Speaker 1: The decision that had in a year, and I really
Speaker 1: wanted to be in this place with this coaching staff
Speaker 1: and these people. So right now, you know, I'm in comfortable,
Speaker 1: comfortable situation. So if you gets sense, you brother, pre
Speaker 1: draft process, that the evenings were all you and they
Speaker 1: were mean spot Honestly, it was something I wanted for myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they're gonna do what they have
Speaker 1: to do in terms of evaluating everybody, but when I
Speaker 1: got here, I kind of evaluated the way they did things,
Speaker 1: and I knew if I ended up in an organization,
Speaker 1: I wanted to resemble the way they do things. What
Speaker 1: is it exactly about this situation that excited you all?
Speaker 1: Fancies it? Well, it always starts with the people. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have truly special people here, and coaching staff and
Speaker 1: the players that they bring into this organization, and then
Speaker 1: you know, even the guys that work, you know beneath
Speaker 1: the coaches. They are all really good people, and I
Speaker 1: felt like that's where I wanted to be. They talked
Speaker 1: about how you can playing inside or outside if they're
Speaker 1: a current wide receiver in the NFL with your style
Speaker 1: is similar to and know all these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to find a way to have an advantage. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of coverage, may put a guy
Speaker 1: that's normal outside and inside, and Antonio Brown plays inside,
Speaker 1: Larf Fitzgerald plays inside. A lot of those guys do that,
Speaker 1: and you know, coach does a great job of that
Speaker 1: because he understands defenses and rotation. So as a player,
Speaker 1: why not be in a situation where your coach is
Speaker 1: gonna give you a competitive advantage? In the private workout
Speaker 1: down in Tampa, in the in the visit up here,
Speaker 1: what stood out to you about about this team? About
Speaker 1: this coach of said, felt like they're really genuine people.
Speaker 1: You know, starts to spit the head coach and Coase Bickel,
Speaker 1: receiver coach. You know, all those guys are truly special
Speaker 1: people and really genuine with the conversation, how he went
Speaker 1: about meetings. You know, just every day felt good. And
Speaker 1: when Coase Bickel came down to work me out first,
Speaker 1: you know, we just got better. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: about me trying to show that I have all the answers.
Speaker 1: It was about him, you know, trying to put me
Speaker 1: through some movements and meet growing. She had the questions
Speaker 1: that's wide receivers. We'll say they care about the quarterback
Speaker 1: they're going to Why don't you hear so much about
Speaker 1: the coaching staff all because it's the way they're going
Speaker 1: to develop me. I know they're going to do the
Speaker 1: same for the rest of the guys on the team.
Speaker 1: Chip was talking about the six catch, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two York game you had against them when you
Speaker 1: were a freshman. What do you remember about that game?
Speaker 1: What stands out as a freshman? I was the biggest,
Speaker 1: biggest test I faced, and I just wanted to take
Speaker 1: advantage of opportunity. I think they did a great job
Speaker 1: schematically to cover the other two guys, and you know,
Speaker 1: opportunity showed where I need to make plays. High school
Speaker 1: didn't get you outside of the beauty. I'm very excited. Uh.
Speaker 1: I talked to Hit one of his lead recruiters that
Speaker 1: he had he sent down to Tampa to come see me,
Speaker 1: Scott Frost, and I told him, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got to know coach Kelly a little bit better,
Speaker 1: and I wish I had the same relationship I had
Speaker 1: with him, you know now as I did in high school,
Speaker 1: because I think of it made things a little harder
Speaker 1: when you when you played that team against Organ as
Speaker 1: a freshman, what were your thoughts working their offense to
Speaker 1: the fast pace of it. They did an amazing job.
