Former South Carolina Gamecocks defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw has exited the Senior Bowl because of knee tendinitis according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. He has been dealing with knee tendinitis for a little bit now, so this is more of a precaution to not let it get worse.

Kinlaw is expected to be a first-round pick, and with the strong showing the first couple of days of the Senior Bowl, he could be rocketing up draft boards. Kinlaw is a good player, but he is also very confident about his skills. Luke Easterling of The Draft Wire is one of the media members in Mobile and was videoing when Kinlaw was asked about Aaron Donald.

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Kinlaw wasn't shy with his answer, saying he thinks he can actually be better which has raised a lot of eyebrows around the league. Kinlaw weighed in at 6-5, 315 pounds and had no issue going against some of the best offensive lineman in college football.

His dreams are about to come through, which is even more impressive with his background. Javon Kinlaw bounced around as a child and often times was homeless.

“Just growing up in northeast Washington, D.C., pretty much homeless, living in basements. We went without electricity, no water, things like that. We had to use the neighbor's hose to fill up totes of water. We would take them back in the house. We had gas, a gas stove. We would light the stove with a little match or something, get a tall pot, boil the water, mix it with some cold water, put it in a bucket, take it upstairs, take a shower like that. At a young age, we just thought that was normal. That's how we was living, we didn't know how everybody else was living, but we knew that's how we was living and we was cool with that, especially me. But now that I look back at it, it was tough, man. It made me a man at a young age.”

Hopefully, Kinlaw can bounce back from this knee tendinitis and be ready to show out during the NFL combine.