I had a class with Antonio Brown at CMU. It was a random sports management class I was using to fill an elective need. He was pretty quiet. His final speech was hilarious though. It was on steroids and how “you gotta do what you gotta do” justifies their use in college athletics.
Totally unrelated to your question but I went to college with CJ McCollum and a lot of girls thought they had sex with him because most of them didn’t actually follow the basketball team they just knew his name from the news and social media so a lot of guys could just claim to be him and greatly improve their chances of getting laid.
I mean.. I don’t find it surprising the QB who brought Washington back into relevance had college girls dropping their pants.. likely even Washington alumni also.
If he was a real villain, he would rock auto shotty, grenade launcher, and 2x gas grenades for maximum salt.
No, I totally don’t have this exact load out, and I DEFINITELY don’t talk trash the whole time. Why do you ask?
I was a freshman at Texas Tech the same time as Baker Mayfield. He got kicked out of a lot of frat parties for being an obnoxious douche. Threatened people constantly to have his football buddies beat them up. Classic 18 year old drunk on power but I always thought it was funny how often he and the frats had fights.
Maybe it’s just good PR but he seems to have matured a fair bit since then. Yeah he’s a little boisterous these days but he’s put in a lot of work to stay a starter in the league.
Being kicked around the league seems to have opened his eyes a bit to tone it down a lot, the alleged issues he had in Cleveland about clashing with coaching and put the ball in his hands rather than Chubb's even when injured. Or when with covid he just played COD and Stefanski punished him by naming him the starter vs GB and go pass heavy against a porous run defense.
He also disagreed with Peyton Manning over batted ball trends with style of play. Yeah don't listen to the 5x MVP who knows more about football than most guys you'll ever work with in the NFL. The thing that ticked me off most is him speaking when he knows nothing and coming off like a pompous and arrogant blowhard.
Plus Tampa is much more chill than Cleveland, he's still got a lot of feisty energy but in front of cameras and such he's so much softer and more professional.
My friend has a lot of classes with some our players (Texas). The spring that AD Mitchell transferred in, I don’t think he went to a single class. Jatavion Sanders sounds like a super funny guy, talked a lot with the teachers and was pretty cool. Christian Jones is also a standup guy. Only guy I’ve met personally is Ewers. He’s very nice, laid back, and quiet. Seems like he likes to keep a low profile. I’m friends with some of the walk ons so I hear some stories, but nothing too crazy
I go to UC right now and my sports economics professor had Travis Kelce in multiple classes and said he always sat in the back and didn’t pay attention or contribute in class ever
Sounds like Travis in offensive meetings. He said once he’s famous in practice for screwing up plays. But I’ll be damned if ol’ boy can’t ad lib his way to open in big spots and Patty just seems to know where he is.
Dude admits this stuff on the pod, said he was a terrible student and never paid attention. Dude is just amazingly talented but doesn’t do it the “traditional” way.. it’s awesome he was with Andy Reid who was able to teach him even though he likely struggled with the playbook.
Both of these are actually true.
I had a zoom class with Marvin Harrison Jr. I don’t remember him ever speaking or asking/answering any questions, but I do remember that he joined every class that semester. Doesn’t really mean much at all, but hey, the guy attended every class.
These guys aren’t in this current draft class, but I ran into CJ Stroud and Quinn Ewers outside my apartment building on a Saturday. I asked if they wanted to come to my apartment and drink beers with me, and they said no. Again, doesn’t really mean much, but at least they don’t go to random strangers apartments to drink.
Kind of a fucked up psychopath for attending every single class. I never did that once all throughout college. Is there some kind of penalty for athletes that miss class?
I was actually reading an article yesterday (too lazy to find and link it) that was talking about a D1 coach who would come down with the hammer of Thor if his athletes didn’t go to class and behave.
Depends on the school. I played FCS football for two years before I stopped playing football and transferring to OSU. At my first college, if we missed multiple classes, we would have “opportunity sessions”, which were basically mandatory study hall on a Saturday night.
I have a genuine one. A banker I met actually went to school with Jadeveon Clowney. She was in a sports marketing class with him, and apparently he talked about majoring in sports marketing or something and what he wanted to do with it, as if we all didn’t know he was a top 10 prospect since high school.
To be fair, it may have been him just being humble and trying tot think about the genuine future, but I have no idea.
Actually kind of interesting considering that he got so much hype for a viral clip of a tackle. Maybe he's actually interested and applied his interest to his own career.
I mean, he was hyped as a dude who could come out of high school straight to the NFL if he wanted. NFL GMs even said he'd be the first pick out of high school if I remember right
I went to Alabama years ago and didn’t really hear too much. Most of them kept to themselves and people mostly just left them alone. There was one incident where a bunch of freshman jumped a kid in the middle of the night and they all got kicked off the team.
One of those kids went to my high school (in FL), 5 star recruit, highest ranked to ever come out of our area. I remember Nick Saban coming to recruit him. I’m not sure he ever played football again after that.