Speaker 1: You know. Huff was on the team and he made
Speaker 1: a lot of plays. You know, the Anthony Thomas made plays,
Speaker 1: and coaches did a great job and getting the guy's
Speaker 1: ball in space, and Marcus did an amazing job. All
Speaker 1: those guys you know kind of you know, they made
Speaker 1: the plays needed to needed for them to make because
Speaker 1: coach put them in good positions as that game and
Speaker 1: too recently are you look the girls were talking all
Speaker 1: not too deep play and I just talked about the
Speaker 1: game well, Nelson yesterday coach said that you have a
Speaker 1: growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: high level book. Has he given you that book? Do
Speaker 1: you know what he's talking about? No? And not I
Speaker 1: will when you look at the guys you mentioned Josh Hopp,
Speaker 1: who's setting year guy. George Matthews also I saw tweet
Speaker 1: it out to you. You guys are all young, you're
Speaker 1: all kind of start out in the NFL outsighted use
Speaker 1: it to be kind of a part of a of
Speaker 1: a wide receiver glate and you had tack ards to
Speaker 1: that as a young guy about to be part of
Speaker 1: such a young vestor to kind of have a chance
Speaker 1: to grow together a lot of excitement. Those guys are
Speaker 1: truly special people, just like players, you know, for them
Speaker 1: and think enough for me to reach out to me,
Speaker 1: and very genuine of them. And you know, they both
Speaker 1: made it very clear, and that's Josh and Matthews. They
Speaker 1: made it very clear that you know, they want me
Speaker 1: to come in and work with them and just get
Speaker 1: after it. And I think I'm in a blessed position
Speaker 1: to have those two guys with that that type of mindset.
Speaker 1: You know. Now you know, you know you're in a
Speaker 1: comfortable position because this is the type of person you
Speaker 1: are and you're dealing with people with similar you know,
Speaker 1: wants all those guys at all team captain, You're why
Speaker 1: do you think your teammates teammates aboy to do that?
Speaker 1: And why do you think that? I think I was
Speaker 1: chosen to be a team captain because of a everyday
Speaker 1: mindset to progress. I mean, those guys felt like you know,
Speaker 1: every day I I had to hold myself to wive
Speaker 1: standard and I was hold them to the same thing,
Speaker 1: and very I appreciate what they did putting me in
Speaker 1: that position. And like I said, for somebody who think
Speaker 1: enough for you to do that is truly special. And
Speaker 1: your college coaches remarked about your work get big Nelson
Speaker 1: and and your desire to constantly keep getting better. Where
Speaker 1: does that come from? Him? Is that a lot in
Speaker 1: your parents, from your coaches, high school football coach. He's
Speaker 1: a very special guy. And you know, kind of just
Speaker 1: taught me, you know, a concept of you know, progression.
Speaker 1: You know you talked about you know, maintaining it is
Speaker 1: almost a form of regression. And you know, as long
Speaker 1: as you try to get better every day, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: So now that you're playing football full time for the
Speaker 1: first time, what kind of growth can you Can you
Speaker 1: expect a war growth than you had as you be
Speaker 1: in college. Yeah, you can't, because now you get to grow,
Speaker 1: you know, constantly, mentally, physically. Uh, there's more time for
Speaker 1: you to take care of your body. So and just
Speaker 1: train yourself. You know, you pushed to higher limits now
Speaker 1: because there's also bigger windows of country we were able
Speaker 1: to go to your Yeah, he was there next to
Speaker 1: me when it happened. So can you tell us about
Speaker 1: the last few hours. Have you met with any of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks? Have you seen any of ringing teammates. Well,
Speaker 1: I got a chance to talk with Parkley for a
Speaker 1: little bit face to face. I got a text from
Speaker 1: Mark and Sam. Those are definitely great people. I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew Parkeley since freshman year at USC, and I
Speaker 1: think those other two guys are truly special people. Alsoast
Speaker 1: on what you've seen on film and what you observed
Speaker 1: what's different about playing wide receiver in this scheme compared
Speaker 1: to the other ones who can played them well, As
Speaker 1: you guys probably know, most teams in the Pac twelve
Speaker 1: tryably the best to emulate what coach does. So at
Speaker 1: USC we did a similar deal where we try to
Speaker 1: get the guy's ball in space, you know, permanent screens
Speaker 1: in terms of the run game, and you know kind
Speaker 1: of also made it comfortable for players, you know, to
Speaker 1: just run routes off of coverage, and I think coach
Speaker 1: does a great job of that. And I think that
Speaker 1: you know what I did my last year, which is
Speaker 1: also a blessing that had Coach Sharkeasian there because before
Speaker 1: we were very traditional pro style. When Coach Sharkesan came.
