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Speaker 1: Welcome back to drafting. We're only twenty four hours away
Speaker 1: from the start of a life changing weekend for our
Speaker 1: eight NFL prospects. Oh let's see. In this episode, we'll
Speaker 1: hear from two of the toughest athletes in the draft,
Speaker 1: Keyshawn Vaughan and Labiscus Chat. She was coming too fast?
Speaker 1: Did he not see me? Regards I will make a
Speaker 1: wild turn or not by seeing death? Don't even hit me?
Speaker 1: Lea Biscuits a player used to being hit on the field,
Speaker 1: but now he's involved in a very different kind of collision.
Speaker 1: Let's cray where you go? What you doing? Drink? I'm good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we go. Oh that's crazy. But I was not my fault. Bro,
Speaker 1: I was really tripping as I thought was in the
Speaker 1: middle age. But I'm like, no, it don't make sense
Speaker 1: because if he was in the third lane to the left,
Speaker 1: he was not on better No, no, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: not my fault. But all that's why you put some
Speaker 1: seabed on. I bet you bruise was not going right now. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's actually gonna be dating about that. That's like but
Speaker 1: that's like dropping the football in the game. Scientists compare
Speaker 1: some impacts in football to being in a car crash
Speaker 1: with multiple hits equivalent to a thirty mile per hour
Speaker 1: wreck occurring every game. So when three d and sixty
Speaker 1: pounds McKay Beckton runs his five point one second forty
Speaker 1: yard dash speed directly into a defender, it's easy to
Speaker 1: see why the impact is like driving a vehicle into somewhere,
Speaker 1: and why injuries are inevitably a big part of the sport.
Speaker 1: What I experienced during college, you know, just all the
Speaker 1: injuries I went through, and just like growing up, just
Speaker 1: everything like at the end of the day, a lot
Speaker 1: of things negative happened, but I always looked at it
Speaker 1: positive majority of the time. Just at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. It all starts with the mindset and and
Speaker 1: it was all mental, all mental. My sophomore years, the
Speaker 1: fifth game when I got hurt, like, I had six
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns, five Russian touchdown, I had seven hundred receiving yards.
Speaker 1: Leviscusife catches ten touchdowns and over seven hundred receiving yards
Speaker 1: in those first five games looked more like video game
Speaker 1: numbers than real life stats. He was nearly unstoppable, and
Speaker 1: so was his team, winning all five of their games
Speaker 1: going into the huge matchup with usc It was a
Speaker 1: big game. It was a very big game against usc
Speaker 1: UM at the house. So for me to get hurt
Speaker 1: in that game, it was all mental because I'm like,
Speaker 1: dangn Like I was really on this roller coaster and
Speaker 1: I was just going crazy and just being great. And
Speaker 1: then now that roller coaster stop. So when I got hurt,
Speaker 1: I tried to come back and fince the game, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't. It was third quarter, and it hurt me
Speaker 1: for so because, like I said, like what I was doing,
Speaker 1: Like I was doing some crazy things. Leviska added a
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen total yards and another touchdown against usc
Speaker 1: before the injury took him out of the game permanently.
Speaker 1: I had to sit out three games. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: those three games was miserable. I couldn't like because you know,
Speaker 1: you heard you really can't travel or you really can't
Speaker 1: do like team stuff. Of course you can't practice or
Speaker 1: anything like that. So I was really taking out of
Speaker 1: football for like three weeks, and that was the first
Speaker 1: time ever. I hadn't been hurt in college. But it
Speaker 1: was missing no games like that. It was just keep playing.
Speaker 1: But those three games I would have to not travel
Speaker 1: to the team hotel. I had to stay at home.
Speaker 1: It was just terrible. And then we was like losing
Speaker 1: like it was five and though we lost that that
Speaker 1: sixth game, and then I it was just downhill from there.
