Newcomer Interviews 2-17-26: Devin Carter, Desirrio Riles, Mikai Gbayor, Nate Pabst
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Man, you've been around the program for so long. Did that make it easier for you coming in as a first year player? For sure. It made me more comfortable. I was prepared. There's a lot of guys in the locker room that I've been on visits watching for the past three, four years. So just getting word from them, knowing what I should be ready for, knowing what I should expect. You know, it made it way easier for me, way more comfortability. |
| 0:23.4 | And the coaches also, you know, they gave me the real recruiting process. |
| 0:26.8 | So it was the same when I got here. |
| 0:28.2 | So I was ready when I got here, and I've just adjusted since. |
| 0:31.1 | And it's been great. |
| 0:34.6 | Brendan's a note. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay. Brendan's a note. Front around. Having a parent who played here, I imagine some guys like that could be, you want to start |
| 0:47.7 | your own path, do your own thing, to be intimidating, not for you, I guess. |
| 0:51.0 | What made that, you know, why were you comfortable kind of following a place where your |
| 0:55.5 | pops at play? First off, you know, there's a lot of guys in the building that my dad played with it. So, you know, my dad knows them as a person. I know them as a person since I've been growing up. I know they're not going to feed me BS. You know, I know they're going to push me to the limit, and I tell them what I want to be, |
| 1:11.2 | and, you know, they're going to hold me to that standard, and they won't let me go below that standard, and that's what I need to be successful. You know, hard work never fails, so you need people to push me to that limit as well as myself. So that's also another reason why, you know, I'm comfortable here, you know, the coaches for sure. Peter, second one.. Devin, I'm sure you've probably been asked about this, but how much you really embrace of being a legacy player and what are some of the things that your dad has told you before coming here? Yeah, I mean, I fully respect the legacy, you know. I'm here to create my own legacy while also, you know, living in my dad's legacy. You know, he did a lot of great things here, so I'm just trying to build on that, do a lot of great things myself, put them together. It's a great legacy from a father and son duo. And my dad just told me to expect, you know, to be pushed. You want to be pushed if you want to be great. So just expect to be |
| 2:02.0 | pushed. Be ready for the hard times, the hard moments. Don't let anything break you. Just go through |
| 2:07.4 | any obstacle and keep your head straight on a straight line, focus on the main goal, and keep going. |
| 2:15.1 | Chris Neek, first up. |
| 2:17.2 | What is it about Coach Harris that stood out to you as a receiver and what does it mean for him to be co-ocee now? It means a lot, you know, is our receiver coach being a co-ocy, you know, that might give us more opportunities, you know, you never know. But Coach Harris, we're in practice, wearing film, he going to call you out. Even if you, even if you say the right answer, he's gonna double question you just so he makes sure you know the answer. So that's the type of guy he is, you know, gonna make sure everybody in the room knows their responsibility at least. And then when we get to the field, you know, he's going to focus on little fundamentals. and once we got that, you know, he's going to push us, push us in the drills like Tor duty. |
| 2:54.5 | He's in our ear, main one in our ear pushing us. So it's great to have a guy like that always on you. He's never going to let you slack. That's the type of guy he is. So great guy to be in the receiver room. And the co-o-c. I'm very excited about that. He should be able to |
| 3:09.2 | get us some opportunities as receivers, and I'm looking forward to that. |
| 3:14.7 | Liam Rudy? Second room. |
| 3:16.7 | We hear a lot about Deuce, obviously last season, and then throughout the off-season, just his |
| 3:20.8 | leadership qualities and capabilities. How valuable is he as a resource |
| 3:25.2 | for you? And obviously, he understands the other side of it, too, is coming in as the son of |
| 3:29.4 | someone who played here. How important is that relationship? Very important. You know, |
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