Bobby Okereke

And then I'd say probably most challenging is my growth in my football career in college.

Didn't show up to Stanford expecting to play in the NFL, didn't really show up aspiring to play in the NFL, just wanted to play football because I loved the game and wanted to get a good education.

But as I got better and better, becoming a leader on campus, becoming a leader to the younger guys, and trying to embody that role that the team needed from me, that was probably most challenging.

In probably each part of my career, I've made one significant jump.

Yeah.

Definitely in high school.

I think when I started getting scholarship letters, started getting offers, taking football seriously and kind of shutting out the noise, and noise per se has a bad connotation,

My parents really weren't my biggest supporters in football.

People around me weren't my biggest supporters in football.

So I really had to get internal and kind of build like almost a little force field around me and just feed myself positivities, feed myself conviction and not listen to anybody.

So definitely went through that time period in high school

Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily say against, just...

Sometimes you gotta decide what's best for you and go across the grain.

So whether it's high school friends that wanna hang out, high school friends that don't necessarily have the same goals as you, you inadvertently have to separate yourself

Definitely just my love for the game.

I mean, it started with my family, for sure.

Like, I'm not going to say that my parents were bad and they didn't support me in football.

No, they just wanted me to get a good education.

They wanted me to be safe.

And kind of maybe the immigrant perspective they had, they wanted me to be in a more protect and conserve environment.