredible opportunity after facing some of the most daunting challenges
Speaker 1: of anyone in this draft class. Will also check in
Speaker 1: on cornerback is saying Bassie a man driven toward greatness
Speaker 1: by his family despite lacking the typical size and strength
Speaker 1: needed at his position. Now navigating the nerves that come
Speaker 1: with this life changing moment four days until the draft. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my everybody that are around me, like my family and
Speaker 1: you know, my friends, at times, I feel like they're
Speaker 1: more nervous than me. And we'll hear from the predator
Speaker 1: Chase Young Pama go like a problemise to myself, you
Speaker 1: wanna be the best, you gotta be the best. A
Speaker 1: defensive juggernaut expected to be selected in the top three
Speaker 1: and maybe even first overall. So let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Mike Chick, Mike Chick, Mike Chick, do you want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and guide them through that? Yeah? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see the microphone. Do you mind talking your
Speaker 1: necklaces quick? Yeah? Hold on, wait on, that sound. What's
Speaker 1: this over here? Why I hear all these? Uh? This
Speaker 1: is Levisca Chennault, a wide receiver known for his massive
Speaker 1: size and explosiveness and equally for his swagger. Pull it
Speaker 1: up and through your shirt. Um yeah, you gotta make
Speaker 1: sure that the hair doesn't doesn't interfere with that. The dreads.
Speaker 1: It's like hair with the purpose, like what people do
Speaker 1: with tattoos. The power of the dreads. I kind of
Speaker 1: like watching it blowing the way and when he runs
Speaker 1: in the end zone where we go, they say, oh,
Speaker 1: let's dude, the two is played this number two. I
Speaker 1: think there is making magic. That's how people everybody noticed me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm leaviscadalt jr ak to Lave. I'm twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: Like Levisca said, he's known for his dreads. There are
Speaker 1: a lot more than just a showcase for his personality.
Speaker 1: To fully understand the hair, you have to first understand
Speaker 1: the man. Like Chase Young, Jeff Okuda, and McKay Beckton.
Speaker 1: He's entering the draft after playing just three years of
Speaker 1: college ball, and like those other three, he's being talked
Speaker 1: about as a first round draft pick. This whole like
Speaker 1: draft thing been kind of feeling unreal because of Corona,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure everyone is thinking
Speaker 1: the same thing. I can't wait through Corona to get
Speaker 1: over with. So I can, you know, experience that. You
Speaker 1: know that that celebrity life. The NFL is full of
Speaker 1: a builliant personalities, players that light up the field and
Speaker 1: any room they're in. That's Leaviska a Ka to Live,
Speaker 1: one of the most electrifying players in this year's draft.
Speaker 1: Now only a few days away from the draft, visca
Speaker 1: to Live, his mother and six siblings and their families
Speaker 1: are all preparing for the life changing moment when his
Speaker 1: name is called. They've rented a house a few hours
Speaker 1: away from their home in North Dallas just for the occasion.
Speaker 1: So I just got to my retreat house that I'm going. Mom,
Speaker 1: NFL drafting app um right now, kind of stuck in
Speaker 1: the front. We need to hurry up and get in
Speaker 1: so we can start setting everything up. And my mom's
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, looks frustrating. A what happened? What happened?
Speaker 1: We got a pe? But what hap? Oh do we
Speaker 1: have the quick what's the code? The code? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't have a code. That's the whole point. Why mommy
Speaker 1: do you somebody found called his l so she ca
Speaker 1: give us cold and going right. They're locked out of
Speaker 1: the rental house without a code to open the door,
Speaker 1: hopefully not a metaphor for Leavisca undrafted. So why didn't
Speaker 1: been doing this the whole time? We've been trying to
Speaker 1: get in but it's not working. You even been doing this?
Speaker 1: This tight knit family has been waiting for Leavisca's big
Speaker 1: day for a long long time, enduring much to see
Speaker 1: him meet his dreams. Now the mood is reflective, recording
Speaker 1: themselves on where the family has been and hopefully where
Speaker 1: they're headed to. Introduced yourself, y'all want to induce I'll
Speaker 1: do it right now. Everybody had an own back. No, no, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is different. It's not like a game like this.
