Odds are this gained’t be the one time Cam Ward is on this space within the coming months.
Within the least, the star quarterback is anticipated to be a consideration for the Giants on the prime of the primary spherical of April’s NFL Draft.
He would welcome the chance to assist flip round Massive Blue.
“I know if they get a chance to get me, they’re going to get everything,” the Heisman Trophy finalist stated Friday on the Marriott Marquis in Midtown Manhattan. “They would be getting that dude. They would be getting somebody who is someone who doesn’t care about anything, just how he moves, how he operates on and off the field, is confident, somebody who is going to challenge himself more than he challenges the team. At the end of the day, wins mean everything. You’re getting a winner.”
The 6-foot-2 Ward described himself as a “low-key guy,” however the ACC Participant of the Yr talked a giant recreation, too.
Regardless of beginning his school profession at FCS program Incarnate Phrase, his rise to the highest of the game isn’t a shock to him.
He doesn’t imagine there may be any stress in sports activities.
He thinks he could make each throw.
He’s satisfied he’s the perfect participant, not to mention quarterback, on this draft.
Requested to explain himself with one phrase, he replied: “Dawg.”
“I think the tape tells you everything,” Ward stated. “I said it a lot of times: I’m the best player in the country. The tape says it all.”
Ward, 22, did present a humble aspect, pointing to areas of enchancment he could make, whether or not it was lacking receivers occasionally to taking too many sacks.
That’s nitpicking, nonetheless.
Ward loved a outstanding yr, going from an under-the-radar standout at Washington State to one in all 4 Heisman finalists after main Miami to its first 10-win marketing campaign in seven years.
Ward threw for 4,123 yards, accomplished a career-high 67.4 % of his passes and produced 40 whole touchdowns.
Regardless of Miami narrowly lacking the School Soccer Playoff, Ward continues to be dedicated to taking part in within the Hurricanes’ bowl recreation towards Iowa State on Dec. 28.
Closing out the yr with a victory is vital to him.
Then, it’s time to start to coach for the NFL Draft.
If Ward does land with the Giants, his arrival will include extraordinarily excessive expectations.
He shall be anointed because the savior, anticipated to assist carry the Giants again after one other misplaced season.
That doesn’t appear to hassle Ward.
“I don’t really believe in pressure,” stated the Davey O’Brien Award winner, given to the nation’s prime quarterback. “I play football. Stay off the phone, that’s all I can say. Enjoy your life, make plays, everything will take care of itself.”
He added: “I like a team that’s going to pick me. I like a team that wants a winner. You want to win. You know who you’re going to get.”
It has been a circuitous route for Ward to get thus far.
He was an unranked prospect popping out of Columbia Excessive College in Texas.
As a sophomore at Incarnate Phrase, he threw 47 landing passes.
He put up stable numbers the following two seasons at Washington State however was nonetheless an unknown commodity nationally.
That modified this yr in a serious manner.
Now, he’s on the cusp of stardom.
“It’s been special,” he stated of the previous yr. “Personally, what we accomplished as a team in the regular season, it’s been all good. It just makes you put things in perspective on how hard you got to work to get to where you want to be. … I’m not surprised. I’ve been doing it since Incarnate Word. I’m just doing it on a bigger stage now.”
The one downside for Ward about dwelling on this space can be the site visitors.
He thought Miami was dangerous earlier than he received to New York Metropolis.
“Good thing if the Giants were to get me, the stadium’s not here in New York City,” Ward stated with a smile. “It’ll be easy to get there.”
