Potential Top-10 Pick Aaron Curry Discusses his Brand You Media Training and NFL Combine Prep Work with Sports Illustrated.

 

Thursday February 19, 2009

Aaron Curry’s future is on display at the NFL Combine. Drills begin this weekend and run through Tuesday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis

 

Curry, a linebacker from Wake Forest and potential top-10 selection in April’s NFL Draft, worked with Don Yaeger and his 180 Communications team at Athletes’ Performance in Tempe, Ariz., in preparation for his individual team interviews.

 

Yaeger has been partnered with API the past three years and worked with nearly 200 players. Yaeger trained the past two top overall selections in JaMarcus Russell of the Oakland Raiders (2007) and Jake Long of the Miami Dolphins (2008), in addition to this past season’s NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, quarterback Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons.

 

Yaeger and his team worked with nearly 60 players at API’s three facilities in Tempe, Los Angeles and Gulf Breeze, Fla., the past two months. The group included potential top-10 selections quarterback Matt Stafford of Georgia, offensive tackle Jason Smith of Baylor, defensive end Brian Orakpo of Texas and Curry.

 

Curry, who has been discussing his draft preparation in a diary with SI.com, also praised Yaeger for his Media Training tips.

 

“Thank You for preparing me for this entire interviewing process,” Curry said. “I will continue to build my BRAND: motivated and, more importantly, disciplined.”  

 

The mission of the interview is to really find out how much the players love football, what they know about the game and an indication of their football intelligence. Word will travel fast about which players flop in the interview process and which guys light up the room.

 

Vince Newsome, the Baltimore Ravens’ director of pro personnel, finds the interview sessions essential when evaluating players.

"You want to see how the player competes, see how he focuses," Newsome told NFL.com.

"And one of the most important things is to understand how important this opportunity is to him and how seriously does he take it. You can see that in the interview process. You are about to make a guy a very wealthy man and he has to be someone you can put your arms around and say 'we are going to be together for at least the next four years and hopefully more.' You want to be able to fully embrace that. A lot of players don't understand that. This is not the only step to getting there, but it is one piece of the puzzle.

“One big piece of the process."

Read more of Aaron Curry's secondary diary posted on SI.com

For more information on the training of these players, please contact
Don Yaeger or Jim Henry at (850) 412-0300.
SOURCE 180 Communications

Don Yaeger, or Jim Henry, +1-850-412-0300, both of 180 Communications

 

Visit www.BrandYouMediaTraining.com

“Thank You for preparing me for this entire interviewing process. I will continue to build my BRAND: motivated and, more importantly, disciplined.”

  -- Aaron Curry, LB
Wake Forest.  

 

 

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