On being drafted by the Rams:  “It feels great to be a Ram!”

On knowing if he was going to be drafted by the Rams:  “No.  My brother was sitting there and said, ‘St. Louis is going to take you.’  I told him not to say that because he was going to jinx me.  I thought that they were not going to pick me, but pick somebody else.  St. Louis came up and I stood up against the wall and put my phone down.  Next thing I know my phone was ringing.  I said, ‘It’s them! It’s them! It’s them!’”

On Bill Kollar:  “He is great.  I like him a lot.  When I first met him I thought that he was kind of rough, but we sat down and we talked and got a feel for one another and that was really cool.  My roommate knew Coach Kollar and he said that if I go to the league, the he was the best person that I would want to work with.  His mom went to high school with Coach Kollar.”

On moving from quarterback to defensive end:  “That was crazy.  I thought my days of football were done.  When they told me that I was going to play defensive end, my jaw hit the floor.  I was shocked.  I didn’t think that I was going to be able to make the transition.  First I was a quarterback and now I have to put my hands in the dirt.”

On being ineligible hurting his draft position:  “It probably did, but it’s about what God has set for me.  This is the path that he wanted me to walk, so it is the path that I walk.  I’m not worried about that.  I am a Ram right now, so all that stuff is just o.k.  I am a Ram now.”

On how many NFL teams worked him out:  “Individually, about four.  Then I had the Pro Day, and everybody was there.

On having a big party:  “No, just my family and a couple of friends from the area that I grew up with.  It’s a big thing for my family.  When I went to college, it was a big thing, because nobody really made it out of the area I’m from (Punta Gorde, Fla.).