Speaker 1: Is this that sorr He was on the quickly intro
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna sit down. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: How you guys doing? True? Hi? Tearing the cold sister
Speaker 1: Calvin big Broa existed Carlo's brother law. Allright, know who
Speaker 1: I am? Who ship Cody? Because it twins sister number
Speaker 1: one six little bro Now I'm h m Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: annie with mom. Stop stop stop? What are yea? Y'a?
Speaker 1: Just saying our names? What are you like? What like?
Speaker 1: Who are you to me? Like you're under saying oh, tray, okay?
Speaker 1: What this is? That the boat? It's just the talk show.
Speaker 1: The primary job of wide receiver is to find or
Speaker 1: create an opening in the chaos on the field. They
Speaker 1: have to get free to catch a pass behind the linebackers,
Speaker 1: in front of the safeties, away from the corners, and
Speaker 1: all within seconds as defenders fly around them in every direction. Hey,
Speaker 1: I am the director, Thank you very much. At times,
Speaker 1: it feels like Levisk is playing this rule everywhere, not
Speaker 1: just down the field. So with this, what are you
Speaker 1: doing right now to stay in shape? Why would you
Speaker 1: ask me that question? So do you see yourself? What
Speaker 1: your first place? I want to go to? How to
Speaker 1: stay another country? After hold this corona? I'd tell you
Speaker 1: right now I would definitely want to go to do back.
Speaker 1: I want to go. Really, I'm trying to travel the world,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go everywhere. I don't go to eat,
Speaker 1: I'm going everywhere. First much, I'm going I want to
Speaker 1: go everywhere. Actually want to go over story of course
Speaker 1: you want to go see the pyramids, egg landing, you see,
Speaker 1: you know what you want to go see. I know,
Speaker 1: I really know what they were really doing in the pyramid.
Speaker 1: We're gonna puck that. Okay, I want to go to
Speaker 1: where um we are at the bottom up to Welcome
Speaker 1: to a Chanot barbershop session. All right, So the first
Speaker 1: topic talk who we can talk about quarter team and
Speaker 1: with life being like everybody stuck on house arrest is
Speaker 1: what I really call it. But let's go and I
Speaker 1: feel like we're able to kind of look at like
Speaker 1: different way, like morning, like, okay, this is what we
Speaker 1: need to start doing because it's Corona stuff have picked
Speaker 1: us with are now in the five tops, so something
Speaker 1: like what can we do to keep moving you know
Speaker 1: through this candemn keep likings. I'm gonna say it's kind
Speaker 1: of sucking. I mean, you love being around your family.
Speaker 1: You get this time that's the positive family. But like
Speaker 1: I want to go to the gym, I want to
Speaker 1: go to the bar. I want to go to grow
Speaker 1: more though, But I so we got the time y'all
Speaker 1: get more time to talk and had that fun into
Speaker 1: the time for us to go back out this try
Speaker 1: to academic is when you look at it like to
Speaker 1: slow down in like plight, running so much working, doing this,
Speaker 1: doing that. He take it to you, Chris can think
Speaker 1: about all the things that she wasn't doing that you
Speaker 1: actually wanted to because you're stuck in happy jot. How
Speaker 1: do you do to be get ready to go to
Speaker 1: the NFL? But now you gotta be stuck in the house.
Speaker 1: You're not in Vegas. Like imagine if you was in
Speaker 1: Vegas right now, you're not to and you and Davis right,
Speaker 1: I just play. I think it's pretty lame to be honest, Um,
Speaker 1: it could have been a lot more fun. But at
Speaker 1: this moment, just you know, ready to get the football.
Speaker 1: In a draft that many analysts are calling the year
Speaker 1: of the wide receiver, Leaviska is being built as one
Speaker 1: of the top five prospects at this position. After scoring
Speaker 1: a touchdown the first time he touched the football at
Speaker 1: the University of Colorado, he never looked back. Touchdown, touchdown. Colorado.
Speaker 1: Six ft one two d and twenty seven pounds and
Speaker 1: incredibly fast, Colorado used him to attack defenses from all angles.
