UC CB Kenny Worthy Training Camp Interview

It seems like you've been making a lot of plays in interceptions here and there. How have you been able to build on your first spring in Cincinnati? You've kind of introduced yourself this fall. I mean, yeah, in spring I was just more getting comfortable still, just trying to learn the playbook. Just trying to learn my teammates, first and foremost, because that's one thing Coach Woody preaches on a lot. It's just to know your teammates and know everyone around you. So in the spring I was real focused on that, and now I feel more comfortable in the playbook, more comfortable in the scheme. And just really in my role on the team, so now I know my role on the team. So now it's just allowing me to play free and just play hard as I can. You got this talk show thing on the side now. Run down the top receivers and give your pitch. I'm gonna start here, all our receivers, it's never, no one will push over. Everyone, you go out there, you gotta be on all the way 10, all the way, all really locked in, or you will get killed out there. But I would say JV Gibson and Gio Katosis, my number one matchups. Just cuz I like to play in the boundary a little more, and they play more in the boundary on the X side more. So I would say them too, for sure. But all our receivers, we even got some young guys like Dejan Waller, J Will, just keep working, they just keep working. And Lorenzo Finner had a big day there too, so he's not a pushover either. How do you gauge when to take those chances on breaking routes and kind of gauging how much risk you should take? Cuz it can work out really well, or it could end up in a big play on the other end. Well, I like to tell people in a joking way, but real serious, I like to call, I got an eternal clock in my head. I got an eternal clock, it's just more of a field thing. But it's also just eyes out the break. If you drive two, three hard steps to the man, and you see it, you see it. When you see it, you go. So that's pretty much all it is. How do you kinda sharpen your ball skills as a corner? How do you kinda continuously kinda make sure that you're getting two hands on the ball and intercepting instead of just PBUs? Yeah, that's one thing I focused on this summer was, really I'm trying to catch more picks this year. My emphasis on picks and just making plays. So this summer I was just training with a ball. Every break I did, every drill I did, I had a ball. And it wasn't just a college ball, it was an NFL ball. My trainer, Sweet Pea, back in Arizona, we trained with an NFL ball. So it's bigger, so you gotta squeeze it more. It's harder to catch, and it doesn't have the lines. So the ball's without the lines, it's harder to track. So then when they throw this ball here, it's popping up. It's popping up big, and it feels smaller in my hands, so it's easy to grip. Feels like you guys might have five game-ready corners right now, which has been pretty rare since the last few years. Yeah, sure. Does it feel like there's gonna be a ton of rotation, or is it gonna be the top two or three guys play a lot, and then the other two are just hopping out? I mean, that's above my hands. I'm not the coach. The coaches pick that, the coaches choose that. But I do feel like anyone and everyone in our room is ready to go. We're ready to go tomorrow if we need them. And this weekend if we need them, whenever we need them, I think they can come in and make an immediate impact. And it'll be no drop off. We all work together, we all push each other. So I feel like everyone's pretty even, and everyone's just trying to compete every day. Day one to day four, how would you evaluate the continued progression, not only of your room at all? I mean, as a defense, it's steps every day. I'm seeing every position group and every position group leaders taking it upon themselves to fix what they messed up the day before, or even the two days before, and make sure that no one else messes it up, the upcoming practices. And just bringing the young guys along with us, cuz we need everybody, and everyone plays a role on this team. So I just think we're taking big steps, and we're moving forward every day. We're not taking two steps forward to go backward. We're taking two steps forward, and two steps forward, and two steps forward. And I just, I can't wait to see what we do. How about the Arizona heat, or Ohio humidity? 115 is hard to emulate, but it's also the humidity, it pulls the water out of you, so it'll make you a little more fatigued. So that's one thing I had to adjust, it's more of like a wet heat. In Arizona, it's just straight dry heat, you know what you're getting. The sun gonna be beaming on you, you're getting the shade, you'll be all right. But out here, you gotta pound the fluids, and pound the electrolytes in, because the humidity is just, it was sucking the energy out of me in the spring. So I definitely had to get out and run with a vest on. And I wore a lot of long sleeves this summer working out, just to get acclimated to the humidity, so when camps start, I'll be fine. Thanks, guys. Thanks.