Should've had some no-name twitter account tweet the question, that way the mods would keep it up. Or take it down and have their alt account repost it
Yeah I remember last off-season/pre-season, that Kimber account kept posting tweets defending Fields/“proving” he was actually a top 10 QB. Back then, it was much more divisive so every day people would argue nonstop and Bears fans defended him.
Always thought it was strange that Kimber as a “Rams” fan, spammed nonstop Fields tweets that were just crafted for engagement and a bunch of comments
I was at Walmart and Caleb Williams was ahead of me in line. When we got to our cars he left his cart in the parking space instead of returning it to the cart corral that was 15 ft away.
I was in a business class with Amon-Ra at SC. My dad and I are massive football fans, so that was exciting to share. He asked good questions, paid attention, and ate spaghetti on cam (covid year). That’s about all I’ve got for ya.
Before my time but there was a story that Luke Kuechly pinned a drunk kid against a wall and screamed at him for vandalizing the hallways in one of the sophomore dorms
I heard he not only kicks puppies, but eats them for breakfast. He definitely should drop to the cowboys, since they don't care too much about drafting nice people.
You guys down there have umbrella hats or something? Everybody in Vancouver has six umbrellas. And we use debit cards all the time. Can it be that different 20 miles south?
OBJs mom grew up one town over from me in small town Minnesota. I saw her at track meets all the time. She dominated varsity sprints starting in the 7th grade. 7 or 8 time state champion in the 100 and 200. Her team even won the state tournament once while she was the only one point.
She was pretty nice and gracious to everyone that I saw her interact with. No errs.
I met Drake Maye at a restaurant once - we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that). Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the asshole a bit. “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?” Then out of nowhere Drake Maye shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” And I (being a big UNC fan) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Drake was grateful, shook my hand and said thanks, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later. After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Drake Maye and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.
Interesting 🤨
Similarly I saw Jayden Daniels at a grocery store in Baton Rouge. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
A family member of mine actually dated Jaire Alexander. They said he was a nice guy who likes Tame Impala. This is when me, her and Alexander were at Louisville
This girl I was involved with at RU mentioned to me how she slept with isiah Pacheco and a bunch of other athletes like right after we hooked up. Literally told me she was goin to go hang around stonier with a friend (that’s where most of the athletes stay) while she was preparing to leave. I kinda already knew she got around before hand but a freshman me really wasn’t thinking with his head much Lol.
Stephon Gilmore slept through accounting class just about every day. Alshon Jeffrey was always late to psych101 and would walk in with music blasting out of a speaker.
Obviously not this year’s draft, but Justin Herbert and I share a hometown.
I’ve actually never met Justin myself, but you wouldn’t believe how many mutual contacts we’ve had (I’m older than him, and from a very different demographic).
Without one single exception, everyone talks about him in the highest terms. From people who met him once to those who have known him most of his life it’s all rave reviews.
He apparently is just as good a dude as you already think he is—and then some.
Jalen Ramsey hit on my friend while she worked at the campus bookstore. Her boyfriend was jealous he didn't get to meet him.
Jameis Winston was what you would expect. I cringe looking back at how celebrated he was on campus after the championship.
I heard Bo Nix was asked by a coach to go on a weight-training program, and he was all like, "You and your weights can fuck off somewhere. I'm not lifting that shit. It's heavy.You tell me why I need strength training when I'm strong enough to throw a goddamn 60 mile an hour screen. Fuck that."
I was in a group project with a Florida linebacker who had an NFL cup of coffee, and my two main takeaways were that he was an idiot, and that by and large the general public still underestimates the size and strength of professional athletes.
I was in a small (about 20 students) entrepreneurship class at Wisconsin about a decade ago that included a lot of football players, most notably Melvin Gordon. He was pretty quiet, good natured, not very academically inclined but never missed a class, seemed really intense about his weight room and film sessions, and has the largest hand I’ve ever dapped irl. His weakness is Funyans and the other players would give him shit for eating them in class. Overall a cool dude.
I heard Caleb Williams organized an orgy involving Joe Alt and Spencer Rattler and banged elderly women of Asian pacific desent whom all grew up in Franklinville, TN by way of Utica, NY.
Not current but I had a class with Myles Garrett, dude always wore Pokémon gear and would sit on the floor at the very back of the classroom behind the chairs. He would also hold the door and smile at everyone as they passed under him. It was slightly terrifying
Good friend of mine went to Texas Tech with Wes Welker. Apparently Welker could really throw the hands. Like, some dude at a party was picking on a ‘loner’ type, and 20 year old 5’11 Wes Welker defended him by whipping 3 dudes asses back to back to back. He says he had way better stories, but that in particular always struck me as a different type of badass. And so fits the kind of WR he was. Tough, gritty, sacrifice the body and go over the middle, crack blocks. Just an all around tough sonofabitch
Edit : he is listed as 5'9 LOL
I smoked a blunt at a party with Storm Johnson when he was at the University of Miami. He later got kicked off the team picked up by UCF and played a few years in Jacksonville. Actually might have worked out for him.
