Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The NFL Draft
Speaker 1: has come to a close and the Ravens made six
Speaker 1: picks over the course of the weekend. On Saturday, they
Speaker 1: made four draft picks and we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from two of them, Tavious Robinson and Edge Rusher
Speaker 1: out of Ole, miss and Kyu Blue Kelly at cornerback
Speaker 1: out of Stanford after the pick. Here's the press conference
Speaker 1: that Robinson did with the local media here in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Tavous, congratulations. Just to start things off here, it take
Speaker 2: me through the emotions. Did you feel like this was
Speaker 2: a spot you could land and how did you react
Speaker 2: to the news?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. When I got the call and I saw
Speaker 3: it was Baltimore, you know, I was excited right away
Speaker 3: to be part of such a great program and just
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get there and start working and do
Speaker 3: everything I can to help win Super Bowls in Baltimore.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a.
Speaker 3: Great, great, great moment. I'm excited. That was such a
Speaker 3: great program for sure.
Speaker 5: Ryan Mink.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tavious, can you walk me through your background a
Speaker 6: little bit. I know, coming from Canada, I read that
Speaker 6: you kind of aspired to go enter the CFL, and
Speaker 6: then the pandemic kind of changed your mind. Can you
Speaker 6: can you walk me through the story of how you
Speaker 6: ended up landing at Old Miss and pursuing an NFL
Speaker 6: career now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I played two years at university football up
Speaker 3: here in Canada, and then when COVID happened, everything got
Speaker 3: shut down here football got canceled. And then at that
Speaker 3: point I was sending out my tape everywhere trying to
Speaker 3: get a school in the States, and then Ole Miss
Speaker 3: was one of my first as a c offers. So
Speaker 3: that's how I ended up at Old Miss and then
Speaker 3: had three years there and now I'm here.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Luke Jones, Tyboas, Congratulations.
Speaker 7: Who are some players you've tried to model your game
Speaker 7: after as you've prepared for this NFL career.
Speaker 3: Max Crosby is someone who I watched a ton because
Speaker 3: he has a relentless motor. So that's one thing I
Speaker 3: watched him throughout the season. That's that's kind of what
Speaker 3: I try to model my game off is never giving
Speaker 3: up on places, playing with a relentless motor. And then
Speaker 3: on top of that, like he has great pass which
Speaker 3: moves is a great run defender. So but the motor
Speaker 3: part is one thing that I try to take from
Speaker 3: his game one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: So Childs Walker, Yeah, I hate tav congratulations.
Speaker 3: You know, we hear from everybody that you were you
Speaker 3: were really coming on sort of at the end of
Speaker 3: your college career.
Speaker 4: I mean in your mind, where did you improve the most?
Speaker 4: And then where do you still think you have the
Speaker 4: most room to grow?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think the most.
Speaker 3: I just improved that the game like started to slow
Speaker 3: down for me, and the more I learned from my coaches,
Speaker 3: the better I got and the more confident I felt
Speaker 3: out there. I became a better power rusher this year,
Speaker 3: better stopping the run, and I just feel like I
Speaker 3: still have so much more room to grow. And you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a sponge. I like to be coached and I
Speaker 3: like to become as best as I can at this game.
Speaker 3: So I think there's a lot a lot of room
Speaker 3: to grow.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 5: We'll go to Cordill Woodland.
Speaker 8: Hey, tav Is, congratulations A lot of forest fumbles for you.
Speaker 9: When did it become an emphasis for you to start
Speaker 9: really going after the.
Speaker 3: Football really from the start of the season, Like that's
Speaker 3: something that our DC D line coach preaches because turnovers
Speaker 3: can win games. You know, the turnover margining where you
Speaker 3: got to take like the ball wins game. So whenever
Speaker 3: you get a shot to take that ball out, it's
Speaker 3: what you got to do. So a sack isn't enough
Speaker 3: if you got to get the strip sack. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of my mentality with it.
