WEBVTT - S1 Episode 7: Grit & Grimy 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.599 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.280 Group and I Heart Radio. Yeah, I think we's going right. Huh, 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:20.120 got to sate Hill with Is that not an internal lay? Yeah? 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:27.320 Was that not an internal lay? You're good last time. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.480 Welcome back to drafting. We're only twenty four hours away 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.000 from the start of a life changing weekend for our 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:45.800 eight NFL prospects. Oh let's see. In this episode, we'll 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.360 hear from two of the toughest athletes in the draft, 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.240 Keyshawn Vaughan and Labiscus Chat. She was coming too fast? 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:58.040 Did he not see me? Regards I will make a 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.680 wild turn or not by seeing death? Don't even hit me? 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.840 Lea Biscuits a player used to being hit on the field, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.679 but now he's involved in a very different kind of collision. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:33.720 Let's cray where you go? What you doing? Drink? I'm good? Yeah, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.800 we go. Oh that's crazy. But I was not my fault. Bro, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.080 I was really tripping as I thought was in the 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.920 middle age. But I'm like, no, it don't make sense 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.960 because if he was in the third lane to the left, 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.000 he was not on better No, no, yeah, I was 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:58.000 not my fault. But all that's why you put some 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:05.360 seabed on. I bet you bruise was not going right now. Oh, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.720 that's actually gonna be dating about that. That's like but 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:15.840 that's like dropping the football in the game. Scientists compare 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.320 some impacts in football to being in a car crash 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.680 with multiple hits equivalent to a thirty mile per hour 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.600 wreck occurring every game. So when three d and sixty 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.880 pounds McKay Beckton runs his five point one second forty 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.200 yard dash speed directly into a defender, it's easy to 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.079 see why the impact is like driving a vehicle into somewhere, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.959 and why injuries are inevitably a big part of the sport. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.960 What I experienced during college, you know, just all the 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.600 injuries I went through, and just like growing up, just 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.600 everything like at the end of the day, a lot 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.200 of things negative happened, but I always looked at it 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.639 positive majority of the time. Just at the end of 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:02.000 the day. It all starts with the mindset and and 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.960 it was all mental, all mental. My sophomore years, the 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.400 fifth game when I got hurt, like, I had six 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.000 receiving touchdowns, five Russian touchdown, I had seven hundred receiving yards. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.680 Leviscusife catches ten touchdowns and over seven hundred receiving yards 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.040 in those first five games looked more like video game 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.840 numbers than real life stats. He was nearly unstoppable, and 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.680 so was his team, winning all five of their games 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:34.320 going into the huge matchup with usc It was a 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.480 big game. It was a very big game against usc 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.720 UM at the house. So for me to get hurt 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.920 in that game, it was all mental because I'm like, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.240 dangn Like I was really on this roller coaster and 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.640 I was just going crazy and just being great. And 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.160 then now that roller coaster stop. So when I got hurt, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:55.920 I tried to come back and fince the game, but 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.240 I couldn't. It was third quarter, and it hurt me 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.480 for so because, like I said, like what I was doing, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:07.080 Like I was doing some crazy things. Leviska added a 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.960 hundred and eighteen total yards and another touchdown against usc 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.760 before the injury took him out of the game permanently. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.440 I had to sit out three games. Oh my god, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.120 those three games was miserable. I couldn't like because you know, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.120 you heard you really can't travel or you really can't 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.120 do like team stuff. Of course you can't practice or 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.160 anything like that. So I was really taking out of 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.560 football for like three weeks, and that was the first 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.640 time ever. I hadn't been hurt in college. But it 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.040 was missing no games like that. It was just keep playing. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.839 But those three games I would have to not travel 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.680 to the team hotel. I had to stay at home. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.920 It was just terrible. And then we was like losing 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.040 like it was five and though we lost that that 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.680 sixth game, and then I it was just downhill from there. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.760 We flipped the switch all and then flipped it off 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.200 when I got hurt that fifth game. And like I said, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.359 it was all mental. I'm not gonna lie at that 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:08.760 point like being positive, I wasn't at all. Um, it 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.760 was terrible for me. The team lost to USC in 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.920 that sixth game and then lost all three games le 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.200 Visca missed. I came back after those three games, you know, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.720 finner this season. But after coming back from that third game, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.200 the first game coming back, I told my labor and 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:32.559 my my shoulder, and I didn't tell nobody, but I knew. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.240 I knew it was something. But if I was to 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.039 tell somebody, I guarantee they would have definitely told me 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.640 to stop playing, like for the rest of the season. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.359 We had like three more games though I knew I 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.920 had to get surgery, So that was all pretty mental. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.280 But I'll fall through it, and you know, I just 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.840 had to tell myself it is what it is. Everything 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:59.440 happens for a reason. Um, that's just just control what 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.360 we can control. So I got both of my surgeries 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.240 after the season. It's still mental because I just had 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.919 big expectations for myself for all season and I couldn't, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.160 you know, live up to those expectations because I have 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.000 these surgeries and I couldn't do nothing. The frequency of 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.080 injuries and football means a player's toughness is as highly 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.880 valued as speeding strength or heightened weight. In today's NFL. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.599 Teams want to know is a player injury prone or 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:32.400 more importantly, are they willing to play through pain? So 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.479 I couldn't do nothing, no football until fall camp. I'm 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.960 in fall camp. My shoulders still bothering me. It's it's 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.880 not there yet. It's not there like if I falled, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.600 I'm out of practice for a little bit. So it's 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.240 still mental there. So now at the same time, it's 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:54.120 mental and my confidence it's a little low for sure, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.320 because I'm like man, am I gonna be able to 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.440 like do this, do that, do that. So fall camp 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.640 go on, I get better and better and better. I'm 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.600 a fast forward to the fourth game, but the season, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.039 fourth game of season, like I'm really like finally feeling myself. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.120 This fourth game is against Arizona State at sun Double 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:16.000 Stadium and Temple. I didn't gain my confidence back. I'm 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.840 feeling myself everything, everything. I'm positive everything. I'm like, okay, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.200 let's go. As of the State first drive, I get 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.280 the little reverse and I got hurt. This is the core, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.320 the core injury. I just got surgery on the march. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:35.200 I got hurt or whatever. I'm like, man, I felt 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.120 as soon as it happened. The guy like turned me. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.320 He got in between my legs. My leg when we 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.400 hit the ground, the right one went flying and the 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.120 left one didn't go anywhere. So I hit the ground 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.000 and my legs just spread it out. So like I 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.200 feel it right away, um in my core. They said 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.920 I had a slightly torn core when I went to 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.560 go do ultra CLL left the game, and I'm like, 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.880 I gotta come back. I'm I got to like I 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.080 got to I don't care. I tried to get in 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.400 the next drive with on offense and I couldn't do it. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.960 So now really I go back into that that mode 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:14.400 like it's just all bad, and it just went right 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.480 back negative and it was just all bad for me. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.480 It was bad because all season I had to deal 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.200 with injuries all all season, I couldn't do what I 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.560 wanted to do. Fall camp, I couldn't really do what 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.760 I wanted to do. And now we in in the 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.400 season and now like I'm hurt again. So they take 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.560 me inside the tent and I'm just like, yeah, I 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.559 can't do it. I can't do it. And then that's 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.240 when they took me in to do the art sound 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.640 and it was like it's slightly torn, and that was 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.480 really it. I really like broke into tears right when 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.679 they told me. And I can't remember the last time 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.240 I cried, Like I don't cry, Like like I said, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.480 when it comes to feelings, I don't feel anything, so 0:08:55.600 --> 0:09:02.280 like crying, I don't. I don't do that. So I 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.440 was like, Okay, I'm gonna just you know, rehab and 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.720 you know, just go week the week by it. And 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:16.760 it just wasn't good. After being injured for more than 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.520 half his sophomore season, Leavisca gets hurt again. It's a 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:26.160 terrible happenstance and a major blow to his psyche. It's 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.080 very hard to get on the football field and play football. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.160 This is not an easy sport to play, and it's 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.319 not just simple. So it's very hard to not go 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.320 into the game confident. That's the number one thing you need, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.439 and that's the first thing you need before you step 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.480 on the fields. Confidence. So it was, yeah, I'm not alive. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.280 It was just really hard for me to, you know, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.560 have that confidence. And I was just really you know, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.880 just out there just trying to play and just trying 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.439 to do what I could. So the whole year, I 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:00.960 don't play that seventy s the whole season. It's crazy. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:07.240 Every week I would not practice. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I'm 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.040 out there, I'm like running around, but I'm doing nothing 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.760 really Like I'm just doing like individuals. Thursday is gonna 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.120 walk through Fridays. I speed. That Friday was really the 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.319 only day I really get out there and run full speed. