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The Ravens Lounge

Ar'Darius Washington on Being the Smallest Guy on the Field, Overcoming the Undrafted Odds and Injuries, & the Next Step for the Defense

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ravens safety Ar'Darius Washington joins team insiders Ryan Mink and Garrett Downing to talk about how he handles his size disadvantage, the chip on his shoulder from the draft, his mentality after being named a starter, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

0:07.9

We are thrilled to sit down with Safety Ardarius, Washington.

0:11.7

And Ardarius, I start here.

0:13.4

So something jumped out to me on tape, and this was from the Steelers game.

0:17.6

All right, and they got this big, tight end Darnell Washington.

0:20.1

He's like like a foot taller

0:21.9

than you probably and like

0:24.0

100 pounds heavier.

0:25.7

And that dude's coming down

0:27.1

the middle of the field and you just step right on up and you meet them,

0:31.1

right?

0:31.5

In the middle of the field.

0:32.2

I was like,

0:33.2

that's impressive.

0:34.1

Like I would not be willing to do that if I were in your shoes.

0:38.8

Can you talk about how you handle, you know, you're oftentimes the smallest guy on the field.

0:44.6

How do you handle that from a mental and physical standpoint?

0:49.3

I really just don't think about it too much because I've been the same size, like pretty much my whole life, always been a small guy and stuff like that. So I really just don't really think about it too much because I've been the same size like pretty much my whole life

0:54.2

always been a small guy and stuff like that so I really just don't really think about it too much

0:58.3

and everything like that but far as that pacific play I was just like brad it's out of me and him you know what

1:04.1

I mean like it was between us in the end zone so I was like you know where I put my body on the line for it. So that's why I was just like, yeah, I'm going to make this play. But I was sitting there thinking like, how I'm going to make it?

1:12.7

But I'm going to get them down for sure.

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