Bobby Okereke

At Stanford.

Yeah, went out to win a bowl game and then got invited to the Combine, having NFL teams come to our pro day to come work me out and

culminated in me eventually being drafted by the Colts.

Not really, being honest.

As a kid, my dad was an Oakland Raiders fan.

I liked Maurice Jones Drew growing up, but I wasn't a big football fan.

Yeah, extremely intense, also exciting, but about a three-day period.

And they're doing the physical evaluations.

And then on the side, coaches are pulling you into conference rooms.

You're doing psychological, mental evaluations.

Coaches are watching film with you, kind of breaking down what they think of you, think of your mindset.

So they definitely try to break you down and extract as much intel as they can.

yeah um i mean really seeing your leadership ability um seeing your mental processing schematic understanding on the football field um definitely getting some scrutiny from some players some coaches you know seeing you as a stanford guy um and why they why they shouldn't take a player who

I guess there's a little stereotype.

Stanford players kind of jack of all trades, master of none.

Your focus is always different places as opposed to another athlete who's just focused on football.

But I always thought that was a short-sighted perspective.

Potentially.

or two involved in other interests, whether it's off the field, business stuff or etc.

That was incredible.