NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Kalan Reed, DB, University of Southern Mississippi
NFL Draft Diamonds and our staff have been bringing our readers Prospect Interviews over the past 2 years and this year we mixed up the questions and added some fun questions for our readers. We have tons of NFL staff that read our interviews, and we actually received several of the questions from NFL scouts we speak too. This gives them a little bit more information regarding your character. We hope to bring you more than 300 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.
What is your name?
Kalan Reed
What is your Height/Weight?
5-11 199
What is your position?
Cornerback
Where do you play college football?
University of Southern Mississippi
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Helping feed the homeless during thanksgiving and Christmas because you get to see how you are impacting someone else’s life.
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Anatomy
Where are you from?
Birmingham, Alabama
Who is your role model, and why?
My family because I’ve always looked up to them to see what I should do and how to act.
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Track and basketball
Did you play any other positions in football?
Wide receiver
At your position, what separates you from others?
The attention to detail, being a smart player, and the amount of film work I do.
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
I look over the film several times and look for something different each time. I look for receiver spits, route combination, hand signals, releases, and how they are against press and off coverage
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
Amari Cooper
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Chris Harris Jr. because I’m a competitor, physical, and have good ball skills
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
ACL surgery in high school. Hard work and learning to overcome adversity
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
Run around the field a couple of times
What is your biggest strength?
My ball skills and reading route concepts
What is your biggest weakness?
Looking for the big play all the time
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
I am a film junky, hard working, and make lots of plays. And also had one of the best statistical years of any corner this season
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
The Tennessee Titans and Ladanian Tomlinson
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Kevin Hart, Great Grandmother, and Deion Sanders
What will be the first big item you buy once you are in the NFL?
An apartment
