Rock Ya-Sin Joins The Lounge

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Baltimore Ravens

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4.9 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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New Ravens CB Rock Ya-Sin joins the guys to talk about fitting into secondary, battling the WRs, his Muslim faith, and where his grinding attitude stems from.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings. We have the pleasure of sitting down with
0:10.0	cornerback Rock Yassine today. Rock, thank you for joining us. I want to start here. I mean,
0:15.5	rock. I mean, there's no better name than Rock for a football player. It doesn't get a pepe,
0:20.4	you know, no shade on Pepe but rock for a football player. It doesn't get a pepe, you know, no shade on
0:22.4	Pepe, but Rock for a football player is pretty awesome. Your given first name is Abdulrahman.
0:29.5	Yeah. I say, I think I think I got close. And so where did Rock come from? Can you tell us the
0:35.2	backstory? Well, I was, I was wrestling. I had a coach,
0:38.7	Keith Johnson, great, you know, legendary high school coach in Georgia. Yeah. But I mean, like,
0:43.9	kind of brass guy, you know. So, you know, we started wrestling. And I came in the first day,
0:49.3	and I beat some of the starters on the team. And after a while, he was like, you know, hey man, what's your name, blah, blah, blah, like,
0:55.9	you know.
0:56.9	And I was like, um, Abdur Rahman.
0:59.3	He was like, huh?
1:00.8	Like, Abdur Rahman.
1:01.8	He started trying to say my name was butchering it.
1:04.5	He's like, I'm through college and now in NFL five years in like rock is just stuck and it's like more people call me rock than actually call me Abdurhamman.
1:15.6	Yeah.
1:16.6	So yeah.
1:17.6	Is it just when you go home?
1:18.6	Family, family, family, close friends I grew up with.
1:21.6	But like outside of that, like people that have met me in the last, you know, five or six years, it's just rock for them.
1:25.6	Yeah. the last, you know, five or six years, it's just rock for them. Yeah, I mean, and I would assume
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