9.27 Relative Athletic Score<\/a>. Julian is like a missile tackling running backs and wide receivers to the ground, stopping them in their tracks. A hand in glove fit for this top 5 in the league defense. \u201cI am here with the fam,\u201d Julian told Durde, and you could audibly hear his family cheering for him, getting onto the team he wanted to be a part of.<\/p>\n\u201cI know. Enjoy it, bro,\u201d Durde said in response calmly, with a smile. You can tell he is excited that the young man is living out his dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are you feeling right now?\u201d asked the Seahawks defensive passing game coordinator, Karl Scott. \u201cI\u2019m feeling good, man! I\u2019m feeling good!\u201d Julian said.<\/p>\n
You can hear in the tone of his voice that the new member of the Seahawks was dancing on cloud nine. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of conversations about you. Man, I\u2019m happy you\u2019re one of us, man,\u201d Karl informed Julian, grinning from ear to ear. You can tell that the former Razorback was itching to get ready to work and be a Seahawk talking to his position coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongrats my boy,\u201d said former Seahawks defensive back and now DBs coach Neiko Thorpe. He\u2019ll be able to pass on the knowledge of playing cornerback in the NFL to Julian. He asked how Julian was doing, and after he responded that he was good (for obvious reasons) he asked Thorpe, \u201cHow about yourself?\u201d This simple response shows the high character of Julian, and one of the reasons Seattle selected him in the third round. Mike looks for high character players to be a part of the locker room, on top of being high level performers on the field. I believe Thorpe\u2019s response to Julian\u2019s question is how not only the coaching staff feels about selecting Julian, but how the 12\u2019s feel,<\/p>\n
\u201cMan. Blessed, man, blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Neal\u2019s enthusiasm is audibly contagious as Mike Macdonald gets on the phone. \u201cYou there brother? Still alive?\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,59395,718,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-875134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-draft","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470854762171154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}