NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Joel Scott, LB, Morgan State University
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?
Joel Scott
What is your Height/Weight?
6’1 235LBs
What is your position?
Outside linebacker
Where do you play college football?
Morgan State
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Be a pure mentor for kids with disabilities
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Accounting
Where are you from?
Baltimore Maryland
Who is your role model, and why?
Father , because he is the hardest working person I know
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Basketball and track
Did you play any other positions in football?
Defensive end
At your position, what separates you from others?
My athleticism
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
A person tendencies and common plays in down and distance
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
Darren Pinnock
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Khalil Mack
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
Being a walk on at 2 colleges and I persevered through hard work and faith
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
Listen to music and laugh
As a small school football player what obstacles do you feel you have to overcome?
Recognition
What is your biggest strength?
Athleticism
What is your biggest weakness?
Size
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
To take the chance because my ceiling is the sky
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Donovan McNabb and the Eagles
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Ray Lewis , Terrell Owens, Lawrence Taylor
With your first NFL paycheck what would you buy?
A house for my parents
Rapid Answers:
- Spongebob or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
- Backstreet Boys or One Direction?
- Lifetime Channel or HGTV?
- Waffles or Pancakes?
- Snakes or Spiders?
- Madden or Mario?
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