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Former NFL linebacker Vincent Rey shares his journey from undrafted free agent to a 9 year career, revealing powerful lessons on mental toughness, faith, discipline, and competing with yourself to reach your full potential.
Linebacker Vincent Rey finished the 2014 NFL season with 121 total tackles. In a 10-week span (Weeks 7-16), Rey notched six double-digit tackling performances (10, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16) for the Bengals , and after the regular season, he led our team in tackles (by 26) and came in 12th in the League as a whole.
Looking at that 2014 season alone, it would’ve been easy for someone to assume Vinny’s past—elite high school recruit, top-five college football school, first-round draft pick—but that wasn’t the case. What most people didn’t know was that Vinny wasn’t supposed to be there.
Just four years earlier, in 2010, Vinny was sitting in a room with me and seven other players on the Bengals’ practice squad—the unit designed to develop players and emulate future opponents in practice—where he stayed for the majority of that season.
Coming out of Duke University (a lower-echelon Power-5 school for football), Vinny was undersized and, according to the National Football Post, “[wasn’t] a physical tackler in any area of the game.” In their draft profile of Rey in 2010, the online news source claimed he “didn’t have what it [took] to find a spot on an NFL defense.” After going undrafted in 2010, the Bengals signed him to a two-year contract, waived him, then re-signed him to the practice squad the very next day. Rey had barely squeaked by, but his NFL dream stayed alive.
🔹 How Vincent Rey turned rejection into a long successful NFL career through discipline and focus
🔹 The mindset of elite performers and why competing with yourself is the key to growth
🔹 Faith, preparation, and consistency as the foundation for success on and off the field
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