Busy Week Keeps Rowe’s Mind Off of Draft Day : Football: SDSU receiver knows he will be taken in the NFL draft. The question is where he will go and in what round.

SAN DIEGO — Patrick Rowe went bowling Tuesday night. Wednesday, roller skating.

As the biggest week of Rowe’s life arrived, he already had a plan.

“I told myself that I was going to do something every night this week,” said Rowe, the former San Diego State receiver who is preparing for Sunday’s NFL draft. “So I don’t drive myself crazy thinking.”

Classes at SDSU helped, too. So did homework.

Anything to take his mind off the draft. To keep him from wondering how he did in the Hula Bowl. Or the Senior Bowl. Or the NFL scouting combine in February.

“The thing about it is all I can do, I’ve already done,” Rowe said. “The playing aspect. Now, I’m pretty much sitting and waiting, like an actor, hoping I get the part.”

Rowe will be drafted, that much is certain. The biggest mystery is, where . . . and when? After his junior season at SDSU, he was touted as a possible first-rounder. After all, he had set an NCAA record with 100 receiving yards in nine consecutive games.

But he was plagued by injuries in his senior season. He missed nearly two full games with two bruised shoulders, and he was slowed for parts of others because of the soreness. Still, he led the Aztecs with 822 yards receiving.

Now, the best guesses have him going somewhere in the second or third round Sunday.

Rowe said he has no expectations or predictions.

“So many factors can happen,” he said. “I think I’ll be excited just to know what team I’m going to, rather than the round.”

As for a team preference, he said he only hopes to be chosen by somebody who is in need of receivers.

“Somebody looking for a receiver to come in and play rather than a team that drafts a receiver and expects him to sit on the bench for a while,” Rowe said.

He paused.

“Although,” he continued, “it wouldn’t be bad to go to a team with good receivers you can learn from.”

Asked his thoughts on being chosen by the hometown Chargers, Rowe said: “The big thing is I wouldn’t have to adjust to a new city.”

He has had two personal workouts, both taking place at SDSU. The Chargers, New York Jets and Giants, Phoenix and the Rams sent scouts to the first. The Jets, Giants, Atlanta and Cleveland had representatives at the second.

Also, Rowe said, he has had individual workouts with the Browns, Houston, Tampa Bay and Falcons.

He has signed with Bien Stock Sports in New York whose clients include, among others, Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants. Brian Kelly and Rocky Arceneaux are representing him.

Rowe, though, will be at home on draft day. His agents wanted him to be with them in New York--it would be easier logistically, they said--but Rowe prefers to remain low-key with his family.

So until Sunday, he will play video games, or fish, or something like that.

“I have a good feeling about what I’ve done and the decisions I’ve made,” he said. “I feel very good right now.”

And what might seem like a dream week to others is sinking into Rowe quickly.

“It seems very real to me,” he said. “I even calculated how many years I’ve been playing football--13 years, from Pop Warner to college.

“Now, it’s come down to a single week.”