NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Darell Cherubin, OL, Chowan University

• Name: Darell Cherubin
• Height: 6’2
• Weight:290
• Position: G/C
• College: Chowan University
• Twitter: @DC_Blockem305

Tell us about your hometown, and what you love most about it?

• My hometown is Miami, FL. What I love the most about Miami is it raise you to be tough. If you ain’t tough Miami isn’t for you, we are different breeds.

List these three in order of importance and why: Film Study, Strength and Conditioning and Practice?

• Film study, Practice, and strength and conditioning. Those three things are important in that order because you take what you learn in film study to the practice field and practice all the different scenarios that can happen in the game. Once you learn that the game on Saturdays will be second nature to you. Strength and conditioning prepare you to deliver a beating on your opponents for 60 minutes.

What do you worry about, and why?

• Don’t have any worries, once you start worrying that means your mind is another place instead of dominating what’s in front of you.

Give me an example of when you failed at something. How did you react and how did you overcome failure?

• When I miss a block and it could have been a game changer. Got mad at myself knowing I can’t let stuff like that happen and I overcame it by working harder each day.

What do your teammates say is your best quality?

• Smart on the field

Who is the best player you have ever played against in college?

• Kemaree Alcorn

What would your career be if you couldn’t play football?

• IT Consultant

Room, desk, and car – which do you clean first?

• Room

If there was a disaster and you could either save three strangers or one family member, which would you choose and why?

• One family member because I’ll do anything for my family

If you could be any television or movie character, who would you be and why?

• Hulk because that’s my favorite Marvel hero

Tell me about your biggest adversity in life and how you’ve dealt with or overcome it?

• When my Dad died when I was in elementary. I dealt with it by just remembering that he’s watching me and he always got my back right or wrong.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

• When I chipped my tooth in my last college game

What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?

• Chipping my tooth in my last game, I had blood coming out of my mouth and it made me feel like a badass

What song best describes your work ethic?

• Rick Ross – Push it

What is the most important trait you can have (Physical or Non-Physical) to help you succeed at the next level?

• My football IQ

If you could bring one person back from the dead for one day, who would it be and why?

• My Dad because I wish he can watch his son play with his own eyes

If you were to open a dance club, what would you name it?

• Kick step n Slide

Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?

• Respected because that means you are doing great things.

What player who had his career derailed by off-field issues do you feel for the most and why?

• Colin Kaepernick because he deserves to be in the NFL, he is a good football player and a winner.

Do you love to win, or hate to lose?

• Love to win

Who has been the biggest influence on your life and explain why?

• My Mom because she battles through so much pain through her life and that’s what keeps me motivated.