NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Cameron McDondle, RB, Colorado State Pueblo
NFL Draft Diamonds and our staff have been bringing our readers Prospect Interviews over the past 2 years and this year we mixed up the questions and added some fun questions for our readers. We have tons of NFL staff that read our interviews, and we actually received several of the questions from NFL scouts we speak too. This gives them a little bit more information regarding your character. We hope to bring you more than 300 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.
What is your name?
Cameron McDondle
What is your Height/Weight?
5’7/205
What is your position?
Running back
Where do you play college football?
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Worked with the ThunderPups or the Broncos junior training camp
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Biology
Where are you from?
Littleton,Colorado
Who is your role model, and why?
My Mom because any woman that can deal with four boys all close in age is the real MVP
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Track & Field, wrestling, and basketball
Did you play any other positions in football?
Linebacker
At your position, what separates you from others?
I feel being smaller I’m in a position to see things other backs don’t and use my big lineman as sort of a camouflage
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
The pursuit of the defense and kind of who are the guys flying around on their team
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
It wasn’t in a game but having to hit my two older brothers during the off seasons
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
I would say the vision of Reggie Bush but the moves and fight like MJD
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
I have more of a pregame music playlist rather then rituals
As a small school football player what obstacles do you feel you have to overcome?
Showing everyone that my talent is good enough to play at any level D1 and the next level
What is your biggest strength?
Vision
What is your biggest weakness?
Break away speed
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
That I may be small in size but my heart and drive for the game make up for it
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Frank Gore & MJD because they were the shorter backs
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Kobe Bryant , Walter Payton and Big Sean
With your first NFL paycheck what would you buy?
A good financial accountant so that I know how to spend and save the rest of it
Rapid Answers:
- Spongebob or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? SpongeBob
- Backstreet Boys or One Direction? Haha neither
- Lifetime Channel or HGTV?HGTV for sure house hunters
- Waffles or Pancakes? Waffles
- Snakes or Spiders? Spiders can’t do snakes at all
- Madden or Mario?Madden (Xbox One for any challengers :CAMMCDADDY30)
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