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Kenyan Drake – May 21, 2019 Download PDF version

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

RB Kenyan Drake

(You have a new coaching staff. What are you trying to get done during the OTAs?) – “Just get better every day. (We are) putting a lot of new stuff in the offense so we’re just trying to make sure that we come out here and get everything executed. But it’s May, so you’re not going to win any games today. The things that we do right now are going to give us the platform to launch ourselves into the season.”

(Being so involved with the passing game, working so close with these quarterbacks, what have you seen early on?) – “The quarterbacks are going to put us in the best position to win. As a skill position (player), as a lineman, everybody has to do their one-eleventh and put themselves in the best position so we can come together as a group and be successful.”

(With the new coaching staff, they are obviously seeing you guys for the first time except for on film. Do you feel like you’re competing again for a starting job?) – “We’re just out here taking it a day at a time, making sure we put ourselves in the best situation to where when it comes to August, we can all win games. That’s my mindset.”

(It’s still early with the new coaching staff, but do you feel like you’d be able to run the ball a bit more in this offense than in the past few years?) – “That’s really up for them to decide. I put myself in the best situation to help this team win games no matter what. Whether that’s catching the ball, whether that’s running the ball or whether that’s special teams, or doing whatever they ask me to do, that’s what I’m going to do.”

(Are they moving you around a lot in this offense?) – “They are putting everybody in a lot of different situations to really test people’s mental, people’s psyche, people’s physical attributes. That doesn’t exclude me from that situation either.”

(From a leadership standpoint, what is it that the coaching staff wants to see out of the guys that have been around for a few years? How do you feel you are providing it?) – “Everybody is just doing their job. I feel like the coaching staff makes it very black and white with what they expect. They are going to keep it real with a lot of people in terms of going on the field, doing your job, not doing your job. A lot of lack of mental plays, you just have to go out there and make sure that you take the things that we talk about in the film room and apply them to the field and just go out here and make plays.”

(You’ve always been team first, you’ve never complained about lack of carries. Is there a part of you though that would like to see what you can do if you get the ball 15 to 18 times a game like you did the last five weeks of 2017, as opposed to 7 ½ carries last year?) – “I would like to win a lot more games, that’s my most important thing. Whether I get the ball five times or 25 times, if we’re winning games, everybody is going to get the accolades that they want.”

(What allows you to be at peace with that sort of thing, because there are some running backs who would say I want the rock 10, 15, or 18 times a game? You’ve never said that publicly.) – “Because my work is going to speak for itself. The work that I put in on and off the field is going to equate to the success I have on the field and ultimately everybody is going to try to get what they can from a very specific standpoint in terms of what they want. All in all, we went 6-10 last year. People had good stat seasons. I had over 1,000 (all-purpose) yards and almost double-digit numbers in touchdowns (but) whoop-dee-do. We didn’t go to the playoffs; we didn’t win enough games.”   

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