Jaylin Simpson wasn't truly sure he was going to enter the 2024 NFL Draft until after Auburn's Music City Bowl appearance.
Jaylin Simpson has stayed through three head coaches and four defensive coordinators, so his mom thought he was going to stay one more time.
His agent, Lindsay Crook, said teams are looking at Simpson as a good enough talent that going back to college would have more risks than benefit. Simpson may have been iffy, Cannon said, on leaving the program just a few credits shy of graduation, but the time was now. What was the point in staying, Crook said.
He played two years for Harsin, seeing significant increases in his playing time and production. Then Harsin was fired after the 2022 season. And Simpson stayed again to play under Hugh Freeze — his third coach at Auburn. He’s referring to the character Plankton from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants. He’s the little green villain always trying to steal the recipe for the Krabby Patty at the Krusty Krab restaurant. And he always fails in some way or another. But he always had another evil plot ready to go next.
Jaylin Simpson holds up a sign featuring Plankton in Auburn gear as Bronny James and USC basketball players head into the tunnel prior to tipoff“Especially in our room, man, we tried to drop some gems on them,” Simpson said of young defensive backs. “Pregame, any chance we could so we could just leave that room better than we found it.”Simpson essentially had to force his mother onto the plane. She offered to drive the six hours to Ft. Lauderdale to meet with Crook for the first time.
American team safety Jaylin Simpson of Auburn locks up with National team running back Isaiah Davis of South Dakota State during the second half of the Reese's Senior Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Ala. Cannon didn’t know how the draft worked. When she got to Crook’s office she sat in a room with Simpson and several others from the agency who broke down the steps of this process — from Simpson’s training in Ft.
Crook helps him prepare for interviews with scouts, an arduous session with significant depth. At the Senior Bowl, Simpson was in interviews on several days until close to midnight. NFL scouts somehow know everything, even about a night out at the bars years ago, Cannon said, or asking which of the Auburn defensive backs would be selected first. It was stressful for Simpson, Cannon said, and questions he didn’t necessarily want to answer.
That gain in preparation for the draft comes as a combination of high-calorie intake and weight training programs. Former teammate DJ James said he did a similar program by loading up on pasta meals. Mathis said Simpson was never a heavy eater growing up. Now he has to eat so he can play.
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