Speaker 1: We flipped the switch all and then flipped it off
Speaker 1: when I got hurt that fifth game. And like I said,
Speaker 1: it was all mental. I'm not gonna lie at that
Speaker 1: point like being positive, I wasn't at all. Um, it
Speaker 1: was terrible for me. The team lost to USC in
Speaker 1: that sixth game and then lost all three games le
Speaker 1: Visca missed. I came back after those three games, you know,
Speaker 1: finner this season. But after coming back from that third game,
Speaker 1: the first game coming back, I told my labor and
Speaker 1: my my shoulder, and I didn't tell nobody, but I knew.
Speaker 1: I knew it was something. But if I was to
Speaker 1: tell somebody, I guarantee they would have definitely told me
Speaker 1: to stop playing, like for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: We had like three more games though I knew I
Speaker 1: had to get surgery, So that was all pretty mental.
Speaker 1: But I'll fall through it, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: had to tell myself it is what it is. Everything
Speaker 1: happens for a reason. Um, that's just just control what
Speaker 1: we can control. So I got both of my surgeries
Speaker 1: after the season. It's still mental because I just had
Speaker 1: big expectations for myself for all season and I couldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, live up to those expectations because I have
Speaker 1: these surgeries and I couldn't do nothing. The frequency of
Speaker 1: injuries and football means a player's toughness is as highly
Speaker 1: valued as speeding strength or heightened weight. In today's NFL.
Speaker 1: Teams want to know is a player injury prone or
Speaker 1: more importantly, are they willing to play through pain? So
Speaker 1: I couldn't do nothing, no football until fall camp. I'm
Speaker 1: in fall camp. My shoulders still bothering me. It's it's
Speaker 1: not there yet. It's not there like if I falled,
Speaker 1: I'm out of practice for a little bit. So it's
Speaker 1: still mental there. So now at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: mental and my confidence it's a little low for sure,
Speaker 1: because I'm like man, am I gonna be able to
Speaker 1: like do this, do that, do that. So fall camp
Speaker 1: go on, I get better and better and better. I'm
Speaker 1: a fast forward to the fourth game, but the season,
Speaker 1: fourth game of season, like I'm really like finally feeling myself.
Speaker 1: This fourth game is against Arizona State at sun Double
Speaker 1: Stadium and Temple. I didn't gain my confidence back. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling myself everything, everything. I'm positive everything. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go. As of the State first drive, I get
Speaker 1: the little reverse and I got hurt. This is the core,
Speaker 1: the core injury. I just got surgery on the march.
Speaker 1: I got hurt or whatever. I'm like, man, I felt
Speaker 1: as soon as it happened. The guy like turned me.
Speaker 1: He got in between my legs. My leg when we
Speaker 1: hit the ground, the right one went flying and the
Speaker 1: left one didn't go anywhere. So I hit the ground
Speaker 1: and my legs just spread it out. So like I
Speaker 1: feel it right away, um in my core. They said
Speaker 1: I had a slightly torn core when I went to
Speaker 1: go do ultra CLL left the game, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I gotta come back. I'm I got to like I
Speaker 1: got to I don't care. I tried to get in
Speaker 1: the next drive with on offense and I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: So now really I go back into that that mode
Speaker 1: like it's just all bad, and it just went right
Speaker 1: back negative and it was just all bad for me.
Speaker 1: It was bad because all season I had to deal
Speaker 1: with injuries all all season, I couldn't do what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Fall camp, I couldn't really do what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And now we in in the
Speaker 1: season and now like I'm hurt again. So they take
Speaker 1: me inside the tent and I'm just like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't do it. And then that's
Speaker 1: when they took me in to do the art sound
Speaker 1: and it was like it's slightly torn, and that was
Speaker 1: really it. I really like broke into tears right when
Speaker 1: they told me. And I can't remember the last time
Speaker 1: I cried, Like I don't cry, Like like I said,
Speaker 1: when it comes to feelings, I don't feel anything, so
Speaker 1: like crying, I don't. I don't do that. So I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I'm gonna just you know, rehab and
Speaker 1: you know, just go week the week by it. And
Speaker 1: it just wasn't good. After being injured for more than
Speaker 1: half his sophomore season, Leavisca gets hurt again. It's a
Speaker 1: terrible happenstance and a major blow to his psyche. It's
Speaker 1: very hard to get on the football field and play football.
