Antonio Gandy-Golden
Wide Receiver / Liberty
Ed Hunt: How do you feel out there now that you have gone through your week of practice here at the Senior Bowl?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: It feels great. Today I polished off some things. I feel like today was my best day yet.
Ed Hunt: Do you feel like you’ve shown the scouts you are playing with big conference guys and you’re in their class?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Sure, today especially. I won a lot of my one on one’s. I felt like I got open a lot. I felt like they saw me running around the field, blocking just doing what I can.
Ed Hunt: What type of feedback did you receive from scouts?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Right now, they are just asking me about my family. Just asking me about myself. Things they need to look out for. They ask me about things like plays and coverage. They are not worried about the draft right now. They have to get up to that point where they have to realize that they want to draft me.
Ed Hunt: And you have a pretty clean record with your past and stuff like that?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Yes, sir!
Ed Hunt: What schools were looking at you out of high school?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: A lot of smaller FCS schools. I had about 10 offers coming out of high school. A couple of D-II, West Georgia, Valdosta State. My final three that I narrowed it down to were Elon, Liberty and Kennesaw State which is about thirty minutes from my house.
Ed Hunt: Why Liberty? What did you like about them?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Just the best place for me. I felt like they really wanted me to grow as a man, as a person and as a football player. They didn’t try to feed me any filler information. They told me I was going to have to come in and work hard. Just talking to my family and just thinking about what I needed as far as my growth, I felt like Liberty was the best place for me.
Ed Hunt: Did you start the process late in high school? Were you on some bigger school’s radar?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: I’m not sure. I might have been. There were bigger schools that came to my high school as they usually do to come in and scout me. But none of them really reached out to me too much. The most I saw was Georgia Tech. They sent me tickets to games and stuff like that. But I never communicated with the coaches or anything like that.
Ed Hunt: Have they ever talked to you about playing tight end in any sort of scheme?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: I’ve heard it. Tight ends are just bigger receivers nowadays. You got Kelces, you got Kittles (referring to Travis Kelce and George Kittle). All those guys and they’re just bigger receivers. They are putting up the numbers that receivers are.
Ed Hunt: Can you tell me what blocking means to your game? Is this something you work on?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Just something to get into the DB’s head. Let them know. It’s how you let them know it’s going be a fight. Also, it helps out the team a lot. Somebody’s breaking a long run. Even if I’m blocking on the backside you never know when a DB can shoot across the field and try to make that tackle, so it’s just overall better for the team.
Ed Hunt: What corner have you felt you have had the best battle with in the one on one’s at the Senior Bowl?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: The best battle as far as skill wise would have to be with #24 of Nebraska (Lamar Jackson). He’s awesome.
Ed Hunt: Where you training for the NFL Draft?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: I started training at XPE in Boca Raton the 29th of December.
Ed Hunt: Is there a wide receiver that you watch film on?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Larry Fitzgerald and Julio Jones. Those are my two guys. Bigger, physical guys. Just very humble.
Ed Hunt: What do you think is the key to being a good wide receiver?
Antonio Gandy-Golden: Just your overall knowledge of the game, physicality and tenacity. Come out here and attack balls and attack corners, safeties or linebackers. Any defender too.
