WEBVTT - S1 Episode 3: Finding Purpose 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.840 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports Group, 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:11.200 and I Heart Radio. You couldn't play football in Kansas 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.360 until you were in first grade. Yeah, and so the 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.160 very first organized thing you could get into with soccer, 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.560 it would be like about ten kids of all bunch 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.360 together and then Bryce would be about eight yards in 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.160 front of him because you just had these long stride 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.560 and you were just running away from one time, He's 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:38.360 going like nine crash. That's so funny. That's crazy, because 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:44.000 I literally thought soccer was gonna be my sport until football. Ye. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.920 Welcome back to Drafted, where eight elite college football players 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.680 take us on their own personal journeys as they entered 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:07.840 the NFL Draft. They'll mike themselves up without producers, directors, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.840 or cameras, offering an honest, authentic look at who these 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.440 athletes are beneath the pads and what it takes to 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.440 go from a childhood dream to hearing their name called 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.120 on draft day. Last episode, we took a big bite 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.119 out of the three d pound world of offensive linemen. Today, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.080 we'll hear from cornerback Bryce Hall. When I hear draft Dad, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:32.120 I just think dreams come true and I get butterflies 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.360 in my snubbing. But I also get like a burden 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.240 on me that it's just something that stirs up in 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.520 me when I think about it, because it's like, dang, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.319 I got an opportunity to do something special. And running 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.560 back Keyshawn Vaughn don't care who in front of me, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.800 You don't care what team we're playing. Came over by 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.360 the step of your way. It's gotta be rid to 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.240 just take over a game, especially playing running back, because 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.240 on the field you've got no friends. On whatever game 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.480 day is, you've got no friends. So much in me 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.040 don't allow me to quit, you know, quitting me to 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.840 skill position players thriving less on size and strength and 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.080 more on speed and finesse. These positions can live and 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.600 die under a perpetual spotlight. Running Backs make the highlight, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.360 real plays, pick up the crucial first downs and score 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.760 the big touchdowns. They get tons of love and fantasy football, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.240 and they're the ones who celebrate in the end zone. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.520 Then there are cornerbacks. They have to defend against ultra 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:30.440 athletic playmakers every snap, often playing one on one against 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.280 the fastest, most reliable pass catchers in the world. It's 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.399 feast or famine. Almost every time the ball comes their way, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.800 every play they make or don't make is highlighted for 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.040 all to see. In today's episode, We're going to take 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.240 you inside the lives of these two players and the 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.680 obstacles they've faced to arrive at draft day. We'll hear 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.160 what all the hard work, sweat, and tears mean along 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.919 their bumpy roads to get to this life changing weekend, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:01.160 and how their football dreams are finally coming true. Said 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:22.920 Mary William What what was rep? Wash it? Quick, Nasa. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.880 This is Keyshawn Vaughan, an explosive running back known for 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.040 his hard nosed, violent style, A player some describe as menacing. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:39.200 How you do kersh Keishan could be picked as high 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.920 as the second or third round or as low as 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.680 the fifth or even sixth rounds in the coming draft. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.400 He's a complicated prospect, an undeniable talent, but too many 0:03:48.680 --> 0:04:03.120 also an enigma. L how do you donna do that? Wat? 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:10.440 You just see it? Ever since Septemp Bird seven, two 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.680 thousand nineteen, I have been doing this for my son, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.120 and that's kind of who helped guide me through the season, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.120 even though he can't talk or nothing. Just seeing his 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.360 face I kind of understood it was a bigger purpose 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:37.320 than just me been on that field. M h m hmm. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.760 Proud father. My son name is Keeling Vaughan U. I 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.640 spelled the same way as mine with Apostophe, except it's 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.680 Kae Apostophe l a and killing Vaughan. Um me six months, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.599 he'll be turning seven months on the seven. His eyes 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.039 lights up when he seen me. He ain't seen me 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.640 a couple of hours and he's seen me first time. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.280 Eyes just lights up and you can tell he's gonna 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:07.240 be like a daddy boy. So that's my guy. Hell 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.440 that what are you doing? What are you doing? What 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:17.560 you're doing? What the puppy like to go for a ride? 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.880 I got a mouth, I got a feed now. So 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.600 that's that's what I've been playing for ever since there. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.719 But before then, it was mainly to give my family 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.480 in a better position. Um that was the biggest thing 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.640 my whole life, always just for I was the one 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.040 who could cut my family in a better position. So 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.279 I stuck with football and they'll pay out soon. This 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.800 a week coming. Keyshawn runs like he's on that mission, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.400 he describes. To get to the NFL fighting through would 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.320 be tacklers and his share of adversity in hopes of 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.680 one day reaching the draft. Well, I went to one 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.000 of the biggest public high schools in the Nashville Pearl Cone, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.719 and so kind of high school I go. In my 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.120 freshman year, I made it to the varsity squad, was 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.320 probably didn't touch the field first four or five games. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.719 End up getting on the field late game score my 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.160 first touch down against Eastern Nashville. Now on I was 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.640 like a second string and running back. End up breaking 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.120 my ankle my freshman year during the playoff game against 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.920 c p A. The whole team for like, I don't 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.919 break my ankle, we win that game. And so that 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.839 was the first big injury I had playing the game. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.919 So that that let alone just kind of scared me 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.760 a lot. I'm like, I don't know if I want 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.320 to play this game no more. I don't know if 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.280 it's for me. And now I'm trying to figure out 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.320 what I'm gonna do. And then from right there that's 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.760 when I want to quit football, kind of give it 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.960 all up. But so much so much in me don't 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.440 allow me to quit, just not in my DNA. It 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.760 just want't sit well with me as a person as 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:58.159 a man, ain't know quitting me. This doggedness can be 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.800 seen every time. Keep Sean touch just the ball. One 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.120 scouting report describing his playing style says, you'll get his 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.679 best effort. He'll make you earn it. He is likely 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.040 to outpunish you if given the opportunity, says another. Keyshawn 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.520 describes his rushing attack in a different way. I call 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.720 it grimmy. That mean I don't care who in front 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.080 of me, who trying to stop me. I don't care 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.480 what team we're playing. I just feel like you gotta 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.239 have a can't be funk with attitude, can't nobody step 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.000 in your way. You's gotta be ready to just take 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.720 over a game, especially playing running back, because on the field, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.280 you've got no friends. On Saturday, Sunday, whatever game day is, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.200 you've got no friends. So you gotta have that mindset 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.440 at all time because you it ain't no turning it on, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.440 turn it off. It's when I step on this field, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.720 no matter what field, practice field, game day, I gotta 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.080 be ready to go. I can't come out here and 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.200 I hope this team let me run on him today. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.640 Now you gotta goat gonna take it. You gotta take 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.040 what you want either be eighty's to sum it up. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.960 No status are revealing about his playing style than the 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.840 fact that of Keishawn's one thousand, twenty eight rushing yards 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.920 this past season, seven hundred and forty three of them 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.840 came after contact. That means nearly of the time he 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.440 gained yards, he broke a tackle or dragged the defender 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.280 down the field with him. That fight comes from somewhere 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.120 deep inside him. But back as a high school kid 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.320 returning from a serious injury, the most intimidating opponent he 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.040 faced was doubt my album A year. A year I 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.559 had to gain that confidence back in my ankle. You know, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.240 you're going out there and play football, and a long 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.320 time he just broke ankle. Oh, you're kind of scared 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.480 out there. So that's album. Yeah, that's kind of the 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.120 season that I was able to get my confidence back 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.840 and my ankle and myself. By his senior year, Keishan 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.000 ended up winning a state championship in track and running 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.120 for two thousand, six hundred and forty six yards and 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.000 forty five touchdowns on the gridiron. He was named the 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.280 Tennessee Gatorade Football Player of the Year offers from top 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.160 college programs like Ohio State, Notre Dame, Louisville, and West 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.360 Virginia poured in, along with one from the local hometown school, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.679 Vanderbilt University. Keishawn felt an urge to leave Nashville and 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.960 he liked the University of Illinois coaching staff, so ultimately 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.480 he committed to go play for the ELNI, and I say, uh, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.280 far as college as a whole, things has just been 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.360 crazy as hell. Before I hit college, I was going 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.319 through trials and tribulations. When I signed. A couple of 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.439 weeks later, my coach get put under investigation. Allegations of 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:42.240 player rebews suddenly surrounded the coaching staff. So make it 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.600 through camp. My freshman year coach get fired a week 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.680 before the first game, So now my kind of whole 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.839 world just shifts. My position. Coach goals to head coach, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.480 and they just sent the running backs grand assistant. So 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.719 that was kind of one the coach and that a 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.559 freshman needed, especially playing as a true freshman, you needed 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.880 somebody with that coaching experience who can help guys who's 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.120 basically coming out of high school straight to college and 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:15.520 playing as a true freshman. Most highly sought after recruits 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.840 like Keishan choose their schools based on their close relationship 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.800 with the coaching staff. A week before Keishawn's first game 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.160 of his freshman year, his coaches were gone. Keishan became 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.599 the starter as an eighteen year old, and suddenly his 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.400 running back coach was a grad assistant barely older than him. