Darren Waller
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I think it's a combination of that.
And then also we ran the triple option offense when I was in college.
So you know football stats.
Like 1,000 yards is a good receiving year.
I didn't have 1,000 yards my four years combined.
But it's like the plays where they did throw me the ball were like big plays.
And most of the plays that I made were against like NFL-level players.
like when we played like the Florida State was really good when I was in college and Georgia and Clemson's and games like that was where most of my production came.
And so scouts probably watching other people and being like, oh wait, who is this guy over here making plays against these first round type of talents?
So I think it was like the lack of, like the not really much production and with the red flags as they label it was probably the reason why I was sixth round.
I think the,
I probably would have went undrafted, but I ran a fast 40.
Yeah.
I mean, it kind of blew me away because the Ravens drafted me in sixth round, and they did an interview with โ
John Harbaugh after my career kind of started to take off and he was like yeah we had him like first round grade and I was like what I never even I never even crossed my mind that people had me rated that high or saw that much in me at the time because I just didn't really have the that level of confidence or because like you mentioned the shame like a lot of that stuff kind of followed me around so it was like kind of tough to build a level of confidence in yourself when that shame is always there and you're always trying to like
You're either feeling the shame or trying to push the shame away by putting something in your body.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Double life was a lot of the terms that were used throughout my college career and like the first part of my โ