Dallas Cowboys Surprised Malik Benson<\/p>\n
Benson shared that one of his most memorable NFL Draft meetings came in a formal meeting with the Dallas Cowboys at the combine. The Cowboys surprised him by bringing up something he never expected: his voluntary community service from years ago in Alabama.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey watched my film and then they\u2019re just asking me what are my favorite plays. They\u2019re just trying to see who I am as a person. I got to tell my story – I transferred a couple of times. So, once they hear my story and they kind of understand why I transferred, it clears like the little fog that they have. Then once they\u2019re able to, see my football IQ too, then they\u2019re like, oh man, like he\u2019s fast and he\u2019s smart,\u201d Benson told Amaranthus.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the most surprising thing was in that meeting with the Cowboys, it was like the end of the meeting. I\u2019m about to walk out and back in 2023, 2024, I did a lot of community service (with the Alabama Crimson Tide)\u201d Benson continued.<\/p>\n
Benson said the Cowboys asked about his work visiting elementary schools and helping with turkey drives, a moment that showed him just how much teams know beyond the football field and all the homework the NFL does on their investments.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t ever bring that up – when you\u2019re doing community service, I don\u2019t want any pats on the back just because I\u2019m doing things for the community\u2026 But, once they brought that up, I was like, \u2018man, these teams really do their research on everything.\u2019 There is not one thing that they don\u2019t know,\u201d Benson told Amaranthus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Surprised Malik Benson Benson shared that one of his most memorable NFL Draft meetings came in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-254123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}