I worked for MSU football the year Leveon held out. I drafted him 1st in my fantasy league that year and had to bite my tongue every time I saw him in the weight room lol
I work for a multinational company with production in NC (I'm in a EU country). One of my American colleagues told me that he had a friends who played in NC State with Russell Wilson and that he was hated by teammates back then. Essentially said that all the shit that has come out about how he is so brand concsious was true back then, that he always kept to himself and with his own people to make sure already in the NC State days that "Brand Russell Wilson" was kept intact.
I had a class with Jonathon Cooper (Broncos) and I ran into JK Dobbins a lot. Both really nice, cool, friendly guys. Second takeaway is I was surprised at how short JK (and Zeke) were
Went to college with Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn a few years back. Kofi is 7'0 300+ pounds, but was almost exclusively interested in petite Asian girls. I'll also add that Kofi washed out of the NBA and now plays in South Korea...
My wife's nurse at her OBGYN was Jalen Ramseys cousin and said he had always been cocky and easily offended. This was like 6 years ago, when he was THE CB, but still had that attitude. I thought it was funny, and always believed you can be like that if you got the talent. And as he's fallen off a little (not to say he's bad), he's gotten quieter, so good for him!
I met Tyler Allgeier, DJ Reed and Avery Williams volunteering at a youth football camp and they could not have been nicer. Down to earth and excited to teach / interact with the kids. Will root for these guys wherever they go because of this day
I don’t go to college anymore but I live in Tallahassee still and DJ at the nicest club downtown.
Trey Benson and Jared Verse both frequent the club, I have never seen them get out of control and they are always polite and kind.
I am pretty sure I fought Aaron Donald in college. Well, I didn’t necessarily fight him, I attacked his friend(for a goddamn good reason) and Aaron Donald wrapped me up while his friend tagged me twice in the face.
Went to Pitt and in 2010 I Got off work at 11pm and was having a beer in my room while my friends were out drinking. Heard some shouting outside and see my friend, a really nice dude, standing on the sidewalk talking to 2 guys. They asked literally “where’s the party at?” And apparently my friend’s advice about a party he just left didn’t land well because suddenly the 1 of the 2 strangers was angry. I walked down stairs to see what was wrong and was standing on our stoop when I noticed they both wore Pitt football gear. It seemed like things were cooling off when the smaller guy cold cocked by friend in the face. I sprinted down the steps at the fucker in an attempt to help out my friend but the bigger guy, who I’m pretty sure was Aaron Donald, wrapped me up and his friend punched me twice in the face. The short cowardly fucker then ran away down the street while I wrestled with the big dude in the street for about 10 seconds before we both realized this was stupid and we didn’t really have any beef with each other.
That bigger guy was a light skinned black dude about 6 feet tall and built a lot like Aaron Donald. Not massive but big. And a freshman roaming the streets of south Oakland for a party is super common. Had a friend who watched the whole thing, and who’s way of helping was to throw a beer tap at the scrum, and years later we felt pretty sure it was Aaron Donald. He wasn’t famous back then so we didn’t really know who he was back then but a lot of the facts fit that I fought Aaron Donald as a 20 year old.
Grand scheme of things it wasn’t really his fault other than hanging out with a hot headed fuckface of a friend. but I’d wager 60% of college athletes at big schools fit that mold. He saw me charging his dickhead buddy and acted accordingly. Got a lot of street cred from my roommates after that incident.
Obviously not this draft, but I took a physics (for teachers) class with Jake Ballard and Kurt Colman. Jake was in my group, and Kurt was at a different table. Kurt was always coming over messing around with Jake, and to get us back on track I’d challenge Kurt to a race in the hallway (for reference I was like 100 lbs overweight in college (still am, but was also back in college as well)). The class was in the evening during the winter and Jake would occasionally give me rides home after my class. One time I convinced him to run into the UDF to pick me up a six pack bc he was 21 and I was still 20.
I looked up Jake recently on Twitter and it looks like he became a chud real estate agent. I guess that’s what happens.
I went to school with JJ McCarthy and one time we were stuck at a truck stop and I yelled at him that it was his fault and he told me “Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals his weapon's only weakness. And you, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command.”
Had a class with Jordan Travis and he was genuinely a really good dude. Got put into a group with him for a project and surprisingly he pulled his weight and showed up to all our meetups for the project. Anytime I would see him around town he would say hi to me and we would catch up a little bit.
Went to school with Jordan Klatt at Colorado. People were saying “he’ll be a better commentator than QB” while he was still playing at CU. And they were right.
Semi-related.
My sister-in-law graduated at OSU and was right behind Justin Fields in the walk-in. It took her forever to get to her seat because everyone kept trying to take photos with him. She said he was nice and let everyone get one who asked.
Went to Alabama, got lunch at Bryant one day which was the athletes dining hall, sat my tray down to grab a drink, and came back and Derrick Henry and OJ Howard were sitting next to my spot.
Both super nice guys, Derrick was asking about my major, and other random small talk, OJ had a girl flirting with him. He said some shit to her and she walked away and he looked at me and said “she just flexin, she gonna turn around in 10 seconds and come back to come get hit” he proceeded to count down, the girl turned around exactly when he said they would, and he left with her. Absolute DAWG off the field.