Speaker 1: He made things easier for me to transitions. Uh, this
Speaker 1: gives me another opportunity to affect the game and three
Speaker 1: phases of football, offense, defense, and special teams. You know,
Speaker 1: if I have an opportunity to affect you know, special
Speaker 1: team's outcome, then it's always gonna be good. You know,
Speaker 1: brought your family to Tampa. Uh, I don't really know.
Speaker 1: We got to America, you know, through a visa. My
Speaker 1: mom want a visa in Nigeria, and we moved out
Speaker 1: to New York. At first was the first place we were.
Speaker 1: And I actually think she had a brother that we
Speaker 1: stayed with when I was younger in the Tampa and
Speaker 1: we has been there ever since. You moved at six
Speaker 1: years old? Five? And what stood out about that about
Speaker 1: I'm moving at that at age to different country, different cultures, growth.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I could look back at a five
Speaker 1: year old Nelson, I would probably be confused that you know,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't really have a clear view and
Speaker 1: it really doesn't know what he's gonna do. But now
Speaker 1: you know, I have a path and I want to
Speaker 1: continue to follow it. You mention community first learning football,
Speaker 1: It was actually kind of it broke the culture barrier.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of kids in the neighborhood when
Speaker 1: I was younger, you know, they played street football, and
Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters always wanted to like get outside
Speaker 1: and play, and these kids were playing the game, and
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, if we get out there
Speaker 1: and we you know, kind of learned, they'll accept us
Speaker 1: a little bit better, in which they did. Did your
Speaker 1: dad appreciated soccer? No, never, my dad, his athletic days
Speaker 1: was long gone. You mentioned me more to people in
Speaker 1: relationships and you finbab it to sport itself kind of
Speaker 1: lends itself to building back more than anything else. Competition
Speaker 1: and definitely athletics I think always develops individuals, but football
Speaker 1: develops individuals to be better people because you get a
Speaker 1: feel for the people you work with and you have
Speaker 1: to whether you like them or not. You kind of
Speaker 1: every day you you you're thinking about the other person's
Speaker 1: thought processes or think about the other person's physical trade
Speaker 1: deals like that. You're worried. You're not worried, but you're
Speaker 1: more you know, aware of your peers still st last year,
Speaker 1: you went over and visited a bust practice once, but
Speaker 1: it was there any like specific purpose things you wanted
Speaker 1: to see about the NFL game or anything, or was
Speaker 1: it just a yeah, I wanted to see, um the
Speaker 1: type of focus some professionals play with, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, those guys did a good job, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to see consistency in how they practice and
Speaker 1: just get a feel for that. You had an exportable
Speaker 1: feeling session when you were when you were here during
Speaker 1: a pretty dray business. You're asking a lot of questions,
Speaker 1: So you just take us inside of that and why
Speaker 1: there was Importantly, it didn't answer the questions to get
Speaker 1: the uh comes down to progression, whether I would end
Speaker 1: up with the Eagles or somebody else. Everybody I got
Speaker 1: a chance to interview with and sit down with, I'm
Speaker 1: going to pick their brain and the girl as a
Speaker 1: player and make the transition to National Football League a
Speaker 1: little bit easier. How many teams did you did you interview?
Speaker 1: I visited three teams. I worked out for three teams.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, guys,