Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It's a busy
Speaker 1: day in Baltimore as the first round of the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft took place Thursday night and the Ravens selected wide
Speaker 1: receiver Zay Flowers out of Boston College. He's a dynamic,
Speaker 1: big play threat who had twenty nine receiving touchdowns and
Speaker 1: more than three thousand receiving yards in his college career.
Speaker 1: Soon after the pick, Zay talk with members of the
Speaker 1: media on a conference call after he was selected in
Speaker 1: Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Zay, what was your interactions with the Ravens leg before
Speaker 2: the draft and did you see them all long as
Speaker 2: a legitimate option to take you.
Speaker 3: That was probably my best visit. That was probably my
Speaker 3: favorite visit.
Speaker 4: And I know if I reached twenty two, I had
Speaker 4: a feeling it was gonna it was gonna pick me.
Speaker 4: So it weren't out perfect man, ready to get to work,
Speaker 4: ready to get some wins, ready to go play a lamar,
Speaker 4: ready to go play. Oh, ready to go build his
Speaker 4: receiving core all the way up.
Speaker 5: Ryan me, it is a I was curious. Steve Smith
Speaker 5: Senior said, you remind him of himself? Was he somebody
Speaker 5: that you always looked up to and just what does
Speaker 5: that mean to you to be kind of compared to him?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been looking.
Speaker 4: I've been watching his tape since I was what six
Speaker 4: or seven years old. My dad always told me, it
Speaker 4: don't matter about size, is what's in your chest. And
Speaker 4: he always kept me motivated and said, you got to
Speaker 4: be like Steve Smith. Steve Smith was a dog, So
Speaker 4: that's what made me look That's what made me like
Speaker 4: him and love him and watch him a lot. So
Speaker 4: it means a lot to look up to him and
Speaker 4: to get to meet him was extremely great.
Speaker 6: Jamison Hensley, Hey, you kind of mentioned a little bit
Speaker 6: about playing with Lamar and you know, talk about playing
Speaker 6: alongside a couple of guys, Uh that you've watched.
Speaker 4: I mean that's two guys that's explosive that can make
Speaker 4: plays at any time. You know, you know what Lamar
Speaker 4: can do, and you know you know what Odell can do.
Speaker 4: You you've seen flashes of it. It just so happened
Speaker 4: that he got hurt. But now he's back. It looks
Speaker 4: like he one hundred so and then I'm coming in.
Speaker 4: Then we got bait on the outside and we got
Speaker 4: JK in the backfield.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 7: With Brown.
Speaker 2: Here's the combine you were telling about. You're a guy
Speaker 2: who can play outside inside. You know, I know there's
Speaker 2: been talk about you know your side, but can you
Speaker 2: just talk about why you think in this offense you'll
Speaker 2: be able to be a guy who they can move
Speaker 2: around to any.
Speaker 4: Spot because I could do whatever you need me to do.
Speaker 4: I could run every route you give me, I can separate,
Speaker 4: I can make competitive catches. So whatever you gotta do
Speaker 4: to play on the outside, I feel like I can
Speaker 4: do and I could do it at a high level.
Speaker 7: We'll go to Brian Whacker. He's a two things.
Speaker 8: What do you remember about in the war growing up
Speaker 8: down there in the South Florida? And then secondly, how
Speaker 8: important was that stay in Boston College for your final
Speaker 8: year inter your development?
Speaker 7: You think you got out of that?
Speaker 3: Excuse me, I didn't hit it. I didn't hit a
Speaker 3: second question, just.
Speaker 7: The importance of staying in Boston College.
Speaker 8: This last year and what you got out of that.
Speaker 4: My first time like seeing something about the Mark was
Speaker 4: when he made the high school move and he like
Speaker 4: pointed at him and walking into the end zone. And
Speaker 4: when I when I found out that was him, I
Speaker 4: knew it was like, oh, yeah, you're gonna be special
Speaker 4: when you get to the league. But while I stayed
Speaker 4: at BC because BC gave me my first opportunity. They
Speaker 4: gave me opportunity to play Power five football, and I
Speaker 4: knew what I was gonna get from BC, and I
Speaker 4: was able to showcase that.
Speaker 7: We'll go to Javin Richardson.
