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Duke's Jalon Calhoun: "I definitely felt like I ran well"
Former Duke wide receiver Jalon Calhoun reflects on his Pro Day and what he can bring to the table for NFL teams in his future.
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Former Duke wide receiver Jalon Calhoun reflects on his Pro Day and what he can bring to the table for NFL teams in his future.
Jalen just to go over a little bit about your performance today at pro day. Um, just overall thoughts, anything you could maybe improved upon things that excelled, things that you thought you needed improvement upon to show the scouts. Um, I definitely felt like I ran well, I ran my routes. Well, um, you know, five and five could have been cleaned up a little bit more, but, um, I don't think it was too bad. Um, but I went out there and did my best competed. Um, that's, you know, the main thing I wanted to do. J and a lot of coaches throughout your time here have talked about your work ethic and your hard work and how much, um, that's helped you. What are teams gonna be getting if they, you know, draft someone like you a hard worker competitor for sure, every day, day in, day out. Um, I love the game of football. That's what I wanna do for the rest of my life. Um, so I know going in to the league is all about competing every day. You know, you're working for a job, it's a job. So, you know, hard working competitive is the main thing that for sure, how, how important is it um to, to have events like this these pro days or whatever, especially those who, who didn't get an invite to the combines and, you know, go out here and show off your skills and, and, and your thoughts on the type of drills they have you doing and, and how in depth it is to see the skills you bring to the table. And number one is, is just a dream come true, honestly. Um Just see all your hard work just, you know, put into this day. Um Just everything that leads up to this day. Um And, you know, for the main thing, like I said, just coming out here and competing, um, you know, you wake up, you have like a lot of nerves and just anxious about everything. But when you get out here, you know, it's quiet and then you just go put on the show and you just basically just do what you've been doing your whole life. Really? Was there anything in particular you really wanted to, to focus on and emphasize today and show scouts out here? What you can do speed and route running? Definitely. Um I felt like I help myself in that area a lot. Um Just looking every catching or running the route to my best possibility. Um, and then showing these scouts that I wanna compete and I'm a hard worker tired in that when you, when you see kind of the, the next level, right? How, how do you kind of project yourself fitting into the NFL? And have you had any kind of conversations with people about where they see you, what they see you doing at the next level? Um I wanna be an all around player. Um I don't wanna just put a stem on just one like rock receiver or anything. Um Whoever put me on the field, that's why, that's why I wanna be at for sure. Some of the feedback you got from the scouts today after the um saying I look, just look good. Um Just keep working, just keep going out competing, stuff like that. How cool is it to see so many of your teammates, a lot of whom you've been in this program with for so long out there competing on their own program. Coolest thing like I said, like it's a dream come true, you know, not just for me but for everybody who participated today. Um and then seeing those guys go out there and do their thing like it makes me happy, it makes me go harder too and then, you know, we play ball together so, you know, everything is just a brotherhood um and seeing them accomplish their dreams, man, like there's no better feeling than that.