NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Willie Young, WR, University of Arkansas of Pine Bluff
NFL Draft Diamonds has been bringing our readers Prospect Interviews over the past 3 years and this year we mixed up the questions and added some fun questions for our readers. Our questions are designed to give our readers a little more insight on the player. We hope to bring you more than 350 interviews of NFL Draft Prospects this season. You will be able to track them all on the front page of our website in the banner to the right. Now let’s meet the prospect!!!!
What is your name?
Willie Young
What is your Height/Weight?
5’10 190
What is your position?
WR/KR
Where do you play college football?
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
I was a PE teacher in the summer taught kids in 5-6 grade level
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Where are you from?
New Orleans, Louisiana
Who is your role model, and why?
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Did you play any other positions in football?
At your position, what separates you from others?
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
No sir I just pray and stay focus
What is your biggest strength?
My speed and catching the ball
What is your biggest weakness?
Sometimes my route running and lack of focus
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Favorite player Randy Moss Favorite team Oakland Raiders
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Close friend Lydell Hartford, Cousin Brandon Garner, and Cousin Daedae Young
What will be the first big item you buy once you are in the NFL?
My mother a new house.
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