The adrenaline rush felt by an NFL rookie, especially after being selected in the first round, is unmatched compared to what that player has felt previously.
One particular rookie must be feeling it, still, because he decided to start calling out the Buffalo Bills early.
The Baltimore Ravens took safety Malaki Starks out of Georgia with their first-round selection, making that team even scarier, especially considering he'll play in tandem with Kyle Hamilton.
But, a rookie is still a rookie. Even so, Starks wasted no time stirring up the tension between Baltimore and Buffalo. He was recently asked which quarterback he looks forward to picking off the most, to which he answered:
"I wanna get Josh Allen."
Malaki Starks is setting the bar high while calling out the wrong quarterback
The funniest part about Starks calling out Allen is that he's doing so to a guy who just came off a season with a career-best interception percentage of only 1.2. You are talking about the NFL MVP, here.
Yes, the unquestionable MVP.
I dare say that one of the very last quarterbacks you'd want to call out, if you're a rookie defensive back, is the likes of Josh Allen coming off his best campaign yet. That's straight-up tomfoolery.
For Ravens fans who might immediately try to fire back and defend Starks by pointing to the Bills being 1-3 against Baltimore, during the regular season with Allen under center, there's one small detail you're forgetting.
Allen is 2-0 against the Ravens in the playoffs, where the football truly counts.
The Ravens cannot beat Josh Allen when it matters most, and Starks apparently doesn't realize that.
But, if it makes him feel better by calling out the game's best quarterback, by all means, we have no qualms.
Starks just better be ready to back up his cute and naive aspirations when it comes time for kickoff, because Allen is unlike any quarterback he faced in college; or any quarterback he'll face in the pros, for that matter.