Go back nine months and ask Kivon Bennett whether he thought he'd be in Jonesboro. The notion would've seemed ludicrous at the time.
The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native was in the midst of his best stretch in four years at Tennessee, notching a pair of sacks in consecutive games at Arkansas and Auburn, and emerging as one of the best pass rushers in the nation.
Then everything spiraled in a matter of hours.
Bennett was caught speeding on the morning of Dec. 1, and in a subsequent search of his car, University of Tennessee police found a handgun, more than 44 grams of marijuana and a scale.