So he's got the build for it, and the brain for it; he just lacks the body of work.
Mwansa admits that he fights "impostor syndrome," which is reasonable considering he just started doing this a few months ago and everyone around it has been doing it for years.
And Mwansa knows enough about to numbers to realize his chance will be eventual, if at all. So he relishes every rep, every chance to run down a kickoff in a practice in May and June, every opportunity to hold a pad while Scourton and [Princely Umanmielen](/team/players-roster/princely-umanmielen/) are going through drills before him.
There's a hope that causes his eyes to light up when he talks about this game and his chance.
It's not a great chance, by any stretch. And it might take years to come to fruition. But he has this faith rooted in his religion, and an idea that he's been set along a path and brought to this place for a reason.
"You have to just have self-belief, be a believer in yourself and your ability to feel like you belong. I just give thanks to God. To even have the opportunity to be here, which is something that I've dreamed about," he said with a grin. "This process is something which you have to think about long term, so I'm not trying to fixate on where I am at this moment in time, as I'm thinking about the bigger picture.
"I feel like if you put that measure on it, you can kind of get in your head and feel like I'm not where I need to be now. So for me it's thinking about that bigger picture. I feel like it's the mantra you have to have with football. It's 1 percent better every day, and knowing that what you're trying to achieve is something further in the future.
"Just attacking each day with full intensity, making sure you get what needs to be done that day and tick that off. That's what you need to do. Just having that, although you have a long-term goal, you need to set those short-term targets, such as 'let me just focus on this today.' And then when that day is done, you tick that off tomorrow. I want to focus on this and just say, hey, coach, like what's one thing I can improve on next week? Just small targets like that will make a big difference. You've got this massive task ahead of you, but it will make it go a lot quicker."