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TheFootballExpert.com: What is your accurate height, weight and
forty time?
Marcus Hamilton: 5’11”
½, 191, 4.47
TheFootballExpert.com: What position do you expect to play in the
NFL?
Marcus Hamilton: Cornerback
TheFootballExpert.com: What do you feel is your greatest strength as
a football player and what area do you feel you need to improve in?
Marcus Hamilton: Strength= my ability to grab the
interception and bait the QB to think that the receiver is open then
jump the
route and get the interception. I do
think I need to improve on my ability to play off coverage without
getting to
deep on the WR.
TheFootballExpert.com: What NFL player do you do you think you
compare favorably to?
Marcus Hamilton: I don’t know if there is only one player
that I compare to, but since I watch a lot of corners play I have tried
to pick
a little bit from each one and put it towards my game. So I can’t say
there is
only one.
TheFootballExpert.com: Who is the best player you have faced during
your career?
Marcus Hamilton: Calvin Johnson (GT)
TheFootballExpert.com: What is your greatest football moment to
date?
Marcus Hamilton: either beating Florida
State in
05 and getting an
interception in that game, or getting the game winning INT versus Minnesota
in the Music City
bowl in 05, or maybe even ending my career at Scott Stadium (our home
field)
with an interception to seal the game.
TheFootballExpert.com: Did you have a favorite pro team growing
up? Favorite player?
Marcus Hamilton: Favorite Team-Atlanta Falcons, Favorite
Player- Deion Sanders
TheFootballExpert.com: When you get your first professional paycheck
what is the first thing you will buy?
Marcus Hamilton: Depending on the contract I will probably
buy a car.
TheFootballExpert.com: How have you been preparing and training
since the end of your college season?
Marcus Hamilton:
I have been down in Davie,
FL, training at
Perfect Competition
improving my ability and overall speed. I have been eating healthier,
just
taking care of my body, etc.
TheFootballExpert.com: Do you have any goals in mind when it comes
to the NFL Draft?
Marcus Hamilton: I have some but I would rather keep those
private if that is okay.
TheFootballExpert.com: What is the one thing you will most miss at
college?
Marcus Hamilton: My teammates and all the fun we had. Just the overall college atmosphere.
TheFootballExpert.com: Where is the best place to get a bite to eat
in Charlottesville?
Marcus Hamilton: Well it depends on what kind of food you
are looking for:
Seafood- Andersons
Buffet- The Wood Grill
Expensive- Aberdeen
Barn
TheFootballExpert.com: What was your favorite college course and
why?
Marcus Hamilton: Sociology-Criminology. This is because the class focuses on how
criminals work and how society views it. Among others.
TheFootballExpert.com: What have former UVA players now in the NFL
told you about preparing for the league?
Marcus Hamilton: Not much. But just work hard, and it is a
lot like being a freshman in college again.
TheFootballExpert.com: With AL Groh (UVA’s head coach) as a former
NFL head coach, what advice has he given you for the NFL?
Marcus Hamilton: Just work hard and the more you can do as
a player the better off you will be.
TheFootballExpert.com:
Any pregame rituals? Food? Music?
Marcus Hamilton:
Food, whatever they
serve, usually chicken,
pasta and stringbeans. Breakfast: just eggs, bagel, and French toast,
maybe
yogurt depending on the time of the game. Music:
Gospel.
TheFootballExpert.com: Do you read mock drafts or what draft
experts have to say?
Marcus Hamilton: not at all
TheFootballExpert.com: What do you plan to do once your playing
career is over?
Marcus Hamilton: Get into broadcasting, maybe even a little
acting.
TheFootballExpert.com: Thanks for taking the time to answer some
questions and good luck!
Marcus Hamilton: Thank you very much and BE BLESSED!!!
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