Brent Hawkins
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"Brent Lee Hawkins" is a former American football defensive end who played 2 years in the National Football League and 2 years in the Canadian Football League, until retiring from football in May 2013. He was most recently a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Illinois State University/Illinois State.

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I worked really hard to get to this point, and it doesn't matter what level you play, football's the same.

It depends on the team. If you're talking a 4-3 (front) team, they see me at end. A 3-4 team sees me at outside linebacker or middle linebacker. I played defensive end for four years. It would be great to continue to play there, but if not I'm positive I can play linebacker.

You never know. Arizona called me the other day, and I had no clue they even knew my name.

I'm getting pretty excited. But it's hard to know what to think.

My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you didn't even know were interested. It's been pretty busy, but I've been mostly just trying to relax. The past two weeks I've been traveling and meeting with teams. I'm just relaxing back here now.

I'm exhausted, but it goes with the territory. My agent says I'm out there making money so just keep going.

I had a real good feeling coming out of Jacksonville when I was down there. I'm not disappointed that I had to wait to be picked because I didn't care where I went; I just wanted to go. I really came out of nowhere. They're telling me they want me to come in and contribute right away, and I think I can do that.