On Sunday, Trey Hendrickson will relax. He’ll wake up one day after the NFL draft concludes, and the former Florida Atlantic defensive end will go fishing with his father. They’ll be celebrating his future NFL career.
But during the three-day draft, which starts Thursday with the first round and finishes Saturday with Rounds 4-7, Hendrickson will be focused on his phone, awaiting a phone call from a team. He would have liked to be on a boat during the draft, but that idea was “unrealistic because I need my phone to be on and have some service.