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.400 Why because if if I tried to run full speed 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.120 Monday Tuesday Wednesday, or like went hard Monday Tuesday Wednesday, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.720 I would be shut down. My core would get too 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:35.000 sore and it'll just be too aggravated and flame and 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.079 I wouldn't be able to move at all. So literally, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.360 I couldn't practice till Friday to be ready to for Saturday. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.200 And I understan, I don't know how I did it. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.560 Maybe it was just my dream and dream how do 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.600 you said that word? But like it was really all mental, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.959 all mental. If I wasn't positive about it and you know, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.320 just saw the right in what I was doing, then 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.800 it wouldn't have worked out for me. And I mean 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.640 this just just had it made positive about it, you know, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:09.240 just how did a whole mindset? He played the entire 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.920 year hurt and still put up seven hundred and sixty 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.439 four receiving yards, a hundred and sixty one rushing yards, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.160 and six touchdowns. A good season, but not the stellar 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.319 performance from that run. His sophomore year. Still, Levisca played 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.319 through injuries and continued to produce a sign he can 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.200 take the collisions to keep playing, that he has the 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:35.400 toughness NFL teams love. I look at it as in, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.040 I know it's something brighter on the other side. Um, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.720 I know, once I get done climbing this tall wall, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.920 I'm gonna be happy, happy as ever once I get 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.120 over that wall, because I did something that was so 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.280 hard to do and it took everything out of me. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.800 But now that I know I've done it, I can 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.840 keep getting happy, and you know, I can just keep 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.560 on getting stronger and stronger from one of those obstacles, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.240 and it just get to a point to where, like mentally, 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.480 you're just so strong, like nothing can bend you. This 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.680 grit is part of the reason why Lavisco will be 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.959 selected early in the draft this weekend. It's how he 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.720 plays through pain and how he keeps himself optimistic even 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.600 in the face of a car accident or some demeaning 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.520 chores with his brother. Boy, she got like spots older 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:40.160 Kevins over there. Thanks, I got one that's really good. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:51.920 It was this guy's talking to co Cosey had about this. Yeah, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:59.920 come come help me, you got it? Whoa rather think 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.640 up three days of boot, dude? I just clicked. I 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.640 just picked up three days, Bro, I just got so many, child, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:14.000 I'm feeding back. Serious, you don't even care. You probably 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:18.079 eat it. I don't know if I eat it, I 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.360 won't care, got Darrow. I think it's some water though, Bro, 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.839 because what are these spots. I guess she's just when 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:31.960 it was wet and look, yeah, look right there. He's 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.760 finally healthy again, and he knows there's a fresh start 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.760 waiting for him. The moment his name is called, we'll 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:56.959 be right back. So she is about four o'clock. I 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.160 get a good little work out there. I'm my there 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.000 one of these local parks, Rose Park, and then we're 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.120 gonna turning to see we're gonna it's little youngest little 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.000 high fogs that's running back. Keishaw Vaughan training in his 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.199 hometown of Nashville. Let's call I guess working where you 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:36.680 gonna work, you gonna work. In episode three, we talked 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.040 about how scouts and analysts described Keishan with words like tough, physical, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.000 and relentless. It's clear to anyone watching that he runs 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.560 with purpose. The question NFL teams have is why where 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.680 does that drive come from? What's his deeper motivation? Yeah, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.360 I first had the drain of benefit Polo NADOs five 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.640 six years old. Me having that dream is kind of 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.600 something that kept me on a straight path as far 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.600 as not hanging around the wrong crowd, not doing stupid stuff, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.320 me just knowing like my whole life. There's always been 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.200 I got I'm going to the league. I'm going to league. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.680 I'm with football and two two it stops. And I 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.080 didn't need a record. I couldn't have a record, would 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.400 have made me look bad, kind of staying tunnel vision 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.520 on what my goal was and that was the NFL. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.560 So that's that's why my footage still on this football 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.240 gas pedal. It's a good dream that I'm living out. