NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Anton Wahrby, OL, Wofford College
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What is your name?
Anton Wahrby
What is your Height/Weight?
6’3″ 305
What is your position?
Offensive guard
Where do you play college football?
Wofford College
Football is about giving back, what is the coolest thing you have done off the field?
Coaching kids in my native Sweden
What was the hardest college class you ever had to take?
Quantitative Critical Thinking
Where are you from?
Karlskrona, Sweden
Who is your role model, and why?
My parents for always showing me the meanings of integrity and hard work
Did you play any other sports growing up?
Floorball (a mainly European sport) wrestling
Did you play any other positions in football?
Defensive end, defensive tackle (HS)
At your position, what separates you from others?
I play snap to whistle every snap
When you are breaking down film, what do you look for?
Tells from DL and LBs, what do they give away pre snap. How they like to set their defense depending on formation
Who was the toughest player you ever faced?
Davis Tull (DL, Chatt)
If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be and why?
Richie Incognito. Nasty.
What was the biggest obstacle in your life you had to overcome, and how did you overcome it?
Getting recruited and getting a chance to play college football while being from Sweden. Spent a year as a foreign exchange student in the US to play HS football, sent tapes to colleges.
Do you have any pre-game rituals?
Listening to music
Aggression, run blocking
What is your biggest weakness?
Pass blocking
If I were a GM and gave you a second to sell yourself, what would you say?
There’s nothing I cannot learn
Who was your favorite player and/or NFL team growing up?
Brian Cushing, no favorite team
If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you choose?
Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein
What will be the first big item you buy once you are in the NFL?
An apartment close to the team facility