Seattle Seahawks right tackle Abraham Lucas spoke with Athlon's All-Seahawks before hosting his second annual youth football camp Saturday afternoon.
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00:00I mean, it should be a fun day, did it last year, nothing out of the ordinary.
00:05So I'm just looking forward to being around all the attendees and just giving them a good
00:10day.
00:11What made you want to host a youth football camp last year and this year?
00:13Where did that idea come from?
00:15It was suggested to me and I've, I mean, I'm not going to say it's always something I wanted
00:19to do, but I jumped at the opportunity, of course, because why, why not give back, you
00:23know, I did football camps as a kid and other things like that.
00:26So I figured, yeah, might be a good idea to put one on.
00:28Was there ever a camp that when you were going through high school or even before high school
00:31that stood out to you that was like, hey, this is something I really like, maybe even
00:34called you to the sport or just really stood out to you?
00:38I went to the, went to the Nike opening regionals in like 2016, actually down, that was down
00:43at the VMAC small world.
00:45But yeah, there's a lot, I mean, there's a lot of guys there that, I mean, it was like
00:50high schoolers from all over the state and out of state and the best of the best came
00:53out.
00:54We were just competing and stuff.
00:55So it was fun.
00:56So back to being back at your alma mater, Archers-Murphy, just what does this place
00:59mean to you?
01:00It's great.
01:01I loved it.
01:02I love my time here.
01:03I mean, won a state championship here in my senior year and was a really controversial
01:07kind of football season.
01:09But I mean, can't say enough about how much I enjoyed it.
01:12Now you went to a UW camp, I believe in 2016, and that's where Chris Peterson suggested
01:16that you should play offensive lines.
01:18What do you remember much about that experience?
01:20Not a lot, honestly.
01:21I mean, a lot of people suggested I play offensive line.
01:25He wasn't the first one to, I just remember, I guess he had talked to my coach about me
01:29or something like that.
01:30I don't know.
01:31I was like, I think that actually might have been earlier than 2016, it might have been
01:34like 2014.
01:35Yeah, so I was like a sophomore, still kind of just finding my way.