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Friday. April 21, 1995
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Kansas football stars expect to be drafted
By Matt Irwin
Kansan sportswriter
Two Kansas football players are expected to be drafted this weekend in the National Football League draft, but the drafteres could be a surprise.
Some expect Kansas' two highest profile players not to be selected.
The highly touted Kansas offensive guards, Hessley Hempstead and John Jones, who were rated as the 10th and fifth best guards in the nation respectively before their senior seasons, may not be selected.
Jim Fender, the agent of Kansas linebacker Don Davis and Doug Terry, a safety for the Kansas City Chiefs, said that Davis and safety Gerald McBurrows would be drafted.
Davis said that all the Kansas players were in the same situation.
"I just hope everybody gets what they need," he said. "We're just sitting around here, just waiting."
Fender may be a little biased about his client's talent and chances, but he explained why he thought Davis and McBurrows would be the Jayhawks chosen.
"Those current coaches think they invented the game," he said. "They think they can take a great athlete and turn him into a player."
Fender, who has been an agent for 12 years and played for Kansas from 1973 through 1975, said that Hempstead and Jones get chances to prove themselves as free agents.
"I think Hempstead will be a free agent in somebody's camp and he'll stick." Fender said.
But he doesn't expect Hempstead or Jones to be drafted, despite their size. Both are about 300 pounds, big enough for the NFL. But both are only 6-foot-1. This is short by BNFL standards, which causes many teams to look at other players instead, Fender said.
Davis passes the look test, and he has impressed many teams. Fender
Drafted 'Hawks
Kansas football players drafted since 1991:
1994 — Chris Maumalanga
1994 — Chris Inmanballang
4th round, New York Giants
1993 — Dana Stubblefield
1st round, San Fran. 49ers 1993—Gilbert Brown
3rd round, Minnesota Vikings
1992 — Chris Perez
5th round, Miami Dolphins 1991 Curtis Moore
10th round, Houston Oilers
said. Although Davis might not have had a senior season that would impress NFL scouts, every team in the NFL has contacted Fender and five teams have called more than once, he said.
"He's very strong. He's a sure tackler," Fender said, explaining why teams might draft Davis. "And the guy can run and cover some area. And he's very, very explosive. NFL coaches like to see that explosion in the hip and the back."
Fender said that Davis' averages for some of the tests the NFL teams give are: 9-feet-9 standing broad jump; 37 inch vertical leap; and 4.54 seconds in the 40-vard dash.
Fender said that for Davis' size, 6-foot-1, 242 pounds, his numbers are the best of any linebacker in the nation.
But he also said that this was the least-talented group of linebackers eligible to be drafted in the past 10 years.
Fender said that Davis probably would play as a linebacker in a team's nickel-package and on special teams.
Although Davis' chances are good, he said that the draft still worried him.
"We talk about it a lot," Davis said of he and his teammates. "At times we're nervous, at times we're excited and at times we're scared."
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