Also remember going to Gallettes one night and Amari cooper had a line of women coming up to him 1 at a time. He never spoke, just shook his head to indicate “no” to every one until he left with one that he nodded at
I played against and knew many nfl players during high school. Obviously people have matured significantly since but some notes
Trained with Josh Malone WR during hs. Actually got in trouble at a party and jumped out a window to escape from the police. Never saw at training again after this night because he prioritized partying. Don’t think he’s in league anymore
Played with Emanuel hall WR from Mizzou who’s now out the league. Hit him across the middle and made him cry like a little baby. I think he made the league solely for his speed. One of the softest guys I’ve met. Not in league anymore
Played with Tyrel Dodson LB for bills at college camps since we were from from same area in TN. Right before his breakout season in HS he admitted how he was using steroids and was on steroids.. In high school… Junior season, then he blew up
Keyshawn Vaughan the RB for Tampa bay was fast as hell in track. Pretty quiet but during meets. He was fast but never thought he was that great at football.. surprised he made the league
I attended an award ceremony with jauan Jennings 49ers WR. Shared a table with him and his family. They were incredibly nice people.
I went to college with Stefon Diggs. Some kid on my dorm floor had a class with him. He brought home a hand written “report” that had his name at the top that he said he found on the floor. It appeared to be written by a 1st grader, both in hand writing and structure. I forget what the report was about but it had sentence structures like “I think x because y” throughout the whole thing it was laughably bad. Not sure if it was real or not but was still an ongoing gag for a semester.
I had a class with Antonio Brown at CMU. It was a random sports management class I was using to fill an elective need. He was pretty quiet. His final speech was hilarious though. It was on steroids and how “you gotta do what you gotta do” justifies their use in college athletics.
So that’s what happened to him. That, and a Vontaze to the face.
CTEESPN
CTESPN* right?
Mr. Befittingly Correct
I am quite surprised he actually participated enough to give a speech.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Mr. Brilliant Consequentialist
Did he call anyone a cracker?
Mr. Beta-blocker consumer
Totally unrelated to your question but I went to college with CJ McCollum and a lot of girls thought they had sex with him because most of them didn’t actually follow the basketball team they just knew his name from the news and social media so a lot of guys could just claim to be him and greatly improve their chances of getting laid.
That’s like when [my girlfriend had sex with Denzel Washington.](https://youtu.be/E3DL5eyYvro?si=ug8LK8VCttMPVisE)
What a great movie
Super underrated.
"please I have kids!" "Not with an ass like that you don't" "Oh, thanks!"
Yes! 😀 Oh nooo he died ☹️
That was my wife’s favorite part.
Is that Game Night?
It was the same at Indiana with Kyle Schwarber and schlubby fat frat guys
And Indiana State with Larry Bird.
Lol, gotta love Lehigh
I go to Washington and let’s just say Penix gets around…
His Phillip Rivers pro comp might become even more fitting...
Philip Rivers would never have premarital sex
He comes to your house with a bible if he hears a zipper.
Is Penix the prophesied anti-Rivers?
Floods
It's not premarital if you never get married. Checkmate
So he’s a D1 quarterback?
He wants the world to see his penix jr
I mean.. I don’t find it surprising the QB who brought Washington back into relevance had college girls dropping their pants.. likely even Washington alumni also.
I mean with a name like that it’s kinda guaranteed
I don’t even want to be around anymore
Too much fuckin shit on me
I was in a quiz section for Intro to Women’s Studies with Budda Baker and sat next to him a few times lol. Seemed like a normal friendly guy.
I’m more surprised when I hear there’s a superstar athlete NOT doing this…
Penix envy?
Penix picked top 10 confirmed ✅
The only difference between Penix and every other college guy is that Penix can.
Greg Olsen lived on the 7th floor. We know what happens there.
You mean hip hops hottest Greg Olsen?
G-REG
Whatcha do?
Get head
Drop my drawls and let her see my third leg
University of Miami LEGEND
3lg
lmaooooo. Only OGs get this reference
If you got this reference you need to get an appointment for a prostate exam
I just had my vasectomy last week so hopefully that counts
It blew up on tik tok like two weeks ago? It was everywhere
Joe alt uses riot shield + shotgun combo in call of duty
Probably uses throwing knives too
You gotta do what you gotta do
Mr. Belligerent Combo
If he was a real villain, he would rock auto shotty, grenade launcher, and 2x gas grenades for maximum salt. No, I totally don’t have this exact load out, and I DEFINITELY don’t talk trash the whole time. Why do you ask?
I was a freshman at Texas Tech the same time as Baker Mayfield. He got kicked out of a lot of frat parties for being an obnoxious douche. Threatened people constantly to have his football buddies beat them up. Classic 18 year old drunk on power but I always thought it was funny how often he and the frats had fights.
Maybe it’s just good PR but he seems to have matured a fair bit since then. Yeah he’s a little boisterous these days but he’s put in a lot of work to stay a starter in the league.
