I mean, it's all perspective and you know, whatever you think it's small or not. You know, I'm a kid 500 students, but it was a little farm farm town in Colorado with the one stop light, which you know, it was one of those towns where you drive through like, who would live here? Like that was eating Colorado, baby. Like, you know, I love eating Colorado because they had so much support in that town of the local teams, athletics. So shout out to Eaton for always having my back. But yeah, it was, it was a school where we were a good sports school. And you know, my senior year, my junior year had a good year. My senior year had 43 touchdowns, ran for 2,300 yards. I was averaging 240 yards of rushing a game, a few passing yards in there as well. So I was absolutely destroying everybody, which if you're at a small school, what do you got to do to stand out? You got to do that. You got to stand out like, Oh my God, this guy is going crazy. And that yeah, that's kind of the high school portion and then, you know, what happened to my senior year.

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happened? So yeah, so going into the recruiting process, you know, I have a teammate that he was our tight end and, you know, I pretty much was the offense, but he was just 6'4". He's still one of my friends today. He's the long snapper for the Raiders actually. He had all these schools coming in these D1s, you know, TCU, CSU, you know, Boulder, all these D1s coming to talk to him and no, no one will talk to me. Like no one will talk to me. I got out there scoring five touchdowns a game running for a first down every time I touch the ball, no one is talking to me. And so finally he's through all those and all the smaller schools start coming in. And you know, I have a couple of small schools that talk to me and they come and sit down with me and they're like, Hey man, you know, we want you to come to our team, you know, we're thinking about putting you at like corner or bringing you on as an athlete to see where you fit in. And that was like, that's BS man. Like I'm not, I'm not going to your school. I didn't tell him that, but in my mind, I'm like, I'm not going, I want to play running back. And so I offered me to play running back. And so Western Colorado University, the only university that came to me was like, Hey man, our senior running back just graduated. We want you to come play running back. Boom, you got me. Like that was the only offer that I had. And it was the only offer that I had to actually use the play, my position that I wanted to play. And so the day I graduated, like I was ready to get out of my situation. I'm like finally freedom. So literally the day I graduated, my truck was packed up. Like I told you, I hated taking care of all that stuff. I was like, give me a way. And so truck was packed up through my hat in the air. I'm going up to gunneson, Colorado. I'm going to start, you know, I'm grinding with the boys up there in the summer. And that's where I had a rude awakening of what Western football was going to be like when I got there, because I think we had four seniors on the team. I didn't really realize that. So what does that tell you? That means a lot of guys quit or dropped out or got kicked off. And so I got up there and I immediately was standing out because I was immediately one of the strongest guys. And I just, my passion in me caring for the game was so much greater than a lot of the guys there that I was a little like shocked by like how much I cared and how much people didn't care. And I think it's because I came from a perspective like this is a journey. This is a way out for me. This is a way for me to better my life and give myself a better opportunity to go forward. And so that's how I approached the game. It wasn't just I'm here to play football and learn. Like no, this is for me to start something better for my life so I can get on my own feet and do something that I want to do.