Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Albert Regis Media Zoom Call | 2026 NFL Draft
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- 0:02Speaker 1: So believe it or not, it was my fiance's idea.
- 0:07Speaker 1: She was like, Hey, I've got this idea. Let's let
- 0:09Speaker 1: her cary, you know, put out some cups. Let's let
- 0:11Speaker 1: her crawdle what she thinks. And I was like whatever,
- 0:14Speaker 1: like I don't really not whatever in a way of
- 0:17Speaker 1: like I don't care, but like I was like sure.
- 0:19Speaker 2: I was like why not?
- 0:20Speaker 1: And then I go and play the game, and then
- 0:22Speaker 1: her family's in town, so they all did it and
- 0:24Speaker 1: I'm watching it in the background, and then every time
- 0:26Speaker 1: they're like she went to Jacksonville, She went to Jacksonville.
- 0:28Speaker 1: She went to Jacksonville, and I was like, well, since
- 0:31Speaker 1: the end of the season, I've been saying, do ball
- 0:33Speaker 1: is where I want to be?
- 0:34Speaker 2: And she went three.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Times and then it was just like, well, I was
- 0:40Speaker 1: like God gets written in the books. I was God
- 0:43Speaker 1: never lies, he never does wrong. And I mean, I'm
- 0:46Speaker 1: here and it's just amazing.
- 0:48Speaker 3: So why did you want to be in douball? Is
- 0:50Speaker 3: there a reason? Even before the Cup game.
- 0:53Speaker 2: It's just that's just where I want to be, Like,
- 0:55Speaker 2: I just love to where.
- 0:56Speaker 1: The team played, the where the defense played, and I
- 0:59Speaker 1: just knew it was a scheme that I could fit in.
- 1:01Speaker 1: And then when I finally did a zoom with them
- 1:04Speaker 1: and didn't win over some plays and got to understand
- 1:07Speaker 1: their defense, I just knew that's where I wanted to be, Like,
- 1:10Speaker 1: I knew I would starve best in this defense.
- 1:13Speaker 3: I've been volunteer a distribute, So sorry, Emily, I'm asking
- 1:16Speaker 3: one more on behalf of the entire media contingent. Tell
- 1:19Speaker 3: us about tell us about newsies and your musical prowess.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Wow, So I was a male dancer. I learned how
- 1:29Speaker 1: to tap dance from it. The male dancers had to
- 1:33Speaker 1: tap dance and little get macked for a bit. We
- 1:37Speaker 1: were tap dancing with a broom. I wish I had
- 1:39Speaker 1: the footage. Don't know where it is, but in this
- 1:42Speaker 1: day and age, nothing has ever scrapped off the internet,
- 1:44Speaker 1: so somewhere out there then someone will find it. But yeah,
- 1:49Speaker 1: it helped me incredibly with my flexibility. And this goes
- 1:53Speaker 1: back to the tap dancing. Nobody mentions how bad it hurts.
- 1:56Speaker 1: The next few days, my ankles were so beat up
- 2:01Speaker 1: it felt like someone ran him over with a semi truck.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Like I was in so much pain. But my incomobility
- 2:09Speaker 1: now is amazing because of it. So no complaints.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Incredible, Thank you, Albert, looking forward to meeting you in person.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, thank you. Congratulations Albert.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Just you kind of talked about it a little bit,
- 2:23Speaker 4: but in terms of the Jaguars interest in you, at
- 2:26Speaker 4: what point did you know that they might be interested
- 2:28Speaker 4: in them?
- 2:28Speaker 2: Just how do you fit in this defense? Yeah?
- 2:32Speaker 1: So I spoke with some of my coaches and they
- 2:37Speaker 1: would tell me how interested. And then I'm not gonna
- 2:40Speaker 1: say names, you know, keep it confidential just for their sakes.
- 2:43Speaker 1: I mean, I know I'm here, but you know, just
- 2:46Speaker 1: I like to keep some things private still, and a scout,
- 2:51Speaker 1: like I said, not gonna mention names. He constantly will
- 2:53Speaker 1: tell me how much they love me and it always
- 2:56Speaker 1: fight for me, and believe it or not, he texted
- 2:58Speaker 1: me after words and he's like, told.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Y'all, I.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Absolutely means the most somebody trying to call me, but
- 3:07Speaker 1: it just absolutely means the most that that he meant
- 3:12Speaker 1: what he said from the get go, and like, I'm
- 3:14Speaker 1: just so happy to be here.
- 3:17Speaker 4: And then just how how exactly do you feel like
- 3:19Speaker 4: you fit in the Daguars defense.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I view myself as a Swiss army knife.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Honestly, coming from multiple positions in high school to the
- 3:31Speaker 1: defense we played in very cap sound. But whatever you
- 3:34Speaker 1: ask me, I'm always willing to get it done and
- 3:38Speaker 1: just be the best that I can be for the team.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Awesome, congrats again, thank you.