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.480 So that's kind of something I went through my freshman year, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.480 made through my freshman year good. I think I have 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.680 about seven hundred fifty rushing about eight nine hundred total, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.280 made the All Freshman team. By the end of his 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.720 freshman season, the interim coaches were also let go, replaced 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.120 by former Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.679 Lovey Smith. Smith became Keyshawn's third college coach in less 0:10:54.760 --> 0:11:00.240 than a year, and then saltomore year, new coaching staff come. Man. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.400 I was a starter for three games, then I got 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.720 benched with no reason, no explanation, and so from there 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.040 all created that I have built up just disappeared. Far 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.319 as to the n C double a world, he faced 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.240 another challenging moment head on. Man, I feel like just 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.319 at that time I kind of didn't know what was 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.959 going on. Myself. I was kind of still trying to 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.360 figure out that, and so that was probably the most 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.840 mental thing that I probably had to go through, especially 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.319 like keeping my cool the whole season when I got benching. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.280 I don't have a reason why I got bench trying 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.480 to find happiness even though I really don't want to 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.199 build this team because they benched me and ain't told 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.880 me why. I wanted to quit. Every day for the 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.559 second time in his short football career, t shot the 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.839 questions why he plays, what drives him, and whether he 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.679 wants to continue. That's kind of was my mindset. But 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.520 I talked to my mama every day I have to practice. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.760 She telling me to just keep pushing, don't don't create 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.040 no batter relationship with these coaches because they can They 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.120 can use that against you when you're trying to transfer, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.640 or even it could have used it against me um 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.719 trying to get to the league if coaches went back 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.319 and talk to Illinois staff and asked about me. So 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.400 that Illinois situation was more long term, the kind of 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.439 short term my mom would helped me get through that well. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.760 I figured the best thing for me wasn't being there 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.040 because things had kind of got out of my control. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.840 I was no longer competing with players on the team. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.800 It was starting to become competing with coaches. And that's 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.240 kind of something that I knew I couldn't do um 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.319 in my position. So the best thing for me was 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.840 to leave. For a player who drags defenders down the field, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.760 who gained over three fourth of his yards after the 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.120 first hit by refusing to give up on the play, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.000 deciding whether or not to leave the University of Illinois 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.120 program is an excruciating decision. Quitting goes against his character, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.040 it goes against who he is, But the prospect of 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.160 being a backup seems even more demoralizing than transferring. So 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:10.480 Keyshawn looks back home. When I announced I was transferring, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.559 one thing I didn't know Coach Mason. I called him 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.440 on sign to day like a coach. I ain't coming 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.319 to Vanderbilt. I'm going somewhere else. He understood why I 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.680 didn't want to go to Vanderbil. He knew I wanted 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.079 to get away from home because Vanderbilt like ten minutes 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.760 from where I grew up from. So he knew. He 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.000 understood why I wanted to get away, and he was like, all, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.520 we got your awful waiting. Vanderbilt head coach Derek Mason 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.800 said he would always have an offer waiting for the 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.559 hometown hero, just in case he changed his mind. Me 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.079 and him had already had relationship kind of built just 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.680 based off recruiting from high school and him will understanding 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.720 why I didn't want to go to Vanderbilt at the time. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.280 That's kind of one of the only coaches who really 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.719 done game I trust, So that's how I got the 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.400 Vanderbilt coach. Mason was one of them guys who I 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.319 knew I can trust. A National Signing Day coach. Mason 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.800 made the announcement, um in the running back position, of course, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.040 you know, look at Keishawn von in this class. I 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:16.760 think his abilities will running back to get yards after contact, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.880 to be a home run a player. And I was 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.800 gonna have to sit you, but I think he's gonna 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.560 be tremendious in this program. It's gonna get, you know, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.280 in the products. So I'm back home and and he'll 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.320 do he'll do national problem. You know, he's six one five, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.200 uh and day all day and uh you know for him, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.960 I know he's glad to be back home. So we 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.960 get a really good player. I think. I mean, he 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.840 may be the best running back signed in this class. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.160 I don't care what school you look at. So when 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.600 it's all said and done, that's that's what we need. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.360 Keishawan transfers to Vanderbilt and sits out the season per 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.600 n C double A rules. When I transferred home in 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:55.040 the Vandy kind of had the look homey kind of 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.760 vibes and then also able to play scout team and 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.040 get in the looks as he can't play in games. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.880 Keishan practices on the scout team with the second and 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.120 third string players. In football, the scout team helps prepare 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.480 the starters for their opponent by mirroring the other team system. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.960 Every week, Keishan ran Vanderbilt's opponent's offense, so the Vanderbilt 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.680 defense knew what to expect. I enjoyed that first year 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.360 I transfer back home. That's really what I said was 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.080 my fun is you're playing football. Ever on scout team, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.960 I'm able to just run around and play without hearing 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.200 that that coaching that you know, the coaching you don't 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.720 want to hear that. You want to hear you but 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.800 like when you don't gotta here and you're like, you 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.560 just get able to run around and be free. I 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.640 enjoyed doing that so much so that two seventeen year 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.840 on scout team, that was the year I looked at 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.200 us getting better, working on new things to add to 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.800 my game, which will improve my game. Once he finally 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.600 got his chance at Vanderbilt, playing as a junior against 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.560 many of the top defenses in the country, Keishan ran 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.680 for an absurd even point nine yards per carry. That's 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.840 the eleventh highest season average ever in the SEC Conference, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.280 better than the best college seasons from some of the 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.840 conference's most revered running backs, stars like Bo Jackson and 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.800 Sean Alexander. Even more remarkable, Keishan did it on a 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 Vanderbilt team that only won five games and lacked many 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.600 other weapons on offense. Defenses could focus on Keishan. They 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.720 just couldn't stop him. So after such a strong junior season, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.160 Keshan is faced with a stomach churning decision enter the 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.320 draft and hope his rushing numbers speak for themselves, or 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:42.160 returned to Vanderbilt for his senior season. I had one 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.680 year school though I'm a guy like, I hate school. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.160 Mom she wanted me to had a degree. Is whatever 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:53.440 with me own really care about school anyway, but Varios 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.440 you need that degree and ask something that I want 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.720 to give her. Mom did a lot for us growing up. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.760 For real, there's so much like she There's so much 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.800 he be prepared for fully even got out of me. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.600 Graduating Vanderbilt coming back a year was kind of because 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.520 of her too. The decision wasn't only about the degree. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.760 Questions lingered about Keyshawn's potential at the next level. Well, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.680 I had to make the decision whether to come back, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.240 we'll go to the NFL. Had await a lot of things. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.640 One was my projection. I was getting full filth six 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.600 seventh round projections. Then I looked at it as it's 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.879 a whacking get into the first round, come back and 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.240 have another dominant season. He returned to Vanderbilt with the 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.000 goal of finishing his degree and jumping from a fourth 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.960 to seventh round pick to a certain first rounder. Unfortunately, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.840 the team struggled. That statistic about seventy of Keishawn's yards 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.920 coming after contact this past season tells us something else. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.159 There weren't many open running lanes. He didn't have a 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.119 Mackay Beckton or a Tremaine Anchrum clearing the path defenders 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.960 were constantly on top of him. Vanderbiltly won three games, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.040 and Keishawn's numbers were down in nearly every category. I mean, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.959 the season ago was great, but I graduated made It's 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:25.720 who I want to be, so I'm good total. But 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.440 there is another way to look at Keishawn's senior year 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.119 that it changed his life for the better, providing something 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.920 much more valuable than gaudy rushing numbers or dozens of touchdowns. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:46.320 What's up this keeling Crash? So what's up? So? What's up? Hey? Heybody? 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.840 He ain't listening to me. Only nine months so it's 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.960 just going in one year out the other. But my 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.600 son I called him Crash. The name Crash came from 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.480 the situation with his mom and while he was bren 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.040 kind of really Friday night before a game, I get 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.240 a call she had gotten a wreck and UM rushed 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.320 to the hospital. His heart rate was dropping, so that 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.440 to take him three weeks early. And that's kind of 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.840 where the name Crash came from, making a beautiful thing 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:26.800 instead of the ugly situation that occurred. Man, Crash Bond 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.840 is just kind of crazy. You can't kind of tell 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.680 that he's gonna be a daddy'sh boy. I can yell 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.960 his name, and I didn't be nowhere around him to 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.040 see me. He would just started going crazy. And that's 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.359 kind of me and his bond. He gets super hyped 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.840 when he seen me, and um, I love. That was 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:51.080 too much. Keishan found a purpose bigger than himself. Another 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:57.120 reason he can't quit one even more important. There's nine 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:13.159 oh six him. Yeah, crash still up what I know? 