The Raiders surprised some people by taking Clelin Ferrell at No. 4 in the NFL Draft.
Not that the Ted Hendricks Award winner wasn’t a great player for national champion Clemson. It’s just that most people pegged him as a mid-to-late first-round pick since Khalil Mack, for example, had gone No. 5 overall.
Ferrell, the youngest of nine kids, sat down to discuss the term “rookie,” criticism over how high he was drafted and the pressure to live up to Mack’s legacy.
You don’t like being called a rookie. How come?
My coaches don’t like it, either.