NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Collins Moore, WR, Alcorn State
NFL Draft Diamonds website has been providing our readers Prospect Interviews over the past 3 years and this year we mixed things up a bit. Our questions are designed to give our readers a little more insight on the draft eligible player. We hope to bring you more than 500 interviews of NFL Draft Prospects this season. You will be able to track them all on the front page of our website in the banner to the right. Now let’s meet our next prospect!!!!
What is your name?
Collins Moore Jr
What is your Height/Weight?
6’1″ 204
What is your position?
WR
Where do you play college football?
Ole Miss and Alcorn State
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Mentoring kids and volunteering
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Exercise psychology
Where are you from?
Madison Alabama
Who is your role model, and why?
My mother because she raised three children by herself and sent us all off to college and held us to a high standard
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Baseball Basketball Track
Did you play any other positions in football?
Special teams
At your position, what separates you from others?
My hands I feel separates me from others.
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
Tendencies and habits. Both as a whole defense and the individual secondary players
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
Tyrann Mathieu
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Anquan Boldin, because he was a clutch receiver with strong hands
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
Graduating college, and have strong faith and knowing that God wouldn’t put me through something I couldn’t handle
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
I do the same pre game walk thrus and stretches on the field
What is your biggest strength?
Strength and my hands
What is your biggest weakness?
Speed
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
In giving my an opportunity, you would get someone that will come to work very day with a positive attitude and give great effort. Both on and off the field.
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Atlanta Falcons
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Jesus Christ, Walter Payton, Steve Jobs
What will be the first big item you buy once you are in the NFL?
The house across the street from my mom’s house
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