Jamal Merrell
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And it's almost like I don't care, but I do.
It's just I'm so built and structured to a point where...
There's no, I'm not going to break.
You already went through the hardest stuff.
Like, let's keep moving.
First, the biggest difference was just the draft.
I was just like, the draft is right time, right place, number game.
So I was, what, 235, running a 4.5, pretty much up for the Buckus Award for best linebacker in the nation compared to a lot of good linebackers that are still in the league today.
And then went undrafted.
So learning the whole combine, how the NFL worked, the draft, you learn it right towards your end of your year or whenever you declare for the draft.
So I'm learning so much.
I'm training in Jersey at Test Fitness.
With other college prospects that are entering the draft.
And then I didn't get a call to go to the combine.