A.J., what did you want to accomplish today?
Today with my routes I wanna be as smooth as possible.
That would be it for me.
I wanna try and clean up my footwork
and try to stop dragging my foot.
I gotta get the DBA indicator and I'm at the break,
just try to stay low with all my routes.
Were there specific things you wanna do
to improve your in the combine?
Other than my routes, no.
I mean in the combine, I haven't ran
I didn't run routes for two weeks before the combine,
so I was kinda rusty so today I'll just
try to be a technician.
A.J., you did the three zone
in your 20-yard shuttle out there today.
Is it different getting your work to the win?
I didn't even check the time.
I really feel like the three coin
and the 510-5 stuff, that's not football.
I really don't care about that.
I just wanted to handle my business out there.
I thought that you know I know
your numbers in the drills have been fine.
Hmm-mmm.
But do you really think that you're
kinda a player that those numbers really don't matter?
You know what I mean, if that football was yours
at a 40-yard dash, is that sort of stop
and be like what did we talk about the stats tonight?
In my opinion a 40-yard dashes and stuff like that
it doesn't tell you if you're a good football player.
Your fan speaks for that, you know that's
your resume, that's your biggest resume.
Of course I had to do it, so I had to get it over with,
but I wasn't big on that.
I didn't know.
It wasn't my main focus, you know.
At the end of the day, I'm a football player.
You gotta run routes to get open so that's what I work on.
Have you been working
on getting your body back at 1.9%?
[A.J. laughing]
Nah, I don't think that's healthy.
[laughing]
But it's 4.6 though, but I'm really
just trying to maintain.
I'm at 225 and I played at 225 my past two years
and I wanna play at 221 in the leagues, so yeah.
Have you got any ideas for like
where the teams and scouts see
you as far as slaughtering the outside?
Pretty much every team talking to me
about both, so I got the ability to play both,
so that's always a plus, you know?
How comfortable are you moving to
the outside if a team asks you to do it?
I don't have a problem with it. I started out there.
Have you gotten the impression that
teams are trying to play up
this competition between you and D.K.?
Is that something that's been brought up a lot?
Yeah.
I had an interview last night that was kinda like that,
but he's a special guy.
I mean he's big, he's fast, man, you know?
That comes once in a lifetime, you know?
I mean I would never talk down on D.K.
I would never do that. You know he's a special guy.
He's gonna play a long time in the NFL.
You know he's blessed, especially after
everything he's been through, you know?
They couldn't get me to say anything bad about him.
Demarcus talked about
this draft being the last time in your career
you'll be all together working out.
He talked about how it's such a special occasion.
How do you feel about that?
I feel the exact same way.
We are splitting up.
Hopefully one day we come back together
on the team together.
You know those memories that we created,
they're gonna last a lifetime.
I'm gonna miss my brothers, miss playing against them.
There's some funny stuff going on out there
on the field with those two, so I'm gonna miss that.
I'm gonna miss the joking and stuff,
but you know last time on field with them is bittersweet.
A.J., do you think
you're a first-round pick and is that important to you?
If we're being honest, I feel like I should
be picked first.
[laughing]
But I can't control none of that.
I just control what I can control.
You know I put everything out there
and of course I feel like I'm a first-round receiver.
Is this whole process
not really frustrating, but you know
people wanna see times and numbers
and all that stuff when you can say
look at all the games I've played and the stuff.
Yeah.
What's that like I guess
always having to prove yourself over again?
I mean we've gotta prove ourself
all over again in the NFL anyway,
so I mean it kinda gets frustrating,
but I just kinda really remove myself
from social media so I just block all that out.
I just daily deposits every day.
I don't worry about none of that.
You can control what you can control,
and I can't control none of that stuff,
so I just do what I do.
Take questions up top.
A.J., you talked about
on Twitter I know that your coach said you
guys are the next real D.K., next O.B.J. and Jarvis Landry.
Do you see your trajectory kinda
going in that way as a quick success story
and then maybe see you guys quicken back up like they did?
I was hoping someone would ask that question
because I need to clear that up.
When I said that, I was meaning like from the same school.
We're two guys that are top athletes
and Jarvis and Odell were just the same way.
They didn't go in the first round,
but hopefully me and D.K. go in the first round.
And that what's I mean it from the same team
and that would be huge from that standpoint.
I cannot say what's gonna happen with me in the league.
I can't tell the future, but that's what I meant.
What do you think Jordan proved today?
Jordan was perfect.
[Female Interviewer] Thinking about how
many players in your class are gonna get drafted,
what you think that says about the program
and the hard work that goes into training?
If you put in the work, everything will handle itself.
That's what we did. I know that's what us three did.
We worked 24-7 even while nobody watches.
Like I said, that stuff gonna handle itself
if you put in the grind, you know?
It always comes to the light.
If you look at the draft
and the draft order talking about going in the first round,
is it more important for you to go high
or is it just get picked by a good team
with the ability to walk?
Of course we all wanna go to a good team
that's benefit us, but you know you can't
control none of that stuff so I'll be blessed
just to go in the first round or to go period anyway,
but I can't control that.
Up top.
Two questions A.J.
First, foremost, have you maybe taken a minute
to maybe reflect on the last month,
what has the past month and season been for you?
Including the combine?
Yes.
Well before the combine was kinda nerveracking,
but after the combine I was just
chilling and working out, you know?
I'm back at home now, so I get to be around my family.
The second question:
got any draft day plans, chicken wings?
Yeah, chicken wings is gonna be at my draft day party.
[laughing]
I have to, but I'm gonna spend it with my family back home.
They're important to me.
They deserve to enjoy that too.