2024 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Brendon Luper, DB, New Mexico Highlands

• Name: Brendon Luper
• Position: DB
• College:  New Mexico Highlands 
• Height: 6”1
• Weight: 190
• Twitter: @Luperrrr
• Instagram: @_lupe2live_

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

 What makes me a top prospect is my overall understanding of the game, my natural instinct it make plays and be around the ball, and my dog mentality. 

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

My first time ever playing was in 6th grade boys and girls club, and i instantly fell in love with the game. 

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

I’m a student of the game and eager to compete each and everyday to get better and also make others better and also my maturity and how I approach and play the game with a different mentality. 

If you could donate to one cause in the world, what would it be? 

All foster care and adopted kids. 

What is the best advice you have ever received? 

“When you pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud”

Who was your childhood hero? 

My grandmother! 

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

Shawntay Mills 

What is your biggest pet peeve? 

Negativity 

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

I don’t have a particular moment but just overcoming all the obstacles and hard times to get where i am now! 

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

It’s a small school in the mountains of New Mexico that gave me another chance to do big things! 

What is your favorite snack food? 

Cereal 

What is the best part of football? 

The physically and competitiveness that comes out the game! 

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

Swiss army knife with no ceiling! 

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

Jessie Bates or Tyrann Mathieu

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

Lebron James, Ray Lewis, and Kobe Bryant. I would just like to hear their stories and each other their whys and just soak in as much knowledge and advice as I can.