There are five kids from different backgrounds who attend a football camp together. Due to its competitive nature, the camp turns into more of a Hunger Games story. So instead of the usual business-like nature of a football camp, the athletes are forced to come together and get to know each other to survive.

That first paragraph is not a true story, but a plotline thought out by ASU freshman cornerback Robbie Robinson, who enjoys writing as a freedom of expression outside of football.

He started writing in middle school as a way to put his emotions on paper, but it steadily evolved into creating stories based on scenarios or situations that come to mind during everyday life. He also likes drawing pictures that sometimes go with the stories that are usually 1-2 pages, the longest being three pages.

The first one he wrote back in middle school was about an overtime football game.

“I don’t really express myself too much vocally to different people, I kind of stay to myself,” Robinson said. “When things kind of bother me, I keep it to myself and use writing as a form of expression. That would be the thing that I don’t think anybody really knows.”

Here is an example of how the process may go: Robinson will be walking around campus, then he may think of a certain situation or plotline that could make for an interesting story. He then types it into the “Notes” app on his iPhone for future reference. But with the advancement of technology, he usually carries his laptop and iPad with him, allowing him to instantaneously expand upon the thought he just came up with and turn it into a short story.

The plotlines do not necessarily symbolize his feelings or outline the day’s occurrences but are just a mix of whatever comes to mind at the time.

Robinson has not written since April or May as his first love — football — and summer school took over. Writing will still have its place, but just as a hobby.

“In my free time or whenever I have a lot on my mind,” he said. “Get a pen and a pad and start writing. But it’s nothing I’d really make into a career.”

The 5-foot-8, 172-pound defensive back from Hampton, Virginia, was a Rivals 4-star recruited ranked the No. 26 cornerback in the nation. After attending Phoebus High School in Hampton for three years, he played his senior year of football at DeMatha Catholic in Maryland.

Robinson’s work ethic early on this fall has earned him second-team reps. He said he thinks he has a strong chance of playing this year.

“I’m not just working when the team’s working but giving extra time,” he said. “Watching film, lifting on the weekends, going to the field and getting some technique work in. Making sure I stay ahead of the game mentally and physically.”

“He’s savvy, obviously a Barrett Honors College student,” head coach Todd Graham said. “He wants to be good. He studies, he’s diligent and he’s very instinctive. He has a knack for making plays. He been working hard and he’s solid with the second group right now.”

First-year defensive backs coach TJ Rushing said Robinson hangs out and studies with the vets, which is one of the reasons he noted the freshman is a smarter football player now than when he arrived.

He is the “total package,” Rushing said.

“Speed and physicality,” he said. “That’s what makes him unique. Attention to detail, high-character guy who is doing stuff the right way on and off the field. That’s what makes him special.”

That speed is showcased by Robinson’s reported 4.45 40-yard dash time, according to a story written on him by the Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia.

However, he said he wants to improve his mental aspect of the game and also be a better technician than New York Jets corner Darrelle Revis, a player he looks up to. He also studies Arizona’s Tyrann Mathieu and Chargers corner Jason Verrett. And although he is a bigger defensive back, Robinson likes the Rams’ Trumaine Johnson because of the way he plays the high-low and reads different route combinations.

Robinson is all about rounding out every aspect of his game.

“I want to be one of those names where people say, ‘Robbie Robinson is the fastest player in the country, Robbie Robinson has the best technique in the country, Robbie Robinson is the smartest kid in the country,’” he said.

First-team boundary corner Kareem Orr said Robinson has exceeded expectations. But the two knew each other before the fall as Orr — a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee — talked with Robinson throughout the recruiting process.

Here is what one East Coast native told another: “Play your game. Don’t let anybody shake you. Always be who you are as a player.”

In person, Robinson is a laid-back guy. His voice is not particularly loud, but that does not qualify him as a “quiet” or “shy” person. Off the field, he is more reserved than anything.

But on the field, he embraces the alter ego of a more vocal, intensified personality.

“You kind of got to flip a switch playing football,” Robinson said. “A lot of guys that play the game know that you’re a totally different person on the field than you are off it. I think it’s just the passion in it…You just lose yourself in the moment, lose yourself in the game. You’re not worried about anything outside of the game…No matter where you come from and what everyone else has been through, you all have that one common interest. You all play football together.”

Robinson’s father played quarterback and safety at Bethel High School in Hampton, and even set passing records, but did not play in college because he instead chose to join the Air Force to provide for his family.

The cornerback said that playing at ASU gives him the chance to live out a dream his father never did.

“He sacrificed everything for me to get here,” he said.

After graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA, Robinson is part of Barrett, the Honors College at ASU. He is studying business law because he has wanted to be a lawyer since middle school, and that particular focus of law will allow him to stay around sports.

And while writing may just be a hobby, he hopes to use it and his life experiences to release a book someday.

“I think at the end of my journey in life, I want a biography or something like that,” Robinson said. “Probably something to help people. Something positive that they can look at when things get rough just to keep pushing and striving for that goal.”