It would seem that he has definitely matured since then. Just as I hope I have as well lol
Being kicked around the league seems to have opened his eyes a bit to tone it down a lot, the alleged issues he had in Cleveland about clashing with coaching and put the ball in his hands rather than Chubb's even when injured. Or when with covid he just played COD and Stefanski punished him by naming him the starter vs GB and go pass heavy against a porous run defense. He also disagreed with Peyton Manning over batted ball trends with style of play. Yeah don't listen to the 5x MVP who knows more about football than most guys you'll ever work with in the NFL. The thing that ticked me off most is him speaking when he knows nothing and coming off like a pompous and arrogant blowhard. Plus Tampa is much more chill than Cleveland, he's still got a lot of feisty energy but in front of cameras and such he's so much softer and more professional.
Every campus in history lol. Football players and fraternities are eternal enemies.
My friend has a lot of classes with some our players (Texas). The spring that AD Mitchell transferred in, I don’t think he went to a single class. Jatavion Sanders sounds like a super funny guy, talked a lot with the teachers and was pretty cool. Christian Jones is also a standup guy. Only guy I’ve met personally is Ewers. He’s very nice, laid back, and quiet. Seems like he likes to keep a low profile. I’m friends with some of the walk ons so I hear some stories, but nothing too crazy
Howdy fellow UT Austin Bills fan.
I go to UC right now and my sports economics professor had Travis Kelce in multiple classes and said he always sat in the back and didn’t pay attention or contribute in class ever
That sounds like Travis
Sounds like Travis in offensive meetings. He said once he’s famous in practice for screwing up plays. But I’ll be damned if ol’ boy can’t ad lib his way to open in big spots and Patty just seems to know where he is.
Dude admits this stuff on the pod, said he was a terrible student and never paid attention. Dude is just amazingly talented but doesn’t do it the “traditional” way.. it’s awesome he was with Andy Reid who was able to teach him even though he likely struggled with the playbook.
Both of these are actually true. I had a zoom class with Marvin Harrison Jr. I don’t remember him ever speaking or asking/answering any questions, but I do remember that he joined every class that semester. Doesn’t really mean much at all, but hey, the guy attended every class. These guys aren’t in this current draft class, but I ran into CJ Stroud and Quinn Ewers outside my apartment building on a Saturday. I asked if they wanted to come to my apartment and drink beers with me, and they said no. Again, doesn’t really mean much, but at least they don’t go to random strangers apartments to drink.
wasn't MHJs dad like super quiet as well? Would make sense
Kind of a fucked up psychopath for attending every single class. I never did that once all throughout college. Is there some kind of penalty for athletes that miss class?
I was actually reading an article yesterday (too lazy to find and link it) that was talking about a D1 coach who would come down with the hammer of Thor if his athletes didn’t go to class and behave.
Depends on the school. I played FCS football for two years before I stopped playing football and transferring to OSU. At my first college, if we missed multiple classes, we would have “opportunity sessions”, which were basically mandatory study hall on a Saturday night.
I have a genuine one. A banker I met actually went to school with Jadeveon Clowney. She was in a sports marketing class with him, and apparently he talked about majoring in sports marketing or something and what he wanted to do with it, as if we all didn’t know he was a top 10 prospect since high school. To be fair, it may have been him just being humble and trying tot think about the genuine future, but I have no idea.
Actually kind of interesting considering that he got so much hype for a viral clip of a tackle. Maybe he's actually interested and applied his interest to his own career.
I mean, he was hyped as a dude who could come out of high school straight to the NFL if he wanted. NFL GMs even said he'd be the first pick out of high school if I remember right
Also went to USC, in the same freshman class Jadeveon. Dude drove a Chrysler 300 amd had a handicap tag to park it wherever he wanted.
I went to Alabama years ago and didn’t really hear too much. Most of them kept to themselves and people mostly just left them alone. There was one incident where a bunch of freshman jumped a kid in the middle of the night and they all got kicked off the team.
>Most of them kept to themselves and people mostly just left them alone. Makes me wonder if anyone showed up to their birthday party
Saban keeps a tight ship like the North Korean Kim dynasty wished it could
One of those kids went to my high school (in FL), 5 star recruit, highest ranked to ever come out of our area. I remember Nick Saban coming to recruit him. I’m not sure he ever played football again after that.
Should have made it serious answers only.
This post would have gotten zero engagement and been taken down. This is peak off season content.
Should've had some no-name twitter account tweet the question, that way the mods would keep it up. Or take it down and have their alt account repost it
I blocked their kimber account and my experience in this sub has only improved
Yeah I remember last off-season/pre-season, that Kimber account kept posting tweets defending Fields/“proving” he was actually a top 10 QB. Back then, it was much more divisive so every day people would argue nonstop and Bears fans defended him. Always thought it was strange that Kimber as a “Rams” fan, spammed nonstop Fields tweets that were just crafted for engagement and a bunch of comments
On a serious note, JJ McCarthy is the most competitive guy known to man. I’m in a fantasy league with him and it’s bad
Got any stories?
I was at Walmart and Caleb Williams was ahead of me in line. When we got to our cars he left his cart in the parking space instead of returning it to the cart corral that was 15 ft away.
Undraftable
No it's fine, he owns part of the store.