Speaker 1: This is not an easy sport to play, and it's
Speaker 1: not just simple. So it's very hard to not go
Speaker 1: into the game confident. That's the number one thing you need,
Speaker 1: and that's the first thing you need before you step
Speaker 1: on the fields. Confidence. So it was, yeah, I'm not alive.
Speaker 1: It was just really hard for me to, you know,
Speaker 1: have that confidence. And I was just really you know,
Speaker 1: just out there just trying to play and just trying
Speaker 1: to do what I could. So the whole year, I
Speaker 1: don't play that seventy s the whole season. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Every week I would not practice. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I'm
Speaker 1: out there, I'm like running around, but I'm doing nothing
Speaker 1: really Like I'm just doing like individuals. Thursday is gonna
Speaker 1: walk through Fridays. I speed. That Friday was really the
Speaker 1: only day I really get out there and run full speed.
Speaker 1: Why because if if I tried to run full speed
Speaker 1: Monday Tuesday Wednesday, or like went hard Monday Tuesday Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I would be shut down. My core would get too
Speaker 1: sore and it'll just be too aggravated and flame and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to move at all. So literally,
Speaker 1: I couldn't practice till Friday to be ready to for Saturday.
Speaker 1: And I understan, I don't know how I did it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just my dream and dream how do
Speaker 1: you said that word? But like it was really all mental,
Speaker 1: all mental. If I wasn't positive about it and you know,
Speaker 1: just saw the right in what I was doing, then
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have worked out for me. And I mean
Speaker 1: this just just had it made positive about it, you know,
Speaker 1: just how did a whole mindset? He played the entire
Speaker 1: year hurt and still put up seven hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four receiving yards, a hundred and sixty one rushing yards,
Speaker 1: and six touchdowns. A good season, but not the stellar
Speaker 1: performance from that run. His sophomore year. Still, Levisca played
Speaker 1: through injuries and continued to produce a sign he can
Speaker 1: take the collisions to keep playing, that he has the
Speaker 1: toughness NFL teams love. I look at it as in,
Speaker 1: I know it's something brighter on the other side. Um,
Speaker 1: I know, once I get done climbing this tall wall,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be happy, happy as ever once I get
Speaker 1: over that wall, because I did something that was so
Speaker 1: hard to do and it took everything out of me.
Speaker 1: But now that I know I've done it, I can
Speaker 1: keep getting happy, and you know, I can just keep
Speaker 1: on getting stronger and stronger from one of those obstacles,
Speaker 1: and it just get to a point to where, like mentally,
Speaker 1: you're just so strong, like nothing can bend you. This
Speaker 1: grit is part of the reason why Lavisco will be
Speaker 1: selected early in the draft this weekend. It's how he
Speaker 1: plays through pain and how he keeps himself optimistic even
Speaker 1: in the face of a car accident or some demeaning
Speaker 1: chores with his brother. Boy, she got like spots older
Speaker 1: Kevins over there. Thanks, I got one that's really good.
Speaker 1: It was this guy's talking to co Cosey had about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come come help me, you got it? Whoa rather think
Speaker 1: up three days of boot, dude? I just clicked. I
Speaker 1: just picked up three days, Bro, I just got so many, child,
Speaker 1: I'm feeding back. Serious, you don't even care. You probably
Speaker 1: eat it. I don't know if I eat it, I
Speaker 1: won't care, got Darrow. I think it's some water though, Bro,
Speaker 1: because what are these spots. I guess she's just when
Speaker 1: it was wet and look, yeah, look right there. He's
Speaker 1: finally healthy again, and he knows there's a fresh start
Speaker 1: waiting for him. The moment his name is called, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. So she is about four o'clock. I
Speaker 1: get a good little work out there. I'm my there
Speaker 1: one of these local parks, Rose Park, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna turning to see we're gonna it's little youngest little
Speaker 1: high fogs that's running back. Keishaw Vaughan training in his
Speaker 1: hometown of Nashville. Let's call I guess working where you
Speaker 1: gonna work, you gonna work. In episode three, we talked
Speaker 1: about how scouts and analysts described Keishan with words like tough, physical,
Speaker 1: and relentless. It's clear to anyone watching that he runs
Speaker 1: with purpose. The question NFL teams have is why where
Speaker 1: does that drive come from? What's his deeper motivation? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I first had the drain of benefit Polo NADOs five
Speaker 1: six years old. Me having that dream is kind of
Speaker 1: something that kept me on a straight path as far
Speaker 1: as not hanging around the wrong crowd, not doing stupid stuff,
Speaker 1: me just knowing like my whole life. There's always been
Speaker 1: I got I'm going to the league. I'm going to league.