Speaker 1: He has a threat to score from anywhere on the
Speaker 1: field at any time. Shoot touchdown. I played receiver and
Speaker 1: I played every position. Can I say that because this
Speaker 1: I was a Swiss Army knife, a Swiss Army knife
Speaker 1: the time had been at Colorado. Really, my coach just
Speaker 1: took advantage of, you know, my skills and you know
Speaker 1: just the ability I had. He saw something amy that
Speaker 1: I really didn't see me, but he brought it out.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad he did that. During his three seasons
Speaker 1: in the Pacific twelve Conference, Leavisca caught one passes for
Speaker 1: almost two thousand yards and ten touchdowns, and he ran
Speaker 1: forty two times, scoring another seven touchdowns on the ground.
Speaker 1: His stellar college career and highly anticipated draft spot means
Speaker 1: the NFL wants cameras capturing the moment when his name
Speaker 1: is called. Hello. That's the justin I'm finding, Jessica. I'm
Speaker 1: with the the NFL going to kind of be your
Speaker 1: guys with real thoughts. We're just gonna walk through a
Speaker 1: couple of tests. Walter and I went through kind of
Speaker 1: the overall um dropt Day guide yesterday, but didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to test your camera feed. So if you
Speaker 1: don't mine for me, UM going over to that always
Speaker 1: on camera, the one on the tripod with the microphone, um,
Speaker 1: and if you could open up dat up and go
Speaker 1: to see Larry's out and oh you go ahead hit
Speaker 1: it over. In today's COVID nineteen environment, prospects have to
Speaker 1: not only be one of the best football players in
Speaker 1: the world, they also have to be their own production crews.
Speaker 1: Looking um, if you guys don't wind out, heaving over
Speaker 1: to the other Candra the camera which is the one
Speaker 1: with the ring lights and turning turning that light on
Speaker 1: and the kind of gating that stuff up. It's already
Speaker 1: voted up just looking over there. We're going to do
Speaker 1: the cauch with ESPN to make sure that they can
Speaker 1: out they dial with that feed when you get collected,
Speaker 1: I'm would a call Walter. I'm just kind of stay
Speaker 1: on the line with them until the announcement is made
Speaker 1: by the commissioner on the broadcast and kind of give
Speaker 1: you a couple of seconds, you know, take that in,
Speaker 1: you know, calibrate that moment with your drop cap on UM,
Speaker 1: and then we'll ve you from kind of wherever you're
Speaker 1: studying with your your family us we're seeing in the
Speaker 1: camera and at that point that always on camera and
Speaker 1: saying won't be staking that face. So if you're you're
Speaker 1: kind of in the shot, it shouldn't matter. What good
Speaker 1: question for you? So the like sorry, right now he
Speaker 1: has the hats? Oh, I guess we're trying in the
Speaker 1: actual shot, like the hats that have been sent out
Speaker 1: the Gatorade sponsor, the bows headphones, because any of that
Speaker 1: needs to be seeing while he's on the couch in
Speaker 1: the in front of the always own camera. Um no,
Speaker 1: don't see if if she wants to great, Um, what
Speaker 1: our kind of recommendation in terms of the hats are. Um,
Speaker 1: it would be great if you if he has like
Speaker 1: a table or a counter or something that you can
Speaker 1: lay them out on. So when he does selecting those
Speaker 1: team he's going to do, you can easily glob correct
Speaker 1: draft cat missioner and now told me that right to
Speaker 1: be way out of the play, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: The biggest lingering questions for these teams on the hats
Speaker 1: have to do with Lavisca's durability. Despite leading the country
Speaker 1: in receptions per game his sophomore year, he hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy, battling injuries and missing games throughout
Speaker 1: his college career. This year because of another injury, this
Speaker 1: one to a core muscle. He also wasn't able to
Speaker 1: train for the NFL Combine. Whenever another setback like these
Speaker 1: injuries occurs, Laviska always has one constant to turn to.
Speaker 1: My mom is my biggest fan, because you know, she
Speaker 1: she has seen me like go through my heart times.
Speaker 1: She didn't see me struggles. She didn't see me not
Speaker 1: be the best you know, now cope being in a draft. Now,
Speaker 1: she's seen that that bounty road, that you know, that
Speaker 1: trash road. So that's the only way you can be
Speaker 1: the biggest My biggest fan is if you've seen those
Speaker 1: things and you didn't see me get better and you
Speaker 1: didn't see me grow back before his improvement in Colorado,
Speaker 1: Lebisca grew up playing football in De Soto, a small
Speaker 1: suburb of Dallas. I was born in urban raised in
Speaker 1: the DeSoto area. I'm proud of just who I was
Speaker 1: put around and just the people where I came up with,
Speaker 1: and especially just like my school, like DeSoto High School.
