WEBVTT - S1 Episode 11: The Next Chapter 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.599 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.240 Group and I Heart Radio. Y'all trip. Rice Hall is 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:12.080 still on the board. That's comical. Yeahrceusice Rice House on board, 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:18.200 This is absurd. Welcome back to Drafted. Last episode. Bryce 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.080 Hall was selected in the fifth round at pick number 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:26.120 one eight overall, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:53.680 the Jets yea well ready. That makes six of our 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.320 eight players drafted in the first five rounds. Only cornerback 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.600 is saying, Bassie an offensive lineman. Tremaine Anchorum are still 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.680 out there waiting for an NFL team to give them 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:12.160 their shot. Man, It's just tough seeing like a bunch 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.680 of guys that you know you're better than get taken 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.920 in front of you. His lack of size five n 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.360 likely contributed to his slide down the board. Lack of 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:34.560 size interesting. And now with the seventh and final round underway, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:42.240 Tremaine and is saying, have stopped recording. We promised an honest, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.119 real look at the experience and emotion these players go through, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.200 and here's the authentic truth. Facing all seven rounds without 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.760 being drafted is brutal. There's too much heartache for these 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.480 two players to record, at least until something surprising happens 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:07.800 late in round seven. Hey, guys, traumatic clipsing right now, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.080 I am your newest l a Ram. Thank you, thank you. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.000 I'm here with my beautiful mother and we are excited 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:21.280 to be a part of the Ram family. With only 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.760 six players remaining in the draft, the Los Angeles Rams 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.760 take Tremaine at pick number two hundred and fifty. Here 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.720 are his new Rams coaches on their new offensive lineman. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.880 What's interesting is Tremaine's a shorter player, but big and long, 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.800 got those long arms. Played right tackle at Clemson. But 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.520 we planned the move him inside. You do both guards 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:53.600 and the eating place centers. Athletic guy down the line, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.400 quicknesses there, his link is there. He has some he 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.560 has some hands to him. He gets home. The guy's 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:07.000 not gonna mauld anybody. He can sit back in pass pro. Yeah, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.600 Germaine will be a good addition for us, not only 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.520 with death, but with the potential to become a starter 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.120 um in this offense. Because the thing about him is 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.240 he played at a very successful college in Clemson, like 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.080 a champion man. So we do Clemson, brother, so we do. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:31.560 He understands how to win he's a very determined player. Um. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.119 And the only reason you'd say you might have been, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.880 you know, scouting wise in the in the later rounds 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.720 is because he's six too. And if he was six five, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.280 I bet you would have got drafted way earlier. This 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.360 is a real man. He's a prose pro. When you 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.960 talk to this guy, you feel like you don't feel 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.360 like you're talking to a guy who just graduated from Clemson, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.920 and feel like you're talking to guys have been in 0:03:53.000 --> 0:04:04.800 NFL about eight years Russian Corner's career. Here's a Mario Rogers. Yeah. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.760 I do feel like he was a steel that like. Um, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.120 I did not anticipate him being there at that pick. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.720 I thought he would have been gone. I'm glad he 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.320 was there for us because we have a vision for him. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.159 I do see a kind of an opportunity to play. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.200 I until the coach like, hey, I'm open to take 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.720 any spots across train. I take crowd and being a 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.120 versatile offensive lineman, and and I'll come in ready to 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.960 take any spot that's available. Tremaine's moment finally arrived later 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.080 than he had hoped, but he has a new home 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.039 and a great opportunity to contribute to a team that's 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.839 only two seasons removed from the Super Bowl. After Tremaine 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.760 gets selected, five more picks fly by, and with the 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.520 final pick in the draft, known as Mr. Irrelevant, every year, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.560 the New York Giants select Tay Crowder, a linebacker from 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.080 the University of Georgia. The two thousand twenty NFL Draft 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.480 is now complete. Two hundred and fifty six players were 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.039 chosen over three days, but throughout no one ever called 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:07.560 it saying about his name. Late that night, I went 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.640 upstairs and I said, how are you. He raised his head, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.880 he said, Mom, I'm fine, It'll be okay. So it 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:20.760 was heartbreaking for me, particularly seeing my son in that mood. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.960 Columbus is a very small community. Everybody knew it was 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.560 one of the it was just the only one going 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.640 into the draft. And I said to him, look, it 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:35.039 doesn't matter what everybody thinks of you. It's about you. