2024 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Darien Newell, DL, Queens University

• Name: Darien Newell
• Position: Defensive Line
• College: Queens Univerisity
• Height: 6’4
• Weight: 275
• Twitter: notdarienn
• Instagram: NinetyProblemz

What makes you a top prospect at your position in the 2024 NFL Draft?

The versatility that I offer, is both a run stopper and pass rusher.

At what age were you first interested in the sport of football? 

By the time I was 8, I told my Mom I was going pro.

What is one thing that NFL teams should know about you?

I’m passionate and very dedicated to the process of learning and excelling in my craft. There will never come a time when I think I can stop learning or improving.

What is the best advice you have ever received? 

Don’t work until you get it right, work until you can’t get it wrong

Who was your childhood hero? 

Shaq

Who is the most underrated teammate in your locker room at your school? 

Nico Kwemo, Mark my words by the end of next season he will be seen as one of the most elite receivers in Usports

What is your biggest pet peeve? 

Complacency, because that is the one thing in life that is fully within your control.

Overcoming adversity is what defines character, what was the hardest moment in your life to overcome? 

In my grade 12 year I decided to switch schools to play football everyone was telling me that it was not smart that I wouldn’t be able to go to the next level only playing one year of football. With that came the pressure of ensuring I perform every game in order to get offers

Tell me something about your school and why it is so special to you?

It’s the greatest program I can say I’ve been a part of they took their time and really invested the time and effort to create me into the player and person I am today. I’m nothing but grateful to every person that has helped me get to where I am for the 4

What is your favorite snack food? 

Cashews

What is the best part of football? 

The trenches

If you could sell yourself in one sentence what would you say? 

Everyone that is invested in me has received great profit

If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be? 

Jalen Carter and Myles Garrett

If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would it be and why? 

1. Shaq, so I could look at his mindset in regard to business investments outside of football 
2. Bruce Smith, to pick his brain as a pass rusher
3. Lebron James, on the things he did to maintain his body for so long