Speaker 1: Like I'm really proud of the sports from DeSoto and
Speaker 1: just how much like we was really putting in work
Speaker 1: like a college and you know, we all worked hard
Speaker 1: and it was just you know, good coaches, good program.
Speaker 1: Lebisca started to Soto High School, which boasts seven athletes
Speaker 1: entering the NFL Draft, an incredible occurrence for one high school,
Speaker 1: even one that claims multiple former NFL players as alumni,
Speaker 1: including Super Bowl m v P Von Miller. Clearly, football
Speaker 1: is a way of life in Texas. Its role and
Speaker 1: importance in the culture is well documented. The sport played
Speaker 1: an equally significant part in Levisca's upbringing. His father, Leviska Sr.
Speaker 1: Took the sport and his team, the Dallas Cowboys, very seriously.
Speaker 1: He was a big Dolphins fan, but like just in
Speaker 1: general though, he's a just love NFL. And since I
Speaker 1: was young, Um, all he priest was being tough. Like
Speaker 1: I used to go out and play football with people
Speaker 1: that's twenty years older than me in the back of
Speaker 1: our house and it was just a big football yards,
Speaker 1: like it's like five fields, but we all go there
Speaker 1: and play all the time with basketball, and like it
Speaker 1: didn't matter, Like whatever he was going was compete and
Speaker 1: regardless how small and how young I was, always was
Speaker 1: remain too. And that's what I did. So he would
Speaker 1: be very proud of me because I remain took um
Speaker 1: so I know he would love love his moment right here.
Speaker 1: On July seventeen, two thousand nine, the Channots were returning
Speaker 1: home from a party at her friends. Ten year old
Speaker 1: Visca sat in the front seat. His father was driving
Speaker 1: and felt too tired to continue, so he pulled over
Speaker 1: to the side of the road to switch places with
Speaker 1: his wife Annie. It happened so quick, it's some day
Speaker 1: to kind of it's just edging in your mind forever.
Speaker 1: There was such a traumatic thing for us. I know,
Speaker 1: we all put again and we was hugging, holding each other.
Speaker 1: As Levisca Sr. Walked around the car, he slipped and
Speaker 1: was hit by another vehicle, then another, dying at the sea.
Speaker 1: He was thirty nine, leaving behind his wife and six kids.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, like when it first happened, Like
Speaker 1: when I first got back home, I went straight to
Speaker 1: like the bed just like fell on it, and just
Speaker 1: like it just felt like, you know, just like the
Speaker 1: bed just kept father. I mean, it's just I felt
Speaker 1: like I was like in a black hole and like
Speaker 1: just that point on, like I feel nothing, and like
Speaker 1: that's just the feeling. The feelings are like I don't
Speaker 1: I don't have them really, um, so, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just crazy and like I'm working on that. I
Speaker 1: was definitely working on him because I don't like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a whole. Another conversation after the funeral,
Speaker 1: Leavisca found the way he wanted to honor his father,
Speaker 1: his own unique manner of coping, perhaps also a way
Speaker 1: to express such a painful memory. He was gonna do
Speaker 1: dreas from now on and then did not have dress.
Speaker 1: But we come from about biblical days where we grew
Speaker 1: up in the South, and he was like, your hair
Speaker 1: is your strength. Like Samson in the Bible, Lavisca grew
Speaker 1: out his hair, and, true to the story, as his
Speaker 1: lucks grew, he also grew bigger and stronger, finding strength
Speaker 1: in this dedication to his father. His coach at Colorado,
Speaker 1: Darrin Shiverini, represent family for Bisca. They're connected with his father.
Speaker 1: I don't see him cutting his hair anytime soon. I
Speaker 1: think it gives him strength, and I think it gives
Speaker 1: him encouragement. And just remember, the longer to get, the
Speaker 1: stronger he gets. How about that, I'm definitely making them proud. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like he didn't really get this. He didn't get to
Speaker 1: see me play football. But like before I got to
Speaker 1: the age of me starting to play football, all he
Speaker 1: preached was be to be, to be, to be to
Speaker 1: So I know for a fact, like he would be
Speaker 1: proud that, Like, you know, I remained tough regardless of
Speaker 1: what I've been through my whole life, regardless of what
Speaker 1: I've been through my whole career. I see you, you know,
Speaker 1: regardless of what what I went through after see you, like,
Speaker 1: regardless regardless of where I went um you know, in
Speaker 1: the rounds, I'm still gonna remain tough, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the guard. It's impossible to understand the impact
Speaker 1: of such a tragic loss at such a young age.
Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda eighteen, Bryce Hall at ten, and Laviska at ten.
Speaker 1: People don't, like you really understand like who I am are,
Speaker 1: like why I act the way I act. But it's
Speaker 1: just like my mind set, my mind set is only positive.
Speaker 1: I see like through the bad things. It's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: So my mind set is only like to see the
Speaker 1: better and things like quittin should never be an option
Speaker 1: at all. Most analysts expect Lavisca to be chosen in
Speaker 1: the first round He's a versatile, unconventional offensive weapon, the
Speaker 1: type of player who will thrive in the right situation
Speaker 1: or potentially struggle and the wrong one. The hope on
Speaker 1: draft day is that he finds the right team to
Speaker 1: help unlock even more of his potential. Somewhere he can
Speaker 1: continue to thrive in all the chaos checking back in
Speaker 1: with another prospect, not only four days away from the draft.
Speaker 1: I'm warning right now, all right, syd listening to me, Oh,
Speaker 1: you were liking this? Why I'm telling you? He has
Speaker 1: to dropping every day. That's quarterback, is saying Bassie at
Speaker 1: his mom ubo, He's recorded thing recording. I saw it
Speaker 1: they setting up here from today's till they dropped day.
Speaker 1: He has to drop every activity he does, to drop everything.
Speaker 1: I'll listen to the kitchen with my mom, my brother,
Speaker 1: and my uncle who's living with us, and they just
Speaker 1: found out how blue wearing them mic. That's funny. I'll
Speaker 1: wait till my dad on the cusp of what could
Speaker 1: be the most important day in his sayings professional life,
Speaker 1: he and his mom and the rest of the family
Speaker 1: find themselves in a unique moment. They may not ever
Speaker 1: have another time like this, Frank, because Frank sent me
Speaker 1: a message today too. When you remember his name, I
Speaker 1: was just too happy. If this was a normal year,
Speaker 1: the recent wake Forest grad would be training in Miami
Speaker 1: with other potential draft picks, getting his body ready for
Speaker 1: the mandatory rookie minicamp players participate in a few weeks
Speaker 1: after the draft. Look at this. At somebody somewhere from
Speaker 1: the news sent me today where we're here? Instead, he
Speaker 1: studies film. Who is that? That's you know you put ball?
Speaker 1: Look that's coored the testile. That's the pinout ball? Were
Speaker 1: I think? Yeah, eleven years old? Yeah? What when you're
Speaker 1: saying his mom, look back at that eleven year old
Speaker 1: boy playing football. It's impossible not to reminisce about that
Speaker 1: son of immigrants who could only dream of playing a
Speaker 1: professional sport, let alone something as foreign as American football.
Speaker 1: We grew up in Africa to only enjoy and appreciate
Speaker 1: the spots of soccer as far as this as a
Speaker 1: san and football. To be honest to you, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure where he got the skill from, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it's anything hereditary. I'll be honest about that. You know,
Speaker 1: in Africa, all we no it's soccer when I was
Speaker 1: a young guy used to run. My mom was an athlete.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's just his earlier exposure to the
Speaker 1: community and the friends. He had, great coaches who used
Speaker 1: to come here and pick him up. We were just
Speaker 1: trying to adjust to a new environment. You know how
Speaker 1: it is if you don't keep a child busy, you know,
Speaker 1: saying shares the note that came with the old game tape,
Speaker 1: he said, congrats young man. The first day I saw
Speaker 1: you on a football field as a six year old,
Speaker 1: I realized he had the potential of being special. Northeast
Speaker 1: Packers where it all started. Part of you. They sent
Speaker 1: me that. That's what I was trying to I was
Speaker 1: trying to find it earlier today and Dave plotted the
Speaker 1: guy that did the interview with me two days ago.