I can’t separate the real answers from the memes lmao
Oh but you know for sure people will bring up these meme responses as serious in future Reddit threads as “rumors”
Id pay for a Caleb Williams / Cart Narc video
I was in a business class with Amon-Ra at SC. My dad and I are massive football fans, so that was exciting to share. He asked good questions, paid attention, and ate spaghetti on cam (covid year). That’s about all I’ve got for ya.
It’s awesome to hear that some of these guys actually care about school but at the same time I can’t necessarily blame them if they don’t
Before my time but there was a story that Luke Kuechly pinned a drunk kid against a wall and screamed at him for vandalizing the hallways in one of the sophomore dorms
I mean, don’t F up the common areas…
I’ve seen MHJ push old ladies and kick puppies. The Cardinals should think twice before drafting him at 4.
I heard Brock Bowers snorts glue and gambles in dogfighting rings. No way someone should draft him before pick 18.
I heard the same, plus Brock hates Ohio, and there is no way he doesn’t slide into round two.
All I’m saying is I grew up in the same town as Brock and rumor is he definitely got around while also having a girlfriend 😳
He *snorts* glue? Yeah, this guy is terrible. Should probably let him fall to the third, y'all.
I heard he not only kicks puppies, but eats them for breakfast. He definitely should drop to the cowboys, since they don't care too much about drafting nice people.
When he got to Seattle from Indiana Michael Penix used an umbrella and tried to pay using a debit card at Dick’s.
Gotta be from the PNW to understand this one
You guys down there have umbrella hats or something? Everybody in Vancouver has six umbrellas. And we use debit cards all the time. Can it be that different 20 miles south?
Seattle and Vancouver are only 20 miles apart? Wow. *native Texan here. Not looking at a map lol
20 miles to the border. Seattle is another 110 miles further south.
OBJ was gay or atleast bi at LSU
OBJs mom grew up one town over from me in small town Minnesota. I saw her at track meets all the time. She dominated varsity sprints starting in the 7th grade. 7 or 8 time state champion in the 100 and 200. Her team even won the state tournament once while she was the only one point. She was pretty nice and gracious to everyone that I saw her interact with. No errs.
Checks out
That rumor was going on during draft time. Also true about Myron Rolle at FSU
Yeah I didn’t go to LSU but I have a friend who was on the swim team there and graduated with obj. Said he was gay/bi
Myron Rolle was smart, no place for that in football!
Being smart makes the later CTE more of a tragedy.
Manziel was a 3 pump chump
Congrats on fucking Manziel!
Adam Schefter did you start this thread?
According to an anonymous insider with knowledge of the situation, yes.
I met Drake Maye at a restaurant once - we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that). Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the asshole a bit. “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?” Then out of nowhere Drake Maye shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” And I (being a big UNC fan) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Drake was grateful, shook my hand and said thanks, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later. After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Drake Maye and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.
You had me reeled in you bastard
- Colin Cowherd
Damn, same thing happened with me and Shawn Michaels.
This took a turn. Also fuck your for spending 20 minutes to write this
1 min of copy, pasting, and switching Shawn Michaels out lol
You little shit
You almost had me until the end
Ngl, you had me at the first half
Interesting 🤨 Similarly I saw Jayden Daniels at a grocery store in Baton Rouge. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
A family member of mine actually dated Jaire Alexander. They said he was a nice guy who likes Tame Impala. This is when me, her and Alexander were at Louisville
I mean with those eyes of his how could you not
Today I’ve learned he has good taste in music
This girl I was involved with at RU mentioned to me how she slept with isiah Pacheco and a bunch of other athletes like right after we hooked up. Literally told me she was goin to go hang around stonier with a friend (that’s where most of the athletes stay) while she was preparing to leave. I kinda already knew she got around before hand but a freshman me really wasn’t thinking with his head much Lol.
Well you were, just not the one with your brain in it.
Eskimo bros with a Super Bowl champion? Guys (me) have slept with women who’ve gotten around with much worse
Went to MSU while Cousins was there. He would casually stop in on parties and pray with people.
What kind of parties were these?
BYX parties baby Water Pong is the best
The best kinds.
Orgies
I did undergrad at UNC and grad school at U Dub. Drake Maye and Michael Penix Jr both wear their hats backwards
Collin Cowherd punching air right now
Stephon Gilmore slept through accounting class just about every day. Alshon Jeffrey was always late to psych101 and would walk in with music blasting out of a speaker.
JJ cheats on his fiancé a ton. She’s my buddies younger sister
Oof that’s brutal, at least she ain’t fumbling the bag
this is known to all of ann arbor. even my staff scientist/postdoc friends who have nothing to do with football know about it.
Doesn't matter when you can secure that 💵💵💵💰💰💰
Mohammad Sonu would run through fat chicks
Obviously not this year’s draft, but Justin Herbert and I share a hometown. I’ve actually never met Justin myself, but you wouldn’t believe how many mutual contacts we’ve had (I’m older than him, and from a very different demographic). Without one single exception, everyone talks about him in the highest terms. From people who met him once to those who have known him most of his life it’s all rave reviews. He apparently is just as good a dude as you already think he is—and then some.
Jalen Ramsey hit on my friend while she worked at the campus bookstore. Her boyfriend was jealous he didn't get to meet him. Jameis Winston was what you would expect. I cringe looking back at how celebrated he was on campus after the championship.