Speaker 10: So we'll go to Jeff's soreback, Pavious, where how much
Speaker 10: interaction did you have in the Ravens and the pre draft.
Speaker 11: Process and and and what was kind of the extent
Speaker 11: of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had talked a little bit at the Combine
Speaker 3: and the Senior Bowl. I remember that, and so I
Speaker 3: knew that they were on my raidar. I didn't know
Speaker 3: one hundred percent of it was gonna end up. But
Speaker 3: you know, when I got that call from Baltimore again,
Speaker 3: I was ecstatic and just excited to come into such
Speaker 3: a great program.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Johanna Schaeffer.
Speaker 7: It Davious, congratulations.
Speaker 4: Two questions for you.
Speaker 7: I guess have you talked that much with the Ravens
Speaker 7: about what kind of role in the defense you would have?
Speaker 7: And then also just looking at your bio, I saw
Speaker 7: that you used to work at one night hundred got
Speaker 7: junk before you got the college offer, What was that
Speaker 7: experience like for you? And I guess have you thought
Speaker 7: it all about just how far you've come since you,
Speaker 7: you know, made since you major break into college football. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so with that story right before, like when football had
Speaker 7: got canceled here in Canada, like because here in Canada,
Speaker 7: we don't get full scholarships, like you got to work
Speaker 7: to pay for your school for the upcoming year. So
Speaker 7: before I got in your offers, I had applied for
Speaker 7: that job, got that job, and was like just getting
Speaker 7: ready to start working to make enough money to go
Speaker 7: to university the upcoming year. But at the same time,
Speaker 7: I was sending up my tape, but I didn't know
Speaker 7: if anything was gonna come from it. But then I
Speaker 7: got the old Miss offer and then yeah, I didn't
Speaker 7: even I think I was like scheduled to go and
Speaker 7: for work and then I got the old Miss offer
Speaker 7: like two days before, and then I like quit and
Speaker 7: then it was on a.
Speaker 3: Plane to the Old Miss like the next day. So yeah,
Speaker 3: and your role in the defense if you know that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna get into that pretty soon here. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to be a part of Baltimore for sure.
Speaker 5: We'll go to Dan Ralph who's joining us from Canada
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 12: Tav's congratulations. I wanted to ask you two things. First
Speaker 12: of all, you are the fourth Canadian to go. You
Speaker 12: and I both know that ties the record for most.
Speaker 12: And what your thoughts are about the amount of Canadians
Speaker 12: that we're seeing going into the NFL draft in the
Speaker 12: last four or five years, and what that what that
Speaker 12: significance is for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so significant to me because at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, there's so many great players up here who,
Speaker 3: in my mind, if they were in D one school,
Speaker 3: they would be in the same position, but they just
Speaker 3: it's hard to get that opportunity from Canada. So it's
Speaker 3: great to see and I think it will continue to
Speaker 3: open up more opportunities for Canadian kids, which they deserve
Speaker 3: because there's so.
Speaker 4: Much talent up here.
Speaker 3: And once that talent really gets tapped into, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think the numbers is just gonna rise and rise
Speaker 3: every year.
Speaker 4: So it's great.
Speaker 12: We talked, we talked to your uncle has a pro pedigree,
Speaker 12: but you're the first gelth player ever to be drafted
Speaker 12: into the National Football League.
Speaker 4: Any significance to that in your mind. Definitely.
Speaker 3: Again, like it's just it's it's to show all the
Speaker 3: kids back home, all the kids up here around in Canada,
Speaker 3: it's possible with hard work and dedication and just it's important.
Speaker 4: It's important that the kids know that.
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely grateful for the opportunity and happy that
Speaker 3: the kids can can look up.
Speaker 4: To me, for sure.
Speaker 12: Thank you, congratulations again, thank you Ryan Mink.
Speaker 4: It's obous.