Speaker 1: He was the w RBL. So yeah, he said he
Speaker 1: was going to the vault of like my name, like
Speaker 1: apparently have a vault of all this stuff and my
Speaker 1: name came from and that video came up from years ago.
Speaker 1: How Jesus are anyone that was my mama? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do with it? You're gonna I'm gonna save it?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna Can you put it on there. What
Speaker 1: you call it? Yeah, I bet you could. Lee. You
Speaker 1: have that tons of them. With the draft in clear sight,
Speaker 1: excitement goes hand in hand with expectations for the bassis
Speaker 1: four days until the draft. Honestly, my everybody's around me,
Speaker 1: like my family and you know, my friends. At times,
Speaker 1: I feel like they're more nervous than me. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a guy that has to be the cool head,
Speaker 1: even though it's whatever my day. I kind of have
Speaker 1: to try and keep myself down and keep myself focused
Speaker 1: and just be confident in whatever. Everything I've done with
Speaker 1: it in my career, the pre draft process, everything I've done.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'll just be patiently waiting for my
Speaker 1: name to get Carton. I know it'll happen. I'm confident
Speaker 1: will happen, and when it does, you know I'll be
Speaker 1: extremely excited. So Hello was good? And how one yo? Joe?
Speaker 1: On the line are sayings agents Damarus Bilbo and Kelton
Speaker 1: Printshaw with Clutch Sports Group. Hello, yeah, I got yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good. It was good chilling. Hey, we wanted
Speaker 1: to run you through this right quick, holon one second
Speaker 1: pull up a microputer. Damarius Bilbo was Gatorade player of
Speaker 1: the Year in high school and played college ball at
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. He was picked up by the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: after going undrafted in two thousand five. He knows a
Speaker 1: little something about the cost of high expectations. A lot
Speaker 1: of these young men their families, they look forward to
Speaker 1: draft night. I mean, I had players in the past
Speaker 1: we've watched literally winning Google old drafts to kind of uh,
Speaker 1: you know, draw up their emotions and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: under control, is gonna be under control, And it's never
Speaker 1: under control. So Damarius wants to provide some real time
Speaker 1: intel to help manage the heightened anxiety of his clients.
Speaker 1: All right, so we want to just run through what
Speaker 1: they expect this weekend. Um, obviously this is gonna be
Speaker 1: emotional weekend. But we always tell our guys if you're
Speaker 1: not emotional, if you don't have a kip on your
Speaker 1: shoulder leaving this process, then you know we we've questioned
Speaker 1: if you want to go to the next level. We
Speaker 1: like to give examples of guys that you know are
Speaker 1: now you know, pro bowlers and you know possibly future
Speaker 1: Hall of famers. You know, guys like Jarvis Landry out tomorrow,
Speaker 1: who were drafting in the second third round, seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of guys get paid before them, but you know
Speaker 1: they're the last man standing. So you know, as we
Speaker 1: look at your situation, look at the cornerback class of
Speaker 1: this draft. Draft. Um, we actually have a board for
Speaker 1: multiple teams, but I like specific teams because of how
Speaker 1: they draft. What we like to do is just kind
Speaker 1: of run through some numbers, and we like to take
Speaker 1: three to four past drafts because you can find trends
Speaker 1: and and things like that to see how the draft
Speaker 1: kind of flows. You see some draft where there's a
Speaker 1: lot of corners selected early and then it's kind of
Speaker 1: slows down in the mid rounds and it picks up
Speaker 1: at the hand. With this being a receiver heavy draft.
Speaker 1: As an adept that offensive line, you'll see a lot
Speaker 1: of those positions go early. Again, the better thing for
Speaker 1: you is to see more corners get off the board
Speaker 1: early in the first two rounds. So what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you like an overview of the last
Speaker 1: three drafts and what those numbers look like and give
Speaker 1: you a total number of how those corners have been drafted.
Speaker 1: Remember that the two thousand twenty draft is the year
Speaker 1: of the wide receiver, filled with outstanding pass catchers expected
Speaker 1: to be taken early and often players like Levisca Chennault.
Speaker 1: So NFL teams will need someone to cover those guys
Speaker 1: talented fast cornerbacks to slow down all the new offensive firepower.
