Former Ole Miss quarterback and school record-holder Chad Kelly was not invited to the 2017 NFL Combine because of “off-field issues,” a league source told Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller. The scoop comes as a hit to Kelly’s draft stock, which was already in a sort of limbo after his season-ending knee injury.
Miller’s league source cites “off-field issues” as the prime reason for passing up on Kelly working out in Indianapolis, a constant and dubious bugaboo that ruined another Ole Miss alum’s draft stock, Laremy Tunsil, just last year. Before that, even, former linebacker Robert Nkemdiche went flying out of an Atlanta hotel window, which further raised league personnel’s eyebrows about his judgment.