WEBVTT - S1 Episode 4: All in the Family 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.559 Drafted as a production of tree Fork Media, Clutched Sports 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.560 Group and I Heart Radio. People don't like you really 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.079 understand who I am are, Like why I act the 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.000 way I act? But I see like through the bad things. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.680 It's it's crazy, so like to see the better and things. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.200 Quinn should never be an option at all. Hey, I 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.400 am the director. Thank you very much so with this 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.080 what are you doing right now to stand shape? Why 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:40.559 would you ask me that question? Welcome back to Drafted. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.479 We're eight elite college football players take us on their 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.559 own personal journeys as they enter the NFL. In the 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.000 week leading up to the draft. They'll mike themselves up, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.320 Mike Check, Mike Check, my chick without producers, directors, or cameras, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.240 offering an honest, authentic look at who these athletes are 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.040 beneath the pads and when it takes to go of 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.840 a childhood dream to hearing their name called on draft day? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.640 Is this whole like draft thing been kind of feeling 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.960 unreal because of Corona? You know? I mean, I'm pretty 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.319 sure everyone is thinking the same thing. In this episode, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.040 we have one last athlete to introduce, La Visca Chinault, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.760 a special player officially deemed a wide receiver, but in 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:25.959 actuality a positionless offensive weapon who destroys opposing defenses all 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.319 over the field. He's a prospect on the edge of 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.080 incredible opportunity after facing some of the most daunting challenges 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.959 of anyone in this draft class. Will also check in 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.200 on cornerback is saying Bassie a man driven toward greatness 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.440 by his family despite lacking the typical size and strength 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.800 needed at his position. Now navigating the nerves that come 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.040 with this life changing moment four days until the draft. Honestly, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.720 my everybody that are around me, like my family and 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.800 you know, my friends, at times, I feel like they're 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.240 more nervous than me. And we'll hear from the predator 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.520 Chase Young Pama go like a problemise to myself, you 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.560 wanna be the best, you gotta be the best. A 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.600 defensive juggernaut expected to be selected in the top three 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.560 and maybe even first overall. So let's get to it. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.600 Mike Chick, Mike Chick, Mike Chick, do you want to 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.640 go ahead and guide them through that? Yeah? I don't. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.400 I don't see the microphone. Do you mind talking your 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:29.720 necklaces quick? Yeah? Hold on, wait on, that sound. What's 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.040 this over here? Why I hear all these? Uh? This 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.560 is Levisca Chennault, a wide receiver known for his massive 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:40.160 size and explosiveness and equally for his swagger. Pull it 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.720 up and through your shirt. Um yeah, you gotta make 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:49.040 sure that the hair doesn't doesn't interfere with that. The dreads. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.800 It's like hair with the purpose, like what people do 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:56.920 with tattoos. The power of the dreads. I kind of 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.560 like watching it blowing the way and when he runs 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.320 in the end zone where we go, they say, oh, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.720 let's dude, the two is played this number two. I 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.120 think there is making magic. That's how people everybody noticed me. Honestly, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:17.160 I'm leaviscadalt jr ak to Lave. I'm twenty one years old. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.040 Like Levisca said, he's known for his dreads. There are 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.200 a lot more than just a showcase for his personality. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.480 To fully understand the hair, you have to first understand 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.320 the man. Like Chase Young, Jeff Okuda, and McKay Beckton. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.080 He's entering the draft after playing just three years of 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.440 college ball, and like those other three, he's being talked 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.920 about as a first round draft pick. This whole like 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.440 draft thing been kind of feeling unreal because of Corona, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.000 you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure everyone is thinking 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.880 the same thing. I can't wait through Corona to get 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.360 over with. So I can, you know, experience that. You 0:03:53.360 --> 0:04:00.520 know that that celebrity life. The NFL is full of 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.200 a builliant personalities, players that light up the field and 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.120 any room they're in. That's Leaviska a Ka to Live, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.400 one of the most electrifying players in this year's draft. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.160 Now only a few days away from the draft, visca 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.200 to Live, his mother and six siblings and their families 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.000 are all preparing for the life changing moment when his 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.120 name is called. They've rented a house a few hours 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.200 away from their home in North Dallas just for the occasion. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:33.200 So I just got to my retreat house that I'm going. Mom, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.520 NFL drafting app um right now, kind of stuck in 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.320 the front. We need to hurry up and get in 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.000 so we can start setting everything up. And my mom's 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:56.800 kind of, you know, looks frustrating. A what happened? What happened? 