Speaker 1: I'm with football and two two it stops. And I
Speaker 1: didn't need a record. I couldn't have a record, would
Speaker 1: have made me look bad, kind of staying tunnel vision
Speaker 1: on what my goal was and that was the NFL.
Speaker 1: So that's that's why my footage still on this football
Speaker 1: gas pedal. It's a good dream that I'm living out.
Speaker 1: Keyshawan played youth football in the Greater Nashville area and
Speaker 1: then went to Pearl Cone High School, a public school
Speaker 1: in the metro area known for its football program and
Speaker 1: for being the first and only entertainment magnet school in
Speaker 1: the country. My name is Brandon woods On, the co
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at pearl Comb High School. I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: Damon go in because he played on two state championship
Speaker 1: teams at Pearl Cons. My name is Damien Harris and
Speaker 1: I'm also a co offensive coordinator at Parcon High School
Speaker 1: Pearl Cone UM. It's one of the top schools in Nashville,
Speaker 1: not only Nashville, but it's one of the top schools
Speaker 1: in the state. Recently, we ranked number two teams in
Speaker 1: a decade in Tennessee. So that tells you a lot
Speaker 1: about Pearl Cone. It's real rich in tradition with football.
Speaker 1: I was also the running back Forkey Sean, so you
Speaker 1: know he in my footsteps, but he was a lot
Speaker 1: better than I was. Pearl Cone's Friday Night success on
Speaker 1: the field hides some darker statistics inside the halls. The
Speaker 1: school consistently ranks near the bottom of all high schools
Speaker 1: in the state when it comes to academics, and It's
Speaker 1: North Nashville zip code places it at the top of
Speaker 1: another unwanted distinction. Here's Coach Woods. It's definitely um rare
Speaker 1: to um excel in their three seven two o eight
Speaker 1: um zip code. Let's get the highest incarceration rate in
Speaker 1: the nation. And man, the numbers don't lie. It is
Speaker 1: really in one of the roughest parts of Nashville, if
Speaker 1: not the roughest. So I mean, you have a lot
Speaker 1: of kids to come through and play with a lot
Speaker 1: of passion and play with a lot of hard and
Speaker 1: you know, they tough, grimy, and you know, have a
Speaker 1: lot of grit kids like Keyshaw. I'm from Western Nasville,
Speaker 1: but I don't grew up kind of all over Nashville.
Speaker 1: I don't grew up all over the inn inter Nashville,
Speaker 1: and also the out of Nashville moved around a lot,
Speaker 1: meant a lot of people. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I kind of picked the choose. My friends wisely know
Speaker 1: and they have to have the same mindset as me,
Speaker 1: especially because, like I said, as a young game, when
Speaker 1: I first started playing football, watching people um in the NFL,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going there. I know, I gotta stay
Speaker 1: out of trouble to get though, So that's kind of
Speaker 1: what my mind sets as a Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: always been cautious, why move who I'm around, what I'm
Speaker 1: want to do, And that's kind of I always put
Speaker 1: myself in the best position to not being around bullshit,
Speaker 1: and football was really the best thing that kept me
Speaker 1: out of that. And kids like coach Harris, who also
Speaker 1: knows firsthand what is plagued that part of town, the
Speaker 1: neighborhood that Keyshan and I both grew up in. You
Speaker 1: grew up fast. You see a lot of things that
Speaker 1: go on their kids shouldn't see. Drug populated neighborhoods, prostitution,
Speaker 1: and you see, I mean, you see everything that so
Speaker 1: as a teenager or high school student. It takes a
Speaker 1: lot to even make it to school because a lot
Speaker 1: of your friends maybe they don't even go to school.
