He calls me a lot and tells me to go to Missouri. It would be nice to go to college with somebody you know. I grew up a K-State fan. I lived in Kansas until the end of sixth grade. I lived in Kansas City, Kan. But at this point, I want to wait until the end of my senior season. We have a lot of goals we want to accomplish next year.

I didn't think I would get any offers, especially this early. Then I got the offer from Iowa first, and I was kind of shocked. I didn't think they could offer you this early, but now it's all starting to sink in. I'm going to have a chance to play football for a long time, and that's really cool.

I used to be really fat. When I was in middle school, I was 5-foot-11 and really big. I played football, but I really wasn't that good. I just didn't like to run a whole lot because I was so big.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back

It's not about the external things that surround you, but it's about YOU.
How you operates your life, how you take your path and walk with it.

It had not been the first time that we had said something like this to each other. It was not like guys went around saying it all the time to each other, but over the course of the years of being the best of friends; we had said it to each other. Justin had been the one to say it more often to me. It took me quite a few times before I could say it back to him. This was something much deeper and we both knew it.