Speaker 3: When you four consecutive wide receivers that.
Speaker 9: Went up the board when you were chosen, what was
Speaker 9: it like waiting in the green when you had so
Speaker 9: many guys coming off from quarterbacks and running backs to linemen,
Speaker 9: and uh, they weren't picking wide out.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I know if I got I knew if I
Speaker 4: got the twin two that I knew I was gonna
Speaker 4: be a raven and we're just gonna make every team
Speaker 4: that damn pick pay for it.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Cordell Woodland.
Speaker 10: They you had a career high and catch his gyards
Speaker 10: and touchdowns this this past year of Boston College.
Speaker 3: What changed for you in your season in your senior year.
Speaker 3: I don't think nothing really changed.
Speaker 4: I think I had more opportunities to go out and
Speaker 4: create plays and have more freedom in the offense and
Speaker 4: move around in positions and not just sticking to one
Speaker 4: position and running a certain amount of routes.
Speaker 7: We'll go to Ryan mink.
Speaker 5: I think what I was just curious, you know, with
Speaker 5: the four wide receivers going in a row, was there
Speaker 5: any kind of competitiveness?
Speaker 3: I know you're a competitive player.
Speaker 5: Was there any kind of feeling of, hey, I wanted
Speaker 5: to be the first or whatnot.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I've never even really paid attention to it. I
Speaker 4: just wanted to get my foot in the door and
Speaker 4: have a team give me a chance to I could
Speaker 4: prove him like right about why they dribted me.
Speaker 7: We'll go to Brian Whacker again. You're good, Brian Cordell.
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, well they thank you very much. We
Speaker 11: appreciate your time. And again, congratulations everyone. Could I get
Speaker 11: a oh, Jonas, go ahead?
Speaker 7: Excuse me?
Speaker 3: Good man? Uh say, congratulations on the pick.
Speaker 12: I think you were connected as far back as the
Speaker 12: Shrine Bowl to the Ravens. It looked like they were,
Speaker 12: you know, kind of can you ever move? What do
Speaker 12: you remember from that experience? And I guess what did
Speaker 12: you take away from that early stage in the preachaff process.
Speaker 4: So honestly, I built a relationship with coach Twomore early,
Speaker 4: Like at the Shrine Bowl, we just sat on the
Speaker 4: sideline because I practiced one day and the rest I
Speaker 4: sat out and we were just chopping up the whole time.
Speaker 4: He just like picking my brain, like, well he think
Speaker 4: you could play outside? Oh so you think your dog
Speaker 4: like so I like that kind of like competitiveness and
Speaker 4: like him challenging me, and I build a connection with
Speaker 4: him right there.
Speaker 7: Let's actually go to Childs Walker.
Speaker 10: Yeah, his a congratulations was it was it wild to
Speaker 10: uh to get picked on the same day that Lamar
Speaker 10: Jackson signed his extension. I mean when when you saw
Speaker 10: that news earlier, did that did that kind of feel like, hey,
Speaker 10: I want to be part of that that celebration.
Speaker 4: When I when I seen him sign that, and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh if I go there, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot of trouble on the field. But I was
Speaker 4: happy for Him'm glad he got his what he wanted.
Speaker 4: And now we now we double juice up.
Speaker 7: Ryan mink Isaiah.
Speaker 5: I don't think we asked you just what were the emotions,
Speaker 5: you know when you got the call and knew it
Speaker 5: was going to be the Ravens. While you're in the
Speaker 5: green room, just what was running through your head?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 4: Honestly, I was just saying, let's get to work, Let's
Speaker 4: let's go win, Let's go play guys, all.
Speaker 7: Right, and we will close it out with Kyle Barber.
Speaker 3: It's they. Congratulations on being picked.
Speaker 12: You talked about playing on the outside and you know
Speaker 12: being a dog and what that requires.
Speaker 5: Do you have a preference on playing on the outside
Speaker 5: versus inside as a wide receiver?
Speaker 4: I feel like I could be moved all around, so
Speaker 4: I don't really have a preference.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 11: Well, thank you everybody, and Zay thank you again. Congratulations.
Speaker 11: We look forward to meeting you in person here very soon, sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
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