SHREVEPORT, La. — Baltimore Ravens safety Ar’Darius Washington held his Youth Skills and Development Football Camp at Evangel Saturday enlisting some help from family and other friends in the NFL like Panthers wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr.
The free camp for kids ages six through ten was a chance to bestow some knowledge to the next crop of young athletes and teach them some early life lessons.
“It was just something I wanted to give back to and I just thought about that age. That’s when they kind of learn and get everything started rolling, so I was like let’s do six and ten for my first time and everything like that,” Washington said. “So next year we’ll definitely do a two day camp and everything like that, but that’s kind of what compelled me to do it. When I was that age, I didn’t have that growing up. So it does take me back to those times. When I got older, I kind of branched off and did other things like that, but at that early age we didn’t have that, so that was great for me.”
Marshall said, “I think it went smooth. It was a great day overall for the kids to come out here and get some good teaching from experienced players and I feel like it was a fun day, it was a successful day, and just glad to come out here and to be a part of Ar’Darius’s camp. It’s a lot of joy, me and Ar’Darius, we grew up together, so just to see him accomplishing things, just to keep going, and doing big things in the NFL, it’s just a blessing to see that somebody is doing the same thing as you.”
Washington is entering his fourth year in the NFL.
