Hakeem Sule is a junior linebacker who spend his first two years on the scout team. Now, Sule starts on the kickoff and punt return teams, and is hoping to make it onto all four special teams and earn his first varsity letter before season’s end. Sule played at McDonough High School in Baltimore along with longtime-friend Darrius Heyward-Bey, whom Terrapin fans have become fairly familiar with. Sule sat down with us for this week’s edition of Meet the Player.
TT: The Deleware game was the first time you ever saw the field in a game. What was that first play like?
HS: Oh, it was exciting. It was quite different than practice, going in front of 40,000. In practice you don’t really hear anything. I thought I was going to hear the crowd and get all nervous – I didn’t even hear the snap. I just saw the ball move and just went after that. It happened so fast, a lot faster than practice.
TT: So you and Darrius have been good friends for awhile?
HS: I actually kind of convinced him to try out and play football. He’d never played football, he was really a basketball player.
TT: So all Terrapin fans can thank you for getting him to play football?
HS: Heh, me and a couple of coaches at my high school.
TT: What’s it like playing football with one of your best friends?
HS: It’s great man. It’s really great to watch him have his success. Now, he cheers me on more than I cheer him on. His mom and everybody’s behind me. He knows I work hard and I’m on of the guys that shows up everyday.
TT: So what do you do for fun?
HS: I love to play solitaire and sudoku. I get the Diamondback everyday to get the sudoku. And I’m trying to learn how to cook.
TT: Do you think you’re a sudoku master?
HS: Uh, I’m pretty good when we get to the medium level. Once the hard ones come, it takes me a little longer to do those.
TT: But are you one of those people who has to finish or you can’t put it down?
HS: Oh yeah, I have to finish them.
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