ENGLEWOOD, Colo. –- With a month and one day to go until the NFL draft gets underway, the on-campus pro days are now in the homestretch.

The Denver Broncos have dispersed their inquiring scouting minds both near and far. But over the past week, there have been several stops on the campus tours, in particular, where they could find some persons of interest.

And Monday’s schedule will include Houston, Appalachian State, Rice and Villanova. And a raw player who would be a quality project for defensive line coach Bill Kollar makes the Villanova stop one with plenty of potential.

Villanova DE Tanoh Kpassagnon acquitted himself well enough at the combine to be on several teams' radars. Brian Spurlock/USA TODAY Sports

Because Wildcats defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon is an intriguing mix of future potential and past performance. And talk to scouts and Kpassagnon is the classic does-he-really-love-football riddle in this draft.

Only in the draft process can a player’s ability to have options outside of football figure so prominently in the evaluation mix. But Kpassagnon had a double major at Villanova – finance and accounting – and has spent time in an internship at one of the nation’s largest accounting firms.

He also happens to be 6-foot-6¾ and 289 pounds. He ran a 4.83 40-yard dash at the scouting combine, has an immense reach befitting his frame and finished this past season with 21.5 tackles for loss and 11 sacks.

But his mother is a chemical scientist, his father is an economist, and having earned two degrees of his own from Villanova it’s clear Kpassagnon has handled his business in the classroom. And in a draft tradition that is almost as old as the hunt for franchise quarterbacks, that kind of classroom performance is actually something NFL talent evaluators have questions about at times.

That notion is whether a player can be all he could be in the NFL if he has some other potentially high-paying options.

“I’ve gotten that a lot,’’ Kpassagnon said at the scouting combine. “I tell them, yeah, I love the game a lot. [Playing football] is probably the first thing I did for myself. Grades and everything else were instilled in me by my mom. And that was something I was doing to make my mom happy. But football is something I’m doing for me. I mean, to make her happy, too. But it’s really for me.’’

The bottom line is the body below that brain is that of a rare athlete. And teams must decide what he can be from this point.

They got a glimpse at the Senior Bowl, where he performed well against some of the best offensive line prospects on the draft board. He weighed in at 280 pounds at the Senior Bowl and had added nine pounds for the combine on a frame that could likely carry more without much loss in speed.

From the Broncos' perspective, one of Kollar’s greatest strengths as a coach is finding and retrieving the ability a player has inside.

The question for the Broncos would be where Kpassagnon could initially fit in a 3-4 front. Some teams wonder if he has the power to play at defensive end in a three-player front and that he would be too big to play at outside linebacker.

Kpassagnon might be a better fit as a left defensive end in a 4-3. But the potential is certainly worth a long look for the Broncos where another developmental prospect would be a nice fit.

“Hopefully I’ll be able to make this into my profession,’’ Kpassagnon said.