Welcome to another episode of preferred walk on a PFF college football show.

I'm your host Max Chadwick on the show.

We interview some of the biggest superstars in college football.

This guy could be one of the top quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL draft and that is Dukes

Riley Leonard who actually was the number five quarterback prospect for PFF's lead draft

analyst Trevor Sikama in the 2024 draft.

He led all ACC quarterbacks last year with a 1.7% turnover worthy play rate and also was

fifth among power five quarterbacks with 776 rushing guards.

As always check out the feature article I actually dropped today at pff.com on Riley Leonard

and of course a major major thank you to Dave so far so it's up every single one of these

interviews and we've got plenty plenty more still to come so make sure you hit that subscribe button

but without further ado here he is Dukes quarterback Riley Leonard.

Alright my first question I want to ask you this is the big story that's been surrounding

you recently somehow you've turned your mom from your biggest supporter into your biggest

hater she gave you a brace that says quote unquote you suck on it can you kind of go into that

explain that a little bit. Yeah so growing up in a small community I was I was really good athlete

and everybody just wanted to give me praise all the time you know I ended up making football

varsity and basketball as a true freshman so in high school I was always getting this praise

now I was just so sick of it I was I needed somebody to bash me give me some criticism you know

kind of just wake me up so my mom raised her hand she's like dude I'll do it I'll do it for

every game so ever since then in high school and and on in the college before every game she'll

send me a you suck text or before an interview hey don't suck at this interview kind of just

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