2024 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Alajuwon Bell, LB, William Paterson University

• Name: Alajuwon Bell
• Position: Linebacker 
• College: William Paterson University 
• Height: 5’10
• Weight: 210
• Twitter: @Alajuwonbell8
• Instagram: @_38babyab

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

I feel as though I’m a very versatile linebacker I could cover I could play the run and I can play man to man coverage from the linebacker spot or the nickel I’m a 3 down linebacker sideline to sideline. 

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

The first time I played organized football at the age of four years old I played flag football but the love for the game came around when I was seven years old when I started playing tackle football It was like I could hit people without getting in trouble.

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

Work ethic is through the roof I’m willing to learn and being able to go through the process once you been through adversity it’s hard for you to be stopped.

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

Mental health 

What is the best advice you have ever received? 

Earned never given. 

Who was your childhood hero?

My mother she played two roles for me and my sister while holding up her bargain of making sure her business stayed on point while making sure me and my sister was  getting to practice or whatever extra curriculum activities we had going on at the time. She really killed the single mother thing.

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

RJ Massey that boy is a dog, and he really lives up to the saying heart over height on the field people underestimate him because of his size until you try to test him he definitely going to show you what he is about.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Lying 

Who is your favorite teacher ever?

Shamicka Cope

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

Is when I took a year off from school and started to lose the vision that I had then lost my big brother Quenton and life kind of took a turn for me like i needed to make a change in my life to get what I want in life and to give my family hope.

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

It’s special because It taught me grit. Just because you’re there doesn’t mean you’re entitled to anything. Everything you do you have to earn It me attending William Paterson showed me you have to take what’s yours nobody will give It to you.

If you could have any franchise restaurant in your house what would it be?

Bahama Breeze 

What is your favorite snack food?

Sweet and spicy chili Doritos and Oreos 

What is your degree in?

Sports management 

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

We been outside since outside been outside.

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

Devin White 

What is your favorite game to play at the carnival/theme park?

The basketball shooting games 

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

Both of my grandfathers reason being I never got to talk to them as I matured as young man they both passed away at a early age for me everything I learned or was going through I just took it on the fly wasn’t no male figures around. I inherited things from and just to sit and talk to them how they went about life and you created a family and ETC. Then lastly Bill gates one of the best investors in the world I would just pick at his brain because he has ideas or things already in motion into investing in pretty sure he could give me some tips that can Create longevity through multiple resources.