Speaker 1: The more that go early, the more that gets drafted. Overall, Behau,
Speaker 1: cornerback is a position that you need that you have
Speaker 1: multiple You have those stub packages, you have you know,
Speaker 1: guys finding guys, some special teams or whatever. Thirty two
Speaker 1: corners were drafted last year, eight of them in the
Speaker 1: first two rounds. So saying must be wondering, is this
Speaker 1: year going to play out the same way? Does that
Speaker 1: improve his chances of being picked higher? Do all the
Speaker 1: wide receivers likely to be selected, I mean more cornerbacks
Speaker 1: will also need to be drafted with you on this
Speaker 1: one particular board. Like I said, some boards you hire
Speaker 1: some more, you might be lower. But this is the
Speaker 1: team that I trust in terms of you know, how
Speaker 1: they draft and the accuracy in which they put into
Speaker 1: their their prospects. You know. So what we'll do this
Speaker 1: weekend being killed both will track the whole draft, will
Speaker 1: give you an update Obviously you've watched the draft long
Speaker 1: enough to know that sometimes you'll see a guy that
Speaker 1: you've never heard of, Like, wait, where the hell he
Speaker 1: come from? You know what I'm saying. So, but we
Speaker 1: we like to keep it in terms of our boards.
Speaker 1: What we trusted in turn about is thing what we
Speaker 1: heard in terms of our information, the realistic situation according
Speaker 1: to the agent's intel. You know, on one and you
Speaker 1: know you have the Jeff o'coon and the Bryce Hall
Speaker 1: who are six ft plus corners, and then you have
Speaker 1: the saying you know, skill set is the same. He's
Speaker 1: just as good as those guys, but he's a little smaller.
Speaker 1: You know, he got a Senior Bowl invite, had a
Speaker 1: hell of a career wake for us, got a Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl invite, gotta combined invite and perform very well. But
Speaker 1: again he has uh uphill battle because he's a smaller
Speaker 1: guy in a league that's playing a lot of bigger corners.
Speaker 1: My hoop on draft day is that my name gets called,
Speaker 1: uh flat out. It doesn't matter when or where. Just
Speaker 1: for my name to get called, I'm gonna be grateful
Speaker 1: and be ready to work. Other than that, I get
Speaker 1: to see all my friends who are also in this
Speaker 1: process as well see their names potentially get called. So
Speaker 1: you know, I would love to see that happen for
Speaker 1: them and support them and doing that. But other than that,
Speaker 1: for my name to get called, that's my biggest concern
Speaker 1: and for my family to see that happened for me,
Speaker 1: and you know, know that all the support they put
Speaker 1: into me and I was worth it that feeling for
Speaker 1: them as well, whatever happens in four days. Demerius has
Speaker 1: faith in his class. He's saying, is more of he
Speaker 1: He comes off like a doctor. You know, when you
Speaker 1: walk into you walked in that room and you're getting
Speaker 1: your results, You're like, okay, is his good news are
Speaker 1: bad news? He has the same temperament throughout the day.
Speaker 1: You don't know when he's higher, he's low. You don't
Speaker 1: know if he's excited or he's disappointed. You just don't
Speaker 1: know with him. But he has that composure and that
Speaker 1: posture that you know is somebody who's going to be
Speaker 1: very successful. Whenever he chooses to do, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: There's a saying at home waiting for draft day with
Speaker 1: his family, nervous about his prospects, and then there's Chase young,
Speaker 1: the potential number one pick. Chase doesn't waste time or
Speaker 1: energy worrying about draft day. He's focused on the future
Speaker 1: much much further out. I'm thinking getting the gym my
Speaker 1: house and I want I want my backyard to be turf.
Speaker 1: I want to have everything in my career, like everything
Speaker 1: I need. Like yeah, like I don't have a gym,
Speaker 1: and then whatever room that may have been or that
Speaker 1: bathroom for the ice ice little tank, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm a little metal joints, Loman, I'm looking joints, the
Speaker 1: one man ice tank. Yeah, I'm gonna geting one of them.
Speaker 1: And then it's this sauna. But it's like you're sit
Speaker 1: in a chair, are you getting as like a little
Speaker 1: bubble kind of and put that duds on in there
Speaker 1: and the ice tank and then had a gym. Yeah. Focus,
Speaker 1: then yeah, we think about getting an apartment of song. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean if so, yeah, I mean you feel me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Uh it's gonna be at least a
Speaker 1: three bad one. So if all fails, you see me,
Speaker 1: you already know if I'm gonna go make a promise
Speaker 1: to myself. You wanna be the best. You gotta be
Speaker 1: the best. To be the best. That means pushing himself
Speaker 1: on the field and off he mhm h yeah, but
Speaker 1: what does that really mean? The best? Yeah, lockout, lockout?
