NFL Draft Diamonds Prospect Interview: Ja’Quan Keys, RB, Indiana State University

 Name: Ja’Quan Keys

• Height: 5’11

• Weight: 2:15

• Position: RB

• College: Indiana State University

• Twitter: @K3yys

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

• My Hometown was small and love that a lot of my family lived in the area.

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

• Film- Got to be able to know what defensive schemes and tendencies that you’re going against.

Practice- In order to execute on game day, you have to have the game plan down and you can’t do that without practice.

Strength and condition- Just as important as the other too.

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

• Didn’t make the right reads one week so I made sure next week I studied film and made the proper reads on plays next week.

What do your teammates say is your best quality?

• Consistency- I bring the same energy and person to work every day.

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

• Dylan Cole 

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

• Sport marketing- Athletic Director and Event management 

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

• Room because that’s typically were you’re at most of the time.

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

• 3 strangers- 3 lives are more valuable than 1 

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

• Willie Beamen- Any given Sunday is the best movie out there.

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

• Relocating from Louisiana to Indiana after hurricane Katrina. Overcame it with sticking with my family.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

• Getting a bald spot cut in my head in 8^th grade and having to go to school with it.

What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?

• Breaking off a 50-yard touchdown run in SDSU game to tie and send it to overtime.

What song best describes your work ethic?

• Kevin Gates- Out the mud

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

• Being coachable and consistent on and off the field. 

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

• MLK- Would love to meet him in person 

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

• Club Key

Who is the most overrated player in the NFL? 

• Josh Norman 

Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?

• Respected because you can’t take respect away

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

• Colin Kaepernick and his is because on field and off field issues.

Do you love to win, or hate to lose?

• Hate losing 

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

• My brother because he paved the path for me today.