GLENDALE, Ariz. — NC State big man DJ Burns Jr. sees himself as a center on the basketball court, not a pulling guard on the football field.
His interest in playing football when the season is over: “Zero,” he said Thursday.
The 6-foot-9, 275-pounder’s road to the Final Four included reports that NFL scouts have watched his nimble footwork and suggested he might be an intriguing prospect for the league.
No deal, Burns said, while being peppered with questions in the locker room. It was a semi-reversal of earlier in the week on the “Dan Patrick Show,” when the senior said basketball was always his first priority but that “I’m not a closed-minded person.”
Burns said he did, indeed, play football when he was younger.
“Until I…