Speaker 6: I'm just wondering how much did you play as a
Speaker 6: d M kind of handing the dirt guy at Old
Speaker 6: Miss and how comfortable do you feel on your feet
Speaker 6: on the edge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so my first year at Old Miss, well, my
Speaker 3: two years at Canada and my first year Old Miss,
Speaker 3: I was a stand up the end, and then the
Speaker 3: past few years I've been handed the dirt. So I'm comfortable,
Speaker 3: very comfortable with both. So yeah, it's it's good with
Speaker 3: both for sure.
Speaker 5: Johannest Schaeffer, Jonas you good, all right, I'm good, okay.
Speaker 5: Kevin Richardson, Yes.
Speaker 4: Hey, I want to ask you about you.
Speaker 8: Seem like you're on every academic uh hon Roe there
Speaker 8: is in college.
Speaker 4: What does that drive come from? How does that help
Speaker 4: you as an athlete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just kind of a pro mindset,
Speaker 3: Like everything you do you got to do at the
Speaker 3: highest level. So you know, to play football, you gotta
Speaker 3: have a good enough grades to be on the team.
Speaker 3: So it's just something that I do, and it's it's
Speaker 3: I just I've always like I've always been good as well.
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's just something that I do to
Speaker 3: make sure that I'm good to play football. So I
Speaker 3: just I take everything at the highest level basically.
Speaker 5: So, and Ryan, did you have one more question? We're good,
Speaker 5: all right, Well.
Speaker 13: Tavos, congratulations again. We all look forward to meeting you
Speaker 13: here in Baltimore in person, and thank you to everybody
Speaker 13: for joining us.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Now here's
Speaker 1: the conference All that Kyu Blue Kelly, a cornerback out
Speaker 1: of Stanford, did with the local Baltimore media soon after
Speaker 1: the pick was announced.
Speaker 7: Hey, Kyu, congratulations on getting drafted. Just a kind of
Speaker 7: quick personal question, could you explain your your name? It's
Speaker 7: obviously an unusual when I couldn't find anything online on
Speaker 7: how you got it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, funny story.
Speaker 1: So by my dad.
Speaker 4: Of course they had me.
Speaker 9: They agreed on blue before I'm even I'm even out,
Speaker 9: like that was the main thing they wanted to do.
Speaker 4: And we get all the way down, so I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure the delivery.
Speaker 9: Room I'm crying somewhere and the biblical cords gotta get cut.
Speaker 9: But my mom's like, I want a K I want
Speaker 9: a K name, and my Dad's like, you know, we've
Speaker 9: been this is a process the whole time we're switching up.
Speaker 9: So it made a compromise and pretty much wanted to
Speaker 9: find what flows with blue and when Kyu blue k
Speaker 9: Yu b l U is my first name.
Speaker 14: Jamison Hensley, how you what do you think as far
Speaker 14: as having a father who played over a decade in
Speaker 14: the NFL, how much do you think that helped you
Speaker 14: as far as your football career.
Speaker 4: I mean it helped me one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: I was just telling him before this whole process even
Speaker 9: started that without him, I would even be as close
Speaker 9: to the man I am a close to the football
Speaker 9: player I am today. A lot of kids, you know,
Speaker 9: just be having a father in my life, let alone
Speaker 9: the NFL father. You know, that's such a big thing.
Speaker 9: That's such a blessing in this life. I can't even
Speaker 9: have the words to say, but it's such a big,
Speaker 9: such a big blessing I have for sure.
Speaker 5: Ryan mink.
