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Watching what happened to Jalen Hurts hit me at my core. I found myself very emotional last night because I’ve walked in those exact shoes, with that exact same organization.
In 2024, I was a UDFA trying to survive. I dominated our preseason game against the Patriots and suffered a high ankle sprain, only to be thrown back out the next week like I hadn't been terrorizing every man that stood in front of me for multiple preseasons and practices.
Between playing through injury, grieving the sudden deaths of my grandfather, godfather, Diondre Overton, going through a breakup, and battling intense anxiety, I had a severe panic attack before the Vikings preseason game and didn't even want to leave my hotel room the morning before the game. I had no one to call that made me feel safe enough to express how I felt. I had already been going through therapy, refused medication, and just felt like my feelings were not being validated by the therapist. My mind detached. I forgot plays. I dropped passes. It was easily the worst game of my life.
I was expected to return like nothing happened during our exit meeting, but I vowed to my late loved ones I would rather never play football again then to tell them I was healthy enough to continue my campaign with the organization. I told my agent I'd rather die. I walked away from football, unsure if I'd ever get another shot, choosing my peace. I couldn't even work out properly for other NFL teams due to my ankle being so sprained.
Months went by and my friends in NYC were encouraging me to keep playing. Then, literally the next day, I ran into an Eagles staff member at my apartment gym in New Jersey. I found out a practice squad player was away for a funeral, which opened the door for me to step in for a couple of days getting ready for the Green Bay playoff game. I had already taken time away and was already so detached from football that I just said, "fuck it, why not."
My only intentions were to genuinely forgive and pick up an easy check. I'll never forget talking with Jalen right before the Green Bay game in the weight room during that Super Bowl run. Watching him come off his own injury, we had a real conversation about the time we get in dark moments to zoom out from what we are chasing and reflect internally on who we are.
That mindset helped guide me through my darkest times. I walked away from football for good after truly finding myself, and I am currently pursuing what the real me embodies at @datouapp, where we are looking to tokenize movies and television shows. Videography was my escape from the darkness—simply capturing the moments that are on the verge of being forgotten and unseen.
Jalen is a warrior. I know the darkness of that journey, but I know he’ll come out the other side stronger than ever. Not everyone is going to come to the internet with their problems or pain, so just remember your favorite players are human, too. Y'all act like you care when shit gets real, then tomorrow go back to your regularly scheduled programming of acting like players are not humans.
You're free to do, say, or think whatever it is you want, but I'm just leaving this for some reflection and consideration.
It is important (to myself) for me to express my support for all the players who go through dark times with no one to turn to. I always felt alone playing at the collegiate and professional level for so many years and don't wish that pain on no one. #prayforjalenhurts #jalenhurtsishuman #sympathy #empathy #love #nfl #namaste
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Jadarian Price never started a single game in college while at Notre Dame. Never had more than 15 touches in one. He got drafted in the first round by the Seahwks, and the reason he was even available to draft is a choice almost nobody makes anymore: he chose to stay a backup.
The setup first. Price signed with Notre Dame, then tore his Achilles as a true freshman in 2022, the injury that ends most running backs before they start. He recovered, and came back to a depth chart with Jeremiyah Love in front of him, a back so good he went third overall this year. So Price had two paths. Behind an elite starter, he could transfer to a program that would hand him the job and 250 carries, put up huge counting stats, and chase the spotlight. In 2026 that isn't the risky move. It's the default. The transfer portal exists precisely so talented backups don't have to wait.
He stayed.
Three years at Notre Dame, backing up Love, taking the smaller share. 1,692 yards and 21 touchdowns across three seasons, on limited touches, because he was never the feature. NFL teams asked him about it directly. Every one of them wanted to know why he didn't leave for easier volume.
Here's the answer, and here's the lesson.
Price bet that being efficient in a great situation was worth more than being a workhorse in a lesser one. And the NFL agreed with him emphatically. Scouts didn't care that he had only 113 carries his final season. They cared that the carries were elite. He ran a 4.49 forty at 203 pounds. He averaged 37.5 yards per kick return in 2025 and took three of 22 career returns to the house. The tape was cleaner precisely because there was less of it, and none of it was padding.
That's the counterintuitive part. Volume can actually hurt you. A back with 300 carries has 300 chances to put bad reps on film. Price had a small sample of nearly perfect ones, and in a scouting process built on projecting upside, a clean small sample beat a noisy large one. He looked like unused potential instead of a known quantity, and unused potential is what first-round picks are made of.
