{"id":146974,"date":"2025-08-15T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:14:13","slug":"kayvon-thibodeaux-knew-he-bombed-pre-draft-visit-with-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146974\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayvon Thibodeaux knew he bombed pre-draft visit with Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Jets were selecting fourth in the 2022 NFL Draft, one spot ahead of the New York Giants. Kayvon Thibodeaux was pretty confident at the time that he wasn\u2019t going to be selected by the Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He wasn\u2019t, of course, as the Jets selected cornerback Sauce Gardner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Why was Thibodeaux so certain his name would not be called by the Jets? Because Thibodeaux basically tanked his pre-draft visit to the Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is his version of the story:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s funny, I\u2019m going to share this story,\u201d Thibodeaux said. \u201cWhen you go on those 30 visits, and you do those tests, man, and I was so tired, I was jet lagged, and they had me doing the tests and I don\u2019t know why I couldn\u2019t do the tests. One of the tests was just messing me up and I just quit it and I was like, \u2018Yeah, they might not take me off that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, they might not take me,\u2019 because I was like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m too tired for this. I\u2019m done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thibodeaux, of course, became the first draft pick of Joe Schoen\u2019s tenure as Giants general manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets were selecting fourth in the 2022 NFL Draft, one spot ahead of the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[22969,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-new-york-giants-news","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115031078750511850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}