NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: BJ Blunt, LB, McNeese State
- Name: Bryan “BJ” Blunt
- Height: 6’1
- Weight: 215
- Position: LB
- College: McNeese State
- Twitter: Beedoe8_
Tell us about your hometown, and what you love most about it?
- New Orleans, Louisiana, Beautiful City And Food Is Tremendous
List these three in order of importance and why: Film Study, Strength and Conditioning and Practice?
- Film Study, Practice, then Strength and conditioning
What do you worry about, and why?
- My Mother An Family, we’ve been broke my whole life so I feel it’s my duty to change the culture!
Give me an example of when you failed at something. How did you react and how did you overcome failure?
- Not Graduating High School, I grew up and just pulled it together an kept pushing forward
What do your teammates say is your best quality?
- Leadership
Who is the best player you have ever played against in college?
- Tanner Mangum
What would your career be if you couldn’t play football?
- Motivational Speaker
Room, desk and car – which do you clean first?
- Car
If there was a disaster and you could either save three strangers or one family member, which would you choose and why?
- Three Strangers because my Mom taught me how to be Selfless!
If you could be any television or movie character, who would you be and why?
- Tarzan because I most definitely rather be in a jungle than a office
Tell me about your biggest adversity in life and how you’ve dealt with or overcome it?
- Failing out of college, but I just talked to the important people in my life and keep pushing is all I heard, so that’s what I did
What is your most embarrassing moment?
- Dropping a touchdown pass against Edna Karr
What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?
- Game Winning Interception In NJCAA National Championship
What song best describes your work ethic?
- Fed Up – Derez Deshon
What is the most important trait you can have (Physical or Non Physical) to help you succeed at the next level?
- Gotta Have Great Character!
If you could bring one person back from the dead for one day, who would it be and why?
- My Grandma her last time seeing me play was my freshman year of high school
If you were to open a dance club, what would you name it?
- “The Way”
Who is the most overrated player in the NFL?
- Richard Sherman
Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?
- Respected, My whole family Like me!
What player who had his career derailed by off-field issues do you feel for the most and why?
- Colin Kaepernick
Do you love to win, or hate to lose?
- I love to win, losing just a learning experience
Who has been the biggest influence on your life and explain why?
- My mother , she was there when the football world forgot I existed !