2020 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Raphael Edwards, TE, NW Oklahoma State

• Name: Raphael Edwards 
• Height:  6’4
• Weight: 253
• Position: Tight End 
• College: NW Oklahoma ST 
• Twitter: @rae4x1

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

• I’m from Brooklyn, New York. The thing I like most about my home town has to be the divers food options.

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

• Practice, Film Study, S&C 

What do you worry about, and why?

• The thing I worry most about is being someone my son can depend on and look up to. My parents were very influential in my life and I just wanna do the same. 

What do your teammates say is your best quality?

• My teammates would say best quality is my ability to make them relax and feel comfortable within the game. 

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

• I would have to say Dakota Driskill & Mo Wright to of my teams. I feel as though they were the best linebackers in Division ll 

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

• My career would be in training and eventually becoming a  entrepreneur and opening up my own place. 

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

• room 

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

• I would choose one family member loyalty is everything 

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

• Superman, unstoppable 

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

• moving to a rural area and having to adapt. I focused on the reasons why I came and just locked in. 

What is your most embarrassing moment?

• middle school basketball going to score in the wrong hoop. 

What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?

• Scoring in OT vs southern Nazarene 

What song best describes your work ethic?

• dedication- Nipsey hustle 

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

• Love for the game 

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

• My sister 

If you were to open a dance club, what would you name it? 

• footloose 

Who is the most underrated player in the NFL? 

• Hunter Henry 

Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?

• respected, you are doing something right in your craft everyone doesn’t like everyone 

What player who had his career derailed by off-field issues do you feel for the most and why?

• the DE from Baylor, because he did not do what he was accused of and it messed hm up. 

Do you love to win, or hate to lose?

• hate to lose 

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

• Mother, I grew up with 8 siblings and no matter what she always made it work and gave me a fantastic childhood and always supported me