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:06.120 We got a pe? But what hap? Oh do we 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:13.840 have the quick what's the code? The code? Yeah, we 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.320 don't have a code. That's the whole point. Why mommy 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.800 do you somebody found called his l so she ca 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:29.240 give us cold and going right. They're locked out of 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.280 the rental house without a code to open the door, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.799 hopefully not a metaphor for Leavisca undrafted. So why didn't 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.880 been doing this the whole time? We've been trying to 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.440 get in but it's not working. You even been doing this? 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.760 This tight knit family has been waiting for Leavisca's big 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.160 day for a long long time, enduring much to see 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.000 him meet his dreams. Now the mood is reflective, recording 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.200 themselves on where the family has been and hopefully where 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:03.120 they're headed to. Introduced yourself, y'all want to induce I'll 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:12.280 do it right now. Everybody had an own back. No, no, oh, yeah, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.520 this is different. It's not like a game like this. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.520 Is this that sorr He was on the quickly intro 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.360 and I'm gonna sit down. All right, here we go. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:31.599 How you guys doing? True? Hi? Tearing the cold sister 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:44.520 Calvin big Broa existed Carlo's brother law. Allright, know who 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:52.760 I am? Who ship Cody? Because it twins sister number 0:06:52.760 --> 0:07:01.640 one six little bro Now I'm h m Hi, I'm 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:07.920 annie with mom. Stop stop stop? What are yea? Y'a? 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.920 Just saying our names? What are you like? What like? 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.640 Who are you to me? Like you're under saying oh, tray, okay? 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:22.600 What this is? That the boat? It's just the talk show. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.880 The primary job of wide receiver is to find or 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.640 create an opening in the chaos on the field. They 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.680 have to get free to catch a pass behind the linebackers, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.960 in front of the safeties, away from the corners, and 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.160 all within seconds as defenders fly around them in every direction. Hey, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:44.800 I am the director, Thank you very much. At times, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.720 it feels like Levisk is playing this rule everywhere, not 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.440 just down the field. So with this, what are you 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.600 doing right now to stay in shape? Why would you 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:03.040 ask me that question? So do you see yourself? What 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.080 your first place? I want to go to? How to 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:10.760 stay another country? After hold this corona? I'd tell you 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.720 right now I would definitely want to go to do back. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.760 I want to go. Really, I'm trying to travel the world, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.560 so I'm gonna go everywhere. I don't go to eat, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:26.120 I'm going everywhere. First much, I'm going I want to 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:34.280 go everywhere. Actually want to go over story of course 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:40.640 you want to go see the pyramids, egg landing, you see, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:47.160 you know what you want to go see. I know, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.880 I really know what they were really doing in the pyramid. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.959 We're gonna puck that. Okay, I want to go to 0:08:53.000 --> 0:09:02.520 where um we are at the bottom up to Welcome 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.200 to a Chanot barbershop session. All right, So the first 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.000 topic talk who we can talk about quarter team and 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.959 with life being like everybody stuck on house arrest is 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:18.400 what I really call it. But let's go and I 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.240 feel like we're able to kind of look at like 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.360 different way, like morning, like, okay, this is what we 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:30.520 need to start doing because it's Corona stuff have picked 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.160 us with are now in the five tops, so something 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.760 like what can we do to keep moving you know 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:45.160 through this candemn keep likings. I'm gonna say it's kind 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.560 of sucking. I mean, you love being around your family. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:54.040 You get this time that's the positive family. But like 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.840 I want to go to the gym, I want to 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.200 go to the bar. I want to go to grow 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:04.600 more though, But I so we got the time y'all 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.520 get more time to talk and had that fun into 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.640 the time for us to go back out this try 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.920 to academic is when you look at it like to 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.120 slow down in like plight, running so much working, doing this, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:24.160 doing that. He take it to you, Chris can think 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.960 about all the things that she wasn't doing that you 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.440 actually wanted to because you're stuck in happy jot. How 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.040 do you do to be get ready to go to 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.880 the NFL? But now you gotta be stuck in the house. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.440 You're not in Vegas. Like imagine if you was in 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.000 Vegas right now, you're not to and you and Davis right, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:46.240 I just play. I think it's pretty lame to be honest, Um, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.000 it could have been a lot more fun. But at 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.560 this moment, just you know, ready to get the football. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.520 In a draft that many analysts are calling the year 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.400 of the wide receiver, Leaviska is being built as one 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.800 of the top five prospects at this position. After scoring 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.200 a touchdown the first time he touched the football at 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:13.400 the University of Colorado, he never looked back. Touchdown, touchdown. Colorado. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.960 Six ft one two d and twenty seven pounds and 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.160 incredibly fast, Colorado used him to attack defenses from all angles. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.400 He has a threat to score from anywhere on the 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:40.199 field at any time. Shoot touchdown. I played receiver and 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.200 I played every position. Can I say that because this 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.920 I was a Swiss Army knife, a Swiss Army knife 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.520 the time had been at Colorado. Really, my coach just 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.760 took advantage of, you know, my skills and you know 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.800 just the ability I had. He saw something amy that 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.439 I really didn't see me, but he brought it out. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.320 So I'm glad he did that. During his three seasons 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.520 in the Pacific twelve Conference, Leavisca caught one passes for 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.160 almost two thousand yards and ten touchdowns, and he ran 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.559 forty two times, scoring another seven touchdowns on the ground. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.120 His stellar college career and highly anticipated draft spot means 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.920 the NFL wants cameras capturing the moment when his name 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.319 is called. Hello. That's the justin I'm finding, Jessica. I'm 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.280 with the the NFL going to kind of be your 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.720 guys with real thoughts. We're just gonna walk through a 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.880 couple of tests. Walter and I went through kind of 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.800 the overall um dropt Day guide yesterday, but didn't get 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.360 a chance to test your camera feed. So if you 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.880 don't mine for me, UM going over to that always 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.960 on camera, the one on the tripod with the microphone, um, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.280 and if you could open up dat up and go 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:07.240 to see Larry's out and oh you go ahead hit 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.240 it over. In today's COVID nineteen environment, prospects have to 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.320 not only be one of the best football players in 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.280 the world, they also have to be their own production crews. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:27.360 Looking um, if you guys don't wind out, heaving over 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.720 to the other Candra the camera which is the one 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.120 with the ring lights and turning turning that light on 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.800 and the kind of gating that stuff up. It's already 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.160 voted up just looking over there. We're going to do 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.200 the cauch with ESPN to make sure that they can 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.560 out they dial with that feed when you get collected, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.160 I'm would a call Walter. I'm just kind of stay 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.920 on the line with them until the announcement is made 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.240 by the commissioner on the broadcast and kind of give 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.640 you a couple of seconds, you know, take that in, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.160 you know, calibrate that moment with your drop cap on UM, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.959 and then we'll ve you from kind of wherever you're 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.160 studying with your your family us we're seeing in the 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.920 camera and at that point that always on camera and 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.839 saying won't be staking that face. So if you're you're 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.040 kind of in the shot, it shouldn't matter. What good 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.560 question for you? So the like sorry, right now he 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.880 has the hats? Oh, I guess we're trying in the 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.560 actual shot, like the hats that have been sent out 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.320 the Gatorade sponsor, the bows headphones, because any of that 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.760 needs to be seeing while he's on the couch in 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.000 the in front of the always own camera. Um no, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.760 don't see if if she wants to great, Um, what 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.040 our kind of recommendation in terms of the hats are. Um, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.640 it would be great if you if he has like 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.160 a table or a counter or something that you can 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.560 lay them out on. So when he does selecting those 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.960 team he's going to do, you can easily glob correct 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:06.000 draft cat missioner and now told me that right to 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.800 be way out of the play, all right, thank you. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.240 The biggest lingering questions for these teams on the hats 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.880 have to do with Lavisca's durability. Despite leading the country 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.720 in receptions per game his sophomore year, he hasn't been 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.920 able to stay healthy, battling injuries and missing games throughout 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.800 his college career. This year because of another injury, this 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.280 one to a core muscle. He also wasn't able to 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.080 train for the NFL Combine. Whenever another setback like these 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.560 injuries occurs, Laviska always has one constant to turn to. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.080 My mom is my biggest fan, because you know, she 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.280 she has seen me like go through my heart times. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.280 She didn't see me struggles. She didn't see me not 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:54.760 be the best you know, now cope being in a draft. Now, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.680 she's seen that that bounty road, that you know, that 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.920 trash road. So that's the only way you can be 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.200 the biggest My biggest fan is if you've seen those 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.600 things and you didn't see me get better and you 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.280 didn't see me grow back before his improvement in Colorado, 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.520 Lebisca grew up playing football in De Soto, a small 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.840 suburb of Dallas. I was born in urban raised in 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:25.040 the DeSoto area. I'm proud of just who I was 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.880 put around and just the people where I came up with, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.400 and especially just like my school, like DeSoto High School. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:38.280 Like I'm really proud of the sports from DeSoto and 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.320 just how much like we was really putting in work 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.640 like a college and you know, we all worked hard 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.040 and it was just you know, good coaches, good program. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.960 Lebisca started to Soto High School, which boasts seven athletes 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.280 entering the NFL Draft, an incredible occurrence for one high school, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.800 even one that claims multiple former NFL players as alumni, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.080 including Super Bowl m v P Von Miller. Clearly, football 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.359 is a way of life in Texas. Its role and 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.680 importance in the culture is well documented. The sport played 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:14.360 an equally significant part in Levisca's upbringing. His father, Leviska Sr. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.560 Took the sport and his team, the Dallas Cowboys, very seriously. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.199 He was a big Dolphins fan, but like just in 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.199 general though, he's a just love NFL. And since I 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.240 was young, Um, all he priest was being tough. Like 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.800 I used to go out and play football with people 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.879 that's twenty years older than me in the back of 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.000 our house and it was just a big football yards, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.800 like it's like five fields, but we all go there 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.040 and play all the time with basketball, and like it 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.000 didn't matter, Like whatever he was going was compete and 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.159 regardless how small and how young I was, always was 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.600 remain too. And that's what I did. So he would 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.719 be very proud of me because I remain took um 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.240 so I know he would love love his moment right here. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.480 On July seventeen, two thousand nine, the Channots were returning 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.960 home from a party at her friends. Ten year old 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.240 Visca sat in the front seat. His father was driving 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.040 and felt too tired to continue, so he pulled over 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.840 to the side of the road to switch places with 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.879 his wife Annie. It happened so quick, it's some day 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.840 to kind of it's just edging in your mind forever. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.320 There was such a traumatic thing for us. I know, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.040 we all put again and we was hugging, holding each other. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.159 As Levisca Sr. Walked around the car, he slipped and 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.040 was hit by another vehicle, then another, dying at the sea. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.399 He was thirty nine, leaving behind his wife and six kids. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.840 I will tell you, like when it first happened, Like 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.159 when I first got back home, I went straight to 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.520 like the bed just like fell on it, and just 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.639 like it just felt like, you know, just like the 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.480 bed just kept father. I mean, it's just I felt 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.560 like I was like in a black hole and like 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.280 just that point on, like I feel nothing, and like 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.480 that's just the feeling. The feelings are like I don't 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.399 I don't have them really, um, so, I don't know, 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.159 it's just crazy and like I'm working on that. I 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.800 was definitely working on him because I don't like, you know, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.840 that's that's that's a whole. Another conversation after the funeral, 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.760 Leavisca found the way he wanted to honor his father, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.800 his own unique manner of coping, perhaps also a way 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.320 to express such a painful memory. He was gonna do 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.600 dreas from now on and then did not have dress. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.080 But we come from about biblical days where we grew 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.320 up in the South, and he was like, your hair 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.640 is your strength. Like Samson in the Bible, Lavisca grew 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.119 out his hair, and, true to the story, as his 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.400 lucks grew, he also grew bigger and stronger, finding strength 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.560 in this dedication to his father. His coach at Colorado, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:57.200 Darrin Shiverini, represent family for Bisca. They're connected with his father. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.720 I don't see him cutting his hair anytime soon. I 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.560 think it gives him strength, and I think it gives 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.159 him encouragement. And just remember, the longer to get, the 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:12.239 stronger he gets. How about that, I'm definitely making them proud. Uh, 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:16.119 Like he didn't really get this. He didn't get to 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.600 see me play football. But like before I got to 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.440 the age of me starting to play football, all he 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.119 preached was be to be, to be, to be to 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.639 So I know for a fact, like he would be 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.000 proud that, Like, you know, I remained tough regardless of 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.520 what I've been through my whole life, regardless of what 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.960 I've been through my whole career. I see you, you know, 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:45.280 regardless of what what I went through after see you, like, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.399 regardless regardless of where I went um you know, in 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.600 the rounds, I'm still gonna remain tough, you know. And 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.400 that's that's the guard. It's impossible to understand the impact 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.840 of such a tragic loss at such a young age. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:04.320 Jeff Okuda eighteen, Bryce Hall at ten, and Laviska at ten. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.719 People don't, like you really understand like who I am are, 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.960 like why I act the way I act. But it's 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.960 just like my mind set, my mind set is only positive. