Everything from Sylvain Yondjouen at 2023 ACC Media Days

Sylvain Yondjouen spoke today at 2023 ACC Media Days

Nathaniel Caudell | Jul 25, 2023

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Georgia Tech is going to have to try and replace Keion White as a pass rusher after he was selected in this year's NFL Draft and there are a lot of experienced guys to try and replace that production.

One of those guys is defensive end Sylvain Yondjouen, who has shown glimpses of being a consistent pass rusher on this defense. Yondjouen got a chance to speak to the media today at the 2023 ACC Media Days and he answered several interesting questions.

Here is everything from Yondjouen today.

1. In regards to the transition from Belgium to the US and how he has picked up football so quickly...

"I think personally it's just the coaches I've been around, listening to what they say. I've been told that I'm a very coachable person. I get coaching a lot because I don't know the game. They always know it better than me, so there's no point for me to argue what they tell me or something. I really just are doing what they say, and it works out. For the past few years, I can see getting better at the stuff I didn't do right at the beginning. It's really practice on practice. It's doing it again. What Coach Coleman talks about it is fundamentals, and I think that's something that I didn't know at first. The basic stuff, you know, about football you keep it all your life. Yeah, that's what I learned this past five years and just getting better at it."

2. In regard to the inspiration from Keion moving forward...

"It gives me a lot of motivation to keep working hard because I saw Keion at the beginning of the season or even when he transferred, at first he didn't really play a lot, and then he played way more last year. Just seeing him work every day, he would come in, get treatment, get in the hot tub, get stretched before everybody, after everybody, stayed longer after workouts, and it just shows that if you put your mind to it and you keep working for it, it will pay off. That's what I'm trying to do just like him. Just keep working, head down, and we'll see where I get. Yeah, I'll put 100 every time."

3. In regard to his teammates helping him adjust to life in Atlanta...

"A lot. My freshman year it was a different team. There was a bunch of different stuff I did and enjoyed my freshman year. It was just a year of discovering America for me, really just feeling what college was because you heard about it back overseas, but you don't really believe it until you see it. Yeah, I mean, I went through a lot my freshman year seeing stuff. Yeah, I mean, you get used to it. I've been four years in Atlanta now. Four, five years. I think I got acclimated well to it, yeah."

Georgia Tech defensive end Sylvain Yondjouen vs Pittsburgh — Sylvain Yondjouen has a chance to be a big factor for the Georgia Tech defense in 2023 / Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

4. In regard to maintaining his physicality during games...

"Hydration. I think I have one right here. Recovery and hydration. It's something we really work on right now during the summer. It gets very hot and humid in Atlanta, so I think a lot of water, drinking water. I mean, that's what I do personally. I have to drink way more water than usually because the heat really affects me. I think the recovery part is where you only get one body. That's what an old coach told me. You only get one body, so you have to take care of it as if it's your last one. You can't go nowhere without your own body. That's recovering, stretching, water. So, yeah."

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1. In regards to the transition from Belgium to the US and how he has picked up football so quickly...

2. In regard to the inspiration from Keion moving forward...

3. In regard to his teammates helping him adjust to life in Atlanta...

4. In regard to maintaining his physicality during games...

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