Speaker 1: So for Keyshan to even go through all this stuff
Speaker 1: and making to the school, go to one of the
Speaker 1: top schools in the nation, Vanderbilt for academics was it
Speaker 1: is very very important to the for everybody at Perl Kon.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've never seen somebody to do that. Keyshaw
Speaker 1: the standard for academics and for sports, and he did
Speaker 1: it and itself proclaimed grimy way running grimmer it means
Speaker 1: he's running with a purpose, running to achieve something. He's
Speaker 1: running real hard, He's not gonna show away from contact,
Speaker 1: and you definitely don't want to hit him. He's not
Speaker 1: just running to get yards. He's fast, he's powerful, and
Speaker 1: he also very elusive. So it's a different package. A
Speaker 1: lot of running backs either they're fast or they are powerful,
Speaker 1: and he has a combination of both. We knew that
Speaker 1: Keyshaw was a special talent and he was, you know,
Speaker 1: gonna be our lead back the next year. His sophomore year,
Speaker 1: the coaches knew they needed a new system to take
Speaker 1: advantage of Keshan's talents, so they took a four hour
Speaker 1: trip to the University of Mississippi to study the old
Speaker 1: miss offense learning how to implement it at Pearl Cone.
Speaker 1: We looked at some of the guys that they had
Speaker 1: playing running back at that time, and we knew that
Speaker 1: that was gonna be a great fit for him in
Speaker 1: that offense. But we struggled his sophomore year. We had
Speaker 1: a new offense. Everything was new, the terminology and all that.
Speaker 1: To pick it back off that um when coach was
Speaker 1: not really saying is we struggled Keyshan sophomore year because
Speaker 1: Keishan was coming off of broken a broken leg his
Speaker 1: freshman year. So, um, Keishan play real hard his sophomore year,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to come back off a major injury.
Speaker 1: This is the same for the two Laviska showed in
Speaker 1: the face of a major injury and Keishan faced similar
Speaker 1: hurdles getting back onto the field. The game that Keishan
Speaker 1: broke his ankle, it not only a bit him, but
Speaker 1: it affected our team. We had a great run, but
Speaker 1: they kind of collapsed and was like, Okay, what we're
Speaker 1: supposed to do. And going into a sophomore year, and
Speaker 1: he had a lot of doubt. You know, he was thinking,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not that good, but he stuck it out.
Speaker 1: When we made that offense around his sophomore year, we
Speaker 1: knew as long as well be patient, some good things
Speaker 1: were gonna come out of it. Because Keishan freshman year,
Speaker 1: he was like the best running back on the team
Speaker 1: at the time, but he was just so young. He
Speaker 1: wasn't ready yet. Keishan had all the tools, but the
Speaker 1: broken legs slowed his progress, and even when he came
Speaker 1: back from the injury, he still hadn't quite put it
Speaker 1: all together yet. Nack on Keishan like his freshman his
Speaker 1: sophomore year was he wasn't real fast. Well, he worked
Speaker 1: his tail off. We made him run track and he
Speaker 1: worked on the speed and he got to speed up
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I know it was several days that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't wanted to just walk off and say forget
Speaker 1: this truck stuff, but he stuck with it because he
Speaker 1: knew he had a goal and fought through the pain
Speaker 1: and he knew that the truck was necessary in order
Speaker 1: to him to reach that goal. After his junior kis Sean,
Speaker 1: you know, he blew up because like I said, no
Speaker 1: one knew about him, a kid that really probably had
Speaker 1: like five or six hundred yards the year before. Then
Speaker 1: he exploded his junior year with some crazy numbers. Offense
Speaker 1: was every probably like thirty eight points a game, and
Speaker 1: he made He had twenty eight of those points. Colleges
Speaker 1: wasn't even big on him yet as well, but he
Speaker 1: had got his confidence back, He had his swagger. You
Speaker 1: can see more bounce, and this when I think he
Speaker 1: really took over the team. All that hard work paid off.
