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De’Von Achane – December 16, 2024 Download PDF version

Monday, December 16, 2024

RB De’Von Achane

(There was a very encouraging report today put out by the team on your teammate, on WR Grant DuBose. Just what’s the night been like for you guys putting aside football stuff, what has this been like for you guys?) – “We’re just thankful that he was safe, that he making it out, he was able to get moving in all his body parts and just praying for him. You don’t want to see one of your teammates down like that, so we’re just keeping him in our prayers, just making sure he’s good.”

(It’s a time where you have to separate anything that’s going on, on the field from the sport and the personal thing that happened. How difficult has that been, dealing with that the last 24 hours?) – “Of course it’s difficult because he’s one of our teammates, one of our brothers and like you said, we just thought of it as like, of course, if he was here he would want us to keep playing for him. So like you said unfortunately we still were in the game so we had to finish the game and think about him after the game and after the game we found out he was good.”

(Yesterday we saw you chase down a defender off the interception. You could just see how much you wanted that game. How tough was it to stomach overnight the result of what happened?) – “Each game is tough when you lose. Like you said, I’m a competitor, so me going to stop a touchdown, I feel like it’s big because I feel like our defense was playing good and them holding them to three points changed the game a lot. As you could see, we still had the ball at the end of the game and us scoring and going for two would’ve been a tied game. So that changed just from them scoring a touchdown would have been a two (possession) series.”

(Obviously you only can control what you can control, but the fact that now your playoff chances are more in jeopardy, how is the team’s mindset going forward?) – “It’s still our same mindset. We take each game one at a time and like you said, we’re grown men. We’re playing the game that we love so we’re going to play each game at 110 percent. It ain’t like, okay, our playoff chances are down a little bit, but we’ve still got a game to play. It ain’t like our season is over. We’ve still got three or four more games so we’re going to go out and play each one like it’s our last.”

(On a lighter note, we saw the gift that LB Anthony Walker Jr. gave the whole locker room. How cool was it to see your high school jersey again?) – “That was cool. He just got here. For him to even think of that and I know he had to go through a lot to get everybody’s school, their jersey number; so just him being that thoughtful, it was pretty big. It was pretty good for this team.”

(When was the last time you saw your high school jersey or put it on?) – “Before that? It’s been a minute, probably when I was in high school, for real. Going back – college, I’ll say when I was in college because I went to a few games.”

(To go more in depth into that, though. When you guys are professional football players, it’s hard to buy for you guys because you guys are a whole different tax bracket. So for him to take that thought to get that for you, just talk about the significance of that part of it.) – “I feel like that’s really what it is. Just like you said, we’re all NFL players. We all can buy, you know, but it’s always the thought that counts. You never know what you might need till somebody gets it for you and as you could see, we were all excited. Him doing that, just the thought of it, like you said, it brought a lot of joy to the locker room because he didn’t have to do that. Nobody has to, but just him going out of his way to do that for us, it meant a lot to us.”

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