Updated: 7:00 PM EST Jan 16, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript J K. Thank you for your time today. Appreciate this. Take me back a little bit, too. Draft day you were sitting there second round thinking. Wait a second. Why am I still here? I know the Ravens were thrilled, but in Baltimore will tell you nobody thought are running back in the second round was coming. Can you take us through that a little bit? And what it meant to you to end up in Baltimore? Yeah. So, I mean, the more teams that kept passing bottles like, what is going on right now, you know? And then, uh, I got a call from a Baltimore Maryland number, and I was like, What? What I didn't like. I didn't think I didn't think of it like it didn't registered fast like that. It was the Baltimore Ravens, like, and then I thought about it was like and then I saw I answered the phone. It was It was it was Mr Eric, and it was It was like it was I was still a little upset about, like everything though, So I wasn't as excited at the moment. But then when I sat and thought about I was like you know, it's a great great team going to great organization. And so I was. I was thrilled to be a part of it. I'm glad they gave me a chance and you get to play with Lamar Jackson. And it's just, you know, obviously you did a lot of, you know, shotgun pistol zone, read stuff in college. But I mean to do it with someone like him. You can't. I mean, e you don't know until you know, right? And so you take me through kind of the beginning of that developing in that relationship just on the field. And what was that like? Is again? He's a unicorn. He's so special. Mhm. So, yes, it all started in a off season. You know, before we didn't even got to Baltimore because I was in South Florida and, of course, he was in South Florida. And so we linked up Thio, you know, throw some routes and just do things together. And, you know, it was at that moment I knew that it was gonna be a special moment. You know, this year because he's such a special guy, he has unbelievable talent, you know, he's a leader you know. So I'm glad I get to play with him. One thing I'm curious about and I think certainly for fans you're watching it. It looks like every time there's that read option and Lamar's deciding whether or not to give it to you or whether or not to keep it, it looks like a recipe for disaster. How do you guys manage not to screw that up when it seems that that would be so easy? What? What? What do you the technical? How do you do that? How do you avoid How do you know when they're just not ripped out of his hands or one? How does that work? Yes, So I mean, we got we have a good chemistry, you know? He's like, he's like a good friend of mine. So I think that carries on into that play, you know? So that's important for that. Yeah, And then, you know, we practice at it and you know, it just something that's just we're blessed that we could do and not, you know, mess up, you know, so hopefully we don't mess it up, you know, knock on wood. But the chemistry between us and It's not what we want to do, and that helps a lot. But on that play, are you always trying to grab the ball and then it's up to him Or like, how does How does this work? How can you explain that for the fans that don't make E. I don't understand it very well, either. Yes, always driven by him, you know, it's all his decision. I'm just feeling it. I'm just feeling it. And once I feel like he's giving it to me, then I clamp down on it. And then once I feel like he he's not gonna give it to me. He pulls it, you know? So it's all on him like it's not all on him, but it's his decision for sure, and it certainly has worked this year. I mean, your rookie campaign leading and all NFL running backs at just over six yards per carry. You get nine touchdowns, you know, setting a Ravens team record for rookies. Um, I mean, it is Is this kind of what you imagine? A vision? It could be, Yeah. Coming, coming in. I was when I when I drafted me, you know, because I'm a hard working person. So coming in, I was like, you know, I want to go in there and I wanna be legendary. I wanna be one of the, you know, wanna be one of the great, you know, in the Rookie year, you know, because that's that's my expectation is my standard that I hope for myself. But at the beginning of the year didn't go that way. It was process. It was much of a process. So I had to learn patience. And I had to learn all this, this new stuff that was, like, foreign to me, you know? So at the beginning of season was going on, I did not envision any of this stuff going on right now that I did that I've done, you know? So I just kept working hard. And next thing you know, it was like like I scored like, six times, and I was in a row each week and I didn't even notice it. I was just playing. I was just playing like I wouldn't worry about any of that stuff. The next thing you know, the record started coming, so it was just like, No, I mean when I first got here. I visited Banana. That vision went away for a little bit. It just back came back. But now it's back. What is interesting, though? I mean in this offense, because while it is the most prolific rushing offense in the NFL, it's not centered on one person. It's always gonna be basically a three headed attack. And knowing that you're you, you're not gonna get the 300 carriage. Ah, year. You know, the possibility that have those monster seasons probably doesn't exist in this offense. Is that okay with you? Yeah, but I just wanna win. I just wanna win a Super Bowl. That's the only thing on my mind, the stats and all the stuff that will come. I just want to win a Super Bowl. That's the most important thing to me. Next step to That's the Bills. What kind of challenges do they present for you Saturday night and obviously being a Ohio State guy, you're familiar with cold and maybe a little bit of snow? Maybe an advantage for you there? Yeah, So that team is they're great. They play hard, play discipline there. It's gonna be a tough challenge for sure. But it's playoff football, you know, in the second round to be that, to be exact, you know. So stakes are high teams teams are trying to play. They're trying to get to Super Bowl as well, you know? So it'll be a tough challenge, you know? And that's what I can't. That's what I wanna do. I wanna play in games like that. I wanna play intelligent games, you know, for for all the marbles, you know, so it'll be great. Ah, little bit away from football. What? Throughout that, You know, we're 10 months into this pandemic. What do you miss doing? What do you miss the most? Right now? I'm just going to the movies move. That was like one of my things to do. Like I like going to watch horror movies and movie theater like That's fun thing to me, you know? And e haven't been able to travel, you know. So hopefully you know, I'll be able to do that sooner or later, you know, because I like traveling and, you know, just you forget about I mean, you you take, you know, big gatherings for granted. We had it. Now it's like, Oh, man, you can't really do that anymore. So I miss all that stuff. But I'm still I like learning new things. So even though it's weird, uh, I find these years are these moments like pretty cool, you know, to be living through it, You know, even though it's not a good thing, I hope everyone's safe and all that, but it's kind of interesting. Thio go through something like this, you know? Oh, it's historic, there's no doubt about. I mean, we're living through moments in history now that are gonna be in the books for 100 years. We'll be talking about 2020 you know, and so many different fronts. You know, not just with the pandemic, but politically, there's just there's so much going on. Um, last thing I have for you then J. K. What makes you l o l What makes me l o l j k l o l ah. Lot of things. I laugh a lot, you know? So I do. I laugh a lot. So I mean, just, you know, people are funny if you just sit and watch people or things are, you know, animals. Things like that is pretty funny. Like that's just me. Pretty much everything makes me Hello. I'm pretty happy guy to be living. Who makes you laugh the most? So in that locker room. Oh, in the locker room. Whoa. That's a tough When, uh, Marcus Peters is pretty funny. Lamar is pretty funny. Nick boils funny. There's a lot of funny guys in the locker room. Now, that's hard. When I had to think about that one. Okay, We'll get back to you on that one. Hey, thank thank you. So much for your time. Stay healthy and best of luck to you in Buffalo. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Mhm.