2022 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: DJ Kirkland, WR, Guilford College

• Name: DJ Kirkland 
• Position: WR
• College: Guilford College
• Height: 6’1
• Weight: 185
• Instagram: dj.kirkland 

What makes you a top prospect at your position  in the 2022 NFL Draft?  

• My hard work and dedication, I like to focus on the little things and technique, and I’m always ready when my number is called.

At what age were you first interested in the sport of football?

• 6 years old 

What is one thing that NFL teams should know about you?

• I do everything with 100% effort and focus. 

If you could donate to one cause in the world, what would it be? 

• I would donate to kids to help them out in anyway like St. Jude.

What is the best advice you have ever received? 

• Keep god first and everything will fall into place.

Who was your childhood hero? 

• Kobe Bryant 

Who is the most underrated teammate in your locker room at your school? 

• Anthony Barnes Jr. 

What is your biggest pet peeve? 

• People making assumptions 

Overcoming adversity is what defines character, what was the hardest moment in your life to overcome? \

• Losing loves ones that impacted my life.

Tell me something about your school and why it is so special to you?

• They have a good education and I have met life long friends that have become family.

What is your favorite snack food? 

• Little bite muffins 

What is the best part of football? 

• Winning and being able to go out with your brothers and compete, all while being able to learn different life lessons that football teaches you to become a better person on and off the field.

If you could sell yourself in one sentence what would you say? 

• I am a coachable player who is going to give everything I have, and I will do whatever I need in order to make the team succeed. 

If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be? 

• Larry Fitzgerald 

If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would it be and why?  

• Kobe Bryant, Deandre Hopkins, Obama because they all have life lessons that will be interesting to hear from them, and I want just any advice they would be able to give me to help in whatever I do