Speaker 1: By Darrell.
Speaker 2: I just just wondering what your pre draft interaction was
Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers, whether you paid a visit
Speaker 2: or had a workout or things like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so I had a zone call to start
Speaker 3: off with them. It was my second zone call since
Speaker 3: after my pro day. Then after that zoone call, I
Speaker 3: had a thirty visit which was last week with them.
Speaker 1: Had a thirty visit with them and everything went well.
Speaker 4: Hey, Darrell, congratulations, What is your interaction ben with Steve Wilkes?
Speaker 4: What do you get from him? What's your vibe? He's
Speaker 4: kind of a defensive back safety specialist. What did you
Speaker 4: what was your interaction like with him?
Speaker 3: Man, So when I actually got to see him the
Speaker 3: day of when I had my thirty visit, Like I
Speaker 3: heard so much about him because I went to dinner
Speaker 3: with one of the dB coaches there, so like they
Speaker 3: will always tell me what he's big on, you know,
Speaker 3: what is his rules basically, and so like when I
Speaker 3: got to meet him, like it was just the vibe
Speaker 3: was there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I connected with him instantly. He loved everything that I
Speaker 3: was talking about. He was watching film. Me and him
Speaker 3: connected very well. So, like I mean, I feel like
Speaker 3: I had a real good bad with him. We both
Speaker 3: we both ended it off well.
Speaker 5: Hi Darrell, David Lombardi here from the Athletic I've noticed
Speaker 5: just on some quick highlight tapes that you seem like
Speaker 5: a particularly physical player. Do you enjoy playing, you know,
Speaker 5: a little bit closer to the box line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: I know you have versatility between you know, slot, corner
Speaker 5: and outside, but there's is there something that you really
Speaker 5: like about being able to to kind of show that
Speaker 5: physicality closer to the box.
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean being close up price man. I mean,
Speaker 3: it allows me to put my hands on early. It
Speaker 3: allows me to be able to rough those receivers up
Speaker 3: and get them into their routes sooner than they will
Speaker 3: want to. So of course that was and that's something
Speaker 3: that I've done, like since I was little, you know,
Speaker 3: I've been doing that coverage basically, prissman.
Speaker 1: My whole football career so aspired from that physicality. How
Speaker 1: would you describe just your skills as a cornerback.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel like they're they're on top of the roof,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And shoot, I got you know,
Speaker 3: I got the strength that I got the physicality as
Speaker 3: they say, I got the mental mental part of the game,
Speaker 3: you know, I especially coming into the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's something that I take pride in. You know.
Speaker 3: I always talk about, you know, once I get drafted,
Speaker 3: boom on getting in the playbook. As soon as I
Speaker 3: get there, I'm connected with a veteran because I want
Speaker 3: to get that stuff already taken care of. I want
Speaker 3: to be able to make people feel like I am
Speaker 3: a veteran, you know what I mean That way, I'm
Speaker 3: comfortable when I get out on the field. I want
Speaker 3: coaches to know that they can trust me on that field.
Speaker 3: So that's exactly what I'm bringing. I'm bringing the physicality part.
Speaker 3: I'm bringing in the mental part to the game.
Speaker 6: Do you consider yourself an outside corner or a nickel?
Speaker 6: Do you expect to cross train once you get here?
Speaker 6: What have they told you initially about how they see
Speaker 6: you kind of fitting into the forty as defensive backfield?
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, Well, honestly, I'm very versatile.
Speaker 3: I've played both nickel and outside corner, so I mean
Speaker 3: I can play both. Of course, I have had majority
Speaker 3: of my career being outside, but I've also been reintroduced
Speaker 3: a couple of times back at Nickel since high school.
Speaker 3: So you know, I can play both positions. It don't
Speaker 3: matter which one as long as I'm able to help
Speaker 3: out the team in any way.
Speaker 1: They congrats. I rather that you were a no starter recruit.
Speaker 1: So if that's if that is accurate, what did collegees
Speaker 1: miss about you?
Speaker 2: And were you surprised coming out of high score there
Speaker 2: wasn't more interest.
Speaker 3: Man, So, like I mean, and it's a story behind
Speaker 3: all that, but we would get into that like later
Speaker 3: on down the road. But like you know, I feel
Speaker 3: like a lot of teams missed out on the skill
Speaker 3: set that I have, the abilities that I have that
Speaker 3: I've been given.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Also I feel like they've missed out on where how
Speaker 3: I the stuff that I bring to the game. Again,
Speaker 3: like I always tell y'all, like I've told the mental
Speaker 3: and part, I feel like they've missed out on those things.
Speaker 3: And so you know, as you see later down the
Speaker 3: line from high school to Pearl, from Pearl to South,
Speaker 3: you see nothing but progression, and you and people just
Speaker 3: look back and be like, wow, while we why haven't
Speaker 3: we you know, recruited that guy or even take that
Speaker 3: guy in?
Speaker 1: You know, So it's all good though.
Speaker 2: We can see that sign waving behind you, can you
Speaker 2: describe where you are and who's uh, who's with you?
Speaker 1: Boom?
Speaker 3: So this is this is actually a sign that my
Speaker 3: mother in law made and this was around.
Speaker 1: Graduation time.
Speaker 3: And you see, of course, just a picture where I
Speaker 3: was in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Today. Uh, we got a couple of banners out.
Speaker 3: I have my aunties and my uncles, I have my cousins,
Speaker 3: I have my wife, my daughter, you know, I have
Speaker 3: a nephew. Pretty much got a good amount of family
Speaker 3: here to support me.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, this is an excellent day.
Speaker 4: Throughout being a husband and a girl.
Speaker 5: Dad.
Speaker 4: How does that affect how you've prepared your life for
Speaker 4: this NFL career?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's man, it's unexplainable. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3: Like since the day, since the day I know I
Speaker 3: was projected to get drafted, to the day I got married,
Speaker 3: to the day I got a kid, everything's just been
Speaker 3: building on top of each other. It continues to motivate me,
Speaker 3: adds on to the stuff that I was already motivated
Speaker 3: motivated from in the past, So it just keeps building up.
Speaker 3: It's very unexplainable.
Speaker 5: Man, I was just wondering if you knew Tarvarius Moore,
Speaker 5: who who also went up to Pearl River. He used
Speaker 5: to play for the forty and ers, is now with
Speaker 5: the Packers.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't. I've heard I've heard a lot about him,
Speaker 3: but I honestly didn't. Never got a chance to meet him,
Speaker 3: Never got a chance to meet him.
Speaker 1: Look for it. I hope I get to meet him
Speaker 1: one today.