
Everyone has their hand out Juan…
Things change dramatically for young athletes when they are highly touted first round drafts picks. People come out of the woodwork with there hands out looking for a piece of the action. Tavon Austin tells the Rams official website of how his new found status is effecting him.
“Everybody expects a lot of things from you as far as money,” Austin told the Rams’ website. “Everybody wants to be around you. My phone doesn’t stop ringing now. It feels like they’re counting my bank account now. So that’s probably the hardest thing for me right now, just people.”
“I’ve got a lot of cousins now,” Austin said. “The whole [city of] Baltimore is my cousin now. We’re going to just try to keep focused and let my mother and all of them handle it.”