Pete Carroll talked to Colin Cowherd about why he selected Golden Tate:
“What I like about him is the guy’s a baller. We played against him, we saw him on all of his films for years, he just was a special football player on the field.
“He does not fit some of the profiles that you look for in a wide receiver. You’re looking for tall, lanky guys, or the speed burner if he’s a smaller guy. He’s got terrific speed, but he has way better play making ability than a lot of guys on the board.
“And he came through, he’s tough, he can return the ball, he ran out of the backfield, he ran the Wild Cat, all of those things combined make him a valuable player.
“Our really good players (at USC) were really battling just to keep him under wraps, and we weren’t able to do it all the time.”