When Jared Cornelius is not making moves on the football field, he’s found ways to keep himself busy away from the game. In February we showed you his DJ skills, but this offseason Cornelius has added some new skills to his bag of tricks

“I’ve kinda become a carpenter this summer,” said Cornelius. “Built a couple of coffee tables, had a lot of free time on my hands, so I think I’ve built two coffee tables, a dresser and a night stand.”

Yes, that’s right. DJ JRed is also JRed the Handy Man. So how did he get started in this new hobby?

“Well it started out, I needed a table,” said Cornelius. “I needed a new coffee table. So I looked up DIY tables. You know, went to Lowe’s and kinda got all the supplies I needed. Ended up finished up that project and was like ‘dang this is kinda fun,’ so went back and got a couple saws and things like that.”

The person who has known Cornelius longer than anybody, his own mother, was even shocked that he picked up carpentry.

“That just blew me away, I don’t even know where it came from,” said Sylvia Cornelius. “It was just out of the blue ‘I’m making a table’ and then he’s making another table, so now I’ve asked him ‘could you just make me a dining room set?'”

But just when you think Jared is done finding new hobbies, he pulls out something new.

“I think about him sewing,” said Sylvia. “And he’s getting his sewing machine and he’s like ‘I’m gonna sew my pants. Do you know how much it costs to take something to the alterations?’ And I’m like ‘Yea, I do it all the time.” And he’s like ‘no, I can do it myself.’ So he YouTubes it and he figures it out and he goes and buys him a sewing machine.”

To Jared, being involved in so many things is nothing but a good thing.

“I think it’s a good problem to have, you know, not having much free time,” said Jared. “I think that’s a good problem. But when you have a hard working attitude like my parents kinda instilled in me, just to not take any days off. And you can sleep when you’re dead”

While he’s busy in the offseason, come the start of practice, Cornelius will be all about football.