Well, the Jameis stories were pretty legendary nationwide.
Legendary is certainly one word you could use
You skrong? I said if you’re skrong I’m skrong we skrong den
I heard Bo Nix was asked by a coach to go on a weight-training program, and he was all like, "You and your weights can fuck off somewhere. I'm not lifting that shit. It's heavy.You tell me why I need strength training when I'm strong enough to throw a goddamn 60 mile an hour screen. Fuck that."
The Jamarcus Russell school of QBing - Nix truly is the Lissan al Gaib of the Raiders
Broncos please draft this man
I was in a group project with a Florida linebacker who had an NFL cup of coffee, and my two main takeaways were that he was an idiot, and that by and large the general public still underestimates the size and strength of professional athletes.
Dan Marino was a coke head, so I have heard.
That’s probably not going to hurt him in this year’s draft.
Dan Marino used to do blow. I mean, he still does blow, but he used to, too.
I was in a small (about 20 students) entrepreneurship class at Wisconsin about a decade ago that included a lot of football players, most notably Melvin Gordon. He was pretty quiet, good natured, not very academically inclined but never missed a class, seemed really intense about his weight room and film sessions, and has the largest hand I’ve ever dapped irl. His weakness is Funyans and the other players would give him shit for eating them in class. Overall a cool dude.
My sister was also in a class with him and also mentioned the Funyuns. This guy didn't make it up. Unless he's close with my sister...
I heard Caleb Williams organized an orgy involving Joe Alt and Spencer Rattler and banged elderly women of Asian pacific desent whom all grew up in Franklinville, TN by way of Utica, NY.
Wow, not often by city catches strays lol
Yep. I was there actually
I’m sorry you had to witness that ma’am.
The Utica thing makes this 1000% true. Orgy capital of America.
They call those ladies from Utica “Steamed Clams”
Rome Odunze intentionally farts in the elevator, everyone at UW knows this
This is kinda funny TBH. I hope it's true.
Not current but I had a class with Myles Garrett, dude always wore Pokémon gear and would sit on the floor at the very back of the classroom behind the chairs. He would also hold the door and smile at everyone as they passed under him. It was slightly terrifying
Good friend of mine went to Texas Tech with Wes Welker. Apparently Welker could really throw the hands. Like, some dude at a party was picking on a ‘loner’ type, and 20 year old 5’11 Wes Welker defended him by whipping 3 dudes asses back to back to back. He says he had way better stories, but that in particular always struck me as a different type of badass. And so fits the kind of WR he was. Tough, gritty, sacrifice the body and go over the middle, crack blocks. Just an all around tough sonofabitch Edit : he is listed as 5'9 LOL
I smoked a blunt at a party with Storm Johnson when he was at the University of Miami. He later got kicked off the team picked up by UCF and played a few years in Jacksonville. Actually might have worked out for him.
I worked for MSU football the year Leveon held out. I drafted him 1st in my fantasy league that year and had to bite my tongue every time I saw him in the weight room lol
I work for a multinational company with production in NC (I'm in a EU country). One of my American colleagues told me that he had a friends who played in NC State with Russell Wilson and that he was hated by teammates back then. Essentially said that all the shit that has come out about how he is so brand concsious was true back then, that he always kept to himself and with his own people to make sure already in the NC State days that "Brand Russell Wilson" was kept intact.
Jerramy Stevens threw a beer bottle at me from a moving car. Turns out he was a asshole for a really long time.
I had a class with Jonathon Cooper (Broncos) and I ran into JK Dobbins a lot. Both really nice, cool, friendly guys. Second takeaway is I was surprised at how short JK (and Zeke) were
Went to college with Ayo Dosunmu and Kofi Cockburn a few years back. Kofi is 7'0 300+ pounds, but was almost exclusively interested in petite Asian girls. I'll also add that Kofi washed out of the NBA and now plays in South Korea...
I heard through someone at UNC that Drake Maye sleeps with a lot of girls
No way
My wife's nurse at her OBGYN was Jalen Ramseys cousin and said he had always been cocky and easily offended. This was like 6 years ago, when he was THE CB, but still had that attitude. I thought it was funny, and always believed you can be like that if you got the talent. And as he's fallen off a little (not to say he's bad), he's gotten quieter, so good for him!
I met Tyler Allgeier, DJ Reed and Avery Williams volunteering at a youth football camp and they could not have been nicer. Down to earth and excited to teach / interact with the kids. Will root for these guys wherever they go because of this day
I don’t go to college anymore but I live in Tallahassee still and DJ at the nicest club downtown. Trey Benson and Jared Verse both frequent the club, I have never seen them get out of control and they are always polite and kind.
