Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons speaks to the media at the NFL combine on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Indianapolis. Detroit Free Press
This is a story about Isaiah Simmons. Not the football player who’s ticketed to be an early first-round pick in Thursday’s NFL draft, but the one who, for a brief moment in the winter of 2017, looked like he might be an Olympic long jumper.
Simmons, one of the three players most likely to be drafted by the Detroit Lions with the third overall pick, walked on to the Clemson track team on a whim after redshirting his freshman year.