BYU quarterback Jaren Corridor passes over Wyoming linebacker Easton Gibbs at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. An enormous weekend awaits Corridor with the NFL draft working Thursday via Saturday. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
BYU quarterback Jaren Corridor warms up earlier than he runs a drill on the NFL mix in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 4, 2023. Michael Conroy, Related Press
Former BYU quarterback Jaren Corridor says he has no thought which NFL workforce will draft him, or wherein spherical, when the league’s Participant Choice Assembly begins Thursday evening in Kansas Metropolis and runs via Saturday.
Nonetheless, the 25-year-old father of 1-year-old Jayda and husband of former Utah Valley soccer star Breanna McCarter Corridor has a reasonably good thought of the second merchandise he'll splurge on when that first NFL paycheck, or signing bonus, does hit his checking account.
“I'll kinda take note of what occurs to these quarterbacks forward of me (in mock drafts), and simply hope for one of the best. Relying on the place they go, it kinda reveals what I can anticipate on Friday and Saturday.” — Jaren Corridor
The primary large buy, after all, shall be one thing good for his spouse, Corridor instructed the Deseret Information on Tuesday.
“She’s been a trooper via this complete course of,” he mentioned. “I couldn’t have executed it with out her.”
And for him?
Corridor mentioned he want to purchase a pair of the brand new Nike Air Power 1 Dunk Low sneakers that honor Main League Baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson, who broke the colour barrier in MLB when he performed for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948.
“I'm not a giant spender,” Corridor mentioned. “I'm not going to exit and purchase a automotive, or a home or something like that, by any means. However I’d like a pair of these Jackie Robinson-themed sneakers, if I do get a pleasant little signing bonus. … Proper now they're a bit of out of my present pay grade.”
The sneakers had been launched final July at a price of $130, however the newest iterations are significantly costlier.
“Greater than I might ever wish to pay for a pair of sneakers, however for that man (Robinson), it's one thing I’d purchase. It's one thing I actually wish to get,” Corridor mentioned.
Corridor is a trailblazer himself. He turned the first Black quarterback to start out a recreation for BYU in 2019 when the Cougars confronted South Florida in Tampa two weeks after Zach Wilson broke his hand towards Toledo.
Corridor additionally performed for BYU’s baseball workforce in 2019 and 2020, as a middle fielder. His different love is golf, an exercise he had deliberate for Thursday or Friday to take his thoughts off the draft prospects for just a few hours.
“I acquired a brand new driver final summer time, so I ought to be good there for just a few years,” he mentioned of one other doable large buy.
Two days earlier than the draft, Corridor described his feelings as “a bit of excited, a bit of nervous, a bit of pressured, however largely excited.”
Corridor is anticipated to be drafted within the center to late rounds, someplace between rounds 4 and seven, which means he'll probably hear his identify known as Saturday. However after months and months of coaching, non-public exercises and interviews with virtually each NFL workforce, he’s not able to make any predictions.
He’s in the identical boat as BYU left deal with Blake Freeland, who was profiled by the Deseret Information on Wednesday.
“I additionally don't have any clue,” Corridor mentioned. “It's humorous as a result of me and Blake nonetheless prepare collectively. We've got the identical company so we had been on the market in Southern California collectively and it looks as if our tales have been virtually the identical. We've got talked to virtually each workforce within the league, however no person reveals their playing cards. They maintain them fairly near the vest. There are lots of unknowns proper now for each of us.”
Corridor deliberate to observe Thursday’s first spherical at his house, then watch Friday’s second and third rounds at his dad and mom’ house in Mapleton. Identical for Saturday’s closing 4 rounds.
“I'll kinda take note of what occurs to these quarterbacks forward of me (in mock drafts), and simply hope for one of the best,” he mentioned. “Relying on the place they go, it kinda reveals what I can anticipate on Friday and Saturday.”
Corridor didn’t actually have a favourite NFL workforce rising up in Utah County, however there was a time when he actually preferred the Baltimore Ravens, however not due to their quarterback. He was a giant fan of defenders Ed Reed and Ray Lewis.
“That was the one workforce I actually liked watching,” he mentioned.
The quarterback he saved a watch on essentially the most was Russell Wilson, who additionally performed school baseball — at North Carolina State — earlier than transferring to Wisconsin. Wilson made a reputation for himself with the Seattle Seahawks and is now with the Denver Broncos.
“We’re each smaller quarterbacks,” Corridor mentioned. “On the time, he was actually the primary one which was shorter, like myself, to make it within the NFL — after Drew Brees, after all.”
He known as the final 4 months since he declared for the NFL draft on Dec. 23 “fairly loopy” and left little time for golf or anything. His most memorable a part of the pre-draft course of was attending the NFL mix in Indianapolis, though a sprained ankle saved him from doing a lot.
In one of many many interviews, he was requested how he would describe his life if he had solely 30 seconds, like for a film trailer.
“That wasn’t an uncommon query, nevertheless it was one which took a bit of extra thought than the others,” he mentioned.
Nearly as a lot as that second “large” buy.
BYU quarterback Jaren Corridor warms up earlier than he runs a drill on the NFL mix in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 4, 2023.
Michael Conroy, Related Press