Speaker 6: Ingratku, could you talk four your starter at Stanford, That's
Speaker 6: that's pretty impressive. Can you talk about where your game grew,
Speaker 6: what you'll bring to the Ravens. Then secondly your matchup
Speaker 6: with Jordan Addison.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll start with my career. I mean just playing
Speaker 9: four years of ball, you get a lot of experience,
Speaker 9: see a lot of football. You learn a lot about
Speaker 9: the game as the years grow. And I feel like
Speaker 9: what I bring to the secondary and just to the
Speaker 9: team is one a competitor, really really uber competitor. You know,
Speaker 9: whatever I'm doing, I want to be the best and
Speaker 9: beat the best nickel and a corner, you know, whatever
Speaker 9: they want to want to fit me at and man
Speaker 9: covers covers. I was able to experience a lot of
Speaker 9: different scheme diversity that really helps me be in a
Speaker 9: Swiss Army Knight put me in different places. As far
Speaker 9: as Jordan a great player, great player. He got me
Speaker 9: on that one post and we had some up the
Speaker 9: line of scrimmage and I didn't get any balls after that,
Speaker 9: but great player.
Speaker 4: I see him doing well in the league, just like
Speaker 4: I expect myself to do well. And yeah, for sure,
Speaker 4: we'll go to Brian Whacker.
Speaker 15: Hey, how you read that you signed a deal with
Speaker 15: Microsoft for a video game that you created and you're
Speaker 15: also involved in real estate development. Can you just talk
Speaker 15: about what sparked those two things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it or not. It's pretty cliche. My dad,
Speaker 4: my dad, it was funny. For the video game.
Speaker 9: We have a friend of ours who was creating a
Speaker 9: movie that's gonna come out and it's based on what
Speaker 9: the video game is based on, and he introduced it
Speaker 9: to my dad and I play video games, so my dad,
Speaker 9: they both knew nothing about video games, and he was like,
Speaker 9: you know, my son.
Speaker 4: Plays a lot of video games. And he was like, ky,
Speaker 4: you can you create.
Speaker 9: A story like a storyboard or a log or some
Speaker 9: type of lore for this game and figure out a
Speaker 9: story based behind it. And I just sat down, like
Speaker 9: maybe a few hours, created a whole storyboard, characters and
Speaker 9: stuff like that, and they gave it to the company
Speaker 9: and they really liked it. So that game is still
Speaker 9: in progress. We're still figuring that out. It would definitely
Speaker 9: be coming.
Speaker 4: Out soon with the movie and everything and real estate
Speaker 4: once again.
Speaker 9: My dad, believe it or not, he's definitely doing real
Speaker 9: estate development right now.
Speaker 4: He got his own development company out in Vegas.
Speaker 9: And I was blessed to be at Stanford to do
Speaker 9: internships with venture capitalists and private equities and real estate
Speaker 9: firms alike, and just being around it with my dad
Speaker 9: seeing it around. There's something I would just want to
Speaker 9: dive into throughout this whole process in the NFL and
Speaker 9: after on.
Speaker 4: The video game.
Speaker 15: What's the sorry, what's what is the game or movie
Speaker 15: or at least what's based in.
Speaker 9: I can't I can't talk to us about the movie,
Speaker 9: but the video game is if you can think of
Speaker 9: like a Seal Team six that travels back in time
Speaker 9: to stop people from trying to change historic events.
Speaker 4: So let's say somebody trying to.
Speaker 9: Redirect I'm saying too much, but yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 3: The hole.
Speaker 5: Travel Seal Team sick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, thank you, Yeah, yeah, David.
Speaker 16: And Roving, Hey, are you welcome to Baltimore? Obviously you
Speaker 16: will have the opportunity to participate in OTA's training camp
Speaker 16: against an offense with players like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: OBJ now Za Flowers. How good of a challenge this
Speaker 4: will be for your game?
Speaker 9: I mean, this is something I used to always think about,
Speaker 9: like playing against you know, guys like Obj. I've seen
Speaker 9: Za Flowers in this process. Those are the guys I
Speaker 9: want to line up against, you know, I want to
Speaker 9: see what they got and they can, you know, just
Speaker 9: make me better, you know. I mean guys like that
Speaker 9: who are pros. And Zay Flowers, who is going to
Speaker 9: be a great rookie for our team. I feel like
Speaker 9: that's just gonna make me better. It's just an iron
Speaker 9: sharpens iron thing and a competitive guy like me, I
Speaker 9: want my first shot as bad as than when I can.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm just jump out there and make sure
Speaker 9: I'm doing better getting better.
