Grady Jarrett was watching the NFL Draft at his parents’ home on Friday night when he started to smell something burning. At first they thought it was something in the kitchen, but when they went in there was nothing burning.
Then they ran upstairs and that’s when they discovered the upstairs was on fire.
“It grew too much,” the former Clemson defensive tackle said on Saturday after being drafted in the fifth round by the Atlanta Falcons. “We could not put it out with water or with a fire extinguisher so we just had to get everybody out of the house.