Um , after the surgery . So that's one , you know , a lot of downtime long snapping , not a lot of stress on your body . Um , so that was one thing that I did a lot and , you know , over the course of the rehab process , you know , started to realize like , hey , I'm , I'm pretty good at this .
I'm Ryan Wilkins . I'm a long snapper . I played at Elon University and now I play at UCL A .
Um , so being able to see the very best player snap the ball like that and you know how he carried himself and , um , you know , snapping , it's , it's a mental , it's a mental game . So looking back , um , I would have gotten it , gotten into long snapping a lot earlier . I would have went and gone to a camp to see the guys who were the best at what they do and you know how they do it .
Um , and I just had to go focus on football . It got me in the long snapping too , you know , I had a lot of rehab . A lot of downtime .
So part of a lot of athletes , goals are to play at the highest level they can play at . Um , so I had to figure out something that I needed to do and for me that was uh learn how to long snap . I was , I was our long snapper on our high school team and just kind of did it because , you know , we didn't really have one and I was the best at it .
