As we start a new NFL season and as a precursor of April’s NFL draft Pro Player Insiders is continuing to profile some players we think you should know. While Stanford wide out Jamal-Rashad Patterson wasn’t invited to the combine, we caught up with him at the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl where he was looking forward to the draft process.
Patterson is 6 foot 3 with top end speed could be exactly what NFL scouts will be looking for. Patterson dealt his last season with the transition of a new quarterback after losing Andrew Luck last year to the NFL but showed great athletic ability and the character needed to make it in the pros.
Theresa Villano , of Pro Player Insiders, was able to catch up with Jamal at an NFLPA Bowl event.
Q: As a Stanford guy you must be really smart, tell us about your brain power, what’s your wonderlic going to be like?
A: I’m thinking I’m going to excel past the maximum standard. I feel like it’s going to be a challenge and I love stepping up to challenges, when I see that test and have the opportunity to take it, my critical nature is going to go to another level, and my competitive nature in me is going to take me to another level.
Q: What is it you guys are doing here today?
A: You know we are just giving back to the community; we all come from a family, we all have a community we are from and we are just trying to make it better. And we’re going to go other places and help people out.
Q: You’ve had a week’s worth of being at the NFLPA Bowl, what has been your favorite part of this experience?
A: Getting that firsthand knowledge of the guys who have been at that level I want to be at, and ya know I want to play and compete at one day, and to have those guys give me their wisdom, its amazing and is something you have to take advantage of, you gotta love it, I feel like a sponge trying to soak it all in, and absorb it, and live by it, internalize it.
Q: It’s going to be a tough transition going from college to the NFL, what do you think is going to the hardest part.
A: Actually being your own manager, ya know you have to manage yourself now, growing up you have your family, college you have the family of team and your college coaches, but in the league, you’re a man you need to manage yourself and while that may be the biggest challenge I feel like my life has prepared me for that to achieve that.
Q: So on the day of the draft, if you could pick any team in the NFL to play for, what team would it be?
A: Whoever would take me, I will gladly give me all to play for them.
Q: So the Super Bowl is coming up, who are you taking?
A: Oh the Atlanta Falcons, that’s the home team, I’m going for the falcons.
Q: So on the Falcons is there a player you look too?
A: Ya know I love the whole scheme and offense they run, ya know they throw the ball a lot, I’m a receiver, so I love how they throw the ball, Julio Jones, Roddy White, you love to see a show and see them throwing the ball out there.
Q: Where can we follow you on twitter?
A: You can follow me @doinitforjonboi, that’s my brother that passed away, and my motivation for everything I do, and #seeitthrough, keep grindin’.