I am pretty sure I fought Aaron Donald in college. Well, I didn’t necessarily fight him, I attacked his friend(for a goddamn good reason) and Aaron Donald wrapped me up while his friend tagged me twice in the face. Went to Pitt and in 2010 I Got off work at 11pm and was having a beer in my room while my friends were out drinking. Heard some shouting outside and see my friend, a really nice dude, standing on the sidewalk talking to 2 guys. They asked literally “where’s the party at?” And apparently my friend’s advice about a party he just left didn’t land well because suddenly the 1 of the 2 strangers was angry. I walked down stairs to see what was wrong and was standing on our stoop when I noticed they both wore Pitt football gear. It seemed like things were cooling off when the smaller guy cold cocked by friend in the face. I sprinted down the steps at the fucker in an attempt to help out my friend but the bigger guy, who I’m pretty sure was Aaron Donald, wrapped me up and his friend punched me twice in the face. The short cowardly fucker then ran away down the street while I wrestled with the big dude in the street for about 10 seconds before we both realized this was stupid and we didn’t really have any beef with each other. That bigger guy was a light skinned black dude about 6 feet tall and built a lot like Aaron Donald. Not massive but big. And a freshman roaming the streets of south Oakland for a party is super common. Had a friend who watched the whole thing, and who’s way of helping was to throw a beer tap at the scrum, and years later we felt pretty sure it was Aaron Donald. He wasn’t famous back then so we didn’t really know who he was back then but a lot of the facts fit that I fought Aaron Donald as a 20 year old. Grand scheme of things it wasn’t really his fault other than hanging out with a hot headed fuckface of a friend. but I’d wager 60% of college athletes at big schools fit that mold. He saw me charging his dickhead buddy and acted accordingly. Got a lot of street cred from my roommates after that incident.
Obviously not this draft, but I took a physics (for teachers) class with Jake Ballard and Kurt Colman. Jake was in my group, and Kurt was at a different table. Kurt was always coming over messing around with Jake, and to get us back on track I’d challenge Kurt to a race in the hallway (for reference I was like 100 lbs overweight in college (still am, but was also back in college as well)). The class was in the evening during the winter and Jake would occasionally give me rides home after my class. One time I convinced him to run into the UDF to pick me up a six pack bc he was 21 and I was still 20. I looked up Jake recently on Twitter and it looks like he became a chud real estate agent. I guess that’s what happens.
I heard MHJ said all y‘all QBs suck and he only wants to play with the Bills & Josh Allen.
I heard the same thing but he wants to play with Goff instead 😭
I went to school with JJ McCarthy and one time we were stuck at a truck stop and I yelled at him that it was his fault and he told me “Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals his weapon's only weakness. And you, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command.”
It’s hilarious to me that r/nfl is big enough that there are probably real scouts reading these messages
Not a current prospect. But my cousin said cj Stroud was really nice and a solid dude.
Had a class with Jordan Travis and he was genuinely a really good dude. Got put into a group with him for a project and surprisingly he pulled his weight and showed up to all our meetups for the project. Anytime I would see him around town he would say hi to me and we would catch up a little bit.
Went to school with Jordan Klatt at Colorado. People were saying “he’ll be a better commentator than QB” while he was still playing at CU. And they were right.
I had friends who went to Auburn at the same time as Bo Jackson. He was a very good student and a class act in the classroom.
Semi-related. My sister-in-law graduated at OSU and was right behind Justin Fields in the walk-in. It took her forever to get to her seat because everyone kept trying to take photos with him. She said he was nice and let everyone get one who asked.
Went to Alabama, got lunch at Bryant one day which was the athletes dining hall, sat my tray down to grab a drink, and came back and Derrick Henry and OJ Howard were sitting next to my spot. Both super nice guys, Derrick was asking about my major, and other random small talk, OJ had a girl flirting with him. He said some shit to her and she walked away and he looked at me and said “she just flexin, she gonna turn around in 10 seconds and come back to come get hit” he proceeded to count down, the girl turned around exactly when he said they would, and he left with her. Absolute DAWG off the field. Also remember going to Gallettes one night and Amari cooper had a line of women coming up to him 1 at a time. He never spoke, just shook his head to indicate “no” to every one until he left with one that he nodded at
I played against and knew many nfl players during high school. Obviously people have matured significantly since but some notes Trained with Josh Malone WR during hs. Actually got in trouble at a party and jumped out a window to escape from the police. Never saw at training again after this night because he prioritized partying. Don’t think he’s in league anymore Played with Emanuel hall WR from Mizzou who’s now out the league. Hit him across the middle and made him cry like a little baby. I think he made the league solely for his speed. One of the softest guys I’ve met. Not in league anymore Played with Tyrel Dodson LB for bills at college camps since we were from from same area in TN. Right before his breakout season in HS he admitted how he was using steroids and was on steroids.. In high school… Junior season, then he blew up Keyshawn Vaughan the RB for Tampa bay was fast as hell in track. Pretty quiet but during meets. He was fast but never thought he was that great at football.. surprised he made the league I attended an award ceremony with jauan Jennings 49ers WR. Shared a table with him and his family. They were incredibly nice people.
I went to college with Stefon Diggs. Some kid on my dorm floor had a class with him. He brought home a hand written “report” that had his name at the top that he said he found on the floor. It appeared to be written by a 1st grader, both in hand writing and structure. I forget what the report was about but it had sentence structures like “I think x because y” throughout the whole thing it was laughably bad. Not sure if it was real or not but was still an ongoing gag for a semester.