The career isn’t guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

It’s always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That’s something we missed last year. We’d get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn’t get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

The first thing I thought was, man, normally that's us coming up with that type of play.

All year long we had been putting teams in a position where they had the ball in bad field position.

All year long we had the ball bouncing our way. You get a couple of balls and turnovers that ordinarily you probably wouldn't have gotten. It's just one of those things.

How can you not be aware of the fact that your fans who were rooting for you in the first and second quarters when you were dominating on defense now seem like the air's just been deflated and taken out of them? Your job is to try to do your job and actually try to get that crowd back into it.

I just know it hurts. I got up and it didn't feel right.

I'm surprised that it healed up as quickly as it did, ... but in this industry, you've got to be out there and you've got to play.

I mean, yeah, I had a great tackle on him. It just seems like so long ago. But it was one of those things where you arrive at the right place at the right time and the ball pops out. But to me, that's the past. It's a new day.