The eyes, Kris Abrams-Draine says, are the keys to a receiver’s soul.
He is 23 years old and has started exactly one NFL game. He walks with a cheeky grin, the kind undisturbed by wrinkles. But he moves in the secondary with wisdom beyond his years, because there’s been a lot packed into that 23.
Abrams-Draine had his first son at 17 years old, and switched from quarterback to receiver to cornerback in his time at Mizzou. He’s shifted abruptly from mostly press coverage in college to off-man in Denver, in a different scheme. Yet he keeps showing up when called upon, because the corner has plenty “between the ears,” as head coach Sean Payton put it Tuesday.