rolling into hour number three what's going on welcome back good afternoon how we all living great to be

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anywhere in the world 1-800 6368636-86. We've got the NFL draft upcoming, as you know, and we've been talking to as many draft prospects as we possibly can. It's not new. We do this every single year. And we are trying to get as many as we possibly can before the draft itself. And I found another one. We are joined right now by an NFL

draft prospect, a cornerback who played three seasons for Clemson, a second team AP All-American

last year. He was a semi-finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, which of course goes to the

nation's top DB. Also a first-team all-ACC selection last year. We are joined right now by Avion Torel. Avion, good to have you on the show, dude. How are you doing? Yeah, how you doing? Good, man. Good. Good to see you. All right. So let me ask you, when you play for a prominent program like Clemson and you're a top player, there's always going to be NFL buzz around you. So what have the last

few months been like as you get locked in and get ready for the draft? Yeah, yeah. The last few months

been busy, but being good, you know, just staying focused on what I'm doing, staying healthy,

and just getting everything done. Hey, man, what's it like? Like, for instance, it's all changed right now with NIL. So I used to say back in the day when guys got out of school and got ready for the draft, it's like, hey, man, it's all football, it's all business. So it's kind of business anyway. But like what's it been like away from campus where really it is all football, all draft preparation, all business.

Yeah, it's been different.

You know, it's the first time, no school.

So it feels good.

Just keen everything on football and, you know, getting everything done.

So this right here is a big dabble Sweeney house.

I love your coach.

He's always come on this show.

I'm curious, how much of a chance for you to play for him influence your decision and go to Clemson? And what kind of an impact did he have on you as a person and as a player? Yeah, Davon was a big impact. It was one of the coaches who stayed on me, who was real with me. He just, a coach that and that job every day, and that's why I liked him. So, so I like Swinney. And just, what was the other question you said? His, the kind of impact that he had on you as a person and a player both. Yeah, the impact he had on me as a player was good, you know. He made me play, he made me play better just them talking for game and get you, get you ready to go out there and play. So I feel like that was big. Just as a person, you know, he made the 30-year-old version of myself. I feel like 30-year-old version of myself is going to be good because he, we had Paul Journal. We had a lot of things that prep us for the future. That's really interesting. You already have an idea of what the 30-year-old you was going to look like because you'd rap with him. I've never actually heard that answer. That's cool. Listen, you made the point that like he stayed on you. He stayed on you. Listen, your family balls. Like, your older brother is in the NFL. You were destined for this thing too.

Like when you got there and he started to kind of coach you hard, were you used to that?

And what was that like in the beginning? Yeah, I was used to, you know, pops. Pops over

was hard. I'm growing up. So I'm used to it. Pop stayed on me. So, but just, just my first time

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