Grady Jarretts 'Whirlwind' Day ends with 'Perfect Match'

Monday was a whirlwind day for the former Clemson outstanding Grady Jarrett.

Jarrett was selected by the Atlanta Falcons, his hometown team and the organization with which he was together for all 10 NFL games in the fifth round of the NFL design in 2015.

But it didn't take long for Jarrett to find a new NFL house. Just a few hours after the falcons let go, the Pro Bowl defensive Tackle agreed to a three-year contract of $ 43.5 million with the Chicago Bears, including $ 28.5 million.

Jarrett met Chicago Media for the first time after his contract officially became on Wednesday and told what the emotional day was and left the place where he had been his entire career before he quickly ended up with the bears.

“This time was like her head, you know what I say,” said Jarrett. “Because you've got to battle a Lot of emotions and Things like that, but you so don't want to make emotional decisions and emotional reactions because you can feel a lot of things when you don't look something … i Trust in my faith, my resume, the Things that that's what that Carried Me Through My Career – Hard Work, Dedication, Respecting the Game, Playing It The Right Way – And It Came True When I got the opportity to come here.

“Often – I had never been a free agent before – but often people think [when] You will be a free agent, the whole world will come after you. Everyone wants to be a free agent, but sometimes that's not the case. But all that it needs is a team to really love you, to love what it is about, and I was lucky enough to fall in this situation. Love was mutually and able to just start here and have a fresh start is something that I am super enthusiastic about. “

Jarrett, a long -standing face and leader of the Falcons franchise franchise, has accumulated 496 duels, 77 duels for losses and 36.5 sacks over 152 games (137 starts) in his previous NFL career. The two-time Pro-Bowler helped the falcon for a great Bowl appearance in the 2016 season, and he was Atlantas candidate for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award Both 2019 and 2024.

Jarrett was born in Atlanta and grew up, and the organization of the city and Falcons remains close to his heart, but he is enthusiastic and proud to be in Chicago for the new journey in his life and his career.

“Being in one place for 10 years is definitely something special,” he said. “Atlanta was my hometown, my hometown is with or without falcons. Atlanta will always have a special place in my heart, and I will have a special place in the people there who supported me.

“But in this new chapter of my life I am so happy to be here in a great city like Chicago, an organization that has a dominant defense, legendary player, Hall of Famers, in which history. To be able to run in the building that is connected to Walter Payton. I was a two -time candidate of Walter Payton Man of the Year Award and met his family a few times. So, the pride that I have in this place, I didn't even know that it really lived in me until I went into the building. So I'm just so excited. “

The 31-year-old has the feeling that “at a special time at a special moment when I should be, he is in a special place.”

“I think the perfect match came,” he said. “When I had the opportunity to join this team, join [head coach] Ben [Johnson and] Be a part of something here that will be something special. I am someone who wants to be able to fight championships, encourage the younger boys around me and to share my experience and hunger for size for others who want to achieve it. “

Jarrett knows that the NFL is a business and days like the one he experienced on Monday with the area to be a player in the league. But he believes that the best for him will come when he closes the book about his long term with the falcons and his next chapter in Chicago begins.

“It was definitely a whirlwind, but you know what, it comes with the game,” he said. “If you play as long as I and you want to continue playing, this time is almost inevitable. But my best days are still in front of me. I just took it as it came, and through the belief that something would come with it. “

Before he entered the NFL, Jarrett was a slightly respected recruit who developed top defenders in Clemson and one of the best managers in the team and the strongest players in 2014 when he was an all-ACC selection of the first team. He recorded 207 duels, 29.5 duels for losses and 5.5 sacks of over 48 games in his career as a tiger from 2011 to 2014.

You can view the full press conference from Jarrett down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ned5jftji

-Photo with the kind permission of Brett Davis-Mimagn Images