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.080 You're gonna bounce back. You're not a criminal. You didn't still, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:44.919 you have been focused. You've represented your family and the 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:50.320 community well up until this moment. And I know you 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:55.000 have bigger times, bigger days ahead of you. Keep your 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.880 head together. You still have the opportunity. Look at the 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.880 people out there who went not even can't see that 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:09.400 for on undrafted agency, you know, free agent. Look at 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.200 them and counting your blessings. Here's the saying the morning after, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.159 it's a long three days. Um. You know, I throughout 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.800 this whole process, you know a lot of guys, You 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.200 meet a lot of people. And the first couple of 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.599 days was the first obviously, first, second, and third rounds, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.480 and you know a lot of guys that I trained with, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.080 you know, they were getting their names called, and you 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.840 know I was really excited and happy and for him. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:33.800 Uh that's kind of how the first two days went, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.720 just supporting people that I trained with, and then day 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.960 three came around. I thought that was gonna be my 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.320 big day. Uh. It was a really long day, started 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:48.359 twelve twelve pm. And then sitting by sitting through the 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.680 draft that I went undrafted obviously, so just hearing name 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.640 after name get called rounds four through seven, two hundred 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.320 or around two hundred picks, two hundred names get called. Um. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.160 I started off with excitement, my amilies around waiting for 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.560 me to get that call come in hopefully at the 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.640 same time as you see more of your friends. A 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.200 couple of my teammates got picked in it was a 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.200 roller coaster of emotions, if I can say just I'm 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.000 excited for my friends, but at the same time, I 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.240 was still waiting for my name to get called. And 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.720 then honestly, around round later, round six, round seven, that's 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.360 the one it started to turn. You have that excitement 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.960 that it turns into worry and like, man, am I 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.600 not gonna get drafted and we're not gonna get picked? 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.200 It was it was really hard. I'm not gonna lie um. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.040 So it was a lot of sadness, their disappointment. You know, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.520 my family was still around me. I felt like I 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.280 let them down. Uh, tears were shed, you know, not, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.720 That's just how it was. Despite the heartbreak, saying had 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.560 a promising development after the final pick was announced. As 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.120 soon as the draft was over, the last got the 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.840 last person got picked. I was forced with the decision 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.720 to make um. Denver actually called me at the end 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.680 of round seven and um, and it was like they 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.679 had opportunity for me. Um. They wanted me there because 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.880 John Tell had called me, and the Bengals called as well. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.480 There were a couple other teams that our you know, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.560 wanting me to sign as a U d F. A 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.040 U d f A stands for undrafted free agent. About 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.120 fifteen of these undrafted players signed with each team for 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.760 training camp, practice squads and hopefully to make the active 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.720 roster for the season. I was still in that moment 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.000 of you know, sadness and disappointment. Uh but I had 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.439 quickly had to flip that around and make a decision 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.760 for my future. Uh. So I was on the phone 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.920 with my agent, Bilbo, and we were just working through 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.480 They're just discapplinement me not getting selected, but also at 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.080 the same time, we had to make a decision, and 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.920 so I ended up going with Denver just so he 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.360 felt comfortable with He saw opportunity there for me, and 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.960 then decided to learn from CROs Fangio coach Don Tell. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.160 There good defensive minds there, and I see a role 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.400 that could fit in there. I think it a great 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.439 place for me to start to, like I said, learn 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.840 and just get ready for that next step and you know, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.839 my life and working as an NFL athlete. Later in 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.200 the day, he's aforementioned agent to marry his Bilbo calls 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.199 to check in again. The first thing I want to 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.160 tell you man, is that you know you got an opportunity. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.199 I know exactly how you feel because I was a 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.960 guy who came in this process when a third fourth 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.640 frown grade and I when I drafted it, I know 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.920 exactly what you said. Don't ever hang your head down 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.800 to use your intelligence. Learned that playbook. You're gonna make 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.360 the roster. I have no doubt about it. Everybody wants 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.320 to hear that name called. But at the end of 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.520 the day, when you're in there and you're able to 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.200 go in and field off or something, and the ways 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.360 NFL teams are now, they look at it like, I'm 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.120 good football players, and obviously you're the cheaper option. And 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.120 if they look at you and they look at the 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.679 third fourth frown pick and they're like, Okay, the thing 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.440 is better than this guy, and they're gonna keep you 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.640 because it's a lot cheaper to keep you. You have 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.600 an opportunity with the player performance escalators. All of the 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.240 bonus is the stuff that come along with being a 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.720 lower around or undrafted guy. You're going to improve yourself. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.600 You're gonna make that money back. You've handled this process 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.240 from the from the Senior Bowl to the combines and 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.360 now You've controlled everything you can. I said, back to 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.120 look at some of those pigful tulsa and stuff. I'm like, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.720 these guys are not even on a draft board. You know. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.600 People fall in love with size, They fall in love 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.240 with the things that they think because the guy had 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.720 linked or he ran a four three or four four, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.960 that doesn't equal good football player. So you're a great 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.160 football player, you know that. Just take that work ethic, 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.080 do everything you've always done and now proved everybody in 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.679 the league wrong. I mean, obviously I'm still a little disappointed, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.920 but you know, like I said, our Tony, so do 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.880 my best, you know, to look forward, don't do what 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.520 I gotta do. And I'm gonna tell you this, You're 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.040 gonna be at an advantage because you're intelligent, work your 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.160 ass off, and just don't let this draft define you. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.240 I'm telling you, he's saying, get it out of your 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.439 mind right now, not let it define you. Because when 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.480 you step on the shild, it's gonna stay nassy. It's 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.120 not gonna stay nassy or drafted free agent or middlevin Lord, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.679 first round pick and nothing. He's gonna say nassy. Whatever 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.120 number you select, and you gotta go out there and 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:17.000 balling and whenever number shows up on that film, it's productive. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.640 That's the guy he's gonna keep. So go do what 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.560 you do. Man, put all your faith in God, you know, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.600 trust that he has you here for a reason. He 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.840 gave you that talent for a reason. And believe that 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.040 he is the one that opened the doors that no 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.240 man can open. And he, oh, he puts opportunities in 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.920 front of you to no bankings will give him all 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.320 the glory you ask for an opportunity here, It is 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.319 not wrong with it. Man, your bronco, you know, and 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.120 you go out there and make him make a name 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.800 for yourself like you always have no doubt it's saying. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.720 Gets another call from his friend, Cameron Blenn, a former 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.480 weak for a safety who went undrafted last year and 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:59.559 signed with the San Francisco forty Niners. Scared, Broy, I 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:06.840 want to yeah, right, tough man, Yeah, because on God, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.000 you know, I am that draft felt like I was 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.239 drafted two years in a row, the whole similar hours. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.880 But just okay, it is what it is. But you 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:25.199 got opportunity. Uh it ain't not a little better. Meaning really, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.080 there's not no difference between being drafted unless it was 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.520 like first two, three round, you're not a different So 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.880 either way when you get there, efference so and no teams. Uh, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.319 that's probably what san France because that's exactly what I 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.319 told you. But he was like san France, like you 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.920 talked to everybody with them, and I hope they wasn't 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:49.720 trying to do something day hit me free agency. They didn't. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.360 Can you stuff like that? Bro? Who Well, hey you 0:12:55.240 --> 0:13:01.000 I'm going Denver. You're gonna work Denver, Denver? What they 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.880 what they signed you? Uh? So I haven't got the 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:12.360 contract yet, but twenty k the sign of bonus signs 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.120 or the sign of bonus, it's twenty k. So the 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.720 base is what you know, the basis Like, I ain't 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.480 got it yet the contract yet. Oh yeah, that's that's 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.520 that's power in that's that's that's signed for my My 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.880 sign ups only five K and I signed the basis 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:37.400 five so you feel so what you had? What you had? Uh? 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.640 What you had? So the base contract was like this, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.960 So honestly I don't I can't remember it, like, but 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.719 I just know my sign up bus was five K, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.480 and like I can't really remember that everything in the contract, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 but I just know my sign of bonuses on the 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.840 five K. The average undrafted free agent signing bonus is 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.199 five thousand. Say got four times that amount, and his 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.120 deal is for the new rookie minimum six hundred and 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.920 ten thousand dollars this season if he makes the fifty 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.760 three man roster. So did your agent like tell you 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.280 who was interested? Yeah? It was Denver, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.920 And what was the sign about the other two? Since 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:26.000 he was twelve k uh and uh, I wasn't really 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.560 interested in Baltimore like that because they that was too 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:35.000 damn day. Yeah, that was too damn deep. So yeah, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.880 it's tough man ship. So hell bro, I never right, bro, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.160 that That's what I'm saying. Bro, the whole world watching 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.480 and then got the fucking male Kuiper's best available. Hold 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.040 the hole, damn world, see my face not get picked. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.680 That's crazy, bro. It's still like you still got the 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.840 hype to you, bro, Like like I said, but you 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:02.040 know who you are, so going to show that. And 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.880 like I said, like the whole money thing, Bro, that's 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.400 like the investment in you. So the more money they gave, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.640 the more likely ard to stick around. Yeah, So I 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:19.440 think two in the too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bro, I 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.840 really got to a point where I ain't never it 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.480 was driving corner I don't even know exist before when 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.600 did two lane have a good quarner? Who knows? Bro? 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.160 It was It was so many Bro, I was like, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.440 it's tragic, same thing at the last year to thank you, Bro, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:42.680 and it's just nice. Their call ends abruptly, leaving a 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.120 saying alone with his thoughts. Here he is again the 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:52.880 next afternoon, So now I'm here, Uh kind of the 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.960 smoke is cleared, and you know I had to deal 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.120 with disappointed for the next couple of days. The next 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.440 still weren't weren't the best. I had a lot of 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.760 people congratulating me, uh, which it was just great. You know, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.440 I had the support of all my friends and family 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.400 and you know people around me. They were following me, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.640 which is great. But you know, I still had that 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.280 disappointment of you know, not getting drafted when I had 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.080 expectations of it being one of the best days of 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.840 my life. Um so, you know, and outside people don't 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.960 really didn't really understand that completely. You know, the draft 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.360 and working so hard for so long, you know, you 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.080 have those expectations and those are what I had, it 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.800 didn't happen for me, so you know, it took a 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.800 little bit to get over it. But um, I've always 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.280 been kind of the the underdog or you know, the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.920 smaller guy, or the guy at a small school, or 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.640 you know, I've always had to work through something, and 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.200 this is just another obstacle. Uh, there's another something, another 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.320 hurdle that I had to had to get over. Obviously 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.600 one of the biggest ones I faced yet. But it's 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.920 just added motivation for me. I'm always gonna hold it. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:00.960 I'll never forget that feeling, uh, you know, of going undrafted. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.280 I think it's something that will stick with me for 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.520 the rest of my career. I'm always going to have it, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.320 and I think it's always gonna be a motivation factor 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.879 for me. It's always gonna drive me to continue to 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.280 prove myself because that's what I have to do. At 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.000 the end of the day, no matter if I was 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.160 drafted or not, I still had to co improve myself 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.679 and going undrafted is just another motivating factor for me. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.920 So I'm definitely gonna hold onto it for a long time. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.800 I'm going to use it to to motivate myself and 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.240 and everything I do. Looking forward now to working towards 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.960 being a part of the Broncos and making a name 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.480 for myself in the NFL. So I now went on Broncos. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.320 I read about their history. They're one of the teams 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:46.160 that I have a history of going with undraft free agent. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.359 That was a little bit reassuring. I had to look 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:56.040 at his position specific and then it broke my heart 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.080 when somebody posted something that undrafted three agents are not 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.600 part of the team, and I said, forget about all 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.960 those people. Okay, go with a positive mind. You know, 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:12.600 carry everything you've learned to that team, and I guarantee 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.200 you that's another platform for you to prove that you're 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:21.000 a football player. It wasn't the money that was to 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.720 drive for him to want to play football, because during 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.560 his low moment, I told him, hey, you got a 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.119 degree to live a life and you know will always 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.280 be here to support you that. I just want you 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.480 to be happy, you know, I just wanted my son 0:18:38.680 --> 0:19:07.719 to fulfill his life dream. We'll be right back, all right. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.480 It is the day after the draft, April. I am 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.280 in my car driving. The draft is over, the dust 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.080 is settled, and a new chapter is beginning for all 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.160 eight of these athletes and like is saying, Tremaine struggles 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.360 to process how he fell round after round. Over the weekend, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.280 I am going to go see some friends and some 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.960 family social distance. Of course I haven't get to see it, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.000 and you know they deserve to see me with supporting ship. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.679 That's the music. So you're looking at the newest member 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:47.199 of the ill saying this ram who how does the 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.560 guy don't know if I was getting picked or not? 