FREE: A chat with Captain and Senior Fullback Darnell Woolfolk
When it comes to the vital fullback position of Army, it is a role within the Black Knights’ triple option whose production is made up of the committee of Darnell Woolfolk (Sr.), Andy Davidson (Sr.), Calen Holt (Sr.), Connor Slomka (Jr.), and Sandon McCoy (So.).
On the season, this committee has combined for a total of 1,596 yards (23 touchdowns), with Woolfolk offering 823 of that milage.
GoBlackKnights.com had an opportunity to chat with Mr. Woolfolk after yesterday’s practice and the Captain and senior out of Endwell, New York talked about how time has flown since he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, as well as this being his final Army-Navy game. However, if projections come true, what he hopes will occur on December 8th in Philly would be icing on the cake.
“Obviously it has gone by super-fast and when you look at it, I’ve been here for 5-years, but it feels like I’ve been here for 2-3 years,” said he 5-foot-9, 235 pounder, who has accepted the invitation to play in the 2019 East-West Shrine Game.
“The way I would like to see the game is our team going out there and not letting the atmosphere or the other team effect us. We want to focus on ourselves, the brotherhood and that’s what we play for every game. I mean it’s a special scene when it all comes together. Seeing our offense execute in our fundamentals. Seeing our defense make big plays, big stops which they always do. And then coming out on top would be the best way to it this.”
Although Woolfolk is the mainstay of this fullback crew, he readily admitted that being part of this group over the past several years has surely taught him some life lessons that will extend beyond his post West Point days and years.
“It kind of goes back to how I was talking about the brotherhood,” he explained. “It’s the same thing within our position group. We are not playing for individual accolades, stats or for ourselves, but we are playing for the guys in our position group.”
“The way that we think about it is that one person goes in and breaks down the defense and the next person goes in and they are going to break down the defense. And we are just going in fresh and in any moment one of us can make a big play. And that’s the great thing, because you never know when something is going to happen in the fullback group and I think that what makes it so special ... teamwork and it’s not just you, but it’s the whole team.”
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