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Cedrick Wilson Jr. – August 7, 2022 Download PDF version

Sunday, August 7, 2022

WR Cedrick Wilson Jr.

(You made the jump to now being noticed – from last year with your breakout season in Dallas to now. What’s it like in the wide receiver room with Wes Welker as your coach, and having WR Tyreek Hill and WR Jaylen Waddle? How is that working for you?) – “I feel like with everyone’s knowledge in the room of the game along with Tyreek and Waddle being two of the fastest receivers in the league, and then Wes’ mindset, obviously playing and coaching for as many years as he did, it’s definitely bringing us all in one. He’s helping us to perfect our game more and more each way and not just rely on talent.”

(What do you see as your role in this offense?) – “I feel like my role is to complete what my assignment is and whatever play is called. That’s my job.”

(What have you enjoyed most about playing in Mike McDaniel’s offense so far?) – “The versatility. You have to study at the game but at the same time, you have to be able to go out there and execute what they’re asking you (to do). He brings energy before we even step out on the field and you’ve got to love a coach like that.”

(Do you have tinted prescriptions or too?) – “Yeah, my prescription is on these.”

(What was the process of hearing about that and getting it?) – “My process was basically that most people wear sunglasses and it’s bright out there trying to catch a football. I need to see so my prescription had to be put in.”

(Obviously you, WR Jaylen Waddle and WR Tyreek Hill can all thrive in the slot as you did a lot last year, and on the boundary. What is the potential chaos that can be created in bunch formations with the three of you on one side?) – “I feel like in most football, any bunch situations when guys are trying to inside-out in coverage and you’re trying to inside-out with a lot of speed, I feel like that’s probably the hardest part on defense.”

(Could you envision that being a problem for opposing teams if Mike McDaniel goes to that with the three of you guys this year?) – “I feel like that’s the goal is to put a problem on everyone.”

(You’ve been a pretty efficient downfield receiver in your career and out here in practice getting a deep ball every day it seems. What about QB Tua Tagovailoa’s deep ball makes it easy to make a play on it down the field?) – “It’s accurate. It doesn’t really change the spot. It’s still our job to get to the spot because he’s going to hit his spot. He adjusts it perfectly between the speed of all of us, because obviously I’m not as fast as Tyreek (Hill) and (Jaylen) Waddle, but he throws it up, gives me time to get to the spot and I feel like that’s the best part of it.”

(Do you feel like you have chemistry with QB Tua Tagovailoa even though you just got here with him?) – “Yeah, I felt the chemistry as soon as we got here.”

(Head Coach Mike McDaniel talked earlier just about the kind of guy WR Tyreek Hill is in the locker room and how he kind of uses him as an example in a lot of things. Have you seen that out of him as well? What have you learned just from working with Tyreek?) – “I’ve learned a lot from him. Obviously watching him across the league, all you see is a fast football player. But now that we’ve actually gotten around each other, he’s a good teammate and friend off the field. At the same time, he’s going to go out there and work hard. That’s the perfect balance that you could have.”

(Has anything surprised you about QB Tua Tagovailoa going from watching him from afar to working with him?) – “I feel like I didn’t really watch him much because I was worried about what I had going on and where my job was at. But when he was at Alabama in college, he was accurate and he didn’t show anything less when I came out here and actually worked with him.”

(Growing up, your dad played in the NFL and now you are in the NFL. What was that process like and what advice has he given you?) – “As far as the process of what?”

(Going through the season, the offseason and things like that.) – “I feel like the process started when I was younger. Obviously seeing him coming into the building, going to meetings, going to the weight room, during practice. I was just envisioning that I wanted to do that one day. Obviously now that I’m older, he’s just trying to give me the tips and keys that he wishes he would have done or that he did to be successful during the time he was in (the NFL).

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