what was more of a transition going from high school to college or um College to the NFL because you mentioned you know you have to kind of find your own resources in the NFL what was what do you think I would say probably high school to college um they're both different they're both very very different you go from high school to where you're young you're around your family all the time you're around your friends you you're in an area that you're very comfortable with and then all of a you're completely going to another place uh in that situation I had the opportunity to choose where I went and obviously I chose Alabama it was the first time I had ever been away from home for a very extended period of time even though I was only two and a half hours away which doesn't seem like anything now that I'm 28 hours away Up in Vegas doesn't seem like much of anything but I would say that was probably the bigger adjustment just because when you come in from high school you're a lot of guys are still 17 18 years old I was 18 at the time and you haven't really grown into yourself you know you're still growing you might get taller things like that and so man it was it it was a really hard adjustment um it was really difficult at that time but coming to Vegas was was difficult too you know like I said um going 28 hours away into a place I've never been before I came to Vegas the furthest west I had ever been was Texas um and so it was completely different but the biggest thing I noticed from the NF or from college to the NFL is just how precise everything is and then just how good every single person you play against is going to be you know you can in college you can play against a guy on a Saturday night from Mississippi State who is a sixe senior who just happens to be starting at left guard because he's waited his turn and now he's getting an opportunity but after his last game he's going to go work at JP Morgan or something like that but in the NFL you're playing against all NFL players some guys have been doing this for two years some guys have been doing it for I have a guy on my team who's going in year 12 so I think that they're both different challenges challenges um but I would say that probably coming out of high school and then going to college was the most difficult the transition from college to the NFL do you think that being at Alabama around so many other future NFL players kind of helped you make that you know transition and adapt I think it I think it helped some but I also think that for majority of people when you go from college the NFL the jump is so big and the when you're in the NFL the amount like the margin of error is so thin it's so thin like you can be playing a certain technique and then at last moment you put your eyes in the wrong place and then the running back is is in your Gap like my defensive coordinator says he always says every running back in the NFL is one to 32 there's I mean there's only 32 people in the world who are starting NFL running backs and so they're all special um and so I mean it I think being in college at Alabama did help because of physicality and playing against guys at practice like JC lean who was a top 10 pick Evan Neil um jedrick Willis Alex Leatherwood Lon Dickerson all of those guys who have been successful in the NFL and who hopefully will be in the um talking about JC I think that did help some though