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Kentucky quarterback Will Levis worked out for over 100 NFL scouts/personnel for all 32 teams at UK’s Pro Day but before that he participated in Cash App and Uninterrupted’s new NIL game show series, “The Road to NILion$,” hosted by former NBA player Richard Jefferson.
Levis earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Penn State before transferring to Kentucky. He’s now projected as a top 10 NFL draft pick next month. He is one of four athletes featured in the four-part series designed to show athletes and their parents ways to help sustain their lives and finances after sports ends.
Levis was on the AP Pro Football Podcast when he explained how he had enjoyed the pre-draft process as well as the game show series.
“It was a campaign pretty much just centered around NIL, bringing awareness to the importance of paying attention to that and handling it with care,” Levis said on the podcast. “It’s such a different kind of opportunity for these boys and girls that are going to be getting this money for the first time in their lives so as someone who’s been through that to be there and give advice and have some fun was a great opportunity.”
Most of the pre-draft process has been fun for Levis despite the constant scrutiny of everything about his game for the last two months. Some NFL analysts have criticized his accuracy as well as a “rigid”throwing motion.
“I think people that say that I’m not accurate, that kind of irritates me a little bit,” Levis said. “I think that I’m as accurate as anybody else. Maybe I had to do more to show that, but I’m confident in my accuracy and I think that’s a strength of mine.”