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:20.720 Killing quick touch and stuff. No, it's not for you 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:34.320 to do killing. Thank you again. God. Cut where I've 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:39.520 been to, Holliday Son time what you ain't want to see? 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:44.320 No time soon it's you don't want to I'm gonna 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.359 start putting me on the bed time give me the 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.560 bed triumph, Greg, you can do, just do it will 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.840 be we want to do. Some of the people making 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.440 decisions on draft day will only see what they want 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.280 to see at Keyshawn Vaughan. He's the running back version 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.720 of the famous psychology ink black test. Scouts and analysts 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.040 watch a play, only to report completely different accounts of 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.600 what they see. Some teams wonder about Keyshawn's maturity. They 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.320 have questions about why he was benched in Illinois, why 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.680 he was transferred. Why his numbers were down. The other 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.959 camp points to his perseverance, his improvement and production as 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:23.560 a player, and his maturity as a father. We'll be 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:32.359 right back, I say, if anything, having my son just 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.639 kind of tightened up my focus more. I'm always in 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:37.399 the house in a way, so it didn't change my 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.600 behavior or approached thing. Is kind of just tightened up 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:46.920 my focus, more attention to detail. Knowing that he looking 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.920 up to anything that I'm doing, even if I'm not 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.040 thinking he is. He's watching my every movie. He still 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.440 he's got a new relationship with his son and with football. 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.320 The way McKay, Beckton's dad and Tremaine and Crum's dad 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.520 cared to deeply about their sons success, all wanting to 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.960 provide a better life for them. Being the father, you 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.160 have to set a good example because he probably want 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.320 to be just like me. Yeah. Yeah, I have to 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:16.080 do everything right to give him something to look up to. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.920 I'm already putting stuff in place for him. Um, so 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:24.760 he's straight. Like supporting their thing, that's mandatory. Love support, 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.520 that's that's required. But like small stuff and fishing, how 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.400 to change tires, little little small stuff like that, That's 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.760 what I want to do with him that nobody ever 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.760 did with me. Don't play running back. That's my only thing. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.320 I'm gonna tell him. Play a more chill position. They 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.000 really don't take a lot of crazy hits. That's kind 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.240 of something I wanted to play. If he is gonna 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.959 play football, But I mean, even if he ends up, 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.800 I wanted to play running back. I can't do enough 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:59.600 but respected and support it. Keepshaw doesn't worry about the 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.400 scout or the punpits these days. He's focused on controlling 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:07.520 what he can, thinking only of the future and the 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:11.800 ever increasing magnitude of draft Day. It's kind of more 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:17.239 like you have options um to do really anything at 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.800 this point, because it wasn't really many options for meals. 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:23.720 Football was the way I was gonna get out of 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:25.760 my situation where I was gonna make some more money. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.400 That was kind of the only option I kind of had. 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.960 But with him, I want them like I want to 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.399 have so many options. Let them be able to make 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.080 choices for itself. So that's why name of Jr. Or 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.520 kind of anything like that, because I want to let 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.720 him know that you an individual, he can do kind 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.920 of whatever he put his mind to that's my thing. 0:23:50.400 --> 0:24:05.359 M no, suir, hey m. When I was were a 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.200 little were in class, one of my teacher she asked me, 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.440 um she was we had those activities where they she 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:13.399 asked us to draw what we wanted to be when 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:17.000 we grew up. I remember John a football player, and 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:19.480 so I remember just as a little kid. This is 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:24.680 something I've been dreaming him out. This is Bryce Hall, 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:28.240 the football player, not the TikTok star le. Bryce Hall 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:32.000 from the University of Virginia, a cornerback, widely considered a 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.040 first round pick in the NFL Draft after leading the 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.520 nation and passes defended his junior year. He plays with size, strength, 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:43.520 and remarkable speed, all on display during one crucial game. 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:49.320 I was selling Vanessa about the soccer thing, huh, because 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:51.840 that was like, like we wanted. This was the first 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:54.840 organized sport that you could play. His dad, Michael, tells 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.800