Speaker 17: But Brown, congratulations. Did you have any contact with the
Speaker 17: Ravens during the pre draft process and what do you know?
Speaker 17: How much do you know about the Ravens or even
Speaker 17: Baltimore coming from out from alt from Stanford.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's starting off with Baltimore mailing, never
Speaker 9: been never been heard great things about it.
Speaker 4: But the Baltimore Ravens is a historic football program.
Speaker 9: I mean, coming from I watched Marlon Humphreys, I don't
Speaker 9: know how many times dudes, the baller Marcus Spears when
Speaker 9: he was there. You guys got Kyle Hamilton now just
Speaker 9: Eric Weddle, like guys in the secondary that I've watched
Speaker 9: around my whole entire life. But Ed reed too, like
Speaker 9: that's even crazier just me being be able. I have
Speaker 9: an opportunity to sement my legacy also when there. But
Speaker 9: as far as the process, I had a meeting with
Speaker 9: the DV coach Zoom meeting. Honestly, I never talked to
Speaker 9: Harbone until today, never talked to the GM until today.
Speaker 9: But Ryan Capetta is my trainer at Proactive, and he
Speaker 9: told me they reached out at the combine. I was
Speaker 9: just wondering what type of guy I am, and Ryan
Speaker 9: of course said, I'm a super competitor and love to compete.
Speaker 9: And that was honestly the first interaction I had up until.
Speaker 4: That Zoom meeting. But I'm just super stoked man, super
Speaker 4: glad to be a raven, super blessed.
Speaker 5: Jeff's reeback.
Speaker 4: What was the moment?
Speaker 11: Usually the team after they make some picks the next
Speaker 11: couple days or whatever sends out. You know, some of
Speaker 11: the videos of the phone calls with guys getting that
Speaker 11: call to tell them they've been drafted.
Speaker 4: What was the moment like for you?
Speaker 11: And how special was it for your family knowing you know,
Speaker 11: father and son to have that bond, you know, in
Speaker 11: the NFL.
Speaker 9: Yeah, honestly, I mean just going through the days. You know,
Speaker 9: it's a grueling process for any type of draft prospects.
Speaker 9: Sitting there watching everybody get picked dos in your position,
Speaker 9: the competitive nature and all of us is like that
Speaker 9: should have been me. But you know, every team has
Speaker 9: a fit. You know, every team loves you, and I'm
Speaker 9: just glad. You know, the Ravens love me. But just
Speaker 9: sitting there, man, I mean, you don't expect it, You
Speaker 9: don't expect it. I was sitting there my talking to agents.
Speaker 9: Of course, they're telling me other teams. They're telling me
Speaker 9: teams that wasn't even the Ravens that they might jump
Speaker 9: up and take me. But and then it just happened.
Speaker 9: I got the four to one zero area code and
Speaker 9: said Baltimore Ravens, and I was just so happy.
Speaker 17: Man.
Speaker 4: It's just a breadth of fresh air to finally have
Speaker 4: a home, you know, finally have a home.
Speaker 5: We'll go Jonas Schaeffer and then, Garret Downey.
Speaker 7: Are you with your Bishop Gorman roots and also working
Speaker 7: out a proactive Have you gotten to know Ronnie Stanley
Speaker 7: at all?
Speaker 9: No, Honestly, I've heard he's a legend around Gorman. He
Speaker 9: was there a while before I was, but I always
Speaker 9: knew he was a legend. Would love to meet him,
Speaker 9: love to talk about his days at the g But yeah,
Speaker 9: I never got a chance to meet him, but definitely
Speaker 9: get the chance to now for sure.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Garrett, You're the first player from Stanford the
Speaker 2: Ravens have ever selected.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and what does that?
Speaker 4: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 16: Man?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just just being a Raven in general.
