Kedon Slovis, a former quarterback for USC, Pitt, and BYU, has no plans to have a large watch party or anything similar at his Scottsdale, Arizona, home on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during the NFL draft in Detroit.
He posed a rhetorical question in a pre-draft interview with the Deseret News: “Why subject friends and family to the kind of stress, anxiety, and nervous anticipation he expects to endure this weekend?”
Slovis remarked, “I don’t think I need anyone else around. I am going to be plenty stressed.” “It would probably be the worst idea ever to get everyone I like and have them wait around the TV or something for me to be called, miserable or stressed out.”
Furthermore, Slovis openly concedes that he is not guaranteed to be drafted.
He said, “It’s kind of a crapshoot.” “You hear certain things, but you’re not sure which of them to believe.”
Slovis is slated to go in the seventh (final) round in a handful of the numerous mock drafts that are available, but the vast majority rank him as a likely priority free agent. As one of the select 14 quarterbacks invited to the NFL scouting combine, Slovis significantly enhanced his profile in Indianapolis by setting the quickest 40-yard sprint speed of the quarterbacks who competed, finishing in 4.55 seconds.
If nothing else, his stock has risen the past few months due to his play at the East-West Shrine Bowl and performance in the combine after his only season at BYU ended in inglorious fashion.
So the 6-foot-2, 223-pound Slovis will spend Saturday — when rounds 4 through 7 are held and free-agent invitations are extended that night — around close family and, perhaps, at a golf simulation range working on his swing.
“I will just keep my phone on me and have the TV on in the background, keep myself busy. Nothing too crazy,” he said. “If (it goes well) we will celebrate and have a dinner with my family after.”
In a way, he will just be happy to get the process over and get on with his life, having been stuck the past few months in what he calls “a weird mixture between feeling homeless and unemployed” and wondering what the future holds.
“I am itching to get back into the routine of things and play the game I love, and also just know where I am going to be for the next amount of years,” he said. “Because right now, I feel like I am in limbo.”
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