The deeper lesson is about the trade everyone gets wrong. The transfer-portal logic says maximize your opportunities, get the ball, rack up the numbers, be the guy. Price made the opposite bet: protect the quality of your work even if it means less of it, and stay in the room where the standard is highest even if it costs you the spotlight. He'd rather be the second-best back on a team full of first-rounders than the best back somewhere nobody was watching.
Being the featured star in a weaker situation is the loud choice. Being the efficient piece in an elite one is the quiet choice. The loud choice looks better on the stat sheet every single Saturday. The quiet choice looked better exactly once, on the night it mattered, when his name got called in the first round and the transfers who chased carries watched from home.
Now Mike Macdonald is on Hard Knocks saying "dang, number 8 is fast," and Price is stepping into the job Kenneth Walker left behind. He waited three years for a starting job in college and never got one. He'll get his first real one in the NFL. The kid who refused to pad his stats is about to find out what he can do when they finally hand him the ball.
Sometimes the smartest career move is to stay in the harder room and take the smaller role. The numbers will look worse. The people who actually decide your future will notice anyway.
Former Notre Dame RB Jadarian Price got a segment on Hard Knocks tonight. The first-round pick is *really* impressing his new coaches and teammates in Seattle.
"Dang, No. 8 is fast." — Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald
(via @new_era72)
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He went to Cal Berkeley
He works for NASA
He is a college professor
He is an active contributor in his communities
And this is in addition to being a multi-time All Star, Finals MVP and NBA Champion
He IS the smartest person in the room.
People in the NBA believe Jaylen Brown has a "disease" where he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, per @colincowherd
“I had two NBA sources … two people in the league, one an executive, one a scout, say that Jaylen Brown has — it’s a disease. He suddenly thinks he’s the smartest guy in every room he’s in ... You make a lot of money, suddenly you’re absolutely sure, you don’t wanna listen to your bosses, you don’t wanna listen to consultants, you don’t wanna listen to teammates.”
(Via @volumebball, h/t @TheNBABase)
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For eight quarters of football that man turned into a God. It’ll never happen again in the NFL.
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Blessed to receive a offer from The University of South Alabama @SouthAlabamaFB @CoachBryantRoss @coach_quonte
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BREAKING: Harvard Transfer Safety Ty Bartrum has committed to UCF. @AllenTrieu and I have learned for @Knights247
Bartrum a high level safety with 83 tackles and an interception last season is excited to join UCF:
"I’m Excited to Contribute to a Winning Culture”
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Romelu Lukaku: "I was 6 years old, and I came home for lunch after school. Mom had the usual on the menu: bread and milk. But that day, I came home, and Mom started mixing the bottle of milk with something else.
"She served me lunch with a smile as if everything was fine. But I understood what she was doing. She was mixing milk with water. We didn't have enough money to make the bottle last the whole week. We weren't just poor; we were broke.
"My parents, in the midst of misery, bet on me. They made huge efforts to take me to training. That's why I played that first World Cup match with a lot of anger, for many reasons: for the rats running through our apartment, because I couldn't watch the Champions League, we didn't have a TV.
I'd go to school, and all the kids would talk about the final. I had no idea what had happened. Everyone was talking about Zidane's volley. I pretended to know what they were talking about, for the classmates' parents who looked down on me because of my characteristics and condition."
"One day I asked my father at what age it would be ideal to debut in football, and to give me any age (I found this out years later), he said 16. I didn't stop until l achieved it. At that time, I was a substitute for Anderlecht, about to turn 16.
l approached the coach and asked him to bet on me. I promised him a certain number of goals, and if I didn't achieve them, he could bench me again. Indeed, at 16, I forced my debut. Not only did I score the promised goals, but I also became the top scorer in the national championship.
I scored 76 goals in 34 matches; I did them all with my dad's boots. From then on, I decided to be the best player in Belgium's history. Not good. Not excellent. The best."
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BREAKING: Harvard transfer QB Jaden Craig has committed to TCU, @Hayesfawcett3 and @PeteNakos report🐸
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Former Harvard quarterback Jaden Craig has signed with TCU, per @grandcentral_hq. He visited there this weekend and didn’t been to take a second visit. He’s Harvard’s all-time leader in TD passes (52) and yards (6,074). He has one year remaining.
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Officially in the Portal 🚨
Safety - 6’1 205
151st Team captain
Mid Year Graduate
AP FCS All-American
31 Games Played