Speaker 1: That my fuck ship. The best weightlifter in the gym,
Speaker 1: or the best player on his defense. Let's compare. That's
Speaker 1: things compres compare. That's I mean, if you want to
Speaker 1: go down in the numbers, that's all you doing that.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that matters. That's all the weight
Speaker 1: you're using. Chris, I know, I was just That's why
Speaker 1: I was asked maybe the best player on the field
Speaker 1: every Sunday, Little Julius Prepper highlight before the word out
Speaker 1: two who two mm hm hm m hm three. I
Speaker 1: got stronger. I got stronger, right, dud fill it? Or
Speaker 1: is the best and even higher ceiling for Chase, the
Speaker 1: best defensive player in the league. Or I was watching
Speaker 1: Julius Feathers like, don't really do a lot of weights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you see the veil. He was slimmer to me,
Speaker 1: his own shorter the mine him you saying, Hi, he
Speaker 1: got a different build though. It's like he got his
Speaker 1: his torso is longer, his legs shorter leg nick, but
Speaker 1: more athletic. As if the pressure of being a top
Speaker 1: pick weren't enough, Chase has begun comparing himself to Julius Peppers,
Speaker 1: the two thousand and two defensive rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: the nine time pro bowler with one hundred fifty nine
Speaker 1: and a half career sacks, the guy who made the
Speaker 1: NFL All Decade Team for both of the last two decades.
Speaker 1: I think Jerry is a great fifth fan, saying length
Speaker 1: you know, hype wives, same kind of body frame out
Speaker 1: of high school. In the college Buckeye associate head coach
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson is happy to further the comparison between Chase
Speaker 1: and the six ft seven, three hundred pound former Carolina Panther,
Speaker 1: Chicago Bear, and Green Bay Packer. I think Jews kind
Speaker 1: of head of the past rins game when he went
Speaker 1: into pros, and that's where Chases. They both looked similar
Speaker 1: on movement skills, can both dropping a coverage, very athletic,
Speaker 1: very physical players, saying length you know, hype wives, same
Speaker 1: kind of body frame, Julie's purpose outsiding player. In college football,
Speaker 1: Peppers won most of the same awards Chase one, and
Speaker 1: if you line up their stats from college, the Julius
Speaker 1: Peppers and Chase you On comparisons begin to get creepy.
Speaker 1: Both played in exactly thirty or four games over three
Speaker 1: years in college. Both had exactly thirty and a half
Speaker 1: sacks during those games, but Peppers had more interceptions and
Speaker 1: Chase had more forced fumbles. I think it's a good,
Speaker 1: good assessment he really is. I mean, care is about
Speaker 1: being great and that, and that's what he really wants
Speaker 1: and he talks about all the time. He beca I
Speaker 1: want to be the best. I want to be best.
Speaker 1: I'm humble, but I want to be the best. So
Speaker 1: you gottamire it out about it. Chase wants to be
Speaker 1: the best, the best in the league, the best at
Speaker 1: his position. I say, all them dudes, that uh opening
Speaker 1: When I was smaller and there I wanna at the season,
Speaker 1: I was like two fifty two. I think the game
Speaker 1: and I'm like James got bigger ship out of know
Speaker 1: wheen fuck you've been don He wants to be the
Speaker 1: best pass rusher to ever play the game. Coming up
Speaker 1: on the next episode of Drafted. I mean, we didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of money, so I was always one
Speaker 1: evated to get to the NFL. So I can kind
Speaker 1: of make it easier on her financially. Cornerback Jeffakuda. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing was just like facing it, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: looking for someone to like football to take away, take
Speaker 1: it away, but like just kind of facing the new reality.
Speaker 1: Offensive lineman Tremaine Ancram, who run five of this eight
Speaker 1: r kill It's massive and let's killed us last time,
Speaker 1: just kill us in cornerback Bryce Hall, and I was questioning, like,
Speaker 1: is this really something I want to do for the
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