Speaker 9: I feel like I just I just got to bring it,
Speaker 9: you know, bring everything I have to this whatever position
Speaker 9: they need me at, wherever they want me at, just
Speaker 9: give it my own. Just be so thankful, you know,
Speaker 9: I really thankful the Harvard, really thankful to the Ravens,
Speaker 9: you know, taking a chance on me and making sure
Speaker 9: there's no regrets with that, you know, making.
Speaker 4: Sure they got the right guy. And I believe that
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make them believe that too, right, mink.
Speaker 6: Nick Kay, I know you had a really good week
Speaker 6: at the Senior Bowl. What did you feel like you
Speaker 6: proved the teams there?
Speaker 4: Definitely that I still got it.
Speaker 9: You know. I feel like my season, my last season,
Speaker 9: my senior season prepared to my junior season, and I
Speaker 9: had in total and man to man, I think about
Speaker 9: twenty five targets of the whole entire season, So not
Speaker 9: a lot of opportunity to show myself, not a lot
Speaker 9: of opportunity to go out there and make plays.
Speaker 4: And I just knew at the Senior Bowl, like, got
Speaker 4: I gotta turn.
Speaker 9: It up here, you know, because people are like, Okay,
Speaker 9: he got a good junior year, his senior year was
Speaker 9: so so like is he still that same player?
Speaker 4: And I think I proved that, you know, day in
Speaker 4: and day out, just making sure I'm competing and putting
Speaker 4: my best at perform.
Speaker 5: All right, And we'll finish up here with Kevin Richardson.
Speaker 8: Are you what are the things you think you need
Speaker 8: to work on at the next level and at Stafford?
Speaker 8: Were you able to ever play in special teams because
Speaker 8: most guys first coming in the league, special teams is
Speaker 8: one of the ways they make this make their mark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seeking of special teams that the tradition at Stanford.
Speaker 4: That's the right of passions.
Speaker 9: No matter how good you are, Dudes like Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 9: and Solomon Thomas still plays special teams. You know, you're
Speaker 9: never too good to play to be off of special teams.
Speaker 9: So I was able to play gunner, jammer, kickoff. Those
Speaker 9: are the things that got me on the field as
Speaker 9: a freshman. You know, I played my I started my
Speaker 9: freshman year, but it was four games. In those three
Speaker 9: games before I was all special teams guy, just going
Speaker 9: in and at it. Yeah, I take a lot of
Speaker 9: pride in that. I feel like that's how I gained
Speaker 9: the respect of from the top down GM, all the
Speaker 9: way down the player. I feel like just busting my
Speaker 9: butt on special teams, doing I need to do for
Speaker 9: the team is the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: And sorry, did you ask another question? I got lost
Speaker 4: in the special teams question. Sure, what what is the
Speaker 4: other thing you think you need to work on at
Speaker 4: the next level?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean now I'm going to the Ravens. I
Speaker 9: look at a guy like Marlon Humphries. He's uber physical.
Speaker 9: I mean, he's one of the most physical corners in
Speaker 9: this league. And I feel like that's definitely something I
Speaker 9: can plus in my game, you know, not being the
Speaker 9: same size as Marlin, different different types of players, I
Speaker 9: feel like, by the same time, making sure I bring
Speaker 9: that same physicality that they demand from their top guy,
Speaker 9: you know, I feel like that's something I definitely do
Speaker 9: And the only thing that keeps you in this league
Speaker 9: is a ball production.
Speaker 4: Make sure I'll just get two hands on that ball
Speaker 4: and give it back to Lamar and Odell and let
Speaker 4: those guys do work.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 13: Well, very good, Kaye, thank you for joining us, and again, congratulations,
Speaker 13: We look forward to meeting you in person this coming week.
Speaker 4: Awesome. Thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So the Ravens are really fired up about this draft
Speaker 1: class and can't wait to see these guys get here
Speaker 1: to Baltimore and get to work. This is the Ravens
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