It's really a football town and the football players are treated like royalty. But I don't get big headed -- I'll stay humble.

It fit me and felt like home. Akron has good players and good coaches.

I'll have to study more. We'll have to put in a certain amount of study hours. I'll also have to wake up on my own and decide whether to go to class.

I'm going to have to cover receivers. I'm already a run stopper. In college the receivers run 4.4 (40-yard dashes), so I'll have to work on my footwork.

[Tillman and Harris] are good football players,

We played some really good football in the first half. For the last 20 minutes, it was like the siege of the Alamo, but we defended really well.