Hula Bowl Spotlight Interview: Tanner Owen, OT, Northwest Missouri State | Presented by Custom Comet

- Name: Tanner Owen
- Position: Left Tackle
- College: Northwest Missouri State University
- Height: 6’5
- Weight: 295
- Twitter: @Tanner_Owen75
- Instagram: tannerowen75
What are you hoping to show scouts at the 2022 Hula Bowl?
- I’m hoping to show they will not regret giving me an opportunity to play for their team. I hope my athletic ability and grit will impress them.
If you could donate to one cause in the world, what would it be?
- The cause I would donate to would be for veterans.
Tell our readers one thing that the world may not know about you? (Special Talents)
- In Pop Warner I was a running back
What is the best advice you have ever received?
- If you work hard and keep your head down, good things will come to you.

What is your favorite song to listen to before kickoff?
- Riot
If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
- I would be a Dog, just to be able to enjoy all the little things in life.
Overcoming adversity is what defines character, what was the hardest moment in your life to overcome?
- Making the decision to transfer to NWMSU.
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be?
- Taylor Lewan
Did you have a favorite player or team in the NFL when you were growing up?
- Favorite player to watch when I was a little kid was Willie Roaf.
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would it be and why?
- Shaquille O’Neal, Jim Carrey, The Rock! I always enjoy a good laugh!

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