K.J. Dillon’s getting drafted this weekend, but he’s not having a draft party until Saturday, and his reasoning, it turns out, is perfectly sound. And while we know there are so many cool and defining stories about Dillon, there’s one we didn’t know.

He grew up in a house with his mom, his grandmother, his two sisters and one niece, but a man who kicked Dillon off the track team as a freshman later helped him get accustomed to the recruiting process.

“I didn’t have any contacts,” Proffitt said. “What I found out was K.J. was getting letters. What I did was just facilitate things. ‘K.J., they’re sending you letters for a reason. This is what you need to do.’ He said nobody told him any of that, who to call, what to do.

“So I took the role, I guess, of K.J.’s dad, like anybody else would. I called the schools. ‘Why are you calling my son? What’s your interest in my son?’ They’d say, ‘Who are you?’ and I’d say, ‘I’m K.J.’s dad. He looks like his mother, but he acts like me.’ That was one of the things I’d say, and K.J. would get a laugh out of it, too.”