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.080 Watching that the grounds go by, watching people you knew 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.000 that you were better than get picked before you even 0:19:55.080 --> 0:20:00.639 get opportunities, deals and all that stuff. It's kind of 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.679 demoralized a little bit, you know, just kind of invalidate. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.200 It's all good work that you've put in to say that, Hey, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:09.840 you know these guys are read and you know because 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.159 they worked harder than they were better it is because 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.600 somebody liked them. One But then towards the end of 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.040 the seventh round, I started getting calls from head coaches, Hey, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.200 we really really want you. You're one of our top 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.919 priority free agents. Um. The whole time I was like, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.639 damn if they wanted yeah, just drafted me. But you know, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.680 that's side the point. All the cultures are so surprised 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.280 and shocked out was still on board. Someone was looking 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.399 at roster, looking at positions to go through, and that 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.240 calls hey, Tremaine said, this is Tremaine. We're ready to 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:47.000 be around and I think there's another speech about undraft 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.159 free and I was like, yeah, I'd love to. He 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.720 cut me out great, uh Coachy bays and call you 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.919 and we're gonna I was like, okay, it's like we're 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.120 just gonna talk next steps after this and I was like, what, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.439 I'll answer that, so show me very called answered it. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.240 He said, hey, man, we're actually shocked as hell that 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.280 you're still available. We'd love to have you. Are you excited? 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.040 And I was like, yeah, I'm excited. You know, it's 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.560 a big opportunity to play in the NFL. And it 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.800 was like, you're excited to be a RAM. It was 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:21.280 like yeah, And I looked at the TV and walking 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:22.879 back into the room, I was in my room by 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.760 myself and there goes my name on the board in 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.199 the room. Was pretty lifeless for a while, but then 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.200 seeing my name on the board and seeing the joy 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.400 that stepbrother, step mom, my dad had it was nice, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.760 especially because the long drought and not being picked, and 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.399 I was like, wow, this is amazing. My stepmom started screaming, 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.280 so I really couldn't hear Coach McVey, but he told 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.600 me that he was from the Cobb County area and 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.320 then he went to schools around Wheeler and he was 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.360 a kind of player I'm getting caliber, the pedigree that 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.320 you know, we do it Clemson. So it was it 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.360 was really great talking to him. It was a really 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.800 great moment, and not a day passes and remained still 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:06.200 works to find clarity about what happened. Yeah. Man, time 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.440 is twelve o'clock on the dot. I'm in my drop toop. 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:16.000 It's April, uh cool, days after the draft. I'm on 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.240 the way to go work out with my old trainer, 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.920 UM coach Michael Butler. Just you can ask for a 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.959 long time. It's training to likes Justine, those Bradley Schub, 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.560 brand Inchub. I mean, the list goes on and on. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:33.199 But no, man, it's just a weird feeling. Somebody just 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.040 sent me a text like, yeah, I found how much 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:37.960 you're making Like why have you really never been in 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:43.240 an important thing to me? But people kind of have 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.520 been making it out to be like the measure of 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.440 your work or the measure of a man. And I'm 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:55.000 just I'm really disturbed about that because yeah, there's just 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.080 people that may have been born more physical gifts, but 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.240 they ain't been ain't been working like I had. And 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:04.120 I know that because I see these people every day. 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:08.440 But no, it's like, you know, my father can say 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:12.800 that I don't consider this weekend of failure at all, 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:18.479 but his eyes and people around me, I was supposed 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.800 to go higher. I guess this this weekend was a failure. 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:23.679 I didn't even have a celebration really, it was just, 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.439 you know, I was sitting in knocker rules and silent 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.160 and step Mom was excited. But it's really about it. 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:38.720 But I don't know. It wouldn't be the first time 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:41.560 I failed, and I felt a lot, But I guess 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:44.920 that's that's that's what makes me mean, is that, Yeah, 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.240 I wasn't high school kid coming in. Oh he's gonna start. 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.800 I was, what the hell is this kid going here? 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:55.600 And I was skinny to und guy, like you know, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:24:00.640 it was my challenges but it was rough, man. I mean, 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:02.320 you know that was like I was there for that. 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.040 I was like, ah, we weren't there for for for 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:10.119 the feeling man, I weren't there for the days I 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:14.080 didn't want to do it anymore. We weren't there for 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.119 the hours of work for the inch progress. You know, 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:20.600 it's some of that ship can be demoializing. It's like 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.400 pushing up big as heavy ass rock, right, you put 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:29.159 all your effort into it. But joining a Yeah, I 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.280