He's caught 199 passes for almost 3000 yards and 25 touchdowns in 31 games.

He's Justin Jefferson.

Who's with me on the Goodyear hotline?

Justin, this is Greeny.

Thank you so much for the time.

How are you today?

I'm good.

How are you?

I'm well on those numbers.

When you hear those numbers, let's try and put those into context.

Because I was asking my friend Ryan Clark about you a little bit earlier this morning and l s u legend like yourself, and he was saying, asked just in it to go back to the beginning and he was telling me how you were not a highly recruited player and and how people thought you were too skinny and all of that.

Can you take me back to that too?

When you were coming out of high school and most schools didn't want you and how that has driven you to become the player that you are now?

Um, it's crazy and the funny.

The funny part about it is, um, you know, I was just a freshman with 34 years ago, so excuse me.

Um, actually think about that.

It's crazy is amazing.

Um, you know, coming in at at 1.

25 not being a top recruit, not being the biggest player out on the field.

Um, you know your confidence level.

Get a little low.

Uh, you know, you're not you're not sure if you able to play on this big time D one level like this, or, um you know, a lot of stuff goes through your head, but you just gotta trust the process.

Trust, um, you know, the weight room and trust everybody in that organization.

And, uh, you know, I did that.

And, you know, after after 22 years going into my junior year, um, I got toe 1 95 and got fashion.

Got stronger.

And, you know, that's when I was ableto to showcase my talent.

Uh, so I mean, all of that definitely plays a part, and you just gotta wait for the opportunity.

But that is I know from having talked to so many athletes over the years.

That's something that stays a chip on your shoulder.

And then you come out after a monster season at L s.

U.

And you were the fifth receiver taken in the draft the year you came out last year.

22nd overall.

What did that make you think?

Um, that was crazy for me.

Um, you know, me, Just having a year that I had, um, and me even getting to the national championship in, you know, all of these things that I did, uh, last year.

Um, And toe still, you know, beef pick fifth out of all the receivers on the drive.

Um, you know, that made me mad.

Uh, you know that?

That made me question what?

I was going wrong, uh, during my my college career.

So that just made me want toe to go in and, uh, do better and destroy anybody.

So, um, each week, I just kept that chip on my shoulder.

And, um, I'm just trying trying to be the best that I could be.

Well, you certainly seem to do it.

Proving a lot of people wrong on the pro level greeny and Justin Jefferson who was with me.

I want to ask you about a former teammate of yours?

Because when you were at L S u u and Jamaar Chase were the superstar receivers there two years ago on the team that won the national championship.

And then he opted out this past year for L S U.

So the football world hasn't seen him for a year, But I hear a lot of people talking about him as potentially the first receiver off the board in this year's draft.

Give us a quick scouting report.

Tell us how good your your former team mate Mark Chase is gonna be.

Oh, he's gonna be amazing.

Uh, he's going to do whatever he needs to in order to be, um, a prime time player for for whatever team that he gets drafted for.

Um, yeah, we didn't seen we haven't seen him for for a year, but, um, he's still the same person, you know.

He still has that that swagger to his game.

And, um, he's definitely ready to come in and be a reliable source.

Uh huh.

Tow whatever team that he's on.

So I'm excited to see what he has.

You know, hopefully he didn't lose a step.

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