Yeah, CJ that's my, that's my brother.
I've known him since since middle school.
We've been we've been close for a while
and it was really cool throughout
this process to have someone who who
I was going through it with. You know,
I that that was the only person I was.
I was blessed to have other people and
other teammates that also we were we're
going through things the same time but you
know we're working out together a lot.
That's something I'm I'm really
close with and have been with for,
been close with for a while and you know.
This was it was a big night for for both
of us for everyone was able to realize
their their dreams and and accomplice
at that goal last night and you know for
us to to be in the in the same room,
the same building for that,
it was super special.
So I hold on to that forever.
Hey Bryce Pat Walter from
WRL and Raleigh from here.
How do you kind of go about
winning over that locker room and.
Yeah, I want to do everything I can
to earn the respect of my peers,
of the guys in the locker room,
everyone in the building.
I'm super grateful for,
for what's happening in my past and,
you know, and for being selected where I was.
But I know that doesn't
entitle me to anything.
You know, it's on me to to to prove myself,
to to show up every day and work and
earn the respect of the people around me.
And, you know, that's something
I'm looking forward to starting to
do. Price over here. Jared Bell,
USA TODAY, welcome to Carolina.
In the NFL, can you tell me a
little bit of what you know about
the Panthers coaching staff?
Have you researched what Frank Wright
did in terms of assembling that staff
and how do you think that support
will help you in your development?
Yeah, yeah, definitely. You know,
I know very well about by the staff and.
You know I I think that I've been
able to talk to everyone in the
organization and it it's so clear
how how how much of a plan was behind
it from bringing in coach from from
Coachrike having the experience that
he has and in building this this staff
has been here you know bringing in
you know helping to bring in and kind
of mess mess some offenses as well
with a lot of stuff that they that
they've done in the run game and pass
game with with play action stuff.
And you know I'm I'm obviously learning
now the the ins and outs of it but
I've been able to to to to talk to
everyone and to hear their philosophy
and I feel like it's an amazing.
Opportunity for me just to just
to learn a lot to be able to grow
and I'm super excited
to that end. Just to follow up
Jim Caldwell in particular,
knowing the track record he
has with other quarterbacks.
Have you met him and and got
any sense of how you would
work together with him?
Yeah, yeah, I I, I
met him. You know we we had
conversations he was in very involved
in the process as well as well.
And you know we've been able to to
have a lot of conversations about again
his philosophy and the philosophy of
of the entire staff and collective.
And again for me, I feel like it's a
great opportunity for me to learn,
for me to grow.
And you know this this coaching staff is,
you know they they really,
really stuck out to me honestly
throughout this processing.
You know even in the short times
that I had in the visits here and
and the the the short meetings
that we are allowed to have,
I was able to learn.
Learned so much in that short time
and now being able to to be here
on 2470 and this be my my job.
I I'm super excited for the growth
that that I'm going to be able to have
with Carolina Blitz.
Welcome to Charlotte.
The draft process is one
that's pretty strenuous.
What did you learn about yourself
during this, this time frame?
Yeah, you know, actually I think
I learned a really valuable lesson
throughout this process. You know,
at the beginning it was just really,
it was really weird not being in
control of what was going to happen.
You know, there's so much,
so much movement throughout this,
this process. There's so much that,
you know, it was out of my control.
And you know, I think early on I tried to,
you know, I tried to put.
My energy and and you know trying to
figure out what was going to happen
or trying to figure out you know
what what could I do what can I do.
And figuring you know trying to
navigate all that and you know
through that I was I was humbled.
And during that process and
understanding that you know the stuff
that that I can't control it this big
picture stuff in my life like that
that's not up for me to to decide.
You know I'm. I don't leave my life.
I I let that up, let that up to God.
And I I think it was a big
lesson throughout this process.
So to take that step back,
I'm do everything that I I can do
and and and try to do everything I
can to control my my circumstance,
what I can do.
But you know the stuff that I can't,
it's up to God.
And I think throughout this process,
it being so long,
there being so much that happened,
it was a really big reminder that for me.