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.320 Keyshawan played youth football in the Greater Nashville area and 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.120 then went to Pearl Cone High School, a public school 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.000 in the metro area known for its football program and 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.920 for being the first and only entertainment magnet school in 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:55.000 the country. My name is Brandon woods On, the co 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:59.040 offensive coordinator at pearl Comb High School. I'm gonna let 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.200 Damon go in because he played on two state championship 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.680 teams at Pearl Cons. My name is Damien Harris and 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.440 I'm also a co offensive coordinator at Parcon High School 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.520 Pearl Cone UM. It's one of the top schools in Nashville, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.680 not only Nashville, but it's one of the top schools 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.720 in the state. Recently, we ranked number two teams in 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.640 a decade in Tennessee. So that tells you a lot 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.720 about Pearl Cone. It's real rich in tradition with football. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.080 I was also the running back Forkey Sean, so you 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.840 know he in my footsteps, but he was a lot 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.400 better than I was. Pearl Cone's Friday Night success on 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.480 the field hides some darker statistics inside the halls. The 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.720 school consistently ranks near the bottom of all high schools 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.520 in the state when it comes to academics, and It's 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.600 North Nashville zip code places it at the top of 0:16:52.680 --> 0:17:01.120 another unwanted distinction. Here's Coach Woods. It's definitely um rare 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.160 to um excel in their three seven two o eight 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.200 um zip code. Let's get the highest incarceration rate in 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.119 the nation. And man, the numbers don't lie. It is 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.200 really in one of the roughest parts of Nashville, if 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.320 not the roughest. So I mean, you have a lot 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.119 of kids to come through and play with a lot 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.879 of passion and play with a lot of hard and 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.399 you know, they tough, grimy, and you know, have a 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.680 lot of grit kids like Keyshaw. I'm from Western Nasville, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.600 but I don't grew up kind of all over Nashville. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.160 I don't grew up all over the inn inter Nashville, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.720 and also the out of Nashville moved around a lot, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.320 meant a lot of people. But for the most part, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.920 I kind of picked the choose. My friends wisely know 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.119 and they have to have the same mindset as me, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.960 especially because, like I said, as a young game, when 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.520 I first started playing football, watching people um in the NFL, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.880 I'm like, I'm going there. I know, I gotta stay 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.680 out of trouble to get though, So that's kind of 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.000 what my mind sets as a Yeah, I kind of 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.760 always been cautious, why move who I'm around, what I'm 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.199 want to do, And that's kind of I always put 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.720 myself in the best position to not being around bullshit, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.920 and football was really the best thing that kept me 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.840 out of that. And kids like coach Harris, who also 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:26.480 knows firsthand what is plagued that part of town, the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.399 neighborhood that Keyshan and I both grew up in. You 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.080 grew up fast. You see a lot of things that 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:39.920 go on their kids shouldn't see. Drug populated neighborhoods, prostitution, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.560 and you see, I mean, you see everything that so 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:49.320 as a teenager or high school student. It takes a 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.040 lot to even make it to school because a lot 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.840 of your friends maybe they don't even go to school. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.280 So for Keyshan to even go through all this stuff 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.920 and making to the school, go to one of the 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:08.040 top schools in the nation, Vanderbilt for academics was it 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:15.160 is very very important to the for everybody at Perl Kon. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.080 I mean, we've never seen somebody to do that. Keyshaw 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.359 the standard for academics and for sports, and he did 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:26.880 it and itself proclaimed grimy way running grimmer it means 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.120 he's running with a purpose, running to achieve something. He's 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.120 running real hard, He's not gonna show away from contact, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.840 and you definitely don't want to hit him. He's not 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.040 just running to get yards. He's fast, he's powerful, and 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.560 he also very elusive. So it's a different package. A 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.760 lot of running backs either they're fast or they are powerful, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.359 and he has a combination of both. We knew that 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.159 Keyshaw was a special talent and he was, you know, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.280 gonna be our lead back the next year. His sophomore year, 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.760 the coaches knew they needed a new system to take 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.920 advantage of Keshan's talents, so they took a four hour 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.960 trip to the University of Mississippi to study the old 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.320 miss offense learning how to implement it at Pearl Cone. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.640 We looked at some of the guys that they had 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.520 playing running back at that time, and we knew that 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.680 that was gonna be a great fit for him in 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.280 that offense. But we struggled his sophomore year. We had 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.359 a new offense. Everything was new, the terminology and all that. 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.320 To pick it back off that um when coach was 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.880 not really saying is we struggled Keyshan sophomore year because 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.879 Keishan was coming off of broken a broken leg his 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:42.240 freshman year. So, um, Keishan play real hard his sophomore year, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.120 you know, trying to come back off a major injury. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.000 This is the same for the two Laviska showed in 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.399 the face of a major injury and Keishan faced similar 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:57.800 hurdles getting back onto the field. The game that Keishan 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.240 broke his ankle, it not only a bit him, but 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.920 it affected our team. We had a great run, but 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.479 they kind of collapsed and was like, Okay, what we're 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.680 supposed to do. And going into a sophomore year, and 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.600 he had a lot of doubt. You know, he was thinking, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.680 maybe I'm not that good, but he stuck it out. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.119 When we made that offense around his sophomore year, we 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.720 knew as long as well be patient, some good things 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.959 were gonna come out of it. Because Keishan freshman year, 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.520 he was like the best running back on the team 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.639 at the time, but he was just so young. He 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.760 wasn't ready yet. Keishan had all the tools, but the 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.720 broken legs slowed his progress, and even when he came 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.119 back from the injury, he still hadn't quite put it 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.720 all together yet. Nack on Keishan like his freshman his 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:50.280 sophomore year was he wasn't real fast. Well, he worked 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.840 his tail off. We made him run track and he 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.159 worked on the speed and he got to speed up 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.720 a whole lot. I know it was several days that 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.400 he shouldn't wanted to just walk off and say forget 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.600 this truck stuff, but he stuck with it because he 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.400 knew he had a goal and fought through the pain 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.800 and he knew that the truck was necessary in order 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.119 to him to reach that goal. After his junior kis Sean, 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.480 you know, he blew up because like I said, no 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.680 one knew about him, a kid that really probably had 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.199 like five or six hundred yards the year before. Then 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.840 he exploded his junior year with some crazy numbers. Offense 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.960 was every probably like thirty eight points a game, and 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.600 he made He had twenty eight of those points. Colleges 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.879 wasn't even big on him yet as well, but he 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.440 had got his confidence back, He had his swagger. You 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.159 can see more bounce, and this when I think he 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.560 really took over the team. All that hard work paid off. 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.840 He Sean ran for over two thousand yards and twenty 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:59.520 nine touchdowns his junior season. So he caught everybody by 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.800 surpris eyes his junior year because nobody really knew about him. 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.320 But one thing about Keith Shan, he always played with 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.000 like a chip on the shoulder. He's he kind of 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:13.840 has that that like that Michael Jordan effect, Like if 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.879 if the other team is stretching and they they allow, 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.800 he's gonna go for three yards on them. Any little thing. 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.879 Keishan is known to pick up something to get him 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.680 going and he's ready. He likes to prove people wrong 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.200 a lot. He's been one of those guys that people 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:35.119 tend to push to the side. So he's out to 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:39.040 prove how great he is. Keishon does some incredible stuff 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.879 even when things are going rough. On just touching on 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.879 what coach has is saying about people doubting him and 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:48.680 stuff like that. He was unknown when he was coming 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:50.679 out of eighth grade and he just had a lot 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:54.399 to prove. I was talking to someone about another running 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.800 back who was the talk of the town, and you know, 0:23:57.960 --> 0:23:59.920 the proof is in the pudding, like how their career 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.920 high school careers ended up. Eighth grade year, me and 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.840 another running back, we was our first time on the 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.920 team and they already give him the spot just because 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:13.000 he was from the area. So stuff like that. I've 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:15.760 been kind of working my way up to the top, 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.159 I said something like that. Has I always continue to 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.000 push me been underdog as I'm a big person who 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.879 want to prove people wrong. So I mean been underdog 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:27.520 somebody carried with much pride and like, like I said, 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.560 nobus don't lie. It's gonna be like, yeah, we shouldn't 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.479 have slept on that guy. The numbers definitely didn't lie. 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.679 As senior season, he rushed for an absurd two thousand, 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:40.760 six hundred and forty six yards and forty five touchdowns, 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:45.200 averaging over eleven yards a carry, but his progression during 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.640 high school went beyond improved speed and ballooning statistics from 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:56.000 a new offense. I was already a tough physically growing up, 0:24:56.280 --> 0:25:00.080 But I say what what made me even tough? It 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:05.680 was from high school my freshman year. The seniors, like seniors, juniors, 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.879 like they basically go crazy and practice like we're hitting 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:13.240 full speed. You can't cry practice to coach. Coach ain't 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:16.280 gonna do nothing, and so stuff like that kind of 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.359 build my toughness. I remember, um when I first got 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.160 to high school and we were doing a little angle 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:26.199 tackle jury. You know, you're both do that like sixty seventy. 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:31.360