 In Atlanta, two NFL Draft prospects prepare for the 2020 NFL Combine, Michael Picney, a linebacker from the University of Miami, and Hakim Adenigie, a left tackle from Kansas. The first serve down in conversion. Stanley, down the middle, find his man with 14-year line. Candler, number 35, watch for hip. Follow the tight end here. Perfect. Both prospects will educate themselves on what's to come in the Combine. A couple of NFL draft prospects that are getting ready for the NFL Combine, offensive tackle out of Kansas. Hakim Adenigie is joining us as well as from the U, Michael Picney, a linebacker. You guys are being represented by Derek Gilmore with Day 1 Sports in Entertainment. Michael, tell me a little bit about what made you guys decide to go with Derek? What was that process like? Derek was real consistent, man. Derek's been pursuing me and my family for a long time, and I got nothing but love from Derek. I got nothing but great feedback from Derek. I look at him like one of my parents. In a way, I call him uncle every now and then. He's like an uncle. Derek Gilmore is an NFL agent that founded Day 1 Sports and Entertainment, an agency that represents both Picney and Adenigie. Some of his biggest clients include Mike Evans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Super Bowl champion Mitchell Schwartz of the Kansas City Chiefs. Just his authenticity, his persistence, and his resume. I joke with my girlfriend. Derek's the only person that responds to me faster than her. I'll text Derek and before I even finish writing the text, he's calling me. I'm like, dang. He probably doesn't cook as good a meal as what your girlfriend does, though, right? Nah. Combine's fascinating. It's become two guys. Let's face it. It's become a show. It's a chance for you guys to really showcase physically what you are, not just from a football perspective like we talked about. You guys looking forward to all that, showing up for the cameras and being a part of all that? As a competitor, it's going to be fun. Even though it's not football, I'm going to try and be first in everything. The prospects will go through a series of workshops to help prepare for the NFL Combine. Former players, scouts, and general managers will break down film and conduct mock interviews. I got drafted by the Panthers. Played for four throughout. That led to a job at the Cleveland Browns in the player personnel department. I was in scouting, college scouting, and draft prep. I was with the Browns from 2002 to 2010. Business professionals give advice on managing income and dealing with the media. We're going to just go through the Combine books. We prepared some books for you to help me in the process. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about that. Shout out to my management. They want sports. They did a great job of just bringing a bunch of guys and helping us out with the little things that I never even knew that went into the Combine process. I feel like I came out of the day better. The media will support you. The media will twist stories in your favor. Every single media person you meet, you hear the media talk about guys all the time. Like right now, Antonio Brown is a mess, but he dogged a lot of media. To get into the pro football hall of fame, guess who votes for you? But why don't guys think about that at the beginning? So that's one thing I teach you guys is like the media, use them to your advantage. And they want to be running up to you after every game because you're the best interview. And remain a resident of the state of Florida so this way you don't have to deal with the home state tax. The federal government will no longer allow you to take deductions for training vitamins and things of that nature, but some localities will and will deduct those costs that we told you to hold the receipts for. So it said if I had a wife and she didn't pay that tax to that effect, me too. So you want to take this to the Combine. Every team is in here. And then you also have the offensive schemes, defensive schemes in here, everything. But this is, you know, that they ran last year, but this is updated. So for example, Garrett went to the Giants. So he, I mean, this is updated to where the offensive scheme that he ran at Dallas. So, for instance, you go into the meeting and you'll know, okay, I got me with the Giants. So the first thing I will do is I will look at it. You know who Joe judges? I must be on who the hell Joe judges, you know what I mean? I would say the GM and the head coach. Those two people, you want to mostly the head coach. Head coach number one and GM number two. Make sure you make an eye contact with them, even though there's going to be a ton of people in the room. I think it was good to get like a good run through of, you know, the process and how things are going on and certain questions to get asked that might not have thought of before and getting prepared. And then also, you know, stuff that's going to be important like the financials and the taxes throughout my career and after. As the prospects continue to gather valuable information, the best way to prepare for the combine is to up the intensity. Tell me, how old were you when we started playing football? Yeah, because I can remember, um, flag football was three or four. How would you describe your work ethic? My work ethic? I second from nine. What kind of leader are you? Whatever leader you need to be. It's been years where I've been a vocal leader. It's been years when I've been a guy that just, you know, sit back and did my job and made sure my shit was right before anything. This is just a real strength I have. I would say a strength that I have is my consistency, you know, as a person and a football player. Are you going to do everything at the combine? Yes, I plan to. What are you going to run? What do you think I'm going to run? I'm asking you. What do you think I'm going to run? I'm going to shout out to people at the combine. I thought another excellent thing that you did was when I asked you