Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Washington State LB Daiyan Henley during the media breakfast in Mobile, Alabama at the Senior Bowl. I reached out to Henley first to ask him about his transfer from Nevada where he played college ball for five years to Washington State where he would be named All-Pac-12 Conference First Team in his first and only season with the Cougars.
“The biggest thing for me, just making that transition, was to show that football is football no matter what level you’re playing at,” Henley said. “And not only is that a big point for me, like to sit here and say I went from the Mountain West to the Pac-12, or from a Group of Five to a Power Five… was just to make that statement that I could’ve did that just to make it to the NFL.