2025 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Frederick Hardy, DT, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

• Name: Frederick Hardy
• Position: Defensive Tackle
• College: Southeastern Oklahoma State University
• Height: 6’0
• Weight: 308
• Twitter: @FK_Freddyboy
• Instagram: @Freddy4tymes

What makes you a top prospect at your position in the 2025 NFL Draft? 

My Motor and my Disruptiveness I pride myself on blowing up the offense of scheme and making plays in the backfield which breaks down the offensive momentum changing the the pace of the game.

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

I’m a player who’s going to run to the ball who’s not going to give up on plays and I am a very coachable player who listens and tries to get better at the task given . I’m also a player who takes pride in doing the Dirty work that nobody sees like spilling a pulling guard so then my linebacker can make the play or taking on a double team making so someone else can make a play.

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

 Preventing child abuse

Who was your role model? 

My role model would have to be my father figure Rodney Linvel he was the guy who actually told me that that football could be a way out and that I could do anything I set my mind to also Aaron Donald because he was an undersized lineman and who had paved the way for guys like me who are undersized to have a chance

Who is your favorite NFL team?

Dallas Cowboys

Who is the most underrated teammate at your school? 

 Caleb Jackson

What is your biggest pet peeve? 

Laziness

Who is your favorite teacher ever?

Mr. Lair My 12^th grade finance teacher

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

Watching my mother go through alcohol abuse since I was a kid. And through all the pain through all of the ups and downs my mother always stayed strong and pushed to beat her alcohol abuse each and every day just to say no she showed me through her sheer will and determination and not giving up to overcome her demons and fighting it that in life you’re gonna receive a bad deck of cards but it’s not what you’re dealt is what you do with it and what that has done to me is it pushed me to overcome a lot of difficult things in my life and not to give up.

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

Qdoba

What is your favorite snack food? 

 Zebra cakes

What is your degree in? 

 Finances

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

PJ Larry one of my teammates who passed away last year so that we could talk again because that was one of my brothers on the team, My great grandmother because we never really got to talk as much as I wanted to and I really wanted to get to know her, Muhammad Ali because I want to know what did it take for him to become the man he was which is an inspiration to millions and multiple generations.

What is your biggest weakness? 

How hard I am on myself mentally and the reason being I’m a perfectionist when it comes to my technique. So I become frustrated when I come up short my expectations I have for myself.