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1. GEOFF SCHWARTZ NFL DRAFT HOW TO
2. GEOFF SCHWARTZ NFL DRAFT PRO

The toughest thing about my NFL career so far has been the constant change.

GEOFF SCHWARTZ NFL DRAFT PRO

I think if I was in a pro style offense it would have been a little better. I played better my senior year but, I think playing in spread offenses hurts offensive linemen. It wasn't really documented that I was hurt, but you can't use that as an excuse when you play all year with an injury. I think I didn't go as high because I was hurt my junior year in college and I didn't play very well. I got a couple of calls "We're thinking about drafting you here, we might draft you," it was a long day.Ĭarolina called me (in the 7th round) and I was super relieved. As the day went on, that was back when the draft was two days long, just nothing happened and my phone didn't even ring until the 5th round. My agents were pretty honest with me - they said 4th-6th round. My year, we had 10 tackles go in the first two rounds, so I thought I was going to go a lot higher than I did. Heading into my draft year (2008), I felt that I was the 10th-15th best tackle. My parents were okay with me going to Oregon because of that and I'm very happy I went there. They failed on a lot of key points, so my parents weren't disappointed I didn't go to UCLA. My dream growing up was always to go to UCLA - it was my parents' dream too, especially my dad, but UCLA just didn't do a good job of recruiting.

GEOFF SCHWARTZ NFL DRAFT HOW TO

My junior year is when I started playing offensive line and in the middle of that year is when it all started to click on how to play football. I didn't play at all my freshman year, my sophomore year I played tight end and a little bit of defensive line on varsity. When I got to high school, my math teacher was the JV football coach and he saw me the first day of school and asked me to come out for the team. That was my main exposure to football as a kid, it never really crossed my mind that I would ever really play football, because I knew I was too big to play Pee Wee. On top of that, my dad was a 49ers fan, he's from the Bay Area, so Sundays were 49ers days. We went to every home game each Saturday and then if they weren't home and were on the road we'd watch them. I remember going to games as early as age five. Growing up in Los Angeles, my parents are UCLA alums and we had season tickets to UCLA football games.