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Fun read.
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71 - T Trent Williams
"There were two factors in it, but the most influential was, once I figured out I would be playing left tackle for good, you know, when I got to high school, I didn't know much about the position. I was just 14, 15. So, I watched a lot of football and wanted to learn who the best left tackle was in the league. I happened to watch a Seattle Seahawks game and in pre-game introductions, the TV announcer said, 'Walter Jones, this is hands down one of the best left tackles in the league.' And I said, 'Oh, okay!' I started keeping up with him for a few weeks, and I noticed he wasn't 6-8 like Jonathan Ogden or Orlando Pace.
All those guys were so huge, and I was only scraping about 6 feet around then. I was like, 'Well, he's only 6-5 and performing at the highest level,' and that gave me hope that maybe I could make it. And I kept keeping up with him, and I saw how athletic he was and good with his footwork, and I was like, man, we just had so many similarities with the athletic abilities we possessed. And I was always No. 70 because my big brother was No. 70, but I was like, 'You know what? This is a chance to gain my own identity and also take after the guy that the guy that I feel like influenced me in playing the position.'
That's where 71 came about and I haven't got off it yet. I even have it tattooed big as day on my thigh. So, I really can't change it. When I first came here [in 2010], I was 72 for the whole preseason. I wanted to get 71 from Mike Williams, but he was a vet, I was a rookie, and he wanted astronomical dollars for it. I was like, 'Damn. I'm stuck in between.' I'm kind of superstitions and I was kind of scared because I felt like I really needed that number to play.
But, I went with it, and he ended up getting blood clots and put on IR, and when they put him on IR, I got 71, and so I felt like it was meant to have it. I'm not saying I wouldn't have gotten desperate and decided to buy it from Mike, but it worked out that I didn't have to."
Excerpt
71 - T Trent Williams
"There were two factors in it, but the most influential was, once I figured out I would be playing left tackle for good, you know, when I got to high school, I didn't know much about the position. I was just 14, 15. So, I watched a lot of football and wanted to learn who the best left tackle was in the league. I happened to watch a Seattle Seahawks game and in pre-game introductions, the TV announcer said, 'Walter Jones, this is hands down one of the best left tackles in the league.' And I said, 'Oh, okay!' I started keeping up with him for a few weeks, and I noticed he wasn't 6-8 like Jonathan Ogden or Orlando Pace.
All those guys were so huge, and I was only scraping about 6 feet around then. I was like, 'Well, he's only 6-5 and performing at the highest level,' and that gave me hope that maybe I could make it. And I kept keeping up with him, and I saw how athletic he was and good with his footwork, and I was like, man, we just had so many similarities with the athletic abilities we possessed. And I was always No. 70 because my big brother was No. 70, but I was like, 'You know what? This is a chance to gain my own identity and also take after the guy that the guy that I feel like influenced me in playing the position.'
That's where 71 came about and I haven't got off it yet. I even have it tattooed big as day on my thigh. So, I really can't change it. When I first came here [in 2010], I was 72 for the whole preseason. I wanted to get 71 from Mike Williams, but he was a vet, I was a rookie, and he wanted astronomical dollars for it. I was like, 'Damn. I'm stuck in between.' I'm kind of superstitions and I was kind of scared because I felt like I really needed that number to play.
But, I went with it, and he ended up getting blood clots and put on IR, and when they put him on IR, I got 71, and so I felt like it was meant to have it. I'm not saying I wouldn't have gotten desperate and decided to buy it from Mike, but it worked out that I didn't have to."