Speaker 1: He Sean ran for over two thousand yards and twenty
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns his junior season. So he caught everybody by
Speaker 1: surpris eyes his junior year because nobody really knew about him.
Speaker 1: But one thing about Keith Shan, he always played with
Speaker 1: like a chip on the shoulder. He's he kind of
Speaker 1: has that that like that Michael Jordan effect, Like if
Speaker 1: if the other team is stretching and they they allow,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go for three yards on them. Any little thing.
Speaker 1: Keishan is known to pick up something to get him
Speaker 1: going and he's ready. He likes to prove people wrong
Speaker 1: a lot. He's been one of those guys that people
Speaker 1: tend to push to the side. So he's out to
Speaker 1: prove how great he is. Keishon does some incredible stuff
Speaker 1: even when things are going rough. On just touching on
Speaker 1: what coach has is saying about people doubting him and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. He was unknown when he was coming
Speaker 1: out of eighth grade and he just had a lot
Speaker 1: to prove. I was talking to someone about another running
Speaker 1: back who was the talk of the town, and you know,
Speaker 1: the proof is in the pudding, like how their career
Speaker 1: high school careers ended up. Eighth grade year, me and
Speaker 1: another running back, we was our first time on the
Speaker 1: team and they already give him the spot just because
Speaker 1: he was from the area. So stuff like that. I've
Speaker 1: been kind of working my way up to the top,
Speaker 1: I said something like that. Has I always continue to
Speaker 1: push me been underdog as I'm a big person who
Speaker 1: want to prove people wrong. So I mean been underdog
Speaker 1: somebody carried with much pride and like, like I said,
Speaker 1: nobus don't lie. It's gonna be like, yeah, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have slept on that guy. The numbers definitely didn't lie.
Speaker 1: As senior season, he rushed for an absurd two thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and forty six yards and forty five touchdowns,
Speaker 1: averaging over eleven yards a carry, but his progression during
Speaker 1: high school went beyond improved speed and ballooning statistics from
Speaker 1: a new offense. I was already a tough physically growing up,
Speaker 1: But I say what what made me even tough? It
Speaker 1: was from high school my freshman year. The seniors, like seniors, juniors,
Speaker 1: like they basically go crazy and practice like we're hitting
Speaker 1: full speed. You can't cry practice to coach. Coach ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do nothing, and so stuff like that kind of
Speaker 1: build my toughness. I remember, um when I first got
Speaker 1: to high school and we were doing a little angle
Speaker 1: tackle jury. You know, you're both do that like sixty seventy.
Speaker 1: Now we're going a hundred. I'm on offense. We're going
Speaker 1: to angle with drill and the two safeties are seniors
Speaker 1: and they're going full speed, like smacking me. Coaching right
Speaker 1: that he ain't doing nothing. So like stuff like I
Speaker 1: had to build up my toughness from that because like
Speaker 1: when nobody gonna come save me on that field, and
Speaker 1: that mindset it helps me to this day. And he
Speaker 1: gave me through a lot of things. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Woods again. I've coached a lot of great
Speaker 1: Becks in my seventeen years of coaching in Metro Nashville,
Speaker 1: and he's the best by far. I try to look
Speaker 1: at the differences and just like Coach Hare said, he's
Speaker 1: a total package. His vision is underestimated a lot of times,
Speaker 1: but he has great vision. So you know, he's just
Speaker 1: he's a special count of talent. And then he's so smart.
Speaker 1: He played the game out in his head way before
Speaker 1: the ball is kicked off, so he's able to tell
Speaker 1: you about it everybody strengths and weaknesses and about fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and so he's kind of able to dissect. Defense
Speaker 1: is real fast. And one game, I remember he had
Speaker 1: five carres and for a hundred and some yards in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Creek, Yeah, and it like five touches
Speaker 1: for like three touchdowns and we have to take him
Speaker 1: out like first quarter and he probably could have an
Speaker 1: out Bundy night. But get we couldn't do them like that.
