Quotes from Colt's 7/28 NFL Draft Pro column

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About serving as an instructor at the Elite 11 camp, Colt said:
"The camp is for the eleven top-rated high school senior quarterbacks in the nation. They invite six or seven of the top-rated quarterbacks in college football to be instructors. A lot of times they will have some of the college players who attended the camp when they were highly touted high school players come back as counselors. Chase Daniels [Missouri] and Nate Longshore [California] were two players who attended the camp when they were in high school.

We had a great week tutoring some young talent that’s coming up. Most of the players participating in the camp have verbally committed to big-time universities, but that didn’t stop me from trying to recruit them to play at Hawaii." (NFLDP)


About his improved rating in this year's NCAA Football game, Colt said:
"One thing I love to do in my down time is play video games. I play a lot of NCAA Football 2008; it’s a great game. The game was cool the first year I was in it [2005], but the one thing I was really upset about is that they made me really crappy. I led the nation in passing. I had like 68-percent completion and they still made me really bad in the game. I never really played with Hawaii in the game, because they made me a bad quarterback, but I was good. But this year they gave me a 97 [overall rating] in the game, so now I play myself and Hawaii everyday.

There’s a funny story about my rating in this year’s NCAA Football game because I think I had something to do with my high rating. I had a conversation with the people at EA Sports during the College Football Awards in Orlando, and I gave them an earful about my bad rating in the previous year’s game. I was a little confused how I could be so bad in the video game, but yet I had a really good year. They made me slow and all of that. They told me that if we made you really good in the game than Hawaii would have been really good. I said, “Well, we turned out to be pretty good this year.” So, it was pretty funny." (NFLDP)


About his workout routine during the offseason, Colt said:
"Before I took part in the camp this week, I was with my receivers throughout the summer. I worked out during June and July; pretty much running and lifting five-days a week. I also threw four-days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. We did that for the past two months. We had a break for the fourth of July, and when we came back we finished up.

When I get back to Hawaii on Sunday, I’ll have to get back into my routine. I’ll get up a little bit before 8 a.m. and head to the weight room. I’ll be in the weight room from about 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. Then, I’ll grab some lunch or play basketball. We’ll come back and throw at 2 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. We’ll do one-on-one’s and all; just throwing to receivers to get my timing down. And at 5 p.m. we’ll do our conditioning work; our running.

My workout in the morning is a quarterback specific workout that one of the trainers put together for me. It’s pretty much for injury prevention, but it is designed to get you stronger and get you in good shape. I’ve been trying to gain some weight and get bigger lately. I’ve been doing that for about a month and a half. I’ve been doing a lot of reps with a core workout with lighter weight, not heavy weight." (NFLDP)