“I went back and forth on the decision for awhile,” Kelly said. “Ultimately, I felt that after a 15-game season the trade off to go to the Senior Bowl versus another extra week of training, when everybody else had two weeks of training ahead of me, it wasn’t a trade off I was willing to make. I figured I had 15 games of game film that coaches could look at.”
Kelly is projected to be the first center taken in this year’s draft, and that selection could come in the first round. Since 2009, only three centers have gone in the first round.
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