Speaker 1: You know. The thing with Key, Yes, he always wanted
Speaker 1: other players to get seine like he would run for
Speaker 1: so many yards and then he would go off on
Speaker 1: me about not having his little brother in the game
Speaker 1: so his brother could score some touchdowns, and so he
Speaker 1: was one of those guys. But Keishan overall, man, he's
Speaker 1: one of the friendliest dudes and real funny Keyshan and
Speaker 1: his buddies, they all think they are rapp us and
Speaker 1: sing us and procomb being an entertainment magnet school, we
Speaker 1: have like these big time recordings studios and stuff. They
Speaker 1: go in there and they make some of the funniest
Speaker 1: songs and they think they're great. But some of the
Speaker 1: songs they cant you, y'all almost say they I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say that great songs. The Keyshan and his friends
Speaker 1: I've known to make some catchy songs, as catchy as
Speaker 1: the album's might be. NFL teams are interested in his
Speaker 1: rap skills, it's the stories about his work, ethic, and
Speaker 1: character that reveal more about who Kishan Vaughan is underneath
Speaker 1: the pads. He had a job at McDonald's when he
Speaker 1: was in high school and a lot of us didn't
Speaker 1: even know it until one of his friends was messing
Speaker 1: with him and saying they wanted like some chicken nuggets,
Speaker 1: and he was like, man, you gotta hook me upisode
Speaker 1: So he was like, Keishan, you work at McDonald's. So
Speaker 1: we thought he was playing because he jokes a lot.
Speaker 1: We blew it off until the friends came in and like,
Speaker 1: na coach, he really working at McDonald's. And we was like, what, Like,
Speaker 1: you score all these touchdown and you're still going to
Speaker 1: work the next morning early and just to you know,
Speaker 1: get some extra money to hip out with the family.
Speaker 1: And it just says a lot about a kid that
Speaker 1: run four or five touch downs the game and didn't
Speaker 1: go work in McDonald's. You don't find it too often.
Speaker 1: And Keys was that type of dude. Man. He was
Speaker 1: like the neighborhood hero is like if he was Spider
Speaker 1: Man or something, just turf through, we're gonna get it
Speaker 1: out of the blood. But oh yeah too, Spright, the
Speaker 1: North Nashville hero not just working out in the nearby field.
Speaker 1: He's out there setting an example, trying to help the
Speaker 1: next Coach Harris, the next Key, Shawn Vaughan, whichever a
Speaker 1: kid can harness football as a way to make it
Speaker 1: out of the neighborhood. Listen, white gloves don't terrible. What's up?
Speaker 1: And that structure right now, I think that that's structure.
Speaker 1: Like that boy, that's struction. Yeah, I don't you were
Speaker 1: about the wrong ship. That's the problem, but not like
Speaker 1: now it's the struct They're gonna be the next one out.
Speaker 1: Well they get it bigger. That's how it is, right breath,
Speaker 1: break your feet up, dude, there sir, yes six when
Speaker 1: you have guys like keys Shan that comes through and
Speaker 1: show the other kids that it is a way out.
Speaker 1: Keishan A knew it, but he said, like a major
Speaker 1: ground for all the other players too, have something to
Speaker 1: strive for. The last guy that that played in the
Speaker 1: NFL from pearl Combe was John Henderson that played with
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville jack Wars. So we was lucky enough to
Speaker 1: have Keyshan to come through and um, he got the
Speaker 1: boots and he's gonna make big strides in the NFL
Speaker 1: and hopefully some other guys will be able to follow
Speaker 1: his footsteps. Coming up on the next episode of Drafted
Speaker 1: and don't really here like here I think is here
Speaker 1: though rather than Draft tomorrow. But I'm excited, man, only excited,
Speaker 1: a little nervous, anxious. Really, I didn't sleep that at
Speaker 1: all last night. So we believe the pick I'm better
Speaker 1: than he's not better than me. Ros I don't garen
Speaker 1: what they can see he's not better than me, She's
Speaker 1: not better than Definitely a surreal moment outside of the
Speaker 1: house I about to play out. Drafted as a production
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Speaker 1: The executive producers are Kelly Garner, Lisa Ammerman, Eric's a Lot,
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Speaker 1: The series is produced and written by Eric Winer. Jerry
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