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.119 I see like through the bad things. It's it's crazy, 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:30.960 So my mind set is only like to see the 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.480 better and things like quittin should never be an option 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.000 at all. Most analysts expect Lavisca to be chosen in 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.199 the first round He's a versatile, unconventional offensive weapon, the 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.520 type of player who will thrive in the right situation 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.000 or potentially struggle and the wrong one. The hope on 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.280 draft day is that he finds the right team to 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.239 help unlock even more of his potential. Somewhere he can 0:21:54.240 --> 0:22:06.159 continue to thrive in all the chaos checking back in 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.760 with another prospect, not only four days away from the draft. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:20.720 I'm warning right now, all right, syd listening to me, Oh, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.280 you were liking this? Why I'm telling you? He has 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.320 to dropping every day. That's quarterback, is saying Bassie at 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:35.200 his mom ubo, He's recorded thing recording. I saw it 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.960 they setting up here from today's till they dropped day. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:48.640 He has to drop every activity he does, to drop everything. 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.679 I'll listen to the kitchen with my mom, my brother, 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.919 and my uncle who's living with us, and they just 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:06.760 found out how blue wearing them mic. That's funny. I'll 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.400 wait till my dad on the cusp of what could 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.840 be the most important day in his sayings professional life, 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.320 he and his mom and the rest of the family 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:17.360 find themselves in a unique moment. They may not ever 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.720 have another time like this, Frank, because Frank sent me 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:27.960 a message today too. When you remember his name, I 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:32.800 was just too happy. If this was a normal year, 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.600 the recent wake Forest grad would be training in Miami 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.800 with other potential draft picks, getting his body ready for 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.160 the mandatory rookie minicamp players participate in a few weeks 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:47.320 after the draft. Look at this. At somebody somewhere from 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:55.679 the news sent me today where we're here? Instead, he 0:23:55.720 --> 0:24:09.040 studies film. Who is that? That's you know you put ball? 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:18.000 Look that's coored the testile. That's the pinout ball? Were 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:27.040 I think? Yeah, eleven years old? Yeah? What when you're 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:29.160 saying his mom, look back at that eleven year old 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:32.240 boy playing football. It's impossible not to reminisce about that 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:35.000 son of immigrants who could only dream of playing a 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.720 professional sport, let alone something as foreign as American football. 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:43.119 We grew up in Africa to only enjoy and appreciate 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.520 the spots of soccer as far as this as a 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.159 san and football. To be honest to you, I'm not 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:54.320 sure where he got the skill from, but I don't 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:58.840 think it's anything hereditary. I'll be honest about that. You know, 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:04.480 in Africa, all we no it's soccer when I was 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:07.439 a young guy used to run. My mom was an athlete. 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:13.000 Other than that, it's just his earlier exposure to the 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:17.400 community and the friends. He had, great coaches who used 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.879 to come here and pick him up. We were just 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.960 trying to adjust to a new environment. You know how 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.960 it is if you don't keep a child busy, you know, 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:30.520 saying shares the note that came with the old game tape, 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:33.960 he said, congrats young man. The first day I saw 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:35.520 you on a football field as a six year old, 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.360 I realized he had the potential of being special. Northeast 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:40.920 Packers where it all started. Part of you. They sent 0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:42.639 me that. That's what I was trying to I was 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.439 trying to find it earlier today and Dave plotted the 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:49.400 guy that did the interview with me two days ago. 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:52.840 He was the w RBL. So yeah, he said he 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.919 was going to the vault of like my name, like 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:57.760 apparently have a vault of all this stuff and my 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:00.800 name came from and that video came up from years ago. 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:09.560 How Jesus are anyone that was my mama? What are 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:11.840 you gonna do with it? You're gonna I'm gonna save it? 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:16.639 Are you gonna Can you put it on there. What 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:20.240 you call it? Yeah, I bet you could. Lee. You 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:23.440 have that tons of them. With the draft in clear sight, 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.920 excitement goes hand in hand with expectations for the bassis 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.000 four days until the draft. Honestly, my everybody's around me, 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:37.119 like my family and you know, my friends. At times, 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:40.360 I feel like they're more nervous than me. I'm kind 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.160 of a guy that has to be the cool head, 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.080 even though it's whatever my day. I kind of have 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:49.440 to try and keep myself down and keep myself focused 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:53.800 and just be confident in whatever. Everything I've done with 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.880 it in my career, the pre draft process, everything I've done. 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.480 So you know, I'll just be patiently waiting for my 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:02.280