I understand why he can do both (offense and defense) because he's an amazing athlete. He's agile, with great feet and great quickness.

Alex was fabulous. We know we've got a great goalie; Alex gives our defense confidence.

I never had a player come so far so quickly. I'm not surprised at anything he does.

I'd like to say we made him into a player. But we didn't. We showed him how to block and who to block and he took it from there. He's just a natural.

He said he wanted to play defensive end, and he could have. But we were in bad need of a tight end.

At Shaw, we didn't allow seniors to go out for football. I just felt it wasn't fair to the seniors. But we were desperate.