RYAN WILKINS | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

So they like that . So my recruiting process was , uh , very unique and , um , actually pretty scary . Uh , I wasn't recruited until late January of my senior year of high school .

RYAN WILKINS | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

So my recruiting process was , uh , very unique and , um , actually pretty scary . Uh , I wasn't recruited until late January of my senior year of high school . Um , a couple places had reached out and talked to but nothing serious .

RYAN WILKINS | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

That is how you get to the level that you wanna play at . Um , division one unfortunately is not in the cards for everybody , whether it's genetics or you just weren't recruited . So having that is your goal shouldn't define you as what kind of player you should be .

RYAN WILKINS | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

This other guy was , they had some concerns about my form and that's why they decided to go with the second guy . However , that day I was , I had , I had known that was one of the reasons why I wasn't getting recruited was because of my form . So I went out and I did a video and about two inches of snow .

RYAN WILKINS | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

Um And then they , they ended up having me go on a visit instead of that other guy . So I think they just me being aware of what kind of player I was and being aware of what my flaws were on film and then addressing them before they were addressed was one thing that cut me apart from everybody else that they were recruiting . So , um when signing day happened , I had three division one offers .