NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Eric Medina, K, Texas Southern University

 

 

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? 

Eric Medina

What is your Height/Weight? 

5’11 195

What is your position? 

Place kicker/Punter

Where do you play college football? 

Texas Southern University

Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field? 

 

What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?

 

Where are you from? 

 

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? 

 

What is your biggest strength? 

 

What is your biggest weakness? 

 

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? 

 

 

What will be the first big item you buy once you are in the NFL?

 

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