your goals, right, your first goal was to win a Super Bowl. You know what I mean? It was a team oriented goal, right? It wasn't, now you did have individual goals, which are fine. But I think having that team goal first, that's important, you know, that's what they want to hear. I understand what you're saying about coming in somewhere and having like a mentor to learn from, but I would just be careful about, and you kind of cleaned it up saying, I think you got to be like, hey, I'm ready to come in and contribute right away. Like I'm not, you know, while I'm contributing and helping, I'm also, you know, I'm also going to be learning from guys. At the combine, sometimes interviews aren't conducted by just one person, but by the majority of a team's coaching staff and what is called the war room. Why do you play football? Ever since I was a little kid, you know, five, six years old watching, watching the NFL on TV. I just knew this is what I want to do. Like that's my passion. What is your game like? Physical, you know, tenacious. If I put that tape on over there and I show a guy, run up in your mouth, would that be physical or would that not be physical? You're not going to put that tape on, see a guy run up in my mouth. I wouldn't, there's no tape on no, but you catching a block and the guy getting up underneath you and jarring your head. That tape don't exist? I think I can find that tape if you want to watch it. What do you wish your coach had taught you? Well, I wish he had taught me. As far as like football. Anything, what do you wish he would have taught you? That's a good question. I'm actually not sure there's nothing that I could think of that's helped me back though, make me say there's something I wish he had taught me. So you know everything? I don't know everything. So there's nothing he could have taught you? But I don't know what I don't know. It's not his ability to say the same question. Right, nothing at all. And it's not that he's dumb because you can tell by just talking to him he doesn't lack intellectual capacity. But you're not a dog. Right. If you don't play like a dude that's like, you gotta come across like, I need to run him out of there. I won't get this dude fired. Every single week is my job to do that play against fire. They want to cut him after he plays against me. Everybody that talked to me, the most impact I'll probably say is Ray Farmer. Probably because he gave like a direct perspective since he's been a GM before and sort of the things that they ask and they look for and I feel like that's really helpful and I'm going to go back and work on those things and get prepared for the combine. Are you a partier? No, sir. Have you been a partier? Yes, sir. Okay. Talk to me about that part of your life. So that part of my life was earlier in my college career. I was considered a part, I don't consider myself a party. I mean, you know, in my opinion I'm not really a party guy. You know, I just feel like I got a personality about me and I got like a, you know, I'm not just a quiet guy, you know. I know how to, you know, be, have fun and, you know, but it's a necessary thing. I don't get in trouble and nothing like that. I just, you know, I know how to have a good time. Your team, you can tell yourself a team for this guy. I am. So do you feel like everything, you wouldn't do anything to be selfish? No. Just realize the setup is coming, dawg. I hear it. I hear it. I hear it. I don't want to get your heads up, it's coming. This law is just plain right here. You know they got you. So you're going to knock off the ball first of all. I'm going to rewind in a second. You're going to knock off the ball. Uh-oh. He know now. Boom. You step on this guy. This is why you lose games because you give people, give them away. You didn't even really call stickers. You didn't get caught. Right. So, but you got to realize I got called after that the next day of meetings. I had to apologize to my group, my dude. Like, I know I was wrong. Like, I knew it when I did it. Now why I did it. I don't know. I didn't do the four on me to play before or something. But I don't even remember. But it was stupid. I shouldn't have done it. I could have cost my team. I could have cost myself. That's not indicative of who I am. I got caught up in the moment. And yeah, I didn't. Like, that was stupid. Just all them guys in the room just giving me little feedback on how to say words and how to break down sentences. It's not about what you say. It's how you say it. And just breaking it down and not putting yourself and falling into traps that they have put you in. As combine training begins to wrap up, a denigy, who is of Nigerian descent, gets some words of encouragement from the Nigerian-born Christian Okoye. I went to Kansas. Oh, Kansas? Oh, yeah. Oh, shoot. That's it. So how you doing? How you feeling? I'm good. I've been taking it all in. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's what I dreamed of. I just was, right? For real. That's good. No result, right? That's facts. That's facts. Got to make the most of it. I'm good, man. It's exciting. I wish you good luck, man. I wish you luck. I appreciate that. After a long weekend of combine workshops, both Adenigy and Pinkney are ready for the next step. Why should I be starting off as a lineman in NFL? Because I have all the ability. My mindset is different and I'm ready to go. This is what I've dreamed of. My passion. I'm going to give everything I have. I kind of speak to this when talking, but I'm going to give everything I have. I'm going to be great. No, I will. Why does it have to be a linebacker in NFL? I mean, you guys go watch the tape, man. If I feel like you put on my tape, you feel like he should be in the NFL. He should play on Sundays. He should be one of the premier players. He's been doing it for a long time. He's been doing it for four years. And he's been doing it at a high level for four years. And I think I earn the respect throughout the country to be able to say he should be on that next level.