D.J. Reed started his college football career as a walk-on, spent a season in junior college and arrived at Kansas State two years ago as an unheralded defensive back.
Now he’s a NFL prospect.
The unconventional path he took to this point makes this a special week for Reed. It wasn’t that long ago that he thought about quitting the sport as freshman at Fresno State and worried he might not make it to a power conference as an unknown juco recruit at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. But he came into his own as a starter and captain at K-State and figures to be the first Wildcat selected in the upcoming NFL Draft.