He hadn’t heard the news, yet it is some of most exciting a college football player can hear.
“Mel Kiper has you going in the first round.”
TCU defensive end Ben Banogu didn’t move. He hardly reacted. He merely smiled.
“That’s nice of him,” he said.
That was about the extent of the reaction from Banogu, a junior from McKinney who has emerged as the Horned Frogs’ most dynamic pass rusher. Last week, ESPN’s draft expert Kiper projected him in the lower half of the first round of the NFL draft on his “Big Board.