- 3:44Speaker 3: We'll go to Mark Long than to Rachel.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Congrats Albert. Could you still pick up tap shoes and
- 3:53Speaker 4: dance a number right now? Like you still got that
- 3:56Speaker 4: skill in you?
- 3:57Speaker 1: Honestly, I think I still do now. That was my
- 4:01Speaker 1: sophomore year in high school, so I graduated. I graduated
- 4:06Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, so that was my sophomore year. But
- 4:09Speaker 1: I still remember some of the basic like things we
- 4:12Speaker 1: did on the first day to introduce it, and every
- 4:14Speaker 1: once in a while I still go through the motions
- 4:17Speaker 1: just to see if I can still do it. So
- 4:18Speaker 1: I think if I was to put on some tap shoes,
- 4:21Speaker 1: I think I could still do it. Might be rusty,
- 4:23Speaker 1: but I think I still got it.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Yeah, and you said that obviously that gives you light feed.
- 4:29Speaker 4: How much has that helped you in being a big man,
- 4:33Speaker 4: you know, down in the trenches.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Yeah, it's helped a lot.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Like my junior year in high school was really my
- 4:39Speaker 1: breakout year when I really started getting recruited and offered,
- 4:42Speaker 1: and tap dancing helped with my ankle mobility so much,
- 4:46Speaker 1: Like I just remember being able to play all over
- 4:49Speaker 1: the field from full back to h back to tied
- 4:53Speaker 1: end to lining up at receiver like just my like
- 4:56Speaker 1: just it's helped so much, and even to this day,
- 4:58Speaker 1: like just honestly keeping my active feet and keeping like
- 5:04Speaker 1: tap in some one of those things where you have
- 5:05Speaker 1: to have you have to have control but also not
- 5:09Speaker 1: have control. It's a weird dynamic and like it's just
- 5:13Speaker 1: helped so much in my game. And I know it's
- 5:15Speaker 1: not like a broken record, and I'm sorry, but it's hard.
- 5:19Speaker 1: God knows the words I'm trying to say, I just
- 5:22Speaker 1: can't formulate how the same.
- 5:25Speaker 4: No, it's all good, Thank you. I can't wait to
- 5:27Speaker 4: see your rookie video because you know they're gonna that's
- 5:29Speaker 4: gotta be. That's gonna be part of your rookie video
- 5:31Speaker 4: for sure.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to start practicing.
- 5:37Speaker 5: Think, Hey, Albert, congratulations when we look at you getting drafted,
- 5:42Speaker 5: obviously Nate got drafted just a little bit above you.
- 5:45Speaker 5: Have you guys had a chance to have a quick
- 5:47Speaker 5: text or anything.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Nah. Nah, Yet I'm gonna hit him up.
- 5:51Speaker 1: It's hard because as soon as I found out and
- 5:53Speaker 1: I checked my phone, I had eighty messages came in
- 5:57Speaker 1: all that once. And then I took me and my
- 5:59Speaker 1: fiance we both took a social media break this whole
- 6:03Speaker 1: month because it was just social media is very toxic
- 6:05Speaker 1: and we wanted to enjoy life before it starts getting
- 6:08Speaker 1: busy again.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Went on a family trip, so.
- 6:11Speaker 1: So I got back on Instagram for today and then
- 6:15Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and I deleted it already, so
- 6:19Speaker 1: I was like, we'll look at this another day.
- 6:23Speaker 5: I love that. How exciting is it for you to
- 6:25Speaker 5: go to, you know, a new team and to have
- 6:27Speaker 5: someone so familiar with you And just what are the
- 6:29Speaker 5: Jaguars getting? Innate?
- 6:31Speaker 1: They're gonna They're gonna get a dog, amazing run blocker.
- 6:36Speaker 1: He'll do whatever you need him in the past to do.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Great locker room guy. I mean he plays with a
- 6:42Speaker 1: chip on the shoulder. I know most of y'all know
- 6:44Speaker 1: he started off as a walk on at Negradschow, so
- 6:47Speaker 1: I mean he knows. He plays a different level of
- 6:50Speaker 1: grit to him.
- 6:55Speaker 2: This will be our last one. D Rock.
- 7:01Speaker 4: Hey, two things really quick.
- 7:03Speaker 5: What size shoe do you have?
- 7:07Speaker 2: It depends on the shoe were I can fit. It
- 7:10Speaker 2: depends on how the shoe is.
- 7:12Speaker 1: But fourteen to about sixteen that's my size rains. But
- 7:17Speaker 1: in cleats I have to wear usually a sixteen or
- 7:20Speaker 1: seventeen just because cleats run a little bit tighter. But
- 7:23Speaker 1: usually in shoes from a fourteen to sixteen.
- 7:28Speaker 5: And you mentioned your fiance, it was her idea for
- 7:30Speaker 5: the cup thing.
- 7:31Speaker 3: What is your fiance's.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Name, Kylee? It's k A. L E.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Y awesome, Thank you so much and congrats