NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Julien Davenport, OL, Bucknell 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?
Julien Davenport
What is your Height/Weight?
6’7 315
What is your position?
Left Tackle
Where do you play college football?
Bucknell University
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Bucknell Athletics partnered with Be The Match and I helped host a donor drive
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Calculus III
Where are you from?
Paulsboro, NJ
Who is your role model, and why?
My parents, they are the reason for who I am today
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Basketball and baseball
At your position, what separates you from others?
My athleticism and knowledge for the game
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
Tips in defensive alignment, tendencies for pressure,defensive fronts corresponding to offensive formation
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
Jeff Covitz
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Trent Williams, good hands and quick feet
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
Going to college, where I’m from not many people get a chance to attend and I got the chance to go to a really good institution
What is your biggest strength?
Athleticism
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Troy Polamalu and Pittsburgh Steelers
Rapid Answers
- Who is Better: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning?
- Who will win the Super Bowl this year? Pittsburgh Steelers
- Who is Better : Barry Sanders or Emmitt Smith?
- Who is Better: Deion Sanders or Richard Sherman?
NFL Draft Diamonds was created to assist the underdogs playing the sport. We call them diamonds in the rough. My name is Damond Talbot, I have worked extremely hard to help hundreds of small school players over the past several years, and will continue my mission. We have several contributors on this site, and if they contribute their name and contact will be in the piece above. You can email me at nfldraftdiamonds@gmail.com