2020 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Fidel Romo Martinez, K/P, Delaware State University

• Name: Fidel Romo Martinez           
• Height: 6’1
• Weight: 195
• Position: Kicker, Punter, Holder
• College: Delaware State University
• Twitter: @romo11fidel

Tell us about your hometown, and what you love most about it?

•  Banning is my hometown and what I love most about it is that the memories of my whole childhood live there.

List these three in order of importance and why: Film Study, Strength and Conditioning and Practice?

•  Repetition, Strength, Conditioning, Film Study

What do you worry about, and why?

•  My current worries are graduate school and my career in the medical field. I devoted many hours and minutes to my studies, and I would love to achieve my aspirations in becoming a nurse practitioner.

Give me an example of when you failed at something. How did you react and how did you overcome failure?

•  I failed as a leader before because I tried to correct without applying those corrections to my own self. Now I lead by serving others and setting an example by doing everything correctly.

What do your teammates say is your best quality?

•  The ability to execute anything I set my mind to.

Who is the best player you have ever played against in college?

• My mind created a perfect version of Fidel and I challenge him every single day to become just like him.

What would your career be if you couldn’t play football? 

• Nurse Practitioner

Room, desk, and car – which do you clean first?

• Desk, Room, Car

If there was a disaster and you could either save three strangers or one family member, which would you choose and why?

•  Depends who is at closest proximity.

If you could be any television or movie character, who would you be and why?

•  Captain America because he serves others like I would love to.

Tell me about your biggest adversity in life and how you’ve dealt with or overcome it?

•  Moving across the country to play football. What helped me overcome it was changing my mentality and knowing that this is the path and sacrifice I must do to pay for college.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

•  Missing a team meeting 

What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?

•  Punting a 65-yard punt against Florida State.

What is the most important trait you can have (Physical or Non-Physical) to help you succeed at the next level? 

•  I’m harder on myself than anyone else can ever be. I strive to be perfect at everything I do.

If you could bring one person back from the dead for one day, who would it be and why?

•  The dead must stay dead.

Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?

•  Respected is what I strive for because people tend to learn more from a person they respect.

Do you love to win, or hate to lose?

•  I love to learn

Who has been the biggest influence on your life and explain why?

• My parents sacrificed everything for my siblings and I and for that I am greatly grateful and wonderfully influenced.