By the time the 2017 NFL Combine was over in early March, former Kansas State defensive end Jordan Willis felt a wave of calm rush over him.
Now, Willis, a worker-bee sort who was once described by Wildcats coach Bill Snyder as “the epitome” of K-State football, isn’t one to toot his own horn. But he knew he’d killed it.
“I just had that feeling — it’s unexplainable — that I knew that I did what I needed to do, what I set out to do,” said Willis, a graduate of Rockhurst High School. “It is what it is.